Movies Like Death Mask
If you liked Death Mask (2023), a music and history movie directed by John Greyson, 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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Cosmic Ray (1962)
★ 6.4/10Also music and historyExperimental short uses Ray Charles' “What'd I Say” as accompaniment to constantly shifting collage of female nude, cartoons, and newsreels of atomic bomb explosions.
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Mayerling (1968)
★ 6.2/10Also historyCrown Prince Rudolf of Austria clashes with his father, Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria, over implementing progressive policies for their country. Rudolf soon feels he is a man born at the wrong time in a country…
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Respect (2021)
★ 6.8/10Also music and historyThe rise of Aretha Franklin’s career from a child singing in her father’s church’s choir to her international superstardom.
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Captain EO (1986)
★ 7.9/10Also musicCaptain EO and his crew journey to a dark, mechanical world to deliver a gift to the tyrannical Supreme Leader, using the power of music and dance to transform her realm from darkness into light.
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Cadillac Records (2008)
★ 7.1/10Also history and musicThe story of sex, violence, race and rock and roll in 1950s Chicago, and the exciting but turbulent lives of some of America's musical legends, including Muddy Waters, Leonard Chess, Little Walter, Howlin' Wolf, Etta…
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One Chance (2013)
★ 6.7/10Also musicThis film follows the remarkable and inspirational true story of Paul Potts, a shy, bullied shop assistant by day and an amateur opera singer by night.
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Radioactive (2020)
★ 6.6/10Also historyThe story of Nobel Prize winner Maria Skłodowska-Curie and her extraordinary scientific discoveries—through the prism of her marriage to husband Pierre—and the seismic and transformative effects their discovery of…
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Topsy-Turvy (1999)
★ 6.6/10Also music and historyFor nearly a decade, Gilbert and Sullivan’s collaborations have delighted the English people. But in 1884, as a London heat wave cuts into the theater trade, their latest work, "Princess Ida", receives lukewarm press…
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Selena (1997)
★ 7.7/10Also music and historyIn this biographical drama, Selena Quintanilla is born into a musical Mexican-American family in Texas. Her father, Abraham, realizes that his young daughter is talented and begins performing with her at small venues…
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All Eyez on Me (2017)
★ 6.7/10Also history and musicAll Eyez on Me chronicles the life and legacy of Tupac Shakur, including his rise to superstardom as a hip-hop artist, actor, poet and activist, as well as his imprisonment and prolific, controversial time at Death Row…
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Song for Marion (2012)
★ 6.8/10Also musicArthur is a grumpy pensioner who can't understand why his wife Marion would want to embarrass herself singing silly songs with her unconventional local choir. But choir director Elizabeth sees something special in the…
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Goltzius & the Pelican Company (2012)
★ 6.1/10Also historyGoltzius and the Pelican Company tells the story of Hendrik Goltzius, a late 16th century Dutch printer and engraver of erotic prints. A contemporary of Rembrandt and, indeed, more celebrated during his life, Goltzius…
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Maria (2024)
★ 6.5/10Also history and musicMaria Callas, the world's greatest opera singer, lives the last days of her life in 1970s Paris, as she confronts her identity and life.
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Blaze (2018)
★ 6.3/10Also music and historyInspired by the life of Blaze Foley, the unsung songwriting legend of the Texas outlaw country movement that spawned the likes of Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson. The film weaves together three periods in Blaze's life…
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Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound (2019)
★ 6.9/10Also historyThe history of cinematic sound, told by legendary sound designers and visionary filmmakers.
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Munich - The Edge of War (2021)
★ 6.9/10Also historyAt 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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Adventures of a Mathematician (2021)
★ 6.1/10Also historyThe warmhearted story of Polish immigrant and mathematician Stan Ulam, who moved to the U.S. in the 1930s. Stan deals with the difficult losses of family and friends all while helping to create the hydrogen bomb and…
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Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
★ 7/10Also musicA film of the life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singer George M. Cohan.
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Hounddog (2008)
★ 6.5/10Also musicA drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley.
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Valentino (1977)
★ 5.8/10Also historyThe untimely death of silent screen star Rudolph Valentino prompts the many women in his past to reminisce about his troubled rise to superstardom.