Movies like Kiss and Cry: 20 to watch next
If you loved Kiss and Cry (2017) — a romance, drama and music film directed by Sean Cisterna — these 20 movies are the closest matches.
The first picks are what fans of Kiss and Cry most often go on to watch; the rest share its genres and themes like cancer, figure skating and teenage girl. 5 of them are streaming in India right now — each entry shows where.
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Stomp the Yard 2007★ 7.2
Shares: Drama, Music
After the death of his younger brother, a troubled 19-year-old street dancer from Los Angeles is able to bypass juvenile hall by enrolling in the historically black, Truth University in Atlanta, Georgia. But his efforts to get an education and woo the girl he likes are sidelined when he is courted by the top two campus fraternities, both of which want and need his fierce street-style dance moves to win the highly coveted national step show competition.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Honey: Rise Up and Dance 2018★ 6.9
Shares: Music, Drama
Street dancer Skyler comes out of the shadow of her trained dancer sister, Tosha, & joins a dance competition with the Honey dance studio; the prize is a college scholarship.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Young at Heart 1954★ 6.1
Shares: Romance, Drama, Music
The lives and romances of three sisters in a musical family; the youngest daughter's life is complicated by the subsequent arrival of a charming composer and a cynical music arranger.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Battle of the Year 2013★ 6.8
Shares: Music, Drama
A down-on-his-luck coach is hired to prepare a team of the best American dancers for an international tournament that attracts all the best crews from around the world, but the Americans haven't won in fifteen years.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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A Star Is Born 1976★ 6.0
Shares: Drama, Music, Romance
Has-been singing idol John Norman Howard falls in love with young, up-and-coming songstress Esther Hoffman in Frank Pierson's version of the classic love story updated to the rock and roll era.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Keith 2008★ 7.0
Shares: Drama, Romance
Natalie is high school royalty, but her queen bee status falls apart when she falls for the new guy at school. Although Keith ignores her at first, they soon become friends -- even though Natalie suspects that Keith has something to hide. As the free-spirited Keith shows Natalie how to embrace what life offers, they grow closer -- until a secret tests the bounds of their relationship
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Palm Trees and Power Lines 2023★ 6.3
Shares: Drama, Romance
Seventeen-year-old Lea spends her summer break tanning in her backyard, and drifting between tiptoeing around her needy mother, and aimlessly trailing her best friend and boys from school. This monotony is interrupted by a chance encounter with Tom, a seductive man twice her age who promises an alternative to Lea's unsatisfying adolescent life.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Camp Belvidere 2014★ 6.5
Shares: Romance, Drama
Camp Belvidere is a lesbian romance set in the 1950s about the coming of age of Camp Leader Rose and her forbidden encounter with Nurse Gin. It depicts the journey and evolution of a friendship into a romance between two women when their rapport would have been unlikely.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B 2014★ 6.5
Shares: Drama, Music
The story of R&B singer and actress Aaliyah; namely, the highs and lows of her career, her romantic pursuits, and the events leading up to her death in 2001 at the age of 22.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Time Is Up 2021★ 6.5
Shares: Romance, Drama
Vivien, an accomplished student with a passion for physics, and Roy, a troubled young man, are involved in an accident that forces them to reclaim their lives one minute at the time.
Stream in India on Plex
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The Thing Called Love 1993★ 6.1
Shares: Drama, Romance, Music
A group of newcomers to the country music business seek love and stardom.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Ashes in the Snow 2018★ 6.3
Shares: Drama, Romance
The coming-of-age tale of 16-year-old Lina Vilkas who is deported to Siberia amid Stalin's reign of terror in the Baltic region during WWII. An aspiring artist, she secretly documents her harrowing journey with her drawings.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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An Officer and a Gentleman 1982★ 7.0
Shares: Drama, Romance
Zack Mayo is an aloof, taciturn man who aspires to be a navy pilot. Once he arrives at training camp for his 13-week officer's course, Mayo runs afoul of abrasive, no-nonsense drill Sergeant Emil Foley. Mayo is an excellent cadet, but a little cold around the heart, so Foley rides him mercilessly, sensing that the young man would be prime officer material if he weren't so self-involved. Zack's affair with a working girl is likewise compromised by his unwillingness to give of himself.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Marked Men: Rule + Shaw 2025★ 6.7
Shares: Romance, Drama
Shaw Landon has loved Rule Archer from the moment she laid eyes on him. Rule, a fiery-tempered rebel tattoo artist, doesn’t have time for a good girl pre-med student like Shaw — even if she’s the only one who can see the person he truly is. She lives by other people’s rules; he makes his own. But a short skirt, too many birthday cocktails, and spilled secrets lead to a night neither can forget. Now, Shaw and Rule must figure out how a girl like her and a guy like him are supposed to be together without destroying their love…or each other.
Stream in India on JioHotstar
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Fire with Fire 1986★ 6.2
Shares: Drama, Romance
A tough, street-smart kid serving a sentence in a state youth reformatory meets a beautiful, innocent girl studying at a nearby convent. When forbidden love blossoms between them, they must fight the prison authorities, their parents and the law.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Clika 2026★ 8.3
Shares: Music, Drama
Aspiring small-town musician Chito is determined to make it big. When a clip of him performing one of his songs goes viral, he seizes the opportunity and pushes to carve out a place for himself in the new wave of Mexican-American music... and ultimately gets caught in a game more dangerous than anticipated.
Stream in India on Netflix
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Smithereens 1982★ 6.4
Shares: Drama, Music, Romance
A narcissistic runaway engages in a number of parasitic relationships amongst members of New York's waning punk scene.
Stream in India on Plex
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Suburbia 1984★ 6.7
Shares: Drama, Music
When household tensions and a sense of worthlessness overcome Evan, he finds escape when he clings with the orphans of a throw-away society. The runaways hold on to each other like a family until a tragedy tears them apart.
Stream in India on Tubi TV, Plex
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Tuff Turf 1985★ 5.9
Shares: Drama, Romance
The new guy in a Los Angeles high school, Morgan, does some singing and fights hotshot Nick over disco dancer Frankie.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Skin 2019★ 6.9
Shares: Drama, Romance
A destitute young man, raised by racist skinheads and notorious among white supremacists, turns his back on hatred and violence to transform his life, with the help of a black activist and the woman he loves.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now