50 Movies Like Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019) You Need to Watch Next
Updated August 2026
View Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood details →Quentin Tarantino's 2019 film drifts through Los Angeles in 1969, following fading western star Rick Dalton and his best friend and stunt double Cliff Booth as they try to survive a movie industry shifting beneath them. Dalton happens to live next door to rising actress Sharon Tate, newly married to director Roman Polanski. Blending comedy, drama and thriller, it is a leisurely, atmosphere-rich hangout picture, more interested in mood, craft and a vanishing Hollywood than in constant plot. Tarantino savors the period detail and the easy rapport between his leads. It suits patient viewers who love texture, dialogue and film history, and anyone drawn to a wistful ode to a bygone Hollywood.
If you loved Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019) by Quentin Tarantino, here are 50 movies that share its content DNA. iRankMovies measures real similarity using cosine similarity across eight weighted dimensions — genre (50%), tone (12%), pace (10%), structure (8%), era (7%), theme (6%), audience (4%) and narrative perspective (3%) — not just the rating. The closest matches according to our analysis are The Grand Budapest Hotel, Saltburn, Wild Tales. Every title is ranked by how closely it matches and backed by the iRank Score, a composite of IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDb across 12,000+ analysed titles.
The Best Movies Similar to Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
Selected for their real similarity in content, these are the movies that share the most with Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood in terms of theme, narrative tone, and cinematic style. Every recommendation goes beyond genre — we evaluate the type of conflict, pacing, dramatic context, and the experience they create for viewers.
The Grand Budapest Hotel
2014 · Wes Anderson
The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the the
In common: Comedy · Drama
Saltburn
2023 · Emerald Fennell
Struggling to find his place at Oxford University, student Oliver Quick finds himself drawn into the world of the charming and aristocratic Felix Catton, who invites him to Saltburn, his eccentric fam
In common: Comedy · Drama · Thriller
Wild Tales
2014 · Damián Szifron
Injustice and the demands of the world can cause stress for many people. Some of them, however, explode. This includes a waitress serving a grouchy loan shark, an altercation between two motorists, an
In common: Comedy · Drama · Thriller
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
2005 · Doug Liman
A husband and wife struggle to keep their marriage alive until they realize they are both secretly working as assassins. Now, their respective assignments require them to kill each other.
In common: Comedy · Drama
I Care a Lot
2021 · J Blakeson
A court-appointed legal guardian defrauds her older clients and traps them under her care. But her latest mark comes with some unexpected baggage.
In common: Comedy · Drama
In the House
2012 · François Ozon
A sixteen-year-old boy insinuates himself into the house of a fellow student from his literature class and writes about it in essays for his French teacher. Faced with this gifted and unusual pupil, t
In common: Comedy · Drama
Parasite
2019 · Bong Joon Ho
All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.
In common: Comedy · Drama · Thriller
Escape from Alcatraz
1979 · Don Siegel
San Francisco Bay, January 18, 1960. Frank Lee Morris is transferred to Alcatraz, a maximum security prison located on a rocky island. Although no one has ever managed to escape from there, Frank and
In common: Drama · Thriller
3 Idiots
2009 · Rajkumar Hirani
Rascal. Joker. Dreamer. Genius... You've never met a college student quite like "Rancho." From the moment he arrives at India's most prestigious university, Rancho's outlandish schemes turn the campus
In common: Comedy · Drama
Mean Girls
2004 · Mark Waters
Cady Heron is a hit with The Plastics, the A-list girl clique at her new school, until she makes the mistake of falling for Aaron Samuels, the ex-boyfriend of alpha Plastic Regina George.
In common: Comedy · Drama
Friday
1995 · F. Gary Gray
Craig and Smokey are two guys in Los Angeles hanging out on their porch on a Friday afternoon, smoking and drinking, looking for something to do.
