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10 Best Movies Like To Be a Star

If you loved To Be a Star, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Center Stage: Turn It Up

Center Stage: Turn It Up

2008โ€ขโ˜… 6.9

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

All self-taught dancer Kate Parker has ever wanted to do was perform with the American Academy of Ballet. But when she doesnt make it after auditioning, she learns that it takes mo...

#2
Pure Country 2: The Gift

Pure Country 2: The Gift

2010โ€ขโ˜… 6.7

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

Three angels bestow the gift of song to a young girl, who must follow a series of rules in order hold on to it during her rise to fame and fortune....

#3
Groove

Groove

2000โ€ขโ˜… 6.1

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

An inside look into one night in the San Francisco underground rave scene....

#4
Listen to Your Heart

Listen to Your Heart

2010โ€ขโ˜… 7.1

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

Danny Foster doesn't have much: an apartment as small as his paychecks, no family, and a struggling music career. Yet for him, "every day is a great day to be alive," an attitude h...

#5
On the Edge

On the Edge

2001โ€ขโ˜… 6.6

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

A suicidal young man is committed to a Dublin psychiatric hospital where he meets new friends who greatly influence his life....

#6
The Lords of Flatbush

The Lords of Flatbush

1974โ€ขโ˜… 5.8

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

Set in 1958, the coming of age story follows four lower middle-class Brooklyn teenagers known as The Lords of Flatbush. The Lords chase girls, steal cars, shoot pool, get into stre...

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