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Movies that feel like Step Up 2: The Streets (2008)

If you loved Step Up 2: The Streets, the closest films we have are Breaking the Waves (1996), Once (2007) and My Name Is Khan (2010). All three share Step Up 2: The Streets' contemplative and romantic feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.

When rebellious street dancer Andie West lands at the elite Maryland School of the Arts, she finds herself fighting to fit in while also trying to hold onto her old life. When she joins forces with the school's hottest dancer, Chase Collins, to form a crew of fellow outcasts to compete in Baltimore's underground dance battle The Streets.

🍅 29% Rotten Tomatoes6.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Jon M. Chustylishcontemplativeromantictenderhopeful

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Step Up (2006)

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Breaking the Waves
1996 · dir. Lars von Trier
🍅 84%7.8drama · romance

Both are built on the same subject: underdog

The difference: Reviewed even better

In a small, conservative Scottish village, an oilman is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who prayed for his return, feels guilty; even more, when he urges her to have sex with another.

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Once
2007 · dir. John Carney
🍅 97%7.8drama · music · romance

Stylish and contemplative in the same breath

The difference: None of the hope Step Up 2: The Streets is built on

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 singer-songwriter. The pair decide to collaborate, and the songs that they compose reflect the story of their blossoming love.

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My Name Is Khan
2010 · dir. Karan Johar
🍅 87%7.9drama · romance

Both land romance and tenderness at once

Rizwan Khan, a Muslim from the Borivali section of Mumbai, has Asperger's syndrome. He marries a Hindu single mother, Mandira, in San Francisco. After 9/11, Rizwan is detained by authorities at LAX who treat him as a terrorist because of his condition and his race.

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Mohabbatein
2000 · dir. Aditya Chopra
7.1drama · romance

Both lean on hope more than on drama

At a prestigious all-male university, three friends seek love outside of the school grounds; at the same time, a newly-hired music teacher seeks to befriend and loosen up the militantly strict headmaster.

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

Music built on style, twice over

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

Contemplative romance, and it commits to that

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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We Are Your Friends
2015 · dir. Max Joseph
🍅 40%6.2drama · music · romance

Music with a pulse of romance, in both cases

The difference: Sits closer to comedy than Step Up 2: The Streets does

Young Cole Carter dreams of hitting the big time as a Hollywood disc jockey, spending his days and nights hanging with buddies and working on the one track that will set the world on fire. Opportunity comes knocking when he meets James Reed, a charismatic DJ who takes the 23-year-old under his wing. Soon, his seemingly clear path to success gets complicated when he starts falling for his mentor's girlfriend, jeopardizing his new friendship and the future he seems destined to fulfill.

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Moulin Rouge!
2001 · dir. Baz Luhrmann
🍅 75%7.6drama · romance · music

Tender drama in both cases

A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Parisian nightclub, at the cusp of the 20th century. A young poet, who is plunged into the heady world of Moulin Rouge, begins a passionate affair with the club's most notorious and beautiful star.

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

Stylish romance, and it commits to that

The difference: Made in the 1980s, in a different era of the craft

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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A Short Film About Love
1988 · dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski
🍅 95%8.1drama · romance

From the 1980s, and it lands the same way

19-year-old Tomek whiles away his lonely life by spying on his opposite neighbour Magda through binoculars. She's an artist in her mid-thirties, and appears to have everything - not least a constant stream of men at her beck and call. But when the two finally meet, they discover that they have a lot more in common than appeared at first sight...

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

Music with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

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

Romance with a pulse of romance, in both cases

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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