Movies Like The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years
If you liked The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years (1988), a documentary and music movie directed by Penelope Spheeris, 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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Matangi / Maya / M.I.A. (2018)
★ 7.5/10Also music and documentaryDrawn from a never before seen cache of personal footage spanning decades, this is an intimate portrait of the Sri Lankan artist and musician who continues to shatter conventions.
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Hated: GG Allin and The Murder Junkies (1993)
★ 6.6/10Also documentary and musicAn overview of the life of the most shocking, vile, and notorious of punk rock legends.
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Travis Scott: Look Mom I Can Fly (2019)
★ 6.8/10Also documentary and musicWhile crafting his Grammy-nominated album "Astroworld," Travis Scott juggles controversy, fatherhood and career highs in this intimate documentary.
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Milli Vanilli (2023)
★ 7/10Also music and documentaryThe story of Robert Pilatus and Fabrice Morvan, who became fast friends during their youth in Germany. With Rob coming from a broken home and Fabrice having left an abusive household, they shared a similar upbringing…
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Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off (2022)
★ 7.7/10Also documentaryA wide-ranging, definitive look at Hawk’s life and iconic career, and his relationship with the sport with which he’s been synonymous for decades, featuring unprecedented access, never-before-seen footage, and…
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Dig! (2004)
★ 6.8/10Also documentary and musicA documentary on the once promising American rock bands The Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Dandy Warhols. The friendship between respective founders, Anton Newcombe and Courtney Taylor, escalated into bitter rivalry…
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One More Time with Feeling (2016)
★ 7.8/10Also documentary and musicAndrew Dominik's One More Time With Feeling is a remarkable black and white documentary which chronicles the creation of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' album Skeleton Tree. Originally a performance based concept, the film…
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Room 237 (2012)
★ 6.1/10Also documentaryA subjective documentary that explores various theories about hidden meanings in Stanley Kubrick's classic film The Shining. Five very different points of view are illuminated through voice over, film clips, animation…
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For Sama (2019)
★ 8.2/10Also documentaryA love letter from a young mother to her daughter, the film tells the story of Waad al-Kateab’s life through five years of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria as she falls in love, gets married and gives birth to Sama, all…
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Night Will Fall (2014)
★ 7.6/10Also documentaryWhen Allied forces liberated the Nazi concentration camps in 1944-45, their terrible discoveries were recorded by army and newsreel cameramen, revealing for the first time the full horror of what had happened. Making…
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Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press (2017)
★ 6/10Also documentaryThe courtroom and publicity battles between the superstar wrestler and the notorious website explode in a sensational trial all about the limits of the First Amendment and the new no holds barred nature of celebrity…
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One Child Nation (2019)
★ 7.2/10Also documentaryThrough interviews with both victims and instigators, Nanfu Wang, a first-time mother, breaks open decades of silence on a vast, unprecedented social experiment that shaped — and destroyed — countless lives in China.
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We Live in Public (2009)
★ 6.8/10Also documentaryIn 1999, Internet entrepreneur Josh Harris recruits dozens of young men and women who agree to live in underground apartments for weeks at a time while their every movement is broadcast online. Soon, Harris and his…
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Disclosure (2020)
★ 7.8/10Also documentaryAn investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people have been taught to feel about themselves.
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The Kid Stays in the Picture (2002)
★ 6.6/10Also documentaryDocumentary about legendary Paramount producer Robert Evans, based on his famous 1994 autobiography.
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Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession (2004)
★ 7.1/10Also documentaryA documentary on the Z Channel, one of the first pay cable stations in the US, and its programming chief, Jerry Harvey. Debuting in 1974, the LA-based channel's eclectic slate of movies became a prime example of the…
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Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation (2019)
★ 7.3/10Also music and documentary50 years after the legendary fest, Barak Goodman’s electric retelling of Woodstock, from the point of view of those who were on the ground, evokes the freedom, passion, community, and joy the three-day music festival…
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Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind (2018)
★ 7.9/10Also documentaryA funny, intimate and heartbreaking portrait of one of the world’s most beloved and inventive comedians, Robin Williams, told largely through his own words. Celebrates what he brought to comedy and to the culture at…
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Belushi (2020)
★ 7/10Also documentaryUsing previously unheard audiotapes recorded shortly after John Belushi’s death, director R.J. Cutler’s documentary feature examines the too-short life of the once-in-a-generation talent who captured the hearts and…
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78/52 (2017)
★ 7.1/10Also documentaryThe most famous murder scene in movie history comprises 78 camera settings and 52 cuts: the shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. 78/52 tells the story of the man behind the curtain and his greatest obsession.