Movies Like Shipmates Forever
If you liked Shipmates Forever (1935), a drama and music movie directed by Frank Borzage, 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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Annapolis (2006)
★ 6.9/10Also dramaJake Huard, from a shipbuilders family, promised his dying mother he'd make it to Annapolis Naval Academy. Thanks to tenaciously bugging a Congressman, he's selected despite dubious grades. Once inside, Jake soon…
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Dangerous Minds (1995)
★ 7/10Also dramaFormer Marine Louanne Johnson lands a gig teaching in a pilot program for bright but underachieving teens at a notorious inner-city high school. After having a terrible first day, she decides she must throw decorum to…
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Men of Honor (2000)
★ 7.5/10Also dramaAgainst formidable odds -- and an old-school diving instructor embittered by the U.S. Navy's new, less prejudicial policies -- Carl Brashear sets his sights on becoming the Navy's first African-American master diver in…
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The Wings of Eagles (1957)
★ 6.3/10Also dramaThe story of Frank W. "Spig" Wead - a Navy-flyer turned screenwriter.
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Grace Unplugged (2013)
★ 6/10Also drama and musicA talented young singer and aspiring songwriter’s Christian faith and family ties are tested when she defies her worship-pastor father and pursues pop-music stardom in GRACE UNPLUGGED, a moving and inspiring new film…
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Bravetown (2015)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and musicAfter an accidental drug overdose, a talented teenage DJ goes to live with his estranged father in a small Army town, where he gets to the bottom of his own pain and learns empathy for others.
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G.I. Jane (1997)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaIn response to political pressure from Senator Lillian DeHaven, the U.S. Navy begins a program that would allow for the eventual integration of women into its combat services. The program begins with a single trial…
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I Saw the Light (2016)
★ 6.2/10Also music and dramaSinger and songwriter Hank Williams rises to fame in the 1940s, but alcohol abuse and infidelity take a toll on his career and marriage to fellow musician Audrey Mae Williams.
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Honey: Rise Up and Dance (2018)
★ 6.9/10Also music and dramaStreet dancer Skyler comes out of the shadow of her trained dancer sister, Tosha, & joins a dance competition with the Honey dance studio; the prize is a college scholarship.
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Boychoir (2015)
★ 6.8/10Also music and dramaA troubled and angry 11-year-old orphan from a small Texas town, ends up at a Boy Choir school after the death of his single mother. Completely out of his element, he finds himself in a battle of wills with a demanding…
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The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (2023)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaBarney Greenwald, a skeptical lawyer, reluctantly defends an officer of the navy who took control of the Caine from its captain, Lt. Philip Francis Queeg, while caught in a violent sea storm. As the court-martial…
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Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
★ 8.2/10Also dramaAfter more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell finds himself training a detachment of TOP GUN graduates…
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Hounddog (2008)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and musicA drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley.
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Sink the Bismarck! (1960)
★ 6.9/10Also dramaThe story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen—during the early days of World War II. The Bismarck and her sister ship, Tirpitz, were the most powerful…
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The Inspection (2022)
★ 6.1/10Also dramaEllis French is a young, gay Black man, rejected by his mother and with few options for his future, decides to join the Marines, doing whatever it takes to succeed in a system that would cast him aside. But even as he…
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Teen Spirit (2019)
★ 6/10Also music and dramaA shy teenager living on the Isle of Wight dreams of pop stardom. With the help of an unlikely mentor, she enters a singing competition that will test her integrity, talent, and ambition.
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The Testament of Ann Lee (2025)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and musicThe extraordinary true legend of Ann Lee, founder of the devotional sect known as the Shakers, who preached gender and social equality and was revered by her followers as the female Christ.
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Blaze (2018)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and musicInspired by the life of Blaze Foley, the unsung songwriting legend of the Texas outlaw country movement that spawned the likes of Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson. The film weaves together three periods in Blaze's life…
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Respect (2021)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and musicThe rise of Aretha Franklin’s career from a child singing in her father’s church’s choir to her international superstardom.
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Battle of the Year (2013)
★ 6.8/10Also music and dramaA 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.