Movies like The Singers (2026)
The best movies like The Singers (2026) are Sing (2016), Whiplash (2013) and Thunder Road (2016). If The Singers hooked you with its music and drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedWhiplash (2014)8.4/10 from 17,377 votes
- NewestFeel My Voice (2026)Released 2026
Sing (2016)
Quiet 10-year-old Zsofi has just changed schools. Feeling out of place at first, she is quickly admitted to the school’s famous choir and befriends her popular classmate Liza. Soon, they have to stand up united against their choir master, who isn’t quite the friendly and inspirational teacher they first thought she was.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & music
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWhiplash (2013)
A ferocious, bullying music teacher teaches a dedicated student.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & music
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThunder Road (2016)
Jimmy Arnaud eulogizes his mother.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Court Jester (2024)
Unfolding during a 2004 episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, fitness trainer Richard Simmons makes an appearance. Amid the chaos and liveliness of the behind-the-scenes, Richard encounters David, an overlooked and underappreciated segment producer struggling with self-esteem. In a serendipitous twist, Richard sees beyond David's invisibility, offering his unique brand of honest, uplifting kindness.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Goldman v Silverman (2020)
Rod Goldman and Al Silverman are street performers who work the tourist scene of Times Square. Goldman gets no respect and Silverman is the first one to make sure of that.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSweet and Lowdown (1999)
In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love with a mute woman.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Friend of Dorothy (2025)
Dorothy is a lonely widow whose body is failing, but her mind remains as bright as ever. When 17-year-old JJ accidentally kicks his football into her garden, he upends Dorothy's daily routine of pills, prunes, and crosswords, and an unlikely friendship blossoms. Despite being worlds apart in every way, the two come to find they have more in common than they could ever imagine.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGreat World of Sound (2007)
When a man answers an ad to train as a record producer, he's excited by the prospect of signing undiscovered artists only to discover his new job isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
In Greenwich Village in the early 1960s, gifted but volatile folk musician Llewyn Davis struggles with money, relationships, and his uncertain future.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & music
Worth the HypeMovies like thisOrchestra Rehearsal (1979)
An orchestra assembles for a rehearsal in an ancient chapel under the inquisitive eyes of a TV documentary crew, but an uprising breaks out.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisI Am Easy to Find (2019)
A life in one-hundred-sixty-four moments.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both music
Worth the HypeMovies like thisVelvet Goldmine (1998)
Almost a decade since larger-than-life glam-rock enigma Brian Slade disappeared from public eye, an investigative journalist is on assignment to uncover the truth behind his former idol.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & music
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Golden Voice (2025)
A young street singer and a homeless veteran, both on a self-destructive path, battle dark times through friendship and music.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The After (2024)
After losing a family member to a violent crime, a shattered rideshare driver picks up a passenger that forces him to confront his grief.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisBlue Moon (2025)
On the evening of March 31, 1943, legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart confronts his shattered self-confidence in Sardi’s bar as his former collaborator, Richard Rodgers, celebrates the opening night of his ground-breaking hit musical, “Oklahoma!”
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisStuck (2019)
A musical about six strangers who find themselves stuck on the New York City subway.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both music & drama
Wild Rose (2019)
A young Scottish singer, Rose-Lynn Harlan, dreams of making it as a country artist in Nashville after being released from prison.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both music & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThat Thing You Do! (1996)
A Pennsylvania band scores a hit in 1964 and rides the star-making machinery as long as it can, with lots of help from its manager. But behind the scenes, the group’s sudden fame tests their strength, their maturity and responsibility, and their ability to resist the temptations that money and notoriety always make possible.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAlmost Famous (2000)
In 1973, a precocious 15-year-old aspiring rock journalist lands a dream assignment from Rolling Stone to tour with a rising rock band, embarking on a coming-of-age journey as he discovers the exhilarating and heartbreaking realities behind rock stardom.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & music
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWAR IS OVER! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko (2023)
Set in an alternate WWI reality where a senseless war rages on, two soldiers on opposite sides of the conflict play a joyful game of chess. A heroic carrier pigeon delivers the soldiers' chess moves over the battlefield as the fighting escalates. Neither soldier knows his opponent as the game and the war builds to its climatic final move. Whoever wins the game, one thing is for certain: there are no winners in war.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both music
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWhiplash (2014)
Under the direction of a ruthless instructor, a talented young drummer begins to pursue perfection at any cost, even his humanity.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & music
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisThe Debut (2026)
When Mona Friedman is cast in a bit part at a small community theater, she transforms from a shy, unassuming housewife into a zealous method actor willing to do anything to protect the artistic integrity of her marginal role—even if it means waging war against the show’s domineering director.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both music & comedy
Coming SoonMovies like thisThe Commitments (1991)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Ballad of Wallis Island (2025)
An eccentric lottery winner who lives alone on a remote island tries to make his fantasies come true by getting his favourite musicians to perform at his home.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFeel My Voice (2026)
A teenager, the only hearing member of a deaf family, finds her voice and learns to believe in herself through her passion for singing.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOnce (2007)
A vacuum repairman moonlights as a street musician and hopes for his big break. One day a Czech immigrant, who earns a living selling flowers, approaches him with the news that she is also an aspiring singer-songwriter. The pair decide to collaborate, and the songs that they compose reflect the story of their blossoming love.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & music
Worth the HypeMovies like thisA Star Is Born (2018)
Seasoned musician Jackson Maine discovers — and falls in love with — struggling artist Ally. She has just about given up on her dream to make it big as a singer — until Jack coaxes her into the spotlight. But even as Ally's career takes off, the personal side of their relationship is breaking down, as Jack fights an ongoing battle with his own internal demons.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both music & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisRay (2004)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & music
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Saddest Music in the World (2003)
In Depression-era Winnipeg, a legless beer baroness hosts a contest for the saddest music in the world, offering a grand prize of $25,000.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSchool Dance (2014)
High schooler Jason has found his dream girl—the gorgeous Anastacia. There’s just one problem: she doesn’t know he exists. If he can win a spot on the school’s hottest dance crew, Jason might have a shot. But before he does, he’ll have to overcome his battle-ax of a mother, survive Anastacia’s gangsta brother, and pass the crew’s initiation—in this fresh, sexy, and outrageously funny comedy.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & music
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Singers?
The closest matches to The Singers are Sing (2016), Whiplash (2013) and Thunder Road (2016). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Singers?
People who watched The Singers most often go on to Sing (2016), Whiplash (2013) and Thunder Road (2016).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Singers?
Whiplash (2014), rated 8.4/10 by 17,377 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Singers?
Feel My Voice (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Singers?
Yes: Whiplash (2013), Thunder Road (2016) and The Court Jester (2024).
How are movies similar to The Singers chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Singers, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.