Movies Like Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (2017)

Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool is a 2017 drama, romance film from Paul McGuigan with a MovieMagicScore of 6.4/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Life Itself and Priscilla.

Drama Romance

Life Itself

2014

The surprising and entertaining life of renowned film critic and social commentator Roger Ebert (1942-2013): his early days as a freewheeling bachelor and Pulitzer Prize winner, his famously contentious partnership with Gene Siskel, his life-altering marriage, and his brave and transcendent battle with cancer.

7.5

MagicScore

Priscilla

2023

When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley at a party, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a vulnerable best friend.

6.8

MagicScore

BlacKkKlansman

2018

Colorado Springs, late 1970s. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer, and Flip Zimmerman, his Jewish colleague, run an undercover operation to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan.

7.5

MagicScore

The Hurricane

1999

The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.

7.4

MagicScore

Born on the Fourth of July

1989

Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, Ron Kovic becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.

7.0

MagicScore

Cry Freedom

1987

A dramatic story, based on actual events, about the friendship between two men struggling against apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s. Donald Woods is a white liberal journalist in South Africa who begins to follow the activities of Stephen Biko, a courageous and outspoken black anti-apartheid activist.

7.0

MagicScore

I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale

2009

John Cazale was in only five films – The Godfather, The Conversation, The Godfather: Part II, Dog Day Afternoon and The Deer Hunter – each was nominated for Best Picture. Yet today most people don't even know his name. I KNEW IT WAS YOU is a fresh tour through movies that defined a generation.

6.9

MagicScore

Borstal Boy

2001

Brendan Behan, a sixteen year-old IRA foot soldier, is going on a bombing mission from Ireland to Liverpool during the second world war. His mission is thwarted when he is apprehended, charged and imprisoned in Borstal, a reform institution for young offenders in East Anglia, England.

6.1

MagicScore

Ciao! Manhattan

1973

Fiction and documentary mingle in a freewheeling portrait of Susan Superstar, a New York celebrity on a drug-fueled downward slide that mirrors Edie Sedgwick’s own self-destructive spiral.

5.4

MagicScore

#10

Cal

1984

Cal, a young man on the fringes of the IRA, falls in love with Marcella, a Catholic woman whose husband, a Protestant policeman, was killed one year earlier by the IRA.

5.7

MagicScore

#11

Nowhere Boy

2009

A rebellious teenager, future Beatle John Lennon lives with his Aunt Mimi in working-class mid-1950s Liverpool, England. Mimi's husband suddenly dies, and John spies his mother Julia at the funeral. Despite Mimi's misgivings, John intends to have a real relationship with his mother. Julia introduces him to popular music and the banjo and, though a family conflict looms, young John is inspired to form his own band.

7.2

MagicScore

#12

Midas Man

2024

When Brian Epstein set foot in the Cavern Club in November 1961 to watch The Beatles perform, he saw something no one else could – a glimmer of gold. Sharply dressed and well-spoken, Brian was hardly the most obvious radical – but being Jewish, closeted and having grown up as an outsider who had failed at pretty much everything, he was a 26-year old with something to prove and who wanted to tear up the rulebook.

6.3

MagicScore

#13

Pardon Mon Affaire

1976

On an otherwise normal day, Étienne, a happily married man and a good father, sees something that stops him dead in his tracks: a gorgeous woman in a billowing red dress. Long after she has left his vision, her memory continues to haunt his mind. He falls instantly in love with her and tries everything to get to know her better. Helping Étienne snare his elusive lady in red are his three bumbling buddies, which all have secret affairs and/or cheat on their wives.

7.0

MagicScore

#14

The Penguin Lessons

2025

In 1976, as Argentina descends into violence and chaos, a world-weary English teacher regains his compassion for others thanks to an unlikely friendship with a penguin.

7.1

MagicScore

#15

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

2002

During the Cultural Revolution, two young men are sent to a remote mining village where they fall in love with the local tailor's beautiful granddaughter and discover a suitcase full of forbidden Western novels.

6.8

MagicScore

#16

The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys

2002

A group of Catholic school friends, after being caught drawing an obscene comic book, plan a heist that will outdo their previous prank and make them local legends.

6.6

MagicScore

#17

My Week with Marilyn

2011

London, 1956. Genius actor and film director Laurence Olivier is about to begin the shooting of his upcoming movie, premiered in 1957 as The Prince and the Showgirl, starring Marilyn Monroe. Young Colin Clark, who dreams on having a career in movie business, manages to get a job on the set as third assistant director.

6.7

MagicScore

#18

The Theory of Everything

2014

The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde.

7.8

MagicScore

#19

The Bromley Boys

2018

A boy, a girl, and the worst football team in Britain. You can't choose who you're going to fall in love with.

6.0

MagicScore

#20

Savage Messiah

1972

In the Paris of the 1910s, brash young sculptor Henri Gaudier begins a creative partnership with an older writer, Sophie Brzeska. Though the couple is 20 years apart in age, Gaudier finds that his untamed work is complemented by the older woman's cultural refinement. He then moves to London with Brzeska, where he falls in with a group of avant-garde artists. There, Gaudier encounters yet another artistic muse in passionate suffragette Gosh Boyle.

6.1

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool?

The top films similar to Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool by MovieMagicScore are Life Itself (7.5), Priscilla (6.8), BlacKkKlansman (7.5). Each shares drama/romance themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool worth watching?

Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool holds a MovieMagicScore of 6.4/10 from 177 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool?

Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (2017) is a drama, romance film directed by Paul McGuigan, starring Annette Bening, Jamie Bell, Julie Walters.

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About movies like Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool

This ranked list pairs Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (2017), a drama and romance film from Paul McGuigan, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Annette Bening take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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