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10 Best Movies Like How Sweet It Is

If you loved How Sweet It Is, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Honeydripper

Honeydripper

2007★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to How Sweet It Is for fans of Music. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

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 ...

#2
The Big Store

The Big Store

1941★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to How Sweet It Is for fans of Music. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A detective is hired to protect the life of a singer, who has recently inherited a department store, from the store's crooked manager....

#3
Bugsy Malone

Bugsy Malone

1976★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to How Sweet It Is for fans of Music. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

New York, 1929, a war rages between two rival gangsters, Fat Sam and Dandy Dan. Dan is in possession of a new and deadly weapon, the dreaded "splurge gun". As the custard pies fly,...

#4
A Song Is Born

A Song Is Born

1948★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to How Sweet It Is for fans of Music. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

The story of seven scholars in search of an expert to teach them about swing music. They seem to have found the perfect candidate in winsome nightclub singer Honey Swanson. But Hon...

#5
Footlight Parade

Footlight Parade

1933★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to How Sweet It Is for fans of Music. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A fledgling producer finds himself at odds with his workers, financiers and his greedy ex-wife when he tries to produce live musicals for movie-going audiences....

#6
Too Late Blues

Too Late Blues

1961★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to How Sweet It Is for fans of Music. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Ghost is an ideological musician and leader of a jazz band who would rather play his blues in the park to the birds than compromise himself. His peripatetic performances lead him t...

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