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Movies like A Man Walks Into A Bar With A Chainsaw (2026)

The best movies like A Man Walks Into A Bar With A Chainsaw (2026) are Ill Manors (2012), Lockdown (2000) and Mammal (2016). If A Man Walks Into A Bar With A Chainsaw hooked you with its drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.

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  1. Ill Manors (2012)

    Ensemble film revolving around characters living in Forest Gate, London. Over the course of a few days, six inter-linking stories explore issues of drug use, prostitution and urban poverty.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  2. Lockdown (2000)

    Avery (Jones) returns to college as a competitive swimmer after getting his life back on track. But his life takes another unexpected turn when he and his two friends (Bonds, Casseus) are wrongly accused of murder and end up in prison.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  3. Mammal (2016)

    After Margaret, a divorcée living in Dublin, loses her teenage son, she develops an unorthodox relationship with Joe, a homeless youth. Their tentative trust is threatened by his involvement with a violent gang and the escalation of her ex-husband's grieving rage.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  4. Gloria (1999)

    After serving a prison term for her boyfriend, a streetwise, middle-aged moll named Gloria stands up against the mobs, which is complicated by a six-year-old urchin with a will of his own, whom she reluctantly takes under her wing after his family has been gunned down.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

  5. Mexicali (2026)

    A former special forces contractor is forced out of retirement as an avocado farmer in Mexico when local gangsters try to force him and his family off their farm.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  6. Jawbone (2017)

    A former youth boxing champion, Jimmy McCabe is a man in search of hope but looking in all the wrong places. When he hits rock bottom he turns to his childhood boxing club and the only family he has left: gym owner Bill corner man Eddie and promoter Joe. Back in training, years after anyone thought he was a contender, he risks his life, as he tries to stand tall and regain his place in the world.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  7. The Punisher: One Last Kill (2026)

    As Frank Castle searches for meaning beyond revenge, an unexpected force pulls him back into the fight.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  8. Suburbia (1984)

    When household tensions and a sense of worthlessness overcome Evan, he finds escape when he clings with the orphans of a throw-away society. The runaways hold on to each other like a family until a tragedy tears them apart.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  9. The Doors (1991)

    The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  10. Pimp (2018)

    An urban love story set on the hard streets of the Bronx. A struggling female pimp, named Wednesday, grows up learning the game from her dad. Once he's gone she's left to look out for her prostitute mother and girlfriend Nikki.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  11. Breath (2017)

    A pair of teenagers in Western Australia looking to escape the monotony of life in a small town take up surfing lessons from a guy named Sando.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  12. Pariah (2011)

    A Brooklyn teenager juggles conflicting identities and risks friendship, heartbreak, and family in a desperate search for sexual expression.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  13. The Silent Twins (2022)

    June and Jennifer Gibbons are twins from the only Black family in a small town in Wales in the 1970s and '80s. Feeling isolated from the community, the pair turn inward and reject communication with everyone but each other, retreating into their own fantasy world of inspiration and adolescent desires. After a spree of vandalism, the girls are sentenced to Broadmoor, an infamous psychiatric hospital, where they face the choice to separate and survive or die together.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  14. Fight Club (1999)

    A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  15. Bully (2001)

    A group of teenagers in South Florida enact a murder plot against their mutual bully, Bobby, who has emotionally, physically, and sexually abused them for years.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  16. Stuart: A Life Backwards (2007)

    Story about the remarkable friendship between a reclusive writer and illustrator and a chaotic homeless man, whom he gets to know during a campaign to release two charity workers from prison.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  17. Luckiest Girl Alive (2022)

    A successful woman in New York City finds her life upended when she is forced to confront a dark truth that threatens to unravel her meticulously crafted life.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  18. Trainspotting (1996)

    Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends --Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud and Tommy. He also has an underage girlfriend, Diane, along for the ride. After cleaning up and moving from Edinburgh to London, Mark finds he can't escape the life he left behind as Begbie and Sick Boy come knocking.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  19. National Champions (2021)

