Rising to stardom movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant rising to stardom movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, captivating, feel good, touching and humorous films and TV shows about / with rising to stardom, ambition, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, showbiz, musician's life, singer, fame, music and biopic plots mostly in Drama, Music and Biography genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as rising to stardom: Rush (2013), The Blind Side (2009), Smash (2012), Notorious (2009), Burlesque (2010), Big Time Rush (2009), Austin & Ally (2011), Perfect Blue (1997), Survivor's Remorse (2014), Chaplin (1992).

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 8.1
 510K
Rush (2013)
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A biographical drama centered on the rivalry between Formula 1 drivers James Hunt and Niki Lauda during the 1976 Formula One motor-racing season.
Style: inspirational, realistic, motivational, suspense, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: racing, race, car race, race car, racecar driver, rise to the top, motor sport, success, formula 1, car racing, world champion, rivalry ...
Time: 70s, year 2013, 2010s, year 1976, year 1970 ...
Place: europe, britain, australia, usa, monte carlo ...
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 7.6
 358K
The Blind Side (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Oversized African-American, Michael Oher, the teen from across the tracks and a broken home, has nowhere to sleep at age 16. Taken in by an affluent Memphis couple, Michael embarks on a remarkable rise to play for the NFL.
Style: inspirational, touching, emotional, sentimental, motivational ...
Audience: family outing, chick flick, teens, kids, family friendly ...
Plot: american football, adoption, life, african american, human spirit, family drama, christian, interracial relations, football, rising to stardom, racism, interracial adoption ...
Time: year 2009, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, tennessee, america, boston, mississippi ...
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 7.7
 18K
Smash (2012)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Smash is an American musical drama television series created by playwright Theresa Rebeck and developed by Robert Greenblatt for NBC. Steven Spielberg served as one of the executive producers. The series was broadcast in the US by NBC and produced ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, stylized, teen ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: showbiz, dancer, actor's life, young woman, producer, actor, ambition, rising to stardom, follow your dream, lifestyle, desire for fame, starlet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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 6.7
 46K
Notorious (2009)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: NOTORIOUS is the story of Christopher Wallace. Through raw talent and sheer determination, Wallace transforms himself from Brooklyn street hustler (once selling crack to pregnant women) to one of the greatest rappers of all time; THE NOTORIOUS ...
Style: hood, factual, melancholic, serious, sincere ...
Plot: hip hop, african american, urban ghetto life, music, biopic, murder, rising to stardom, success, fame, ghetto, musician, profanity ...
Time: year 2009, 20th century, 80s, year 1983, 90s
Place: new york, usa, los angeles, brooklyn new york city
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 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
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 6.5
 14K
Big Time Rush (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Four teenage friends move from Minneapolis to Los Angeles to form a potential chart-topping boy band after Kendall is inadvertently discovered by an eccentric record executive, Gustavo Rocque. As they seize this opportunity of a lifetime, these ...
Style: sitcom, feel good, semi serious, funny, captivating ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: teenager, music band, rising to stardom, friends, siblings relations, high school, high school life, teenage life, ex athlete, family relations, music, athlete's life ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, minnesota, usa
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 6.0
 13K
Austin & Ally (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: A comedy about the unique relationship between a young songwriter, Ally Dawson, and Austin Moon, the overnight internet sensation who gains sudden notoriety after performing one of Ally's songs. Austin and Ally struggle with how to maintain and ...
Style: sitcom, not serious, novela, realistic, humorous
Audience: kids, teens, boys' night
Plot: teenage life, rising to stardom, friendship, artists and showbiz, youth, shyness, music, conservative, singer, friends, group of friends, best friend ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: miami, florida, usa
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 8.0
 93K
Perfect Blue (1997)
Genre: Animation, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A retired pop singer turned actress' sense of reality is shaken when she is stalked by an obsessed fan and seemingly a ghost of her past.
Style: surreal, suspense, adult animation, anime, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: murder, serial killer, mentally unstable, stalking, obsession, actor's life, actress, twists and turns, psychopath, rape, losing-it hero, woman in danger ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1997
Place: japan, east asia, asia
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Survivor's Remorse (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Cam Calloway is about to find out the price he'll pay for stardom, love and loyalty. A basketball star in his early 20s, Calloway's life changes after he signs a multimillion-dollar contract with a team in Atlanta. He arrives in Georgia ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, touching, sitcom ...
Plot: athlete's life, rising to stardom, friendship, celebrity culture, black, glory, price of fame, wealthy family, family life, family problems, rise to the top, relationship problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: pennsylvania, philadelphia, usa
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 7.5
 62K
Chaplin (1992)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, France, Italy, Japan, USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story: With the use of flashback, an elderly Charlie Chaplin discusses his autobiography with his editor, who urges him to be more vulnerable and emotionally honest with his memoirs while journeying through his poverty-stricken childhood, closest ...
