If You Liked Amadeus, Watch These Next
Finished Amadeus (1984) and want more of the same? These 19 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like Amadeus, most of them are drama, history, music.
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19 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
2.tick, tick... BOOM!(2021)
7.6DramaMusicAlso drama and music
On the brink of turning 30, a promising theater composer navigates love, friendship and the pressure to create something great before time runs out.
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4.Julius Caesar(1953)
7.1DramaHistoryAlso drama and history
The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but both have sorely underestimated Mark Antony.
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5.Beyond the Sea(2004)
6.3DramaMusicAlso drama and music
Based on the life and career of legendary entertainer, Bobby Darin, the biopic moves back and forth between his childhood and adulthood, to tell the tale of his life.
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7.A Hidden Life(2019)
7.2HistoryDramaWarAlso history and drama
Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter faces the threat of execution for refusing to fight for the Nazis during World War II.
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8.Ludwig(1973)
7.5DramaHistoryAlso drama and history
Historical evocation of Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from his crowning in 1864 until his death in 1886, as a romantic hero. Fan of Richard Wagner, betrayed by him, in love with his cousin Elisabeth of Austria, abandoned by her, tormented by his homosexuality, he will little by little slip towards madness.
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9.The Soloist(2009)
6.7DramaMusicAlso drama and music
A Los Angeles journalist befriends a homeless Juilliard-trained musician, while looking for a new article for the paper.
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10.Munich - The Edge of War(2021)
6.9DramaHistoryAlso drama and history
At the tense 1938 Munich Conference, former friends who now work for opposing governments become reluctant spies racing to expose a Nazi secret.
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11.Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould(1993)
7.0DramaMusicAlso drama and music
A collection of vignettes highlighting different aspects of the life, work, and character of the acclaimed Canadian classical pianist.
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12.Taking Sides(2002)
6.3DramaWarMusicAlso drama and music
One of the most spectacular and renowned conductors of the 1930s, Wilhelm Furtwangler's reputation rivaled that of Toscanini's. After the war, he was investigated as part of the Allies' de-Nazification programme. In the bombed-out Berlin of the immediate post-war period, the Allies slowly bring law and order to bear…
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13.Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere(2025)
6.6DramaMusicAlso drama and music
Bruce Springsteen, a young musician on the cusp of global superstardom, struggles to reconcile the pressures of success with the ghosts of his past.
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15.The Two Popes(2019)
7.5DramaHistoryAlso drama and history
Frustrated with the direction of the church, Cardinal Bergoglio requests permission to retire in 2012 from Pope Benedict. Instead, facing scandal and self-doubt, the introspective Pope Benedict summons his harshest critic and future successor to Rome to reveal a secret that would shake the foundations of the Catholic…
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17.Colette(2018)
6.9DramaHistoryAlso drama and history
After marrying a successful Parisian writer known commonly as Willy, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette is transplanted from her childhood home in rural France to the intellectual and artistic splendor of Paris. Soon after, Willy convinces Colette to ghostwrite for him. She pens a semi-autobiographical novel about a witty and…
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19.Teen Spirit(2019)
6.0MusicDramaAlso music and drama
A shy teenager living on the Isle of Wight dreams of pop stardom. With the help of an unlikely mentor, she enters a singing competition that will test her integrity, talent, and ambition.
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