Movies like Chicago
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Chicago (2002)
255K
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Musical
Country: USA, Germany, Canada
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, witty, stylized, visually stunning, period piece, light, entertaining, colorful, lyrical, erotic ...
Audience:
kids, date night, girls' night
Plot:
broadway, femme fatale, desire for fame, lovers, jail, prison, musician, lawyer, jazz, satire, execution, brutality, music, rising to stardom, flapper, women's prison, murder of a nude woman, music business, courtroom, showbiz, rivalry, murder trial, greed, ambition, fame ...
Time:
1920s, 1900s, 2000s, 20th century, year 2002, 1930s, 20s
Place:
chicago, usa, illinois
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Most similar movies to Chicago
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, stylized and feel good films with plots about dancing, mentor, dialogue, adaptation, storytelling, love and romance and catastrophe mostly in Comedy, Musical and Crime genres. Some movies like Chicago: Burlesque (2010), Moulin Rouge! (2001), Bugsy Malone (1976), Bullets Over Broadway (1994), Death of a Dynasty (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
99K
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:
romantic, sexy, entertaining, light, inspirational ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot:
dancing, performer's life, desire for fame, cabaret, dancer, burlesque, ambition, love and romance, happy ending, sexy woman, nightlife, nightclub ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, iowa, usa, canada
Similarity:
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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, romantic, sexy, visually stunning, period piece ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
cabaret, love story, tragic love, jealousy, nightclub, sexual attraction, showbiz, music, performer's life, bohemian life, passion, love and romance ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s, year 2001, ancient times, victorian era ...
Place:
paris france, europe, detroit, france, montmartre paris ...
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Family, Musical
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A pint-sized cast illuminates this musical that is unlike any other ever made. Set in 1929 New York City, Bugsy Malone captures a flashy world of would-be hoodlums, showgirls, and dreamers - all played by child actors! As Tallulah, the sassy ...
Style:
spoof, melancholic, stylized, talky, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night, teens
Plot:
gangster, mafia, children, childhood, unlikely friendships, lone hero, rivalry, gang, disorder, partner, criminal heroes, ambition ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, 1920s, year 1976, year 1929 ...
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Set in 1920's New York City, this movie tells the story of idealistic young playwright David Shayne. Producer Julian Marx finally finds funding for the project from gangster Nick Valenti. The catch is that Nick's girl friend Olive Neal ...
Style:
light, humorous, funny, witty, talky ...
Plot:
mafia, gangster, satire, backstage, writers, theater, murder, playwright, actor, rehearsal, actress, showbiz ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1994
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Musical, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A story which centers around Dave Katz, a journalist at a hip-hop magazine who is sent on assignment to uncover the often comedic underworld of Roc-a-Fella Records run by Damon Dash and Jay-Z.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, talky, independent film ...
Plot:
hip hop, musician's life, showbiz, lifestyle, journalism, desire for fame, artists and showbiz, ambition, media, buddies, rise and fall, satire ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Suzanne Stone (Maretto) wants to be a world-famous news anchor and she is willing to do anything to get what she wants. What she lacks in intelligence, she makes up for in cold determination and diabolical wiles. As she pursues her goal with ...
Style:
sexy, black comedy, satirical, dark comedy, cynical ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick, teens, adult
Plot:
journalism, femme fatale, satire, female protagonist, erotic fantasy, teenage girl, oral sex, murder, television, cheating wife, adultery, erotic scene ...
Time:
90s, year 1995
Place:
new hampshire, usa, california, minnesota, canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
After putting together another Broadway flop, down-on-his-luck producer Max Bialystock teams up with timid accountant Leo Bloom in a get-rich-quick scheme to put on the world's worst show.
Style:
humorous, parody, light, lyrical, not serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, kids
Plot:
broadway, sex maniac, showbiz, theater, farce, audition, eccentricity, accountant, dancing, cons and scams, mentor, transvestism ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, year 1959, 21st century
Place:
new york, middle east, rio de janeiro, bronx new york city, buenos aires argentina ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
In prohibition-era Chicago, the corrupt sheriff and Guy Gisborne, a south-side racketeer, knock off the boss Big Jim. Everyone falls in line behind Guy except Robbo, who controls the north side. Although he's out-gunned, Robbo wants to keep his ...
Style:
spoof, retro, parody, not serious, realistic ...
Plot:
robin hood, dancing, crime boss, mafia, gangster, forgery, smuggler, tap dance, prohibition era, irish mob, crime family, jazz ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
chicago, usa
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, 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:
lyrical, melancholic, sentimental, visually appealing, inspirational ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
african american, singing, performer's life, showbiz, music, fame, dancing, broadway, musician, jazz, black, dance ...
