
Movies that feel likePerfect Blue (1998)
If you loved Perfect Blue, the closest films we have are Marathon Man (1976), The Parallax View (1974) and Donnie Brasco (1997). All three share Perfect Blue's tense and paranoid feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Chaser (2008).
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If Perfect Blue hit the spot, these will too

Both keep coming back to the same thing: psychological thriller
The difference: Sits closer to crime than Perfect Blue does

One thread runs through both: psychological thriller
The difference: Made in the 1970s, in a different era of the craft

Both land tension and paranoia at once
The difference: Trades the unease of Perfect Blue for an angle of its own

Common ground: paranoia
The difference: Easier on the grit than Perfect Blue

Both lean on grit more than on thriller

Tense animation, and it commits to that

Both are built on the same subject: paranoia

Unsettling thriller in both cases
The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

Animation with a pulse of paranoia, in both cases

Thriller built on grit, twice over

Animation with a pulse of unease, in both cases

A streak of tension through both
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