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Movies that feel like Almost Famous (2000)

If you loved Almost Famous, the closest films we have are The Bélier Family (2014), Stop Making Sense (1984) and The Legend of 1900 (1998). All three share Almost Famous' stylish feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Amazon Prime Video, Hulu and Paramount Plus Premium and others, checked against today's data.

In 1973, a precocious 15-year-old aspiring rock journalist lands a dream assignment from Rolling Stone to tour with a rising rock band, embarking on a coming-of-age journey as he discovers the exhilarating and heartbreaking realities behind rock stardom.

🍅 91% Rotten Tomatoes7.9 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Cameron Crowecontemplativestylishwistful
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The Bélier Family
2014 · dir. Éric Lartigau
🍅 83%7.3comedy · music · drama

The same preoccupation in both: growing up

The difference: Sits closer to comedy than Almost Famous does

The whole Bélier family is deaf, except for sixteen year old Paula who is the important translator in her parents' day to day life especially when it comes to matters concerning the family farm. When her music teacher discovers she has a fantastic singing voice and she gets an opportunity to enter a big Radio France contest the whole family's future is set up for big changes.

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Stop Making Sense
1984 · dir. Jonathan Demme
🍅 100%8.7documentary · music

Both are working the same pair: concert, rock band

The difference: Missing the stillness of Almost Famous

A concert film documenting Talking Heads at the height of their popularity, on tour for their 1983 album "Speaking in Tongues." The band takes the stage one by one and is joined by a cadre of guest musicians for a career-spanning and cinematic performance that features creative choreography and visuals.

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The Legend of 1900
1998 · dir. Giuseppe Tornatore
🍅 58%8drama · music

Contemplative where it counts, stylish underneath

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

Musician Max Tooney goes to sell his prized Conn trumpet to a music shop, where he plays the instrument one last time. The shopkeeper recognises the song as one on a record matrix he found and asks who the piece is by. Tooney tells the story of an infant found abandoned in the first class dining room of the four-stacker ocean-liner SS Virginian on 1 January 1900. Danny Boodman, a coal-man from the boiler room, names the boy Danny Boodman T. D. Lemon 1900, after himself, the fruit crate the boy was found in, and the year, and raises him as his own.

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La Vie en Rose
2007 · dir. Olivier Dahan
🍅 50%7.5music · drama

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

From the mean streets of the Belleville district of Paris to the dazzling limelight of New York's most famous concert halls, Edith Piaf's life was a constant battle to sing and survive, to live and love. Raised in her grandmother's brothel, Piaf was discovered in 1935 by nightclub owner Louis Leplee, who persuaded her to sing despite her extreme nervousness. Piaf became one of France's immortal icons, her voice one of the indelible signatures of the 20th century.

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Malena
2000 · dir. Giuseppe Tornatore
🍅 54%7.4drama

Common ground: growing up

12-year-old Renato experiences three significant events on the same day: the beginning of the Second World War, getting a bike, and witnessing the arrival of the gorgeous Malèna. Through his eyes, we see the curse of beauty and loneliness of Malena, whose husband is presumed dead, and, through his soul, we see his love for her.

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Dirty Dancing
1987 · dir. Emile Ardolino
🍅 73%7.1drama · music · romance

Wistful music, and it commits to that

The difference: Leans harder into romance than Almost Famous does

Expecting the usual tedium that accompanies a summer in the Catskills with her family, 17-year-old Frances 'Baby' Houseman is surprised to find herself stepping into the shoes of a professional hoofer—and unexpectedly falling in love.

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Distant Voices, Still Lives
1988 · dir. Terence Davies
🍅 80%7.4drama · music

Drama built on style, twice over

Siblings Maisie and Tony, along with their mother, gather for their sister Eileen's wedding. It is a joyous occasion, but through flashbacks, it becomes clear that the family was not always happy. Their father was physically abusive to his wife and left the children emotionally traumatized. As a result, the children have grown into unhappy adults, looking for love they didn't receive when they were young.

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We Are the Best!
2013 · dir. Lukas Moodysson
🍅 97%7.1drama · music

Music with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

Three girls in 1980s Stockholm decide to form a punk band—despite not having any instruments, and being told by everyone that punk is dead.

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Sound of Metal
2020 · dir. Darius Marder
🍅 97%7.7drama · music

Stylish drama in both cases

The difference: 20 years apart, and the 2020s show

Metal drummer Ruben begins to lose his hearing. When a doctor tells him his condition will worsen, he thinks his career and life is over. His girlfriend Lou checks the former addict into a rehab for the deaf hoping it will prevent a relapse and help him adapt to his new life. After being welcomed and accepted just as he is, Ruben must choose between his new normal and the life he once knew.

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Rocketman
2019 · dir. Dexter Fletcher
7.3music · drama

Both are built on the same subject: a true story

The story of Elton John's life, from his years as a prodigy at the Royal Academy of Music through his influential and enduring musical partnership with Bernie Taupin.

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Bohemian Rhapsody
2018 · dir. Bryan Singer
🍅 60%7.9music · drama

One thread runs through both: a true story

Singer Freddie Mercury, guitarist Brian May, drummer Roger Taylor and bass guitarist John Deacon take the music world by storm when they form the rock 'n' roll band Queen in 1970. Hit songs become instant classics. When Mercury's increasingly wild lifestyle starts to spiral out of control, Queen soon faces its greatest challenge yet – finding a way to keep the band together amid the success and excess.

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Leto
2018 · dir. Kirill Serebrennikov
🍅 78%7.3music · drama

Both keep coming back to the same thing: rock band

Leningrad, one summer in the early eighties. Smuggling LPs by Lou Reed and David Bowie, the underground rock scene is boiling ahead of the Perestroika. Mike and his beautiful wife Natasha meet with young Viktor Tsoi. Together with friends, they will change the destiny of rock’n’roll in the Soviet Union.

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