Movies like The Serenade (1923)
The best movies like The Serenade (1923) are Anima (2019), Dickson Experimental Sound Film (1894) and Destino (2003). If The Serenade hooked you with its music, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
The Serenade
Quick picks
- Highest ratedTaylor Swift: Reputation Stadium Tour (2018)8.2/10 from 442 votes
- NewestStart the Show (2026)Released 2026
Anima (2019)
In a short musical film directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, Thom Yorke of Radiohead stars in a mind-bending visual piece. Best played loud.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both music
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDickson Experimental Sound Film (1894)
William K.L. Dickson plays the violin while two men dance. This is the oldest surviving sound film where sound is recorded on the phonograph.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both music
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDestino (2003)
Short film to a song of love lost and rediscovered, a woman sees and undergoes surreal transformations. Her lover's face melts off, she dons a dress from the shadow of a bell and becomes a dandelion, ants crawl out of a hand and become Frenchmen riding bicycles. Not to mention the turtles with faces on their backs that collide to form a ballerina, or the bizarre baseball game.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both music
Worth the HypeMovies like thisApple Music Live: Lady Gaga MAYHEM Requiem (2026)
For Apple Music Live, Gaga presents MAYHEM Requiem, a celebration and musical reimagining of MAYHEM.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both music
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisUnder the Sea: A Descendants Story (2018)
Mal emerges from the shadows of a mystical forest onto a dark coastline where she crosses paths with Dizzy.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both music
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSing: Thriller (2024)
Buster Moon dreams up a star-studded spectacle set to Michael Jackson's "Thriller" in this animated short featuring characters from the hit "Sing" films.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both music
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDaybreak Express (1957)
Set to a classic Duke Ellington recording "Daybreak Express", this is a five-minute short of the soon-to-be-demolished Third Avenue elevated subway station in New York City.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both music
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGhosts (1997)
In the town of Normal Valley, an eccentric magician named Maestro entertains the local children every day in his spooky mansion. One stormy night, the town's mayor leads a group of angry citizens to the mansion in an attempt to run Maestro out of town.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both music
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisCosmic Ray (1962)
Experimental short uses Ray Charles' “What'd I Say” as accompaniment to constantly shifting collage of female nude, cartoons, and newsreels of atomic bomb explosions.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both music
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNirvana: Live at the Paramount (2011)
Recorded in Seattle, WA on Halloween Night, 1991, Live at the Paramount is the only known Nirvana live show recorded on 16mm film. Now released to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the release of Nirvana's watershed album.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both music
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisLorenzo (2004)
A cat named Lorenzo is dismayed to discover that his tail has developed a personality of its own.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both music
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMariah Carey's Magical Christmas Special (2020)
Faced with a holiday cheer crisis, the North Pole knows there's only one person who can save the day: Santa's great friend Mariah Carey. The Queen of Christmas creates a fabulous and star-studded spectacular to make the whole world merry!
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both music
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTaylor Swift: Reputation Stadium Tour (2018)
Taylor Swift takes the stage in Dallas for the Reputation Stadium Tour and celebrates a monumental night of music, memories and visual magic.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both music
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisTwenty One Pilots: Livestream Experience (2021)
A one-night livestream concert performed by Twenty One Pilots on May 21, 2021, introducing their newest album "Scaled and Icy".
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both music
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisThe Show Must Go On: The Queen + Adam Lambert Story (2019)
A documentary chronicling Queen and Lambert's incredible journey since they first shared the stage together on "American Idol" in 2009.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both music
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Last Repair Shop (2024)
In a warehouse in the heart of Los Angeles, a dwindling handful of devoted craftspeople maintain more than 80,000 student musical instruments, the largest remaining workshop in America of its kind. Meet four unforgettable characters whose broken-and-repaired lives have been dedicated to bringing so much more than music to the schoolchildren of this city.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both music
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Skeleton Dance (1929)
The clock strikes midnight, the bats fly from the belfry, a dog howls at the full moon, and two black cats fight in the cemetery: a perfect time for four skeletons to come out and dance a bit.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both music
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHeavy Metal Mater (2010)
Mater and Lightning McQueen are ready to rock! When Mater's garage band, Mater and the Gas Caps, records a hit song, Mater becomes a rock legend. Then Lightning joins Mater's band for the rock concert of the century!
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both music
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Pied Piper (1933)
The people of Hamelin, overrun with rats, offer a bag of gold to anyone who can get rid of the rats. A piper offers to do the job, and successfully lures the rats into a mirage of cheese, which disappears. The citizens, disappointed that all he did was play a tune, offer only pocket change. The piper, angered, plays a new tune that has all the children of the city follow him, even the new twins the stork is preparing to deliver.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both music
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFlowers and Trees (1932)
A jealous stump threatens two trees that are in love by starting a forest fire. When the rain comes and puts out the fire the forest revives and celebrates the wedding.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both music
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWaring's Pennsylvanians (1927)
Three musical numbers performed by Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians for Vitaphone.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both music
Start the Show (2026)
A horror musical short centering on a 1930s starlet as she fights for agency and survival in a cyclical Betty Boop inspired hell.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both music
High Waters (1929)
A musical sound short featuring Guy Robertson and imagery related to the Mississippi River floods.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both music
Ruby Keeler (1928)
A ten-minute musical Movietone short featuring dancer Ruby Keeler.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both music
Benny Rubin in Seven Minutes of Your Time (1928)
Sound short featuring comedian Benny Rubin.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both music
Washboard Blues (TBA)
An early sound musical short featuring blues singer Mamie Smith, produced in association with RLA Talking Picture Corporation.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both music
Xavier Cugat and His Gigolos (1928)
A Vitaphone musical performance featuring Xavier Cugat and his ensemble.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both music
SO ALIVE! (2026)
A fictional boy aims to become a non-fictional rapper. His label has other plans.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both music
Coming SoonMovies like thisHell's Angels (1930)
As the Great War breaks out in Europe, English brothers Roy and Monte enlist in the Royal Flying Corps to fight for king and country, while their Oxford College friend Karl is ordered back to Germany. As a love triangle develops involving Monte, Roy, and Roy's girlfriend, Helen, the brothers' disparate personalities, and Monte's cowardice in the face of war soon threaten to compromise a top-secret bombing mission over German territory.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPsycho Hillbilly Cabin Massacre! (2007)
When Sophie is kidnapped by the popular, rich kids at school, she begins her initiation into the Snake & Skulls secret society at her Ivy League University. A detour leads the kids to an isolated cabin full of poor, illiterate hillbillies. When Brad guns down a hillbilly in cold blood, pandemonium erupts in the cabin and Sophie realizes that she needs to join the killing spree or become a victim. When the plan goes awry and a young hillbilly fights back, Sophie seizes the chance to run for her life into the woods. When she's chased by the She-Devil group leader Gillian, the two end up in a bloody fight in a mud puddle. But even when the fight is over, there's someone else waiting to settle the score.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Serenade?
The closest matches to The Serenade are Anima (2019), Dickson Experimental Sound Film (1894) and Destino (2003). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Serenade?
Start with Anima (2019), the closest match to The Serenade.
What is the highest-rated movie like The Serenade?
Taylor Swift: Reputation Stadium Tour (2018), rated 8.2/10 by 442 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Serenade?
Start the Show (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Serenade?
Yes: Anima (2019), Dickson Experimental Sound Film (1894) and Destino (2003).
How are movies similar to The Serenade chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Serenade, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.