Movies like If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power (2021)
The best movies like If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power (2021) are Lazarus (2018), Tropico (2013) and Climax (2018). If If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power hooked you with its music and fantasy, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedK-12 (2019)7.7/10 from 298 votes
- NewestApple Music Live: Lady Gaga MAYHEM Requiem (2026)Released 2026
Lazarus (2018)
Inspired by the book, The Man Who Fell To Earth, Lazarus focuses on Thomas Newton, as he remains still on Earth - a 'man' unable to die, his head soaked in cheap gin and haunted by a past love. We follow Newton during the course of a few days where the arrival of another lost soul - might set him finally free.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both music
Tropico (2013)
An ethereal trip to Lana Del Rey's conception of Adam and Eve story. In the beginning as sinners, they the fall from heaven, away from Marilyn and Elvis, to earth where Del Rey and Ross are played with Latin-American offspring. Amused, they struggle with the decadent life this culture supposedly live.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both fantasy & music
Climax (2018)
When a dance troupe is lured to an empty school, a bowl of drug-laced sangria causes their jubilant rehearsal to descend into a dark and explosive nightmare as they try to survive the night—and find who's responsible—before it's too late.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both music
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMiley Cyrus: Something Beautiful (2025)
A one of a kind pop opera fueled by fantasy, featuring thirteen original new songs from the visual album Something Beautiful by Miley Cyrus.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both music & fantasy
Lemonade (2016)
The second "visual album" (a collection of short films) by Beyoncé, this time around she takes a piercing look at racial issues and feminist concepts through a sexualized, satirical, and solemn tone.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both music
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisPlease Baby Please (2022)
After witnessing a murder in the gritty streets of 1950s Manhattan, newlyweds Suze and Arthur become the dangerous obsession of a greaser gang that awakens a sleeping quandary into the couple's sexual identity.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both fantasy & music
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Runaways (2010)
Joan Jett and Cherie Currie, two rebellious teenagers from Southern California, become the frontwomen for The Runaways -- the now-legendary group that paved the way for future generations of female rockers. Under the Svengali-like influence of impresario Kim Fowley, the band becomes a huge success.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both music
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHer Composition (2015)
A college music student turns to prostitution to make a little cash and look for inspiration, as she has blocked on a major musical composition that she must create in order to graduate.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both fantasy & music
Titane (2021)
A woman with a metal plate in her head from a childhood car accident embarks on a bizarre journey, bringing her into contact with a firefighter who's reunited with his missing son after 10 years.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMadeline's Madeline (2018)
Madeline has become an integral part of a prestigious physical theater troupe. When the workshop's ambitious director pushes the teenager to weave her rich interior world and troubled history with her mother into their collective art, the lines between performance and reality begin to blur. The resulting battle between imagination and appropriation rips out of the rehearsal space and through all three women's lives.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
SnoozefestMovies like thisBlack Is King (2020)
This visual album from Beyoncé reimagines the lessons of "The Lion King" (2019) for today's young kings and queens in search of their own crowns.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both music
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGive Me Pity! (2023)
Sissy St. Claire graces the small screen for her first ever television special, an evening full of music and laughter, glamour and entertainment! But Sissy's live event quickly begins to curdle into a psychedelic nightmare of vanity, insecurity and delusional ambition, provoked by the glowering presence of a mysterious masked man.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both music
Anima (2019)
In a short musical film directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, Thom Yorke of Radiohead stars in a mind-bending visual piece. Best played loud.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both music
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTaurus (2022)
A rising but troubled musician searches for the inspiration to record one last song, pushing himself deep into the void.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both music
SnoozefestMovies like thisHer Smell (2019)
A self-destructive punk rocker struggles with sobriety while trying to recapture the creative inspiration that led her band to success.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both music
SnoozefestMovies like thisMandy (2018)
The Shadow Mountains, 1983. Red and Mandy lead a loving and peaceful existence; but when their pine-scented haven is savagely destroyed, Red is catapulted into a phantasmagoric journey filled with bloody vengeance and laced with fire.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisApple Music Live: Lady Gaga MAYHEM Requiem (2026)
For Apple Music Live, Gaga presents MAYHEM Requiem, a celebration and musical reimagining of MAYHEM.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both music
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisstar-crossed: the film (2021)
Takes the music from the studio to the screen with gorgeous visuals and a sense of heightened reality envisioned by Musgraves and Zeinali and shot by Academy Award-nominated cinematographer Matthew Libatique.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both music
Suspiria (2018)
A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the artistic director, an ambitious young dancer, and a grieving psychotherapist. Some will succumb to the nightmare. Others will finally wake up.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisK-12 (2019)
Cry Baby, a strong and sensitive girl, is sent off to a disturbing sleepaway school that’s hidden underneath a grandiose façade. Luckily, she has a sweet and unapologetic best friend who sticks up for her when she gets bullied by the other students whose brains are under control by the Principal and his wicked staff. With the help of the magical friends they meet along the way, as well as an Angelic Spirit Guide, they are able to gain the strength they need to fight off the school’s belligerent patriarchal conditioning.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both fantasy & music
Worth the HypeMovies like thisStans (2025)
A revealing, edgy, and disarmingly personal journey into the world of superfandom, told through the lens of one of the world's most iconic and enduring artists, Eminem, and the fans that worship him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both music
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPretty Lethal (2026)
A troupe of ballerinas find themselves fighting for survival as they attempt to escape from a remote inn after their bus breaks down on the way to a dance competition.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Forty-Year-Old Version (2020)
Desperate for a breakthrough as she nears the big 4-0, struggling New York City playwright Radha finds inspiration by reinventing herself as a rapper.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both music
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Neon Demon (2016)
When aspiring model Jesse moves to Los Angeles, her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will take any means necessary to get what she has.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDownfalls High (2021)
When reserved and lonely teenager Fenix meets popular high school girl Scarlett, the two form a bond that shapes the rest of his life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both music
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBattle of the Year (2013)
A down-on-his-luck coach is hired to prepare a team of the best American dancers for an international tournament that attracts all the best crews from around the world, but the Americans haven't won in fifteen years.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both music
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMo' Better Blues (1990)
Talented but self-centered trumpeter Bleek Gilliam is obsessed with his music and indecisiveness about his girlfriends Indigo and Clarke. But when he is forced to come to the aid of his manager and childhood friend, Bleek finds his world more fragile than he ever imagined.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both music
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFor the Boys (1991)
Talented USO entertainer Dixie Leonard and comedian Eddie Sparks deal with their relationship over the course of 5 decades from World War II to the Vietnam War era to their twilight era in the 90's.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both music
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSturgill Simpson Presents Sound & Fury (2019)
In this anime visual album, a mysterious driver heads deep into a postapocalyptic hellscape toward a ferocious showdown with two monstrous opponents.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both music
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOlivia Rodrigo: GUTS World Tour (2024)
At a sold-out concert in her hometown of LA, Olivia Rodrigo pours her heart into an electrifying night of chart-topping hits and pop-rock power ballads.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both music
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power?
The closest matches to If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power are Lazarus (2018), Tropico (2013) and Climax (2018). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power?
People who watched If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power most often go on to Lazarus (2018), Tropico (2013) and Climax (2018).
What is the highest-rated movie like If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power?
K-12 (2019), rated 7.7/10 by 298 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power?
Apple Music Live: Lady Gaga MAYHEM Requiem (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power?
Yes: Lazarus (2018), Tropico (2013) and Miley Cyrus: Something Beautiful (2025).
How are movies similar to If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.