Movies Similar to Light Protect Me From Oblivion

Lovebugs(2023)

From his cozy library inside the walls of a suburban home, an intellectual snail tells of his life’s love, loss and change.

Herculanum(2016)

Three "meetings." Two men. A rumbling volcano.

Rocky Jumped a Park Bench(2008)

A location tour of the Rocky filming locations in Philadelphia.

Ken Park(2003)

Ken Park focuses on several teenagers and their tormented home lives. Shawn seems to be the most conventional. Tate is brimming with psychotic rage; Claude is habitually harassed by his brutish father and coddled, rather uncomfortably, by his enormously pregnant mother. Peaches looks after her devoutly religious father, but yearns for freedom. They're all rather tight, or so they claim.

Antoine and Alexei(2017)

A young man who works in a gift shop becomes friends with a former Nordiques player.

Visions of Europe(2004)

Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.

Dog Leash(2012)

Cracks are starting to burst in Marina's frozen life, leading towards finding refuge in dangerous places.

The Room(2001)

A man explains how he was obsessed when he was younger by a mysterious room and an extraordinary rarefied piano music that drifted through its open window during the night. Forty years later, returning to his home town after having spent most of his life abroad, in "a bunch of different places", he asks one of his friends to rent a room for him. As chance would have it, it turns out to be the same room which attracted him when he was a young man. What drew him again to this room?

Quarantine(2021)

A short film of the first weeks of strict national lockdown, filmed in Barcelona on a classic home video camera Hi8. Narrates the story of three women who share a flat and who create a microworld not only to survive the global pandemic but also to survive themselves.

Flow(2011)

An odd young woman paralyzed by severe OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder), discovers dance as way to deal with her rituals.

Girly Is in Control of His Life(2019)

Gay teenager Girly looks for a job in a world he is unaware of.

The Salt of the Earth(2014)

During the last forty years, the photographer Sebastião Salgado has been travelling through the continents, in the footsteps of an ever-changing humanity. He has witnessed the major events of our recent history: international conflicts, starvations and exodus… He is now embarking on the discovery of pristine territories, of the wild fauna and flora, of grandiose landscapes: a huge photographic project which is a tribute to the planet's beauty. Salgado's life and work are revealed to us by his son, Juliano, who went with him during his last journeys, and by Wim Wenders, a photographer himself.

Astro(2017)

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2(1941)

Hedda Hopper plays hostess at a party for her (grown) son William (DeWolfe Jr.). Hopper, attends the dedication of the Motion Picture Relief Fund's country home and goes to the Mocambo. There is also a sequence dedicated to the Milwaukee, Wisconsin world premiere of the first short in this series attended by more that a few film stars.

Trauma(2014)

On the London Underground, a young man relives past traumas as he endures the sensory overload of rush hour, only to look up and see a young woman at the end of the carriage going through the same PTSD symptoms. Their recognition of each other's condition allows them a moment of peace before the train jolts them back into reality and she disappears at the next platform.

Pikoo(1981)

A day in the life of a six-year-old child in Calcutta, who lives shut up in the family home, insulated from the city by a park. The father is away at work. The grandfather is alone in his room, ill and confined to his bed. The mother receives her lover.

Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize(2010)

A remixed narrative that combines two Jake Gyllenhaal films (Donnie Darko and Jarhead) with news footage of former President Barack Obama.

Ape(2017)

To take control of his life, Travis Wilker must conquer the hallucinations that plagued his childhood.

Naked(2013)

A message from Javier's boyfriend changes his family situation and causes them to reconsider their relationships.

Chedly(2019)