Movies like The Forbidden Room (2015)
The best movies like The Forbidden Room (2015) are My Winnipeg (2008), The Saddest Music in the World (2003) and Careful (1992). If The Forbidden Room hooked you with its comedy, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Holy Mountain (1973)7.5/10 from 1,083 votes
- NewestBuffet Infinity (2026)Released 2026
My Winnipeg (2008)
The geographical dead center of North America and the beloved birthplace of Guy Maddin, Winnipeg, is the frosty and mysterious star of Maddin’s film. Fact, fantasy and memory are woven seamlessly together in this work, conjuring a city as delightful as it is fearsome.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Saddest Music in the World (2003)
In Depression-era Winnipeg, a legless beer baroness hosts a contest for the saddest music in the world, offering a grand prize of $25,000.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCareful (1992)
The mountain-village passions of a German widow and her sons unfold in the style of a 1920s expressionist movie.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Archangel (1990)
At the height of the October Revolution during the 1919 allied intervention in Arkhangelsk, the exploits of one-legged Canadian soldier Lt. John Boles are told, after he is taken in from the cold by a dysfunctional Russian family and mistakes a local woman for his presumed dead lover.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
SnoozefestMovies like thisTales from the Gimli Hospital (1988)
While their mother is dying in the modern Gimli, Manitoba hospital, two young children are told an important tale by their Icelandic grandmother about Einar the lonely, his friend Gunnar, and the angelic Snjofrieder in a Gimli of old.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Sweet Movie (1974)
The winner of the Miss World Virginity contest marries, escapes from her masochistic husband and ends up involved in a world of debauchery.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisCowards Bend the Knee (2003)
When he takes his girlfriend to a seedy abortion clinic in the back room of a combination hair salon / bordello, Guy Maddin meets the madam’s daughter and falls in love. But she won’t let any man touch her until her father’s murder has been avenged.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Eisenstein in Guanajuato (2015)
In 1931, following the success of the film Battleship Potemkin, Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein travels to the city of Guanajuato, Mexico, to shoot a new film. Freshly rejected by Hollywood, Eisenstein soon falls under Mexico’s spell. Chaperoned by his guide Palomino Cañedo, the director opens up to his suppressed fears as he embraces a new world of sensual pleasures and possibilities that will shape the future of his art.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHighway 61 (1991)
A naive Canadian barber who knows US popular culture inside and out meets a flamboyant roadie who needs someone to drive her and her "brother's" corpse from Thunder Bay, Ontario to New Orleans. Chaos ensues after the barber agrees to drive her, the corpse, and the drugs stashed within all the way.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
The Twentieth Century (2019)
Toronto, Canada, 1899. William Lyon Mackenzie King (1874-1950) fervently believes that he is destined to become Prime Minister, but to do so he will first have to fight his personal obsessions and overcome the many obstacles he will encounter on his tortuous path to power.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
The Living Wake (2007)
A dark comedy set in a timeless storybook universe. Self-proclaimed artist and genius, K. Roth Binew, has one day to live. He has enlisted his best and only friend, Mills Joquin, to take him around on a bicycle powered rickshaw. In a final attempt to probe life’s deepest mysteries, Binew endures one ridiculous trial after the next. He concludes his day with a final performance, his living wake. On a makeshift stage in an open field, Binew’s friends and enemies gather to witness his madness one final time.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Buffet Infinity (2026)
When a massive monster buffet threatens their Alberta county, local business owners star in low-budget TV commercials that mask a dark conspiracy and unleash terrifying supernatural powers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Schizopolis (1997)
A man works for the unpleasant guru of a Scientology-like movement.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (2002)
A cinematic version of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet's adaptation of Bram Stoker's gothic novel Dracula. Filmed in a style reminiscent of silent Expressionist cinema of the early 20th century (complete with intertitles and monochrome photography), it uses dance to tell the story of a sinister but intriguing immigrant who preys upon young English women.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWavelength (1967)
In a Lower Manhattan industrial loft, a camera very slowly zooms into a photograph on a wall while various people occasionally enter and exit.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
SnoozefestMovies like thisEntr'acte (1924)
