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10 Best Movies Like In the Heights

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

#1
Coda

Coda

2020★ 6.0

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

A famous pianist at the twilight of his career meets a free-spirited music critic who soon becomes his rock as his mental state deteriorates....

#2
How to Build a Girl

How to Build a Girl

2020★ 5.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to In the Heights for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

The journey of Midlands teenager Johanna Morrigan, who reinvents herself as Dolly Wilde: fast-talking, lady sex-adventurer, moves to London, and gets a job as music critic in the h...

#3
Arlo the Alligator Boy

Arlo the Alligator Boy

2021★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to In the Heights for fans of Animation. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Upon learning that he is from New York City, a wide-eyed boy, who is half human and half alligator, decides to leave his sheltered life in the swamp and search for his long lost fa...

#4
Queen Bees

Queen Bees

2021★ 5.9

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

Helen is an independent widow who moves into the Pine Grove Senior Community and discovers it’s just like high school – full of cliques and flirtatious suitors. What she initially ...

#5
The Invisibles

The Invisibles

2024★ 6.5

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

A couple facing the end of marriage, when the husband starts to disappear. As he fades from existence he discovers a new world of people who have disappeared just like him....

#6
Flesh for Frankenstein

Flesh for Frankenstein

1973★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to In the Heights for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Within the decadent walls of the Frankenstein mansion, the Baron and his depraved assistant Otto have discovered the means of creating new life. As the Baron's laboratory begins to...