Movies like Empire Records
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Empire Records (1995)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The employees of an independent music store learn about each other as they try anything to stop the store being absorbed by a large chain.
Style:
funny, feel good, humorous, sexy, inspirational, romantic, clever, serious, entertaining, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, kids, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, teenager, music, rock and roll, workplace, high school, rock, sexuality, promiscuous woman, musician, slacker, cheerleading, sex, teenage sex, twists and turns, youth culture, dancing, drugs, friendship, rock music, drug addiction, strong female character, love, catastrophe, camp ...
Time:
80s, 90s, 1990s
Place:
atlantic city new jersey, new jersey, atlantic city
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out feel good, humorous, realistic and romantic films with plots about dialogue, storytelling, mentor, destiny, catastrophe, runaway and love mostly in Romance, Comedy and Drama genres. Some movies like Empire Records: Singles (1992), Mallrats (1995), Reality Bites (1994), High Fidelity (2000), Adventureland (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
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Nick cannot stop obsessing over his ex-girlfriend, Tris, until Tris' friend Norah suddenly shows interest in him at a club. Thus beings an odd night filled with ups and downs as the two keep running into Tris and her new boyfriend while ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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teens, date night, chick flick, girls' night
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adolescence vs adulthood, love triangle, coming of age, friendship, love, best friends, teenager, roommate, unlikely friendships, graduation, looking for love, twentysomething life ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
When record store owner Rob Gordon gets dumped by his girlfriend, Laura, because he hasn't changed since they met, he revisits his top five breakups of all time in an attempt to figure out what went wrong. As Rob seeks out his former lovers to ...
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date night, chick flick
Plot:
music, musician's life, breakup, love and romance, rock, musician, rock and roll, self discovery, love story, love, workplace, relationships ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s, 2000s
Place:
chicago illinois, usa, london
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83%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Five high school students, all different stereotypes, meet in detention, where they pour their hearts out to each other, and discover how they have a lot more in common than they thought.
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100%
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Genre: Comedy, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
It's 1961, two years after the original Grease gang graduated, and there's a new crop of seniors and new members of the coolest cliques on campus, the Pink Ladies and T-Birds. Michael Carrington is the new kid in school - but he's ...
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100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Mark Hunter is an intelligent but shy teenager who has just moved to suburban Arizona from New York. Unbeknownst to his parents and peers, at 10pm each school night Mark takes to the shortwave radio in his basement and transforms into pirate DJ ...
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Time:
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Darcy, editor at her highschool paper, and her long-term boyfriend Stan are in their last months of school and already have found places in good colleges. Recently they started to sleep with each other and, surprise, surprise, Darcy gets pregnant. ...
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100%
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Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Country: USA, Germany
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Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Miles buys himself a state-of-the-art computer that starts expressing thoughts and emotions after a having champagne spilled down on him. Things start getting out of hand when both Miles and Edgar, how the computer calls himself, fall in love with ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
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36%
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Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Country: USA
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Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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