Movies like Dreamgirls

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Dreamgirls (2006)
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 77K
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, visually appealing, inspirational, uplifting, hood, serious ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: african american, performer's life, showbiz, music, fame, dancing, broadway, jazz, manager, black, unlikely friendships, dance, musician, singing, backstage, lifestyle, black history, love affair, ambition, desire for fame, rock and roll, black lives matter, female friendship, male female relationship, girl group ...
Time: 60s, 70s, 2000s, year 2006, 20th century, 1960s
Place: michigan, los angeles, detroit, usa, new york, las vegas
Keyword: gangsters, dreams

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Most similar movies to Dreamgirls

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and sentimental films with plots about music, singing, singer, song, artists and showbiz, showbiz and dancing mostly in Drama, Music and Biography genres. Some movies like Dreamgirls: Cadillac Records (2008), Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020), Burlesque (2010), Ray (2004), Rocketman (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Cadillac Records (2008)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: The story of sex, violence, race and rock and roll in 1950s Chicago, and the exciting but turbulent lives of some of America's musical legends, including Muddy Waters, Leonard Chess, Little Walter, Howlin' Wolf, Etta James and Chuck Berry.
Style: realistic, inspirational, intense, stylized, talky ...
Plot: musician's life, music, rock and roll, blues, jazz, biopic, african american, pop music, success, music business, singer, greed ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 1950s, year 2008, 1940s ...
Place: chicago, usa, indiana, london, mississippi
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100%
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Tensions rise when the trailblazing Mother of the Blues and her band gather at a Chicago recording studio in 1927. Adapted from August Wilson's play.
Style: rough, serious, uplifting, suspense, visual ...
Plot: african american, musician, blues, black, racism, black american, lgbt, jazz, black history, bigger dreams, stuttering, fired from the job ...
Time: 1920s, 2020s
Place: chicago, harlem, detroit, memphis, birmingham alabama ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 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 ⇓
100%
 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 ⇓
100%
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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 ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
What's Love Got to Do with It (1993)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A film about the singer Tina Turner and how she rose to stardom with her abusive husband Ike Turner and how she gained the courage to break free.
Style: inspirational, sincere, intense, emotional, serious ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: music, black woman, domestic violence, biopic, african american, musician, rock and roll, violence against women, african american woman, showbiz, childhood, musician's life ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 60s, 80s, year 1993
Place: usa, africa, tennessee
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.7
 2K
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 ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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, stylized, realistic, cult classic, atmospheric ...
Plot: jazz, music, musician, saxophonist, dancing, fall in love, world war two, american football, music and dance, gotham city, doomed romance, orchestra ...
Time: 1940s, 1950s, 20th century, post world war two
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, harlem
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Why Do Fools Fall in Love (1998)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: In the mid-80s, three women (each with an attorney) arrive at the office of New York entertainment manager, Morris Levy. One is an L.A. singer, formerly of the Platters; one is a petty thief from Philly; one teaches school in a small Georgia town. ...
Style: emotional, melancholic, inspirational, touching, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: music, biopic, showbiz, addiction, music business, greed, music band, black, drug addiction, rising to stardom, rise and fall, human nature ...
Time: 20th century, year 1998, 60s, 50s, 80s ...
Place: new york, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 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 ⇓
100%
A Prairie Home Companion (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Musical, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A look at what goes on backstage during the last broadcast of America's most celebrated radio show, where singing cowboys Dusty and Lefty, a country music siren, and a host of others hold court
Style: humorous, lyrical, feel good, sentimental, touching ...
Plot: radio, backstage, country music, musician's life, cowboy, lifestyle, showbiz, society, artists and showbiz, singer, music, storytelling ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: minnesota, usa, chicago, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.0
 29K
Beaches (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A privileged rich debutante and a cynical struggling entertainer share a turbulent, but strong childhood friendship over the years.
Style: heartbreaking, tear jerker, sad, sentimental, melancholic ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, kids, teens
Plot: friendship, childhood friend, best friend, singer, terminal illness, female bonding, mother daughter relationship, life is a bitch, coming of age, family relations, honest, grief ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 70s, 80s, 1950s
Place: new york, atlantic city new jersey, san francisco, los angeles, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody (2022)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story: The joyous, emotional, heartbreaking celebration of the life and music of Whitney Houston, the greatest female R&B pop vocalist of all time. Tracking her journey from obscurity to musical superstardom.
