15 Movies Like Harmony Lessons

Loved Harmony Lessons? Based on its unique Cinema DNA—including its pacing, themes, and emotional tone—we've curated the ultimate list of what you should watch next.

Charm City Kings
#1

Charm City Kings

Mouse desperately wants to join The Midnight Clique, the infamous Baltimore dirt bike riders who rule the summertime streets. When Midnight’s leader, Blax, takes 14-year-old Mouse under his wing, Mouse soon finds himself torn between the straight-and-narrow and a road filled with fast money and violence.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Harmony Lessons.

Girl in the Box
#2

Girl in the Box

The true story of 20-year-old Colleen Stan, a hitchhiking woman abducted by a young couple and held captive for seven years, during which time she's tortured and forced to live as a slave to her captors.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Harmony Lessons.

Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl
#3

Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl

Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later, she agrees to go to even more remote spot with a Tibetan saddle tramp Lao Jin to learn horse herding.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Harmony Lessons.

The Young One
#4

The Young One

A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Harmony Lessons.

40 Acres
#5

40 Acres

Hailey Freeman and her family are the last descendants of African American farmers who settled in rural Canada after the Civil War. In a famine-decimated near future, they now struggle to safeguard their farm, as they make one last stand against a vicious militia hell-bent on taking their 40 Acres.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Harmony Lessons.

Salomé
#6

Salomé

After the lewd and frenetic Dance of the Seven Veils, and with the solemn pledge from the very lips of Herod himself that she could have whatever her heart desires up to half his kingdom, wanton and proud young Salomé comes before her king with an unreasonable demand. Beguiled by John the Baptist, and then scorned for the sake of his god, lascivious Salomé—encouraged by her mother, the vindictive, Herodias—commands that John be executed and his head delivered on a silver platter.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Harmony Lessons.

Home
#7

Home

An ex-felon returns home from prison and must confront the demons of his past.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Harmony Lessons.

Run
#8

Run

When a law student accidentally kills the son of a mob boss in a fight, he finds himself relentlessly pursued by the mob and the police.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Harmony Lessons.

I'm Not Here
#9

I'm Not Here

A man struggles with the tragic memories of his past to make sense of his present, but soon realizes that time isn't the enemy he thinks it is.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Harmony Lessons.

Civic Duty
#10

Civic Duty

An American accountant bombarded with cable news and the media's obsession with terrorist plots in the post 9-11 world, receives a jolt when an unattached Islamic graduate student moves in next door.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Harmony Lessons.

Reading Lolita in Tehran
#11

Reading Lolita in Tehran

The screen adaptation of Azar Nafisi’s memoir tells the true story of a literature professor in revolutionary Iran who, amidst censorship and religious extremism, gathers seven of her most dedicated female students to immerse themselves in banned literary classics.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Harmony Lessons.

The Gentle Indifference of the World
#12

The Gentle Indifference of the World

After her father's untimely death, Saltanat is forced to trade her idyllic countryside life for the cruel city. She has to find money to pay off the large family debt that her father left behind, in order to save her mother from jail. Friends since their village childhood, her loyal, but penniless admirer Kuandyk follows her just to make sure his sweetheart is safe. Saltanat's uncle introduces her to a possible groom, who promises to pay off her family's debts. But Saltanat's hopes are dashed, when she discovers that the men in this city don't keep their word. When Kuandyk tries to help Saltanat get the money through other ways, he ends up finding himself in more trouble than he bargained for. Although life keeps dealing them bad hands, Saltanat and Kuandyk never give up, no matter what the odds.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Harmony Lessons.

Hardball
#13

Hardball

An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of getting a loan from a friend.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Harmony Lessons.

Above the Rim
#14

Above the Rim

Story of a promising high school basketball star and his relationships with two brothers, one a drug dealer and the other a former basketball star fallen on hard times and now employed as a security guard.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Harmony Lessons.

Skin
#15

Skin

Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Harmony Lessons.