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Movies Like Rumba Love

If you liked Rumba Love (2021), a drama and music movie directed by Guillermo Iván, 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. 1Too Late Blues

    Too Late Blues (1961)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama and music

    Ghost is an ideological musician and leader of a jazz band who would rather play his blues in the park to the birds than compromise himself. His peripatetic performances lead him to cross paths with a singer, while his…

  2. 2Honeydripper

    Honeydripper (2007)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama and music

    In 1950s Alabama, the owner of the Honeydripper juke joint finds his business dropping off and against his better judgment, hires a young electric guitarist in a last ditch effort to draw crowds during harvest time.

  3. 3Beat Street

    Beat Street (1984)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama and music

    An aspiring DJ, from the South Bronx, and his best friend, a promoter, try to get into show business by exposing people to hip-hop music and culture.

  4. 4You Got Served

    You Got Served (2004)

    ★ 6.4/10Also music and drama

    At Mr. Rad's Warehouse, the best hip-hop crews in Los Angeles compete for money and respect. But when a suburban crew crashes the party, stealing their dancers — and their moves — two warring friends have to pull…

  5. 5Take the Lead

    Take the Lead (2006)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama and music

    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…

  6. 6Spin

    Spin (2021)

    ★ 6.9/10Also music

    Rhea discovers her passion for creating DJ mixes that blend the rich textures of her South Asian culture and the world around her. Her life revolves around her eclectic group of friends, her after-school coding club…

  7. 7The Five Heartbeats

    The Five Heartbeats (1991)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama and music

    In the early 1960s, a quintet of hopeful, young African-American men form an amateur vocal group called The Five Heartbeats. After an initially rocky start, the group improves, turns pro, and rises to become a top…

  8. 8Good Vibrations

    Good Vibrations (2012)

    ★ 6.7/10Also music and drama

    The story of music legend Terri Hooley, a key figure in Belfast's punk rock scene. Hooley founded the Good Vibrations store from which a record label sprung, representing bands such as The Undertones, Rudi and The…

  9. 9Beyond the Sea

    Beyond the Sea (2004)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and music

    Based on the life and career of legendary entertainer, Bobby Darin, the biopic moves back and forth between his childhood and adulthood, to tell the tale of his life.

  10. 10King Creole

    King Creole (1958)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama and music

    Delinquent Danny Fisher flunks out of high school, quits his job as a nightclub busboy, and one night gets the chance to perform. Success is imminent and local crime boss Maxie Fields wants to hire him to perform at…

  11. 11Like Sunday, Like Rain

    Like Sunday, Like Rain (2014)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama and music

    A struggling musician becomes a 12-year-old musical prodigy's guardian for a summer.

  12. 12Fast Girls

    Fast Girls (2012)

    ★ 6/10Also drama

    A street smart runner develops an intense rivalry with an equally ambitious wealthy young athlete.

  13. 13The Jazz Singer

    The Jazz Singer (1927)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama and music

    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…

  14. 14Julia

    Julia (1977)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    At the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous mission to smuggle funds into Nazi Germany.

  15. 15Make Mine Music

    Make Mine Music (1946)

    ★ 5.8/10Also music

    In the tradition of Fantasia, Make Mine Music is a glorious collection of musically charged animated shorts featuring such fun-filled favorites as "Peter and the Wolf", narrated by the beloved voice behind Winnie the…

  16. 16Lady Driver

    Lady Driver (2020)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    When a rebellious teen embarks on a solo summer journey to connect with her roots, she finds herself in a new world, geared up for the ride of her life, and discovers she had the drive in her all along.

  17. 17Let It Shine

    Let It Shine (2012)

    ★ 7/10Also music

    A teenage rapper must use his musical talent to help a friend and win the girl of his dreams while overcoming self-doubt and the expectations of his strict religious parents.

  18. 18Clouds

    Clouds (2020)

    ★ 8.2/10Also music and drama

    Young musician Zach Sobiech discovers his cancer has spread, leaving him just a few months to live. With limited time, he follows his dream and makes an album, unaware that it will soon be a viral music phenomenon.

  19. 19Plunder Road

    Plunder Road (1957)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama

    A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.

  20. 20Yankee Doodle Dandy

    Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)

    ★ 7/10Also drama and music

    A film of the life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singer George M. Cohan.

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