20 best movies like Idlewild (2006)

List of the best movies like Idlewild (2006): West Side Story, ATL, Manhattan Melodrama, Three on a Match, Stormy Monday, The Rat Pack, CBGB, The Man with the Golden Arm, Beneath the Harvest Sky, Burlesque.

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Markimdb: 7.6
Genremelodrama, drama, musical, crime
CountryUSA
Duration02:32

In the slums of the upper West Side of Manhattan, New York, a gang of Polish-American teenagers called the Jets compete with a rival gang of recently immigrated Puerto Ricans, the Sharks, to "own" the neighborhood streets. Tensions are high between the gangs but two kids, one from each rival gang, fall in love leading to tragedy.

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: 7.2
Genremelodrama, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:30

The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genremelodrama, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:03

Mary, Vivian and Ruth are former schoolmates who do some catching up after a chance meeting. Of the three women, Vivian, who married successful lawyer Robert, seems to have the most glamorous life. Vivian really isn't satisfied though, and soon deserts Robert and her son for Mike, a mobster. Before long, Vivian is hooked on drugs, and Mike needs cash.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genremelodrama, drama, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration01:33

When a corrupt American businessman tries to strong arm his way into businesses in Newcastle, England, he is thwarted by a club attendant and his waitress girlfriend.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genredrama, musical
CountryUSA

After a brief flash-forward to Frank Sinatra as an old man, saying "I miss my guys," the movie's main narrative begins during high points in the solo careers of the Rat Pack: Dean Martin has become a big success despite the breakup of his partnership with Jerry Lewis; Sinatra's career is at its peak; Sammy Davis, Jr., is making a comeback after a near fatal car crash, and standup comic Joey Bishop is gaining exposure as an opening act for the other three. The Pack becomes complete when Sinatra reconciles with actor Peter Lawford, who has been ostracized since being seen out publicly with Sinatra's ex-wife, Ava Gardner.

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: 7.3
Genremelodrama, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:59

A junkie must face his true self to kick his drug addiction.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genremelodrama, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:56

A teen drama set during the fall potato harvest in a small northern Maine town.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genremelodrama, drama, musical, music
CountryUSA
Duration01:59

The Burlesque Lounge has its best days behind it. Tess, a retired dancer and owner of the venue, struggles to keep the aging theater alive, facing all kinds of financial and artistic challenges. With the Lounge's troupe members becoming increasingly distracted by personal problems and a threat coming from a wealthy businessman's quest to buy the spot from Tess, the good fortune seems to have abandoned the club altogether. Meanwhile, the life of Ali, a small-town girl from Iowa, is about to change dramatically. Hired by Tess as a waitress at the Lounge, Ali escapes a hollow past and quickly falls in love with the art of burlesque. Backed by newfound friends amongst the theater's crew, she manages to fulfill her dreams of being on stage herself. Things take a dramatic turn though when Ali's big voice makes her become the main attraction of the revue

Markimdb: 6.5
Genremelodrama, drama, musical, crime, music
CountryUSA
Duration01:36

After serving time for manslaughter, young Vince Everett becomes a teenage rock star.

Markimdb: 6
Genremelodrama, drama, crime, music
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration01:35

    All-stars from the previous Step Up installments come together in glittering Las Vegas, battling for a victory that could define their dreams and their careers.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genremelodrama, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:01

    Set in the Bronx during the tumultuous 1960s, an adolescent boy is torn between his honest, working-class father and a violent yet charismatic crime boss. Complicating matters is the youngster's growing attraction - forbidden in his neighborhood - for a beautiful black girl.

    Markimdb: 2.9
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, crime, music
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:35

    A successful DJ named Darrel (Usher), managed to rescue a powerful mobster one night. In order to repay Darrell, the mobster, Frank Pacelli, gives him the task of protecting his daughter, Dolly (Chriqui)

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:31

    Three teenage friends get in way over their head when they cross a down-home crime syndicate. They hope to make a break for it and escape their dead-end existence in a cotton-mill town but get sucked into the seedy underbelly of organized crime when one of them steals from the wrong man.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:56

    'Sugar' Ray is the owner of an illegal casino and must contend with the pressure of vicious gangsters and corrupt police who want to see him go out of business. In the world of organised crime and police corruption in the 1920s, any dastardly trick is fair.

