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10 Best Movies Like Billy Elliot: The Musical Live

If you loved Billy Elliot: The Musical Live, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Hounddog

Hounddog

2008★ 6.4

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

A drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley....

#2
Tommy

Tommy

1975★ 6.4

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

After a series of traumatic childhood events, a psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind boy becomes a master pinball player and the object of a religious cult....

#3
Bird

Bird

2024★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Billy Elliot: The Musical Live for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

12-year-old Bailey lives with her single dad Bug and brother Hunter in a squat in North Kent. Bug doesn’t have much time for his kids, and Bailey, who is approaching puberty, seeks...

#4
Stomp the Yard

Stomp the Yard

2007★ 7.1

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

After the death of his younger brother, a troubled 19-year-old street dancer from Los Angeles is able to bypass juvenile hall by enrolling in the historically black, Truth Universi...

#5
Better Man

Better Man

2024★ 7.6

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

Follow Robbie Williams' journey from childhood, to being the youngest member of chart-topping boyband Take That, through to his unparalleled achievements as a record-breaking solo ...

#6
Sarafina!

Sarafina!

1992★ 6.1

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

A Soweto schoolgirl named Sarafina is galvanized to protest apartheid after her teacher is arrested for her activism, leading her to join the student resistance movement....

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