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All That Jazz (1979)
 7.8
 35K
All That Jazz (1979)
Genre: Drama, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Joe Gideon is at the top of the heap, one of the most successful directors and choreographers in musical theater. But he can feel his world slowly collapsing around him - his obsession with work has almost destroyed his personal life, and only his bottles of pills keep him going.
Style: surreal, touching, captivating, humorous, depressing, ironic, visually appealing, cerebral, mind bending, stylized ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: music, showbiz, jazz, dancing, workaholic, death, divorce, love and romance, life is a bitch, downfall, artists and showbiz, dancer's life, heart disease, price of fame, ambition, lifestyle, performer's life, filmmaking, addiction, storytelling, dance, angel, theater, disco, biopic ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 70s, year 1979, 40s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Keyword: oldies, gangsters, doctors, dreams, eye candy

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and stylized films with plots about artists and showbiz, music, lifestyle, ambition, dancing, showbiz and musician mostly in Drama, Music and Musical genres. Some movies like All That Jazz: Cabaret (1972), Topsy-Turvy (1999), Whiplash (2014), De-Lovely (2004), Beyond the Sea (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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
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100%
 7.3
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Topsy-Turvy (1999)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History, Music, Musical
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 160 min.
Story: After their production "Princess Ida" meets with less-than-stunning reviews, the relationship between Gilbert and Sullivan is strained to breaking. Their friends and associates attempt to get the two to work together again, which opens the ...
Style: talky, witty, historical drama, cult classic, meta ...
Plot: music, biopic, composer, writers, opera, rehearsal, theater, dancing, musician, filmmaking, female protagonist, humour ...
Time: victorian era, year 1999, 19th century, 1800s, 1880s
Place: london, england, britain, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.5
 976K
Whiplash (2014)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Under the direction of a ruthless instructor, a talented young drummer begins to pursue perfection at any cost, even his humanity.
Style: motivational, dramatic, psychological, inspirational, realistic ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, teen drama, adult
Plot: music, jazz, obsession, mentor, teachers and students, follow your dream, emotional abuse, desire for fame, drummer, musician's life, musician, public humiliation ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, 21st century
Place: peru, manhattan new york city, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.6
 12K
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 ⇓
37%
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 6.7
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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 ⇓
35%
 6.4
 93K
Burlesque (2010)
Genre: Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: The Burlesque Lounge has its best days behind it. Tess, a retired dancer and owner of the venue, struggles to keep the aging theater alive, facing all kinds of financial and artistic challenges. With the Lounge's troupe members becoming ...
Style: sexy, romantic, light, teen, entertaining ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot: dancing, performer's life, desire for fame, cabaret, ambition, burlesque, love and romance, happy ending, dancer, nightlife, sexy woman, nightclub ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, iowa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 7.1
 13K
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 ⇓
35%
 6.6
 25K
Fame (1980)
Genre: Drama, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: A chronicle of the lives of several teenagers who attend a New York high school for students gifted in the performing arts
Style: inspirational, realistic, sincere, serious, captivating ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: music, high school, dancing, teenager, teacher, rehearsal, gay, life philosophy, high school life, dysfunctional family, unlikely friendships, audition ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 70s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, bronx new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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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 ⇓
34%
 7.0
 5K
Sweet Dreams (1985)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Lange stunningly portrays Patsy Cline, the velvet-voiced country singer who died in a tragic plane crash.
Style: factual, realistic, atmospheric, captivating, gothic ...
Plot: biopic, musician's life, showbiz, fame, historical figure, air disaster, family problems, love and romance, country music, rising to stardom, celebrity culture, couples ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1985, 1950s, 50s ...
Place: west virginia, virginia, nashville tennessee
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
'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 ⇓
32%
 6.8
 36K
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 ⇓
32%
 4.7
 17K
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 ⇓
31%
 5.9
 34K
54 (1998)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Shane, a Jersey boy with big dreams, crosses the river in hopes of finding a more exciting life at Studio 54. When Steve Rubell, the mastermind behind the infamous disco, plucks Shane from the sea of faces clamoring to get inside his club, Shane not ...
Style: atmospheric, sexy, serious, realistic, sexual ...
Plot: disco, nightclub, gay, drug abuse, clubbing, addiction, nightlife, father son relationship, drug, lifestyle, lesbian, lgbtq ...
Time: 70s, 80s, 20th century, year 1979
Place: new york, new jersey, usa, bahamas, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 7.1
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Gypsy (1962)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story: Based on the Broadway hit about the life and times of burlesque dancer Gypsy Rose Lee and her aggressive stage mother, Mama Rose.
Style: retro, realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: stripper, burlesque, mother daughter relationship, broadway, domineering mother, ambition, biopic, dancing, sister sister relationship, striptease, motherhood, mother ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s, 20th century
Place: kansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Sweet Charity (1969)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 149 min.
Story: Taxi dancer Charity continues to have Faith in the human race despite apparently endless disappointments at its hands, and Hope that she will finally meet the nice young man to romance her away from her sleazy life. Maybe, just maybe, handsome Oscar ...
Style: stylized, funny, freeze frame, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: broadway, dancing, nightclub, transformation, charity, love, depression, dancehall girl, broken engagement, tragic love, celebrity, burlesque ...
Time: year 1969, 20th century, 60s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 6.9
 9K
The Rose (1979)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Midler is the rock-and-roll singer Mary Rose Foster (known as the Rose to her legions of fans), whose romantic relationships and mental health are continuously imperiled by the demands of life on the road.
Style: retro, realistic, serious, captivating, sincere ...
Plot: addiction, rock and roll, rock band, love, musician, singer, women, drug abuse, rock, music, bittersweet, biopic ...
