Movies like The Fighting Temptations
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The Fighting Temptations (2003)
8K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
The Fighting Temptations stars Cuba Gooding, Jr. as the film's protagonist as he attempts to revive a church choir in order to enter a gospel competition with the help of a beautiful lounge singer (Beyoncé Knowles) with whom he soon falls in love.
Style:
romantic comedy, romantic, melancholic, absurd, talky, semi serious, feel good, humorous, black comedy, light ...
Audience:
date night, teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
church choir, small town, music, black, love story, friendship, music band, ambition, contests and competitions, disorder, last wish, family relations, rivalry, fish out of water, artists and showbiz, husband wife relationship, older man younger woman relationship, urban, god, motivation, age difference, black history, black girl, gangster, black love ...
Time:
year 2003, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa, georgia, new york, manhattan new york city, empire state building manhattan new york city, cuba
Keyword:
gangsters
Most similar movies to The Fighting Temptations
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and feel good films with plots about love and romance, friendship, friends, couples, african american, black and gangster mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like The Fighting Temptations: Pitch Perfect (2012), Footloose (2011), The Commitments (1991), That Thing You Do! (1996), Drumline (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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329K
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
College student Beca knows she does not want to be part of a clique, but that's exactly where she finds herself after arriving at her new school. Thrust in among mean gals, nice gals and just plain weird gals, Beca finds that the only thing ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, realistic, teen, funny ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, family outing, teen drama ...
Plot:
music, youth, competition, female friendship, college life, teenager, college, rivalry, female protagonist, singing competition, music band, friends ...
Time:
2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
53K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Ren MacCormack is transplanted from Boston to the small southern town of Bomont where loud music and dancing are prohibited. Not one to bow to the status quo, Ren challenges the ban, revitalizing the town and falling in love with the minister’s ...
Style:
feel good, romantic, teen, sincere, serious ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot:
dancing, dance, teenage love, small town, teenager, dancer's life, music, love and romance, love, dancer, youth, teenage girl ...
Time:
year 2011, 21st century
Place:
georgia, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A Pennsylvania band scores a hit in 1964 and rides the star-making machinery as long as it can, with lots of help from its manager.
Style:
humorous, sentimental, feel good, light, sincere ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, date night, teen drama
Plot:
music, drummer, recording studio, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, rock and roll, fictional band, showbiz, small town, music band, jazz, friendship, rising to stardom ...
Time:
60s, 50s, 90s, year 1996, 20th century
Place:
pennsylvania, columbus ohio, ohio, usa, las vegas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
36K
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 ⇓
34%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Sidney is a writer who's just left her L.A. Times music review gig to edit New York hip-hop magazine XXL. Dre is an executive with a hip-hop record company based in New York. They've known each other since they met as children, when both ...
Style:
romantic, intense, touching, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, adult
Plot:
hip hop, wedding, friendship, infidelity, music, fall in love, black, dating, best friend, looking for love, couples, happy ending ...
Time:
year 2002
Place:
new york, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
G.G. Sparrow faces off with her choir's newly appointed director, Vi Rose Hill, over the group's direction as they head into a national competition.
Style:
humorous, feel good, semi serious, realistic, black comedy ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
teenage love, autism, follow your dream, rivalry, music band, artists and showbiz, contests and competitions, musician's life, choir, lifestyle, unlikely partners, chorus girl ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
usa, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Roll Bounce is a 2005 American comedy-drama film written by Norman Vance Jr. and directed by Malcolm D. Lee. The film stars hip hop artist Bow Wow as the leader of a roller skating crew in 1970s Chicago. The ...
Style:
sweet, light, humorous, touching, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
coming of age, dancing, father son relationship, dance, rivalry, unlikely friendships, kids and family, black, friendship, contests and competitions, teenage love, youth ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 2005
Place:
chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
This is the story of four African-American "yuppies" (a banker, a doctor, a lawyer, and a "playboy") who call themselves "The Brothers". When the playboy gets engaged, the other three friends find themselves having to ...
