20 best movies like The Prom (2020)


List of the best movies like The Prom (2020): Happiest Season, Nobody's Fool, The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love, The Half of It, To All the Boys: Always and Forever, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Boundaries, Feel the Beat, Thunder Road, Unicorn Store.

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Markimdb: 6.6
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA, Canada

A young woman's plans to propose to her girlfriend while at her family's annual holiday party are upended when she discovers her partner hasn't yet come out to her conservative parents.

Markimdb: 4.9
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA

A woman, who gets released from prison and reunites with her sister, discovers she is in an online relationship with a man who may be "catfishing" her.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:34

An adventurous love story between two young women of different social and economic backgrounds who find themselves going through all the typical struggles of a new romance.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA

Shy, straight-A student Ellie is hired by sweet but inarticulate jock Paul, who needs help wooing the most popular girl in school. But their new and unlikely friendship gets tricky when Ellie discovers she has feelings for the same girl.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA

Senior year of high school takes center stage as Lara Jean returns from a family trip to Korea and considers her college plans — with and without Peter.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical, western, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:09

Vignettes weaving together the stories of six individuals in the old West at the end of the Civil War. Following the tales of a sharp-shooting songster, a wannabe bank robber, two weary traveling performers, a lone gold prospector, a woman traveling the West to an uncertain future, and a motley crew of strangers undertaking a carriage ride.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryCanada, USA
Duration02:19

Single mom Laura, along with her awkward 14 year-old son Henry is forced to drive Jack, her estranged, care-free pot dealing father across country after he's kicked out of yet another nursing home.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrecomedy, drama, family
CountryUSA

After failing to make it on Broadway, April returns to her hometown and reluctantly begins training a misfit group of young dancers for a competition.

Markimdb: 7
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:59

A police officer faces a personal meltdown following a divorce and the death of his mother.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genrefantasy, comedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:19

A woman named Kit moves back to her parent's house, where she receives a mysterious invitation that would fulfill her childhood dreams.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genrecomedy, drama, musical, family
CountryUSA
Duration01:58

Ever since her parents left her as a baby, little Annie has led a hard-knock life with her calculating foster mother, Miss Hannigan. However, all that changes when hard-nosed billionaire and mayoral candidate Will Stacks takes her in on the recommendation of his advisers. Stacks believes that he's Annie's guardian angel, but the plucky youngster's confidence and sunny outlook may mean that Annie will save Will instead.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA

In an updated contemporary version of the beloved stage play and 1989 film, "Steel Magnolias" chronicles the lives and friendship of six women in Louisiana. Supporting each other through their triumphs and tragedies, they congregate at Truvy’s beauty shop to ponder the mysteries of life and death, husbands and children - and hair and nails - all the important topics that truly unite and celebrate women.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:24

At a predominantly white Ivy League college, a diverse group of students navigate various forms of racial and other types of discrimination.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:24

Rebellious Mickey and good-natured Gus navigate the thrills and agonies of modern relationships.

Markimdb: 3.8
Genrecomedy, drama, musical
CountryUSA

When Hunter gets sent to a dorky summer dance camp, he thinks he's about to have the worst summer of his life. But the quirky charm of the camp grows on him when he meets the passionate Cheyenne and joins her dance troupe to challenge the arrogant champion Lance in the camp’s Legends of Dance competition.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration02:00

A woman on the brink of a marriage proposal is told by a friend that she should date other men before spending the rest of her life with her boyfriend.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA

With a new iPhone, an apartment near the Grove, and a comfortable bank account left to her by her beloved late husband, Marnie Minervini has happily relocated from New Jersey to Los Angeles to be near her daughter Lori, a successful (but still single) screenwriter, and smother her with motherly love. But when the dozens of texts, unexpected visits, and conversations dominated by unsolicited advice force Lori to draw strict personal boundaries, Marnie finds ways to channel her eternal optimism and forceful generosity to change the lives of others - as well as her own - and find a new purpose in life.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:44

A young man is rocked by two announcements from his elderly father: that he has terminal cancer, and that he has a young male lover.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genredrama
CountryUSA, Canada

At a birthday party in 1968 New York, a surprise guest and a drunken game leave seven gay friends reckoning with unspoken feelings and buried truths.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genredrama
CountryUSA, United Arab Emirates
Duration01:46

A salesman for a natural gas company experiences life-changing events after arriving in a small town, where his corporation wants to tap into the available resources.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrecomedy, drama, musical
CountryUnited Kingdom

Inspired by global phenomenon of military wives choirs, the story celebrates a band of misfit women who form a choir on a military base. As unexpected bonds of friendship flourish, music and laughter transform their lives, helping each other to overcome their fears for loved ones in combat.

