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10 Best Movies Like How Heavy This Hammer

If you loved How Heavy This Hammer, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

#1
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice

1969★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to How Heavy This Hammer for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

After returning to Los Angeles from a group therapy session, documentary filmmaker Bob Sanders and his wife, Carol, find themselves becoming vigilante couples counselors, offering ...

#2
Monkey Business

Monkey Business

1952★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to How Heavy This Hammer for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Research chemist Barnaby Fulton works on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. One of the labs chimps gets loose in the laboratory and mixes chemicals, but then pours th...

#3
White Hunter, Black Heart

White Hunter, Black Heart

1990★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to How Heavy This Hammer for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Renowned filmmaker John Wilson travels to Africa to direct a new movie, but constantly leaves to hunt elephants and other game, to the dismay of his cast and crew. He eventually be...

#4
Smiles of a Summer Night

Smiles of a Summer Night

1955★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to How Heavy This Hammer for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Early in the 20th century, middle-aged lawyer Fredrik Egerman and his young wife, Anne, have still not consummated their marriage, while Fredrik's son finds himself increasingly at...

#5
The Play House

The Play House

1921★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to How Heavy This Hammer for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Upon waking from the dream of a theater peopled entirely by numerous Buster Keatons, a lowly stage hand causes havoc everywhere he works....

#6
Black Narcissus

Black Narcissus

1947★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to How Heavy This Hammer for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A group of Anglican nuns, led by Sister Clodagh, are sent to a mountain in the Himalayas. The climate in the region is hostile and the nuns are housed in an odd old palace. They wo...