Style:
romantic, light, melancholic, entertaining, stylized ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
friendship, african american, relationships, black, marriage, women, brothers, stereotypes, lifestyle, hip hop, love and romance, battle of the sexes ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Four couples reunite for their annual vacation in order to socialize and to spend time analyzing their marriages. Their intimate week in the Bahamas is disrupted by the arrival of an ex-husband determined to win back his recently remarried wife.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, talky, humorous, christian film ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
crumbling marriage, battle of the sexes, family problems, couple relations, friendship, black, dishonesty, breakup, lifestyle, unfulfillment, infidelity, remarry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
bahamas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Eva Dandridge is a very uptight young woman who constantly meddles in the affairs of her sisters and their husbands. Her in-laws, who are tired of Eva interfering in their lives, decide to set her up with someone so she can leave them alone. They ...
Style:
feel good, romantic comedy, light, funny, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
sisters, family relations, black, love and romance, couple relations, verbal byplay, shakespeare, hip hop, conspiracy, sister sister relationship, african american, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
year 2003, 21st century
Place:
usa, chicago, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Best friends since they were kids, Rabbi Jacob Schram and Father Brian Finn are dynamic and popular young men living and working on New York's Upper West Side. When Anna Reilly, once their childhood friend and now grown into a beautiful ...
Style:
romantic, humorous, touching, funny, realistic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
rabbi, love story, love triangle, priest, catholicism, friendship, love and romance, love, judaism, women, unrequited love, jewish culture ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Harper, a writer who's about to explode into the mainstream leaves behind his girlfriend Robin and heads to New York City to serve as best man for his friend Lance's wedding. Once there, he reunites with the rest of his college circle.
Style:
romantic, clever, romantic comedy, rom com, light ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
black romance, wedding, black, african american, corruption, friendship, black history, urban, black cast, infidelity, hip hop, black american ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s
Place:
africa, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Kid'N'Play leave their neighborhood and enter the world of adulthood and higher education. Play attempts to get rich quick in the music business while Kid faces the challenges of college.
Style:
hood, humorous, black comedy, rom com, independent film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hip hop, black, urban, ghetto, gangster, college, blaxploitation, african american, party, friendship, stoner, discrimination ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Hip Hop duo Kid & Play return in the second follow-up to their 1990 screen debut House Party. Kid (Christopher "Kid" Reid) is taking the plunge and marrying his girlfriend Veda (Angela Means), while his friend Play (Christopher ...
Style:
hood, rom com, black comedy, independent film, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hip hop, ghetto, gangster, urban, black, music, party, black girl, discrimination, stoner, stoned, blaxploitation ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Love Don't Cost a Thing similar movies
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Vivica A. Fox sizzles as a woman scorned who plans to get her man back by any means necessary. In this comedy about players and those who "get played." As corporate overachiever and all-around fly chick Shanté Smith, Fox thinks she's ...
Style:
romantic, humorous, sexy, satirical, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
battle of the sexes, black, mentor, ambition, looking for love, cheating, contests and competitions, lifestyle, buddies, couple relations, guru, dating ...
Time:
year 2001
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Miranda Presley moves from New York to Nashville to become a songwriter. At an unsuccessful audition she meets James Wright, a promising newcomer. After only a few days they marry but start to quickly regret it.
Style:
semi serious, feel good, sentimental, humorous, realistic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
friendship, country music, bittersweet, love, couples, musician's life, couple relations, friends, twentysomething life, love and romance, artists and showbiz, hopes ...
Time:
90s, year 1993
Place:
new york, tennessee, usa, connecticut, austin texas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Taiwan, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Aga, a band singer, returns to Hengchun with frustration. Tomoko is a Japanese model assigned to organize a local warm-up band for the Japanese super star beach concert. Together with other five ordinary Hengchun residents who were not expected to ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous
Audience:
date night
Plot:
ambition, rivalry, musician's life, music, love and romance, contests and competitions, underdog, music band, disorder, nothing goes right, artists and showbiz, model ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, taiwan
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
After ten years, Sheldon returns from New York City to Paris, Georgia. His mother Evelyn, a laundress who is stubborn, ornery, opinionated, mean-spirited, insulting, and inflexible, has sent a ten-year-old boy who says he's Sheldon's son ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic, black comedy ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
family relations, dysfunctional family, small town, couples, lifestyle, single parent, misfit, love and romance, parents and children, homecoming, fish out of water, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
georgia, new york, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
120K
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 ⇓
21%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The story follows what happens when a child psychologist surprises his girlfriend by showing up at her political family's annual get-together at their Sag Harbor vacation home only to find them desperately in need of therapy.
