20 best movies like Meet the Feebles (1989)

List of the best movies like Meet the Feebles (1989): The Acid House, Romance & Cigarettes, ABCs of Death 2, Topsy-Turvy, Filth, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, The Happiness of the Katakuris, Bad Boy Bubby, Kill Your Friends, Finding Amanda.

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Markimdb: 6.2
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:51

THE ACID HOUSE is a surreal triptych adapted by "Trainspotting" author Irvine Welsh from his acclaimed collection of short stories. Combining a vicious sense of humor with hard-talking drama, the film reaches into the hearts and minds of the chemical generation, casting a dark and unholy light into the hidden corners of the human psyche. Directed by Paul McGuigan, the film dramatises three stories from the book: 1- The Granton Star Cause, 2- A Soft Touch & 3- The Acid House.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical
CountryUSA
Duration01:45

Down-and-dirty musical love story set in the world of the working class. Nick is an ironworker who builds and repairs bridges. He's married to Kitty, a dressmaker, a strong and gentle woman with whom he has three daughters. He is carrying on a torrid affair with a redheaded woman named Tula. Nick is basically a good, hardworking man driven forward by will and blinded by his urges.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, comedy
CountryUSA, New Zealand, Canada, Israel, Japan, Nigeria
Duration02:05

Taking all that was great from the first installment, ABCs OF DEATH 2 aims to be a wilder, leaner, faster paced and even more entertaining anthology this time around, with a new crop of award-winning, visionary filmmakers from around the globe.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrecomedy, drama, musical, music, biography, history
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration02:34

After their production "Princess Ida" meets with less-than-stunning reviews, the relationship between Gilbert and Sullivan is strained to breaking. Their friends and associates attempt to get the two to work together again, which opens the way to "The Mikado," one of the duo's greatest successes.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrecomedy, drama, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, Sweden, Belgium, USA
Duration01:33

A bigoted junkie cop suffering from bipolar disorder and drug addiction manipulates and hallucinates his way through the festive season in a bid to secure promotion and win back his wife and daughter.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical, western, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:09

Vignettes weaving together the stories of six individuals in the old West at the end of the Civil War. Following the tales of a sharp-shooting songster, a wannabe bank robber, two weary traveling performers, a lone gold prospector, a woman traveling the West to an uncertain future, and a motley crew of strangers undertaking a carriage ride.

Markimdb: 7
Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy, musical
CountryJapan

The Katakuri family has just opened their guest house in the mountains. Unfortunately their first guest commits suicide and in order to avoid trouble they decide to bury him in the backyard. Things get way more complicated when their second guest, a famous sumo wrestler, dies while having sex with his underage girlfriend and the grave behind the house starts to fill up more and more.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrecomedy, drama, crime
CountryAustralia, Italy

Bad Boy Bubby is just that: a bad boy. So bad, in fact, that his mother has kept him locked in their house for his entire thirty years, convincing him that the air outside is poisonous. After a visit from his estranged father, circumstances force Bubby into the waiting world, a place which is just as unusual to him as he is to the world.

Markimdb: 6
Genrethriller, comedy, crime, music
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:34

In the late 1990s, a drug-addled nihilist resorts to murder to climb the ladder of the London music industry.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA

A television producer with a penchant for drinking and gambling is sent to Las Vegas to convince his troubled niece to enter rehab.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrecomedy, musical, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:49

From his hospital bed, a writer suffering from a skin disease hallucinates musical numbers and paranoid plots.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical, western, music
CountryUSA

A look at what goes on backstage during the last broadcast of America's most celebrated radio show, where singing cowboys Dusty and Lefty, a country music siren, and a host of others hold court

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrethriller, comedy, crime
CountryAustralia, USA
Duration01:30

While on a seemingly routine job, a jaded hit man discovers that he's not the only one with his target in the crosshairs.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama, music
CountryUSA
Duration01:32

In this rock opera hybrid of Phantom of the Opera and Faust, fledgling singer-songwriter Winslow Leach finds himself double-crossed by the nefarious music producer Swan, who steals both his music and the girl Leach wants to sing it, Phoenix, for the grand opening of his rock palace, The Paradise. After Swan sends Leach to prison for trespassing, Leach endures a freak accident which leaves him disfigured and plans his revenge on both Swan and The Paradise, becoming the Phantom of the Paradise.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, detective, music
CountrySpain

Jota is about to commit suicide. As he fighting against himself, trying to jump off a bridge, a girl riding a motorcycle falls off the bridge. He runs to help her, and goes with her to the hospital. She has forgotten even what her name is, and he invents her life. He makes up a name for her and tells her and the doctors that they live together as a couple for four years. The lie goes on for a while..

