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Movies Like AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Barbra Streisand

If you liked AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Barbra Streisand (2001), 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. 1Elvis: That's the Way It Is

    Elvis: That's the Way It Is (1970)

    ★ 8.1/10

    On July 31, 1970, in Las Vegas, Nevada, Elvis Presley staged a triumphant return to the concert stage from which he had been absent for almost a decade. His series of concerts broke all box office records and…

  2. 2Searching for Bobby Fischer

    Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993)

    ★ 7.1/10

    A seven-year-old chess prodigy refuses to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Bobby Fischer.

  3. 3Pelé: Birth of a Legend

    Pelé: Birth of a Legend (2016)

    ★ 7.3/10

    The life story of Brazilian football legend, Pele.

  4. 4On the Basis of Sex

    On the Basis of Sex (2018)

    ★ 7.3/10

    Young lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg teams with her husband Marty to bring a groundbreaking case before the U.S. Court of Appeals and overturn a century of sex discrimination.

  5. 5Fedora

    Fedora (1978)

    ★ 6.7/10

    Down-on-his-luck Hollywood producer Barry 'Dutch' Detweiler attempts to lure Fedora, a famous but reclusive film actress, out of retirement, only to discover the horrifying truth behind her success.

  6. 6The Glorias

    The Glorias (2020)

    ★ 6.5/10

    An equal rights crusader, journalist and activist: Gloria Steinem embodies these and more. From her role in the revolutionary women's rights movement to her travels throughout the U.S. and around the world, Steinem has…

  7. 7The Ron Clark Story

    The Ron Clark Story (2006)

    ★ 7.6/10

    Passionate and innovative teacher Ron Clark leaves his small hometown to teach in one of Harlem's toughest schools. But to break through to the students, he must use unconventional methods, including his…

  8. 8Battle of the Sexes

    Battle of the Sexes (2017)

    ★ 6.7/10

    The true story of the 1973 tennis match between world number one Billie Jean King and ex-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs.

  9. 9Reality

    Reality (2023)

    ★ 6.4/10

    Augusta, Georgia, United States, June 3, 2017. After running some errands, Reality Winner returns home, where she is approached by two men.

  10. 10Grand Piano

    Grand Piano (2013)

    ★ 6/10

    Tom Selznick, the most talented pianist of his generation, stopped performing in public because of his stage fright. Years after a catastrophic performance, he reappears in public in a long awaited concert in Chicago…

  11. 11Lovelace

    Lovelace (2013)

    ★ 6/10

    Story of Linda Lovelace, who is used and abused by the porn industry at the behest of her coercive husband, before taking control of her life.

  12. 12Hounddog

    Hounddog (2008)

    ★ 6.5/10

    A drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley.

  13. 13Working Girl

    Working Girl (1988)

    ★ 6.6/10

    When a secretary's idea is stolen by her boss, she takes a risky chance to reclaim it by impersonating him and running the project from his position.

  14. 14Audrey

    Audrey (2020)

    ★ 7.1/10

    An unprecedented and intimate look at the life, work and enduring legacy of British actress Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993).

  15. 15Live Aid

    Live Aid (1985)

    ★ 7.8/10

    Live Aid was held on 13 July 1985, simultaneously in Wembley Stadium in London, England, and the John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, United States. It was one of the largest scale satellite link-ups and television…

  16. 16Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

    Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983)

    ★ 7.3/10

    Life's questions are 'answered' in a series of outrageous vignettes, beginning with a staid London insurance company which transforms before our eyes into a pirate ship. Then there's the National Health doctors who try…

  17. 17Paradise Hills

    Paradise Hills (2019)

    ★ 5.9/10

    A young woman is sent to Paradise Hills to be reformed, only to learn that the high-class facility's beautiful facade hides a sinister secret.

  18. 18Molly's Game

    Molly's Game (2017)

    ★ 7.2/10

    Molly Bloom, a young skier and former Olympic hopeful becomes a successful entrepreneur (and a target of an FBI investigation) when she establishes a high-stakes, international poker game.

  19. 19Hunger

    Hunger (2008)

    ★ 7.2/10

    The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike during The Troubles in which Irish Republican prisoners tried to win political status.

  20. 20Second Act

    Second Act (2018)

    ★ 6.3/10

    Value Shop assistant manager Maya Vargas wants only one thing for her 43rd birthday -- a promotion. While her résumé may not scream upper management, her track record certainly does; she is an innovator who listens to…

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