01
The Tenant
Why this pick
Like Spider, it traps a fragile, isolated man in decaying urban rooms where routine becomes paranoia; its unnerving ambiguity steadily erodes any secure sense of identity.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE2002 1h 38m CAN
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Movies like
Spider
DramaThriller
CINEHUNCH / THE NEXT FRAME
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
If you loved Spider, try these.
01
02
The Machinist
Why this pick
Its gaunt protagonist, industrial gloom, and subjective fragments echo Spider’s intimate portrait of a mind trying desperately to assemble a coherent past.
03
Clean, Shaven
Why this pick
A stark, compassionate psychological drama that stays close to a mentally ill man’s disorienting perceptions, using sound and omission to create distressing uncertainty.
04
The Double Life of Véronique
Why this pick
For Spider’s hushed, haunted subjectivity: this is a tactile, melancholic mystery of identity and memory, told through delicate visual motifs rather than explanation.
05
Possum
Why this pick
Its bleak English landscapes, damaged protagonist, and deliberately opaque return to childhood trauma make it a particularly close match for Spider’s oppressive psychological atmosphere.
Finding the atmosphere, tension and little details that made this one stay with you.
Our curator needs a little longer. Please come back shortly.
No confident matches yet. Try our personal film finder.
01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
''Spider'' is the story of Dennis Cleg, a man who is given a room in a halfway house catering to mentally disturbed persons. Cleg has just been released from a mental institution and in his new abode starts piecing together or recreating in his memory an apparently fateful childhood event.
Showing saved details. Some information may be out of date.
02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Ralph Fiennes
Spider
Gabriel Byrne
Bill Cleg
Philip Craig
John
Sara Stockbridge
Gladys
Cliff Saunders
Bob
Arthur Whybrow
Ernie
Jake Nightingale
Large Man
Donald Ewer
Toothless Jack