Time:
70s, 2000s, year 2006, 20th century, 60s
Place:
michigan, detroit, los angeles, usa, las vegas ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A small town girl and a city boy meet on the Sunset Strip, while pursuing their Hollywood dreams.
Style:
sexy, entertaining, feel good, visually appealing, romantic ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
rock, teenager, broadway, rock and roll, sex scene, dancing, music, nightclub, love story, fall in love, rock star, musician ...
Time:
80s, year 2012, 20th century, year 1987
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Two carefree pals traveling through Alabama are mistakenly arrested, and charged with murder. Fortunately, one of them has a cousin who's a lawyer - Vincent Gambini, a former auto mechanic from Brooklyn who just passed his bar exam after his ...
Style:
funny, hilarious, feel good, light hearted, light ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night
Plot:
courtroom, courtroom drama, lawyer, court, trial, small town, cousin cousin relationship, mistaken identity, legal, murder, jail, false accusation ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
alabama, southern usa, new york, usa, new jersey ...
Similarity:
38%
145K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Pleasantly plump teenager, Tracy Turnblad and her best friend, Penny Pingleton audition to be on The Corny Collins Show – and Tracy wins. But when scheming Amber Von Tussle and her mother plot to destroy Tracy, it turns to chaos.
Style:
rom com, romantic, teen, cute, lyrical ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, family outing, kids ...
Plot:
dance, dancing, dream come true, teenage girl, artists and showbiz, fat girl, teenage love, interracial romance, racism, broadway, follow your dream, music ...
Time:
year 2007, 20th century, 60s, year 1962, 2000s
Place:
baltimore, usa, maryland
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
The assistant stage manager of a small-time theatrical company is forced to understudy for the leading lady at a matinée performance at which an illustrious Hollywood director is in the audience scouting for actors to be in his latest ...
Style:
romantic comedy, semi serious, realistic, stylized, humorous ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
showbiz, dancing, broadway, choreography, choreographer, love, morality, past, couples, filmmaking, fall in love, ambition ...
Time:
1920s, year 1971, 1930s, 20th century
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A young but bright former window cleaner rises to the top of his company by following the advice of a book about ruthless advancement in business.
Style:
funny, stylized, humorous, witty, technicolor ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
business, broadway, satire, advertising, greed, marketing, economics, workplace, ambition, workplace romance, book, dance ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 1920s
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
37%
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:
sexy, stylized, lyrical, clever, captivating ...
Audience:
kids, date night, girls' night
Plot:
broadway, showbiz, audition, dancing, music, ballet school, choreography, ballet, rehearsal, rise to the top, dancer, choreographer ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1985
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A singer goes to a small town for a performance before he is drafted
Style:
funny, retro, hilarious, black and white, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, kids
Plot:
cheerleader, teenager, broadway, love, small town, dancing, theater, dating, turtle, secretary, singer, songwriter ...
Time:
year 1963, 60s, 20th century
Place:
ohio, usa, washington d.c., new york, columbus ohio
Similarity:
37%
68K
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A prim and proper schoolgirl goes against her mother's wishes when she dates a motorcycle-riding juvenile delinquent.
Style:
humorous, sentimental, satirical, light, parody ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot:
rock and roll, gang, forbidden love, youth, satire, music, couples, juvenile delinquency, teenage love, biker, juvenile delinquent, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
50s, 1950s, year 1954, 90s, 20th century ...
Place:
maryland, baltimore, usa
Similarity:
37%
324K
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Australian good girl Sandy and greaser Danny fell in love over the summer. But when they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance despite their eccentric friends?
Style:
romantic, sexy, feel good, sentimental, cult classic ...
Audience:
chick flick, kids, teens, girls' night, date night ...
Plot:
high school, opposites attract, coming of age, dancing, dance, makeover, summer romance, teenage love, love story, first love, teenager, teenage girl ...
Time:
1950s, year 1959, year 1978, 20th century, year 1958 ...
Place:
california, australia, los angeles, bronx new york city, usa ...
Similarity:
37%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A television news chief courts his anchorwoman ex-wife with an eleventh-hour story.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, witty, crying ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
journalism, ex husband ex wife relationship, workplace, scoop, reporter, satire, interview, volcanic eruption, television, news, outlaw, women ...
