Movies like New York, New York

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New York, New York (1977)
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New York, New York (1977)
Genre: Drama, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 155 min.
Story: An egotistical saxophone player and a young singer meet on V-J Day and embark upon a strained and rocky romance, even as their careers begin a long uphill climb.
Style: sentimental, realistic, stylized, cult classic, atmospheric, serious, captivating, romantic, road movie, clever ...
Plot: jazz, music, musician, saxophonist, dancing, fall in love, world war two, american football, gotham city, doomed romance, music and dance, jazz musician, composer, nightclub, orchestra, marriage, love and romance, cabaret, couples, showbiz, ambition, family problems, musician's life, crumbling marriage, bittersweet ...
Time: 1940s, 1950s, 20th century, post world war two, 70s, 50s, 1930s ...
Place: new york, usa, harlem, manhattan new york city, new jersey, harlem manhattan new york city
Keyword: oldies, jazz score, gangsters

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Most similar movies to New York, New York

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sentimental and touching films with plots about artists and showbiz, musician's life, music, musician, showbiz, love and romance and ambition mostly in Drama, Music and Musical genres. Some movies like New York, New York: Dreamgirls (2006), The Cotton Club (1984), De-Lovely (2004), Beyond the Sea (2004), Country Strong (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Dreamgirls (2006)
Genre: Drama, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Three young women – Deena Jones, Effie White and Lorrell Robinson – dream of becoming pop stars and they get their wish when they're chosen to be backup singers for the legendary James 'Thunder' Early.
Style: stylized, emotional, lyrical, melancholic, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: african american, performer's life, showbiz, music, fame, dancing, broadway, jazz, manager, black, unlikely friendships, dance ...
Time: 60s, 70s, year 2006, 2000s, 20th century
Place: michigan, los angeles, detroit, usa, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Cotton Club (1984)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: The story of the people that frequented Harlem's famous nightclubs, 'The Cotton Club', and those that ran it.
Style: intense, captivating, realistic, atmospheric, visually stunning ...
Plot: jazz, mafia, gangster, music, nightclub, prohibition, love triangle, ambition, rivalry, love and romance, flapper, mob boss ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1929
Place: new york, usa, harlem, new york city, grand central station manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.6
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De-Lovely (2004)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Musical
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: From Paris to Venice to Broadway to Hollywood, the lives of Cole Porter and his wife, Linda were never less than glamorous and wildly unconventional. And though Cole's thirst for life strained their marriage, Linda never stopped being his muse, ...
Style: stylized, lyrical, atmospheric, captivating, sincere ...
Audience: date night
Plot: biopic, gay, jazz, showbiz, musician's life, music, disability, infidelity, rehearsal, terminal illness, lifestyle, ambition ...
Time: 1930s, year 2004, 1940s, 1920s, 20th century ...
Place: venice, new york, usa, italy, paris france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.7
 15K
Beyond the Sea (2004)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Musical
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Based on the life and career of legendary entertainer, Bobby Darin, the biopic moves back and forth between his childhood and adulthood, to tell the tale of his remarkable life. Kevin Spacey did his own singing for Beyond the Sea, recreating Bobby ...
Style: sentimental, touching, stylized, intense, realistic ...
Plot: music, biopic, showbiz, musician, musician's life, lifestyle, singer, ambition, rising to stardom, rise and fall, nightclub, dancing ...
Time: 50s, year 2004, 60s, 20th century, 1950s
Place: usa, las vegas, pacific ocean, new york, italy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench (2009)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: After connecting with the shy Madeline, a jazz trumpeter embarks on a quest for a more gregarious paramour, but through a series of twists and turns punctuated by an original score, the two lovers seem destined to be together.
Style: feel good, atmospheric, serious, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience: date night
Plot: jazz, young lovers, couples, looking for love, couple relations, breakup, lifestyle, love and romance, performer's life, musician's life, artists and showbiz, love affair ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, boston, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.3
 19K
Country Strong (2010)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Soon after the rising young singer-songwriter Beau Williams gets involved with a fallen, emotionally unstable country star Kelly Canter, the pair embark on a career resurrection tour helmed by her husband/manager James and featuring a beauty ...
