
10 Best Movies Like This Is Not a Film
If you loved This Is Not a Film, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

The Decameron
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to This Is Not a Film for fans of History. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
A young Sicilian is swindled twice, but ends up rich; a man poses as a deaf-mute in a convent of curious nuns; a woman must hide her lover when her husband comes home early; a scou...

Girlhood
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to This Is Not a Film for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Oppressed by her family setting, dead-end school prospects and the boys law in the neighborhood, Marieme starts a new life after meeting a group of three free-spirited girls. She c...

Paulette
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to This Is Not a Film for fans of Crime. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
Paulette lives alone in a housing project in the Paris suburbs. With her meager pension, she can no longer make ends meet....

A Cat in Paris
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to This Is Not a Film for fans of Animation. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
A thrilling mystery that unfurls in the alleys and on the rooftops of the French capital, Paris, over the course of one adventurous evening....

Five Broken Cameras
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to This Is Not a Film for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.
Five broken cameras – and each one has a powerful tale to tell. Embedded in the bullet-ridden remains of digital technology is the story of Emad Burnat, a farmer from the Palestini...

The Labyrinth 1.0
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to This Is Not a Film for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
The Labyrinth 1.0 is a poetic film essay that cites writer and poet Brad Johnson’s poem “The Labyrinth,” published in the anthology Milking Black Bull (1995). Sourcing 16-mm survei...