If You Liked Almost Famous, Watch These Next
Finished Almost Famous (2000) 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 Almost Famous, most of them are drama, music.
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19 titles · updated 3rd October 2026
1.Janie Jones(2010)
6.3DramaMusicAlso drama and music
When a fading musician (Alessandro Nivola) learns he has a teenage daughter (Abigail Breslin) from a long-ago tryst, he’s forced to take her on tour after her mother checks into rehab.
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2.Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody(2022)
7.0MusicDramaAlso music and drama
The joyous, emotional, heartbreaking celebration of the life and music of Whitney Houston, the greatest female R&B pop vocalist of all time. Tracking her journey from obscurity to musical superstardom.
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3.Great Balls of Fire!(1989)
6.3DramaHistoryMusicAlso drama and music
The story of Jerry Lee Lewis, arguably the greatest and certainly one of the wildest musicians of the 1950s. His arrogance, remarkable talent, and unconventional lifestyle often brought him into conflict with others in the industry, and even earned him the scorn and condemnation of the public.
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4.Back to Black(2024)
6.7MusicHistoryDramaAlso music and drama
The extraordinary story of Amy Winehouse’s early rise to fame from her early days in Camden through the making of her groundbreaking album, Back to Black that catapulted Winehouse to global fame. Told through Amy’s eyes and inspired by her deeply personal lyrics, the film explores and embraces the many layers of the…
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6.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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7.Bohemian Rhapsody(2018)
7.9MusicDramaAlso music and drama
Singer Freddie Mercury, guitarist Brian May, drummer Roger Taylor and bass guitarist John Deacon take the music world by storm when they form the rock 'n' roll band Queen in 1970. Hit songs become instant classics. When Mercury's increasingly wild lifestyle starts to spiral out of control, Queen soon faces its…
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8.Inside Llewyn Davis(2013)
7.2DramaMusicAlso drama and music
In Greenwich Village in the early 1960s, gifted but volatile folk musician Llewyn Davis struggles with money, relationships, and his uncertain future.
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9.Eddie and the Cruisers(1983)
6.6DramaMusicMysteryAlso drama and music
A television newswoman picks up the story of a 1960s rock band whose long-lost leader — Eddie Wilson — may still be alive, while searching for the missing tapes of the band's never-released album.
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10.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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11.Dreamgirls(2006)
6.7DramaMusicAlso drama and music
A trio of female soul singers cross over to the pop charts in the early 1960s, facing their own personal struggles along the way.
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12.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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13.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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14.The Wanderers(1979)
7.0DramaAlso drama
The streets of the Bronx are owned by '60s youth gangs where the joy and pain of adolescence is lived. Philip Kaufman tells his take on the novel by Richard Price about the history of the Italian-American gang ‘The Wanderers.’
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15.Jersey Boys(2014)
6.8MusicDramaAlso music and drama
A musical biopic of the Four Seasons—the rise, the tough times and personal clashes, and the ultimate triumph of a group of friends whose music became symbolic of a generation. Far from a mere tribute concert, it gets to the heart of the relationships at the centre of the group, with a special focus on frontman…
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16.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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17.If I Stay(2014)
7.3DramaAlso drama
Mia Hall, a talented young cellist, thought the most difficult decision she would ever have to make would be whether to pursue her musical dreams at prestigious Juilliard or follow her heart to be with the love of her life, Adam, a rock singer/guitarist. However, a car wreck changes everything in an instant, and now…
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19.Bob Marley: One Love(2024)
6.6MusicHistoryDramaAlso music and drama
Jamaican singer-songwriter Bob Marley overcomes adversity to become the most famous reggae musician in the world.
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