Style: romantic, intense, serious, sentimental, visually appealing ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: country music, infidelity, dancing, love triangle, musician's life, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, showbiz, ambition, love and romance, love, addiction ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas, tennessee, usa, austin texas, dallas texas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The Mambo Kings (1992)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: France, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The Mambo Kings tells the story of César and Nestor Castillo, brothers and aspiring musicians who flee from Cuba to America in search of the American Dream.
Style: sentimental, melancholic, emotional, serious, realistic ...
Plot: music, musician's life, rags to riches, true love, performer's life, family relations, immigrant, love story, brother brother relationship, sibling rivalry, fame, love ...
Time: 50s, 1950s, year 1992, 20th century
Place: cuba, new york, america, havana cuba, latin america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
The Identical (2014)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: During the Great Depression, identical twins are separated at birth. One, Drexel Hemsley becomes a wildly successful '50s rock star, while the other, Ryan Wade, struggles to balance his passion for music and pleasing his parents, who want him ...
Style: captivating, serious, realistic, touching, sentimental ...
Plot: musician, family relations, musician's life, ambition, supportive spouse, twin brother, rising to stardom, artists and showbiz, follow your dream, jazz, christian, family secret ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 50s, 60s, 1930s ...
Place: usa, alabama
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Pure Country 2: The Gift (2010)
Genre: Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Three angels bestow the gift of song to a young girl, who must follow a series of rules in order hold on to it during her rise to fame and fortune.
Style: realistic, sincere, serious, sentimental, contemplative
Plot: country, friendship, musician's life, desire for fame, music, love and romance, lifestyle, rise to the top, friends, hopes, ambition, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 21st century
Place: tennessee, usa, dallas texas, austin texas, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Jersey Boys (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: From director Clint Eastwood comes the big-screen version of the Tony Award-winning musical Jersey Boys. The film tells the story of four young men from the wrong side of the tracks in New Jersey who came together to form the iconic 1960s rock group ...
Style: stylized, intense, sentimental, realistic, serious ...
Plot: music, biopic, music band, broadway, rock and roll, musician, life philosophy, desire for fame, rising to stardom, ambition, showbiz, friends ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 50s, 1950s
Place: new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Mo' Better Blues (1990)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Opens with Bleek as a child learning to play the trumpet, his friends want him to come out and play but mother insists he finish his lessons. Bleek grows into adulthood and forms his own band - The Bleek Gilliam Quartet. The story of Bleek's ...
Style: serious, psychological, stylized, clever, hood ...
Plot: jazz, music, black, friendship, rivalry, musician's life, hip hop, african american, urban, jealousy, saxophonist, blaxploitation ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1969, 60s
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, africa, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 7.8
 59K
Cabaret (1972)
Genre: Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles and an impish emcee sound the clarion call to decadent fun, while outside a certain political party grows into a brutal force.
Style: satirical, stylized, atmospheric, sentimental, serious ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: nazi, gay, gay interest, world war two, cabaret, decadence, fascism, dancing, bisexual man, broadway, closeted homosexual, visceral ...
Time: 1930s, year 1972, year 1931, 20th century
Place: berlin germany, europe, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
A Man Called Adam (1966)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A famous jazz trumpeter finds himself unable to cope with the problems of everyday life.
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, captivating
Plot: jazz, racism, music and dance, blaxploitation, black, casino, alcoholism, talent agent, prejudice, musician, trumpet player, biopic ...
Time: year 1966, 60s
Place: cincinnati ohio, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Bird (1988)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 161 min.
Story: Saxophone player Charlie Parker comes to New York in 1940. He is quickly noticed for his remarkable way of playing. He becomes a drug addict but his loving wife Chan tries to help him.
Style: atmospheric, psychological, factual, stylized, realistic ...
