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10 Best Movies Like Death Metal: A Documentary

If you loved Death Metal: A Documentary, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
The World of Apu

The World of Apu

1959â€ĸ★ 8.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Death Metal: A Documentary for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Apu, now a jobless ex-student dreaming vaguely of a future as a writer, is invited to join an old college friend on a trip up-country to a village wedding....

#2
Monkey Business

Monkey Business

1952â€ĸ★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Death Metal: A Documentary for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Research chemist Barnaby Fulton works on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. One of the labs chimps gets loose in the laboratory and mixes chemicals, but then pours th...

#3
Torn Curtain

Torn Curtain

1966â€ĸ★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Death Metal: A Documentary for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

During the Cold War, an American scientist appears to defect to East Germany as part of a cloak and dagger mission to find the formula for a resin solution—but the plan goes awry w...

#4
Back to the Future

Back to the Future

1985â€ĸ★ 8.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Death Metal: A Documentary for fans of Adventure. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother's romantic interest. Marty mu...

#5
Alice

Alice

1990â€ĸ★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Death Metal: A Documentary for fans of Fantasy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Alice Tate, mother of two, with a marriage of 16 years, finds herself falling for a handsome sax player, Joe. Stricken with a backache, she consults herbalist Dr. Yang, who realize...

#6
My Fair Lady

My Fair Lady

1964â€ĸ★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Death Metal: A Documentary for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society....