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Movies Like Her Soul's Inspiration

If you liked Her Soul's Inspiration (1917), a drama movie directed by Jack Conway, 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. 1Honey: Rise Up and Dance

    Honey: Rise Up and Dance (2018)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama

    Street dancer Skyler comes out of the shadow of her trained dancer sister, Tosha, & joins a dance competition with the Honey dance studio; the prize is a college scholarship.

  2. 2Hounddog

    Hounddog (2008)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    A drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley.

  3. 3What Maisie Knew

    What Maisie Knew (2013)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    In New York City, six-year-old Maisie is caught in the middle of a bitter custody battle between her self-absorbed parents—an aging rock singer mother and a distracted art dealer father. As both quickly marry new…

  4. 41 Chance 2 Dance

    1 Chance 2 Dance (2014)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    When a 17-year old aspiring dancer is uprooted in her high school senior year, she finds herself divided between two boys, and she will have one last shot at making her dream a reality.

  5. 5The Trials of Cate McCall

    The Trials of Cate McCall (2013)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.

  6. 6Stomp the Yard

    Stomp the Yard (2007)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama

    After the death of his younger brother, a troubled 19-year-old street dancer from Los Angeles is able to bypass juvenile hall by enrolling in the historically black, Truth University in Atlanta, Georgia. But his…

  7. 7Shadows

    Shadows (1960)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama

    The relationship between Lelia, a light-skinned black woman, and Tony, a white man is put in jeopardy when Tony meets Lelia’s darker-skinned jazz singer brother, Hugh, and discovers that her racial heritage is not what…

  8. 8Frankie & Alice

    Frankie & Alice (2010)

    ★ 6/10Also drama

    A drama centered on a go-go dancer with multiple personality disorder who struggles to remain her true self and begins working with a psychotherapist to uncover the mystery of the inner ghosts that haunt her.

  9. 9Skin

    Skin (2009)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.

  10. 10Take the Lead

    Take the Lead (2006)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama

    A former professional dancer volunteers to teach dance in the New York public school system and, while his background first clashes with his students' tastes, together they create a completely new style of dance. Based…

  11. 11The Barefoot Contessa

    The Barefoot Contessa (1954)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    A washed-up filmmaker gets a second chance at stardom when he discovers stunning peasant Maria Vargas dancing in a Madrid nightclub. Goaded by his producer, the director convinces Maria to screen test for, and then…

  12. 12The Jazz Singer

    The Jazz Singer (1927)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer. This is the first full length feature film to use synchronized sound, and is the…

  13. 13Salomé

    Salomé (2013)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    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. 14The Girl in the Book

    The Girl in the Book (2015)

    ★ 5.8/10Also drama

    The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.

  15. 15The Sound of Silence

    The Sound of Silence (2019)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama

    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. 16Vesper

    Vesper (2022)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    After 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…

  17. 17Bastard Out of Carolina

    Bastard Out of Carolina (1996)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as…

  18. 18The Congress

    The Congress (2013)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    An aging, out-of-work actress accepts one last job, though the consequences of her decision affect her in ways she didn't consider.

  19. 19Peaceful Warrior

    Peaceful Warrior (2006)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama

    A chance encounter with a stranger changes the life of a college gymnast.

  20. 20Ballet Shoes

    Ballet Shoes (2008)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    An unusual explorer named Gum and his kindly niece adopt three orphans -- Pauline, Petrova and Posy -- and raise them as sisters in 1930s London. But the girls must fend for themselves when Gum doesn't return from one…

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