
10 Best Movies Like 1989
If you loved 1989, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

Coyote Ugly
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 1989 for fans of Music. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
Graced with a velvet voice, 21-year-old Violet Sanford heads to New York to pursue her dream of becoming a songwriter only to find her aspirations sidelined by the accolades and no...

Black Is King
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 1989 for fans of Music. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.
This visual album from Beyoncé reimagines the lessons of "The Lion King" (2019) for today's young kings and queens in search of their own crowns....

Kid Galahad
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 1989 for fans of Music. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
After completing his military service, Walter Gulick takes a job as a sparring partner at a gym, the owner of which sees potential in Walter as a professional fighter—and takes him...

Hounddog
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 1989 for fans of Music. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley....

Suburbia
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 1989 for fans of Music. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
When household tensions and a sense of worthlessness overcome Evan, he finds escape when he clings with the orphans of a throw-away society. The runaways hold on to each other like...

Mo' Better Blues
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 1989 for fans of Music. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Talented but self-centered trumpeter Bleek Gilliam is obsessed with his music and indecisiveness about his girlfriends Indigo and Clarke. But when he is forced to come to the aid o...