In common: Comedy · Drama
Annie
2014 · Will Gluck
Annie is a young, happy foster kid who's also tough enough to make her way on the streets of New York in 2014. Originally left by her parents as a baby with the promise that they'd be back for her som
In common: Comedy · Drama
The Big Short
2015 · Adam McKay
The men who made millions from a global economic meltdown.
In common: Comedy · Drama
The Terminal
2004 · Steven Spielberg
An Eastern European tourist unexpectedly finds himself stranded in JFK airport, and must take up temporary residence there.
In common: Comedy · Drama
Lolita
1962 · Stanley Kubrick
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon
In common: Comedy · Drama
12 Years a Slave
2013 · Steve McQueen
In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty as well as unexpected kindnesses Solomon struggles not on
In common: Drama
This Is Where I Leave You
2014 · Shawn Levy
When their father passes away, four grown, world-weary siblings return to their childhood home and are requested -- with an admonition -- to stay there together for a week, along with their free-speak
In common: Comedy · Drama
Fried Green Tomatoes
1991 · Jon Avnet
Amidst her own personality crisis, a southern housewife meets an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison, two young women who experienced hardships and love in
In common: Comedy · Drama
Lady Bird
2017 · Greta Gerwig
Lady Bird McPherson, a strong willed, deeply opinionated, artistic 17 year old comes of age in Sacramento. Her relationship with her mother and her upbringing are questioned and tested as she plans to
In common: Comedy · Drama
The Breakfast Club
1985 · John Hughes
Five high school students from different walks of life endure a Saturday detention under a power-hungry principal. The disparate group includes rebel John, princess Claire, outcast Allison, brainy Bri
In common: Comedy · Drama
The King's Speech
2010 · Tom Hooper
The King's Speech tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II. After his brother abdicates, George ('Bertie') reluctantly assumes the throne. Plagued by a dr
In common: Drama
The Aviator
2004 · Martin Scorsese
A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate, while simultaneously grow
In common: Drama
The Favourite
2018 · Yorgos Lanthimos
England, early 18th century. The close relationship between Queen Anne and Sarah Churchill is threatened by the arrival of Sarah's cousin, Abigail Hill, resulting in a bitter rivalry between the two c
In common: Comedy · Drama
Instant Family
2018 · Sean Anders
When Pete and Ellie decide to start a family, they stumble into the world of foster care adoption. They hope to take in one small child but when they meet three siblings, including a rebellious 15 yea
In common: Comedy · Drama
Home Alone 4
2002 · Rod Daniel
Kevin McCallister's parents have split up. Now living with his mom, he decides to spend Christmas with his dad at the mansion of his father's rich girlfriend, Natalie. Meanwhile robber Marv Merchants,
In common: Comedy
We Bought a Zoo
2011 · Cameron Crowe
Benjamin has lost his wife and, in a bid to start his life over, purchases a large house that has a zoo – welcome news for his daughter, but his son is not happy about it. The zoo is in need of renova
In common: Comedy · Drama
Big Daddy
1999 · Dennis Dugan
A lazy law school grad adopts a kid to impress his girlfriend, but everything doesn't go as planned. Now he's forced to grow up while navigating the challenges of fatherhood.
In common: Comedy · Drama
Demolition
2016 · Jean-Marc Vallée
An emotionally desperate investment banker finds hope through a woman he meets.
In common: Comedy · Drama
JFK
1991 · Oliver Stone
Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison.
In common: Drama · Thriller
Due Date
2010 · Todd Phillips
Peter Highman must scramble across the US in five days to be present for the birth of his first child. He gets off to a bad start when his wallet and luggage are stolen, and put on the 'no-fly' list.
