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Movies Like To Write Love on Her Arms

If you liked To Write Love on Her Arms (2015), a drama and music movie directed by Nathan Frankowski, 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. 1The Doors

    The Doors (1991)

    ★ 7.1/10Also music and drama

    The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison.

  2. 2Requiem for a Dream

    Requiem for a Dream (2000)

    ★ 8/10Also drama

    The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.

  3. 3Crossroads

    Crossroads (1986)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama and music

    A wanna-be blues guitar virtuoso seeks a long-lost song by legendary musician, Robert Johnson.

  4. 4Hustle & Flow

    Hustle & Flow (2005)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama and music

    With help from his friends, a Memphis pimp in a mid-life crisis attempts to become a successful hip-hop emcee.

  5. 5Luckiest Girl Alive

    Luckiest Girl Alive (2022)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    A successful woman in New York City finds her life upended when she is forced to confront a dark truth that threatens to unravel her meticulously crafted life.

  6. 6Blonde

    Blonde (2022)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama

    From her volatile childhood as Norma Jeane, through her rise to stardom and romantic entanglements, this reimagined fictional portrait of Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe blurs the lines of fact and fiction to explore…

  7. 7Jawbone

    Jawbone (2017)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    A former youth boxing champion, Jimmy McCabe is a man in search of hope but looking in all the wrong places. When he hits rock bottom he turns to his childhood boxing club and the only family he has left: gym owner…

  8. 8Trainspotting

    Trainspotting (1996)

    ★ 8/10Also drama

    Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends --Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud and Tommy. He also has an underage girlfriend, Diane, along for the ride. After cleaning…

  9. 9Lockdown

    Lockdown (2000)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    Avery (Jones) returns to college as a competitive swimmer after getting his life back on track. But his life takes another unexpected turn when he and his two friends (Bonds, Casseus) are wrongly accused of murder and…

  10. 10Bronson

    Bronson (2009)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama

    A young man who was sentenced to 7 years in prison for robbing a post office ends up spending 30 years in solitary confinement. During this time, his own personality is supplanted by his alter ego, Charles Bronson.

  11. 11Fierce People

    Fierce People (2006)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    A massage therapist looking to overcome her addictions and reconnect with her son, whose father is an anthropologist in South America studying the Yanomani people, moves in with a wealthy ex-client in New Jersey.

  12. 12The Chronology of Water

    The Chronology of Water (2025)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    Plagued by an abusive childhood, a woman finds escape in competitive swimming, sexual experimentation, toxic relationships, and addiction before ultimately finding her voice through writing.

  13. 13Suburbia

    Suburbia (1984)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and music

    When household tensions and a sense of worthlessness overcome Evan, he finds escape when he clings with the orphans of a throw-away society. The runaways hold on to each other like a family until a tragedy tears them…

  14. 14The Krays

    The Krays (1990)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    Twins Ronnie and Reggie Kray are raised in east London, under the influence of their hateful but doting mother Violet. As they grow up, Ronnie's violent nature takes over, and Reggie follows his brother's lead. The two…

  15. 15Unthinkable

    Unthinkable (2010)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    The government gets wind of a plot to destroy America involving a trio of nuclear weapons for which the whereabouts are unknown. It's up to a seasoned interrogator and an FBI agent to find out exactly where the nukes…

  16. 16Notorious

    Notorious (2009)

    ★ 7/10Also music and drama

    "Notorious" is the story of Christopher Wallace. Through raw talent and sheer determination, Wallace transforms himself from Brooklyn street hustler (once selling crack to pregnant women) to one of the greatest rappers…

  17. 17Cherry

    Cherry (2021)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama

    Cherry drifts from college dropout to army medic in Iraq—anchored only by his one true love, Emily. But after returning from the war with PTSD, his life spirals into drugs and crime as he struggles to find his place in…

  18. 18Convict

    Convict (2014)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    Set in the dark and old Parramatta prison built by the original convicts our lead character Ray a war veteran finds himself serving 18 months for manslaughter after defending his fiance. He soon realizes that the…

  19. 19Pimp

    Pimp (2018)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    An urban love story set on the hard streets of the Bronx. A struggling female pimp, named Wednesday, grows up learning the game from her dad. Once he's gone she's left to look out for her prostitute mother and…

  20. 20Nymphomaniac: Vol. II

    Nymphomaniac: Vol. II (2013)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    The continuation of Joe's sexually dictated life delves into the darker aspects of her adult life and what led to her being in Seligman's care.

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