Movies like Shine
Shine (1996) is a drama movie directed by Scott Hicks. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. The Piano (1993)
★ 7.4 · 1,707 votes · Drama, Romance
When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited pre-teen daughter Flora to the wilderness of 19th-century New Zealand, she finds herself locked in a battle of wills with both her controlling husband and a rugged frontiersman to whom she develops a forbidden attraction.
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2. Andhadhun (2018)
★ 7.6 · 666 votes · Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A series of mysterious events changes the life of a blind pianist who now must report a crime that was actually never witnessed by him.
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3. The Legend of 1900 (1998)
★ 8.2 · 2,510 votes · Drama, Music
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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4. Tuner (2026)
★ 7.6 · 554 votes · Crime, Drama, Thriller
A gifted piano tuner's meticulous skills for tuning pianos lead him to discover an unexpected aptitude for cracking safes, turning his life upside down.
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5. The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005)
★ 6.9 · 506 votes · Drama, Crime
A ruthless real estate agent discovers a passion for piano and auditions with help from a young virtuoso, but the pressures of his corrupt career threaten to derail his musical aspirations.
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6. Green Book (2018)
★ 8.2 · 13,368 votes · Drama, Comedy, History
Tony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South in the days when African Americans, forced to find alternate accommodations and services due to segregation laws below the Mason-Dixon Line, relied on a guide called The Negro Motorist Green Book.
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7. 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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8. The Pianist (2002)
★ 8.4 · 10,530 votes · Drama, War
The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.
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9. 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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10. Dead Poets Society (1989)
★ 8.3 · 13,055 votes · Drama
At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, courting the disdain of the stern headmaster.
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11. The Irishman (2019)
★ 7.6 · 7,782 votes · Crime, Drama, History
Pennsylvania, 1956. Frank Sheeran, a war veteran of Irish origin who works as a truck driver, accidentally meets mobster Russell Bufalino. Once Frank becomes his trusted man, Bufalino sends him to Chicago with the task of helping Jimmy Hoffa, a powerful union leader related to organized crime, with whom Frank will maintain a close friendship for nearly twenty years.
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12. Hidden Figures (2016)
★ 8.1 · 10,750 votes · Drama, History
The untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – brilliant African-American women working at NASA and serving as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history – the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit. The visionary trio crossed all gender and race lines to inspire generations to dream big.
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13. Ford v Ferrari (2019)
★ 8.0 · 9,378 votes · Drama, History, Action
American car designer Carroll Shelby and the British-born driver Ken Miles work together to battle corporate interference, the laws of physics, and their own personal demons to build a revolutionary race car for Ford Motor Company and take on the dominating race cars of Enzo Ferrari at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in France in 1966.
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14. TÁR (2022)
★ 7.1 · 1,620 votes · Music, Drama
As celebrated conductor Lydia Tár starts rehearsals for a career-defining symphony, the consequences of her past choices begin to echo in the present.
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15. Pay It Forward (2000)
★ 7.4 · 2,111 votes · Drama
Like some other kids, 12-year-old Trevor McKinney believed in the goodness of human nature. Like many other kids, he was determined to change the world for the better. Unlike most other kids, he succeeded.
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16. People Like Us (2012)
★ 6.8 · 676 votes · Drama
After flying home to L.A. for the funeral of his estranged record-producer father, a struggling man discovers that the will stipulates that he must deliver $150,000 in cash to a 30-year-old alcoholic sister he never knew existed, and her troubled 12-year-old son.
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17. Doubt (2008)
★ 7.2 · 2,000 votes · Drama
In 1964 Bronx, two Catholic school nuns question the new priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled African-American student.
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18. Maria (2024)
★ 6.5 · 499 votes · History, Drama, Music
Maria Callas, the world's greatest opera singer, lives the last days of her life in 1970s Paris, as she confronts her identity and life.
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19. Boyhood (2014)
★ 7.5 · 5,673 votes · Drama
The film tells a story of a divorced couple trying to raise their young son. The story follows the boy for twelve years, from first grade at age 6 through 12th grade at age 17-18, and examines his relationship with his parents as he grows.
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20. The Hurricane (1999)
★ 7.4 · 1,583 votes · Drama
The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.
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