Plot: jazz, music, biopic, drug abuse, addiction, heroin, musician's life, drug addict, character study, childhood, showbiz, musician ...
Time: 1940s, year 1988, 1950s, 20th century, 50s
Place: usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Moonlight Serenade (2009)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A jazz musician performs alongside a coat check girl with a beautiful voice in this musical drama from director Giancarlo Tallarico. By day Nate earns his living as a financial manager, but when night falls, he helps the girl with her singing career ...
Style: sexy, serious, stylized, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: jazz, couples, love affair, fall in love, artists and showbiz, musician's life, love and romance, fired from the job, singer, musician, sexual content, anger ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
'Round Midnight (1986)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA, France
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Inside the Blue Note nightclub one night in 1959 Paris, an aged, ailing jazzman coaxes an eloquent wail from his tenor sax. Outside, a young Parisian too broke to buy a glass of wine strains to hear those notes. Soon they will form a friendship that ...
Style: contemplative, gloomy, sentimental, touching, realistic ...
Plot: jazz, music, addiction, alcoholism, musician, art, friendship, bittersweet, drug addiction, biopic, alcoholic, solitude ...
Time: year 1986, 50s, 20th century, year 1959
Place: france, paris france, europe, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Staying Alive (1983)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: It's five years later and Tony Manero's Saturday Night Fever is still burning. Now he's strutting toward his biggest challenger yet - making it as a dancer on the Broadway stage.
Style: cult classic, serious, realistic, stylized, freeze frame ...
Plot: dance, dancing, disco, nightclub, music, love, dysfunctional family, musician, new year, cannon, dj, music and dance ...
Time: 80s, year 1983, 20th century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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 12K
A Chorus Line (1985)
Genre: Drama, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A group of dancers congregate on the stage of a Broadway theatre to audition for a new musical production directed by Zach (Michael Douglas). After the initial eliminations, seventeen hopefuls remain, among them Cassie (Alyson Reed), who once had a ...
Style: stylized, lyrical, sexy, clever, emotional ...
Audience: kids, date night
Plot: broadway, showbiz, audition, dancing, music, ballet, rehearsal, ballet school, rise to the top, choreography, dance, choreographer ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1985
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Sparkle (1976)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Three sisters (Sister and the Sisters) from Harlem who become singers Sister (Lonette McKee) becomes involved with drugs and Sparkle ends up being the one who gets famous. This movie tells about how drugs ruined Sister's relationships and ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sentimental, entertaining ...
Plot: black, african american, drug addiction, urban, girl group, showbiz, african, girl power, rock and roll, ambitious woman, black cast, black history ...
Time: year 1976, 20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place: new york, harlem, new york city, usa, harlem, manhattan new york city ...
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27%
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Out of Tune (2008)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: Brazil
Duration: 139 min.
Story: 'Slightly Out Of Tune' is about a group of friends who come of age during the political turmoil that plagued Brazil in the 1960's and 70's. Together, these musicians form a band called "Os Desafinados" and become a part ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sentimental
Plot: music, friendship, love triangle, fall in love, rise to the top, ambition, desire for fame, love and romance, society, rising to stardom, youth, rivalry ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: rio de janeiro, brazil, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Blue Valley Songbird (1999)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Country singer Leana Taylor (Dolly Parton) struggles to escape from her controlling manager/boyfriend Hank (John Terry) as well as her troubled past. After turning to her guitarist (Billy Dean), Leanna finally faces her past, including her estranged ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, entertaining
Plot: country, country music, couples, follow your dream, ambition, lifestyle, rising to stardom, music, desire for fame, performer's life, love and romance, life is a bitch ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, tennessee, nashville tennessee
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 7.7
 157K
Ray (2004)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 152 min.
Story: Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by a fiercely independent mom who insisted he make his own way, He found his calling and his gift behind a piano keyboard. Touring across the Southern ...
Style: inspirational, touching, sincere, emotional, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: jazz, addiction, musician, musician's life, music, african american, blindness, biopic, pianist, disability, blind character, heroin ...