Style:
humorous, not serious, entertaining, feel good, black comedy ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
eccentric family, black, nothing goes right, family gatherings, fish out of water, couple relations, family relations, couples, disorder, african american, black girl, blaxploitation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
12K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Two former backup soul singers, Louis and Floyd, have not spoken to each other in 20 years, and reluctantly agree to travel across the country together to a reunion concert to honor their recently-deceased lead singer. Cleo, a beautiful young woman ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, semi serious, humorous, touching ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
african american, black, artists and showbiz, showbiz, buddies, music band, lifestyle, musician's life, on the road, profanity, hip hop, rock and roll ...
Time:
year 2008
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
The film is about the difficulty of maintaining a solid relationship in modern times. Eight married college friends plus one other non-friend (all of whom have achieved middle to upper class economic status) go to Colorado for their annual week-long ...
Style:
melancholic, realistic, sentimental, semi serious, talky ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
infidelity, friendship, black, crumbling marriage, introspection, couple relations, family problems, couples, battle of the sexes, intrigue, human nature, dishonesty ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
colorado, indiana, georgia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A man's (Hugh Laurie) affair with his friend's much-younger daughter (Leighton Meester) throws two neighboring families into turmoil.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, independent film, romantic ...
Plot:
older man younger woman relationship, infidelity, dysfunctional family, family relations, age difference, fall in love, love and romance, friends, family problems, life turned upside down, family life, disorder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
10K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In the panicky, uncertain hours before his wedding, a groom with prenuptial jitters and his two best friends reminisce about growing up together in the middle-class African-American neighborhood of Inglewood, California. Flashing back to the ...
Style:
realistic, feel good, touching, hood, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
Jerry Maguire used to be a typical sports agent: willing to do just about anything he could to get the biggest possible contracts for his clients, plus a nice commission for himself. Then, one day, he suddenly has second thoughts about what ...
Style:
feel good, motivational, inspirational, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot:
football, career, love story, american football, single mother, workplace romance, friendship, business, starting over, love, introspection, boss and employee ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, cuba
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Young Kid has been invited to a party at his friend Play's house. But after a fight at school, Kid's father grounds him. None the less, Kid sneaks out when his father falls asleep. But Kid doesn't know that three of the thugs at ...
Style:
hood, funny, cult classic, light, black comedy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hip hop, african american, high school, teenager, black, urban, dancing, ghetto, gangster, coming of age, school, police ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A group of guys who sang together in a college a cappella group reunite 15 years later to perform at a friend's wedding and discover how their lives have progressed -- and in some cases regressed -- since their college heyday.
Style:
humorous, light, captivating, feel good, semi serious ...
Plot:
friendship, wedding, college, music band, lifestyle, music, reunited friends, weekend, group of friends, marriage, rivalry, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
31K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Marcus is a successful advertising executive who woos and beds women almost at will. After a company merger he finds that his new boss, the ravishing Jacqueline, is treating him in exactly the same way. Completely traumatised by this, his work goes ...
Style:
funny, witty, talky, black comedy, melancholic ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa, new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Roseanna is dying of a heart condition, and all she wants is to be buried next to her daughter, in a cemetery that is getting full fast. The cemetery can't expand because Capestro, the man who owns the land next to the cemetery, won't ...
Style:
feel good, touching, romantic, sentimental, melancholic ...
Plot:
family relations, death, family problems, death in the family, couple relations, couples, eccentric family, life is a bitch, love and romance, dealing with death, terminal illness, sister sister relationship ...
Time:
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Place:
italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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