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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.

  1. 1Preacher's Kid

    Preacher's Kid (2010)

    ★ 6.4/10Also family and music

    Longing 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.

  2. 2Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B

    Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B (2014)

    ★ 6.5/10Also music and tv movie

    The 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.

  3. 3Sarafina!

    Sarafina! (1992)

    ★ 6.2/10Also music and family

    A 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.

  4. 4HOMECOMING: A film by Beyoncé

    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.

  5. 5Bessie

    Bessie (2015)

    ★ 6.4/10Also music and tv movie

    The story of legendary blues performer, Bessie Smith, who rose to fame during the 1920s and '30s.

  6. 6Carmen: A Hip Hopera

    Carmen: A Hip Hopera (2001)

    ★ 6.5/10Also music and tv movie

    An engaged Philadelphia policeman falls in love with a beautiful woman while dealing with a corrupt superior.

  7. 7Lemonade

    Lemonade (2016)

    ★ 8.4/10Also music and tv movie

    The 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.

  8. 8Center Stage: On Pointe

    Center Stage: On Pointe (2016)

    ★ 6.4/10Also music and tv movie

    Jonathan 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…

  9. 9Hairspray Live!

    Hairspray Live! (2016)

    ★ 7.4/10Also tv movie and music

    A teenage girl living in Baltimore in the early 1960s dreams of appearing on a popular TV dance show.

  10. 10Steve Martin and Martin Short: An Evening You Will Forget for the Rest of Your Life

    Steve Martin and Martin Short: An Evening You Will Forget for the Rest of Your Life (2018)

    ★ 6.6/10Also music and tv movie

    Comedians 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.

  11. 11Style Wars

    Style Wars (1984)

    ★ 7.5/10Also music and tv movie

    Tony 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.

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