Stop-motion photography blends with extreme slow-motion in Clair's first and most dada film, composed of a series of zany, interconnected scenes. We witness a rooftop chess match between Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray, a hearse pulled by a camel (and chased by its pallbearers) and a dizzying roller coaster finale. A film of contradictions and agreements.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisKeyhole (2011)
Gangster and deadbeat dad, Ulysses Pick, embarks on an unusual journey through his home.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
The Balcony (1963)
The Madam of a brothel satisfies the erotic fantasies of her customers, while a revolution is sweeping the nation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
River of Fundament (2014)
Visionary artist Matthew Barney returns to cinema with this 3-part epic, a radical reinvention of Norman Mailer’s novel Ancient Evenings. In collaboration with composer Jonathan Bepler, Barney combines traditional modes of narrative cinema with filmed elements of performance, sculpture, and opera, reconstructing Mailer’s hypersexual story of Egyptian gods and the seven stages of reincarnation, alongside the rise and fall of the American car industry.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
God: Serengeti (2017)
God presides over a prehistoric tribe.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Zed & Two Noughts (1985)
Identical twin zoologists lose their wives in a car crash caused by a white swan. They become obsessed with the death and decay of animals, and develop a strange and unusual relationship with the driver of the car, a woman who is now an amputee.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Heart of the World (2000)
Pure fantasia, a race to save the world from a fatal heart attack, juxtaposed against a love rivalry between two brothers - a mortician and an actor playing Christ - for the heart of a scientist studying the earth's core.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Holy Mountain (1973)
The Alchemist assembles together a group of people from all walks of life to represent the planets in the solar system. The occult adept's intention is to put his recruits through strange mystical rites and divest them of their worldly baggage before embarking on a trip to Lotus Island. There they ascend the Holy Mountain to displace the immortal gods who secretly rule the universe.
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Worth the HypeMovies like thisWitch's Cradle (1944)
The surrealist film shows repetitive imagery involving a string fashioned in a bizarre, almost spiderweb-like pattern over the hands of several individuals, most notably an unnamed young woman and an elderly gentleman. The film also shows a shadowy darkness and people filmed at odd angles, an exposed human heart, and other occult symbols and ritualistic imagery which evokes an unsettling and dream-like aura. Considered an unfinished film.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTestament of Orpheus (1960)
An 18th century poet travels through time in search of divine wisdom. In a mysterious wasteland, he has a series of enigmatic encounters with symbolic phantoms with whom he muses about the nature of art and his own career. Ultimately, the poet strives to achieve his rebirth as a celestial being.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Worth the HypeMovies like thisNight on Earth (1991)
A quintet of cabbies in five cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFun with Dick and Jane (1977)
When an upwardly mobile couple find themselves unemployed and in debt, they turn to armed robbery in desperation.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGabriel Iglesias: I'm Sorry for What I Said When I Was Hungry (2016)
Hawaiian-shirt enthusiast Gabriel "Fluffy" Iglesias finds the laughs in racist gift baskets, Prius-driving cops and all-female taco trucks.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisClass Rank (2017)
Two high school misfits join forces in an attempt to overtake the local school board. Guided by their families, they enter the perilous word of politics and, in the process, learn a thing or two about love.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJerry Seinfeld: 23 Hours to Kill (2020)
Jerry Seinfeld takes the stage in New York and tackles talking vs. texting, bad buffets vs. so-called "great" restaurants and the magic of Pop Tarts.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Forbidden Room?
The closest matches to The Forbidden Room are My Winnipeg (2008), The Saddest Music in the World (2003) and Careful (1992). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Forbidden Room?
People who watched The Forbidden Room most often go on to My Winnipeg (2008), The Saddest Music in the World (2003) and Careful (1992).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Forbidden Room?
The Holy Mountain (1973), rated 7.5/10 by 1,083 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Forbidden Room?
Buffet Infinity (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Forbidden Room?
Yes: My Winnipeg (2008), The Saddest Music in the World (2003) and Careful (1992).
How are movies similar to The Forbidden Room chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Forbidden Room, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.