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10 Best Movies Like What Is It?

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

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#1
The Experiment

The Experiment

2010★ 6.4

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

20 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control....

#2
Nine Days

Nine Days

2021★ 6.8

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

A bureaucrat interviews five souls to decide which of them will be given a life on Earth. But he soon faces an existential challenge of his own....

#3
Daybreakers

Daybreakers

2010★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to What Is It? for fans of Fantasy. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

In the year 2019, a plague has transformed almost every human into a vampire. Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the fractured dominant race plots their survival; meanwhile, a re...

#4
The Shape of Water

The Shape of Water

2017★ 7.2

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

An other-worldly story, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962, where a mute janitor working at a lab falls in love with an amphibious man being held captive t...

#5
Twisted Nerve

Twisted Nerve

1968★ 6.7

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

Martin Durnley is a young man with an infantilizing mother, resentful stepfather and an institutionalized brother with Down's syndrome. To cope, he retreats into an alternate child...

#6
Experimenter

Experimenter

2015★ 6.5

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

Yale University, 1961. Stanley Milgram designs a psychology experiment that still resonates to this day, in which people think they’re delivering painful electric shocks to an affa...

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