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Movies that feel like We Are the Best! (2013)

If you loved We Are the Best!, the closest films we have are The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years (1988), Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) and 20 Feet from Stardom (2013). All three share We Are the Best!'s stylish feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

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.

🍅 97% Rotten Tomatoes7.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Lukas Moodyssoncontemplativestylish
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The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years poster
🍅 76%7.2documentary · music

Both are built on the same subject: punk rock

The difference: None of the stillness We Are the Best! is built on

An exploration of the heavy metal scene in Los Angeles, with particular emphasis on glam metal. It features concert footage and interviews of legendary heavy metal and hard rock bands and artists such as Aerosmith, Alice Cooper, Kiss, Megadeth, Motörhead, Ozzy Osbourne and W.A.S.P..

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

The same mix in both: stillness, then style

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

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

Both lean on style more than on music

The difference: Sits closer to documentary than We Are the Best! does

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

Drama built on style, twice over

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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Cazuza: Time Doesn't Stop
2004 · dir. Walter Carvalho
6.9drama · music · history

Contemplative drama in both cases

Inspired by the moving book “Só as Mães São Felizes”, by Lucinha Araújo, Cazuza's mother, the film covers a little more than 10 years of the singer’s crazy and brief life – from the beginning of his career in the Circo Voador venue, in 1981, to the huge success and the apotheosis of his shows with the Barão Vermelho band, his solo career, his relations with his parents, friends, lovers and passions, and the courage he had to face his final years, with HIV, until his death, in 1990.

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

The same preoccupation in both: sweden

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

Music with a pulse of stillness, 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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The Jazz Singer
1927 · dir. Alan Crosland
🍅 77%6.4drama · music

Both know what they want from drama

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 original film musical.

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

The same music instincts

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

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

Both are drama through and through

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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Gimme Shelter
1970 · dir. Albert Maysles
🍅 93%7.8documentary · music

The music is handled with the same confidence

A detailed chronicle of the famous 1969 tour of the United States by the British rock band The Rolling Stones, which culminated with the disastrous and tragic concert held on December 6 at the Altamont Speedway Free Festival, an event of historical significance, as it marked the end of an era: the generation of peace and love suddenly became the generation of disillusionment.

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

Drama approached the same way

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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