20 best movies like Beats (2019)


List of the best movies like Beats (2019): Gridlock'd, Best Laid Plans, G:MT Greenwich Mean Time, El Angel, Best Men, Aria, Flashback, Honeydripper, Wild Rose, Homer and Eddie.

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Markimdb: 6.9
Genrecomedy, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:31

After a friend overdoses, Spoon and Stretch decide to kick their drug habits and attempt to enroll in a government detox program. Their efforts are hampered by seemingly endless red tape, as they are shuffled from one office to another while being chased by drug dealers and the police.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genredrama
CountryUnited Kingdom

David Blair directs this powerful British Drama, loosely inspired by John Steinbeck's novel 'Of Mice and Men'. Set in Nottingham, the film revolves around the relationship between the thuggish Danny (Stephen Graham) and Joseph (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje), a giant of a man with a mental age of seven. When Danny finds himself in debt to a local crime boss, he feels he is left with no choice but to manipulate Joseph into participating in a series of underground cage fights from which Danny can pay his debts.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genredrama, crime, music
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:57

Six London school-leavers attempt to make it in the world, balancing the challenge of trying to make a name for themselves in the music industry against the pressures and tragedies of everyday life.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genredrama, crime, biography
CountryArgentina, Spain
Duration01:54

Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1971. Carlos Robledo Puch is a 19-year-old boy with an angelic face, but a vocational thief as well, who acts ruthlessly, without remorse. When he meets Ramón, they follow together a dark path of crime and death.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genreaction, thriller, comedy, drama, crime
CountryUSA, United Kingdom
Duration01:30

Four tuxedo clad men showing up at a penitentiary to meet a friend who has just been released after three years in prison and is going straight from the jail to marry his girlfriend. En route to the wedding, one of the men asks to stop by a bank to pick up some cash. As it turns out, he is a wanted bank robber who uses Shakespeare passages during his robberies and thus has become known as "Hamlet". Soon all five men are caught up in the bank and involved in the robbery as they end up in a hostage situation. The hostage negotiator shows up who turns out to be Hamlet's father.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrecomedy, drama, music
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:30

Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, and Nicolas Roeg. Each short uses an aria as soundtrack/sound (Vivaldi, Bach, Wagner), and is an interpretation of the particular aria.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genreaction, comedy, drama, adventure, crime
CountryUSA

A hippie radical, Huey Walker has been a fugitive for decades, accused of a crime that he may not have committed. Finally apprehended, Walker is escorted to trial by uptight 20-something FBI agent John Buckner. While the two seem to be polar opposites, it turns out that Buckner may have more in common with Walker than is initially apparent, a point that is driven home when the pair faces off against a sinister small-town sheriff.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genredrama, musical, crime, music, history
CountryUSA

In 1950s Alabama, the owner of the Honeydripper juke joint finds his business dropping off and against his better judgment, hires a young electric guitarist in a last ditch effort to draw crowds during harvest time.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrecomedy, drama, music
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Canada

A young Scottish singer, Rose-Lynn Harlan, dreams of making it as a country artist in Nashville after being released from prison.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genrecomedy, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:42

A mentally disabled man gets help from a sociopath when he tries to reunite with his dying father, who years earlier disowned him.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrecomedy, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration02:18

Collin must make it through his final three days of probation for a chance at a new beginning. He and his troublemaking childhood best friend, Miles, work as movers, and when Collin witnesses a police shooting, the two men’s friendship is tested as they grapple with identity and their changed realities in the rapidly-gentrifying neighborhood they grew up in.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrefantastic, comedy
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:23

    Three men walk into a bar; two geeks and a cynic. They are three ordinary blokes who all have dreams and hopes for an exciting and better future

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime, military, biography
    CountryUSA, Cambodia, Romania
    Duration02:11

      Based on the true story of two young men, David Packouz and Efraim Diveroli, who won a $300 million contract from the Pentagon to arm America's allies in Afghanistan.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, family, crime
      CountryUSA, France
      Duration01:44

      Sylvia's work increasingly takes her away from the three men who help bring up Mary, her daughter. When she decides to move to England and take Mary with her, the three men are heartbroken at losing the two most important females in their lives.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genreaction, comedy, drama, crime
      CountryIndia

      Babu Rao, Raju and Shyam, are living happily after having risen from rags to riches. Still, money brings the joy of riches and with it the greed to make more money - and so, with a don as an unknowing investor, Raju initiates a new game.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryGermany
      Duration01:20

      The Hamburg friends Walter, Ricco and Floyd take each day as it comes between the estates of tower blocks and fast food restaurants. All three are in their early twenties and are dreaming of another life when Floyd suddenly takes a job on a freighter going to Singapore…

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, crime, music
      CountryUSA

      As four friends prepare for life after high school, different challenges bring about turning points in each of their lives. The dramas unfold and resolve at their local rollerskating rink, Cascade.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrethriller, comedy, crime, music
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:34

      In the late 1990s, a drug-addled nihilist resorts to murder to climb the ladder of the London music industry.

