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Movies Like The Same Mistakes

If you liked The Same Mistakes, a movie directed by Nancy Rizk, 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. 1Take the Lead

    Take the Lead (2006)

    ★ 6.9/10

    A former professional dancer volunteers to teach dance in the New York public school system and, while his background first clashes with his students' tastes, together they create a completely new style of dance. Based…

  2. 2Make Your Move

    Make Your Move (2013)

    ★ 5.8/10

    A pair of star-crossed dancers in New York find themselves at the center of a bitter rivalry between their brothers' underground dance clubs.

  3. 3Flashdance

    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.

  4. 4Footloose

    Footloose (1984)

    ★ 6.7/10

    When teenager Ren and his family move from big-city Chicago to a small town in the West, he's in for a real case of culture shock after discovering he's living in a place where music and dancing are illegal.

  5. 5The Barefoot Contessa

    The Barefoot Contessa (1954)

    ★ 6.8/10

    A washed-up filmmaker gets a second chance at stardom when he discovers stunning peasant Maria Vargas dancing in a Madrid nightclub. Goaded by his producer, the director convinces Maria to screen test for, and then…

  6. 6High 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…

  7. 7Limelight

    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.

  8. 8Frances Ha

    Frances Ha (2013)

    ★ 7.3/10

    An aspiring dancer moves to New York City and becomes caught up in a whirlwind of flighty fair-weather friends, diminishing fortunes and career setbacks.

  9. 9Black Swan

    Black Swan (2010)

    ★ 7.7/10

    A committed dancer struggles to maintain her sanity after winning the lead role in a production of Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake."

  10. 10Mata Hari

    Mata Hari (1931)

    ★ 6.2/10

    A semi-fictionalized account of the life of Mata Hari, an exotic dancer who was accused of spying for Germany during World War I.

  11. 11Us Again

    Us Again (2021)

    ★ 7.8/10

    In a vibrant city pulsating with rhythm and movement, an elderly man and his young-at-heart wife rekindle their youthful passion for life and each other on one magical night.

  12. 12High 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…

  13. 13Pretty Lethal

    Pretty Lethal (2026)

    ★ 6.8/10

    A troupe of ballerinas find themselves fighting for survival as they attempt to escape from a remote inn after their bus breaks down on the way to a dance competition.

  14. 14Flamingo Road

    Flamingo Road (1949)

    ★ 7/10

    A stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town society.

  15. 15Salomé

    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…

  16. 16Saturday Night Fever

    Saturday Night Fever (1977)

    ★ 6.7/10

    Tony spends his Saturdays at a disco where his stylish moves raise his popularity among the patrons. But his life outside the disco is not easy and things change when he gets attracted to Stephanie.

  17. 17The Man Who Cried

    The Man Who Cried (2000)

    ★ 6.1/10

    A young refugee travels from Russia to America in search of her lost father and falls in love with a gypsy horseman.

  18. 18The Island

    The Island (2005)

    ★ 6.7/10

    In 2019, Lincoln Six-Echo is a resident of a seemingly "Utopian" but contained facility. Like all of the inhabitants of this carefully-controlled environment, Lincoln hopes to be chosen to go to The Island — reportedly…

  19. 19Shall 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…

  20. 20One from the Heart

    One from the Heart (1982)

    ★ 5.9/10

    In a dazzling, dreamlike Las Vegas, longtime couple Hank and Frannie break up on their fifth anniversary and each pursue the fantasy of new love over one neon-soaked night—he with a free-spirited acrobat, she with a…

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