Movies Like Drummer Boy
If you liked Drummer Boy (2026), a war and romance movie directed by Ben Smallbone and Joel Smallbone, 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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The Pride and the Passion (1957)
★ 6/10Also war and romanceDuring the Napoleonic Wars, when the French have occupied Spain, some Spanish guerrilla soldiers are going to move a big cannon across Spain in order to help the British defeat the French. A British officer is there to…
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Salsa (1988)
★ 6.9/10Also music and romanceFatherless barrio Puerto Rican Rico is a menial car mechanic by day, but lives for the nights, when he dances and dates hot dancing girls, cockily convinced the title of Salsa king in fancy nightclub La Luna's upcoming…
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To Have and Have Not (1945)
★ 7.4/10Also romance and warA Martinique charter boat skipper gets mixed up with the underground French resistance operatives during WWII.
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Tuner (2026)
★ 7.6/10Also music and romanceA gifted piano tuner's meticulous skills for tuning pianos lead him to discover an unexpected aptitude for cracking safes, turning his life upside down.
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The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)
★ 7/10Also music and romanceIn 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures later, they marry and then abandon comedy to attempt a dancing career together. While they're performing in Paris, an…
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Homesick for St. Paul (1963)
★ 6.7/10Also musicA pop singer who has been successful on Broadway, is homesick and returns.
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Christmas with a Prince: Becoming Royal (2019)
★ 7.2/10Also romanceOne year after Dr. Tasha and Prince Alec met and fell in love, Tasha is on her way to spend the holidays in San Saverre and get a taste of royal life. When Alex surprises her with a royal engagement, she spends her…
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A Christmas Movie Christmas (2019)
★ 5.6/10Also romanceEve is a Christmas movie fanatic and dreams of having a movie-perfect Christmas with a movie-perfect boyfriend. On Christmas Eve, when Eve and her cynical sister Lacy make wishes to Santa, they wake up in Christmas…
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Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (1999)
★ 6.4/10Also romanceA young singer falls in love with his teacher’s daughter, but their romance is tested when the girl’s parents arrange her marriage with Vanraj, which takes three of them into an unexpected journey of love, sacrifice…
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The Chorus (2004)
★ 7.7/10Also musicIn 1940s France, a new teacher at a school for disruptive boys gives hope and inspiration.
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The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
★ 7.4/10Also romanceThis simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled…
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The Family Man (2000)
★ 6.8/10Also romanceJack's lavish, fast-paced lifestyle changes one Christmas night when he stumbles into a grocery store holdup and disarms the gunman. The next morning he wakes up in bed lying next to Kate, his college sweetheart he…
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Next to Normal (2025)
★ 9/10Also musicA mother struggles with worsening bipolar disorder and the effects that managing her illness has on her family. The PBS Great Performances recording of the West End transfer to Wyndham's Theatre (from The Donmar…
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Waiting in the Wings: The Musical (2014)
★ 5/10Also musicTwo entertainers destined for the big time are mismatched in a casting office from two very different online contests. Tony, a stripper from New York, is cast in an Off-Broadway musical and needs to trade in his…
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Arlene Phillips' Hot Gossip
Also musicArlene Phillips moved to London to learn and teach developing American jazz dance routines. Employed as a dance teacher, she taught at locations including the Pineapple Dance Studios and the Italia Conti Stage School…
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Golden Orchestra (2016)
★ 7.5/10Also musicWhen Chizuru joins as a teacher at Umega High School, she hears an amateur orchestra perform. Reminiscing her old days of playing the violin, she decides to enroll in one.
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All I Didn't Want for Christmas (2022)
★ 6.4/10Also romanceEmily Harris is not doing great. In a desperate attempt to improve her life and make this Christmas not totally suck, Emily writes a letter to Santa. Fortunately, and unfortunately, her wine-soaked wishes start coming…
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Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970)
★ 6.1/10Also musicAn all-girl rock band moves to Hollywood in the hope of achieving success, only to fall into a whirlpool of wickedness and decadence.
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Not Mozart: Letters, Riddles and Writs (1991)
★ 7/10Also musicLetters, Riddles and Writs is a one act opera for television by Michael Nyman broadcast in 1991.