
Movies that feel like The Master (2012)
If you loved The Master, the closest films we have are Nymphomaniac: Vol. I (2013), Phantom Thread (2017) and Tony Takitani (2004). All three share The Master's contemplative and obsessive feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Hulu and others, checked against today's data.
If The Master hit the spot, these will too

One thread runs through both: sexual obsession
The difference: None of the dread The Master is built on

The same hand behind both of them: Paul Thomas Anderson
The difference: Missing the dread of The Master

Both land stillness and obsession at once

Drama with a pulse of dread, in both cases
The difference: Sits closer to documentary than The Master does

The same preoccupation in both: sexual obsession

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

Obsessive drama, and it commits to that
The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

Both sit in the same contemplative register
The difference: Made in the 1930s, in a different era of the craft



Both work the same obsession

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