Movies Similar to Ballad for Billy the Kid

Cohibeo(2025)

The wind carries an aspiring healer into a chaotic, virulent parallel world. Paralyzed by a familiar universe that is gradually becoming distorted, she discovers she has the power to stop time.

The Boxer(2024)

3 Friends go on a late night drive to get food.

Hit Astray(2023)

In the summer of 2008, Santi lives a carefree lifestyle with his hometown friends. Over their long friendship, Santi has become more infatuated with his best friend, Dylan. However, an unexpected tragedy changes the trajectory of their lives. Leaving Santi struggling with his sense of reality and self-acceptance.

Diwa(2018)

An unflinching look at the plight of immigrants victimized by violent crimes and the obstacles they face as they seek justice - told thru the eyes of one victim.

The Box with Eight Eyes(1978)

The 2nd short film as part of the Magica series dealing with pre-cinema. In the 18th and 19th centuries, optical views were shown in optical boxes with magnifying lenses. The showmen organised a real spectacle, with a barker, music and sound effects. The views played with light (transparencies, perforations). A series of engravings shows the public's enthusiasm for these shows. The second part of the film is a reconstruction of such a show. First, there are views of Paris, Venice, Constantinople and Versailles, followed by various disasters: plague, floods, fires and shipwrecks.

The Drawing of a Fish(2019)

Paula is a young free-spirited girl who lives with her musician father in a big loud city. On the verge of leaving her teenage years behind, she’s fully exploring what life has to offer: drugs, sex, parties, friends... Social life is crucial at this point of acceptance and self-knowledge. Nonetheless, her apparent confidence tumbles when love crosses her path. When everything goes wrong, as she returns home, an encounter with her father will bring her the calm she was looking for all along.

A Good Little Devil(1914)

A partially lost film, with only one surviving reel. A movie released in 1914 directed by Edwin S. Porter.

Swimmer(2012)

A young man swims across the rivers and lakes of Britain to a soundtrack of assorted nationalistic music. As he passes people on the banksides including children, lovers and a tramp their thoughts and conversations are also heard. Ultimately, after walking through a wood at night, the boy returns to the water and appears to sink below the surface.

Children Out of Tune(1964)

A young couple skip school to spend time together in a mansion.

The Stepmother(1910)

El sitio en el que también se está(2024)

Sebastián is from Venezuela and arrives at a shelter for migrant minors in Mexico City. There he meets Aurora, a girl from Guatemala, with whom he falls in love. Both are waiting for a response to their asylum application. Time is running out and the farewell is inevitable.

Radiostilte(2024)

First Last Month(2024)

Doina, a 12-year-old girl, has her first period on the day her grandma has a stroke. Since then, their roles are inverted and Doina has to learn how to deal with the challenges of adulthood.

We've Been Here Before(2025)

When a young woman enters an experimental trial that grants her the opportunity to delete painful memories in exchange for increasing her age, she must decide between living with the pain of the past and sacrificing the potential of her future.

Geist(2015)

A tragic tale of a shipwrecked and injured fisherman as he searches for signs of life on the island where he was stranded leading to a dark secret.

Isabelle aux Dombes(1951)

Pialat's first film was the short Isabelle aux Dombes, shot in 1951 when the director was 26 years old. The film is an entirely silent montage of documentary footage, ragged experimental techniques — mainly some negative-image inserts — and symbolic psychodrama that's surprisingly not too different from the work that Stan Brakhage would begin making just a year or two later. Images of death proliferate throughout the film, and what started as a loose documentary soon becomes an eerie psuedo-horror piece that's obsessed with death and decay.

Open Bodies(1998)

Born to a North African father and a French mother, 18-year-old Parisian high school senior Rémi works part-time in an Arab grocery store while studying management and commerce. He responds to a school ad seeking subjects for a film, and Marc, who placed the ad, auditions Rémi by filming an interview with him. Rémi and Marc wind up in bed, and Rémi soon has other sexual experiences – with a guy in a men's room and with a young woman who grabs him while she's dancing in the street.

Route-3(2019)

In a sweaty, overcrowded tram in Sarajevo, a shy teenager is beset by every imaginable impediment as he tries to capture the attention of his object of desire. Yet the overheated hero of this wild farce will not be easily defeated.

Sadla(2019)

A teen boy runs errands while being followed by various figures of authority. As he shares his experience with friends, this tense and controlled drama deftly explores the cyclical effects of victimization on the wider community.