      Markimdb: 5.5
      Genrecomedy, drama, adventure, western
      CountryUSA

      Mitch Robbins 40th birthday begins quite well until he returns home and finds his brother Glen, the black sheep of the family, in his sofa. Nevertheless he is about to have a wonderful birthday-night with his wife when he discovers a treasure map of Curly by chance. Together with Phil and unfortunately Glen he tries to find the hidden gold of Curly's father in the desert of Arizona.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:47

      A Yorkshire coal mine is threatened with closure and the only hope is for the men to enter their Grimley Colliery Brass Band into a national competition. They believe they have no hope until Gloria appears carrying her Flugelhorn. At first mocked for being a woman, she soon becomes the only chance for the band to win.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genrecomedy, drama, music
      CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Germany
      Duration02:09

      The Boat that Rocked is an ensemble comedy, where the romance is between the young people of the 60s, and pop music. It's about a band of DJs that captivate Britain, playing the music that defines a generation and standing up to a government that wanted control of popular culture via the British Broadcasting Corporation. Loosely based on the events in Britain in the 60's when the Labour government of Harold Wilson, wanted to bring the pirate stations under control, enough to see the passage of the Marine Broadcasting Offences Act on 15 August 1967

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genredrama, music, biography
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration02:19

      A chronicle of James Brown's rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, history
      CountryUSA, Hong Kong
      Duration02:46

      An account of Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis's actions in the events leading up to the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and the aftermath, which includes the city-wide manhunt to find the terrorists behind it.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrecomedy, drama, western, music
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:02

      Young boy leaves the Oklahoma farm to travel with his country musician uncle who is trying out for the Grand Ole Opry. Set during the Great Depression.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genredrama, crime, music, biography
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:02

      NOTORIOUS is the story of Christopher Wallace. Through raw talent and sheer determination, Wallace transforms himself from Brooklyn street hustler (once selling crack to pregnant women) to one of the greatest rappers of all time; THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G. Follow his meteoric rise to fame and his refusal to succumb to expectations - redefining our notion of "The American Dream."

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, music
      CountrySweden

      A story about a young girl who leaves her hometown to pursue her dream of becoming a famous punk artist.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrecomedy, drama, musical, music, biography, history
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration02:34

      After their production "Princess Ida" meets with less-than-stunning reviews, the relationship between Gilbert and Sullivan is strained to breaking. Their friends and associates attempt to get the two to work together again, which opens the way to "The Mikado," one of the duo's greatest successes.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genrecomedy, drama, music
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, France

      In 1987, during the austere days of Thatcher’s Britain, a teenager learns to live life, understand his family, and find his own voice through the music of Bruce Springsteen.

      Markimdb: 5.5
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, music
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:03

      Darrin Hill, a slick-talking but down-on- his-luck NYC advertising exec, returns to his hometown in Georgia to claim the inheritance his aunt left him. But before Darrin can collect the money, he must fulfill his aunt's final wish -- to create a local choir.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrecomedy, music
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Republic of Ireland
      Duration01:39

      All that exists now is clubs, drugs, pubs and parties. I've got 48 hours off from the world, man I'm gonna blow steam out of my head like a screaming kettle. I'm gonna talk cods hit to strangers all night. I'm gonna lose the plot on the dance floor, the free radicals inside me are freaking man! Tonight I'm Jip Travolta, I'm Peter Popper, I'm going to Never Never Land with my chosen family, man. We're going to get more spaced out than Neil Armstrong ever did. Anything could happen tonight, you know? This could be the best night of my life! I've got 73 quid in my back burner. I'm gonna wax the lot, man. The milky bars are on me! Yeah!

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genredrama, music, biography
      CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
      Duration01:57

        A Los Angeles journalist befriends a homeless Juilliard-trained musician, while looking for a new article for the paper.

        Markimdb: 6.3
        Genrecomedy, drama, music
        CountryUnited Kingdom

        Teenage musicians travel to England's Spike Island in the hope of attending an outdoor performance by their favorite band, the Stone Roses.

        Markimdb: 6.3
        Genredrama, music
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration01:42

        Set in 1974, an authentic and uplifting tale of two friends whose horizons are opened up by the discovery of black American soul music.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genrecomedy, drama, biography
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration01:52

        The true story of the relationship between Alan Bennett and the singular Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who ‘temporarily’ parked her van in Bennett’s London driveway and proceeded to live there for 15 years.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genrecomedy, drama, music, biography
        CountryUnited Kingdom, France
        Duration02:24

        The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress, who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice.

        Markimdb: 6.1
        Genrecomedy, crime
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom
        Duration01:23

        Within the course of a night, Woody Harrelson finds himself in a misadventure in London that winds him up in prison.

        Markimdb: 7.5
        Genrecomedy, drama, crime
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France
        Duration02:10

        Whilst on a short weekend getaway, Louise shoots a man who had tried to rape Thelma. Due to the incriminating circumstances, they make a run for it and thus a cross country chase ensues for the two fugitives. Along the way, both women rediscover the strength of their friendship and surprising aspects of their personalities and self-strengths in the trying times.

        Markimdb: 7
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, music
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration01:35

        In the seventies Strange Fruit were it. They lived the rock lifestyle to the max, groupies, drugs, internal tension and an ex front man dead from an overdose. Even their demise was glamorous; when lightning struck the stage during an outdoor festival. 20 years on and these former rock gods they have now sunk deep into obscurity when the idea of a reunion tour is lodged in the head of Tony, former keyboard player of the Fruits. Tony sets out to find his former bandmates with the help of former manager Karen to see if they can recapture the magic and give themselves a second chance.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, family, music
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration02:30

        A lady has her prim and proper life turned upside down after discovering her husband's affair.

        Markimdb: 7.9
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, music
        CountryRepublic of Ireland, United Kingdom
        Duration02:36

        A boy growing up in Dublin during the 1980s escapes his strained family life by starting a band to impress the mysterious girl he likes.

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