Movies like Fame 2009

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Fame (2009)
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Fame (2009)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: An updated version of the 1980 musical, which centered on the students of the New York Academy of Performing Arts.
Style: romantic, melancholic, intense, semi serious, sentimental, emotional, teen, realistic, exciting, inspirational ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, kids, date night, chick flick
Plot: dancing, teacher, dance, high school, music, music business, youth, follow your dream, high school life, showbiz, teenage life, dream come true, desire for fame, teachers and students, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, mentor, teenager, music and dance, school, college, happiness, teenage girl, subculture, education ...
Time: year 2009, 80s, 21st century, contemporary
Place: new york, usa
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Most similar movies to Fame

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, teen, feel good and semi serious films with plots about artists and showbiz, youth, ambition, teenager, dancing, dance and love and romance mostly in Drama, Music and Romance genres. Some movies like Fame: Burlesque (2010), Footloose (1984), Rock of Ages (2012), Rags (2012), High School Musical 2 (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 6.4
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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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100%
 6.6
 25K
Fame (1980)
Genre: Drama, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: A chronicle of the lives of several teenagers who attend a New York high school for students gifted in the performing arts
Style: inspirational, realistic, sincere, serious, captivating ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: music, high school, dancing, teenager, teacher, rehearsal, gay, life philosophy, high school life, dysfunctional family, unlikely friendships, audition ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 70s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, bronx new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.6
 91K
Footloose (1984)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: When teenager Ren and his family move from big-city Chicago to a small town in the West, he's in for a real case of culture shock.
Style: teen, cult classic, serious, captivating, colorful ...
Audience: teens, kids, chick flick, girls' night, family outing ...
Plot: dancing, high school, youth, small town, dance, music, love and romance, rebellion, rebelliousness, dancer's life, teenage rebellion, teenager ...
Time: 80s, 90s, year 1984, 20th century, 70s
Place: utah, pittsburgh, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 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 ⇓
100%
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 6.8
 3K
Rags (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Rags follows the story of Charlie Prince, an orphan living with his acerbic and unloving stepfather and spoiled, simple-minded stepbrothers. Charlie's dream is to be a singer, and while he is vocally talented and can write music, he can't ...
Style: feel good, semi serious, humorous, fairy tale, realistic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: cinderella story, cinderella, teenage love, orphan, showbiz, youth, follow your dream, artists and showbiz, step siblings, social differences, love and romance, unlikely couple ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
High School Musical 2 (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The East High Wildcats are ready to have the time of their lives. Troy (Zac Efron) is thrilled when he’s offered a job in a country club, but it’s all part of Sharpay’s (Ashley Tisdale) plot to lure him away from Gabriella (Vanessa Hudgens). ...
Style: teen, melancholic, sentimental, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: teens, kids, pre-teens, girls' night, chick flick ...
Plot: teenage love, high school life, teenager, teenage girl, music, dancing, youth, love and romance, ambition, country club, talent show, dance ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.9
 36K
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 ⇓
100%
 6.9
 20K
Lemonade Mouth (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The story follows five disparate high school students - Olivia, Mo, Charlie, Stella, and Wen who meet in detention. They realize they are destined to rock, and ultimately form a band that becomes a champion for students sidelined by the high school ...
Style: humorous, light, realistic, semi serious, teen ...
Audience: teens, pre-teens, kids, girls' night
Plot: youth, high school, friendship, teenage life, friends, lifestyle, music band, artists and showbiz, self discovery, follow your dream, high school life, ambition ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: rhode island, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Mitchie can't wait to go back to Camp Rock and spend the summer making new music with her friends and superstar Shane Gray. But the slick new camp across the lake, Camp Star, has drummed up some serious competition — featuring newcomers Luke ...
Style: feel good, sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, kids, chick flick, girls' night, pre-teens ...
