Movies Like Fairport Convention: Beyond the Ledge

If you liked Fairport Convention: Beyond the Ledge (1998), a movie directed by Colin Webb, 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
Yesterday (2019)
★ 6.7/10
A struggling musician realizes he's the only person on Earth who can remember The Beatles after waking up in an alternate reality where the group was forgotten.
2
It Happened at the World's Fair (1963)
★ 5.8/10
Mike Edwards and Danny Burke fly a cropduster, but due to Danny's gambling debts, a local sheriff takes custody of it. Trying to earn money, they hitchhike to the World's Fair in Seattle and, while Danny tries to earn…
3
Wayne's World 2 (1993)
★ 6.1/10
A message from Jim Morrison in a dream prompts cable access TV stars Wayne and Garth to put on a rock concert, "Waynestock," with Aerosmith as headliners. But amid the preparations, Wayne frets that a record producer…
4
The Adjustment Bureau (2011)
★ 6.8/10
A man glimpses the future Fate has planned for him – and chooses to fight for his own destiny. Battling the powerful Adjustment Bureau across, under and through the streets of New York, he risks his destined greatness…
5
A Hard Day's Night (1964)
★ 7.3/10
Capturing John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in their electrifying element, 'A Hard Day's Night' is a wildly irreverent journey through this pastiche of a day in the life of The Beatles during…
6
Boeing, Boeing (1965)
★ 6.4/10
Living in Paris, journalist Bernard has devised a scheme to keep three fiancées: Lufthansa, Air France and British United. Everything works fine as long as they only come home every third day. But when there's a change…
7
Maya the Bee Movie (2014)
★ 6.2/10
A bubbly little bumblebee rebels against the rules of the hive to make all kinds of friends—from violin-playing grasshoppers to a hornet named Sting.
8
Top Secret! (1984)
★ 7.1/10
Popular and dashing American singer Nick Rivers travels to East Germany to perform in a music festival. When he loses his heart to the gorgeous Hillary Flammond, he finds himself caught up in an underground resistance…
9
The Terminal (2004)
★ 7.4/10
An Eastern European tourist unexpectedly finds himself stranded in JFK airport, and must take up temporary residence there.
10
Behind the Curve (2018)
★ 6.3/10
Meet the growing, worldwide community of theorists who defend the belief that the Earth is flat while living in a society who vehemently rejects it.
11
It's Always Fair Weather (1955)
★ 7/10
Three World War II buddies promise to meet at a specified place and time 10 years after the war. They keep their word only to discover how far apart they've grown. But the reunion sparks memories of youthful dreams…
12
Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)
★ 7.2/10
Biography of Loretta Lynn, a country and western singer that came from poverty to fame.
13
The Ballad of Wallis Island (2025)
★ 7.3/10
An eccentric lottery winner who lives alone on a remote island tries to make his fantasies come true by getting his favourite musicians to perform at his home.
14
American Graffiti (1973)
★ 7.1/10
A couple of high school graduates spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college.
15
Walk the Line (2005)
★ 7.5/10
A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his rise to fame with Sun Records in Memphis, where he recorded alongside Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and…
16
Planes (2013)
★ 5.9/10
Dusty is a cropdusting plane who dreams of competing in a famous aerial race. The problem? He is hopelessly afraid of heights. With the support of his mentor Skipper and a host of new friends, Dusty sets off to make…
17
Help! (1965)
★ 6.9/10
An obscure Eastern cult that practices human sacrifice pursues Ringo after he unknowingly puts on a ceremonial ring (that, of course, won't come off). On top of that, a pair of mad scientists, members of Scotland Yard…
18
Joe's Apartment (1996)
★ 5.8/10
A nice guy has just moved to New York and discovers that he must share his run-down apartment with a couple thousand singing, dancing cockroaches.
19
The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)
★ 6.7/10
In 1927, Charles Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his New York to Paris flight the first solo transatlantic crossing.
20
The Ipcress File (1965)
★ 6.8/10
Sly and dry intelligence agent Harry Palmer is tasked with investigating British Intelligence security, and is soon enmeshed in a world of double-dealing, kidnap and murder when he finds a traitor operating at the…