Movies Similar to I'll Get By

Janwar(1965)

The wealthy patriarch of a Mumbai family learns more than he wants to about his own origins after his refusal to accept his sons' chosen spouses drives them and his own wife away.

6.0

Dig!(2004)

A documentary on the once promising American rock bands The Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Dandy Warhols. The friendship between respective founders, Anton Newcombe and Courtney Taylor, escalated into bitter rivalry as the Dandy Warhols garnered major international success while the Brian Jonestown Massacre imploded in a haze of drugs.

6.8

Porgy and Bess(1959)

In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home to a black fishing community. Crippled beggar Porgy, who travels about in a goat-drawn cart, loves the drug-addicted Bess, who lives with stevedore Crown, the local bully.

6.1

The Three from the Filling Station(1930)

Die Drei von der Tankstelle, meaning The Three from the Gas Station, was advertised as a German operetta when release and with it’s star studded cast would become the forerunner of Musical films. Even today the soundtrack of the comic harmonists is popular in Germany.

6.1

Meet Me in St. Louis(1944)

Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family up to the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.

7.0

Hot Summer(1968)

In this East German teen musical, a group of girls are planning to take their summer vacation together on the Baltic coast. When a loud and obnoxious group of boys intrudes on their holiday, the girls are horrified to learn that the boys have the same vacations plans as them. The two groups quarrel with each other and compete over a number of things, but gradually an attraction starts to form.

5.8

The Maiden and the Princess(2011)

During a game of catch-the-boy-and-kiss-him, Emmy, a precocious ten-year-old, kisses another little girl, Alice.

4.0

Veer-Zaara(2004)

Squadron Leader Veer Pratap Singh, a pilot in the Indian Air Force, rescues the stranded Zaara, a woman from Pakistan, following a bus accident, and their lives are forever bound.

7.4

Kal Ho Naa Ho(2003)

An uptight MBA student falls for the charismatic new neighbor who charms her troubled family – but he has a secret that forces him to push her away.

7.4

A Room in Town(1982)

Set against the backdrop of an increasingly violent strike, a worker falls in love with the middle-class daughter of his landlady.

6.4

Fame(1980)

A chronicle of the lives of several teenagers who attend a New York high school for students gifted in the performing arts.

6.4

Corpse Bride(2005)

In a 19th-century European village, a young man about to be married is whisked away to the underworld and wed to a mysterious corpse bride, while his real bride waits bereft in the land of the living.

7.6

Trouble(1993)

A young Canadian woman who sings in Kreuzberg in a rock band, and her boyfriend, who lives in a politically active flat-sharing community. Due to the new capital situation, demolished buildings suddenly become sought-after buildings. The living and working situation of the musicians and other scene-people deteriorates massively.

5.0

I've Been Around(1935)

Romantic problems of a society girl and an engineer.

2.5

Painting The Clouds With Sunshine(1951)

The story of three gold-digging ladies searching for millionaires. A loose remake of Gold Diggers of 1933.

4.5

Transparent: Musicale Finale(2019)

When the Pfeffermans face a life-changing loss, they begin a journey hilarious and melancholy, brazen and bold. As they face this new transition, they confront grief and come together to celebrate connection, joy, and transformation.

6.7

High School Musical(2006)

A popular high school athlete and an academically gifted girl get roles in the school musical and develop a friendship that threatens East High's social order.

6.5

Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem(2003)

Four talented alien musicians are kidnapped by a record producer who disguises them as humans. Shep, a space pilot in love with bass player Stella, follows them to Earth. Reprogrammed to forget their real identities and renamed The Crescendolls, the group quickly becomes a huge success playing soulless corporate pop. At a concert, Shep manages to free all the musicians except Stella, and the band sets out to rediscover who they really are — and to rescue Stella.

7.8

My Fair Lady(1964)

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

7.5

The Muppet Movie(1979)

The Muppets gather to watch their newly-finished big-budget rich-and-famous feature film: a talent agent persuades Kermit the Frog to leave the swamp to pursue a career in Hollywood. On his way there, he meets a bear, a pig, a whatever (his future muppet crew), and some special celebrity guest stars, while being chased by the desperate owner of a frog-leg restaurant!

7.2