Style: inspirational, sentimental, factual, light, intense ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: biopic, rising to stardom, hollywood, childhood, actor's life, filmmaking, success, mccarthyism, comedian, unlikely friendships, depression, honest ...
Time: 1940s, 70s, edwardian era, 1950s, 1920s ...
Place: london, los angeles, england, california, switzerland
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Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows (2001)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Musical
Country: Canada, Germany, USA
Duration: 170 min.
TV show
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
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 7.3
 193K
Rocketman (2019)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Musical
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 121 min.
Story: The story of Elton John's life, from his years as a prodigy at the Royal Academy of Music through his influential and enduring musical partnership with Bernie Taupin.
Style: inspirational, uplifting, touching, stylized, compassionate ...
Audience: adult
Plot: musician, rock music, lgbt, biopic, homosexuality, homosexual, rock and roll, rising to stardom, pop music, addiction, gay lead character, music ...
Time: 60s, 70s, year 2019, 2010s, future ...
Place: california, england, los angeles, new york, london ...
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 7.2
 242K
Chicago (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Musical
Country: USA, Germany, Canada, UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago.
Style: sexy, stylized, colorful, light, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, date night
Plot: prison, broadway, femme fatale, desire for fame, legal, jail, lawyer, jazz, musician, music, flapper, rising to stardom ...
Time: 1920s, 1900s, 2000s, 20th century, year 2002
Place: chicago, usa, illinois
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The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack (2000)
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: With the help of her mother, family, friends, and fellow musicians, Aiyana Elliott reaches for her father, legendary cowboy troubadour, Ramblin' Jack Elliott. She explores who he is and how he got there, working back and forth between archival ...
Style: melancholic, suspenseful, touching, sincere, serious ...
Plot: music, father daughter relationship, musician's life, prodigy, rising to stardom, character study, estrangement, family relations, parents and children, relationship vs career, showbiz, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 50s
Place: usa, new york, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, greenwich village manhattan new york city
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Waltz for Monica (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Sweden
Duration: 111 min.
Story: "Monica Z" is a biopic about the Swedish singer and actress Monica Zetterlund focusing on her journey from a job as a telephone operator in a small town in Sweden to stardom in the clubs of New York and Stockholm.
Style: realistic, emotional, factual, uplifting, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: jazz singer, single mother, jazz, rising to stardom, father daughter relationship, ambition, female singer, nightclub singer, fame, follow your dream, drinking problem, family problems ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: new york, stockholm sweden, europe, usa, eastern europe
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 5.4
 15K
The Guru (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Bored with Bollywood movies but fascinated with their Hollywood counterparts from his youth, Ram dreams to become a singer and actor in America, the country where dreams are made. He is encouraged when his American-based close friend, Vijay Rao, ...
Style: feel good, humorous, witty, touching, funny ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: porn industry, guru, rising to stardom, fish out of water, lifestyle, secret life, new love, sexual relations, misfit, society, disorder, dancer's life ...
Time: year 2002
Place: new york, india, usa, asia, manhattan new york city
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 8.2
 72K
Run Milkha Run (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: India
Duration: 186 min.
Story: The true story of the "Flying Sikh" world champion runner and Olympian Milkha Singh who overcame the massacre of his family, civil war during the India-Pakistan partition, and homelessness to become one of India's most iconic athletes.
Style: inspirational, realistic, cult classic, meditative, uplifting ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: rise to the top, olympics, biopic, running, life, athlete's life, indians, lifestyle, rising to stardom, follow your dream, ambition, contests and competitions ...
Time: year 2013, 60s, 20th century, 50s, year 1947 ...
Place: india, middle east, asia, pakistan
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The Josephine Baker Story (1991)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music, Romance
Country: USA, UK, Hungary
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Biography of the African-American who became a major performer in the Paris cabarets of the 1920's and 1930's. The film follows her life beginning as a struggling performer in 1917 St. Louis, her frustrations leading to her move to France, ...
Style: realistic, captivating, emotional, serious, entertaining ...
Plot: african american, racism, nude black woman, vaudeville, showbiz, cabaret, rising to stardom, lifestyle, performer, human spirit, ambition, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 1930s, victorian era, 1920s, 1910s, 1950s ...
Place: france, america, paris france, europe, missouri ...
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Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A kid from the Midwest moves out to Hollywood in order to follow in his parents footsteps -- and become a porn star.
Style: humorous, not serious, feel good, entertaining, dark comedy ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: sexual humor, filmmaking, porn industry, follow your dream, lifestyle, rising to stardom, ambition, desire for fame, misfit, goofy hero, showbiz, fish out of water ...
Time: 21st century
Place: idaho, california, los angeles, usa
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 5.7
 7K
Sparkle (2012)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Musical prodigy, Sparkle (Jordin Sparks) struggles to become a star while overcoming issues that are tearing her family apart. From an affluent Detroit area and daughter to a single mother (Whitney Houston), she tries to balance a new romance with ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, sentimental, inspirational ...
