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10 Best Movies Like Sound of Metal

If you loved Sound of Metal, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

#1
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

2020★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sound of Metal for fans of Drama & Music. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Tensions rise when the trailblazing Mother of the Blues and her band gather at a Chicago recording studio in 1927. Adapted from August Wilson's play....

#2
Mank

Mank

2020★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sound of Metal for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane....

#3
Nomadland

Nomadland

2021★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sound of Metal for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A woman in her sixties embarks on a journey through the western United States after losing everything in the Great Recession, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad....

#4
The Trial of the Chicago 7

The Trial of the Chicago 7

2020★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sound of Metal for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

What was supposed to be a peaceful protest turned into a violent clash with the police. What followed was one of the most notorious trials in history....

#5
Judas and the Black Messiah

Judas and the Black Messiah

2021★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sound of Metal for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Bill O'Neal infiltrates the Black Panthers on the orders of FBI Agent Mitchell and J. Edgar Hoover. As Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton ascends—falling for a fellow revolutionar...

#6
Minari

Minari

2021★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sound of Metal for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A Korean American family moves to an Arkansas farm in search of its own American dream. Amidst the challenges of this new life in the strange and rugged Ozarks, they discover the u...