Time: year 2004, 1930s, 20th century, 60s, 50s ...
Place: georgia, new york, indianapolis indiana, california, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 7.3
 12K
Tender Mercies (1983)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Alchoholic former country singer Mac Sledge makes friends with a young widow and her son. The friendship enables him to find inspiration to resume his career.
Style: touching, sentimental, realistic, atmospheric, sincere ...
Audience: family outing, date night
Plot: country music, character study, music, self discovery, small town, alcoholism, comeback, musician's life, starting over, divorce, love and romance, couples ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1983
Place: texas, midwest, austin texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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King of Salsa (2006)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The rise and fall of salsa singer, Héctor Lavoe (1946-1993), as told from the perspective of his wife Puchi, who looks back from 2002.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, disturbing, informative ...
Plot: music, ambition, musician's life, artists and showbiz, showbiz, dancing, biopic, lifestyle, life is a bitch, rise and fall, drug abuse, salsa ...
Time: 70s, year 2006, 60s
Place: usa, new york, puerto rico
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
All Night Long (1962)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Over the course of one eventful evening, the anniversary celebration of the musical and romantic partners Aurelius Rex and Delia Lane, a jealous, ambitious drummer, Johnny Cousin, attempts to tear the interracial couple apart.
Style: grindhouse, neo noir, noir, realistic, serious ...
Plot: jazz, shakespeare, jazz musician, shakespeare's othello, musician, tragic love, blaxploitation, interracial, music and dance, opera, african, underground ...
Time: 60s
Place: britain, london, england, east end london
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Grace of My Heart (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: An aspiring singer, Denise Waverly/Edna Buxton, sacrifices her own singing career to write hit songs that launch the careers of other singers. The film follows her life from her first break, through the pain of rejection from the recording industry ...
Style: touching, lyrical, inspirational, sentimental, cult classic ...
Plot: songwriter, music, music industry, existentialism, loneliness, showbiz, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, ambition, rise and fall, self discovery, rock and roll ...
Time: year 1996, 70s, 60s, 1950s, 20th century ...
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Biography of Loretta Lynn, a country and western singer that came from poverty to fame.
Style: sentimental, touching, realistic, inspirational, factual ...
Plot: country music, music, biopic, female protagonist, musician's life, poverty, singer, rags to riches, musician, mining, music business, rising to stardom ...
Time: 1950s, year 1980, 70s, 20th century
Place: kentucky, usa, washington state, nashville tennessee, appalachia
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story (2000)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In the early 1970s, Cuban trumpeter Arturo Sandoval (Andy Garcia) is torn between his own musical dreams and the dreams of his wife, Marianela (Mía Maestro), a fervent supporter of the ideals of the Castro revolution. Also starring Charles S. ...
Style: emotional, realistic, touching, sincere, serious ...
Plot: jazz, human spirit, showbiz, politics, unfulfillment, couples, political unrest, musician's life, relationship vs career, revolution, family problems, society ...
Place: usa, cuba, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Eddie and the Cruisers (1983)
Genre: Drama, Music, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Michael Paré stars as Eddie Wilson of the rock band Eddie and Cruisers. The band is at the height of their career in the 1960s when front man Eddie drives his car off a bridge in an apparent suicide -- but the body was never found.
Style: cult classic, realistic, serious, captivating, sentimental ...
Audience: teens
Plot: music, rock and roll, rock music, reporter, musician, dancing, teenager, singer, past, missing person, friends, unfulfillment ...
Time: 80s, 60s, 20th century
Place: new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 2.4
 24K
Glitter (2001)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A young woman is catapulted into pop stardom, with her already-famous DJ boyfriend calling the shots.
Style: touching, melancholic, exciting, sentimental, cult classic ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: music, female protagonist, showbiz, hopes, rise and fall, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, ambition, love affair, rising to stardom, follow your dream, parents and children ...
Time: 80s, year 2001, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, maryland, madison square garden manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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