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Movies that feel like Sound of Metal (2020)

If you loved Sound of Metal, the closest films we have are The Bélier Family (2014), We Are the Best! (2013) and Rocketman (2019). All three share Sound of Metal's contemplative and stylish feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Amazon Prime Video, Paramount Plus Premium and Fandor and others, checked against today's data.

Metal drummer Ruben begins to lose his hearing. When a doctor tells him his condition will worsen, he thinks his career and life is over. His girlfriend Lou checks the former addict into a rehab for the deaf hoping it will prevent a relapse and help him adapt to his new life. After being welcomed and accepted just as he is, Ruben must choose between his new normal and the life he once knew.

🍅 97% Rotten Tomatoes7.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Darius Mardercontemplativestylish
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The Bélier Family
2014 · dir. Éric Lartigau
🍅 83%7.3comedy · music · drama

Common ground in both: deaf and sign languages

The difference: Leans harder into comedy than Sound of Metal does

The whole Bélier family is deaf, except for sixteen year old Paula who is the important translator in her parents' day to day life especially when it comes to matters concerning the family farm. When her music teacher discovers she has a fantastic singing voice and she gets an opportunity to enter a big Radio France contest the whole family's future is set up for big changes.

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We Are the Best!
2013 · dir. Lukas Moodysson
🍅 97%7.1drama · music

Both land stillness and style at once

Three girls in 1980s Stockholm decide to form a punk band—despite not having any instruments, and being told by everyone that punk is dead.

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Rocketman
2019 · dir. Dexter Fletcher
7.3music · drama

Drama built on stillness, twice over

The story of Elton John's life, from his years as a prodigy at the Royal Academy of Music through his influential and enduring musical partnership with Bernie Taupin.

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La Vie en Rose
2007 · dir. Olivier Dahan
🍅 50%7.5music · drama

Stylish music, and it commits to that

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

From the mean streets of the Belleville district of Paris to the dazzling limelight of New York's most famous concert halls, Edith Piaf's life was a constant battle to sing and survive, to live and love. Raised in her grandmother's brothel, Piaf was discovered in 1935 by nightclub owner Louis Leplee, who persuaded her to sing despite her extreme nervousness. Piaf became one of France's immortal icons, her voice one of the indelible signatures of the 20th century.

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Michael
2026 · dir. Antoine Fuqua
🍅 38%7.5music · drama

Contemplative drama in both cases

The story of Michael Jackson, one of the most influential artists the world has ever known, and his life beyond the music. His journey from the discovery of his extraordinary talent as the lead of the Jackson Five, to the visionary artist whose creative ambition fueled a relentless pursuit to become the biggest entertainer in the world, highlighting both his life off-stage and some of the most iconic performances from his early solo career.

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The Legend of 1900
1998 · dir. Giuseppe Tornatore
🍅 58%8drama · music

Music with a pulse of style, in both cases

The difference: Made in the 1990s, in a different era of the craft

Musician Max Tooney goes to sell his prized Conn trumpet to a music shop, where he plays the instrument one last time. The shopkeeper recognises the song as one on a record matrix he found and asks who the piece is by. Tooney tells the story of an infant found abandoned in the first class dining room of the four-stacker ocean-liner SS Virginian on 1 January 1900. Danny Boodman, a coal-man from the boiler room, names the boy Danny Boodman T. D. Lemon 1900, after himself, the fruit crate the boy was found in, and the year, and raises him as his own.

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Leto
2018 · dir. Kirill Serebrennikov
🍅 78%7.3music · drama

Cut from the same drama cloth

Leningrad, one summer in the early eighties. Smuggling LPs by Lou Reed and David Bowie, the underground rock scene is boiling ahead of the Perestroika. Mike and his beautiful wife Natasha meet with young Viktor Tsoi. Together with friends, they will change the destiny of rock’n’roll in the Soviet Union.

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20 Feet from Stardom
2013 · dir. Morgan Neville
🍅 99%7.4documentary · music

The music is handled with the same confidence

The difference: None of the stillness Sound of Metal is built on

Backup singers live in a world that lies just beyond the spotlight. Their voices bring harmony to the biggest bands in popular music, but we've had no idea who these singers are or what lives they lead, until now.

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🍅 76%7.2documentary · music

One thread runs through both: heavy metal

The difference: Sits closer to documentary than Sound of Metal does

An exploration of the heavy metal scene in Los Angeles, with particular emphasis on glam metal. It features concert footage and interviews of legendary heavy metal and hard rock bands and artists such as Aerosmith, Alice Cooper, Kiss, Megadeth, Motörhead, Ozzy Osbourne and W.A.S.P..

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Distant Voices, Still Lives
1988 · dir. Terence Davies
🍅 80%7.4drama · music

Both know what they want from drama

Siblings Maisie and Tony, along with their mother, gather for their sister Eileen's wedding. It is a joyous occasion, but through flashbacks, it becomes clear that the family was not always happy. Their father was physically abusive to his wife and left the children emotionally traumatized. As a result, the children have grown into unhappy adults, looking for love they didn't receive when they were young.

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Anvil! The Story of Anvil
2008 · dir. Sacha Gervasi
🍅 98%7.9documentary · music

Both keep coming back to the same thing: heavy metal

At 14, best friends Robb Reiner and Lips made a pact to rock together forever. Their band, Anvil, hailed as the "demi-gods of Canadian metal" influenced a musical generation that includes Metallica, Slayer, and Anthrax. Following a calamitous European tour, Lips and Robb, now in their fifties, set off to record their 13th album in one last attempt to fulfill their boyhood dreams.

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The Devil and Daniel Johnston
2006 · dir. Jeff Feuerzeig
🍅 88%7.9documentary · music

Music of the same temperament

This 2005 documentary film chronicles the life of Daniel Johnston, a manic-depressive genius singer/songwriter/artist, from childhood up to the present, with an emphasis on his mental illness and how it manifested itself in demonic self-obsession.

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