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10 Best Movies Like They Shall Have Music

If you loved They Shall Have Music, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Boychoir

Boychoir

2015★ 6.8

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

A troubled and angry 11-year-old orphan from a small Texas town, ends up at a Boy Choir school after the death of his single mother. Completely out of his element, he finds himself...

#2
Lemonade Mouth

Lemonade Mouth

2011★ 7.4

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

When five ragtag freshman first meet in detention, it seems they have nothing in common. But, through music, they form an unbreakable bond and discover they have the makings of the...

#3
Curly Top

Curly Top

1935★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to They Shall Have Music for fans of Family & Music. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Wealthy Edward Morgan becomes charmed with a curly-haired orphan and her pretty older sister Mary and arranges to adopt both under the alias of "Mr. Jones". As he spends more time ...

#4
August Rush

August Rush

2007★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to They Shall Have Music for fans of Family & Music & Drama. 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...

#5
Music of the Heart

Music of the Heart

1999★ 6.7

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

After Roberta Guaspari separates from her husband, she receives encouragement from her mother to take up a job of a music teacher at the Central Park East School in East Harlem....

#6
Yentl

Yentl

1983★ 6.7

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

In a time when girls were forbidden to study religious scriptures, a Jewish girl masquerades as a boy to enter religious training and unexpectedly finds love along the way....

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