Movies like Whiplash
Whiplash (2014) is a music movie directed by Damien Chazelle. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. CODA (2021)
★ 7.9 · 2,749 votes · Drama, Music, Romance
As a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults), Ruby is the only hearing person in her deaf family. When the family's fishing business is threatened, Ruby finds herself torn between pursuing her love of music and her fear of abandoning her parents.
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2. Sound of Metal (2020)
★ 7.7 · 2,979 votes · Drama, Music
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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3. Class of 1984 (1982)
★ 6.4 · 424 votes · Action, Crime, Drama
Andy is a new teacher at an inner city high school that is unlike any he has seen before. There are metal detectors at the front door and the place is basically run by a tough kid named Peter Stegman. Soon, Andy and Stegman become enemies and Stegman will stop at nothing to protect his turf and drug dealing business.
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4. Black Swan (2010)
★ 7.7 · 15,971 votes · Drama, Thriller, Horror
A committed dancer struggles to maintain her sanity after winning the lead role in a production of Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake."
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5. Fame (1980)
★ 6.4 · 539 votes · Drama, Music
A chronicle of the lives of several teenagers who attend a New York high school for students gifted in the performing arts.
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6. Motherless Brooklyn (2019)
★ 6.7 · 1,667 votes · Drama, Thriller
New York City, 1957. Lionel Essrog, a private detective living with Tourette syndrome, tries to solve the murder of his mentor and best friend, armed only with vague clues and the strength of his obsessive mind.
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7. The Crush (1993)
★ 6.7 · 584 votes · Thriller, Drama
A precocious and obsessive teenager develops a crush on a naive writer with harrowing consequences.
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8. Rope (1948)
★ 7.9 · 3,112 votes · Thriller, Crime, Drama
Two young men attempt to prove they committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner party for the family of a classmate they just strangled to death.
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9. Play Misty for Me (1971)
★ 6.6 · 596 votes · Drama, Thriller
A brief fling between a late-night radio disc jockey and an obsessed female fan takes a frightening turn when another woman enters the picture.
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10. Woman of the Hour (2024)
★ 6.4 · 1,121 votes · Crime, Drama, Thriller
An aspiring actress crosses paths with a prolific serial killer in '70s LA when they're cast on an episode of "The Dating Game."
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11. Shaft (1971)
★ 6.4 · 443 votes · Crime, Thriller, Drama
Cool Black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.
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12. Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982)
★ 8.0 · 1,725 votes · Music, Drama
A troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone.
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13. Battle of the Year (2013)
★ 6.8 · 366 votes · Music, Drama
A down-on-his-luck coach is hired to prepare a team of the best American dancers for an international tournament that attracts all the best crews from around the world, but the Americans haven't won in fifteen years.
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14. Stomp the Yard (2007)
★ 7.2 · 564 votes · Drama, Music
After the death of his younger brother, a troubled 19-year-old street dancer from Los Angeles is able to bypass juvenile hall by enrolling in the historically black, Truth University in Atlanta, Georgia. But his efforts to get an education and woo the girl he likes are sidelined when he is courted by the top two campus fraternities, both of which want and need his fierce street-style dance moves to win the highly coveted national step show competition.
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