Movies Like Showbiz Kids (2020)

Showbiz Kids is a 2020 documentary, drama, history film from Alex Winter with a MovieMagicScore of 6.8/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Little Tickles and Hard Candy.

Documentary Drama History

Little Tickles

2018

Odette is a 8-yr-old girl who loves to dance and draw. Once she has become an adult, Odette realizes she was abused, and immerses herself body and soul in her career as a dancer while trying to deal with her past.

7.4

MagicScore

Hard Candy

2005

Hayley’s a smart, charming teenage girl. Jeff’s a handsome, smooth fashion photographer. An Internet chat, a coffee shop meet-up, an impromptu fashion shoot back at Jeff’s place. Jeff thinks it’s his lucky night. He’s in for a surprise.

6.8

MagicScore

Happiness

1998

The lives of several individuals intertwine as they go about their lives in their own unique ways, engaging in acts which society as a whole might find disturbing in a desperate search for human connection.

7.4

MagicScore

Mysterious Skin

2005

A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.

7.7

MagicScore

Chithha

2023

Easwaran, a young government employee gets the shock of his life when his niece Sundari goes missing. When Easwaran gets to know that a child abuser has kidnapped her, after coming to terms with the ghastly reality of being him being wrongly accused in such a child abuse case, he makes it his mission is to rescue Sundari.

7.7

MagicScore

Midori

1992

After losing her parents, young flower selling Midori is put up by a fairground group. She is abused and forced to slavery, until the arrival of an enigmatic magician of short stature, who gives her hope for a better future.

6.1

MagicScore

An Open Secret

2014

An investigation into accusations of teenagers being sexually abused within the film industry.

6.9

MagicScore

Capturing the Friedmans

2003

An Oscar nominated documentary about a middle-class American family who is torn apart when the father Arnold and son Jesse are accused of sexually abusing numerous children. Director Jarecki interviews people from different sides of this tragic story and raises the question of whether they were rightfully tried when they claim they were innocent and there was never any evidence against them.

7.1

MagicScore

The Lovely Bones

2009

After being brutally murdered, 14-year-old Susie Salmon watches from heaven over her grief-stricken family -- and her killer. As she observes their daily lives, she must balance her thirst for revenge with her desire for her family to heal.

7.1

MagicScore

#10

By the Grace of God

2019

Alexandre, a man in his 40s living in Lyon with his wife and children, discovers that the priest who abused him decades ago continues to work with children. He joins forces with others victims of the priest, to bring justice and “lift the burden of silence” about what they endured.

7.1

MagicScore

#11

Silent Hill

2006

Rose, a desperate mother, takes her adopted daughter, Sharon, to the town of Silent Hill in an attempt to cure her of her ailment. After a violent car crash, Sharon disappears, and Rose embarks on a horrific journey to get her back and begins to uncover the truth behind the apocalyptic disaster that burned the town 30 years earlier.

6.6

MagicScore

#12

Kite

1998

Sawa, orphaned as a child by murderous thugs, now targets the scourge of society as a trained killer for a mercenary syndicate. Coquettish and capable of unimaginable violence, she's grown into the perfect weapon — but doubt takes hold in Sawa's mind when her fellow assassin, Oburi, decides he wants out.

6.7

MagicScore

#13

Paganini

1990

Legendary "devil violinist" Niccolo Paganini sets all of 19th century Europe into frenzy.

5.2

MagicScore

#14

Trust

2010

A suburban family is torn apart when fourteen-year-old Annie meets her first boyfriend online. After months of communicating via online chat and phone, Annie discovers her friend is not who he originally claimed to be. Shocked into disbelief, her parents are shattered by their daughter's actions and struggle to support her as she comes to terms with what has happened to her once innocent life.

6.5

MagicScore

#15

The Hunt

2012

A teacher lives a lonely life, all the while struggling over his son’s custody. His life slowly gets better as he finds love and receives good news from his son, but his new luck is about to be brutally shattered by an innocent little lie.

8.1

MagicScore

#16

Mystic River

2003

The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them suffers a family tragedy.

7.7

MagicScore

#17

Rewind

2019

Digging through the vast collection of his father's home videos, a young man reconstructs the unthinkable story of his boyhood and exposes vile abuse passed through generations.

7.1

MagicScore

#18

She Said

2022

New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a generation — a story that helped launch the #MeToo movement and shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood.

7.2

MagicScore

#19

Square One

2019

An investigation into the original 1993 Michael Jackson allegations brought by the Chandler family.

8.6

MagicScore

#20

Spotlight

2015

The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.

7.8

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Showbiz Kids?

The top films similar to Showbiz Kids by MovieMagicScore are Little Tickles (7.4), Hard Candy (6.8), Happiness (7.4). Each shares documentary/drama/history themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Showbiz Kids worth watching?

Showbiz Kids holds a MovieMagicScore of 6.8/10 from 49 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is Showbiz Kids?

Showbiz Kids (2020) is a documentary, drama, history film directed by Alex Winter, starring Baby Peggy, Henry Thomas, Cameron Boyce.

Where can I find more recommendations like Showbiz Kids?

Browse the full ranked list above, or explore more documentary recommendations on MovieMagicScore, where every list is ordered by genuine viewer ratings.

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About movies like Showbiz Kids

This ranked list pairs Showbiz Kids (2020), a documentary and drama and history film from Alex Winter, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Baby Peggy 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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