    A star quarterback ignites a players’ strike hours before the biggest game of the year in order to fight for fair compensation, equality, and respect for the athletes who put their bodies and health on the line for their schools.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  20. I Smile Back (2015)

    Laney is an attractive, intelligent suburban wife and devoted mother of two adorable children. She has the perfect husband who plays basketball with the kids in the driveway, a pristine house, and a shiny SUV for carting the children to their next activity. However, just beneath the façade lie depression and disillusionment that send her careening into a secret world of reckless compulsion. Only very real danger will force her to face the painful root of her destructiveness and its crumbling effect on those she loves.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  21. Now That You’re Back (TBA)

    After the suicide of a childhood friend, Connor and Liam are reunited by the difficult task of choosing their friends burial clothes.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

  22. Piss (2010)

    Kurtis Conner and his friends embark on a pissy adventure through the piss forest to find Prague and Lucifer to see how particular he actually is about his cheese.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

  23. Daydreaming So Vividly About Our Spanish Holidays (2022)

    Hungry for sun, light and warmth, a group of teenagers embark on a dream trip to the Balearic Islands.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

  24. Annalyn (2012)

    Agnes is not satisfied with her life. She wants a change, but her relationship with her single parent father and dominant girlfriend inhibit her to do something about it. When the father introduces his new wife, Annalyn, everything changes. The same-aged Filipino stepmother helps Agnes see a new path. Soon emerges something that no one could have foreseen.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

  25. Will Wants To Be A Giant Octopus (2026)

    An isolated young black man leaves reality behind to become a giant Octopus.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

  26. An Arabian Night (2020)

    Spending his last night as a civilian in his dream-like local tennis club, Michael, a young British soldier confronts a glimpse of the near future waiting for him on the other side of the night.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

  27. Those Who Never Left (2025)

    Two years after the Beirut blast, a girl continually revisits the last night she spent with her family in their home.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

  28. The Boy Who Couldn’t Feel Pain (2022)

    The Boy Who Couldn't Feel Pain is set in Grants, New Mexico and tells the fictional small-town legend of Chester, a street fighter who can't feel any pain. When Annie, a bowling alley employee who just moved into town challenges him for a fight, things begin to change.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

  29. Here (2025)

    In East Riding, Yorkshire, seventeen-year-old Kaden reluctantly takes a job at the local strawberry field over the Summer. A quiet introvert, Kaden doesn’t fit in with the other farmhands, who are all older, and more experienced, and treat him with contempt. It is here he encounters Lucas, an aloof eighteen-year-old who has worked at the farm for several Summers now. Underneath his initial indifference, Lucas hides a deeper curiosity for Kaden. Desires disentangle in this new, uninhibited, and sun-drenched environment, as the two boys tentatively begin to explore their feelings towards one another in secret, a kinship that forces them to confront their own internalized homophobia, shame, and sense of belonging.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

  30. Lamb (2002)

    A poor father lives with his blind son, dog and sheep. When he can't find any food, he is forced to make a hard decision.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

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Frequently asked questions

What are the best movies like A Man Walks Into A Bar With A Chainsaw?

The closest matches to A Man Walks Into A Bar With A Chainsaw are Ill Manors (2012), Lockdown (2000) and Mammal (2016). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.

What should I watch after A Man Walks Into A Bar With A Chainsaw?

Start with Ill Manors (2012), the closest match to A Man Walks Into A Bar With A Chainsaw.

What is the highest-rated movie like A Man Walks Into A Bar With A Chainsaw?

Fight Club (1999), rated 8.4/10 by 33,329 TMDB users.

What is the newest movie like A Man Walks Into A Bar With A Chainsaw?

The Punisher: One Last Kill (2026) is the most recent release on this list.

Are there English movies like A Man Walks Into A Bar With A Chainsaw?

Yes: Ill Manors (2012), Lockdown (2000) and Mammal (2016).

How are movies similar to A Man Walks Into A Bar With A Chainsaw chosen?

First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside A Man Walks Into A Bar With A Chainsaw, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.

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