20 best movies like Beats (2019)


List of the best movies like Beats (2019): Lethal Weapon, Spike Island, Northern Soul, The Lady in the Van, Florence Foster Jenkins, Lost in London, Thelma & Louise, Still Crazy, Finding Your Feet, Sing Street.

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Markimdb: 7.9
Genreaction, thriller, comedy, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration03:10

A slightly unhinged former Navy SEAL lands a job as a police officer in Los Angeles where he's partnered with a veteran detective trying to keep maintain a low stress level in his life.

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.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrecomedy, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:40

When unemployed dockworker Joey Coyle finds $1.2 million that fell off of an armored car, he decides to do the logical thing: take the money and run. After all, he says, finders keepers. He turns to his ex-girlfriend Monica, who works in an investment firm, for advice, before turning to the mob for help laundering the money. While Joey makes plans to leave the country, however, a detective is following his ever-warmer trail in order to recover the cash.

Markimdb: 7
Genrecomedy, drama, adventure, crime
CountryRepublic of Ireland
Duration01:29

Two teenage boys cycle 160 km on stolen bikes pursued by police to find a missing bale of cocaine worth 7 million euro. Set around the real event of Ireland's biggest cocaine seizure in 2007 of 440 million euro.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom, France
Duration01:23

Two young women reunite and rekindle their friendship after having said goodbye at their college graduation, six years earlier.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrecomedy, drama, music
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:20

1974. Amidst power cuts, strikes and boot-boy aggro on the football terraces, Joe McCain is bored of a life that's going nowhere. Enter hair-dresser Jane: blonde, beautiful, and moving to the beat of a whole new world of sound, movement and all-nighter dancing at The Wigan Casino - the home of Northern Soul. Swept along on this tide of pulsating dance and lust, Joe becomes embroiled in the darker side of soul scene that will put his friendship to the test.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, music
CountryLuxembourg, France, USA
Duration01:37

A struggling young musician and devoted fan of Ricky Nelson wants to be just like his idol and become a rock star.

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: 6.9
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:48

    Members of a Yorkshire branch of the Women's Institute cause controversy when they pose nude for a charity calendar.

    Markimdb: 4.9
    Genreaction, comedy, musical, adventure, crime, music
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:03

    Finally released from prison, Elwood Blues is once again enlisted by Sister Mary Stigmata in her latest crusade to raise funds for a children's hospital. Hitting the road to re-unite the band and win the big prize at the New Orleans Battle of the Bands, Elwood is pursued cross-country by the cops.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration02:35

    The friendship between two life-long girlfriends is put to the test when one starts a family and the other falls ill.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genrecomedy, family, crime, music
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:47

    Deloris Van Cartier is again asked to don the nun's habit to help a run-down Catholic school, presided over by Mother Superior. And if trying to reach out to a class full of uninterested students wasn't bad enough, the sisters discover that the school is due to be closed by the unscrupulous chief of a local authority.

    Markimdb: 4.7
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
    Duration01:46

    As youths in Azusa, Vinnie, Carter, and Rosie pull off a racing scam, substituting winners for plodders and winning big bucks on long odds. When an official uncovers the scam, they set him up for blackmail. Jump ahead twenty years, Carter and Rosie are married, successful racers in Kentucky about to sell their prize stallion, Simpatico. Vinnie is a drunk in Pomona. Vinnie decides to make a play for Rosie, lures Carter to California, steals his wallet and heads for Kentucky with the original blackmail material. Carter begs Vinnie's friend, a grocery clerk named Cecilia, to follow Vinnie and get the stuff back that he has in a box. Will she succeed?

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genredrama, crime, music, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Sweden, Norway, USA, Hungary
    Duration02:16

    A teenager's quest to launch Norwegian Black Metal in Oslo in the 1990s results in a very violent outcome.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genreaction, comedy, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:41

    Sam & Fordy run a credit card fraud scheme, but when they steal from the wrong man, they find themselves threatened by sadistic gangster. They need to raise £5m and pull off a daring diamond heist to clear their debt.

    Markimdb: 5.1
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, sport
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:30

    JC is the hero of the Cornish surfing community. Staring thirty hard in the face, he fears that the wave that has carried him through a prolonged adolescence is heading for the rocks as his girlfriend pressures him for commitment and his friends contemplate growing up.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime
    CountryFrance, Canada

    Grieving after the death of her young son Joseph, novelist Betty Fisher enters a dark depression. Hoping to bring her out of it, her mother Margot arranges to kidnap another child, Jose, to replace the son Betty lost. Although she knows it's wrong, Betty accepts Jose as her new son. Meanwhile, Jose's mother Carole is looking for her son with the help of her boyfriend Francois and some of his criminal cohorts.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrecomedy, drama, music
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:00

    Straight out of Jersey comes Patricia Dombrowski, a.k.a. Killa P, a.k.a. Patti Cake$, an aspiring rapper fighting through a world of strip malls and strip clubs on an unlikely quest for glory.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genremelodrama, drama, crime, music
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:41

    CBGB looks at New York's dynamic punk rock scene through the lens of the ground-breaking Lower East Side club started by eccentric Hilly Kristal (Alan Rickman) in 1973 which launched thousands of bands.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrecomedy, drama, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada, USA
    Duration01:37

    With their golden era long behind them, comedy duo Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy embark on a variety hall tour of Britain and Ireland. Despite the pressures of a hectic schedule, and with the support of their wives Lucille and Ida – a formidable double act in their own right – the pair's love of performing, as well as for each other, endures as they secure their place in the hearts of their adoring public

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrefantasy, comedy, drama, adventure
    CountrySpain, Belgium, France, United Kingdom, Portugal
    Duration02:16

    Toby, a cynical advertising director finds himself trapped in the outrageous delusions of an old Spanish shoe-maker who believes himself to be Don Quixote. In the course of their comic and increasingly surreal adventures, Toby is forced to confront the tragic repercussions of a film he made in his idealistic youth.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genreaction, thriller, comedy, drama, western, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:42

    Two championship rodeo partners travel to New York to find their missing friend, Nacho Salazar who went missing there.

    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: 6.3
    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: 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: 6.1
        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.




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