Movies like For the Boys

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For the Boys (1991)
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For the Boys (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, War
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: With the help of the singer and dancer Dixie Leonhard US-Entertainer Eddie Sparks wants to bring some fun to the soldiers during World War II. Becoming a perfect team they tour from North Africa to the Pacific to act for "the boys". Later they continue their work but when the author Silver gets involved into McCarthy's campaign and is being fired by Eddie, Dixie turns away from him, too.
Style: sentimental, touching, entertaining, humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious, light, romantic, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot: world war two, vietnam war, women, music, friendship, christmas, dancer, fame, concert, world war, friends, profanity, couples, artists and showbiz, couple relations, violent content, singer, woman, showbiz, korean war, singing, war, catastrophe, dancing, school ...
Time: year 1991, 50s, 20th century
Place: vietnam, england, asia, korea, europe, middle east
Keyword: oldies

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Most similar movies to For the Boys

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and touching films with plots about friends, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, friendship, music, couples and showbiz mostly in Drama, Comedy and Music genres. Some movies like For the Boys: The Commitments (1991), Why Do Fools Fall in Love (1998), Mrs. Henderson Presents (2005), The Wedding Weekend (2006), Grace of My Heart (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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%
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%
Mrs. Henderson Presents (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Eccentric 70-year-old widow purchases the Windmill Theatre in London as a post-widowhood hobby. After starting an innovative continuous variety review, which is copied by other theaters, they begin to lose money. Mrs Henderson suggests they add ...
Style: feel good, sentimental, touching, emotional, period piece ...
Plot: world war two, showbiz, art, friendship, audition, brutality, couple relations, love and romance, artists and showbiz, couples, chorus line, follow your dream ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, 1940s, year 2005, year 1937
Place: london, france, england, europe, west end london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Wedding Weekend (2006)
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 ⇓
53%
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Grace of My Heart (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: An aspiring singer, Denise Waverly/Edna Buxton, sacrifices her own singing career to write hit songs that launch the careers of other singers. The film follows her life from her first break, through the pain of rejection from the recording industry ...
Style: touching, lyrical, inspirational, sentimental, cult classic ...
Plot: songwriter, music, music industry, existentialism, loneliness, showbiz, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, ambition, rise and fall, self discovery, rock and roll ...
Time: year 1996, 70s, 60s, 1950s, 20th century ...
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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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 ⇓
52%
Mr. Saturday Night (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Buddy Young was the comic's comic, beloved by everyone. Now, playing to miniscule crowds in nursing homes, it seems like everybody but Buddy realizes that he should retire. As Buddy looks for work in show business, he realizes that the rest of ...
Style: humorous, intense, realistic, captivating, stylized ...
Plot: comedian, showbiz, actor's life, ambition, family life, aging, desire for fame, talent agent, rise and fall, rise to the top, judaism, fame ...
Time: 20th century, year 1992, 90s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 6.4
 12K
Soul Men (2008)
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 ⇓
52%
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SoulBoy (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story: 1974. Amidst power cuts, strikes and boot-boy aggro on the football terraces, Joe McCain is bored of a life that's going nowhere. Enter hair-dresser Jane: blonde, beautiful, and moving to the beat of a whole new world of sound, movement and ...
Style: humorous, contemplative, psychological, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot: coming of age, nightlife, youth, society, buddies, unfulfillment, lifestyle, music, friendship, youth culture, subculture, soul ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
My Dinner with Jimi (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:  The story of the night The Turtles met The Beatles and Howard Kaylan had dinner with Jimi Hendrix.
Style: realistic, sentimental, captivating, semi serious, contemplative ...
Plot: music band, music, rise and fall, desire for fame, celebrity culture, performer's life, ambition, rise to the top, showbiz, artists and showbiz, rock, lifestyle ...
Time: 60s
Place: london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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The Rose (1979)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Midler is the rock-and-roll singer Mary Rose Foster (known as the Rose to her legions of fans), whose romantic relationships and mental health are continuously imperiled by the demands of life on the road.
Style: retro, realistic, serious, captivating, sincere ...
Plot: addiction, rock and roll, rock band, love, musician, singer, women, drug abuse, rock, music, bittersweet, biopic ...
Time: year 1979, 20th century, 60s, year 1969
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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1234 (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Ian Bonar is Stevie, a wannabe musician whose look is a hybrid of Jarvis Cocker and early Elvis Costello. Working with his drummer pal Neil (Matthew Baynton) in a call centre, they dream of breaking into the indie music scene. To do this they ...
Style: uplifting, realistic, feel good, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: date night
Plot: musician's life, follow your dream, lifestyle, friendship, music band, hopes, buddies, music, artists and showbiz, rock, friends, drummer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
More American Graffiti (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: College graduates deal with Vietnam and other issues of the late '60s.
Style: grindhouse, captivating, realistic, semi serious, sincere ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: vietnam war, drag racing, racing, hippie, marijuana, coming of age, bittersweet, auto racing, police brutality, car, driving, radio ...
Time: 60s, year 1979, 20th century, year 1966, year 1964 ...
Place: vietnam, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Intimate Lighting (1965)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 71 min.
Story: Taking his young city girlfriend along for the trip, a man visits old musical friends in a country village for a string quartet rehearsal.
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous, sincere ...
Plot: modernism, renaissance, exodus, villa, classmate, musician, funeral, small town, gay subtext, bittersweet, musician's life, music ...
Time: year 1965, 20th century, 60s
Place: czechoslovakia, eastern europe, balkan, europe, czech republic
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Funny Lady (1975)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story: 1930s in New York – The famous singer Fanny Brice has divorced her first husband Nicky Arnstein. During the depression she has trouble finding work as an artist but meets Billy Rose, a newcomer who writes lyrics and owns his own nightclub.
Style: humorous, sentimental, anamorphic, hilarious, captivating ...
