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Movies that feel like The Chorus (2004)

If you loved The Chorus, the closest films we have are You, the Living (2007), A Mighty Wind (2003) and Waiting for Guffman (1997). All three share The Chorus' witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video and Hulu and others, checked against today's data.

In 1940s France, a new teacher at a school for disruptive boys gives hope and inspiration.

🍅 68% Rotten Tomatoes7.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Christophe Barratiercontemplativewittyplayfulstylish

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: musical

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

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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A Mighty Wind
2003 · dir. Christopher Guest
🍅 87%7.2comedy · music

The same mix in both: wit, then play

The difference: Not nearly as contemplative as The Chorus

Three eclectic, never-quite-famous folk bands come together for the first time in decades following the death of their manager to put on an reunion concert in his honor, at the request of his son.

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Waiting for Guffman
1997 · dir. Christopher Guest
🍅 91%7.4comedy · music

Stylish comedy, and it commits to that

Aspiring director Corky St. Clair and the marginally talented amateur cast of his hokey small-town musical production go overboard when they learn that Broadway theater agent Mort Guffman will be in attendance.

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

Common ground: musical

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

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

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

The same preoccupation in both: 1940s

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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Animal Crackers
1930 · dir. Victor Heerman
🍅 97%7.4comedy · music

Music built on wit, twice over

The difference: Made in the 1930s, in a different era of the craft

The well-known explorer and hunter Captain Spaulding has just returned from Africa, and is being welcomed home with a lavish party at the estate of influential society matron Mrs. Rittenhouse when a valuable painting goes missing. The intrepid Captain Spaulding attempts to solve the crime with the help of his silly secretary Horatio Jamison, while sparring with the anarchic Signor Emanuel Ravelli and his nutty sidekick The Professor.

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Pitch Perfect 3
2017 · dir. Trish Sie
🍅 29%5.8music · comedy

Comedy with a pulse of play, in both cases

After the highs of winning the world championships, the Bellas find themselves split apart and discovering there aren't job prospects for making music with your mouth. But when they get the chance to reunite for an overseas USO tour, this group of awesome nerds will come together to make some music, and some questionable decisions, one last time.

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The Bélier Family
2014 · dir. Éric Lartigau
🍅 83%7.3comedy · music · drama

Contemplative drama in both cases

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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Searching for Sugar Man
2012 · dir. Malik Bendjelloul
🍅 95%8.2music · documentary

Stylish music, and it commits to that

The difference: Leans harder into documentary than The Chorus does

Two South Africans set out to discover what happened to their unlikely musical hero, the mysterious 1970s rock 'n' roller, Rodriguez.

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Pitch Perfect 2
2015 · dir. Elizabeth Banks
🍅 66%6.4comedy · music

Comedy with a pulse of wit, in both cases

The Bellas are back, and they are better than ever. After being humiliated in front of none other than the President of the United States of America, the Bellas are taken out of the Aca-Circuit. In order to clear their name, and regain their status, the Bellas take on a seemingly impossible task: winning an international competition no American team has ever won. In order to accomplish this monumental task, they need to strengthen the bonds of friendship and sisterhood and blow away the competition with their amazing aca-magic! With all new friends and old rivals tagging along for the trip, the Bellas can hopefully accomplish their dreams.

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Billy Elliot
2000 · dir. Stephen Daldry
🍅 85%7.7drama · comedy · music

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up from Bethnal Green, starting a class war with the lower classes suffering. Caught in the middle of the conflict is 11-year old Billy Elliot, who, after leaving his boxing club for the day, stumbles upon a ballet class and finds out that he's naturally talented. He practices with his teacher Mrs. Wilkinson for an upcoming audition in Newcastle-upon Tyne for the royal Ballet school in London.

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