Movies Like Lisztomania

If you liked Lisztomania (1975), a history and music movie directed by Ken Russell, 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
Goltzius & the Pelican Company (2012)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy and history
Goltzius and the Pelican Company tells the story of Hendrik Goltzius, a late 16th century Dutch printer and engraver of erotic prints. A contemporary of Rembrandt and, indeed, more celebrated during his life, Goltzius…
2
Michael Bolton's Big, Sexy Valentine's Day Special (2017)
★ 6/10Also comedy and music
After Santa tells Michael Bolton that he needs 75,000 new babies by Christmas to meet toy supply, he hosts a sexy telethon to get the world to start making love.
3
Fubar (2002)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy and music
Terry and Dean are lifelong friends who have grown-up together: shotgunning their first beers, forming their first garage band, and growing the great Canadian mullet known as "hockey hair". Now the lives of these…
4
The Chorus (2004)
★ 7.7/10Also comedy and music
In 1940s France, a new teacher at a school for disruptive boys gives hope and inspiration.
5
Donkey Skin (1970)
★ 7.2/10Also comedy and music
A fairy godmother helps a princess disguise herself so she won't have to marry her father.
6
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy and music
An all-girl rock band moves to Hollywood in the hope of achieving success, only to fall into a whirlpool of wickedness and decadence.
7
Once (2007)
★ 7.4/10Also music
A vacuum repairman moonlights as a street musician and hopes for his big break. One day a Czech immigrant, who earns a living selling flowers, approaches him with the news that she is also an aspiring…
8
L'Âge d'or (1930)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy
The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love. Their attempts to consummate their passion are constantly…
9
Cherry, Harry & Raquel! (1969)
★ 5.4/10Also comedy
In a small border town, a sheriff and his 'associate', involved in an operation in which they divert marijuana through the border, must kill another smuggler who has gone into business for himself.
10
Liebe ist Geschmackssache (1997)
Also music
A director tries to get his porno musical off the ground.
11
Fanny Hill (1964)
★ 4/10Also comedy and history
Young, pretty and innocent, Fanny Hill has lost her parents and must find her way in life amidst the perils of turbulent 18th-century London. She's fortunate enough to rapidly find a place as chambermaid of the…
12
Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie (2017)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy
Based on the bestselling book series, this outrageous comedy tells the story of George and Harold, two overly imaginative pranksters who hypnotize their principal into thinking he’s an enthusiastic, yet dimwitted…
13
Riot at the Rite (2005)
★ 8/10Also history
In the spring of 1913, Parisian businessman Gabriel Astruc opens a new theater on the Champs Elysées. The first performance is the premiere of Igor Stravinsky's 'The Rite of Spring', danced by the Ballet Russes. The…
14
Pleasantville (1998)
★ 7.3/10Also comedy
Geeky teenager David and his popular twin sister, Jennifer, get sucked into the black-and-white world of a 1950s TV sitcom called "Pleasantville," and find a world where everything is peachy keen all the time. But when…
15
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)
★ 7.3/10Also comedy
Two drag performers and a transgender woman travel across the desert to perform their unique style of cabaret.
16
An American in Paris (1951)
★ 7/10Also music and comedy
Jerry Mulligan is an exuberant American expatriate in Paris trying to make a reputation as a painter. His friend Adam is a struggling concert pianist who's a long time associate of a famous French singer, Henri Baurel…
17
Maurice Hasson (1985)
★ 5/10Also music
In this short film, made on the occasion of a visit by Maurice Hasson to Mérida to perform in concert, he evokes in a warm conversation his indelible memories and deeply human experiences of his life in Mérida.
18
The Impossible Voyage (1904)
★ 7.3/10Also comedy
Using every known means of transportation, several savants from the Geographic Society undertake a journey through the Alps to the Sun which finishes under the sea.
19
Hairspray (2007)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy
Pleasantly plump teenager Tracy Turnblad auditions to be on Baltimore's most popular dance show - The Corny Collins Show - and lands a prime spot. Through her newfound fame, she becomes determined to help her friends…
20
Twelve Plus One (1969)
★ 5.3/10Also comedy
Mario, a young philanderer, receives 13 antique chairs in a bad state by inheritance and decides to sell off them to get some money. Afterwards he gets to know that one of them contains documents worth a lot of money…