Movies Like THE WAY YOU ARE

If you liked THE WAY YOU ARE (2021), a music and mystery movie directed by Odysseas Johannes Hlepas, 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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Beauty and the Beast: A 30th Celebration (2022)
★ 6.8/10Also fantasy and music
In honor of the 30th anniversary of the animated classic, this animated and live-action blended special showcases the fan-favorite movie, along with new musical performances, sets and costumes inspired by the classic…
2
Nocebo (2022)
★ 6/10Also mystery and fantasy
A fashion designer suffers from a mysterious illness that puzzles her doctors and frustrates her husband until help arrives in the form of a Filipino caregiver who uses traditional folk healing to reveal a horrifying…
3
Carnival of Souls (1962)
★ 7/10Also mystery and fantasy
Mary Henry ends up the sole survivor of a fatal car accident through mysterious circumstances. Trying to put the incident behind her, she moves to Utah and takes a job as a church organist. But her fresh start is…
4
Abigail (2019)
★ 6.1/10Also fantasy and mystery
A young girl Abigail lives in a city whose borders were closed many years ago because of an epidemic of a mysterious disease. Abby's father was one of the sick - and he was taken when she was six years old. Going…
5
Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 4: Dawn of the Vampires (2025)
★ 7.1/10Also fantasy and music
A new adventure dawns for Zed and Addison when their summer road trip takes an unexpected detour, landing them in the middle of yet another monster rivalry: Daywalkers vs. Vampires. Tensions flare when Zed and Addison…
6
Brigadoon (1954)
★ 6.6/10Also music and fantasy
Americans Jeff and Tommy, hunting in Scotland, stumble upon a village - Brigadoon. They soon learn that the town appears once every 100 years in order to preserve its peace and special beauty. The citizens go to bed at…
7
Winter's Tale (2014)
★ 6.3/10Also fantasy and mystery
A burglar falls for an heiress as she dies in his arms. When he learns that he has the gift of reincarnation, he sets out to save her.
8
Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon (2022)
★ 6.4/10Also mystery and fantasy
A young woman with psychokinetic powers breaks out of a Louisiana asylum and makes her way to New Orleans, where she falls into the city’s netherworld of misfits and miscreants.
9
The Tales of Hoffmann (1951)
★ 7.1/10Also music and fantasy
A melancholy poet reflects on three women he loved and lost in the past: a mechanical performing doll, a Venetian courtesan, and the consumptive daughter of a celebrated composer.
10
Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny (2006)
★ 6.8/10Also music and fantasy
In Venice Beach, naive Midwesterner JB bonds with local slacker KG and they form the rock band Tenacious D. Setting out to become the world's greatest band is no easy feat, so they set out to steal what could be the…
11
The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (1960)
★ 6.6/10Also music and fantasy
Doctor Gulliver is poor, so nothing - not even his charming fiancée Elisabeth - keeps him in the town he lives. He signs on to a ship to India, but in a storm he's washed off the ship and ends up on an island, which is…
12
Strange Magic (2015)
★ 7.3/10Also music and fantasy
A love potion works its devious charms on fairies, elves and the swamp-dwelling Bog King as they all try to possess the potion for themselves.
13
Heavy Metal (1981)
★ 6.5/10Also fantasy and music
The embodiment of ultimate evil, a glowing orb terrorizes a young girl with bizarre stories of dark fantasy, eroticism and horror.
14
Runaway (2010)
★ 7.7/10Also music and fantasy
A man falls in love with a half-woman/half-phoenix who fell to Earth from the sky.
15
Scooby-Doo! Pirates Ahoy! (2006)
★ 7.4/10Also fantasy and mystery
It's horror on the high seas when Scooby-Doo and the gang take a creepy cruise into one of the world's most mysterious places, the Bermuda Triangle! If Scooby, Shaggy and the gang can't solve this mystery, they may…
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Scooby-Doo! and the Legend of the Vampire (2003)
★ 7.1/10Also fantasy and music
The Yowie Yahoo starts kidnapping musicians at a concert attended by Scooby and the gang in Vampire Rock, Australia.
17
Sleepy Hollow (1999)
★ 7.2/10Also fantasy and mystery
Skeptical young detective Ichabod Crane gets transferred to the hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, New York, where he is tasked with investigating the decapitations of three people – murders the townsfolk attribute to a…
18
A Cinderella Story: Christmas Wish (2019)
★ 6.4/10Also music and fantasy
Kat is an aspiring singer-songwriter who dreams of making it big. However, her dreams are stalled by her reality: a conniving and cruel stepfamily and a demoralizing job working as a singing elf at billionaire Terrence…
19
Lovestruck: The Musical (2013)
★ 6.5/10Also fantasy and music
Harper was one of the best dancers to hit Broadway, but an injury caused her to leave the spotlight, become a choreographer, and raise her daughter Mirabella. When Mirabella decides to quit the show to get married, her…
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Scooby-Doo! and the Witch's Ghost (1999)
★ 7.4/10Also mystery and fantasy
Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Gang visit Oakhaven, Massachusetts to seek strange goings on involving a famous horror novelist and his ancestor who is rumored to have been a witch.