Movies Like The Wasps
If you liked The Wasps (2025), a comedy and music movie directed by Jake Binstock and Parker Rouse, 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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Footlight Parade (1933)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy and musicA fledgling producer finds himself at odds with his workers, financiers and his greedy ex-wife when he tries to produce live musicals for movie-going audiences.
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Soul Men (2008)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy and musicTwo former backup soul singers, Louis and Floyd, have not spoken to each other in 20 years, and reluctantly agree to travel across the country together to a reunion concert to honor their recently-deceased lead singer…
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A Song Is Born (1948)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy and musicThe story of seven scholars in search of an expert to teach them about swing music. They seem to have found the perfect candidate in winsome nightclub singer Honey Swanson. But Honey's gangster boyfriend doesn't want…
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Wayne's World (1992)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy and musicThe adventures of two amiably aimless metal-head friends, Wayne and Garth. From Wayne's basement, the pair broadcast a talk-show called "Wayne's World" on local public access television. The show comes to the attention…
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Adam Sandler: 100% Fresh (2018)
★ 7.1/10Also comedy and musicAdam Sandler takes his comical musical musings back out on the road, from comedy clubs to concert halls to one very unsuspecting subway station.
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The Rocker (2008)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy and musicIn the 1980s, a drummer is abandoned by his band just before they become rock superstars. Twenty years later, the drummer sees his second chance at stardom arise when he is asked to perform with his teenage nephew's…
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Animal Crackers (1930)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy and musicThe well-known explorer and hunter Captain Spaulding has just returned from Africa, and is being welcomed home with a lavish party at the estate of influential society matron Mrs. Rittenhouse when a valuable painting…
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Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy and musicA group of rock-music-loving students, with the help of the Ramones, take over their school to combat its newly installed oppressive administration.
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Love Happy (1949)
★ 5.8/10Also comedy and musicThe Marx Brothers help young Broadway hopefuls when they get mixed up with gangsters due to a tin of sardines containing Romanoff diamonds.
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Sneakerella (2022)
★ 5.9/10Also music and comedyWhen El, an aspiring sneaker designer from Queens, meets Kira King, the fiercely independent daughter of legendary basketball star and sneaker tycoon Darius King, sparks fly as the two bond over their mutual affinity…
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Back to the Beach (1987)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy and musicA former beach boy and his wife go to California to visit their daughter and become part of the new beach scene.
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iParty with Victorious (2011)
★ 7.3/10Also comedy and musicScorned girlfriends Carly and Tori hatch a plot against the boy that they are both dating.
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Goltzius & the Pelican Company (2012)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy and 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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Start the Revolution Without Me (1970)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy and historyTwo sets of identical twins are accidentally switched at birth. One pair, Phillipe and Pierre DeSisi, are aristocratic and haughty, while the other, Charles and Claude Coupé, are poor and dim-witted. On the eve of the…
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Bo Burnham: Make Happy (2016)
★ 8/10Also comedy and musicCombining his trademark wit and self-deprecating humor with original music, Bo Burnham offers up his unique twist on life in this stand-up special about life, death, sexuality, hypocrisy, mental illness and Pringles…
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Airheads (1994)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy and musicThe Lone Rangers have heavy-metal dreams and a single demo tape they can't get anyone to play. The solution: Hijack an FM rock radio station and hold the deejays hostage until they agree to broadcast the band's tape.
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A Hard Day's Night (1964)
★ 7.3/10Also comedy and musicCapturing John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in their electrifying element, 'A Hard Day's Night' is a wildly irreverent journey through this pastiche of a day in the life of The Beatles during…
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Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny (2006)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy and musicIn 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…
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Buck Privates (1941)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy and musicPetty con artists Slicker Smith and Herbie Brown mistakenly join the Army evading the cops. The cop chasing them winds up as their drill instructor. A rich young man and his former working class chauffeur are not only…
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Detroit Rock City (1999)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy and musicIn 1978, a Kiss concert was an epoch-making event. For the four teen fans in Detroit Rock City getting tickets to the sold-out show becomes the focal point of their existence. They'll do anything for tickets -- compete…