Markimdb: 4.3
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryUSA

To get revenge on her ex-boyfriend, an influencer attempts to transform an unpopular classmate into prom king.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Sweden
Duration02:00

The story of teenager Billy Bloom who, despite attending an ultra conservative high school, makes the decision to run for homecoming queen.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrecomedy, drama, music
CountryUSA
Duration02:17

A progressive graduate student finds success and sparks outrage when his interest in battle rap as a thesis subject becomes a competitive obsession.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:41

Hal, a 15-year-old high-school student with a minor yet socially alienating (and painful) disability: he stutters uncontrollably. Determined to work through the problem, Hal opts for an extreme route he joins the school debating team, which sends him on a headfirst plunge into breakneck speech competitions and offers a much-needed boost toward correcting the problem.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genredrama, musical, biography
CountryUSA
Duration02:25

The story of American showman P.T. Barnum, founder of the circus that became the famous traveling Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical
CountryUSA
Duration01:34

In New York, a struggling actress and a successful writer sing about their failed marriage from two perspectives.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:33

Amy, a naive college graduate who believes she's destined to be a great poet, begrudgingly accepts a job at a sex shop while she pursues a mentorship with reclusive writer Rat Billings.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical, military
CountryWest Germany, USA
Duration02:01

"Hair" is a 1979 musical war comedy-drama film adaptation of the 1968 Broadway musical "Hair: An American Tribal Love-Rock Musical" about a Vietnam War draftee, Claude, who meets and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies on his way to the army induction center. Claude heads to New York upon receiving his draft notice, leaving the family ranch in Oklahoma. He arrives in New York where he is rapidly indoctrinated into the youth subculture before reporting in for boot camp.

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: 5.4
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:00

After the bizarre death of her brother, Johana Burwood must return home after four years, to face her strange siblings, her out of touch father and her very touchy past.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrefantasy, comedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:57

In Milagro, a small town in the American Southwest, Ladd Devine plans to build a major new resort development. While activist Ruby Archuleta and lawyer/newspaper editor Charlie Bloom realize that this will result in the eventual displacement of the local Hispanic farmers, they cannot arouse much opposition because of the short term opportunities offered by construction jobs.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genredrama
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, France
Duration01:27

Two women get on the highway heading to Santa Fe. Marilyn dreams of winning a contest held by a famous belly dancing company, while her friend, Mona, has a secret: she's a fugitive from justice - accused of her mother-in-law's death.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:39

A couple who have known each other since 8 are destined to be together until death do them apart.

Markimdb: 7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical, music
CountryUSA
Duration01:32

'Pleasantly Plump' teenager Tracy Turnblad achieves her dream of becoming a regular on the Corny Collins Dance Show. Now a teen hero, she starts using her fame to speak out for the causes she believes in, most of all integration. In doing so, she earns the wrath of the show's former star, Amber Von Tussle, as well as Amber's manipulative, pro-segregation parents. The rivalry comes to a head as Amber and Tracy vie for the title of Miss Auto Show 1963.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:00

A couple is going through marital troubles made worse when a previously unknown grandson shows up.

Markimdb: 6
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:29

The separation of a long married couple goes awry when they fall for each other again.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Canada
Duration01:57

Pleasantly plump teenager, Tracy Turnblad and her best friend, Penny Pingleton audition to be on The Corny Collins Show – and Tracy wins. But when scheming Amber Von Tussle and her mother plot to destroy Tracy, it turns to chaos.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrecomedy, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration02:16

A crew of savvy former strip club employees band together to turn the tables on their Wall Street clients.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA, France
Duration01:38

    When he suddenly finds himself without his long-standing blue-collar job, Larry Crowne enrolls at his local college to start over. There, he becomes part of an eclectic community of students and develops a crush on his teacher.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:40

    Inspired by a true story, a comedy centered on a 27-year-old guy who learns of his cancer diagnosis, and his subsequent struggle to beat the disease.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:05

    A bullied teen experiences a turning point summer in which he learns to stand up for himself.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:24

    Colorado Springs, late 1970s. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer, and Flip Zimmerman, his Jewish colleague, run an undercover operation to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA

    Dissatisfied with the dishonesty they see in dating, strangers Naima and Sergio make a pact to spend 24 straight hours together in an attempt to fast forward their relationship.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, music
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration02:34

    Annie is stuck in a long-term relationship with Duncan – an obsessive fan of obscure rocker Tucker Crowe. When the acoustic demo of Tucker's hit record from 25 years ago surfaces, its discovery leads to a life-changing encounter with the elusive rocker himself.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryIndia, Germany

    Frieda, a fashioncommercial photographer trying to find her own art, gathers her closest girlfriends from all over India to travel to Goa for a surprise announcement: she’s getting married! Thus begins an impromptu bachelorette celebration that lasts for a full week. A riotous roller-coaster ride of girl bonding; friendships, break ups, make ups, fuck ups, passion, devastation, hesitation, terrorization and self realization. Amidst the fun and frenzy, heartbreak and heartache, passion and obsession, youth and innocence, secrets tumble out, tensions emerge, bonds are formed and emotions run high. Soon events will take a more serious turn, but for the moment these women are determined to seize the day.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical, western
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:42

    In 1850 Oregon, when a backwoodsman brings a wife home to his farm, his six brothers decide that they want to get married too.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrecomedy, drama, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:36

    An American hypochondriac who is working as a baggage handler is forced to confront his fears when a British teenager with a terminal illness enlists him to help her carry out her eccentric bucket list.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:35

    A Hollywood-set romantic tale of a guy who is content to live his life without a job yet with the love of his life, a young actress.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:57

    Jenny Farrell is getting married. But how will her straight-laced family react when they find out that the woman they thought was their daughter’s roommate is actually her fiancée? As the old-fashioned Farrells attempt to come to terms with the prospect of a surprise daughter-in-law, they face a difficult choice: either adapt with the times or risk being left behind.




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