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10 Best Movies Like Shells

If you loved Shells, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
No End

No End

1985★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Shells for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

1982, Poland. A translator loses her husband and becomes a victim of her own sorrow. She looks to sex, to her son, to law, and to hypnotism when she has nothing else in this time o...

#2
Vera and the Pleasure of Others

Vera and the Pleasure of Others

2024★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Shells for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Seventeen-year-old Vera earns money by secretly renting out an apartment to teenagers seeking privacy, all while eavesdropping from behind a closed door. As she listens, her own de...

#3
Jim's Story

Jim's Story

2024★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Shells for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Aymeric runs into Florence, a former coworker, one evening in Saint-Claude in the Haut-Jura. She is six months pregnant and single. When she gives birth to Jim, Aymeric is there. T...

#4
Destroy All Monsters

Destroy All Monsters

1968★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Shells for fans of Sci-Fi. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

At the turn of the century, all of the Earth's monsters have been rounded up and kept safely on Monsterland. Chaos erupts when a race of she-aliens known as the Kilaaks unleash the...

#5
The Crow: Salvation

The Crow: Salvation

2000★ 5.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Shells for fans of Action. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Alex Corvis, a man wrongly executed for the murder of his girlfriend, returns from the dead and sets out to find the real killer....

#6
True Stories

True Stories

1986★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Shells for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A small but growing Texas town, filled with strange and musical characters, celebrates its sesquicentennial and converge on a local parade and talent show....