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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.

  1. 1The Red Shoes

    The Red Shoes (1948)

    ★ 8/10

    A fledgling ballerina falls in love with a brilliant composer, but the jealous head of the ballet company plots to drive them apart.

  2. 2K-12

    K-12 (2019)

    ★ 7.7/10

    Cry 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…

  3. 3Kinds of Kindness

    Kinds of Kindness (2024)

    ★ 6.5/10

    A 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…

  4. 4The Tales of Hoffmann

    The Tales of Hoffmann (1951)

    ★ 7.1/10

    A 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.

  5. 5Koyaanisqatsi

    Koyaanisqatsi (1983)

    ★ 7.9/10

    Takes 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…

  6. 6My Girl

    My Girl (1991)

    ★ 7.4/10

    Vada 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…

  7. 7Uncle Peckerhead

    Uncle Peckerhead (2020)

    ★ 6/10

    When 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.

  8. 8The Doors

    The Doors (1991)

    ★ 7.1/10

    The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison.

  9. 9The Package

    The Package (2018)

    ★ 5.9/10

    When 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.

  10. 10Theater Camp

    Theater Camp (2023)

    ★ 6.4/10

    After 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.

  11. 11After.Life

    After.Life (2009)

    ★ 6.3/10

    Following a terrible car crash, a woman awakes to find an enigmatic mortician preparing her for burial.

  12. 12Music and Lyrics

    Music and Lyrics (2007)

    ★ 6.5/10

    A 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…

  13. 13Poison

    Poison (1991)

    ★ 6/10

    A 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…

  14. 14It's a Boy Girl Thing

    It's a Boy Girl Thing (2006)

    ★ 6.6/10

    A 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…

  15. 15Pitch Perfect

    Pitch Perfect (2012)

    ★ 7.3/10

    College 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…

  16. 16Southbound

    Southbound (2015)

    ★ 5.9/10

    The 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…

  17. 17Michael Jackson's Thriller

    Michael Jackson's Thriller (1983)

    ★ 8.3/10

    A night at the movies turns terrifying when Michael and his date are attacked by zombies.

  18. 18If I Stay

    If I Stay (2014)

    ★ 7.3/10

    Mia 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…

  19. 19Control

    Control (2007)

    ★ 7.5/10

    The 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.

  20. 20Tumbledown

    Tumbledown (2016)

    ★ 6.2/10

    A 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.

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