Films like Whiplash
Under the direction of a ruthless instructor, a talented young drummer begins to pursue perfection at any cost, even his humanity.
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Mo' Better Blues
Film · 1990 · also drama and musicTalented but self-centered trumpeter Bleek Gilliam is obsessed with his music and indecisiveness about his girlfriends Indigo and Clarke. But when he is forced to come to...
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Class of 1984
Film · 1982 · also drama and thrillerAndy is a new teacher at an inner city high school that is unlike any he has seen before. There are metal detectors at the front door and the place is basically run by a...
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Fame
Film · 1980 · also drama and musicA chronicle of the lives of several teenagers who attend a New York high school for students gifted in the performing arts.
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Motherless Brooklyn
Film · 2019 · also drama and thrillerNew York City, 1957. Lionel Essrog, a private detective living with Tourette syndrome, tries to solve the murder of his mentor and best friend, armed only with vague clue...
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Beats
Film · 2019 · also drama and musicAn agoraphobic hip-hop prodigy and a disgraced former music manager cross paths in Chicago’s South Side and help each other face demons of their pasts.
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The Crush
Film · 1993 · also drama and thrillerA precocious and obsessive teenager develops a crush on a naive writer with harrowing consequences.
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Rogue Agent
Film · 2022 · also drama and thrillerConman Robert Freegard poses as an undercover MI5 agent and kidnaps countless victims amidst a high-stakes manhunt, until the woman who fell for him brings him to justice...
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The Plague
Film · 2025 · also drama and thrillerA socially awkward tween endures the ruthless hierarchy at a water polo camp, his anxiety spiraling into psychological turmoil over the summer.
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Born to Be Blue
Film · 2015 · also drama and musicJazz legend Chet Baker finds love and redemption when he stars in a movie about his own troubled life to mount a comeback.
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Strung
Film · 2026 · also music and thrillerA talented violinist's prestigious new role as a music tutor for an enigmatic, elite family spirals into a psychological battle for her safety and sanity.
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