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Dance Challenge (2002)
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Dance Challenge (2002)
Original name: Le Défi
Genre: Musical, Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Approaching his 18th birthday, David drops out of school and runs away from home and from a conflicting relationship with his mother Elena. The only thing that matters for him is break dancing. With his own group, the Urban Cyber Breakers, he has got a dream : To win the dance battle that will bring his team to the world final in New York Before reaching USA and fame, he has to overcome the rival group, the LD, to deal with his mother's excessive love and to live out his passion for the beautiful Samia. Le Défi is a musical comedy, inspired by the great American tradition and set in today's world of France's Hip Hop movement. This very strong cultural identity, different from the US model allows Blanca Li to give an original point of view on today's melting pot of French urban youngsters.
Style: light, inspirational, feel good, humorous
Plot: dancing, hip hop, dance contest, single mother, teenage boy, friendship, mother son relationship, rivalry, music, self discovery, breakdance, gang, graffiti, teenage girl, transsexual, dancer, interracial relations, athlete, friend, dj, dance, street dance, street gang, eiffel tower paris, breakdancing ...
Place: paris france

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out feel good, realistic, humorous and semi serious films with plots about dancing, dance, friendship, rivalry, love and romance, ambition and artists and showbiz mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Dance Challenge: Dance Camp (2016), Hairspray Live! (2016), Breakin' (1984), Step Up 2: The Streets (2008), StreetDance 2 (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Dance Camp (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: When Hunter gets sent to a dorky summer dance camp, he thinks he's about to have the worst summer of his life. But the quirky charm of the camp grows on him when he meets the passionate Cheyenne and joins her dance troupe to challenge the ...
Style: entertaining, feel good, humorous, inspirational, touching
Audience: teens
Plot: dancing, teenage love, teenage life, social relations, summer camp, friendship, teenage boy, happy ending, teenage girl, rehearsal, artists and showbiz, dance ...
Place: usa
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95%
Hairspray Live! (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A teenage girl living in Baltimore in the early 1960s dreams of appearing on a popular TV dance show.
Style: captivating, feel good, humorous, entertaining
Plot: theater, dance, live performance, racism, fat girl, race, dream, equality, broadway, dancing, society, rivalry ...
Time: 60s, year 1962
Place: baltimore, maryland
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
 5.8
 7K
Breakin' (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A struggling young dancer joins forces with two breakdancers and together they become a street sensation.
Style: hood, cult classic, grindhouse, independent film, psychotronic ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: dancing, hip hop, breakdance, music, ghetto, gangster, dance, cannon, street kid, gang, urban, subculture ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Step Up 2: The Streets (2008)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When rebellious street dancer Andie lands at the elite Maryland School of the Arts, she finds herself fighting to fit in while also trying to hold onto her old life. When she joins forces with the schools hottest dancer, Chase, to form a crew of ...
Style: romantic, teen, inspirational, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience: teens, date night, girls' night, family friendly, chick flick
Plot: dancing, dance, dancer, youth, ballet, dancer's life, hip hop, music, dance contest, street dance, contests and competitions, competition ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: maryland, usa, baltimore
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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StreetDance 2 (2012)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story: After suffering humiliation by the crew Invincible, street dancer Ash looks to gather the best dancers from around the world for a rematch.
Style: sexy, realistic, serious, light, captivating ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: dancing, street dance, hip hop, salsa, dance contest, dance, dancer, dancer's life, love and romance, rivalry, ambition, music ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Leave It on the Floor (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Our African-American hero , Brad is bullied by his dysfunctional mom; he flees his home and by chance tumbles down the rabbit-hole into the LA ball scene where he finds a ragtag new famiiy. With music by Beyonce music director, Kim Burse, screenplay ...
Style: realistic, humorous, emotional, independent film, captivating ...
Plot: gay, friendship, gay relationship, lgbtq, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, lgbt, society, rivalry, nightclub, ambition, gender ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Battlefield America (2012)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A young businessman hires an instructor to turn a group of misfit kids into a team on the underground dance competition circuit.
Style: realistic, inspirational, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: street dance, dancing, music, ambition, rivalry, youth, misfit, social misfits, hip hop, dance, mentor, training ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
Viva High School Musical: Mexico (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: Mexico, Argentina
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Cristobal sees Mariana with new eyes after the summer vacation since both love singing. The mexican version of the Disney musical.
