15 Movies Like Heavy Metal
Loved Heavy Metal? Based on its unique Cinema DNA—including its pacing, themes, and emotional tone—we've curated the ultimate list of what you should watch next.
#1
No Thank You
Heli Valkonen is desperately in love with her husband. But Matti is just not in the mood. He is only interested in playing computer games, dressed in worn out fleece pants. For him, a shoulder massage is the highest form of intimacy. When subtle hints, nice words and fetching clothes won't help, Heli resorts in direct, and increasingly direct action - in vain.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Heavy Metal.
#2
Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl
Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later, she agrees to go to even more remote spot with a Tibetan saddle tramp Lao Jin to learn horse herding.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Heavy Metal.
#3
Ariel
A Finnish man goes to the city to find a job after the mine where he worked is closed and his father commits suicide.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Heavy Metal.
#4
Pimp
An urban love story set on the hard streets of the Bronx. A struggling female pimp, named Wednesday, grows up learning the game from her dad. Once he's gone she's left to look out for her prostitute mother and girlfriend Nikki.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Heavy Metal.
#5
Tuesday
A mother and her teenage daughter must confront Death when it arrives in the form of an astonishing talking bird.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Heavy Metal.
#6
The Wait
The idyllic and secluded Finnish archipelago. The pandemic soars across the world. Elli’s world trembles as her husband’s old friend arrives at the island.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Heavy Metal.
#7
The Last Wedding
Pekka arrives back to his home village of Jerusalem to celebrate the last wedding of the village. His own marriage seems to have reached a dead end. The people of the village gather to prepare for the event, and the bitter spectrum of all human life, with its joys and sorrows, is condensed into one summer's day.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Heavy Metal.
#8
Starving in Suburbia
When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site founder, ButterflyAna. By the time Hannah's family realizes what is happening and get Hannah the help she needs, the disease has fully taken hold and Hannah is refusing to eat. Will this family be able to exorcise the demon of anorexia from their lives?
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Heavy Metal.
#9
Off Key
Dramatic comedy about having fun, throwing yourself into life without inhibition, overcoming the feeling of shame and accepting that few things in life go as planned.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Heavy Metal.
#10
Shadows in Paradise
Nikander, a rubbish collector and would-be entrepreneur, finds his plans for success dashed when his business associate dies. One evening, he meets Ilona, a down-on-her-luck cashier, in a local supermarket. Falteringly, a bond begins to develop between them.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Heavy Metal.
#11
Home Sweet Home
A story of one unlucky man's descent into disaster, a dramatic, human-destiny thriller with contemporary social undertones.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Heavy Metal.
#12
The Good Son
When his mother takes a shine to a man at a party, a young man begins to lose his grip on reality.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Heavy Metal.
#13
Road North
A father who was absent for 30 years of his son's life returns and wants to set on a journey through Finland, so they can learn to know each other again.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Heavy Metal.
#14
Honeybunnies
A private detective engages in a sexually-charged relationship with a real estate broker.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Heavy Metal.
#15
The Match Factory Girl
Iris is a shy and dowdy young woman stuck in a dead-end job at a match factory, who dreams of finding love at the local dancehall. Finding herself pregnant after a one-night stand and abandoned by the father, Iris finally decides the time has come to get even and she begins to plot her revenge.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Heavy Metal.