10 Best Movies Like 1989
If you loved 1989, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.
Coyote Ugly
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 1989 for fans of Music. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
Graced with a velvet voice, 21-year-old Violet Sanford heads to New York to pursue her dream of becoming a songwriter only to find her aspirations sidelined by the accolades and no...
All Day and a Night
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 1989 for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime....
Black Is King
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 1989 for fans of Music. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.
This visual album from Beyoncé reimagines the lessons of "The Lion King" (2019) for today's young kings and queens in search of their own crowns....
Almost Friends
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 1989 for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
A man in his mid-20s, still living at home with his mother and stepfather, puts all his eggs in one basket: the girl who works at his local coffee shop. The problem is, she has a s...
Man of Iron
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 1989 for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
In Warsaw in 1980, the Communist Party sends disgruntled radio reporter Winkel to Gdańsk to dig up dirt on the shipyard strikers - particularly on Maciek Tomczyk, an independent la...
Boxcar Bertha
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 1989 for fans of Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
"Boxcar" Bertha Thompson, a transient woman in Arkansas during the violence-filled Depression of the early '30s, meets up with rabble-rousing union man "Big" Bill Shelly and the tw...