Style: semi serious, captivating, feel good, entertaining
Audience: family outing
Plot: friendship, audition, love, teenager, contest, high school life, teenage life, rivalry, teamwork, school, friends, dance contest ...
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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You Got Served (2004)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: At Mr. Rad's Warehouse, the best hip-hop crews in Los Angeles compete for money and respect. But when a suburban crew crashes the party, stealing their dancers - and their moves - two warring friends have to pull together to represent the ...
Style: intense, stylized, humorous, hood, inspirational ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: hip hop, dancing, dance, street dance, breakdance, competition, friendship, music, betrayal, rivalry, follow your dream, dance performance ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
 6.0
 2K
Let's Dance (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Music
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 109 min.
Story: After his crew breaks up, a gifted but insecure hip-hop dancer teaches at a top ballet school in Paris, where he falls for an aspiring ballerina.
Style: light, humorous, captivating, romantic, disturbing
Audience: teens, family outing
Plot: dancing, ballet, dance contest, ballerina, ambition, love and romance, dance studio, rivalry, hopes, youth, father son relationship, job ...
Place: paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The dance crew from "Breakin'" bands together to save a community center from a greedy developer bent on building a shopping center in its place.
Style: grindhouse, cult classic, anime, independent film, realistic ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: hip hop, dancing, breakdance, cannon, music, gang, urban, dance, hospital, camp, chase, street gangster ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Make It Happen (2008)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Embarking on a journey to fulfill her dreams as a dancer, a young girl discovers a new style of dance that will prove to be the source of both conflict and self-discovery.
Style: sexy, teen, feel good, light, captivating ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night
Plot: dancing, dance, follow your dream, sexy woman, contests and competitions, self discovery, youth, love and romance, ambition, rivalry, friendship, dance school ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: usa, chicago
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78%
 5.9
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Step Up All In (2014)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 112 min.
Story: All-stars from the previous Step Up installments come together in glittering Las Vegas, battling for a victory that could define their dreams and their careers.
Style: romantic, teen, entertaining, captivating, feel good ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: dancing, dance, hip hop, music, dance contest, rivalry, follow your dream, competition, love and romance, teenager, uninhibited rivalry, music and dance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: las vegas, usa, nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
 6.7
 138K
Hairspray (2007)
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: feel good, romantic, lyrical, entertaining, humorous ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, family outing, kids ...
Plot: dancing, dance, dream come true, artists and showbiz, teenage love, interracial romance, teenage girl, racism, fat girl, broadway, teenager, follow your dream ...
Time: year 2007, 60s, 20th century, year 1962, 2000s
Place: baltimore, usa, maryland
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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 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 ⇓
76%
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Freak Dance (2010)
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: youth, artists and showbiz, dancer's life, rivalry, lifestyle, dance, choreography, dance contest, competition, friendship, satire, silly humor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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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 ⇓
75%
 5.6
 468
Frenchmen 3 (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Alex, Antoine and Manu meet Jean, a loner who ignores the pleasures of friendship. Little by little, they learn to know each other, to appreciate each other. Jean is moved by the complicity and affection that fuels the relationship with his new ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, witty, realistic, light ...
Plot: friends, love, couple relations, couples, best friend, unfulfillment, friendship, buddies, midlife crisis
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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Grease (1978)
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: feel good, sentimental, romantic, light, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick, kids, teens, girls' night, date night ...
Plot: high school, opposites attract, teenage love, coming of age, makeover, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, dancing, first love, dating, teenage girl, dance, rock and roll ...
Time: year 1959, 1950s, year 1978, 20th century, year 1958 ...
Place: california, australia, los angeles, usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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StreetDance 3D (2010)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In order to win the Street Dance Championships, a dance crew is forced to work with ballet dancers from the Royal Dance School in exchange for rehearsal space.
Style: funny, feel good, realistic, sexy, inspirational ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: dancing, street dance, dancer's life, dance school, dance, dance contest, music, ballerina, ballet, teenager, competition, hip hop ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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Bye Bye Birdie (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Rock-and-roll icon Conrad Birdie is about to go into the Army, and plans are being made to arrange his final going-away concert.
Style: semi serious, realistic, feel good, touching, humorous ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: dancing, theater, friends, couples, teenage life, rock, lifestyle, contests and competitions, performer's life, love and romance, musician's life, ambition ...
