Movies like Oliver Jones : l'homme piano (2017)
The best movies like Oliver Jones : l'homme piano (2017) are Soul (2020), 'Round Midnight (1986) and The Glenn Miller Story (1954). If Oliver Jones : l'homme piano hooked you, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Oliver Jones : l'homme piano
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- Highest ratedSoul (2020)8.1/10 from 11,907 votes
- NewestThe Ballad of Wallis Island (2025)Released 2025
Soul (2020)
Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful audition at the Half Note Club, he suddenly gets into an accident that separates his soul from his body and is transported to the You Seminar, a center in which souls develop and gain passions before being transported to a newborn child. Joe must enlist help from the other souls-in-training, like 22, a soul who has spent eons in the You Seminar, in order to get back to Earth.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Absolute CinemaMovies like this'Round Midnight (1986)
Inside the Blue Note nightclub one night in 1959 Paris, an aged, ailing jazzman coaxes an eloquent wail from his tenor sax. Outside, a young Parisian too broke to buy a glass of wine strains to hear those notes. Soon they will form a friendship that sparks a final burst of genius.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies 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: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisShadows (1960)
The relationship between Lelia, a light-skinned black woman, and Tony, a white man is put in jeopardy when Tony meets Lelia’s darker-skinned jazz singer brother, Hugh, and discovers that her racial heritage is not what he thought it was.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Untold History Of The United States (2012)
Oliver Stone charts the history of the United States from the Second World War to the present.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisThe Ballad of Wallis Island (2025)
An eccentric lottery winner who lives alone on a remote island tries to make his fantasies come true by getting his favourite musicians to perform at his home.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLove Affair (1939)
A French playboy and an American former nightclub singer fall in love aboard a ship. They arrange to reunite six months later, if neither has changed their mind.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisRiver of No Return (1954)
An itinerant farmer and his young son help a heart-of-gold saloon singer search for her estranged husband.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHumoresque (1947)
A classical musician from a working class background is sidetracked by his love for a wealthy, neurotic socialite.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisYoung Man with a Horn (1950)
Taken in by the musical world as a young orphan, Rick Martin grows up with a desire to play pure jazz instead of the commercial gigs he lands, whilst also coping with the problems caused by his tempestuous marriage to an aloof heiress.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Station Agent (2003)
When his only friend dies, a man born with dwarfism moves to rural New Jersey to live a life of solitude, only to meet a chatty hot dog vendor and a woman dealing with her own personal loss.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies 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
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMaster of the World (1961)
A mad genius tries to bomb the world into peace.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAn American in Paris (1951)
Jerry Mulligan is an exuberant American expatriate in Paris trying to make a reputation as a painter. His friend Adam is a struggling concert pianist who's a long time associate of a famous French singer, Henri Baurel. A lonely society woman, Milo Roberts, takes Jerry under her wing and supports him, but is interested in more than his art.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLemonade Mouth (2011)
When five ragtag freshman first meet in detention, it seems they have nothing in common. But, through music, they form an unbreakable bond and discover they have the makings of the greatest high school garage band in history! In the face of incredible odds, Olivia, Stella, Wen, Mohini and Charlie find they can make a real difference when they learn to lean on each other and let go of everything holding back their dreams.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisStep Up (2006)
Delinquent Tyler Gage receives the opportunity of a lifetime after vandalizing a performing arts school, gaining him the chance to earn a scholarship and dance with up-and-coming dancer Nora.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Fountainhead (1949)
An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOne Crazy Summer (1986)
An aspiring teenage cartoonist and his friends come to the aid of a singer trying to save her family property from developers.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMiles Davis: Birth of the Cool (2019)
An immersive look at the eventful life and brilliant artistic career of visionary American jazz trumpeter Miles Davis (1926-1991).
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Oliver Jones : l'homme piano?
The closest matches to Oliver Jones : l'homme piano are Soul (2020), 'Round Midnight (1986) and The Glenn Miller Story (1954). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Oliver Jones : l'homme piano?
Start with Soul (2020), the closest match to Oliver Jones : l'homme piano.
What is the highest-rated movie like Oliver Jones : l'homme piano?
Soul (2020), rated 8.1/10 by 11,907 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Oliver Jones : l'homme piano?
The Ballad of Wallis Island (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Oliver Jones : l'homme piano?
Yes: Soul (2020), 'Round Midnight (1986) and The Glenn Miller Story (1954).
How are movies similar to Oliver Jones : l'homme piano chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Oliver Jones : l'homme piano, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.