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, military, music
CountrySerbia, France, Italy
Duration02:35

Set during the Bosnian war in the early 1990s, Luka is a mild-mannered railway clerk whose life is turned upside down, not just by the outbreak of the war, but when his wife runs off with a local musician. Then Luka's son is conscripted and eventually captured in the fighting. To recover his son, Luka is commanded to guard a pretty young Muslim nurse who will be used in a hostage swapping operation.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrecomedy, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:45

The story of two lads from Belfast as they stumble their way through the London gay underworld in search of 'gainful employment'. This being the offering of sexual favours to older gay men in order to subsidise their respective giros. 9 Dead Gay Guys is a high-camp send-up of gay stereotypes.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genrecomedy, musical, music
CountryUSA
Duration01:44

Bill Murray worries no one will show up to his TV show due to a massive snowstorm in New York City. Through luck and perseverance, guests arrive at Gotham’s Carlyle Hotel to help him — dancing and singing in holiday spirit.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrecomedy, musical, music, biography
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:44

Composer and pianist Franz Liszt attempts to overcome his hedonistic life-style while repeatedly being drawn back into it by the many women in his life and fellow composer Richard Wagner.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure, music
CountryAustralia, United Kingdom
Duration01:37

A con artist escapes a deal gone wrong in New York and winds up in the Aussie outback in a strange town whose inhabitants are an oddball collection of misfits.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genremelodrama, drama, musical, music, biography
CountryUSA
Duration02:03

Joe Gideon is at the top of the heap, one of the most successful directors and choreographers in musical theater. But he can feel his world slowly collapsing around him - his obsession with work has almost destroyed his personal life, and only his bottles of pills keep him going.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:59

A fading actor best known for his portrayal of a popular superhero attempts to mount a comeback by appearing in a Broadway play. As opening night approaches, his attempts to become more altruistic, rebuild his career, and reconnect with friends and family prove more difficult than expected.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrethriller, comedy
CountryCanada

Rivalries, dark secrets, and sexual tension emerge when three best friends find themselves stranded on a yacht in the middle of the ocean under suspicious circumstances.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:39

A dimwitted thug encounters a strung-out, suicidal young woman and an unlikely relationship develops as they work together to make a break for new horizons.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryFrance
Duration01:27

An alcoholic writer is visited by an incarnation of his cancer.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrecomedy, drama, musical, family, music
CountryUSA
Duration01:43

    The story follows five disparate high school students - Olivia, Mo, Charlie, Stella, and Wen who meet in detention. They realize they are destined to rock, and ultimately form a band that becomes a champion for students sidelined by the high school elite.

    Markimdb: 8.4
    Genrecomedy, drama, musical, music
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration02:49

    Billy Elliot the Musical is a musical based on the 2000 film Billy Elliot. The music is by Elton John, and the book and lyrics are by Lee Hall, who wrote the film's screenplay. In June 2014, it was announced that the musical would be screened and broadcast live to cinemas around the UK and the world. On 28 September, the matinee of the musical was broadcast as it was being filmed at the Victoria Palace Theatre to cinemas around the UK and other countries with further encore screenings of that same performance on other dates. Billy was played by Elliott Hanna. Liam Mower, one of the three actors who originated the title role, returned to play the role of Older Billy. In addition, 25 past and present actors to have played the title role on the West End performed a specially-choreographed dance number at the finale. The live broadcast topped the UK and Ireland box office the weekend it was broadcast, a first for an event cinema release, beating The Equalizer with ÂŁ1.9m.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, comedy, crime
    CountryUSA, Germany
    Duration01:43

    A mentally unhinged factory worker must decide whether to listen to his talking cat and become a killer, or follow his dog's advice to keep striving for normalcy.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, crime, music
    CountrySweden, France, Denmark
    Duration01:42

    A tone-deaf cop works to track down a group of guerilla percussionists whose anarchic public performances are terrorizing the city.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
    CountryUSA, Australia, United Kingdom
    Duration01:53

    Vampire Barnabas Collins is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once-grand estate and family have fallen into ruin.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrehorror, comedy, music
    CountryNew Zealand, USA
    Duration02:01

      Two teenage boys unwittingly summon an ancient evil entity known as The Blind One by delving into black magic while trying to escape their mundane lives.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:37

