Movies like Riot Acts: Flaunting Gender Deviance in Music Performance (2010)
The best movies like Riot Acts: Flaunting Gender Deviance in Music Performance (2010) are El Chicano (2019), Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001) and Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954). If Riot Acts: Flaunting Gender Deviance in Music Performance hooked you, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedHedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)7.5/10 from 451 votes
- NewestTaylor Swift | The Eras Tour | The Final Show (2025)Released 2025
El Chicano (2019)
A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)
Raised a boy in East Berlin, Hedwig undergoes a personal transformation in order to emigrate to the U.S., where she reinvents herself as an 'internationally ignored' but divinely talented rock diva, inhabiting a 'beautiful gender of one'.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisRiot in Cell Block 11 (1954)
A prisoner leads his counterparts in a protest for better living conditions which turns violent and ugly.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBorder Hunters (2025)
After his police officer brother is killed by a drug dealer who flees to the protection of his cartel-connected uncle in Mexico, an American man with a diverse law enforcement/military background goes south of the border to get revenge
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLet's Make Love (1960)
When billionaire Jean-Marc Clement learns that he is to be satirized in an off-Broadway revue, he passes himself off as an actor playing him in order to get closer to the beautiful star of the show, Amanda Dell.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like this1992 (2024)
In 1992, Mercer is desperately trying to rebuild his life and his relationship with his son amidst the turbulent Los Angeles uprising following the Rodney King verdict. Across town, another father and son put their own strained relationship to the test as they plot a dangerous heist to steal catalytic converters, which contain valuable platinum from the factory where Mercer works. As tensions rise and chaos erupts, both families reach their boiling points when their worlds collide.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOLIVIA RODRIGO: driving home 2 u (a SOUR film) (2022)
Grammy® winner singer-songwriter Olivia Rodrigo takes a familiar road trip from Salt Lake City, where she began writing her debut album “SOUR,” to Los Angeles. Along the way, Rodrigo recounts the memories of writing and creating her record-breaking debut album and shares her feelings as a young woman navigating a specific time in her life. Through new live arrangements of her songs, intimate interviews and never-before-seen footage from the making of the album, audiences will follow Olivia along on a cinematic journey exploring the story of “SOUR.”
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBruised (2021)
Jackie Justice is a mixed martial arts fighter who leaves the sport in disgrace. Down on her luck and simmering with rage and regret years after the fight, she's coaxed into a brutal underground fight by her manager and boyfriend Desi and grabs the attention of a fight league promoter who promises Jackie a life back in the Octagon. But the road to redemption becomes unexpectedly personal when Manny - the son she gave up as an infant - shows up at her doorstep. A triumphant story of a fighter who reclaims her power, in and out of the ring, when everyone has counted her out
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTaylor Swift | The Eras Tour | The Final Show (2025)
Filmed at the end of Taylor Swift's record-breaking Eras Tour in Vancouver, B.C., this complete, in-depth 45-song concert includes the complete 'The Tortured Poets Department' set and special mashups.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisBomb City (2017)
An ongoing feud between punk rockers and a more affluent clique in a small Texas town leads to a hate crime.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCome Sunday (2018)
Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
SnoozefestMovies like thisColdplay: A Head Full of Dreams (2018)
An in-depth and intimate portrait of Coldplay's spectacular rise from the backrooms of Camden pubs to selling out stadiums across the planet. At the heart of the story is the band's unshakeable brotherhood which has endured through many highs and lows.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHellzapoppin' (1941)
Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the fourth wall every step of the way.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFast Track: No Limits (2008)
Four young thrill-seekers race cars on the streets of Germany.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
SnoozefestMovies like thisRent: Filmed Live on Broadway (2008)
Set in New York City's gritty East Village, the revolutionary rock opera RENT tells the story of a group of bohemians struggling to live and pay their rent. "Measuring their lives in love," these starving artists strive for success and acceptance while enduring the obstacles of poverty, illness and the AIDS epidemic.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisFoxy Brown (1974)
A voluptuous black woman takes a job as a high-class prostitute in order to get revenge on the mobsters who murdered her boyfriend.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBananas (1971)
When a bumbling New Yorker is dumped by his activist girlfriend, he travels to a tiny Latin American nation and becomes involved in its latest rebellion.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFifty Dead Men Walking (2008)
It's 1989, and in a Belfast torn apart by conflict and terrorism, petty criminal Marty McGartland is recruited by the British police to infiltrate the IRA. Guided by Special Forces officer 'Fergus', McGartland gains unparalleled insight into the organisation's dealings, providing his British handler with priceless, life-saving information. Based on a true story.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Wave (2019)
A man on the verge of a promotion takes a mysterious hallucinogenic drug that begins to tear down his reality and expose his life for what it really is.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSection 8 (2022)
After avenging the murder of his family, a former soldier is sprung from prison and recruited by a shadowy government agency.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
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What are the best movies like Riot Acts: Flaunting Gender Deviance in Music Performance?
The closest matches to Riot Acts: Flaunting Gender Deviance in Music Performance are El Chicano (2019), Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001) and Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Riot Acts: Flaunting Gender Deviance in Music Performance?
Start with El Chicano (2019), the closest match to Riot Acts: Flaunting Gender Deviance in Music Performance.
What is the highest-rated movie like Riot Acts: Flaunting Gender Deviance in Music Performance?
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001), rated 7.5/10 by 451 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Riot Acts: Flaunting Gender Deviance in Music Performance?
Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour | The Final Show (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Riot Acts: Flaunting Gender Deviance in Music Performance?
Yes: El Chicano (2019), Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001) and Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954).
How are movies similar to Riot Acts: Flaunting Gender Deviance in Music Performance chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Riot Acts: Flaunting Gender Deviance in Music Performance, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.