Plot: musician's life, family relations, ambition, rising to stardom, desire for fame, music band, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, family problems, showbiz, black, african american ...
Time: year 2012, 60s, 20th century
Place: detroit, usa, michigan
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 5.6
 1K
Hendrix (2000)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Biography of rock star Jimi Hendrix chronicles his early career, including a stint with Little Richard who fired him for getting too flamboyant, to his tragic failure.
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, gloomy
Plot: musician's life, biopic, ambition, rising to stardom, prodigy, tragic hero, music band, life is a bitch, rise and fall, artists and showbiz, drug abuse, hotshot hero ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
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 5.7
 2K
Stardom (2000)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A young girl is plucked from small-town obscurity and thrust into the spotlight of the glamorous world of super-models.
Style: clever, stylized, realistic, captivating, cynical ...
Plot: fashion, obsession, model, rise and fall, rags to riches, rising to stardom, lifestyle, desire for fame, rise to the top, ambition, celebrity culture, showbiz ...
Time: 90s
Place: paris france, canada, europe, france, montreal
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 5.9
 24K
Igor (2008)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: France, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A cliché hunchbacked evil scientist's assistant aspires to become a scientist himself, much to the displeasure of the rest of the evil science community.
Style: humorous, semi serious, funny, 3d animation, animated comedy ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: mad scientist, brainwashing, experiment, evil scientist, rivalry, follow your dream, rising to stardom, ambition, hunchback, plan gone awry, experiment gone awry, social misfits ...
Time: year 2008
Place: europe
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 7.6
 90K
La Vie en Rose (2007)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, UK, Czech Republic
Duration: 140 min.
Story: A swirling, impressionistic portrait of an artist who regretted nothing, writer-director Olivier Dahan's La Vie en Rose stars Marion Cotillard in a blazing performance as the legendary French icon Edith Piaf. From the mean streets of the ...
Style: touching, disturbing, atmospheric, gloomy, melancholic ...
Plot: music, musician's life, singer, biopic, death, musician, childhood, art, artist, love story, rising to stardom, loss of child ...
Time: 20th century, year 2007, 1940s, 90s, 1910s ...
Place: france, europe, paris france, new york, montmartre paris ...
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30 Days Until I'm Famous (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A Latina working in Los Angeles as a messenger is randomly discovered and fashioned into a pop music star.
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious, realistic
Audience: date night
Plot: rising to stardom, musician's life, ambition, starting over, fall in love, teenage life, showbiz, teaching the ways of the world, lifestyle, wooing, couples, celebrity culture ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, california
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Where's Firuze? (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Turkey
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Having failed incredibly many times in attempts to find a big talent and to be rich, the two producers and their only two contracted singers struggle to clean their debts and make their dreams come true, no matter what happens. Being in a tight ...
Style: semi serious, witty, humorous, feel good, art house ...
Plot: ambition, desire for fame, lifestyle, rising to stardom, showbiz, musician's life, nothing goes right, artists and showbiz, fall in love, buddies, comedy team, partner ...
Time: 21st century
Place: turkey, istanbul turkey
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Read It and Weep (2006)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A young girl turns into an A-List celebrity over night when her private journal is accidently published and becomes a best-seller.
Style: realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous, teen
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids, family outing, teen drama
Plot: high school, teenage girl, teenage love, diary, youth, popularity, teenage life, power relations, adolescence vs adulthood, rising to stardom, family life, alter ego ...
Time: 21st century
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 5.4
 22K
Like Mike (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Calvin and his friends, who all live in an orphanage, find old shoes with the faded letters MJ connected to a powerline. One stormy night, they go to get the shoes when Calvin and the shoes are struck by lightning. Calvin now has unbelievable ...
Style: not serious, humorous, feel good, touching, black comedy ...
Audience: family outing, teens, kids, girls' night, family friendly ...
Plot: basketball, youth, sport team, teenage life, wish come true, teenager, orphanage, rising to stardom, prodigy, hopes, superhuman powers, ambition ...
Place: los angeles, england, europe, california
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The Audrey Hepburn Story (2000)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 133 min.
Story: The film spans from Hepburn's early childhood to the 1950s which details her life as a Dutch ballerina, coming to grips with her parents' divorce, and enduring life in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II. She then settles in ...
Style: uplifting, serious, feel good, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot: hollywood, actor's life, world war two, showbiz, celebrity culture, performer's life, rising to stardom, childhood, filmmaking, haunted by the past, human spirit, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 1940s, 50s, 1950s
Place: usa, new york, europe, holland, manhattan new york city
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 7.8
 265K
Walk the Line (2005)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story: A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his rise to fame with Sun Records in Memphis, where he recorded alongside Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins.
Style: sentimental, touching, emotional, road movie, captivating ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: music, rock and roll, country music, musician's life, musician, addiction, marriage, biopic, accident, prison, drug, rise and fall ...
Time: 70s, 60s, 50s, 2000s, 1940s ...
Place: tennessee, memphis, usa, arkansas, west germany ...
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