    Markimdb: 4.1
    Genremelodrama, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:58

    Miles Montego has it all - cars, boats, good looks, mansion, money, women, but more importantly, he has a past.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical, music
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:40

    Lovely Linda Mason has crooner Jim Hardy head over heels, but suave stepper Ted Hanover wants her for his new dance partner after femme fatale Lila Dixon gives him the brush. Jim's supper club—Holiday Inn—is the setting for the chase by Hanover and manager Danny Reed. The music's the thing.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genredrama, music, biography, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:35

      In 1987, five young men, using brutally honest rhymes and hardcore beats, put their frustration and anger about life in the most dangerous place in America into the most powerful weapon they had: their music. Taking us back to where it all began, Straight Outta Compton tells the true story of how these cultural rebels—armed only with their lyrics, swagger, bravado and raw talent—stood up to the authorities that meant to keep them down and formed the world’s most dangerous group, N.W.A. And as they spoke the truth that no one had before and exposed life in the hood, their voice ignited a social revolution that is still reverberating today.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genremelodrama, drama, crime, biography
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:06

      When Colin Warner was wrongfully convicted of murder, his best friend Carl King devoted his life to proving his innocence.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genredrama, crime, music
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:07

      Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of entertainers and gangsters collide.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
      CountryUSA

      In the Philadelphia police department, Emmett Young is a hotshot, a workaholic newly promoted to homicide. He learns he has a disease that will soon kill him painfully, so he hires a stranger to arrange his own death. With one eye on the calendar (he's allowed a few days' grace before his murder), he pursues a final case, the serial killing of young women. Emmett develops a profile of the assailant. Meanwhile, his fixer hires an ex-cop to kill Emmett, a lonely security guard whom the fixer taunts and belittles. In this limited time, can Emmett sort out what's important? Written by

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:22

      A Los Angeles detective and his Japanese partner woo an artist while solving a stripper's murder.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genremelodrama, drama, musical, music, biography
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:55

      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.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, crime, history
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:30

      House Un-American Activities Committee investigators Jim McLain and Mal Baxter come to post war Hawaii to track Communist Party activities even though belonging to the party was legal at the time. They are interested in everything from insurance fraud to the sabotage of a U.S. naval vessel.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genreaction, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:33

        Brooklyn mobster and prolific hit man Jimmy Conlon has seen better days. Longtime best friend of a mob boss, Jimmy is haunted by the sins of his past—as well as a dogged police detective who’s been one step behind Jimmy for 30 years. But when Jimmy’s estranged son becomes a target, Jimmy must make a choice between the crime family he chose and the real family he abandoned long ago. Now, with nowhere safe to turn, Jimmy has just one night to figure out exactly where his loyalties lie and to see if he can finally make things right.

        Markimdb: 7.7
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:33

        A murderous thug shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genremelodrama, drama, music
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:10

        Opens with Bleek as a child learning to play the trumpet, his friends want him to come out and play but mother insists he finish his lessons. Bleek grows into adulthood and forms his own band - The Bleek Gilliam Quartet. The story of Bleek's and Shadow's friendly rivalry on stage which spills into their professional relationship and threatens to tear apart the quartet.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:26

        The story of Jody, a misguided, 20-year-old African-American who is really just a baby boy finally forced-kicking and screaming to face the commitments of real life. Streetwise and jobless, he has not only fathered two children by two different women-Yvette and Peanut but still lives with his own mother. He can't seem to strike a balance or find direction in his chaotic life.

        Markimdb: 4.6
        Genremelodrama, drama
        CountryFrance, USA

        Maurice, a reticent young homeless man, somehow manages to get by in Brooklyn; he spends his nights in parked cars until he finds himself at Bizarre, an underground club renowned for its burlesque shows. Maurice is fascinated by the club’s playful revues celebrating self-determined sexuality and creative otherness, and the two female club owners both adore him. He soon becomes a part of their self-selected family, and begins to bond with introverted Luka. But Maurice turns his back on Luka’s growing affection. Running away from his true emotions he drifts aimlessly through the city. He tries to find his feet at a boxing club, where he meets Charlie. Unable to withstand the pressure of his repressed feelings, Maurice unleashes a mounting foment of emotions, pervaded by tenderness and menace.

        Markimdb: 5.6
        Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:29

        After a painful breakup, Leah seems to meet the perfect guy. But she soon discovers his violent side that disrupts her life.

        Markimdb: 5.9
        Genredrama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:44

        The story of a group of friends in turn of the century New York, from their early days as street hoods to their rise in the world of organized crime...

