20 best movies like The Dirt (2019)

List of the best movies like The Dirt (2019): Whitney, The Night We Called It a Day, The Sapphires, La Bamba, Cadillac Records, The Informant!, Sound of Metal, Jersey Boys, The Look of Love, Saving Mr. Banks.

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Markimdb: 7.3
Genredrama, documentary, music, biography
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration01:44

Filmmaker Kevin Macdonald examines the life and career of singer Whitney Houston. Features never-before-seen archival footage, exclusive recordings, rare performances and interviews with the people who knew her best.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrecomedy, drama, music, biography
CountryAustralia, USA
Duration01:37

Based on the true events surrounding Frank Sinatra's tour of Australia. When Sinatra calls a local reporter a "two-bit hooker", every union in the country black-bans the star until he issues an apology.

Markimdb: 7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, music, biography
CountryAustralia

It's 1968, and four young, talented Australian Aboriginal girls learn about love, friendship and war when they entertain the US troops in Vietnam as singing group The Sapphires.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genredrama, music, biography
CountryUSA
Duration01:48

Biographical story of the rise from nowhere of singer Ritchie Valens whose life was cut short by a plane crash.

Markimdb: 7
Genredrama, music, biography
CountryUSA
Duration01:49

The story of sex, violence, race and rock and roll in 1950s Chicago, and the exciting but turbulent lives of some of America's musical legends, including Muddy Waters, Leonard Chess, Little Walter, Howlin' Wolf, Etta James and Chuck Berry.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrecomedy, drama, crime, biography
CountryUSA
Duration01:48

A rising star at agri-industry giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Mark Whitacre suddenly turns whistleblower. Even as he exposes his company’s multi-national price-fixing conspiracy to the FBI, Whitacre envisions himself being hailed as a hero of the common man and handed a promotion.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genredrama, music
CountryUSA, Belgium

Metal drummer Ruben begins to lose his hearing. When a doctor tells him his condition will worsen, he thinks his career and life is over. His girlfriend Lou checks the former addict into a rehab for the deaf hoping it will prevent a relapse and help him adapt to his new life. After being welcomed and accepted just as he is, Ruben must choose between his new normal and the life he once knew.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genredrama, music, biography
CountryUSA
Duration02:14

From director Clint Eastwood comes the big-screen version of the Tony Award-winning musical Jersey Boys. The film tells the story of four young men from the wrong side of the tracks in New Jersey who came together to form the iconic 1960s rock group The Four Seasons. The story of their trials and triumphs are accompanied by the songs that influenced a generation, including “Sherry,” “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” “Walk Like a Man,” “Rag Doll,” and many more.

Markimdb: 6
Genrecomedy, drama, biography
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration01:39

Paul Raymond builds a porn, entertainment and real estate empire that makes him the wealthiest man in Britain, but drugs doom his beloved daughter, Debbie.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genredrama, music, biography, history
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Australia
Duration02:05

Author P.L. Travers travels from London to Hollywood as Walt Disney Pictures adapts her novel Mary Poppins for the big screen.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genredrama, music, biography
CountryUSA

Billie Holiday spent much of her career being adored by fans. In the 1940's, the government targeted Holiday in a growing effort to racialize the war on drugs, ultimately aiming to stop her from singing her controversial ballad, "Strange Fruit."

Markimdb: 7.7
Genremelodrama, drama, music, biography
CountryTurkey

The movie is about the legendary Turkish "soul singer" Müslüm Gürses. Born into a poor family, Muslum found his redemption in music from the initial trauma that lingered over his musical and personal life as internalizing the grief. He rose through his ashes of shattered dreams like a phoenix. He walked in darkness, sang songs filled with sorrow which stirred people's souls and created a cult following. They were calling him "Baba" (The Father).

Markimdb: 6.9
Genredrama, music, biography
CountryUSA

Tensions rise when the trailblazing Mother of the Blues and her band gather at a Chicago recording studio in 1927. Adapted from August Wilson's play.

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: 7.6
    Genreaction, drama, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:24

    Members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots battle deadly wildfires to save an Arizona town.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrecomedy, music
    CountryUSA, Germany
    Duration01:48

    Fired from his band and hard up for cash, guitarist and vocalist Dewey Finn finagles his way into a job as a fifth-grade substitute teacher at a private school, where he secretly begins teaching his students the finer points of rock 'n' roll. The school's hard-nosed principal is rightly suspicious of Finn's activities. But Finn's roommate remains in the dark about what he's doing.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genredrama, music, biography
    CountryUSA, Germany, Hungary
    Duration01:44

    A fictionalised exploration of Beethoven's life in his final days working on his Ninth Symphony. It is 1824. Beethoven is racing to finish his new symphony. However, it has been years since his last success and he is plagued by deafness, loneliness and personal trauma. A copyist is urgently needed to help the composer. A fictional character is introduced in the form of a young conservatory student and aspiring composer named Anna Holtz. The mercurial Beethoven is skeptical that a woman might become involved in his masterpiece but slowly comes to trust in Anna's assistance and in the end becomes quite fond of her. By the time the piece is performed, her presence in his life is an absolute necessity. Her deep understanding of his work is such that she even corrects mistakes he has made, while her passionate personality opens a door into his private world.

    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: 6.8
    Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, music
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:45

    Jack Malik is a struggling singer-songwriter in an English seaside town whose dreams of fame are rapidly fading, despite the fierce devotion and support of his childhood best friend, Ellie. After a freak bus accident during a mysterious global blackout, Jack wakes up to discover that he's the only person on Earth who can remember The Beatles.

