Movies like Young Man with a Horn (1950)
The best movies like Young Man with a Horn (1950) are Loving You (1957), Paris Blues (1961) and The Glenn Miller Story (1954). If Young Man with a Horn hooked you with its drama and music, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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- Highest ratedOn the Town (1949)7.0/10 from 307 votes
- NewestNew York, New York (1977)Released 1977
Loving You (1957)
Deliveryman Deke Rivers is discovered by publicist Glenda Markle and country-western musician Tex Warner who want to promote him to fame and fortune, giving him every break he deserves. Romantic complications arise as Susan, another singer in the group, offers him devoted admiration as Glenda leads him on with promises of a golden future.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & music
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisParis Blues (1961)
During the 1960s, two American jazz musicians living in Paris meet and fall in love with two American tourist girls and must decide between music and love.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Glenn Miller Story (1954)
A vibrant tribute to one of America's legendary bandleaders, charting Glenn Miller's rise from obscurity and poverty to fame and wealth in the early 1940s.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & music
Worth the HypeMovies like thisOrchestra Wives (1942)
Connie Ward is in seventh heaven when Gene Morrison's band rolls into town. She is swept off her feet by trumpeter Bill Abbot. After marrying him, she joins the band's tour and learns about life as an orchestra wife, weathering the catty attacks of the other band wives.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & music
Love Me or Leave Me (1955)
A fictionalized account of the career of jazz singer Ruth Etting and her tempestuous marriage to gangster Marty Snyder, who helped propel her to stardom.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both music & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisYoung at Heart (1954)
The lives and romances of three sisters in a musical family; the youngest daughter's life is complicated by the subsequent arrival of a charming composer and a cynical music arranger.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Eddy Duchin Story (1956)
The life story of the famous pianist and band-leader of the 1930s and 1940s.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Stormy Weather (1943)
The relationship between an aspiring dancer and a popular songstress provides a retrospective of the great African-American entertainers of the early 1900s.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDouble Trouble (1967)
When singer Guy Lambert goes on tour in Europe, he is pursued by two beautiful women, bumbling jewel thieves, and a mysterious killer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & music
Three Little Words (1950)
Song-and-dance man Bert Kalmar can't continue his stage career after an injury, so he has to earn his money as a lyricist. By chance, he meets composer Harry Ruby and their first song is a hit. Ruby gets Kalmar to marry his former partner Jessie Brown, and Kalmar and Jessie prevent Ruby from getting married to the wrong girls. But due to the fact that Ruby has caused a backer's withdrawal for a Kalmar play, they end their professional relationship.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both music & romance
The Toast of New Orleans (1950)
Snooty opera singer meets a rough-and-tumble fisherman in the Louisiana bayous, but this fisherman can sing! Her agent lures him away to New Orleans to teach him to sing opera but comes to regret this rash decision when the singers fall in love.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & music
Tea for Two (1950)
In this reworking of "No, No, Nanette," wealthy heiress Nanette Carter bets her uncle $25,000 that she can say "no" to everything for 48 hours. If she wins, she can invest the money in a Broadway show featuring songs written by her beau, and of course, in which she will star. Trouble is, she doesn't realize her uncle's been wiped out by the Stock Market crash.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both music & romance
Rhapsody (1954)
A rich, young beauty, Louise Durant, follows the man she loves and hopes to marry to Zurich where he studies violin at the conservatory. A piano student at the conservatory falls madly in love with Louise. The violinist loves his music first and Louise second. The pianist loves Louise first and his music second. Louise must ultimately choose which man she wants.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & music
King Creole (1958)
Delinquent Danny Fisher flunks out of high school, quits his job as a nightclub busboy, and one night gets the chance to perform. Success is imminent and local crime boss Maxie Fields wants to hire him to perform at The Blue Shade. Danny declines, but Fields won't take no for an answer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & music
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Tender Trap (1955)
A young actress flirts demurely with a swinging Manhattan bachelor who thinks he has it made.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both music & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Pajama Game (1957)
An Iowa pajama factory worker falls in love with an affable superintendent who had been hired by the factory's boss to help oppose the workers' demand for a pay raise.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both music & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTrapeze (1956)
