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Movies that feel likeThe Chorus (2004)

In 1940s France, a new teacher at a school for disruptive boys gives hope and inspiration.

If you loved The Chorus, the closest films we have are A Mighty Wind (2003), You, the Living (2007) and Waiting for Guffman (1997). All three share The Chorus' witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988).

🍅 68% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.9 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Christophe Barratiercontemplativewittyplayfulstylish
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A Mighty Wind
2003 · dir. Christopher Guest
🍅 87%★ 7.2comedy · music

The same mix in both: wit, then play

The difference: Takes it somewhere less contemplative than The Chorus does

Three eclectic, never-quite-famous folk bands come together for the first time in decades following the death of their manager to put on an reunion concert in his honor, at the request of his son.

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You, the Living
2007 · dir. Roy Andersson
🍅 98%★ 7.4drama · comedy · music

Both keep coming back to the same thing: musical

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

In the Swedish city of Lethe, people from different walks of life take part in a series of short, deadpan vignettes that rush past. Some are just seconds long, none longer than a couple of minutes. A young woman remembers a fantasy honeymoon with a rock guitarist. A man awakes from a dream about bomber planes. A businessman boasts about success while being robbed by a pickpocket, and so on. The absurdist collection is accompanied by Dixieland jazz and similar music.

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Waiting for Guffman
1997 · dir. Christopher Guest
🍅 91%★ 7.4comedy · music

Stylish comedy, and it commits to that

Aspiring director Corky St. Clair and the marginally talented amateur cast of his hokey small-town musical production go overboard when they learn that Broadway theater agent Mort Guffman will be in attendance.

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Wayne's World
1992 · dir. Penelope Spheeris
🍅 79%★ 7comedy · music

Witty music in both cases

The adventures of two amiably aimless metal-head friends, Wayne and Garth. From Wayne's basement, the pair broadcast a talk-show called "Wayne's World" on local public access television. The show comes to the attention of a sleazy network executive who wants to produce a big-budget version of "Wayne's World"—and he also wants Wayne's girlfriend, a rock singer named Cassandra. Wayne and Garth have to battle the executive not only to save their show, but also Cassandra.

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My Fair Lady
1964 · dir. George Cukor
🍅 94%★ 7.7comedy · music · drama

The same preoccupation in both: musical

The difference: Made in the 1960s, in a different era of the craft

A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.

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La Vie en Rose
2007 · dir. Olivier Dahan
🍅 50%★ 7.5music · drama

Drama built on stillness, twice over

From the mean streets of the Belleville district of Paris to the dazzling limelight of New York's most famous concert halls, Edith Piaf's life was a constant battle to sing and survive, to live and love. Raised in her grandmother's brothel, Piaf was discovered in 1935 by nightclub owner Louis Leplee, who persuaded her to sing despite her extreme nervousness. Piaf became one of France's immortal icons, her voice one of the indelible signatures of the 20th century.

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The Legend of 1900
1998 · dir. Giuseppe Tornatore
🍅 58%★ 8drama · music

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

Musician Max Tooney goes to sell his prized Conn trumpet to a music shop, where he plays the instrument one last time. The shopkeeper recognises the song as one on a record matrix he found and asks who the piece is by. Tooney tells the story of an infant found abandoned in the first class dining room of the four-stacker ocean-liner SS Virginian on 1 January 1900. Danny Boodman, a coal-man from the boiler room, names the boy Danny Boodman T. D. Lemon 1900, after himself, the fruit crate the boy was found in, and the year, and raises him as his own.

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Pitch Perfect 3
2017 · dir. Trish Sie
🍅 29%★ 5.8music · comedyMax

Comedy with a pulse of play, in both cases

After the highs of winning the world championships, the Bellas find themselves split apart and discovering there aren't job prospects for making music with your mouth. But when they get the chance to reunite for an overseas USO tour, this group of awesome nerds will come together to make some music, and some questionable decisions, one last time.

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Animal Crackers
1930 · dir. Victor Heerman
🍅 97%★ 7.4comedy · musicPrime Video

Music built on style, twice over

The well-known explorer and hunter Captain Spaulding has just returned from Africa, and is being welcomed home with a lavish party at the estate of influential society matron Mrs. Rittenhouse when a valuable painting goes missing. The intrepid Captain Spaulding attempts to solve the crime with the help of his silly secretary Horatio Jamison, while sparring with the anarchic Signor Emanuel Ravelli and his nutty sidekick The Professor.

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Distant Voices, Still Lives
1988 · dir. Terence Davies
🍅 80%★ 7.4drama · music

Same instincts, 16 years apart

Siblings Maisie and Tony, along with their mother, gather for their sister Eileen's wedding. It is a joyous occasion, but through flashbacks, it becomes clear that the family was not always happy. Their father was physically abusive to his wife and left the children emotionally traumatized. As a result, the children have grown into unhappy adults, looking for love they didn't receive when they were young.

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The Bélier Family
2014 · dir. Éric Lartigau
🍅 83%★ 7.3comedy · music · drama

Witty comedy, and it commits to that

The whole Bélier family is deaf, except for sixteen year old Paula who is the important translator in her parents' day to day life especially when it comes to matters concerning the family farm. When her music teacher discovers she has a fantastic singing voice and she gets an opportunity to enter a big Radio France contest the whole family's future is set up for big changes.

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The Devil and Daniel Johnston
2006 · dir. Jeff Feuerzeig
🍅 88%★ 7.9documentary · music

Another one that scratches it

The difference: Sits closer to documentary than The Chorus does

This 2005 documentary film chronicles the life of Daniel Johnston, a manic-depressive genius singer/songwriter/artist, from childhood up to the present, with an emphasis on his mental illness and how it manifested itself in demonic self-obsession.

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