Movies Like Popdown
If you liked Popdown (1969), a music and science fiction movie directed by Fred Marshall, 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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Press Play (2022)
★ 6.4/10Also music and science fictionLaura and Harrison have the picture-perfect romance built on the foundation of a shared love of music. After a deadly accident, Laura gets the chance to save the love of her life when she discovers that their mixtape…
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How to Talk to Girls at Parties (2017)
★ 6/10Also music and science fictionIn 1970s London, a teenage outsider named Enn falls in love with a rebellious alien girl named Zan, who has come to Earth for a party. Together, they navigate the complexities of intergalactic culture and the trials of…
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The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)
★ 6.5/10Also science fiction and fantasyThomas Jerome Newton is an alien who has come to Earth in search of water to save his home planet. Aided by lawyer Oliver Farnsworth, Thomas uses his knowledge of advanced technology to create profitable inventions…
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Captain EO (1986)
★ 7.9/10Also science fiction and musicCaptain EO and his crew journey to a dark, mechanical world to deliver a gift to the tyrannical Supreme Leader, using the power of music and dance to transform her realm from darkness into light.
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Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem (2003)
★ 7.8/10Also science fiction and musicFour talented alien musicians are kidnapped by a record producer who disguises them as humans. Shep, a space pilot in love with bass player Stella, follows them to Earth. Reprogrammed to forget their real identities…
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Date with an Angel (1987)
★ 6.8/10Also fantasy and science fictionAspiring composer Jim Sanders is engaged to spoiled rich girl Patty. But the morning after his bachelor party, Jim wakes up to discover a beautiful, broken-winged angel in his pool. When everyone finds out about his…
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The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (1960)
★ 6.6/10Also music and fantasyDoctor Gulliver is poor, so nothing - not even his charming fiancée Elisabeth - keeps him in the town he lives. He signs on to a ship to India, but in a storm he's washed off the ship and ends up on an island, which is…
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The American Astronaut (2001)
★ 6.9/10Also music and science fictionSamual Curtis's first mission in this bizarre science fiction musical comedy requires him to take a cat to a saloon on an asteroid. There, he meets his former dance partner (the Blueberry Pirate) and collects his…
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Chaos Walking (2021)
★ 6.5/10Also fantasy and science fictionTwo unlikely companions embark on a perilous adventure through the badlands of an unexplored planet as they try to escape a dangerous and disorienting reality, where all inner thoughts are seen and heard by everyone.
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The Time Machine (1960)
★ 7.4/10Also fantasy and science fictionA Victorian Englishman travels to the far future and finds that humanity has divided into two hostile species.
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Heavy Metal (1981)
★ 6.5/10Also science fiction and fantasyThe embodiment of ultimate evil, a glowing orb terrorizes a young girl with bizarre stories of dark fantasy, eroticism and horror.
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Forbidden Zone (1982)
★ 6.2/10Also music and fantasyA mysterious door in the basement of the Hercules house leads to the Sixth Dimension by way of a gigantic set of intestine. When lovely exchange student Frenchy slips through the door, the diminuitive King Fausto falls…
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Vesper (2022)
★ 6.2/10Also science fiction and fantasyAfter the collapse of Earth's ecosystem, Vesper, a 13-year-old girl struggling to survive with her paralyzed Father, meets a mysterious Woman with a secret that forces Vesper to use her wits, strength and bio-hacking…
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Special (2006)
★ 6.3/10Also fantasy and science fictionA lonely metermaid has a psychotic reaction to his medication and becomes convinced he's a superhero. A very select group of people in life are truly gifted. Special is a movie about everyone else.
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Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny (2006)
★ 6.8/10Also music and fantasyIn Venice Beach, naive Midwesterner JB bonds with local slacker KG and they form the rock band Tenacious D. Setting out to become the world's greatest band is no easy feat, so they set out to steal what could be the…
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The History of Future Folk (2012)
★ 6.7/10Also science fiction and musicAn alien intending to claim Earth for his people before their homeworld is destroyed by a comet decides not to eliminate humanity when he hears their music. Instead, he lives among them until another alien is sent to…
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Fight for Your Right Revisited (2011)
★ 6.5/10Also music and science fictionFight for Your Right Revisited stars Danny McBride, Seth Rogen, and Elijah Wood as the "young" Beastie Boys from the past and Jack Black, John C. Reilly, and Will Ferrell as the "old" Beastie Boys from the future. The…
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The Dark Tower (2017)
★ 5.8/10Also fantasy and science fictionA boy haunted by visions of a parallel world aids its disillusioned guardian in preventing the destruction of the nexus of universes known as the Dark Tower.
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Runaway (2010)
★ 7.7/10Also music and fantasyA man falls in love with a half-woman/half-phoenix who fell to Earth from the sky.
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Yesterday (2019)
★ 6.7/10Also fantasy and musicA 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.