A pair of men try to perform the dangerous "triple" in their trapeze act. Problems arise when the duo is made into a trio following the addition of a sexy female performer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisI'll See You in My Dreams (1951)
Songwriter Gus Kahn fights to make his name, then has to fight again to survive the Depression.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & music
Love Me Tender (1956)
After the Civil War, Confederate soldiers Clint and Vance Reno steal a Union payroll, leading to conflict when the younger marries the woman his older brother loves.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & music
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Belle of New York (1952)
In squeaky-clean New York at the turn of the century, playboy Charlie Hill falls so much in love that he can walk on air. The object of his affections is beautiful Angela Bonfils, a mission house worker in the Bowery. He promises to reform his dissolute life, even trying to do an honest day's work.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both music & romance
High Society (1956)
With socialite Tracy Lord about to remarry, her ex-husband - with the help of a sympathetic reporter - has 48 hours to convince her that she really still loves him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both music & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Five Pennies (1959)
Dixieland cornetist Red Nichols runs into opposition to his sound, but breaks through to success. He marries a warm, patient woman and even finds time to raise a family. Then tragedy strikes when their daughter contracts polio.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & music
Porgy and Bess (1959)
In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home to a black fishing community. Crippled beggar Porgy, who travels about in a goat-drawn cart, loves the drug-addicted Bess, who lives with stevedore Crown, the local bully.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both music & drama
Lucky Me (1954)
Three struggling theatrical performers meet a famous songwriter who is trying to convince a wealthy oilman to finance a musical he is scripting, promising them stardom if it comes to fruition.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both music & romance
I Love Melvin (1953)
Melvin Hoover, a budding photographer for Look magazine, accidentally bumps into a young actress named Judy LeRoy in the park. They start to talk, and Melvin soon offers to do a photo spread of her. His boss, however, has no intention of using the photos. Melvin wants to marry Judy, but her father would rather she marry dull and dependable Harry Black. As a last resort, Melvin promises to get Judy's photo on the cover of the next issue of Look, a task easier said than done.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
Dangerous When Wet (1953)
The health conscious, dairy-farming Higgins family begin each day with an invigorating swim. One day, traveling health-tonic salesman, Windy Weebe, comes to town and suggests they could swim the English Channel. Sponsored by "Liquapep" and coached by Windy, the family arrive in Europe. There it is decided that daughter Katie is the only one strong enough to enter the contest. But while she should be focused on the difficult and risky task ahead, Katie is pursed by dashing Frenchman, André Lanet... This comedic musical is well remembered for the scene when Katie dreams she is swimming with cartoon characters Tom & Jerry!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
On the Town (1949)
Three sailors wreak havoc as they search for love during a whirlwind 24-hour leave in New York City.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisA Song Is Born (1948)
The story of seven scholars in search of an expert to teach them about swing music. They seem to have found the perfect candidate in winsome nightclub singer Honey Swanson. But Honey's gangster boyfriend doesn't want to give her up.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both music
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Moon Is Blue (1953)
Two aging playboys are both after the same attractive young woman, but she fends them off by claiming that she plans to remain a virgin until her wedding night. Both men determine to find a way around her objections.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNew York, New York (1977)
An egotistical saxophone player and a young singer meet on V-J Day and embark upon a strained and rocky romance, even as their careers begin a long uphill climb.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Young Man with a Horn?
The closest matches to Young Man with a Horn are Loving You (1957), Paris Blues (1961) and The Glenn Miller Story (1954). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Young Man with a Horn?
People who watched Young Man with a Horn most often go on to Loving You (1957), Paris Blues (1961) and The Glenn Miller Story (1954).
What is the highest-rated movie like Young Man with a Horn?
On the Town (1949), rated 7.0/10 by 307 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Young Man with a Horn?
New York, New York (1977) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Young Man with a Horn?
Yes: Loving You (1957), Paris Blues (1961) and The Glenn Miller Story (1954).
How are movies similar to Young Man with a Horn chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Young Man with a Horn, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.