Movies like The Parade (2011)
The best movies like The Parade (2011) are On the Milky Road (2016), Pride (2014) and Breakfast on Pluto (2005). If The Parade hooked you with its comedy and drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedPride (2014)7.7/10 from 1,461 votes
- NewestQuo Vadis, Aida? (2021)Released 2021
On the Milky Road (2016)
Spring in wartime. Each day a milkman crosses the frontline on a donkey, dodging bullets to bring his precious wares to the soldiers. Blessed with good fortune on his mission, loved by a beautiful villager, a peaceful future seems to await him… until the arrival of a mysterious Italian woman turns his life upside down. Thus begins a story of passionate, forbidden love that will plunge them both into a series of fantastic and dangerous adventures. They have been joined by fate, and nothing and no one seems able to stop them… Two-times Palme D'Or winner Emir Kusturica directs and stars in this story of love and war, rich in emotion, comedy and adventure.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPride (2014)
In 1984, a group of LGBT activists decide to raise money to support the National Union of Mineworkers during their lengthy strike. There is only one problem: the Union seems embarrassed to receive their support.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBreakfast on Pluto (2005)
In the 1970s, a young transgender woman called “Kitten” leaves her small Irish town for London in search of love, acceptance, and her long-lost mother.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBeautiful People (1999)
In London, during October 1993, England is playing Holland in the preliminaries of the World Cup. The Bosnian War is at its height, and refugees from the ex-Yugoslavia are arriving. Football rivals, and political adversaries from the Balkans all precipitate conflict and amusing situations. Meanwhile, the lives of four English families are affected in different ways by encounter with the refugees.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
The Party (2017)
Various individuals think they’re coming together for a party in a private home, but a series of revelations results in a huge crisis that throws their belief systems – and their values – into total disarray.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBPM (Beats per Minute) (2017)
Paris, in the early 1990s: a group of young activists is desperately tied to finding the cure against an unknown lethal disease. They target the pharmaceutical labs that are retaining potential cures, and multiply direct actions, with the hope of saving their lives as well as the ones of future generations.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Infidel (2010)
Based in a London suburb Mahmud Nasir lives with his wife, Saamiya, and two children, Rashid and Nabi. His son plans to marry Uzma, the step-daughter of Egyptian-born Arshad Al-Masri, a so-called 'Hate Cleric' from Waziristan, Pakistan. Mahmud, who is not exactly a devout Muslim, he drinks alcohol, and does not pray five times, but does agree that he will appease Arshad, without whose approval the marriage cannot take place. Shortly thereafter Mahmud, while going over his recently deceased mother's documents, will find out that he was adopted, his birth parents were Jewish, and his name is actually Solly Shimshillewitz.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBeautiful Thing (1996)
During a long, hot summer on the Thamesmead Estate in Southeast London, three teenagers edge towards adulthood.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisC.R.A.Z.Y. (2005)
A young French Canadian, one of five boys in a conservative family in the 1960s and 1970s, struggles to reconcile his emerging identity with his father's values.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFuse (2003)
Two years after the Bosnian civil war, a town that is slowly rebuilding itself must whip together a democracy when it's announced the U.S. President Bill Clinton might be paying a visit.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams (2006)
A woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Balkan war.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisStrawberry and Chocolate (1993)
In 1979 Cuba, flamboyant gay artist Diego attempts to seduce straitlaced David, an idealistic young communist, and fails dismally. But David conspires to be "friends" with Diego so he can monitor the artist's subversive life for the state. As Diego and David discuss politics, individuality and personal expression in Castro's Cuba, a genuine friendship develops between the two.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFrozen Stiff (2002)
The basic plot revolves around drug dealer Limeni and two men, Lemi and Kiza, who are trying to transport their dead grandfather for burial, until their car breaks down and they end up struggling to get him home onboard a train. This is when these two plots intersect and all hell breaks loose.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisQuo Vadis, Aida? (2021)
Bosnia, July 1995. Aida is a translator for the UN in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among the thousands of citizens looking for shelter in the UN camp. As an insider to the negotiations Aida has access to crucial information that she needs to interpret. What is at the horizon for her family and people – rescue or death? Which move should she take?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Nasty Girl (1990)
When a young woman investigates her town's Nazi past, the community turns against her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPretty Village, Pretty Flame (1996)
In the opening stages of the Bosnian War, a small group of Serbian soldiers are trapped in a tunnel by a Muslim force.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisUnderground (1995)
