Movies like The Festival (2018)
The best movies like The Festival (2018) are The After Party (2018), You Instead (2011) and The Relationtrip (2017). If The Festival hooked you with its comedy and music, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest rated24 Hour Party People (2002)7.0/10 from 550 votes
- NewestStanding on the Shoulders of Kitties (2024)Released 2024
The After Party (2018)
When an aspiring rapper goes viral for the wrong reasons, he thinks his career is sunk. But a wild party gives him one more chance to make it right.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & music
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisYou Instead (2011)
Two feuding rock stars get handcuffed together for 24 hours at a music festival where they are both due to perform.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both music & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Relationtrip (2017)
After bonding over their mutual disinterest in relationships, self-proclaimed loners, Beck and Liam, decide to go away together on a ‘friend’ trip where things get weird. Really, really weird.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Spike Island (2012)
Teenage musicians travel to England's Spike Island in the hope of attending an outdoor performance by their favorite band, the Stone Roses.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & music
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSummer Night (2019)
In a small town, a young, tight-knit group of friends fall in and out of love over the course of one intoxicating, music-filled summer night.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & music
Beats (2019)
Summer 1994, Scotland. Johnno and Spanner are best mates, but Johnno’s family are moving him to a new town and a better life, leaving Spanner behind to face a precarious future. In pursuit of adventure and escape they head out on one last night to an illegal rave before parting ways indefinitely.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & music
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRap World (2024)
In 2009, four friends living in Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania, document their attempt to record a rap album over the course of one eventful night.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & music
Fisherman's Friends: One and All (2022)
Following the unexpected success of the band’s debut album “No Hopers, Jokers and Rogues”, we re-join them almost a year later, struggling with the pressures, pitfalls and temptations of their newfound fame, second album syndrome, and performing on the pyramid stage at Glastonbury.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & music
It's All Gone Pete Tong (2004)
A comedy following the tragic life of the legendary Frankie Wilde. The story takes us through Frankie's life from being one of the best DJs alive, through a subsequent battle with a hearing disorder, culminating in his mysterious disappearance from the scene.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & music
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisStanding on the Shoulders of Kitties (2024)
Bubbles and his band, The Shitrockers, embark on a European rock tour and earn a spot opening for Billy Bob Thornton and the Boxmasters. However, after traveling from Nova Scotia to Prague, they're kicked off the tour and must resort to busking to survive and find a way back home. Ricky and Julian must figure out how to make their dreams come true again — if that’s still possible.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & music
David Brent: Life on the Road (2016)
A camera crew catches up with David Brent, the former star of the fictional British series, "The Office" as he now fancies himself a rockstar on the road.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & music
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGlobal Heresy (2002)
A rock band bursts onto the scene and then their frontman disappears on the eve of a European tour.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
The Party's Just Beginning (2018)
In a bleak Inverness midwinter, Luisaidh is careening off the rails after the suicide of her best friend. She medicates her misery with joyless sex, chips and a belief in the power of positive drinking. Surrounded by bittersweet memories, she struggles to find someone to talk to or some reason to make life worthwhile at the most stressful time of the year.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisUnlovable (2018)
A sex and love addicted woman learns what real intimacy is when she starts making music with a reclusive man.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & music
24 Hour Party People (2002)
Manchester, 1976. Tony Wilson is an ambitious but frustrated local TV news reporter looking for a way to make his mark. After witnessing a life-changing concert by a band known as the Sex Pistols, he persuades his station to televise one of their performances, and soon Manchester's punk groups are clamoring for him to manage them. Riding the wave of a musical revolution, Wilson and his friends create the legendary Factory Records label and The Hacienda club.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & music
Worth the HypeMovies like thisKevin & Perry Go Large (2000)
When stubborn, spotty Kevin and his equally hopeless best friend Perry go on holiday to the party island Ibiza, they see it as their big chance to become superstar club DJs and, more importantly, to lose their virginities. But they aren't prepared for the interference of top DJ Eyeball Paul, not to mention the embarrassment factor of Kevin's long-suffering parents.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both music & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisGroove (2000)
An inside look into one night in the San Francisco underground rave scene.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both music
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCupcakes (2013)
