Movies Like Herschel and the Music of the Stars
If you liked Herschel and the Music of the Stars (1986), a tv movie and history movie directed by Percy Adlon, 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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Oslo (2021)
★ 6.6/10Also tv movie and historyThe true story of negotiations between implacable enemies — the secret back-channel talks, unlikely friendships and quiet heroics of a small but committed group of Israelis, Palestinians and one Norwegian couple that…
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A Royal Runaway Romance (2022)
★ 7.3/10Also tv moviePrincess Amelia of Bundbury travels across America to explore a budding romance with an artist, only to fall in love with her bodyguard, Grady.
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Seeds of Yesterday (2015)
★ 6.4/10Also tv movieThe Sheffield family reveal and go through some home truths as their middle child inherits the Foxworth mansion. The family's ghosts looming over, and more tragedies are in store as the curse lives on.
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Game Change (2012)
★ 6.9/10Also tv movie and historyDuring the Republican run of the 2008 Presidential election, candidate John McCain picks a relative unknown, Alaskan governor Sarah Palin, to be his running mate. As the campaign kicks into high gear, her lack of…
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Doctor Who (1996)
★ 6.2/10Also tv movieThe Seventh Doctor becomes the Eighth. And on the streets of San Francisco – alongside new ally Grace Holloway - he battles the Master.
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Love, Classified (2022)
★ 6.6/10Also tv movieRomance novelist Emilia is a whirlwind who blows back into the lives of her adult children, Taylor and Zach, under the pretense of a book signing arranged by her hometown's local book shop. As Emilia tries to…
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Locke & Key (2011)
★ 6.9/10Also tv movieThree children become the caretakers of a New England mansion that is home to a bevy of secrets and magic.
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Christmas at Castle Hart (2021)
★ 6.2/10Also tv movieBrooke Bennett goes to Ireland for Christmas to search for her Irish roots. While there, she meets Aiden Hart, Earl of Glaslough. Mistaken for an elite event planner, she’s hired to host his castle’s epic Christmas…
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Blackadder: Back & Forth (1999)
★ 7/10Also history and tv movieWhat was a cunning plan from Lord Edmund Blackadder V to fake a time machine on his gullibly incompetent friends, turns out to be the real thing and hurls him and his imbecile underling, Baldrick, through the course of…
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A Wedding to Remember (2021)
★ 6.2/10Also tv movieOn opposite sides of a development project, Olivia and Brian are surprised to find they are the Maid of Honor and Best Man at the same wedding. They have to put their feelings aside to save their best friends’ wedding……
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The Art of Us (2017)
★ 6.5/10Also tv movieHarper Higgins is determined to land a tenured position at Boston Art College, and she’s counting on curating a big art gallery at the university to do so. But when she loses her showcase artist and can find no one…
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Girl in the Box (2016)
★ 6.7/10Also tv movieThe true story of 20-year-old Colleen Stan, a hitchhiking woman abducted by a young couple and held captive for seven years, during which time she's tortured and forced to live as a slave to her captors.
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A Christmas Kiss (2011)
★ 6.1/10Also tv movieWendy Walton is the best designer in Boston... but no one knows it yet. Hoping to kick-start her career, Wendy has left work with the local theatre to take a job as an assistant to Priscilla Hall, the most prestigious…
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Crossword Mysteries: A Puzzle to Die For (2019)
★ 7.1/10Also tv movieA crossword puzzle editor finds her life completely disrupted when several of the clues in her recent puzzles are linked to unsolved crimes, and she is pulled into the police investigation.
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Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Haunted By Murder (2022)
★ 7/10Also tv movieA murder investigation is reignited in a house that is considered haunted by the Lawrenceton locals and where years ago Aurora and Sally, as teenagers, discovered a body.
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Hello (2022)
★ 6.3/10Also tv movieAn emotionally unavailable flight attendant meets a potential love interest and later finds out that her "perfect guy" has ulterior motives. As the clock ticks down on New Year's Eve, she must fight to keep her…
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12:01 (1993)
★ 6.2/10Also tv movieOffice employee Barry Thomas is caught in a "time bounce" caused by a glitch in the company's secret project. Now the same day occurs again and again - and Barry's the only one who can do anything about it, including…
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Mayerling (1968)
★ 6.2/10Also historyCrown Prince Rudolf of Austria clashes with his father, Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria, over implementing progressive policies for their country. Rudolf soon feels he is a man born at the wrong time in a country…
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Haul Out the Holly (2022)
★ 6.1/10Also tv movieEmily arrives home, hoping to visit her parents, only to discover that they are leaving on a trip of their own. As she stays at their house for the holidays, their HOA is determined to get Emily to participate in the…
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Crossword Mysteries: Terminal Descent (2021)
★ 7.2/10Also tv movieAfter volunteering to participate in a crossword solving competition with a new supercomputer, crossword puzzle editor Tess Harper finds herself swept into the investigation of the bizarre murder of a tech CEO