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

Muscle Shoals
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Blues at the BBC for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.
In a tiny Alabama town with the curious name of Muscle Shoals, something miraculous sprang from the mud of the Tennessee River. A group of unassuming, yet incredibly talented, loca...

Bessie
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Blues at the BBC for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
The story of legendary blues performer, Bessie Smith, who rose to fame during the 1920s and '30s....

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Blues at the BBC for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
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....

Crossroads
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Blues at the BBC for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A wanna-be blues guitar virtuoso seeks a long-lost song by legendary musician, Robert Johnson....

Babylon
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Blues at the BBC for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles wi...

Cadillac Records
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Blues at the BBC for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
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 Ches...