Movies like The Truman Show
If The Truman Show's mix of escape, paranoia and dystopia stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what The Truman Show's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Glengarry Glen Ross
1992 · Directed by James Foley · 100 min7.3
Why you'll like itWith Ed Harris · Shares: dark comedy · From the same decade (1990s)
An examination of the machinations behind the scenes at a real estate office. Unscrupulous salesmen try to hawk dubious real estate to suckers.
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The Matrix
1999 · Directed by Lana Wachowski · 136 min8.3
Why you'll like itShares: dystopia, simulated reality · From the same decade (1990s)
Set in the 22nd century, The Matrix tells the story of a computer hacker who joins a group of underground insurgents fighting the vast and powerful computers who now rule the earth.
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The Conversation
1974 · Directed by Francis Ford Coppola · 115 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: paranoia
A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered.
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THX 1138
1971 · Directed by George Lucas · 86 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: dystopia
People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane life between work and taking a controlled consumption of drugs that the government uses to make puppets out of people.