Plot: summer camp, camp, ambition, teenage life, singing competition, music band, artists and showbiz, contests and competitions, teenage love, friendship, friends, underdog ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Hannah Montana: The Movie (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: When Miley Stewart (aka pop-star Hannah Montana) gets too caught up in the superstar celebrity lifestyle, her dad decides it's time for a total change of scenery. But sweet nibblets! Miley must trade in all the glitz and glamour of Hollywood ...
Style: feel good, teen, entertaining, melancholic, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night, pre-teens ...
Plot: teenager, double life, teenage life, parents and children, teenage girl, fall in love, celebrity, lifestyle, youth, hidden identity, love and romance, pop star ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: usa, nashville tennessee, malibu california, tennessee
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.7
 120K
Coyote Ugly (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Graced with a velvet voice, 21-year-old Violet Sanford heads to New York to pursue her dream of becoming a songwriter only to find her aspirations sidelined by the accolades and notoriety she receives at her "day" job as a barmaid at ...
Style: entertaining, romantic, stylized, exciting, sexy ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: dancing, music, nightclub, ambition, dancer's life, love affair, father daughter relationship, nightlife, parents and children, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, employer employee relationship, dance ...
Time: 2000s, year 2000, y2k, 21st century
Place: new york, new jersey, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.4
 166K
Begin Again (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A long lost music producer finds a singer-songwriter right about the moment he has given up all hope on life.
Style: touching, romantic, inspirational, independent film, sincere ...
Audience: teens, date night, girls' night
Plot: music, musician's life, love story, female singer, infidelity, musician, father daughter relationship, singer, love, city life, music and dance, betrayal ...
Time: year 2013, year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Dance Academy: The Movie (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Australia
Duration: 101 min.
Story: This 2017 movie follows the original dance academy TV show and tracks where the characters are in their lives now.
Style: captivating, sentimental
Audience: teens
Plot: dancing, ballet, dance, friendship, dancer, artists and showbiz, school, dance school, teacher, teenage life, hopes, ambition ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
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Glee (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Glee is an American teen musical comedy-drama television series that airs on the Fox network in the United States. It focuses on the reconstituted William McKinley High School glee club, New Directions, which competes on the show choir competition ...
Style: feel good, stylized, humorous, semi serious, witty ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night, teen drama ...
Plot: high school, gay, coach, teenage life, youth, cheerleader, friendship, contests and competitions, outcast, teenage girl, gay teenager, music band ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: ohio, idaho, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 7.0
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Fame (1982)
Genre: Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: Italy, UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Fame is an American television series originally produced between 1982 and 1987. The show is based on the 1980 motion picture of the same name. Using a mixture of drama and music, it followed the lives of the students and faculty at the New York ...
Style: realistic, feel good, semi serious, serious
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: high school, music, dancing, desire for fame, friendship, power relations, rehearsal, youth, self discovery, coming of age, teenage life, high school life ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
The Next Step (2013)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Follow the lives of an elite group of young dancers who train at The Next Step Studio.
Style: semi serious, captivating, sentimental, realistic, mockumentary
Audience: teens, kids, teen drama
Plot: dancer, dance school, dancing, contests and competitions, follow your dream, dancer's life, dance studio, teenage life, ambition, performer's life, desire for fame, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.3
 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 ⇓
23%
High School Musical 3: Senior Year (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: It's almost graduation day for high school seniors Troy, Gabriella, Sharpay, Chad, Ryan and Taylor ― and the thought of heading off in separate directions after leaving East High has these Wildcats thinking they need to do something ...
Style: feel good, teen, humorous, semi serious, romantic ...
Audience: teens, kids, girls' night, chick flick, pre-teens ...
Plot: high school, prom, teenage love, teenager, friendship, high school life, high school hunk, love and romance, music, teenage girl, buddies, dancing ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new mexico, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Save the Last Dance 2 (2006)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Sara joins Julliard in New York to fulfill her and her mother's dream of becoming the Prima ballerina of the school. She befriends her roommates, Zoe and Miles, who teach hip-hop classes. She has ballet classes with the rigid and famous Monique ...
