Movies Like Unknown Pleasures (2002)

Unknown Pleasures is a 2002 comedy, drama film from Jia Zhangke with a MovieMagicScore of 6.4/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with I Stand Alone and Songs My Brothers Taught Me.

Comedy Drama

I Stand Alone

1999

After completing jail time for beating up a man who tried to seduce his mentally-handicapped teenage daughter, The Butcher wants to start life anew. He institutionalizes his daughter and moves to the Lille suburbs with his mistress, who promises him a new butcher shop. Learning that she lied, The Butcher returns to Paris to find his daughter.

7.4

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Songs My Brothers Taught Me

2015

This complex portrait of modern-day life on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation explores the bond between a brother and his younger sister, who find themselves on separate paths to rediscovering the meaning of home.

6.9

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Mud

2013

Two teenage boys find a fugitive hiding out on an island in the Mississippi River and help him reunite with his lover and escape an avenging family and their armed posse.

7.1

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Aayitha Ezhuthu

2004

A goon, who dreams of making it big in life, a student leader, who strives to keep politicians away from college election and a third guy who wants to settle abroad. Their lives change after an incident on a bridge.

7.1

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Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit

1993

Deloris Van Cartier is again asked to don the nun's habit to help a run-down Catholic school, presided over by Mother Superior. And if trying to reach out to a class full of uninterested students wasn't bad enough, the sisters discover that the school is due to be closed by the unscrupulous chief of a local authority.

6.4

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The Light Shines Only There

2014

A man has thrown away love and a woman has given up on love. The two souls meet in a brief summer in the northern city of Hakodate.

6.3

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Angel

1937

While vacationing without her busy British diplomat husband, a married woman falls for another man.

6.7

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Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks

2003

A detailed look at the gradual decline of Shenyang’s industrial Tiexi district, an area that was once a vibrant example of China’s socialist economy. But industry is changing, and the factories of Tiexi are closing. Director Wang Bing introduces us to some of the workers affected by the closures, and to their families.

7.7

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The Brutalist

2024

When an innovative modern architect flees post-war Europe, he is given the opportunity to rebuild his legacy. Set during the dawn of the modern United States (in Pennsylvania), his wife joins him, and their lives are forever changed by a demanding, wealthy patron.

6.9

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#10

Mia

2017

Mia recounts her most intimate confessions, uncensored, in her first approach to a totally new world of domination and submission.

6.1

MagicScore

#11

The Fox

1967

Jill Banford and Ellen March have built a good life together on a hardscrabble Canadian farm. Then handsome Paul Grenfell enters their isolated world, and sets friend against friend. But is Paul the real trouble between Jill and Ellen? Or has his presence merely awakened the unspoken, unexplored sexual tension that always existed between the women?

6.1

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#12

The Prowler

1951

Los Angeles, California. A cop who, unhappy with his job, blames others for his work problems, is assigned to investigate the case of a prowler who stalks the home of a married woman.

6.8

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#13

Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere

2026

With rare access and no holds barred, the acclaimed documentarian investigates a growing ultra-masculine network and its controversial influencers.

6.6

MagicScore

#14

The Raven

1935

A brilliant but deranged neurosurgeon becomes obsessively fixated on a judge's daughter. With the help of an escaped criminal whose face he has surgically deformed, the mad man lures her, her father, and her fiancé to his isolated, castle-like home.

6.6

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#15

Unlawful Entry

1992

Happily married Michael and Karen Carr call the police after Karen is held at knife point during a failed robbery attempt in their home. Before long, one of the responding officers, Officer Pete Davis, helps arrange the installation of a new security system, taking extra interest in the couple's case. As a result, the grateful Carrs invite him to stay for dinner and they strike up an unexpected friendship. However, as the lonely policeman develops an intense fixation on Karen, his take on friendship develops into a dangerous obsession soon becoming the Carrs' worst nightmare.

6.2

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#16

Door

1988

Yasuko, a housewife, lives in an urban high-rise apartment with her husband Satoru and her son Takuto. Annoyed by spam calls and door-to-door salesmen, Yasuko slams the door on a salesman’s hand when he tries to squeeze a flyer through the apartment's chained front door. He leaves, but the next day, her nightmare starts.

6.1

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#17

Parasite

2019

All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.

8.5

MagicScore

#18

Ramji Rao Speaking

1989

The story revolves around three unemployed people who get involved in a kidnapping saga due to a case of mistaken identity.

7.3

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#19

Withnail & I

1987

Two out-of-work actors -- the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail -- spend their days drifting between their squalid flat, the unemployment office and the pub. When they take a holiday "by mistake" at the country house of Withnail's flamboyantly gay uncle, Monty, they encounter the unpleasant side of the English countryside: tedium, terrifying locals and torrential rain.

7.3

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#20

The Ax

2005

A chemist loses his job to outsourcing. Two years later and still jobless, he hits on a solution: to genuinely eliminate his competition.

6.9

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Unknown Pleasures?

The top films similar to Unknown Pleasures by MovieMagicScore are I Stand Alone (7.4), Songs My Brothers Taught Me (6.9), Mud (7.1). Each shares comedy/drama themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Unknown Pleasures worth watching?

Unknown Pleasures holds a MovieMagicScore of 6.4/10 from 53 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is Unknown Pleasures?

Unknown Pleasures (2002) is a comedy, drama film directed by Jia Zhangke, starring Wei Wei Zhao, Zhao Tao, Qiong Wu.

Where can I find more recommendations like Unknown Pleasures?

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This ranked list pairs Unknown Pleasures (2002), a comedy and drama film from Jia Zhangke, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Wei Wei Zhao take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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