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10 Best Movies Like California Solo

If you loved California Solo, 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 California Solo for fans of Drama & Music. 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
Mo' Better Blues

Mo' Better Blues

1990★ 6.5

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

Talented but self-centered trumpeter Bleek Gilliam is obsessed with his music and indecisiveness about his girlfriends Indigo and Clarke. But when he is forced to come to the aid o...

#3
Wild Style

Wild Style

1982★ 6.1

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

Legendary New York graffiti artist Lee Quinones plays the part of Zoro, the city's hottest and most elusive graffiti writer. The actual story of the movie concerns the tension betw...

#4
Battle of the Year

Battle of the Year

2013★ 6.8

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

A down-on-his-luck coach is hired to prepare a team of the best American dancers for an international tournament that attracts all the best crews from around the world, but the Ame...

#5
Beats

Beats

2019★ 6.6

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

An agoraphobic hip-hop prodigy and a disgraced former music manager cross paths in Chicago’s South Side and help each other face demons of their pasts....

#6
Suburbia

Suburbia

1984★ 6.7

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

When household tensions and a sense of worthlessness overcome Evan, he finds escape when he clings with the orphans of a throw-away society. The runaways hold on to each other like...

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