Movies Like We're All Going to the World's Fair

Ranked by shared directors, cast, themes, genre, and era — not just generic recommendations.

I Saw the TV Glow

2024·1h 40m·★ 5.8·Jane Schoenbrun

6 shared themes: teenager, nonbinary director, identity...Dir. Jane SchoenbrunDrama & Horror

The People's Joker

2024·1h 32m·★ 6.3·Vera Drew

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Dead Poets Society

1989·2h 9m·★ 8.1·Peter Weir

Themes: teenager, coming of ageTMDB recommends

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma

2026·1h 52m·★ 6.8·Jane Schoenbrun

Themes: nonbinary director, lgbtDir. Jane Schoenbrun

Bad Education

2004·1h 45m·★ 7.4·Pedro Almodóvar

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Megan Is Missing

2011·1h 26m·★ 4.6·Michael Goi

Themes: internet, found footageDrama & Horror

How to Have Sex

2023·1h 31m·★ 6.4·Molly Manning Walker

Themes: generation z, coming of age

Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc

2025·1h 39m·★ 8.3·Tatsuya Yoshihara

Themes: identity, loneliness

The Shining

1980·2h 24m·★ 8.4·Stanley Kubrick

Themes: isolation, loneliness

Brokeback Mountain

2005·2h 14m·★ 7.7·Ang Lee

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All About My Mother

1999·1h 41m·★ 7.8·Pedro Almodóvar

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The Man Who Laughs

1928·1h 50m·★ 7.6·Paul Leni

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2005·1h 36m·★ 7.4·David Cronenberg

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2007·1h 47m·★ 7.3·Craig Gillespie

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The Wanderers

1979·1h 57m·★ 7.3·Philip Kaufman

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Walk on Water

2004·1h 43m·★ 7.3·Eytan Fox

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