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Movies like Billy Elliot 2000
Matched on how they feel, not on genre or who made them: the same pull on fourteen measures of character (tone, pace, scale, ambiguity and the rest), read from each title on Taste Buds. About Billy Elliot
Movies closest to Billy Elliot
Dead Poets Society 1989Also classical in form and earnest
Casablanca 1943Also classical in form and earnest
7th Heaven 1927Also earnest and classical in form
The Defiant Ones 1958Also classical in form and earnest
The Damned United 2009Also classical in form and earnest
Only Angels Have Wings 1939Also classical in form and earnest
Billy Elliot: The Musical Live 2014Also classical in form and earnest
Come from Away 2021Also earnest and classical in form
Trumbo 2015Also classical in form and earnest
Stagecoach 1939Also classical in form and earnest
The Olive Tree 2016Also classical in form and earnest
Fame 1980Also classical in form and earnest
The same feel, in other forms
Books
The Help 2009Also earnest and classical in form
On the Move 2015Also classical in form and earnest
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry 1976Also earnest and classical in form
Albums
- Cabin in the Sky 2025Also earnest and classical in form
- Nature Always Wins 2021Also earnest and classical in form
- 2014 Forest Hills Drive 2014Also earnest and classical in form
Series
The Queen's Gambit 2020Also earnest and classical in form
Alien Nation 1989Also earnest and classical in form
Upstairs, Downstairs 1971Also classical in form and earnest
Games
Embracelet 2020Also earnest and classical in form
Clannad 2004Also classical in form and earnest
My Memory of Us 2018Also earnest
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