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Movies Like Symphony for One Man Alone

If you liked Symphony for One Man Alone (1957), a movie, 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. 1Dancer

    Dancer (2016)

    ★ 7.2/10

    Sergei Polunin is a breathtaking ballet talent who questions his existence and his commitment to dance just as he is about to become a legend.

  2. 2Save the Last Dance

    Save the Last Dance (2001)

    ★ 6.6/10

    After the death of her mother, Sara moves to the South Side of Chicago to live with her father and gets transferred to a majority-black school. Her life takes a turn for the better when befriends Chenille and her…

  3. 3Limelight

    Limelight (1952)

    ★ 7.9/10

    A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again feel confident about life.

  4. 4Amateur

    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.

  5. 5The Red Shoes

    The Red Shoes (1948)

    ★ 8/10

    A fledgling ballerina falls in love with a brilliant composer, but the jealous head of the ballet company plots to drive them apart.

  6. 6Goal II: Living the Dream

    Goal II: Living the Dream (2007)

    ★ 5.9/10

    Tempted away from Newcastle United to join Real Madrid, rising star Santiago Munez finds this latest change of fortune the greatest challenge yet - personally as well as professionally. He is reunited with Gavin…

  7. 7High Strung Free Dance

    High Strung Free Dance (2018)

    ★ 7.3/10

    Zander Raines, a dazzling and tempestuous young choreographer, gives the break of a lifetime to two hopeful artists when he casts a stunning contemporary dancer, Barlow, and innovative pianist, Charlie, in New York’s…

  8. 8High Strung

    High Strung (2016)

    ★ 7/10

    When a hip hop violinist busking in the New York subway encounters a classical dancer on scholarship at the Manhattan Conservatory of the Arts, sparks fly. With the help of a hip hop dance crew they must find a common…

  9. 9Love Happy

    Love Happy (1949)

    ★ 5.8/10

    The Marx Brothers help young Broadway hopefuls when they get mixed up with gangsters due to a tin of sardines containing Romanoff diamonds.

  10. 10StreetDance 3D

    StreetDance 3D (2010)

    ★ 6.5/10

    In order to win the Street Dance Championships, a dance crew is forced to work with ballet dancers from the Royal Dance School in exchange for rehearsal space.

  11. 11Flashdance

    Flashdance (1983)

    ★ 6.5/10

    Alex Owens, a young woman juggling between two odd jobs, aspires to become a successful ballet dancer. Nick, who is her boss and lover, supports and encourages her to fulfil her dream.

  12. 12Believe

    Believe (2013)

    ★ 6.1/10

    A young, gifted soccer player who gets into trouble for a petty crime is brought to the attention of former Manchester United coach Matt Busby, who comes out of retirement to help the boy and his teammates.

  13. 13Shall We Dance?

    Shall We Dance? (2004)

    ★ 6.4/10

    A bored estate lawyer spots a beautiful woman in the window of a ballroom dance studio. He secretly starts taking dancing lessons to be near her, and then over time discovers how much he loves dancing. His wife…

  14. 14Winter Spring Summer or Fall

    Winter Spring Summer or Fall (2024)

    ★ 7.3/10

    Remi and Barnes, two very different teenagers, meet by chance in the winter of their senior year, then spend four days together over the course of a year that will change their lives forever.

  15. 15Silk Stockings

    Silk Stockings (1957)

    ★ 6.8/10

    After three bumbling Soviet agents fail in their mission to retrieve a straying Soviet composer from Paris, the beautiful, ultra-serious Ninotchka is sent to complete their mission and to retrieve them. She starts out…

  16. 16Hands of Stone

    Hands of Stone (2016)

    ★ 6.6/10

    The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.

  17. 17Rowan Atkinson Live

    Rowan Atkinson Live (1992)

    ★ 8.2/10

    Rowan Atkinson and Angus Deayton in Boston doing a live performance of the same styles of humor we've seen in Mr. Bean and Blackadder. Included are lessons on Shakespearean acting, a school headmaster meeting with the…

  18. 18Above 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.

  19. 19Step Up

    Step Up (2006)

    ★ 6.9/10

    Delinquent Tyler Gage receives the opportunity of a lifetime after vandalizing a performing arts school, gaining him the chance to earn a scholarship and dance with up-and-coming dancer Nora.

  20. 20Resurrecting the Champ

    Resurrecting the Champ (2007)

    ★ 6.3/10

    Up-and-coming sports reporter rescues a homeless man ("Champ") only to discover that he is, in fact, a boxing legend believed to have passed away. What begins as an opportunity to resurrect Champ's story and escape the…

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