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Movies Like the building being built

If you liked the building being built (2021), a movie directed by Bobby Decker, 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.

  1. 1PAW Patrol: Jet to the Rescue

    PAW Patrol: Jet to the Rescue (2020)

    ★ 7.1/10

    A royal relative steals a gem with the power to make things fly, the Paw Patrol takes to the skies to stop him and save Barkingburg.

  2. 2Fast Girls

    Fast Girls (2012)

    ★ 6/10

    A street smart runner develops an intense rivalry with an equally ambitious wealthy young athlete.

  3. 390 Minutes in Heaven

    90 Minutes in Heaven (2015)

    ★ 5.9/10

    A man involved in a horrific car crash is pronounced dead, only to come back to life an hour and a half later, claiming to have seen Heaven.

  4. 4Salomé

    Salomé (2013)

    ★ 6.1/10

    After the lewd and frenetic Dance of the Seven Veils, and with the solemn pledge from the very lips of Herod himself that she could have whatever her heart desires up to half his kingdom, wanton and proud young Salomé…

  5. 5Amateur

    Amateur (2018)

    ★ 6.4/10

    14-year-old basketball phenom Terron Forte has to navigate the under-the-table world of amateur athletics when he is recruited to an elite NCAA prep school.

  6. 6Blue Chips

    Blue Chips (1994)

    ★ 6.1/10

    Pete Bell, a college basketball coach is under a lot of pressure. His team isn't winning and he cannot attract new players. The stars of the future are secretly being paid by boosters. This practice is forbidden in the…

  7. 7The Lizzie McGuire Movie

    The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2003)

    ★ 6.3/10

    Lizzie McGuire has graduated from middle school and takes a trip to Rome, Italy with her class. And what was supposed to be only a normal trip, becomes a teenager's dream come true.

  8. 8Jawbone

    Jawbone (2017)

    ★ 6.1/10

    A former youth boxing champion, Jimmy McCabe is a man in search of hope but looking in all the wrong places. When he hits rock bottom he turns to his childhood boxing club and the only family he has left: gym owner…

  9. 9Ninja

    Ninja (2009)

    ★ 6.2/10

    A westerner named Casey, studying Ninjutsu in Japan, is asked by the Sensei to return to New York to protect the legendary Yoroi Bitsu, an armored chest that contains the weapons of the last Koga Ninja.

  10. 10Mr. Turner

    Mr. Turner (2014)

    ★ 6.6/10

    Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes involved with a seaside landlady, while his faithful housekeeper bears an unrequited love for him.

  11. 11Above the Rim

    Above the Rim (1994)

    ★ 7.1/10

    Story of a promising high school basketball star and his relationships with two brothers, one a drug dealer and the other a former basketball star fallen on hard times and now employed as a security guard.

  12. 12What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?

    What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? (1966)

    ★ 5.9/10

    A by-the-book Captain is ordered to capture a strategic village in Italy. The Italian soldiers are willing to surrender, if they can have a festival first. The lieutenant convinces the Captain this is the only way…

  13. 13Butter

    Butter (2012)

    ★ 5.9/10

    An adopted girl discovers her talent for butter carving and finds herself pitted against an ambitious local woman in their Iowa town's annual contest.

  14. 14Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius

    Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius (2004)

    ★ 5.9/10

    The story of golf icon and legend, Bobby Jones, who retired from competition at the tender age of 28.

  15. 15Vanya on 42nd Street

    Vanya on 42nd Street (1994)

    ★ 6.7/10

    An uninterrupted rehearsal of Chekhov's 'Uncle Vanya' plays out by a company of actors. The setting: their run-down theater with an unusable stage and crumbling ceiling. The play is shown act by act with the briefest…

  16. 16Bad Sister

    Bad Sister (2015)

    ★ 6.6/10

    As a top student at St. Adeline's Catholic Boarding School, Zoe senses that something is not quite right about the school's new nun-- a sense proven to be true when it is revealed the "good' nun is an imposter with a…

  17. 17Herself

    Herself (2020)

    ★ 6.7/10

    Struggling to provide her daughters with a safe, happy home, Sandra decides to build one - from scratch. Using all her ingenuity to make her ambitious dream a reality, Sandra draws together a community to lend a…

  18. 18Kid Galahad

    Kid Galahad (1962)

    ★ 6.2/10

    After completing military service, Walter Gulick takes a job as a sparring partner at a gym, the owner of which sees potential in Walter as a professional fighter—and takes him under his wing.

  19. 19Taking Care of Business

    Taking Care of Business (1990)

    ★ 6.3/10

    An uptight advertising exec has his entire life in a filofax organizer which mistakenly ends up in the hands of a friendly convict who poses as him.

  20. 20Waiting for Anya

    Waiting for Anya (2020)

    ★ 6.3/10

    During the harrows of WWII, Jo, a young shepherd along with the help of the widow Horcada, helps to smuggle Jewish children across the border from southern France into Spain.

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