Movies Similar to A Thunderbolt for Michelle

Mio padre amore mio(1979)

Fede is a theater actress who, while putting on clown make-up for a show, thinks back to her relationship with her father: a relationship of tenderness, desire and hatred.

Lo scialle azzurro(1981)

A woman, director of advertising films, catches the eye of a mysterious young woman dressed in white during an evening of dancing on the terrace of a bar and is fascinated by her.

Portrait de Rosa, à la française(2021)

Filmed on Super 8 in Paris, Portrait de Rosa, à la française portrays an intimate love story through quiet images and gentle emotion.

At the Passage of Ziletia

Ahmet, a Turkish guy in his early twenties visit his grandfather's abandoned mansion located somewhere in the northern Anatolia. Thinking that he would return to where he spent his early childhood, only to find out that the place is now in ruins. When he goes to sleep. An unexpected angel will visit him to give her a blessing of the truth. He wakes up being not the guy he was before.

I've Soiled Myself Again(2024)

A man is confronted by parallel versions of himself as he contemplates his life choices.

DARKMAN(2023)

Seeing himself as a form unable to experience intimacy, he is given the chance when brought to the household of twin sisters.

sissi's mixtape (a guide to love, loss & desperation)(2025)

fragments from song lyrics of different artists have given life to this story about love, loss and desperation.

A Vida em Negativo

Light Protect Me From Oblivion(2024)

A portal, a sorceress, a fictional device to portray existence as a moment encapsulated inside an instantaneous photograph to present fragmented biographical elements —family disintegration, rootlessness, scars, two loyal companions, the promises of a new land—subverting the notion of a home-movie and transform it into a pilgrimage tool of self-discovery, mirroring the fragile nature of memories.

Kiss For Me

Maya excitedly leans into the joy of her first queer relationship, but must confront the seemingly never-ending sexualisation of her identity

Admissions of Desire(2023)

A man and a woman talk on the phone and express their feelings and desires for each other for the first time. We watch as they listen to the other's admissions.

Macabre

A sleep paralyzed woman confronts her demons.

Speak To Me Of What I Know(2023)

Speak To Me Of What I Know is a short experimental film shot on a Super8. The idea of lack of communication is expressed through an intimate relationship, more specifically the men of the film. The themes of miscommunication develop throughout the film in many ways, even the slightest details are there with the explicit goal of adding to the main message. Pay attention to as much as you can, and build your idea of what it's all about. It remains up to interpretation.

Flesh in Turmoil(2023)

The process of depersonalization maintains a dialogue with the objectification of the body, a sort of thingified flesh, clothed in animosity. In an epiphanic act, the sutures reveal themselves as the reflection of this gaze upon its own spilled fluids and transcend into an internal soup. It is the stream of consciousness in its purest form. It is the raw and the bare. It is the visceral nature of facts. It is the merging of worlds. It is the flesh in turmoil.

The Girl in Kelp(2025)

An original ghost story from the rugged coastline of Mendocino County, California. Shot and animated on Super 8 film.

Maccaia(2024)

La bella addormentata nel bosco(1978)

"What I tried to "tell" is Rosa's close and distorted relationship, common to many women who are used to living alone with themselves, with objects that have become animated and unreal and the relationship which is completely silent, but no less clear and explosive of Rosa with her feminine unconscious” (D. Maraini).

Giochi di latte(1979)

Milk in its symbolic and ancestral dimension is the fulcrum of this short film. Primary source of female nourishment, abundance and life, milk flows, is drunk, steeps and nourishes. The woman-mother is its dispenser, the one who safeguards its vital power. The color of milk, however, also recalls male seminal fluid and the dimension of the sensual exchange between man and woman.

Selkie(2019)

According to Scottish mythology Selkies are mythological beings capable of changing from seal to human form by shedding their skin. This film follows the story of such a creature who chooses the sea over her land dwelling sweetheart.

8º Super Off - Intervenção em Super 8(2021)

Dozens of film enthusiasts come together to intervene and recreate already filmed in s8