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Movies Like River of Fundament

If you liked River of Fundament (2014), a drama and fantasy movie directed by Matthew Barney, 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 Tales of Hoffmann

    The Tales of Hoffmann (1951)

    ★ 7.1/10Also fantasy and drama

    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.

  2. 2Synecdoche, New York

    Synecdoche, New York (2008)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama

    A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play.

  3. 3Melancholia

    Melancholia (2011)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth.

  4. 4Lost Highway

    Lost Highway (1997)

    ★ 7.6/10Also drama

    A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.

  5. 5Ray

    Ray (2004)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama

    Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by a fiercely independent mom who insisted he make his own way, He found his calling and his gift behind a piano…

  6. 6Dancer in the Dark

    Dancer in the Dark (2000)

    ★ 7.8/10Also drama

    Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her young son, who has inherited the same genetic disorder and will suffer the same fate without an expensive operation…

  7. 7A.I. Artificial Intelligence

    A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    David, a robotic boy—the first of his kind programmed to love—is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee and his wife. Though he gradually becomes their child, a series of unexpected circumstances make this…

  8. 83 Women

    3 Women (1977)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    Two co-workers, one a vain woman and the other an awkward teenager, share an increasingly bizarre relationship after becoming roommates.

  9. 9The Doors

    The Doors (1991)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

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

  10. 10Close Encounters of the Third Kind

    Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama

    After an encounter with UFOs, an electricity linesman feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.

  11. 11Magnolia

    Magnolia (1999)

    ★ 7.7/10Also drama

    On one random day in the San Fernando Valley, a dying father, a young wife, a male caretaker, a famous lost son, a police officer in love, a boy genius, an ex-boy genius, a game show host and an estranged daughter will…

  12. 12Enter the Void

    Enter the Void (2010)

    ★ 7.3/10Also fantasy and drama

    This psychedelic tour of life after death is seen entirely from the point of view of Oscar, a young American drug dealer and addict living in Tokyo with his prostitute sister, Linda. When Oscar is killed by police…

  13. 13Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

    Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    A visiting city reporter's assignment suddenly revolves around the murder trial of a local millionaire, whom he befriends.

  14. 14Nine Days

    Nine Days (2021)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama and fantasy

    A bureaucrat interviews five souls to decide which of them will be given a life on Earth. But he soon faces an existential challenge of his own.

  15. 15Maria

    Maria (2024)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    Maria Callas, the world's greatest opera singer, lives the last days of her life in 1970s Paris, as she confronts her identity and life.

  16. 16The Shack

    The Shack (2017)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama

    A grieving man receives a mysterious, personal invitation to meet with God at a place called 'The Shack'.

  17. 17I'm Thinking of Ending Things

    I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    Nothing is as it seems when a woman experiencing misgivings about her new boyfriend joins him on a road trip to meet his parents at their remote farm.

  18. 18Cast Away

    Cast Away (2000)

    ★ 7.7/10Also drama

    Chuck Noland, a top international manager for FedEx, and Kelly, a Ph.D. student, are in love and heading towards marriage. Then Chuck's plane to Malaysia crashes at sea during a terrible storm. He's the only survivor…

  19. 19Greed

    Greed (1924)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama

    When housewife Trina wins the lottery, her comfortable life with her dentist husband John slowly deteriorates, in part by her own increasing paranoia and partly by the machinations of villainous acquaintance Marcus.

  20. 20The Man Who Fell to Earth

    The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama and fantasy

    Thomas Jerome Newton is an alien who has come to Earth in search of water to save his home planet. Aided by lawyer Oliver Farnsworth, Thomas uses his knowledge of advanced technology to create profitable inventions…

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