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10 Best Movies Like Cabaret

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

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#1
Bent

Bent

1997★ 6.9

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

Max is a handsome young man who, after a fateful tryst with a German soldier, is forced to run for his life. Eventually Max is placed in a concentration camp where he pretends to b...

#2
Kiss of the Spider Woman

Kiss of the Spider Woman

2025★ 6.0

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

Valentín, a political prisoner, shares a cell with Molina, a window dresser convicted of public indecency. The two form an unlikely bond as Molina recounts the plot of a Hollywood ...

#3
The Boys in the Band

The Boys in the Band

1970★ 7.0

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

A witty, perceptive and devastating look at the personal agendas and suppressed revelations swirling among a group of gay men in Manhattan. Harold is celebrating a birthday, and hi...

#4
A Very Natural Thing

A Very Natural Thing

1974★ 7.1

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

When David, an ex-monk still in his twenties meets Mark, he falls hard; soon he's asked Mark if they can live together. Things go well for awhile, and then differences in their def...

#5
House of Boys

House of Boys

2009★ 6.1

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

It is 1984. Frank is a determined English teenager who runs away from high school to find an alternative gay lifestyle in Amsterdam. He finds a home and a job at the "House of Boys...

#6
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

2020★ 6.6

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

Tensions rise when the trailblazing Mother of the Blues and her band gather at a Chicago recording studio in 1927. Adapted from August Wilson's play....

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