Style: captivating, historical drama, spiritual, iconic
Plot: biopic, pop music, musician, african american, female protagonist, concert, record producer, dancing, celebrity, rising to stardom, musician's life, female singer ...
Time: 2020s, 2000s, 2010s, year 2012, year 1991 ...
Place: new jersey, italy, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 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
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 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 ⇓
100%
 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 ⇓
100%
The Commitments (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Jimmy Rabbitte, just a tick out of school, gets a brilliant idea: to put a soul band together in Barrytown, his slum home in north Dublin. First he needs musicians and singers: things slowly start to click when he finds three fine-voiced females ...
Style: cult classic, independent film, realistic, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: teens
Plot: musician, music, working class, rock and roll, singer, friendship, profanity, rock, bittersweet, blues, rock music, trouble ...
Time: year 1991, 90s, 20th century
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 6.2
 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 ⇓
35%
 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 ⇓
35%
 5.9
 81K
Rock of Ages (2012)
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: entertaining, feel good, sexy, visually appealing, romantic ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot: rock, broadway, rock and roll, music, dancing, gay, nightclub, dance, teenager, striptease, music business, nostalgia ...
Time: 80s, year 2012, 20th century, year 1987
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 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 ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.6
 18K
Respect (2021)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 145 min.
Story: The rise of Aretha Franklin’s career from a child singing in her father’s church’s choir to her international superstardom.
Style: captivating, uplifting, factual, disturbing, emotional ...
Plot: biopic, rape, showbiz, blues, celebrity, african american, black, musician, concert, rising to stardom, fame, musician's life ...
Time: 60s, 70s, 20th century, year 2019, 1950s ...
Place: usa, los angeles, madison square garden manhattan new york city, atlanta georgia, paris france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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 7.0
 15K
The Sapphires (2012)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 103 min.
Story: It's 1968, and four young, talented Australian Aboriginal girls learn about love, friendship and war when they entertain the US troops in Vietnam as singing group The Sapphires.
Style: humorous, sweet, captivating, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience: adult
Plot: girl group, vietnam war, friendship, biopic, music band, family relations, lifestyle, musician's life, desire for fame, ambition, showbiz, musical tour ...
Time: 60s, 70s, year 2012, year 1968, 20th century ...
Place: vietnam, australia, oceania, saigon, new south wales ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.9
 26K
Get on Up (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: A chronicle of James Brown's rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history.
Style: emotional, talky, heartbreaking, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: music, biopic, musician's life, friendship, showbiz, black, musician, creativity, ambition, rising to stardom, desire for fame, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, 70s, year 2014, 80s ...
Place: usa, south carolina, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 5.8
 45K
Nine (2009)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Arrogant, self-centered movie director Guido Contini finds himself struggling to find meaning, purpose, and a script for his latest film endeavor. With only a week left before shooting begins, he desperately searches for answers and inspiration from ...
Style: emotional, clever, lyrical, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot: infidelity, filmmaking, midlife crisis, memory, broadway, lifestyle, femme fatale, self discovery, dancing, couples, family relations, love and romance ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 2000s, year 2009, 1920s ...
Place: italy, rome italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: An acclaimed stage performer, Dorothy still struggled with the challenge of her color, in a time that wouldn't let some stars in by the front door. Yet against the odds she beat out many more famous rivals for the role of "Carmen ...
Style: cult classic, contemplative, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: biopic, racism, black, hollywood, women, rape, african american, filmmaking, women of color, sexual abuse, interracial romance, post war ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 1940s, 50s, 1950s
Place: usa, miami beach, new york, miami, las vegas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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 ⇓
33%
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 ⇓
33%
 6.5
 51K
The Runaways (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Joan Jett and Cherie Currie, two rebellious teenagers from Southern California, become the frontwomen for the Runaways -- the now-legendary group that paved the way for future generations of female rockers. Under the Svengalilike influence of ...
Style: stylized, sexy, teen, emotional, captivating ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, teen drama, adult
Plot: rock music, music, lesbian, music band, biopic, musician, coming of age, teenage sexuality, rock and roll, punk, revisionist history, sex scene ...
Time: 70s, 2010s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, japan, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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