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Movies Like A Map Without Borders

If you liked A Map Without Borders (1995), a movie directed by Shinji Ueda, 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. 1Step Up All In

    Step Up All In (2014)

    ★ 6.8/10

    All-stars from previous installments convene in glittering Las Vegas, battling for a victory that could define their dreams and their careers.

  2. 2Mickybo and Me

    Mickybo and Me (2005)

    ★ 7.1/10

    The film tells the story of two boys who become friends at the start of the Troubles in 1970. The boys share an obsession with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, with the consequence that they run away to Australia.

  3. 3The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum

    The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (1939)

    ★ 7.8/10

    In late 19th-century Tokyo, Kikunosuke Onoue, the adopted son of a legendary actor, himself an actor specializing in female roles, discovers that the praise he receives is only due to his status as his father's heir…

  4. 4Pink Floyd: The Wall

    Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982)

    ★ 8/10

    A troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone.

  5. 5Too Late Blues

    Too Late Blues (1961)

    ★ 6.4/10

    Ghost is an ideological musician and leader of a jazz band who would rather play his blues in the park to the birds than compromise himself. His peripatetic performances lead him to cross paths with a singer, while his…

  6. 6High 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…

  7. 7Good Vibrations

    Good Vibrations (2012)

    ★ 6.7/10

    The story of music legend Terri Hooley, a key figure in Belfast's punk rock scene. Hooley founded the Good Vibrations store from which a record label sprung, representing bands such as The Undertones, Rudi and The…

  8. 8The Deep End of the Ocean

    The Deep End of the Ocean (1999)

    ★ 6.6/10

    A three-year-old boy disappears during his mother's high school reunion. Nine years later, by chance, he turns up in the town in which the family has just relocated.

  9. 9Battle of the Year

    Battle of the Year (2013)

    ★ 6.8/10

    A down-on-his-luck coach is hired to prepare a team of the best American dancers for an international tournament that attracts all the best crews from around the world, but the Americans haven't won in fifteen years.

  10. 10Knightriders

    Knightriders (1981)

    ★ 6.2/10

    A medieval reenactment troupe struggles to maintain its family-like dynamic amid pressure from local authorities, interest from talent agents, and their so-called king's delusions of grandeur.

  11. 11Swallowtail Butterfly

    Swallowtail Butterfly (1996)

    ★ 7.5/10

    The struggles of a group of outcasts living in "Yentown", in an alternate-future Japan.

  12. 12Ziegfeld Follies

    Ziegfeld Follies (1945)

    ★ 6/10

    The late, great impresario Florenz Ziegfeld looks down from heaven and ordains a new revue in his grand old style.

  13. 13August Rush

    August Rush (2007)

    ★ 7.4/10

    Evan, a musically gifted orphan, runs away from his orphanage and searches New York City for his birth parents. On his journey, he's taken under the wing of the Wizard, a homeless man who lives in an abandoned theater…

  14. 14Tarzan and the Amazons

    Tarzan and the Amazons (1945)

    ★ 6.4/10

    A group of archaeologists asks Tarzan to help them find an ancient city in a hidden valley of women. He refuses, but Boy is tricked into doing the job. The queen of the women asks Tarzan to help them.

  15. 15Step Up 3D

    Step Up 3D (2010)

    ★ 6.8/10

    A tight-knit group of New York City street dancers, including Luke and Natalie, team up with NYU freshman Moose, and find themselves pitted against the world's best hip-hop dancers in a high-stakes showdown that will…

  16. 16The Sleeping Dictionary

    The Sleeping Dictionary (2003)

    ★ 6.6/10

    In the 1930s, British officer John Truscott journeys to a remote village in colonial Malaysia to educate and Westernize the local Iban population. There, he's introduced to the lovely Selima. In keeping with tradition…

  17. 17High 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…

  18. 18StreetDance 2

    StreetDance 2 (2012)

    ★ 6.2/10

    After suffering humiliation by the crew Invincible, street dancer Ash looks to gather the best dancers from around the world for a rematch.

  19. 19Let's Make Love

    Let's Make Love (1960)

    ★ 6.4/10

    When billionaire Jean-Marc Clement learns that he is to be satirized in an off-Broadway revue, he passes himself off as an actor playing him in order to get closer to the beautiful star of the show, Amanda Dell.

  20. 20The Landlord

    The Landlord (1970)

    ★ 6/10

    At the age of twenty-nine, Elgar Enders "runs away" from home. This running away consists of buying a building in a black ghetto in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. Initially, his intention is to evict the black…

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