Movies Like Bobby Wants to Meet Me
If you liked Bobby Wants to Meet Me (1981), a tv movie movie directed by Tony Smith, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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Gia (1998)
★ 7.1/10Also tv movieGia Carangi meteorically rises to modeling fame in the late 1970s but becomes overconsumed by persistent loneliness and drug addiction.
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Adele One Night Only (2021)
★ 7.7/10Also tv movieA primetime special with performances from the superstar including Adele’s first new material in six years plus her chart-topping hits. The special will also feature an exclusive interview with Adele by Oprah Winfrey…
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Hairspray Live! (2016)
★ 7.4/10Also tv movieA teenage girl living in Baltimore in the early 1960s dreams of appearing on a popular TV dance show.
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Elvis (1979)
★ 6.9/10Also tv movieThis biopic traces Elvis Presley’s life from his impoverished childhood to his meteoric rise to stardom to his triumphant conquering of Las Vegas.
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The Cheetah Girls (2003)
★ 6.1/10Also tv movieA four-member teen girl group named the Cheetah Girls go to a Manhattan High School for the Performing Arts and try to become the first freshmen to win the talent show in the school's history. During the talent show…
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My Dinner with Hervé (2018)
★ 6.3/10Also tv movieAn unlikely friendship evolves over one wild night in LA between a struggling journalist and actor Hervé Villechaize, the world's most famous gun-toting dwarf, resulting in life-changing consequences for both.
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Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story (2003)
★ 7.3/10Also tv movieBased on a true story. Liz Murray is a young girl who is taken care of by her loving, but drug-addicted parents. Liz becomes homeless at 15 and after a tragedy comes upon her, she begins her work to finish high school.
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The Magic of Ordinary Days (2005)
★ 7.5/10Also tv moviePregnant out of wedlock, an educated young woman is pressured by her father into an arranged marriage with a lonely farmer in this drama set during WWII.
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Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Celebration (2001)
★ 8/10Also tv movieCelebrating the 30 year anniversary of Michael Jackson's solo career, this legendary performance took place on September 10, 2001.
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Geek Charming (2011)
★ 6.7/10Also tv movieFilm geek Josh is looking for the subject of his new documentary when a chance meeting puts the perfect star in his sights—Dylan, his school's most popular junior. But Dylan's hopes of using the film to become Blossom…
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Lemonade Mouth (2011)
★ 7.4/10Also tv movieWhen five ragtag freshman first meet in detention, it seems they have nothing in common. But, through music, they form an unbreakable bond and discover they have the makings of the greatest high school garage band in…
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Prom Pact (2023)
★ 7.2/10Also tv movieIt's prom season, and high school senior Mandy and her best friend and fellow outsider Ben are surrounded by over-the-top "promposals." Mandy is only focused on getting into her dream school Harvard, but as she starts…
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An Audience with Adele (2021)
★ 8.4/10Also tv movieJoining multi-Grammy Award winning and one of the biggest UK artists of all time, Adele, for a unique and special night at the legendary London Palladium, where she performs her chart-topping single Easy On Me, as well…
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Emma (1996)
★ 6.6/10Also tv movieEmma Woodhouse is a congenial young lady who delights in meddling in other people’s affairs. She is perpetually trying to unite men and women who are utterly wrong for each other. Despite her interest in romance, Emma…
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The Cheetah Girls 2 (2006)
★ 6.3/10Also tv movieBest friends Galleria, Chanel, Dorinda, and Aqua, A.K.A. the girl band "The Cheetahs," get the opportunity of a lifetime when they strut their way to Barcelona, Spain, to perform in an international music festival…
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Rent: Filmed Live on Broadway (2008)
★ 7.9/10Also tv movieSet in New York City's gritty East Village, the revolutionary rock opera RENT tells the story of a group of bohemians struggling to live and pay their rent. "Measuring their lives in love," these starving artists…
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Girl in the Box (2016)
★ 6.7/10Also tv movieThe true story of 20-year-old Colleen Stan, a hitchhiking woman abducted by a young couple and held captive for seven years, during which time she's tortured and forced to live as a slave to her captors.
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Rags (2012)
★ 7.3/10Also tv movieRags follows the story of Charlie Prince, an orphan living with his acerbic and unloving stepfather and spoiled, simple-minded stepbrothers. Charlie's dream is to be a singer, and while he is vocally talented and can…
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Tuesdays with Morrie (1999)
★ 7.4/10Also tv movieA journalist finds himself questioning his own life when his best friend, a dying man, offers him some very powerful wisdom and advice for coping in relationships, careers and society.
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Grease Live (2016)
★ 7.1/10Also tv movieAfter enjoying a holiday romance, high school students Danny and Sandy are unexpectedly reunited when she transfers to Rydell High, where she must contend with cynical Rizzo and the Pink Ladies.