Movies Like Garth Live from Central Park

If you liked Garth Live from Central Park (1997), a music and tv movie movie directed by Marty Callner, 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
Clika (2026)
★ 8.3/10Also music
Aspiring small-town musician Chito is determined to make it big. When a clip of him performing one of his songs goes viral, he seizes the opportunity and pushes to carve out a place for himself in the new wave of…
2
Jailhouse Rock (1957)
★ 6.3/10Also music
Young convict Vince Everett, serving time for manslaughter, discovers his musical talent in prison and becomes a rock and roll star after his release, navigating fame and relationships.
3
Ricky Gervais: Mortality (2025)
★ 7/10Also tv movie
Ricky Gervais tackles life, death and the state of the world in a brutally honest special that spares no topic, even his own mortality.
4
Prince: Sign 'o' the Times (1987)
★ 7.5/10Also music
In 1987, to capitalize on his growing success in Europe, Prince toured extensively to promote the album of the same name and sales increased accordingly. However, the United States remained resistant to his latest…
5
Battle of the Year (2013)
★ 6.8/10Also music
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.
6
Danny Collins (2015)
★ 6.7/10Also music
An ageing hard-living 1970s rock star decides to change his life when he discovers a 40-year-old undelivered letter written to him by John Lennon.
7
Smithereens (1982)
★ 6.4/10Also music
A narcissistic runaway engages in a number of parasitic relationships amongst members of New York's waning punk scene.
8
Rite Here Rite Now (2024)
★ 9/10Also music
Whether you’re a devoted disciple looking to relive treasured memories of the GHOST live spectacle or among the curious uninitiated, RITE HERE RITE NOW will put you right there: putting your phones down and living in…
9
King of Jazz (1930)
★ 6.5/10Also music
A large-scale revue musical built around Paul Whiteman and his orchestra, presenting a series of musical performances, sketches, and staged tableaux in early two-color Technicolor, emblematic of Hollywood’s early…
10
South Park the Streaming Wars (2022)
★ 7.1/10Also tv movie
Cartman locks horns with his mom in a battle of wills while an epic conflict unfolds that threatens South Park’s very existence.
11
Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten (2007)
★ 7.3/10Also music
As the front man of the Clash from 1977 onwards, Joe Strummer changed people's lives forever. Four years after his death, his influence reaches out around the world, more strongly now than ever before. In "The Future…
12
Clear History (2013)
★ 6.1/10Also tv movie
Nathan Flomm, in order to avoid the humiliation of having missed out on a hugely successful business, assumes a new identity on Martha's Vineyard. He plots revenge when his former business partner moves to the same town.
13
10,000 Saints (2015)
★ 6/10Also music
A sweeping multigenerational story set against the backdrop of the raw, roaring New York City of the late 1980s; adoption, teen pregnancy, drugs, hardcore punk rock, the unbridled optimism and reckless stupidity of the…
14
Honey: Rise Up and Dance (2018)
★ 6.9/10Also music
Street 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.
15
Cadillac Records (2008)
★ 7.1/10Also music
The story of sex, violence, race and rock and roll in 1950s Chicago, and the exciting but turbulent lives of some of America's musical legends, including Muddy Waters, Leonard Chess, Little Walter, Howlin' Wolf, Etta…
16
Kevin Hart: What Now? (2016)
★ 6.5/10Also tv movie
Comedian Kevin Hart performs in front of a crowd of 50,000 people at Philadelphia's outdoor venue, Lincoln Financial Field.
17
Metal Lords (2022)
★ 6.8/10Also music
For teenage misfits Hunter and Kevin, the path to glory is clear: Devote themselves to metal. Win Battle of the Bands. And be worshipped like gods.
18
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese (2019)
★ 7/10Also music
Part documentary, part concert film, part fever dream, this film captures the troubled spirit of America in 1975 and the joyous music that Dylan performed during the fall of that year.
19
Teen Spirit (2011)
★ 5.9/10Also tv movie
Amber, a mean popular girl who gets electrocuted and dies, is not allowed to enter into heaven unless she helps the least popular girl in school become Prom Queen within a week, but things do not go as planned.
20
HOMECOMING: A film by Beyoncé (2019)
★ 8/10Also music and tv movie
This intimate, in-depth look at Beyoncé's celebrated 2018 Coachella performance reveals the emotional road from creative concept to cultural movement.