A group of friends in a Tel Aviv suburb get together to watch Universong, a Eurovision-like television song contest. They gather to watch and are depressed by the lifelessness of the Israeli entry, a parody of many recent offerings, a flashy, grating song about "amour." Realizing that Anat is distraught over the crisis in her marriage, they decide to compose a song to cheer her up. As a lark, they enters their cellphone video of it in next year's contest, and it becomes Israel's entry.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & music
Weekender (2011)
The exploits of two friends who make the move from partying at illegal warehouse raves to becoming successful promoters at the peak of the Manchester, Amsterdam, and Ibiza rave scene in the early 90s.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both music
7 Days in Hell (2015)
A fictional documentary-style expose on the rivalry between two tennis stars who battled it out in a 1999 match that lasted seven days.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisYoung People Fucking (2007)
On a Tuesday night, five couples have separate sexual adventures. Matt and Kris, friends for years, want to have an only-once, no-strings good time. Abby and Andrew, married, celebrate his birthday, but it's marred by angst and miscommunication. Mia and Eric are exes, making sure they are over each other. Jaime and Ken work together and this is a first date. Inez and Gord invite his roommate, Dave, to join them. By the time each couple has gone through a prelude, foreplay, sex, an interlude, orgasm, and afterglow, they've answered basic questions: can sex be anonymous, are we bored, is our marriage really finished, does anyone tell the truth, and how do we make someone happy?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisIdiot Prayer: Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace (2020)
Nick Cave performs solo at the piano in Idiot Prayer: Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace, a film shot at the iconic London venue in June 2020.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both music
Buffering (2011)
Seb and Aaron have overspent and built up debts on their credit card. Aaron decides to take matters into his own hands and secretly films their sex life to broadcast online. The money pours in until he gets caught! Realising that the scheme could sort their financial problems, Seb agrees to allow things to continue until they are back in the black. When their friend Jem arrives and suggests a third party might help them make even more cash, things start to get a little tricky....
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn (2018)
Lulu Danger's unsatisfying marriage takes a turn for the worse when a mysterious man from her past comes to town to perform an event called "An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn: For One Magical Night Only."
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisWhat We Started (2018)
Bert Marcus and Cyrus Saidi present an informed and absorbing exploration of the history of EDM, boosted by an energetic soundtrack and anchored by the personal stories of legendary DJ Carl Cox and superstar newcomer Martin Garrix. Insights from numerous other DJs and musical talents like Moby, David Guetta, Paul Oakenfold and Usher help tell the often oppositional tales of old school vs. new school and mainstream vs. underground.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both music
Ecstasy (2011)
A small-time drug smuggler from Scotland, is trying to figure out his way through life until he meets a beautiful girl from Canada, who seeks a change after a bad relationship she just got out of.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisBo Burnham: Words, Words, Words (2010)
Bo Burnham is back with a new one-man show full of his patented songs and wordplay, as well as haikus, dramatic readings, blasphemy, and so much more in his first hour-long special, shot live in his home town of Boston.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & music
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMichael Bolton's Big, Sexy Valentine's Day Special (2017)
After Santa tells Michael Bolton that he needs 75,000 new babies by Christmas to meet toy supply, he hosts a sexy telethon to get the world to start making love.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & music
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFubar (2002)
Terry and Dean are lifelong friends who have grown-up together: shotgunning their first beers, forming their first garage band, and growing the great Canadian mullet known as "hockey hair". Now the lives of these Alberta everymen are brought to the big screen by documentarian Ferral Mitchener in an exploration of the depths of friendship, the fragility of life, growing up gracefully and the art and science of drinking beer like a man.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & music
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKing of Jazz (1930)
A large-scale revue musical built around Paul Whiteman and his orchestra, presenting a series of musical performances, sketches, and staged tableaux in early two-color Technicolor, emblematic of Hollywood’s early sound-era “all-star” musical productions.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both music
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Festival?
The closest matches to The Festival are The After Party (2018), You Instead (2011) and The Relationtrip (2017). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Festival?
People who watched The Festival most often go on to The After Party (2018), You Instead (2011) and The Relationtrip (2017).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Festival?
24 Hour Party People (2002), rated 7.0/10 by 550 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Festival?
Standing on the Shoulders of Kitties (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Festival?
Yes: The After Party (2018), You Instead (2011) and The Relationtrip (2017).
How are movies similar to The Festival chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Festival, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.