Time: 20th century, 50s
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
This Youth Is Crazy (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 160 min.
Story: Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani features two polar opposite characters, who at one point were classmates in Modern School. The first is Naina Talwar (Deepika Padukone), a studious bespectacled young girl. The second is Bunny (Ranbir Kapoor), a carefree ...
Style: feel good, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: friendship, tourist, fall in love, free spirited, unfulfilled love, unfulfillment, adolescence vs adulthood, college graduate, self discovery, friends, hindu, coming of age ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: india, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
That's the Way I Like It (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Singapore
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Kung Fu meets disco in Singapore. Hock is a grocery clerk longing for a motorbike. He lives with his parents and sister; they idolize his younger brother, Beng, a medical student calling himself Leslie. Hock loves Bruce Lee; he works out and ...
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: friends, love and romance, artists and showbiz, coming of age, contests and competitions, rivalry, misfit, follow your dream, ambition, lifestyle, twentysomething life, filmmaking ...
Time: 70s, year 1977
Place: singapore
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Movie in collections
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Drumline (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A fish-out-of-water comedy about a talented street drummer from Harlem who enrolls in a Southern university, expecting to lead its marching band's drumline to victory. He initially flounders in his new world, before realizing that it takes more ...
Style: feel good, inspirational, entertaining, melancholic, light ...
Audience: teens, family friendly
Plot: college life, music, underdog, college, cheerleader, musician's life, dancing, hip hop, high school, black, rivalry, destiny ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: harlem, georgia, usa, atlanta georgia, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
 5.4
 26K
Stomp the Yard (2007)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: After the death of his younger brother, a troubled 19-year-old street dancer from Los Angeles is able to bypass juvenile hall by enrolling in the historically black, Truth University in Atlanta, Georgia. But his efforts to get an education and woo ...
Style: inspirational, intense, captivating, exciting, touching ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: dancing, music, dance, hip hop, street dance, competition, college, high school, ambition, black, teenage love, university ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, atlanta georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Dance Baby Dance (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 138 min.
Story: London, an overcrowded cafe, one table to share. Two strangers tell each other “how I met my fiancé” stories to kill time. Rikki (Abhishek Bachchan) met his fiance Anaida (Lara Dutta) at the Ritz in Paris and Alvira (Preity Zinta) met her ...
Style: feel good, stylized, humorous, semi serious, realistic
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: unfulfilled love, destiny, friendship, social differences, love triangle, breakup, terminal illness, couple relations, unfulfillment, fall in love, couples, friends ...
Place: france, paris france, london, england, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
 5.2
 8K
Honey 2 (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Sequel to the 2003 dance movie Honey. Recently released from juvenile detention, talented dancer Maria Ramirez finds an outlet for her passion with a new dance crew.
Style: uplifting, captivating, feel good, touching, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: dance, dancing, dancer's life, street dance, juvenile delinquency, dance school, music, hip hop, rise to the top, dancer, female protagonist, lifestyle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: bronx new york city, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
 5.7
 188
Volando Bajo (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: Mexico, France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Chuyín Venegas and Cornelio Barraza were the biggest stars of popular music and cinema of the 80's. "The Goldfinches of Rosarito" had no equal as musical superstars, but after ten years of success, they parted ways. Now held in a ...
Style: feel good, light, humorous, semi serious
Plot: ambition, friendship, success, movie star, first love, interview, dream, film industry, glory, hair salon, mourning, nostalgia ...
Place: paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
 4.4
 2K
I Want You (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A macho type man becomes entangled with an independent-minded girl.
Style: sweet, light, funny, feel good, humorous
Audience: teens
Plot: love triangle, male female relationship, rivalry, intrigue, obsession, promise, friendship, jealousy, male female friendship, happy ending, love, amor ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
American Desi (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, India
Duration: 100 min.
Story: This is a fun-loving romantic comedy reminiscent of the great teen films of the 80's.From Kris, an All-American boy from India, to Ajay, an Afro-Centric Hindu homeboy, to Farah, a devoutly religious but modern Muslim girl, 'American ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, sex comedy, independent film
Audience: date night
Plot: culture clash, friendship, tradition, roommate, love and romance, youth, buddies, society, college life, culture, college, performer's life ...
Place: new jersey, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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