15 Movies Like Ceiling

Loved Ceiling? Based on its unique Cinema DNA—including its pacing, themes, and emotional tone—we've curated the ultimate list of what you should watch next.

How to Have Sex
#1

How to Have Sex

Three British teenage girls go on a rites-of-passage holiday—drinking, clubbing and hooking up, in what should be the best summer of their lives.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Ceiling.

Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl
#2

Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl

Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later, she agrees to go to even more remote spot with a Tibetan saddle tramp Lao Jin to learn horse herding.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Ceiling.

Touchless
#3

Touchless

Jolana (18) is an object of her step-father's desire. She is unable to cope, especially when her own mother turns a blind eye. Those events are heavily paid for when she finds herself working in a brothel. Her inability to cope raise a question: What is it she actually wants? Are her dreams of escaping really better than the reality she finds herself in?

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Ceiling.

Strange Weather
#4

Strange Weather

Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Ceiling.

Hellion
#5

Hellion

When motocross and heavy metal obsessed, 13-year-old Jacob's delinquent behavior forces CPS to place his little brother Wes with his aunt, Jacob and his emotionally absent father must finally take responsibility for their actions and each other in order to bring Wes home.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Ceiling.

Swiped
#6

Swiped

Whitney Wolfe uses extraordinary grit and ingenuity to break into the male-dominated tech industry.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Ceiling.

Holy Lands
#7

Holy Lands

When lapsed Jew and former cardiologist Harry suddenly decides to spend his retirement as a pig farmer in Nazareth, Israel, the move deeply shocks his family and his new neighbours. Back in New York, Harry’s ex-wife Monica is trying to manage the lives of their adult children, Annabelle and David, as well as her own.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Ceiling.

The Girl
#8

The Girl

Director Alfred Hitchcock is revered as one of the greatest creative minds in the history of cinema. Known for his psychological thrillers, Hitchcock’s leading ladies were cool, beautiful and preferably blonde. One such actress was Tippi Hedren, an unknown fashion model given her big break when Hitchcock’s wife saw her on a TV commercial. Brought to Universal Studios, Hedren was shocked when the director, at the peak of his career, quickly cast her to star in his next feature, 1963’s The Birds. Little did Hedren know that as ambitious and terrifying as the production would be to shoot, the most daunting aspect of the film ended up coming from behind the camera.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Ceiling.

Shades of Fern
#9

Shades of Fern

Based on the only extensive prose work by the surrealist painter Josef Capek, Shades of Fern most resembles the philosophical fairy tales and fables of Josef’s older brother, the legendary Czech novelist and playwright Karel Capek. Two young poachers, more boys than men, kill a gamekeeper when they are caught illegally hunting. Panicked, they retreat into a forest that grows steadily more forbidding and deadly as their fear for the future—and guilt over their action—mounts. Loosely based on hundreds of oral folk tales and legends that haunt the woods of Czechoslovakia, Vlácil’s contemporary updating artistically underscores the relationship between man and nature, crime and punishment, isolation and society, and guilt and memory.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Ceiling.

Mandragora
#10

Mandragora

Marek is a 15-year-old from a provincial village who runs away to Prague when he begins to fail at school. He is mugged shortly after arriving in the city and is rescued by Honza with the promise of work. Marek is taken to an apartment, drugged, and becomes a male prostitute. He is a bit smarter than his colleagues and teams up with a friend, David, in order to go after bigger scores – to cash in and get out. They manage to stash away a bit of money, but when it comes time to return home, Marek loses his nerve and is soon back in the city.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Ceiling.

Bastard Out of Carolina
#11

Bastard Out of Carolina

A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Ceiling.

The Painted Bird
#12

The Painted Bird

After losing his parents, a young Jewish boy wanders Eastern Europe, seeking refuge during World War II.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Ceiling.

My Sunny Maad
#13

My Sunny Maad

When Herra, a young Czech woman, falls in love with Nazir, an Afghan, she has no idea what kind of life awaits her in post-Taliban Afghanistan, nor of the family she is about to integrate into. A liberal grandfather, an adopted child who is highly intelligent and Freshta, who would do anything to escape her husband's violent grip.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Ceiling.

Starving in Suburbia
#14

Starving in Suburbia

When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site founder, ButterflyAna. By the time Hannah's family realizes what is happening and get Hannah the help she needs, the disease has fully taken hold and Hannah is refusing to eat. Will this family be able to exorcise the demon of anorexia from their lives?

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Ceiling.

The Hand
#15

The Hand

A happy little potter is approached by a huge hand which wants him to sculpt its statue. The potter refuses, wanting nothing more than to be left alone with his only friend, a potted plant. As the hand's request gives way to bribery, demands, and threats, the potter becomes more desperate to escape its clutch, leading to tragedy.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Ceiling.