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Movies that feel like Leto (2018)

If you loved Leto, the closest films we have are We Are the Best! (2013), A Beautiful Life (2023) and You, the Living (2007). All three share Leto's stylish and contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Paramount Plus Premium and others, checked against today's data.

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.

🍅 78% Rotten Tomatoes7.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Kirill Serebrennikovstylishcontemplativeromantic

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

Stylish where it counts, contemplative underneath

The difference: None of the romance Leto is built on

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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A Beautiful Life
2023 · dir. Mehdi Avaz
🍅 33%6.4drama · music · romance

Romantic music, and it commits to that

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

When a young fisherman with a hidden talent gets discovered by a music producer, he must decide if he's ready to open himself up to stardom — and love.

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You, the Living
2007 · dir. Roy Andersson
🍅 98%7.4drama · comedy · music

Both lean on style more than on drama

The difference: Sits closer to comedy than Leto does

In the Swedish city of Lethe, people from different walks of life take part in a series of short, deadpan vignettes that rush past. Some are just seconds long, none longer than a couple of minutes. A young woman remembers a fantasy honeymoon with a rock guitarist. A man awakes from a dream about bomber planes. A businessman boasts about success while being robbed by a pickpocket, and so on. The absurdist collection is accompanied by Dixieland jazz and similar music.

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Woodstock
1970 · dir. Michael Wadleigh
🍅 100%8.1documentary · music

The same preoccupation in both: rock music

The difference: Leans harder into documentary than Leto does

An intimate look at the Woodstock Music & Art Festival held in Bethel, NY in 1969, from preparation through cleanup, with historic access to insiders, blistering concert footage, and portraits of the concertgoers; negative and positive aspects are shown, from drug use by performers to naked fans sliding in the mud, from the collapse of the fences by the unexpected hordes to the surreal arrival of National Guard helicopters with food and medical assistance for the impromptu city of 500,000.

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20 Feet from Stardom
2013 · dir. Morgan Neville
🍅 99%7.4documentary · music

Stylish music in both cases

Backup singers live in a world that lies just beyond the spotlight. Their voices bring harmony to the biggest bands in popular music, but we've had no idea who these singers are or what lives they lead, until now.

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Rocketman
2019 · dir. Dexter Fletcher
7.3music · drama

Common ground: rock music

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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Cold War
2018 · dir. Paweł Pawlikowski
🍅 92%7.5romance · music · drama

Drama built on stillness, twice over

A man and a woman meet in the ruins of post-war Poland. With vastly different backgrounds and temperaments, they are fatally mismatched and yet drawn to each other.

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

Music with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

The difference: 30 years apart, and the 1980s show

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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Beyond the Universe
2022 · dir. Diego Freitas
6.6romance · drama · music

Drama built on romance, twice over

While waiting for a kidney transplant, a young pianist finds an unexpected connection with her doctor — and the courage to fulfill her musical dreams.

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Anvil! The Story of Anvil
2008 · dir. Sacha Gervasi
🍅 98%7.9documentary · music

Both are built on the same subject: rock band

At 14, best friends Robb Reiner and Lips made a pact to rock together forever. Their band, Anvil, hailed as the "demi-gods of Canadian metal" influenced a musical generation that includes Metallica, Slayer, and Anthrax. Following a calamitous European tour, Lips and Robb, now in their fifties, set off to record their 13th album in one last attempt to fulfill their boyhood dreams.

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Tender Mercies
1983 · dir. Bruce Beresford
🍅 83%7.3drama · music · romance

Both sit in the same romantic register

Alcoholic former country singer Mac Sledge makes friends with a young widow and her son. The friendship enables him to find inspiration to resume his career.

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The Devil and Daniel Johnston
2006 · dir. Jeff Feuerzeig
🍅 88%7.9documentary · music

Both working the same music territory

This 2005 documentary film chronicles the life of Daniel Johnston, a manic-depressive genius singer/songwriter/artist, from childhood up to the present, with an emphasis on his mental illness and how it manifested itself in demonic self-obsession.

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