Plot: biopic, female protagonist, singer, nightclub, cabaret, couples, actor's life, fall in love, love and romance, human nature, couple relations, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 1930s, year 1975, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, cleveland ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 7.4
 16K
Mediterraneo (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Greek Sea, World War II. An Italian ship leaves a handful of soldiers in a little island; their mission is to spot enemy ships and to hold the island in case of attack. The village of the island seems abandoned and there isn't a single enemy in ...
Style: touching, sincere, art house, sad, humorous ...
Plot: world war two, greek island, friendship, italian soldier, wartime, culture clash, soldier, fascism, italian history, small town, kriegsmarine, village ...
Time: year 1991, post world war two
Place: greece, mediterranean sea, italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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 ⇓
49%
To Be or Not to Be (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A bad Polish actor is just trying to make a living when Poland is invaded by the Germans in World War II. His wife has the habit of entertaining young polish officers while he's on stage, which is also a source of depression to him. When one of ...
Style: parody, humorous, entertaining, funny, light ...
Plot: world war two, farce, satire, dark humor, disorder, german occupation, theater, actor, daring rescue, nazi, gay, war ...
Time: 20th century, year 1983
Place: poland, england, germany, middle east, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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All Together (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Five old friends decide to move in together as an alternate to living in a retirement home; joining them is an ethnology student whose thesis is on the aging population.
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, sentimental
Plot: friendship, aging, couples, family relations, elderly, couple relations, parents and children, old age, truth, friends, bittersweet, heart attack ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Face the Music (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Divorced couple Charlie and Lisa Hunter once a song writing team decide to spend a weekend in the French countryside to inspire them to write one last song together. But there is one person who isn't too crazy about the idea... Charlie's ...
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching
Plot: breakup, friendship, artists and showbiz, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment, love and romance, friends, family relations, couples, peace, married, love ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Fisherman's Friends: One and All (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Following the unexpected success of the band’s debut album “No Hopers, Jokers and Rogues”, we re-join them almost a year later, struggling with the pressures, pitfalls and temptations of their newfound fame, second album syndrome, and ...
Style: light, feel good, humorous, entertaining, funny ...
Plot: singer, friendship, buddies, countryside, small town, friends, music, artists and showbiz, beautiful scenery, real life
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Once in a Lifetime (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Mona Bergström is a sweet eurovision-obsessed woman in her 30's. She is married to a lazy husband and have 4 children, all named after her favorite Swedish eurovision popstars. Her brother is a crossdressing guy selftitled "Candy ...
Style: feel good, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, captivating ...
Plot: obsession, singer, rising to stardom, ambition, lifestyle, desire for fame, moral dilemma, aspiring singer, sibling relationship, contests and competitions, showbiz, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 90s
Place: europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
The Thing Called Love (1993)
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 ⇓
48%
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'Round Midnight (1986)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA, France
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Inside the Blue Note nightclub one night in 1959 Paris, an aged, ailing jazzman coaxes an eloquent wail from his tenor sax. Outside, a young Parisian too broke to buy a glass of wine strains to hear those notes. Soon they will form a friendship that ...
Style: contemplative, gloomy, sentimental, touching, realistic ...
Plot: jazz, music, addiction, alcoholism, musician, art, friendship, bittersweet, drug addiction, biopic, alcoholic, solitude ...
Time: year 1986, 50s, 20th century, year 1959
Place: france, paris france, europe, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Shall We Dance? (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Upon first sight of a beautiful instructor, a bored and overworked estate lawyer signs up for ballroom dancing lessons.
Style: touching, feel good, inspirational, sentimental, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: dancing, friendship, couple relations, contests and competitions, couples, follow your dream, marriage, dancer's life, hopes, rags to riches, teachers and students, dance school ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
The Blue Tooth Virgin (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Two writers must face a dilemma that is common to anyone who has ever had an artistic friend: what happens when you have to give feedback, and the news isn't good? Sam, an aspiring screenwriter, and David, a successful magazine editor, have ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: ego clash, friendship, best friend, rivalry, filmmaking, showbiz, performer's life, criticism, screenwriter, magazine editor, friends, unsupportive friend ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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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 ⇓
48%
 6.5
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Hello Lonesome (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Lonely since his wife left him and alienated from his daughter, a cantankerous voice-over artist strikes up an unlikely friendship with his regular deliveryman. Many suburbs away, an elderly widow loses her license to drive and turns to her wry ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, sentimental, psychological ...
Plot: friendship, loneliness, couples, love and romance, couple relations, estrangement, friends, unfulfillment, lifestyle, aging, multiple storylines, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 5.7
 433
Out of Sync (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Roger Deacon, a down-and-out record producer, is given the job of making a singing star out of an industry mogul's girlfriend, an attractive but talentless starlet. He discovers a housewife with a powerful singing voice and decides to secretly ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, entertaining, realistic ...
Plot: hidden identity, desire for fame, ambition, rise to the top, celebrity culture, rising to stardom, artists and showbiz, performer's life, cons and scams, showbiz, disorder, music industry ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
The Role of Her Life (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Freelance writer in a fashion journal, Claire meets Elisabeth Becker, a movie star. Everything separates them, their characters, their relationships with men, and of course money. Claire is hired as Elisabeth's personal assistant.
Style: semi serious, sentimental, touching, realistic, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: actor's life, love triangle, lifestyle, looking for love, society, showbiz, couples, love and romance, celebrity culture, social differences, boss and employee, employer employee relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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