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Movies Like Nova & Alice

If you liked Nova & Alice (2024), a drama and music movie directed by Emma Bucht, 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. 1Center Stage: Turn It Up

    Center Stage: Turn It Up (2008)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama and music

    All self-taught dancer Kate Parker has ever wanted to do was perform with the American Academy of Ballet. But when she doesnt make it after auditioning, she learns that it takes more than precision and perfection to…

  2. 2Not Easily Broken

    Not Easily Broken (2009)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and romance

    A car accident and shifting affections test the bond between a married couple.

  3. 3Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between

    Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between (2022)

    ★ 6.1/10Also romance and drama

    Clare and Aidan make a pact to break up before college — no regrets, no broken hearts. But will one epic goodbye date offer them a last chance at love?

  4. 4Purple Hearts

    Purple Hearts (2022)

    ★ 8/10Also romance and drama

    An aspiring musician agrees to a marriage of convenience with a soon-to-deploy Marine, but a tragedy soon turns their fake relationship all too real.

  5. 5Once

    Once (2007)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama and music

    A vacuum repairman moonlights as a street musician and hopes for his big break. One day a Czech immigrant, who earns a living selling flowers, approaches him with the news that she is also an aspiring…

  6. 6Girls Like Girls

    Girls Like Girls (2026)

    ★ 7.4/10Also romance and drama

    After her mother's passing, 17-year-old Coley navigates new feelings of intimacy with Sonya in rural Oregon, where both girls must overcome their mutual uncertainties and self-doubt to embrace their connection.

  7. 7Love Everlasting

    Love Everlasting (2016)

    ★ 7.4/10Also romance and drama

    Bridger is a young outsider who's always wanted more. He and his mother flee an abusive home, eventually finding a small town in the middle of nowhere. Once there, Bridger finds true acceptance with another misfit.

  8. 8Pure Country 2: The Gift

    Pure Country 2: The Gift (2010)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and music

    Three angels bestow the gift of song to a young girl, who must follow a series of rules in order hold on to it during her rise to fame and fortune.

  9. 9The Lost Husband

    The Lost Husband (2020)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and romance

    Trying to put her life back together after the death of her husband, Libby and her children move to her estranged Aunt's goat farm in central Texas.

  10. 10Endless Love

    Endless Love (2014)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama and romance

    A privileged girl and a charismatic boy's instant desire sparks a love affair made only more reckless by parents trying to keep them apart.

  11. 11Blind

    Blind (2017)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama and romance

    A novelist is blinded in a car crash that killed his wife and several years later rediscovers his passion for life and writing when he embarks on an affair with the neglected wife of an indicted businessman.

  12. 12Departure

    Departure (2016)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and romance

    An English mother and her teenage son spend a week preparing the sale of their remote holiday house in the South of France. Fifteen-year-old Elliot struggles with his dawning sexuality and an increasing alienation from…

  13. 13Dot the I

    Dot the I (2003)

    ★ 6/10Also romance and drama

    A fiery Spanish woman is about to marry a kind British man when she meets a Brazilian actor who ignites in her a flame of lust she can't ignore.

  14. 14Pure Country

    Pure Country (1992)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama and music

    Dusty Chandler is a super star in the country music world, but his shows have the style of a '70s rock concert. One day he takes a walk - out of his overdone concerts to find his real country roots. He's helped and…

  15. 15Ruth & Boaz

    Ruth & Boaz (2025)

    ★ 7.4/10Also romance and drama

    A talented singer leaves the Atlanta music scene and starts over in small-town Tennessee, where she finds love and new purpose but can't escape the past.

  16. 16Footloose

    Footloose (2011)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama and music

    Ren MacCormack is transplanted from Boston to the small southern town of Bomont where loud music and dancing are prohibited. Not one to bow to the status quo, Ren challenges the ban, revitalizing the town and falling…

  17. 17West Side Story

    West Side Story (1961)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama and romance

    In Manhattan’s Upper West Side, rival gangs of Polish-Americans and newly arrived Puerto Ricans clash for control of the neighborhood, even as two young members from opposite sides fall dangerously in love.

  18. 18A Perfect Ending

    A Perfect Ending (2012)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama and romance

    This intimate drama follows Rebecca, a woman who has kept her sexuality a secret from her friends but chooses to reveal it to a stranger. While Rebecca's revelations may not yield the results she expects, a perfect…

  19. 19The Best of Me

    The Best of Me (2014)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama and romance

    A pair of former high school sweethearts reunite after many years when they return to visit their small hometown.

  20. 20The Object of My Affection

    The Object of My Affection (1998)

    ★ 5.8/10Also drama and romance

    A pregnant New York social worker begins to develop romantic feelings for her gay best friend, and decides she'd rather raise her child with him, much to the dismay of her overbearing boyfriend.

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