Movies like Once
Once (2007) is a music movie directed by John Carney. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. Begin Again (2014)
★ 7.2 · 4,088 votes · Comedy, Music, Romance
Gretta, a budding songwriter, finds herself alone after her boyfriend Dave ditches her. Her life gains purpose when Dan, a record label executive, notices her talent.
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2. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)
★ 6.6 · 796 votes · Comedy, Music
Following a childhood tragedy, Dewey Cox follows a long and winding road to music stardom. Dewey perseveres through changing musical styles, an addiction to nearly every drug known and bouts of uncontrollable rage.
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3. Sing Street (2016)
★ 7.9 · 2,527 votes · Romance, Drama, Music
A boy growing up in Dublin during the 1980s escapes his strained family life by starting a band to impress the mysterious girl he likes.
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4. Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
★ 7.5 · 791 votes · Drama, Horror, Music
Singer-songwriter Winslow Leach seeks revenge on the nefarious music producer Swan, who steals both Winslow's music and his favorite singer for the grand opening of Swan's new rock palace, the Paradise.
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5. Ray (2004)
★ 7.5 · 2,322 votes · Drama, Music
Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by a fiercely independent mom who insisted he make his own way, He found his calling and his gift behind a piano keyboard. Touring across the Southern musical circuit, the soulful singer gained a reputation and then exploded with worldwide fame when he pioneered coupling gospel and country together.
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6. The Commitments (1991)
★ 7.3 · 634 votes · Comedy, Drama, Music
Jimmy Rabbitte, just a thick-ya out of school, gets a brilliant idea: to put a soul band together in Barrytown, his slum home in north Dublin. First he needs musicians and singers: things slowly start to click when he finds three fine-voiced females virtually in his back yard, a lead singer (Deco) at a wedding, and, responding to his ad, an aging trumpet player, Joey "The Lips" Fagan.
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7. High Fidelity (2000)
★ 7.1 · 2,280 votes · Drama, Comedy, Romance
After his long-time girlfriend dumps him, a thirty-year-old record store owner seeks to understand why he is unlucky in love while recounting his "top five breakups of all time".
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8. Leap Year (2010)
★ 6.9 · 2,218 votes · Romance, Comedy
When yet another anniversary passes without a marriage proposal from her boyfriend, Anna decides to take action. Aware of a Celtic tradition that allows women to pop the question on Feb. 29, she plans to follow her lover to Dublin and ask him to marry her. Fate has other plans, however, and Anna winds up on the other side of the Emerald Isle with handsome, but surly, Declan -- an Irishman who may just lead Anna down the road to true love.
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9. Becoming Jane (2007)
★ 7.3 · 1,290 votes · Romance, Drama
Though young Jane Austen's financially strapped parents expect her to marry the nephew of wealthy Lady Gresham, Jane herself knows that such a union will destroy her creativity and sense of self-worth. Instead, she becomes involved with Tom Lefroy, a charming but penniless apprentice lawyer who gives her the knowledge of the heart she needs for her future career as a novelist.
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10. Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
★ 7.2 · 3,024 votes · Drama, Music
In Greenwich Village in the early 1960s, gifted but volatile folk musician Llewyn Davis struggles with money, relationships, and his uncertain future.
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11. Before Sunset (2004)
★ 7.8 · 3,955 votes · Drama, Romance
Nine years later, Jesse travels across Europe giving readings from a book he wrote about the night he spent in Vienna with Celine. After his reading in Paris, Celine finds him, and they spend part of the day together before Jesse has to again leave for a flight. They are both in relationships now, and Jesse has a son, but as their strong feelings for each other start to return, both confess a longing for more.
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12. Purple Hearts (2022)
★ 8.0 · 2,961 votes · Romance, Drama
An aspiring musician agrees to a marriage of convenience with a soon-to-deploy Marine, but a tragedy soon turns their fake relationship all too real.
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13. Crazy Heart (2009)
★ 6.9 · 1,239 votes · Drama, Music, Romance
When reporter Jean Craddock interviews Bad Blake—an alcoholic, seen-better-days country music legend—they connect, and the hard-living crooner sees a possible saving grace in a life with Jean and her young son.
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14. Love at First Sight (2023)
★ 7.2 · 739 votes · Romance, Drama
Hadley and Oliver begin falling in love on a flight from New York to London, but when they lose each other at customs, can they defy all odds to reunite?
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15. Dirty Dancing (1987)
★ 7.3 · 6,711 votes · Drama, Music, Romance
Expecting the usual tedium that accompanies a summer in the Catskills with her family, 17-year-old Frances 'Baby' Houseman is surprised to find herself stepping into the shoes of a professional hoofer—and unexpectedly falling in love.
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