Movies Like The New Year's SMS
If you liked The New Year's SMS (2011), a music and family movie directed by Oleg Pogodin, here are 11 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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Preacher's Kid (2010)
★ 6.4/10Also family and musicLonging to experience more of life, twentysomething preacher's daughter Angie strikes out on her own for the very first time and joins a traveling gospel show.
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Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B (2014)
★ 6.5/10Also music and tv movieThe story of R&B singer and actress Aaliyah; namely, the highs and lows of her career, her romantic pursuits, and the events leading up to her death in 2001 at the age of 22.
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Sarafina! (1992)
★ 6.2/10Also music and familyA Soweto schoolgirl named Sarafina is galvanized to protest apartheid after her teacher is arrested for her activism, leading her to join the student resistance movement.
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HOMECOMING: A film by Beyoncé (2019)
★ 8/10Also music and tv movieThis intimate, in-depth look at Beyoncé's celebrated 2018 Coachella performance reveals the emotional road from creative concept to cultural movement.
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Bessie (2015)
★ 6.4/10Also music and tv movieThe story of legendary blues performer, Bessie Smith, who rose to fame during the 1920s and '30s.
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Carmen: A Hip Hopera (2001)
★ 6.5/10Also music and tv movieAn engaged Philadelphia policeman falls in love with a beautiful woman while dealing with a corrupt superior.
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Lemonade (2016)
★ 8.4/10Also music and tv movieThe second "visual album" (a collection of short films) by Beyoncé, this time around she takes a piercing look at racial issues and feminist concepts through a sexualized, satirical, and solemn tone.
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Center Stage: On Pointe (2016)
★ 6.4/10Also music and tv movieJonathan Reeves is tasked with infusing more contemporary styles and modernism into the American Ballet Academy, and enlists his top choreographers Charlie, Cooper and Tommy to recruit dancers to compete at a camp…
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Hairspray Live! (2016)
★ 7.4/10Also tv movie and musicA teenage girl living in Baltimore in the early 1960s dreams of appearing on a popular TV dance show.
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Steve Martin and Martin Short: An Evening You Will Forget for the Rest of Your Life (2018)
★ 6.6/10Also music and tv movieComedians and writers Steve Martin and Martin Short perform a live comedy set with music by The Steep Canyon Rangers and jazz pianist, Jeff Babko, at the Peace Center in Greenville, South Carolina.
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Style Wars (1984)
★ 7.5/10Also music and tv movieTony Silver and Henry Chalfant's PBS documentary tracks the rise and fall of subway graffiti in New York in the late 1970s and early 1980s.