Movies Like The Sound of Music Live!
If you liked The Sound of Music Live! (2015), a drama and music movie directed by Coky Giedroyc and Richard Valentine, 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 Sound of Music Live! (2013)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and familyThe Sound of Music Live! is a television special that was originally broadcast by NBC on December 5, 2013. Produced by Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, the special was an adaptation of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway…
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The Sound of Music (1965)
★ 7.7/10Also drama and familyIn the years before World War II, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven children and brings a new love of life and music into the home.
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Carmen Jones (1954)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and romanceIn this musical set in an all-Black army camp, civilian parachute maker and "hot bundle" Carmen Jones is desired by many of the men. Naturally, she wants Joe, who's engaged to sweet Cindy Lou and about to go into pilot…
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The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
★ 6.3/10Also music and dramaAt the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, sideshow barker Florenz Ziegfeld turns the tables on his more-successful neighbor Billings, and also steals his girlfriend. This pattern repeats throughout their lives, as Ziegfeld…
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Northanger Abbey (2007)
★ 6.8/10Also romance and dramaA young woman's penchant for sensational Gothic novels leads to misunderstandings in the matters of the heart.
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August Rush (2007)
★ 7.4/10Also family and dramaEvan, a musically gifted orphan, runs away from his orphanage and searches New York City for his birth parents. On his journey, he's taken under the wing of the Wizard, a homeless man who lives in an abandoned theater…
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The Phantom of the Opera (2004)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and romanceThe deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make the woman he loves a star.
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Ziegfeld Girl (1941)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and musicDiscovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing…
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West Side Story (1961)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and romanceIn Manhattan’s Upper West Side, rival gangs of Polish-Americans and newly arrived Puerto Ricans clash for control of the neighborhood, even as two young members from opposite sides fall dangerously in love.
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Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and musicAcademy Award-honoree Peter O'Toole stars in this musical classic about a prim English schoolmaster who learns to show his compassion through the help of an outgoing showgirl. O'Toole, who received his fourth…
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Walk the Line (2005)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and musicA 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…
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Star! (1968)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and musicGertrude Lawrence rises to stage stardom at the cost of happiness.
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I Still Believe (2020)
★ 7.6/10Also music and dramaThe true-life story of Christian music star Jeremy Camp and his journey of love and loss that looks to prove there is always hope.
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Wicked (2024)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and romanceIn the land of Oz, ostracized and misunderstood green-skinned Elphaba is forced to share a room with the popular aristocrat Glinda at Shiz University, and the two's unlikely friendship is tested as they begin to…
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Christopher and His Kind (2011)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and romanceIn 1931, budding author Christopher Isherwood goes to Berlin at the invitation of his friend W. H. Auden for the gay sex that abounds in the city. He falls for street sweeper Heinz, paying medical bills for the boy's…
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The Glenn Miller Story (1954)
★ 7/10Also drama and musicA vibrant tribute to one of America's legendary bandleaders, charting Glenn Miller's rise from obscurity and poverty to fame and wealth in the early 1940s.
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StreetDance 2 (2012)
★ 6.2/10Also music and romanceAfter suffering humiliation by the crew Invincible, street dancer Ash looks to gather the best dancers from around the world for a rematch.
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Into the Woods (1991)
★ 8.1/10Also drama and musicIn a woods filled with magic and fairy tale characters, a baker and his wife set out to end the curse put on them by their neighbor, a spiteful witch.
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Love Gets a Room (2021)
★ 7/10Also drama and romanceJanuary 1942, in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II. Thousands of Jews have been confined to the Warsaw ghetto for more than a year. Outside, life goes on; inside, they struggle to survive another day. Still, on…
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Random Harvest (1942)
★ 7.3/10Also romance and dramaWandered away from his asylum, an amnesiac World War I veteran falls in love with a music hall star but his amnesia makes it difficult to last.