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genremelodrama, drama, crime, film noir
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:39

        Ex con turned private investigator Bradford Galt suspects someone is following him and maybe even trying to kill him. With the assistance of his spunky secretary, Kathleen Stewart, he dives deep into a mystery in search of answers.

        Markimdb: 7.6
        Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, musical, crime
        CountryIndia

        A young man with a vendetta against a business tycoon seduces and kills his eldest daughter and then proceeds to his younger daughter but she begins to suspect her new lover's ulterior motive.

        Markimdb: 6.9
        Genremelodrama, drama, musical, music
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:46

        Classical violinist, Roger Grant disappoints his family and teacher when he organizes a jazz band, but he and the band become successful. Roger falls in love with the band's singer, Stella, but his reluctance to lose her leads him to thwart her efforts to become a solo star. When the World War separates them in 1917, Stella marries Roger's best friend and, when Roger returns home after the war, an important concert at Carnegie Hall brings the corners of the romantic triangle together.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genredrama, adventure, western, crime, biography
        CountryUSA
        Duration03:32

        Covering the life and times of one of the West's most iconic heroes Wyatt Earp weaves an intricate tale of Earp and his friends and family. With a star studded cast, sweeping cinematography and authentic costumes Wyatt Earp led the way during the Western revival in the 90's.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:19

        Adventures of a cocky con man and his beautiful accomplice.

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genremelodrama, drama, crime
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration01:44

        George is a small-time crook just out of prison who discovers his tough-guy image is out of date. Reduced to working as a minder/driver for high class call girl Simone, he has to agree when she asks him to find a young colleague from her King's Cross days. That's when George's troubles just start.

        Markimdb: 6.9
        Genremelodrama, drama, crime, detective
        CountryItaly, USA
        Duration02:08

        Has-been director Harry Dawes gets a new lease on his career when independently wealthy Kirk Edwards hires him to write and direct a film. They go to Madrid to find Maria Vargas, a dancer who will star in the film.

        Markimdb: 7
        Genremelodrama, drama, crime, music, biography
        CountryBrazil, France
        Duration02:20

        A story inspired by the life of one of the most remarkable figures in Brazilian popular culture, João Francisco dos Santos (1900-1976). In turn, bandit, transvestite, street fighter, brothel cook, convict and father to seven adopted children, dos Santos – better known as Madame Satã – was also a notorious gay performer who pushed social boundaries in a volatile time.

        Markimdb: 5
        Genrecomedy, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:24

        'Foolish' Waise is a talented comedian with a hard-edge trying to make it in the comedy clubs in LA while his brother is a hard-nosed gangster trying to make it on the streets. With all the competition they face in their chosen "professions," their biggest battle is with each other over the love of a pretty girl.

        Markimdb: 7
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:41

        Three World War II buddies promise to meet at a specified place and time 10 years after the war. They keep their word only to discover how far apart they've grown. But the reunion sparks memories of youthful dreams that haven't been fulfilled -- and slowly, the three men reevaluate their lives and try to find a way to renew their friendship.

        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: 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: 7
        Genremelodrama, drama, crime
        CountryHong Kong
        Duration01:42

        Two parallel stories of Wah caught in the mist of a love affair with his beloved cousin, Ngor, and his relationship with his triad brother, Fly, who seems to never fall out of trouble.

        Markimdb: 4.7
        Genredrama, crime, biography
        CountryCanada, USA
        Duration02:12

        John Gotti rises to the top of the New York underworld to become the boss of the Gambino crime family. His life takes a tumultuous turn as he faces tragedy, multiple trials and a prison sentence.

        Markimdb: 7.6
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:50

        In the midst of trying to legitimize his business dealings in 1979 New York and Italy, aging mafia don, Michael Corleone seeks forgiveness for his sins while taking a young protege under his wing.

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:03

        Uncle John revolves around the struggle to keep a mysterious disappearance unsolved

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genreaction, melodrama, drama, western, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:13

        Four unwitting heroes cross paths on their journey to the sleepy town of Silverado. Little do they know the town where their family and friends reside has been taken over by a corrupt sheriff and a murderous posse. It's up to the sharp-shooting foursome to save the day, but first they have to break each other out of jail, and learn who their real friends are.

        Markimdb: 5.9
        Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, adventure, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:08

        She was a beautiful fugitive. Fleeing from corruption. From power. He was a professional athlete past his prime. Hired to find her, he grew to love her. Love turned to obsession. Obsession turned to murder. And now the price of freedom might be nothing less than their lives.




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