Movies Like Industry Abnormal

If you liked Industry Abnormal (2024), a comedy and music movie directed by August Kamerer, 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
Airheads (1994)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy and music
The Lone Rangers have heavy-metal dreams and a single demo tape they can't get anyone to play. The solution: Hijack an FM rock radio station and hold the deejays hostage until they agree to broadcast the band's tape.
2
Heavy Metal Mater (2010)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy and music
Mater and Lightning McQueen are ready to rock! When Mater's garage band, Mater and the Gas Caps, records a hit song, Mater becomes a rock legend. Then Lightning joins Mater's band for the rock concert of the century!
3
Josie and the Pussycats (2001)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy and music
Josie, Melody and Val are three small-town girl musicians determined to take their rock band out of their garage and straight to the top, while remaining true to their look, style and sound. They get a record deal…
4
A Song Is Born (1948)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy and music
The story of seven scholars in search of an expert to teach them about swing music. They seem to have found the perfect candidate in winsome nightclub singer Honey Swanson. But Honey's gangster boyfriend doesn't want…
5
Spinal Tap II: The End Continues (2025)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy and music
The now estranged bandmates of Spinal Tap are forced to reunite for one final concert, hoping it will solidify their place in the pantheon of rock 'n' roll.
6
Wayne's World (1992)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy and music
The adventures of two amiably aimless metal-head friends, Wayne and Garth. From Wayne's basement, the pair broadcast a talk-show called "Wayne's World" on local public access television. The show comes to the attention…
7
This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
★ 7.4/10Also comedy and music
"This Is Spinal Tap" shines a light on the self-contained universe of a metal band struggling to get back on the charts, including everything from its complicated history of ups and downs, gold albums, name changes and…
8
Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy and music
A group of rock-music-loving students, with the help of the Ramones, take over their school to combat its newly installed oppressive administration.
9
A Very Jonas Christmas Movie (2025)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy and music
Kevin, Nick, and Joe Jonas face a series of escalating obstacles as they struggle to make it from London to New York in time to spend Christmas with their families.
10
Bo Burnham: Make Happy (2016)
★ 8/10Also comedy and music
Combining his trademark wit and self-deprecating humor with original music, Bo Burnham offers up his unique twist on life in this stand-up special about life, death, sexuality, hypocrisy, mental illness and Pringles…
11
Soul Men (2008)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy and music
Two former backup soul singers, Louis and Floyd, have not spoken to each other in 20 years, and reluctantly agree to travel across the country together to a reunion concert to honor their recently-deceased lead singer…
12
The Girl Can't Help It (1956)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy and music
A down-and-out gangster hires a down-on-his-luck agent to make his girlfriend a recording star within six weeks.
13
A Mighty Wind (2003)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy and music
Three eclectic, never-quite-famous folk bands come together for the first time in decades following the death of their manager to put on an reunion concert in his honor, at the request of his son.
14
Love Happy (1949)
★ 5.8/10Also comedy and music
The Marx Brothers help young Broadway hopefuls when they get mixed up with gangsters due to a tin of sardines containing Romanoff diamonds.
15
Adam Sandler: 100% Fresh (2018)
★ 7.1/10Also comedy and music
Adam Sandler takes his comical musical musings back out on the road, from comedy clubs to concert halls to one very unsuspecting subway station.
16
Richard Pryor: Live in Concert (1979)
★ 7.4/10Also comedy
Richard Pryor delivers monologues on race, sex, family and his favorite target—himself, live at the Terrace Theatre in Long Beach, California.
17
Jimmy Carr: Natural Born Killer (2024)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy
Jimmy Carr refutes the idea that you can't joke about anything these days with his edgy takes on gun control, religion, cancel culture and consent.
18
The Rocker (2008)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy and music
In the 1980s, a drummer is abandoned by his band just before they become rock superstars. Twenty years later, the drummer sees his second chance at stardom arise when he is asked to perform with his teenage nephew's…
19
Babes in Arms (1939)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy and music
Mickey Moran, son of two vaudeville veterans, decides to put up his own vaudeville show with his girlfriend Patsy Barton. But child actress Rosalie wants to make a comeback and replace Patsy both professionally and as…
20
Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny (2006)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy and music
In Venice Beach, naive Midwesterner JB bonds with local slacker KG and they form the rock band Tenacious D. Setting out to become the world's greatest band is no easy feat, so they set out to steal what could be the…