In common: Comedy · Drama
Marie Antoinette
2006 · Sofia Coppola
A retelling of the story of France’s iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette - from her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at fifteen to her reign as queen at nineteen and ultimately the fall of
In common: Drama
Burn After Reading
2008 · Ethan Coen
When a disc containing memoirs of a former CIA analyst falls into the hands of gym employees, Linda and Chad, they see a chance to make enough money for Linda to have life-changing cosmetic surgery. P
In common: Comedy · Drama
Patch Adams
1998 · Tom Shadyac
The true story of Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams, who in the 1970s found that humor is the best medicine, and was willing to do just anything to make his patients laugh—even if it meant risking his own care
In common: Comedy · Drama
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
2021 · Wes Anderson
The staff of an American magazine based in France puts out its last issue, with stories featuring an artist sentenced to life imprisonment, student riots, and a kidnapping resolved by a chef.
In common: Comedy · Drama
Dumb Money
2023 · Craig Gillespie
Vlogger Keith Gill sinks his life savings into GameStop stock and posts about it. When social media starts blowing up, so do his life and the lives of everyone following him. As a stock tip becomes a
In common: Comedy · Drama
Raise the Red Lantern
1991 · Zhang Yimou
In 1920s China, 19-year-old Songlian becomes a concubine of a powerful lord and is forced to compete with his three wives for the privileges gained.
In common: Drama
Dedicated to my ex
2019 · Jorge Ulloa
The film tells the story of Ariel, a 21-year-old who decides to form a rock band to compete for a prize of ten thousand dollars in a musical band contest, this as a last option when trying to get mone
In common: Comedy · Drama
The Royal Tenenbaums
2001 · Wes Anderson
Royal Tenenbaum and his wife Etheline had three children and then they separated. All three children are extraordinary --- all geniuses. Virtually all memory of the brilliance of the young Tenenbaums
In common: Comedy · Drama
You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah
2023 · Sammi Cohen
Stacy and Lydia are BFFs who've always dreamed about having epic bat mitzvahs. But things start to go comically awry when a popular boy and middle school drama threatens their friendship and their rit
In common: Comedy · Drama
Vice
2018 · Adam McKay
George W. Bush picks Dick Cheney, the CEO of Halliburton Co., to be his Republican running mate in the 2000 presidential election. No stranger to politics, Cheney's impressive résumé includes stints a
In common: Comedy · Drama
Magic Mike
2012 · Steven Soderbergh
Mike, an experienced stripper, takes a younger performer called The Kid under his wing and schools him in the arts of partying, picking up women, and making easy money.
In common: Comedy · Drama
High School Musical
2006 · Kenny Ortega
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.
In common: Comedy
Cheaper by the Dozen
2003 · Shawn Levy
The Baker brood moves to Chicago after patriarch Tom gets a job coaching football at Northwestern University, forcing his writer wife, Kate, and the couple's 12 children to make a major adjustment. Th
In common: Comedy · Drama
Uncle Buck
1989 · John Hughes
Buck Russell, a lovable but slovenly bachelor, suddenly becomes the temporary caretaker of his nephew and nieces after a family emergency. His freewheeling attitude soon causes tension with his older
In common: Comedy · Drama
The Elephant Man
1980 · David Lynch
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of great intelligence and sensitivity
In common: Drama
Parenthood
1989 · Ron Howard
The story of the Buckman family and friends, attempting to bring up their children. They suffer/enjoy all the events that occur: estranged relatives, the 'black sheep' of the family, the eccentrics, t
In common: Comedy · Drama
Dog
2022 · Channing Tatum
An army ranger and his dog embark on a road trip along the Pacific Coast Highway to attend a friend's funeral.
In common: Comedy · Drama
There's Still Tomorrow
2023 · Paola Cortellesi
In postwar Rome, a working-class woman dreams of a better future for herself and her daughter while facing abuse at the hands of her domineering husband. When a mysterious letter arrives, she discover
In common: Comedy · Drama
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
1994 · Stephan Elliott
Two drag performers and a transgender woman travel across the desert to perform their unique style of cabaret.
In common: Comedy · Drama
The King of Comedy
1982 · Martin Scorsese
Aspiring comic Rupert Pupkin attempts to achieve success in show business by stalking his idol, a late night talk-show host who craves his own privacy.
In common: Comedy · Drama
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