Movies like Hipsters (2008)
The best movies like Hipsters (2008) are Elections Day (2007), Radio Day (2008) and The Cuckoo (2002). If Hipsters hooked you with its drama and romance, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedDancer in the Dark (2000)7.8/10 from 2,110 votes
- NewestA Journal for Jordan (2021)Released 2021
Elections Day (2007)
The employees of a radio station in Moscow are forced to organize the elections campaign for a future governor in one of Russia districts.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Worth the HypeMovies like thisRadio Day (2008)
It's the day of radio in Russia. The radio station staff decides to invite famous bands, who will perform live for the ship with animals stranded in the Sea of Japan. And something goes wrong!
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Cuckoo (2002)
September of 1944, a few days before Finland went out of the Second World War. A chained to a rock Finnish sniper-kamikadze Veikko managed to set himself free. Ivan, a captain of the Soviet Army, arrested by the Front Secret Police 'Smersh', has a narrow escape. They are soldiers of the two enemy armies. A Lapp woman Anni gives a shelter to both of them at her farm. For Anni they are not enemies, but just men.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Phantom of the Opera (2004)
The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make the woman he loves a star.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisRussian Ark (2002)
A ghost and a French marquis wander through the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, encountering scenes from many different periods of its history.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisA Man from the Boulevard des Capucines (1987)
Mr. Johnny First goes to the Wild West to present the art of the Cinematograph, and the lives of everyone in the frontier town of Santa Carolina change as a result of this.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLeto (2018)
Leningrad, one summer in the early eighties. Smuggling LPs by Lou Reed and David Bowie, the underground rock scene is boiling ahead of the Perestroika. Mike and his beautiful wife Natasha meet with young Viktor Tsoi. Together with friends, they will change the destiny of rock’n’roll in the Soviet Union.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDancer in the Dark (2000)
Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her young son, who has inherited the same genetic disorder and will suffer the same fate without an expensive operation. When life becomes increasingly difficult, Selma learns to cope through her love of musicals, dreaming up little numbers to the rhythmic beats of her surroundings.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Sun (2005)
A re-imagination of Japanese Emperor Hirohito’s final days in power as WWII draws to a close.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Barber of Siberia (1998)
Douglas is a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new, experimental steam-driven timber harvester in the wilds of Siberia. Jane is his assistant. On her travels, she meets two men who would change her life forever: a handsome young cadet Andrej Tolstoy with whom she shares a fondness for opera, and the powerful General Radlov who is entranced by her beauty and wants to marry her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMe Too (2012)
Five passengers - the Bandit, his friend Matvei, Matvei's old father, the Musician, and a young woman - race along an empty road in a big black jeep, searching for the Belfry of Happiness which, according to hearsay, lies somewhere between St. Petersburg and the town of Uglich, near a deserted nuclear power station. The Belfry takes people, but it does not take everyone. Each of the five passengers believes that he or she will be chosen.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisSunstroke (2014)
In a Crimean filtration camp, after the evacuation of the White Army, an unnamed captain is haunted by memories of a brief romance as he tries to understand how the Russian Empire fell apart and who is to blame.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Moulin Rouge! (2001)
A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Parisian nightclub, at the cusp of the 20th century. A young poet, who is plunged into the heady world of Moulin Rouge, begins a passionate affair with the club's most notorious and beautiful star.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPrisoner of the Mountains (1996)
Two Russian soldiers, one battle-seasoned and the other barely into his boots and uniform, are taken prisoner by an anxious Islamic father from a remote village hoping to trade them for his captured son.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDovlatov (2018)
Dovlatov charts six days in the life of a brilliant, ironic writer who saw far beyond the rigid limits of 70s Soviet Russia. Sergei Dovlatov fought to preserve his own talent and decency with poet and writer Joseph Brodsky, while watching his artist friends got crushed by the iron-willed state machinery.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisStation for Two (1983)
Platon is travelling by train to visit his father. He gets off to have lunch where he meets Vera, a waitress. He refuses to pay for the food after which a series of unfortunate events unfold for the pair.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Hole (1998)
In the final days of the year 1999, almost everyone in Taiwan has died from a strange plague that ravished the island. As rain pours down relentlessly, a single man is stuck with an unfinished plumbing job and a hole in his floor. This results in a very odd relationship with the woman who lives below him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Fool (2014)
The Fool is a movie about a simple plumber. An honest man, he is up against an entire system of corrupted bureaucrats. At stake are the lives of 800 inhabitants of an old dorm that is at risk of collapsing within the span of the night.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAcross the Universe (2007)
When young dockworker Jude leaves Liverpool to find his estranged father in the United States, he is swept up by the waves of change that are re-shaping the nation. Jude falls in love with Lucy, who joins the growing anti-war movement. As the body count in Vietnam rises, political tensions at home spiral out of control and the star-crossed lovers find themselves in a psychedelic world gone mad.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBurnt by the Sun (1994)
Russia, 1936: revolutionary hero Colonel Kotov is spending an idyllic summer in his dacha with his young wife and six-year-old daughter Nadia and other assorted family and friends. Things change dramatically with the unheralded arrival of Cousin Dmitri from Moscow, who charms the women and little Nadia with his games and pianistic bravura. But Kotov isn't fooled: this is the time of Stalin's repression, with telephone calls in the middle of the night spelling doom - and he knows that Dmitri isn't paying a social call...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisChapiteau Show: Love and Friendship - Part 1 (2012)
A cyberstranger, a deaf baker, hipsters and Crimea, all in the first part of Sergei Loban's dilogy. - Love. This is a performance not to be missed! A love story between a fragile girl who daydreamed of becoming a princess and Cyberstranger, a mysterious young man hiding behind a nickname. A sea of tears and an abyss of despair! Can Cinderella and the Invisible Man be together? Step right up, step right up! - Friendship. Light the lights! There is a show in town today! Here is a story of a deaf young man with a flaming heart and a boy with an ice shard in his eye. Witness insidious betrayal and unbending courage! Danko and Kai – fire and ice collide! Will the universe survive the battle of the elements? A spectacle you have never seen before and will never see again!
