Movies like Cabaret
Cabaret (1972) is a music movie directed by Bob Fosse. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
★ 7.6 · 14,133 votes · Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Born under unusual circumstances, Benjamin Button springs into being as an elderly man in a New Orleans nursing home and ages in reverse. Twelve years after his birth, he meets Daisy, a child who flits in and out of his life as she grows up to be a dancer. Though he has all sorts of unusual adventures over the course of his life, it is his relationship with Daisy, and the hope that they will come together at the right time, that drives Benjamin forward.
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2. The Sound of Music (1965)
★ 7.7 · 3,769 votes · Drama, Family, Music
In the years before World War II, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven children and brings a new love of life and music into the home.
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3. Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
★ 7.9 · 18,131 votes · Music, Drama
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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4. Call Me by Your Name (2017)
★ 8.1 · 12,993 votes · Romance, Drama
In the summer of 1983, a 17-year-old Elio spends his days in his family's villa in Italy. One day Oliver, a graduate student, arrives to assist Elio's father, a professor of Greco-Roman culture. Soon, Elio and Oliver discover a summer that will alter their lives forever.
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5. Grease (1978)
★ 7.4 · 7,860 votes · Romance, Comedy
Australian good girl Sandy and greaser Danny fell in love over the summer. But when they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance despite their eccentric friends?
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6. Brokeback Mountain (2005)
★ 7.8 · 7,769 votes · Drama, Romance
In 1960s Wyoming, two men develop a strong emotional and sexual relationship that endures as a lifelong connection complicating their lives as they get married and start families of their own.
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7. Love, Simon (2018)
★ 8.0 · 6,357 votes · Comedy, Drama, Romance
Everyone deserves a great love story, but for 17-year-old Simon Spier, it's a little more complicated. He hasn't told his family or friends that he's gay, and he doesn't know the identity of the anonymous classmate that he's fallen for online.
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8. Rocketman (2019)
★ 7.3 · 5,107 votes · Music, Drama
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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9. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020)
★ 6.6 · 1,297 votes · Drama, Music
Tensions rise when the trailblazing Mother of the Blues and her band gather at a Chicago recording studio in 1927. Adapted from August Wilson's play.
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10. Lady Chatterley's Lover (2022)
★ 6.7 · 548 votes · Drama, Romance
After a crippling injury leaves her husband impotent, Lady Chatterly is torn between her love for her husband and her physical desires. With her husband's consent, she seeks out other means of fulfilling her needs.
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11. Total Eclipse (1995)
★ 6.4 · 570 votes · Drama, Romance
Young, wild poet Arthur Rimbaud and his mentor Paul Verlaine engage in a fierce, forbidden romance while feeling the effects of a hellish artistic lifestyle.
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12. Behind the Candelabra (2013)
★ 6.6 · 856 votes · Drama, Romance
Based on the autobiographical novel, the tempestuous 6-year relationship between Liberace and his (much younger) lover, Scott Thorson, is recounted.
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13. My Policeman (2022)
★ 7.5 · 795 votes · Drama, Romance
In the late 1990s, the arrival of elderly invalid Patrick into Marion and Tom’s home triggers the exploration of seismic events from 40 years previous: the passionate relationship between Tom and Patrick at a time when homosexuality was illegal.
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14. Maurice (1987)
★ 7.6 · 637 votes · Drama, Romance
After his lover rejects him, Maurice attempts to come to terms with his sexuality within the restrictiveness of Edwardian society.
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