Time:
80s
Place:
chicago, usa, illinois, new york
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
An out-of-work singer, Victoria Grant (Julie Andrews), meets a just-fired, flamboyant gay man in a diner in 1920's Paris. He convinces her to pretend to be a man who is a female impersonator in order to get a job. The act is a hit in a local ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, feel good, stylized, humorous ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot:
cross dressing, transvestism, gender bending, gender disguise, impresario, comedy of errors, female protagonist, lgbt, theater, singer, jazz, nightclub ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
paris france, france, europe, new york
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
The town sheriff and a madame team up to stop a television evangelist from shutting down the local whorehouse, the famed "Chicken Ranch."
Style:
sexy, humorous, satirical, entertaining, light ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
brothel, prostitution, women, dancing, prostitute, broadway, country, female nudity, culture clash, governor, society, workplace ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1982
Place:
texas, austin texas, usa
Similarity:
36%
302K
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Set on an idyllic Greek island, the plot serves as a background for a wealth of ABBA hit songs. Donna, an independent, single mother who owns a small hotel on the island is about to let go of Sophie, the spirited young daughter she's raised ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, light, teen, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, family outing, kids ...
Plot:
wedding, mother daughter relationship, dancing, father daughter relationship, single parent, greek island, teenage girl, single mother, happy ending, dance, broadway, meet the parents ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
greece, europe, fictional island, italy, new york
Similarity:
36%
2K
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
Based on the autobiography of Gypsy Rose Lee, this made-for-TV movie - previously a Broadway smash and a 1962 film - depicts the life and times of a stripper and her domineering mother.
Style:
captivating, humorous, stylized, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot:
stripper, theater, dancing, burlesque, broadway, art, domineering mother, vaudeville, family relations, showbiz, ambition, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
20th century, 1920s, 1930s
Place:
ohio, new york, texas, los angeles, seattle
Similarity:
36%
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19K
Genre: Comedy, 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:
captivating, serious, realistic, stylized, teen ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
dancer, showbiz, actor's life, young woman, producer, actor, ambition, desire for fame, follow your dream, lifestyle, rising to stardom, starlet ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Every man has a different recollection of the beautiful young woman who wreaked havoc on their lives during one heated night.
Style:
sexy, dark comedy, humorous, black comedy, hilarious ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, teens
Plot:
femme fatale, dangerous attraction, dark humor, sex scene, manipulation, obsession, seductress, nothing goes right, murder, sexual manipulation, female nudity, attempted rape ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
missouri, california, st. louis missouri
Similarity:
36%
126K
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A girl who halfheartedly tries to be part of the "in crowd" of her school meets a rebel who teaches her a more devious way to play social politics: by killing the popular kids.
Style:
black comedy, teen, witty, cult classic, dark comedy ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen fantasy, adult ...
Plot:
murder, high school, dark humor, suicide, murderous pair, teenage girl, coming of age, friendship, satire, teenage life, insanity, sociopath ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
ohio, usa, california, canada
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A spoiled rich girl who wants to be a dancer finds herself caught into between two rival dance groups set to do battle at an underground competition.
Style:
humorous, not serious, light, captivating, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
dancer's life, youth, rivalry, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, dance, dance contest, competition, choreography, friendship, satire, silly humor ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A member of the English upper class dies, leaving his estate and his business to an American, whom he thinks is his son who was lost as a baby and then found again. An Englishman who thinks he is an Indian comes to believe that he is actually the ...
Style:
humorous, funny, light, absurd, semi serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
lawyer, nobility, british, monty python, farce, indians, inheritance, disorder, dishonesty, switching roles, nothing goes right, comedy of errors ...
Time:
year 1993, 90s, 60s, 80s
Place:
england, london, ireland
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
This whimsical Off-Broadway hit musical is aptly reworked and transferred to the screen. The self-descriptively titled Naked Boys Singing is a musical revue of songs that poke fun at gay life, body image, love, loss and yearning.
Style:
sexy, humorous, realistic, semi serious, erotic ...
Plot:
nudity, naked in public, porn star, homosexual, male nudity, dancing, male pubic hair, movie star, judaism, choreography, singer, pianist ...
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In Depression-era Winnipeg, a legless beer baroness hosts a contest for the saddest music in the world, offering a grand prize of $25,000. Contestants flock in from around the globe. Representing America is Chester Kent, a theatre producer who ...
Style:
surreal, black comedy, breathtaking, black and white, visually stunning ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
beer, surrealism, music, great depression, contest, musician, baroness, dysfunctional family, satire, amputee, prohibition, tragic hero ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 2003, year 1933, 1920s
Place:
canada, winnipeg, sarajevo, new york, serbia ...
Similarity:
36%
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