Movies Like Songs from the compost: mutating bodies, imploding stars
If you liked Songs from the compost: mutating bodies, imploding stars (2020), a movie directed by Eglė Budvytytė, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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The Red Shoes (1948)
★ 8/10A fledgling ballerina falls in love with a brilliant composer, but the jealous head of the ballet company plots to drive them apart.
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K-12 (2019)
★ 7.7/10Cry Baby, a strong and sensitive girl, is sent off to a disturbing sleepaway school that’s hidden underneath a grandiose façade. Luckily, she has a sweet and unapologetic best friend who sticks up for her when she gets…
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Kinds of Kindness (2024)
★ 6.5/10A triptych fable following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing-at-sea has returned and seems a different person; and a woman…
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The Tales of Hoffmann (1951)
★ 7.1/10A melancholy poet reflects on three women he loved and lost in the past: a mechanical performing doll, a Venetian courtesan, and the consumptive daughter of a celebrated composer.
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Koyaanisqatsi (1983)
★ 7.9/10Takes us to locations all around the US and shows us the heavy toll that modern technology is having on humans and the earth. The visual tone poem contains neither dialogue nor a vocalized narration: its tone is set by…
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My Girl (1991)
★ 7.4/10Vada Sultenfuss is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. She is also in love with her English teacher, and joins a poetry class over the summer just to impress him. Thomas J…
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Uncle Peckerhead (2020)
★ 6/10When a punk band scores their first tour, life on the road proves tough when they are joined by a man-eating demon as a roadie.
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The Doors (1991)
★ 7.1/10The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison.
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The Package (2018)
★ 5.9/10When a group of teenagers goes on a spring break camping trip, an unfortunate accident sets off a race to save their friend’s most prized possession.
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Theater Camp (2023)
★ 6.4/10After the indomitable and beloved founder of a scrappy theater camp in upstate New York falls into a coma, the eccentric staff must band together with her clueless "crypto-bro" son to keep the thespian paradise afloat.
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After.Life (2009)
★ 6.3/10Following a terrible car crash, a woman awakes to find an enigmatic mortician preparing her for burial.
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Music and Lyrics (2007)
★ 6.5/10A washed-up '80s pop star gets a chance at a comeback when reigning pop diva Cora Corman invites him to write & record a duet with her, but there's a problem--Alex hasn't written a song in years; he's never written…
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Poison (1991)
★ 6/10A trio of interweaved transgressive tales, telling a bizarre stories of suburban patricide and a miraculous flight from justice, a mad sex experiment which unleashes a disfiguring plague, and the obsessive sexual…
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It's a Boy Girl Thing (2006)
★ 6.6/10A visit to a natural history museum proves catastrophic for two high school rivals, an overachiever and a jock, when an ancient Aztec statue casts a spell that causes them to switch bodies and see exactly what it's…
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Pitch Perfect (2012)
★ 7.3/10College student Beca knows she does not want to be part of a clique, but that's exactly where she finds herself after arriving at her new school. Thrust in among mean gals, nice gals and just plain weird gals, Beca…
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Southbound (2015)
★ 5.9/10The film contains five stories set on desolate stretches of a desert highway. Two men on the run from their past, a band on its way to a gig, a man struggling to get home, a brother in search of his long-lost sister…
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Michael Jackson's Thriller (1983)
★ 8.3/10A night at the movies turns terrifying when Michael and his date are attacked by zombies.
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If I Stay (2014)
★ 7.3/10Mia Hall, a talented young cellist, thought the most difficult decision she would ever have to make would be whether to pursue her musical dreams at prestigious Juilliard or follow her heart to be with the love of her…
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Control (2007)
★ 7.5/10The story of Joy Division’s lead singer Ian Curtis, from his schoolboy days in 1973 to his suicide on the eve of the band's first American tour in 1980.
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Tumbledown (2016)
★ 6.2/10A young woman struggles to move on with her life after the death of her husband, an acclaimed folk singer, when a brash New York writer forces her to confront her loss and the ambiguous circumstances of his death.