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10 Best Movies Like Downtown Heroes

If you loved Downtown Heroes, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Love, Pain and Vice Versa

Love, Pain and Vice Versa

2008★ 5.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Downtown Heroes for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar heartwarming atmosphere.

Chelo is an architect, withdrawing from her social life because of realistic dreams she's having of a romance with a strange man. She's convinced the man is real, out there, destin...

#2
Dandelions

Dandelions

1974★ 3.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Downtown Heroes for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Rick (Rutger Hauer), a disaffected sailor turned hard drinking womanizer, returns home from six months at sea to find his wife (Corrigan), whom he was deeply in love, has unexpecte...

#3
Destroy All Monsters

Destroy All Monsters

1968★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Downtown Heroes for fans of Sci-Fi. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

At the turn of the century, all of the Earth's monsters have been rounded up and kept safely on Monsterland. Chaos erupts when a race of she-aliens known as the Kilaaks unleash the...

#4
Re-Births

Re-Births

2017★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Downtown Heroes for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

A documentary film depicting five intimate portraits of migrants who fled their country of origin to seek refuge in France and find a space of freedom where they can fully experien...

#5
Fight Club: Members Only

Fight Club: Members Only

2006★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Downtown Heroes for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Four friends head off to Bombay and get involved in the mother and father of all gang wars....

#6
Musangwe: Fight Club

Musangwe: Fight Club

2007★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Downtown Heroes for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

The first rule is that there are no rules. For the bare-knuckle combatants competing in Musangwe fights, anything goes - you can even put a curse on him. The sport, which dates bac...