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Return (2003)
Two young brothers in contemporary Russia are reunited with a father they know only from an old photograph after his sudden return from a long absence. With their mother’s reluctant consent, they set out on a remote trip that quickly becomes an uneasy test of authority, trust, and masculinity. As the journey moves deeper into the wilderness, the fragile bonds between father and sons are pushed to their limits.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisChekist (1992)
Srubov is a part of CHEKA, the secret police Lenin established after the Bolshevik Revolution. They arrest, interview for a minute, try in ten seconds, and execute intellectuals, aristocrats, Jews, clergy, and their families. In the building basement, five people at a time are shot as they stand naked facing wooden doors. No one to remember their last words; no martyrs, just anonymous bodies. Daily, the kangaroo court, the executions, the loading of bodies onto wagons. Srubov is cold, distant, sexually dysfunctional, and a deep thinker, hated by former friends and his family. As he tries to reason the nature of revolution and the purpose of CHEKA, he slowly goes mad.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Taxi Blues (1990)
Ivan is old Russia: thick, dour, hard-working, often brutish; he misses Communism. He drives a taxi and one night meets Alexi, a new Russian, a musician, an alcoholic, irresponsible. Alexi stiffs Ivan for the fare, so Ivan tracks him down and a love-hate relationship ensues. When Alexi lets the bath water run over in Ivan's flat and Ivan must pay 500 rubles for repairs, he tries to force Alexi into day labor to repay him. It's hopeless. Then, suddenly, Alexi is discovered, goes on a jazz tour of America, becomes a celebrity, and returns in triumph. Ivan longs to renew the friendship, and it looks as if he may get what he wants.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMessenger Boy (1986)
Ivan Miroshnikov, a cheeky young man in the Gorbachev era, is trying to figure out what to do with his life (he's not in college, and the 2-year mandatory military service is looming large ahead of him). Meanwhile, he lives with his divorced mother, and works as a courier at a Russian newspaper. Through his job, he meets patronizing Professor Kuznetzov and his rebellious daughter Katya. To annoy the professor, Ivan claims to have an affair with Katya. To his surprise, Katya backs his story up.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBroadway Melody of 1940 (1940)
Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brett as the new partner for Clare Bennett, but Brett, who thinks he is one of the people they lent money to, gives him the name of his partner.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Journal for Jordan (2021)
Based on the true story of First Sergeant Charles Monroe King, a soldier deployed to Iraq begins to keep a journal of love and advice for his infant son. Back at home, senior New York Times editor Dana Canedy revisits the story of her unlikely, life-altering relationship with King and his enduring devotion to her and their child.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPure Country 2: The Gift (2010)
Three angels bestow the gift of song to a young girl, who must follow a series of rules in order hold on to it during her rise to fame and fortune.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFlamingo Road (1949)
A stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town society.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisRacing with the Moon (1984)
In a small coastal California town, Henry and Nicky are pals from blue collar families with only a short time before they ship off to World War II. Henry begins romancing new-to-town Caddie Winger, believing her to be wealthy. Mischievous and irresponsible, Nicky gets into trouble which forces the other two to become involved, testing their relationship, as well as the friendship between the boys.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & romance
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Hipsters?
The closest matches to Hipsters are Elections Day (2007), Radio Day (2008) and The Cuckoo (2002). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Hipsters?
People who watched Hipsters most often go on to Elections Day (2007), Radio Day (2008) and The Cuckoo (2002).
What is the highest-rated movie like Hipsters?
Dancer in the Dark (2000), rated 7.8/10 by 2,110 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Hipsters?
A Journal for Jordan (2021) is the most recent release on this list.
How are movies similar to Hipsters chosen?
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