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Movies Like Digital Theatre: Parlour Song

If you liked Digital Theatre: Parlour Song (2009), a movie directed by Ian Rickson, 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. 1Bye Bye Birdie

    Bye Bye Birdie (1963)

    ★ 5.9/10

    A singer goes to a small town for a performance before he is drafted.

  2. 2My Fair Lady

    My Fair Lady (1964)

    ★ 7.5/10

    A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.

  3. 3Riff-Raff

    Riff-Raff (1991)

    ★ 6.7/10

    Stevie, fresh from prison in Scotland, finds a job on a London construction site. Working conditions are poor and most of the men are working under aliases, due to immigration status and to not conflict with…

  4. 4The End of the Tour

    The End of the Tour (2015)

    ★ 7/10

    The story of the five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace, which took place right after the 1996 publication of Wallace's groundbreaking epic novel…

  5. 5A Mighty Wind

    A Mighty Wind (2003)

    ★ 6.8/10

    Three eclectic, never-quite-famous folk bands come together for the first time in decades following the death of their manager to put on an reunion concert in his honor, at the request of his son.

  6. 6The Fighting Temptations

    The Fighting Temptations (2003)

    ★ 5.8/10

    Darrin Hill, a slick-talking but down-on- his-luck NYC advertising exec, returns to his hometown in Georgia to claim the inheritance his aunt left him. But before Darrin can collect the money, he must fulfill his…

  7. 7Funny Face

    Funny Face (1957)

    ★ 7/10

    A shy Greenwich Village book clerk is discovered by a fashion photographer and whisked off to Paris where she becomes a reluctant model.

  8. 8Joe's Apartment

    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.

  9. 9Velvet Goldmine

    Velvet Goldmine (1998)

    ★ 6.9/10

    Almost a decade since larger-than-life glam-rock enigma Brian Slade disappeared from public eye, an investigative journalist is on assignment to uncover the truth behind his former idol.

  10. 1024 Hour Party People

    24 Hour Party People (2002)

    ★ 7/10

    Manchester, 1976. Tony Wilson is an ambitious but frustrated local TV news reporter looking for a way to make his mark. After witnessing a life-changing concert by a band known as the Sex Pistols, he persuades his…

  11. 11Valmont

    Valmont (1989)

    ★ 6.7/10

    Set in Baroque France, a scheming widow and her lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman. The lover, Valmont, bets that he can seduce her, even though she is an honorable woman. If he wins…

  12. 12The Nest

    The Nest (2020)

    ★ 6.1/10

    Rory is an ambitious entrepreneur who brings his American wife and kids to his native country, England, to explore new business opportunities. After abandoning the sanctuary of their safe American suburban…

  13. 13Salomé

    Salomé (2013)

    ★ 6.1/10

    After the lewd and frenetic Dance of the Seven Veils, and with the solemn pledge from the very lips of Herod himself that she could have whatever her heart desires up to half his kingdom, wanton and proud young Salomé…

  14. 14Far from Heaven

    Far from Heaven (2002)

    ★ 7.1/10

    In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife's life is upended by a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in society.

  15. 15The Sound of Silence

    The Sound of Silence (2019)

    ★ 5.9/10

    A successful "house tuner" in New York City, who calibrates the sound in people's homes in order to adjust their moods, meets a client with a problem he can't solve.

  16. 16Help!

    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…

  17. 17God Help the Girl

    God Help the Girl (2014)

    ★ 6.5/10

    Eve is a catastrophe—low on self-esteem but high on fantasy, especially when it comes to music. Over the course of one Glasgow summer, she meets two similarly rootless souls: posh Cass and fastidious James, and…

  18. 18Kiss Me, Stupid

    Kiss Me, Stupid (1964)

    ★ 7/10

    While traveling home from Vegas, an amorous lounge singer named Dino gets conned by a local mechanic/songwriter into staying in town for the night. The mechanic's songwriting partner, Orville, offers Dino his home for…

  19. 19Elvis

    Elvis (2022)

    ★ 7.4/10

    The life story of Elvis Presley as seen through the complicated relationship with his enigmatic manager, Colonel Tom Parker.

  20. 20The Old Oak

    The Old Oak (2023)

    ★ 7.2/10

    A pub landlord in a previously thriving mining community struggles to hold onto his pub. Meanwhile, tensions rise in the town when Syrian refugees are placed in the empty houses in the community.

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