Black marketeers Marko and Blacky manufacture and sell weapons to the Communist resistance in WWII Belgrade, living the good life along the way. Marko's surreal duplicity propels him up the ranks of the Communist Party, and he eventually abandons Blacky and steals his girlfriend. After a lengthy stay in a below-ground shelter, the couple reemerges during the Yugoslav Civil War of the 1990s as Marko sees the opportunity to exploit the situation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisStonewall (1995)
A group of gay friends try to live with dignity and self-respect while events build to the opening battle in the major gay rights movement.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Summer Storm (2004)
Tobi and Achim, the pride of the local crew club, have been the best of friends for years and are convinced that nothing will ever stand in the way of their friendship. They look forward to the upcoming summer camp and the crew competition. Then the gay team from Berlin arrives and Tobi is totally confused. The evening before the races begin, the storm that breaks out is more than meteorological.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWalk on Water (2004)
Eyal, an Israeli Mossad agent, is given the mission to track down and kill the very old Alfred Himmelman, an ex-Nazi officer, who might still be alive. Pretending to be a tourist guide, he befriends his grandson Axel, in Israel to visit his sister Pia. The two men set out on a tour of the country, during which Axel challenges Eyal's values.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKilling Bono (2011)
The true story of Neil and Ivan McCormick, two Irish brothers who attempt to become rock stars but can only look on as their high school friends U2 become the biggest band in the world.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Bubble (2006)
The movie follows a group of young friends in the city of Tel Aviv and is as much a love song to the city as it is an exploration of the claim that people in Tel Aviv are isolated from the rest of the country and the turmoil it's going through. The movie looks at young people's lives in Tel Aviv through the POVs of gays and straights, Jews and Arabs, men and women.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Witnesses (2007)
Paris, 1984. A group of friends contend with the first outbreak of the AIDS epidemic.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLife Is a Miracle (2004)
Set during the Bosnian war in the early 1990s, Luka is a mild-mannered railway clerk whose life is turned upside down, not just by the outbreak of the war, but when his wife runs off with a local musician. Then Luka's son is conscripted and eventually captured in the fighting. To recover his son, Luka is commanded to guard a pretty young Muslim nurse who will be used in a hostage swapping operation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDeath in Sarajevo (2016)
Sarajevo on 28 of June, 2014. At the Hotel Europa, the best hotel in town, the manager Omer prepares to welcome a delegation of diplomatic VIPs. On the centenary of the assassination that is considered to have led to World War I, an appeal for peace and understanding is supposed to start from here. But the hotel staff have other worries: having not been paid for months, they are planning to go on strike. Hatidza from the hotel laundry is elected strike leader even though her daughter Lamija, who works in reception, is firmly against industrial action. Meanwhile, in the sealed-off presidential suite, a guest from France rehearses a speech. Elsewhere, a television reporter conducts interviews about war and its consequences. Was Gavrilo Princip, the 1914 assassin, a criminal or a national hero? What long shadow does his deed cast into the present?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
No Man's Land (2001)
Two soldiers from opposite sides get stuck between the front lines in the same trench. The UN is asked to free them and both sides agree on a ceasefire, but will they stick to it?
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSade (2000)
A man prepares himself to be transferred to a detention center and rest home where he will relive one more time the highlights of his youth.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisHair (1979)
Upon receiving his draft notice and leaving his family ranch in Oklahoma, Claude heads to New York and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies on his way to boot camp.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like this4th Man Out (2015)
After a night of drinking, Adam Hutcherson stumbles out of the closet to his three straight buddies. A disruption to their dynamic which they now must try and overcome through alcohol, Tinder dates and forgiveness.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWittgenstein (1993)
A dramatization, in modern theatrical style, of the life and thought of the Viennese-born, Cambridge-educated philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, whose principal interest was the nature and limits of language. A series of sketches depict the unfolding of his life from boyhood, through the era of the first World War, to his eventual Cambridge professorship and association with Bertrand Russell and John Maynard Keynes. The emphasis in these sketches is on the exposition of the ideas of Wittgenstein, a homosexual, and an intuitive, moody, proud, and perfectionistic thinker generally regarded as a genius.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & comedy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Parade?
The closest matches to The Parade are On the Milky Road (2016), Pride (2014) and Breakfast on Pluto (2005). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Parade?
People who watched The Parade most often go on to On the Milky Road (2016), Pride (2014) and Breakfast on Pluto (2005).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Parade?
Pride (2014), rated 7.7/10 by 1,461 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Parade?
Quo Vadis, Aida? (2021) is the most recent release on this list.
How are movies similar to The Parade chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Parade, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.