Time: year 1979, 20th century, 60s, year 1969
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows (2001)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Musical
Country: Canada, Germany, USA
Duration: 170 min.
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Story: The film, which chronicles Garland's life from her first public performance in 1924 until her death in 1969, is divided into two parts: the first part depicts her rise to fame in the 1930s, her descent into drugs, and her fall from grace in the ...
Style: realistic, touching, captivating, serious, emotional ...
Plot: addiction, biopic, filmmaking, showbiz, rising to stardom, actor's life, singer, ambition, lifestyle, celebrity culture, family problems, musician's life ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s
Place: usa, california, new york, london, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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The Five Heartbeats (1991)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: In the early 1960's, a quintet of hopeful, young African-American men form an amateur vocal group called The Five Heartbeats. After an initially rocky start, the group improves, turns pro, and rises to become a top flight music sensation. Along ...
Style: sentimental, hood, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: music, racism, black, rock and roll, african american, friendship, blaxploitation, black history, music business, corruption, drug addiction, gangster ...
Time: 60s, year 1991, 70s, 20th century
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31%
 7.6
 298K
Moulin Rouge! (2001)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Parisian nightclub, at the cusp of the 20th century. A young poet, who is plunged into the heady world of Moulin Rouge, begins a passionate affair with ...
Style: sentimental, sexy, visually stunning, romantic, colorful ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot: cabaret, love story, showbiz, tragic love, nightclub, jealousy, music, performer's life, love and romance, seduction, tango, terminal illness ...
Time: 19th century, 1890s, year 2001, victorian era, 1800s ...
Place: paris france, europe, detroit, montmartre paris, france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Saturday Night Fever (1977)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Tony Manero is a Brooklyn paint-store clerk who'd give anything to break out of his dead-end existence. In life, Tony is a peasant; on the disco dance floor, he's a king. As the soundtrack plays one Bee Gees hit after another, white-suited ...
Style: sexy, sentimental, rough, light, serious ...
Audience: date night, teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: dancing, disco, dance, nightclub, working class, dancer, music, love, dysfunctional family, slut, coming of age, slutty attitude ...
Time: 70s, year 1977, 20th century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 7.1
 1K
Payday (1973)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A cynical look at the life of a not so nice country-western singer, Maury Dann - played by Rip Torn in one of his most memorable performances. He ruthlessly manipulates every one around him to suit his selfish needs...he even gets his limo driver to ...
Style: light, independent film, contemplative, tense, talky ...
Plot: drug addiction, addiction, music business, country music, infidelity, mistress, friends, couples, on the road, country, relationship vs career, parents and children ...
Time: 70s
Place: usa, tennessee
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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 ⇓
31%
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 6.6
 27K
Take the Lead (2006)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A former professional dancer volunteers to teach dance in the New York public school system and, while his background first clashes with his students' tastes, together they create a completely new style of dance. Based on the story of ballroom ...
Style: inspirational, sexy, entertaining, captivating, feel good ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot: dancing, teacher, dance, dancer, dancer's life, dedicated educator, teenager, music, high school, respect, teachers and students, prejudice ...
Time: year 2006, 20th century, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 5.3
 47K
Honey (2003)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Honey Daniels (Jessica Alba) dreams of making a name for herself as a hip-hop choreographer. When she's not busy hitting downtown clubs with her friends, she teaches dance classes at a nearby community center in Harlem, N.Y., as a way to keep ...
Style: sexy, inspirational, teen, exciting, semi serious ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: dancing, hip hop, music, dance, teenager, street dance, choreographer, follow your dream, lifestyle, love and romance, starting over, hopes ...
Time: year 2003, 20th century, 21st century
Place: usa, new york, harlem, new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: France
Duration: 135 min.
Story: A glimpse at the life of French singer Serge Gainsbourg, from growing up in 1940s Nazi-occupied Paris through his successful song-writing years in the 1960s to his death in 1991 at the age of 62.
Style: surreal, atmospheric, visually appealing, lyrical, captivating ...
Plot: jazz, musician, biopic, music, songwriter, success, artist, art, musician's life, introspection, ambition, desire for fame ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 80s, 70s, 90s ...
Place: paris france, france, israel, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Velvet Goldmine (1998)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Almost a decade has elapsed since Bowiesque glam-rock superstar Brian Slade escaped the spotlight of the London scene. Now, investigative journalist Arthur Stuart is on assignment to uncover the truth behind the enigmatic Slade. Stuart, himself ...
Style: surreal, stylized, erotic, lgbt cinema, independent film ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: homosexuality, male nudity, gay, music, homosexual, rock and roll, rock, homoeroticism, lgbtq, journalism, lgbt, bare chested male ...
Time: 70s, year 1998, 19th century, 20th century, 80s ...
Place: seattle, britain, england, europe, dublin ireland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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 ⇓
30%
 6.0
 537
Roseland (1977)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: "Roseland" is made up of three stories, sometimes connecting, all set in the famed New York dance palace, and all having the same theme: finding the right dance partner.
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, atmospheric, thought provoking ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: loneliness, friendship, looking for love, elderly, couples, party, music, dance, disco, love and romance, contests and competitions, dancer's life ...
Time: 70s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 5.5
 782
Fast Forward (1985)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Eight young people from Ohio who are dancers, come to New York, to compete in a major talent competition. But when they get there, they learn that they have to wait some time before they take part in it. So they try to do their best to survive in ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, feel good, stylized, humorous
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: breakdance, dance, dancing, club, street kid, high school, couples, friends, family relations, rising to stardom, lifestyle, coming of age ...
Time: year 1985, 80s
Place: ohio, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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