      An ordinary word processor has the worst night of his life after he agrees to visit a girl in Soho whom he met that evening at a coffee shop.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical, music
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:29

      Taxi dancer, Charity continues to have faith in the human race despite apparently endless disappointments at its hands, and hope that she will finally meet the nice young man to romance her away from her sleazy life.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical, music
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:32

      'Pleasantly Plump' teenager Tracy Turnblad achieves her dream of becoming a regular on the Corny Collins Dance Show. Now a teen hero, she starts using her fame to speak out for the causes she believes in, most of all integration. In doing so, she earns the wrath of the show's former star, Amber Von Tussle, as well as Amber's manipulative, pro-segregation parents. The rivalry comes to a head as Amber and Tracy vie for the title of Miss Auto Show 1963.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrecomedy, musical, music, biography
      CountryItaly

      The life and times of Italian music legend Renato Carosone.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrecomedy
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:30

      You slipped into my life as easily as vermouth into a glass of gin, purrs reclusive singing star Angela Arden. Arden is not only haunted by a secret, she's treated like dirt by her louse of a husband, her snoopy maid, and her petulant daughter. Only her mentally defective son and a well-endowed gigolo treat her with love and affection. Is it any wonder she takes drastic action to improve her life?

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrethriller, comedy, drama, musical, music
      CountryUSA

      Deni Maroon, a musician and dock worker is determined to pull off a music festival against the interests of the local factory owner.

      Markimdb: 4.6
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA

      Harry is having a very, very bad day. He returns home from an all-night drinking binge with his cousin Cecil, to discover that his little dog Jolly...Harry's one true love and the source of light in his dark, solitary life-has been murdered. Brokenhearted and beyond consolation, he vows to track down the dog's murderer at any cost. Armed with a stockpile of firepower in the trunk of his car, he and Cecil embark on a frenzied, alcohol-fueled wild-goose chase, leaving a bloody path of destruction in their wake.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrethriller, comedy, crime
      CountryRepublic of Ireland
      Duration01:36

      Two policemen must join forces to take on an international drug- smuggling gang - one, an unorthodox Irish policeman and the other, a straitlaced FBI agent. Sergeant Gerry Boyle is an eccentric small-town cop with a confrontational and crass personality and a subversive sense of humor. A longtime policeman in County Galway, Boyle is a maverick with his own moral code. He has seen enough of the world to know there isn't much to it and has had plenty of time to think about it. When a fellow police officer disappears and Boyle's small town becomes key to a large drug trafficking investigation, he is forced to at least feign interest when dealing with the humorless FBI agent Wendell Everett assigned to the case.

      Markimdb: 8
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical, music
      CountryUSA, Hong Kong
      Duration02:16

      Mia, an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian, a jazz musician, scrapes by playing cocktail party gigs in dingy bars, but as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain in each other threaten to rip them apart.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:23

      After learning that a brain aneurysm will kill him in about 90 minutes, a perpetually unhappy man struggles to come to terms with his fate and make amends with everyone he has ever hurt.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical, music
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration02:12

      A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrethriller, comedy, adventure, crime
      CountrySpain, Italy
      Duration01:45

      A playboy has the tables turned on him when he finds himself being used as a plaything by an undesirable woman in this black comedy from Spain.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, music
      CountryAustralia

      A terminally ill teen upsets her parents when she falls in love with a small-time drug dealer.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:43

      A couple of angels, O'Reilly and Jackson, are sent to Earth to make sure that their next supervised love-connection succeeds. They follow Celine, a spoiled rich girl who has just accidentally shot a suitor and, due to a misunderstanding, is kidnapped by janitor Robert. Although Celine quickly frees herself, she stays with Robert for thrills. O'Reilly and Jackson pursue, hoping to unite the prospective lovers.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genrecomedy, drama, military, music
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:43

      Eccentric 70-year-old widow purchases the Windmill Theatre in London as a post-widowhood hobby. After starting an innovative continuous variety review, which is copied by other theaters, they begin to lose money. Mrs Henderson suggests they add female nudity similar to the Moulin Rouge in Paris

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical, music
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:40

      Lovely Linda Mason has crooner Jim Hardy head over heels, but suave stepper Ted Hanover wants her for his new dance partner after femme fatale Lila Dixon gives him the brush. Jim's supper club—Holiday Inn—is the setting for the chase by Hanover and manager Danny Reed. The music's the thing.




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