    Markimdb: 4.6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, music
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:27

    A washed up Vegas lounge singer, Jack Satin (Hamilton von Watts), has no money, no job, and delusional aspirations of fame. When Jack is forced to leave Vegas, he packs up his old Cadillac and hits the road for Atlantic City. But his car dies in the desert and Jack is left stranded in the small town of Lost Springs. There, Jack meets jazz legend turned mechanic, Doc Bishop (Robert Guillaume), who helps him with his car trouble. Although Jack is far from the stage, he begins to find himself feeling at home in the small town. When he meets local bar owner, Lauren Wells (Melissa Joan Hart), Jack starts to see there is more to life than chasing fame and fortune. Doc encourages Jack to explore his true love of music, while Lauren provides the audience he has always wanted. But as Jack realizes this town has more to offer him than the bright lights of the big city, his Vegas past catches up with him -- what unfolds is comedy at the crossroads of life.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genredrama, music, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration02:35

    The story of the late jazz musician and classical pianist Nina Simone including her rise to fame and relationship with her manager Clifton Henderson.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:41

    In 1934, Frank Hamer and Manny Gault, two former Texas Rangers, are commissioned to put an end to the wave of vicious crimes perpetrated by Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, a notorious duo of infamous robbers and cold-blooded killers who nevertheless are worshiped by the public.

    Markimdb: 3.1
    Genredrama, music, biography
    CountryUSA

    The story of R&B singer and actress Aaliyah; namely, the highs and lows of her career, her romantic pursuits, and the events leading up to her death in 2001 at the age of 22.

    Markimdb: 8.1
    Genrecomedy, drama, music
    CountryUSA

    In the tradition of Anthony Bourdain's "Kitchen Confidential" and Gelsey Kirkland's "Dancing on my Grave" comes an insider’s look into the secret world of classical musicians. From her debut recital at Carnegie Recital Hall to the Broadway pits of "Les Miserables" and "Miss Saigon," Blair Tindall has played with some of the biggest names in classical music for twenty-five years. Now in "Mozart in the Jungle," Tindall exposes the scandalous rock and roll lifestyles of the musicians, conductors, and administrators who inhabit the insular world of classical music.

    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: 5.7
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography
    CountryUSA

    Errol Flynn, the swashbuckling Hollywood star and notorious ladies man, flouted convention all his life, but never more brazenly than in his last years when, swimming in vodka and unwilling to face his mortality, he undertook a liaison with an aspiring actress, Beverly Aadland. The two had a high-flying affair that spanned the globe and was enabled by the girl's fame-obsessed mother, Florence. It all came crashing to an end in October 1959, when events forced the relationship into the open, sparking an avalanche of publicity castigating Beverly and her mother - which only fed Florence's need to stay in the spotlight.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genremelodrama, drama, music, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:02

    A fictionalized account of the career of jazz singer Ruth Etting and her tempestuous marriage to gangster Marty Snyder, who helped propel her to stardom.

    Markimdb: 8
    Genredrama, music, biography
    CountryIndia

    A coming-of-age story based on the lives of street rappers in Mumbai.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genredrama, music, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Republic of Ireland
    Duration01:43

    The story of music legend Terri Hooley, a key figure in Belfast's punk rock scene. Hooley founded the Good Vibrations store from which a record label sprung, representing bands such as The Undertones, Rudi and The Outcasts.

    Markimdb: 8
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical, music
    CountryUSA, Hong Kong
    Duration02:16

    Mia, an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian, a jazz musician, scrapes by playing cocktail party gigs in dingy bars, but as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain in each other threaten to rip them apart.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrecomedy, drama, music
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:29

    A Pennsylvania band scores a hit in 1964 and rides the star-making machinery as long as it can, with lots of help from its manager.

    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: 6.5
    Genredrama, music, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:45

    Joan Jett and Cherie Currie, two rebellious teenagers from Southern California, become the frontwomen for the Runaways -- the now-legendary group that paved the way for future generations of female rockers. Under the Svengalilike influence of impresario Kim Fowley, the band becomes a huge success.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genredrama, music, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:14

    A re-imagining of the life and times of Blaze Foley, the unsung songwriting legend of the Texas Outlaw Music movement.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genredrama, musical, music, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Canada
    Duration01:53

    The story of Elton John's life, from his years as a prodigy at the Royal Academy of Music through his influential and enduring musical partnership with Bernie Taupin.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrecomedy, drama, music, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:22

    Local Pennsylvania polka legend Jan Lewan develops a plan to get rich that shocks his fans and lands him in jail.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genremelodrama, drama, music, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:11

    Singer and songwriter Hank Williams rises to fame in the 1940s, but alcohol abuse and infidelity take a toll on his career and marriage to fellow musician Audrey Mae Williams.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genremelodrama, drama, music, biography
    CountryUSA

    An exploration of the life and music of Miles Davis.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genredrama, music, biography
    CountryUSA

    The most feared battle emcee in early-'80s NYC was a fierce teenager from the Queensbridge projects with the weight of the world on her shoulders. At age 14, hustling the streets to provide for her family, Roxanne Shanté was well on her way to becoming a hip-hop legend.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrecomedy, drama, music, biography, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:00

    The story of Elliot Tiber and his family, who inadvertently played a pivotal role in making the famed Woodstock Music and Arts Festival into the happening that it was. When Elliot hears that a neighboring town has pulled the permit on a hippie music festival, he calls the producers thinking he could drum up some much-needed business for his parents' run-down motel. Three weeks later, half a million people are on their way to his neighbor’s farm in White Lake, New York, and Elliot finds himself swept up in a generation-defining experience that would change his life–and American culture–forever.

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