Style: feel good, serious, realistic, teen
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot: street dance, music, interracial relations, dance, dancing, cinderella story, love and romance, follow your dream, hopes, hip hop, teachers and students, hardcase students ...
Time: 2000s
Place: usa, new york, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 6.7
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Center Stage (2000)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A group of 12 teenagers from various backgrounds enroll at the American Ballet Academy in New York to make it as ballet dancers and each one deals with the problems and stress of training and getting ahead in the world of dance.
Style: teen, serious, touching, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: dance, dancing, ballet, love triangle, music, teenager, homosexual, gay, competition, love and romance, hopes, lifestyle ...
Time: 90s, year 2000
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 5.5
 782
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 ⇓
22%
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 ⇓
22%
 6.3
 15K
Bandslam (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A high school social outcast and the popular girl bond through a shared love of music.
Style: romantic, teen, humorous, semi serious, light ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: high school, teenager, music, teenage love, friends, love and romance, rock and roll, hopes, rock, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, adolescence ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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 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 ⇓
22%
Center Stage: Turn It Up (2008)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: All self-taught dancer Kate Parker has ever wanted to do was perform with the American Academy of Ballet. But when she doesnt make it after auditioning, she learns that it takes more than precision and perfection to succeed in the dance world.
Style: light, sex comedy, teen, funny, realistic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: dancing, dancer's life, ballet, street dance, dance, follow your dream, performer's life, youth, ambition, hopes, rivalry, lifestyle ...
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.2
 60K
Step Up 3D (2010)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A tight-knit group of New York City street dancers, including Luke and Natalie, team up with NYU freshman Moose, and find themselves pitted against the world's best hip hop dancers in a high-stakes showdown that will change their lives forever.
Style: romantic, teen, serious, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: dancing, dance, dancer's life, happy ending, street dance, hip hop, contests and competitions, teenager, young lovers, dance club, high school, love and romance ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After a talent scout spots her performing with her dog Boi at a charity gala, Sharpay Evans sets off for the bright lights of NYC, convinced instant fame and fortune are in the bag. But theatre's a dog-eat-dog world. Fortunately, Sharpay also ...
Style: humorous, sentimental, realistic, semi serious, teen ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: artists and showbiz, showbiz, lifestyle, rivalry, human animal relationship, actor's life, desire for fame, follow your dream, love and romance, teenager, disorder, musician's life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Raise Your Voice (2004)
Genre: Family, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Raise Your Voice is a coming-of-age story centered around a small-town singer, brokenhearted by the death of her brother in a car crash, who had secretly submitted her for a summer session at a performing arts academy in Los Angeles. In the ...
Style: feel good, teen, romantic, inspirational, sweet ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, kids, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: teenager, teenage love, high school, music, music school, teenage girl, dance, rivalry, lifestyle, musician's life, teenage life, contests and competitions ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s
Place: los angeles, california, arizona, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Step Up Revolution (2012)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Emily arrives in Miami with aspirations to become a professional dancer. She sparks with Sean, the leader of a dance crew whose neighborhood is threatened by Emily's father's development plans.
Style: romantic, feel good, entertaining, teen, light ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, family friendly
Plot: dancing, dance, dancer, dancer's life, hip hop, music, teenage love, competition, teenager, teenage life, revolution, culture clash ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa, miami, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Hollywood Heights (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Loren (Brittany Underwood) a smart, shy and independent high school senior who has ambitions of being a songwriter, secretly sends her song lyrics to her celebrity crush, rock superstar Eddie Duran (Cody Longo). Loren's wildest dreams come true ...
Style: realistic, touching, captivating, psychological, teen ...
Audience: teens
Plot: cinderella story, follow your dream, musician, best friend, audition, ambition, fame, fall in love, talented, fan, student, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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