Films like Sorry to Bother You.

Sorry to Bother You (2018) reads as Neutral, kinetic, measured comedy / drama, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Colossal (2016) (2016) poster
1. Colossal2016

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the strange, dreamlike logic — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

El Conde (2023) poster
2. El Conde2023

Keeps the unmistakable directorial hand and the pitch-dark outlook; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Rubber (2010) poster
3. Rubber2010

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the strange, dreamlike logic; trades toward a airy, open telling.

Steak (2007) poster
4. Steak2007

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the strange, dreamlike logic — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Holy Motors (2012) poster
5. Holy Motors2012

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the strange, dreamlike logic; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

The Lobster (2015) poster
6. The Lobster2015

Keeps the strange, dreamlike logic and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Dream Scenario (2023) poster
7. Dream Scenario2023

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a heightened unreality.

Les Saignantes (2005) poster
8. Les Saignantes2005

Keeps the strange, dreamlike logic and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

Swiss Army Man (2016) poster
9. Swiss Army Man2016

Keeps the strange, dreamlike logic and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a pitch-dark outlook.

Bugonia (Lanthimos 2025) (2025) poster
10. Bugonia (Lanthimos 2025)2025

Keeps the strange, dreamlike logic and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

R100 (2013) poster
11. R1002013

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the strange, dreamlike logic; trades toward a intimate, personal stakes.

Being John Malkovich (re-pass) (1999) poster
12. Being John Malkovich (re-pass)1999

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the strange, dreamlike logic — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

These are Sorry to Bother You’s neighbours — where are yours?

Rate five posters and the same twelve axes read you — then tonight’s pick comes from your own centre of taste.

Find my film for tonight — 60 sec →