Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Apr 14, 2026

10 Best Movies Like The Guitar

If you loved The Guitar, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Inside Llewyn Davis

Inside Llewyn Davis

2013★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Guitar for fans of Drama & Music. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In Greenwich Village in the early 1960s, gifted but volatile folk musician Llewyn Davis struggles with money, relationships, and his uncertain future....

#2
Sweet and Lowdown

Sweet and Lowdown

1999★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Guitar for fans of Drama & Music. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love with a mute woman....

#3
An Unmarried Woman

An Unmarried Woman

1978★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Guitar for fans of Romance & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A wealthy woman from Manhattan's Upper East Side struggles to deal with her new identity and her sexuality after her husband of 16 years leaves her for a younger woman....

#4
Clouds

Clouds

2020★ 8.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Guitar for fans of Romance & Drama & Music. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Young musician Zach Sobiech discovers his cancer has spread, leaving him just a few months to live. With limited time, he follows his dream and makes an album, unaware that it will...

#5
August Rush

August Rush

2007★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Guitar for fans of Drama & Music. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Lyla and Louis, a singer and a musician, fall in love, but are soon compelled to separate. Lyla is forced to give up her newborn but unknown to her, he grows up to become a musical...

#6
Suburbia

Suburbia

1984★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Guitar for fans of Drama & 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...

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