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Fun in Acapulco (1963)
 5.8
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Fun in Acapulco (1963)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Mike works on a boat in Acapulco. When the bratty daughter of the boat owner gets him fired, Mike must find new work. Little boy Rauol helps him get a job as a lifeguard and singer at a local hotel. Clashes abound when Mike runs into the rival lifeguard, who is the champion diver of Mexico.
Style: psychotronic, retro, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, technicolor, exotic
Plot: elvis presley, music, lifeguard, love, musician, youth, beach, rivalry, love triangle, hotel, love and romance, fall in love, resort, follow your dream, couples, babies and infants, nightlife, ambition, family business, redemption, cinderella story, lifestyle, clergy, unfulfilled love, haunted by the past ...
Time: year 1963, 60s
Place: latin america, acapulco mexico, mexico
Keyword: mexican, oldies

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and feel good films with plots about music, love and romance, artists and showbiz, ambition, lifestyle, singer and musician's life mostly in Comedy, Music and Musical genres. Some movies like Fun in Acapulco: Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962), Easy Come, Easy Go (1967), Blue Hawaii (1961), Right This Way Folks! (1964), Paradise, Hawaiian Style (1966). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Elvis plays Ross Carpenter, a fishing guide/sailor who loves his life out on the sea. When he finds out his boss is retiring to Arizona, he has to find a way to buy the Westwind, a boat that he and his father built. He is also caught between two ...
Style: black and white, retro, feel good, humorous, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: elvis presley, rock and roll, music, boat, love, nightclub, girl, captain, love triangle, family business, wooing, fish out of water ...
Time: 60s
Place: hawaii, usa, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Easy Come, Easy Go (1967)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Lieutenant Ted Jackson spends his lat day on active duty in the Navy disarming an underwater mine. While disarming the explosive he sees what appears to be a sunken ship. Overcome with curiosity, he investigates and finds a treasure chest filled ...
Style: psychotronic, semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good
Audience: date night
Plot: elvis presley, ship, boat, diving, underwater, music, fish, water, beatnik, navy, ocean, rock ...
Time: year 1967, 60s
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
 6.1
 7K
Blue Hawaii (1961)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Chad Gates has just gotten out of the Army, and is happy to be back in Hawaii with his surf-board, his beach buddies, and his girlfriend.
Style: stylized, light, intense, melancholic, feel good ...
Audience: date night
Plot: surfing, elvis presley, dancing, happy ending, tour guide, family business, love and romance, partner, parents and children, starting over, fall in love, love ...
Time: 60s, year 1961, 20th century
Place: hawaii, usa, oceania, polynesia, honolulu hawaii
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Right This Way Folks! (1964)
Genre: Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Elvis plays a bad-boy singer roaming the highways on his Japanese motorcycle; laid up after an accident, he joins a carnival owned by the feisty Barbara Stanwyck.
Style: psychotronic, retro, touching, humorous, semi serious ...
Plot: elvis presley, motorcycle, music, circus, love, karate, greaser, lovers, family relations, couples, follow your dream, workplace ...
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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Paradise, Hawaiian Style (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Blacklisted by the major airlines for endlessly chasing female staff, pilot Rick Richards returns to Hawaii to set up a helicopter charter company with his friend Danny. Having a girl on every island is a good way to get business but it becomes ...
Style: psychotronic, semi serious, realistic, humorous, stylized ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: elvis presley, island, interracial romance, music, beach, partner, anti hero, buddies, rescue, fugitives, odd couple, love and romance ...
Time: year 1966, 60s
Place: hawaii, usa, honolulu hawaii
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Thank God It's Friday (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: It's Friday and everyone is going to the hot new disco. The Commodore's are scheduled to play if Floyd shows up with the instruments and Nicole dreams of becoming a disco star. Other characters are there to win the dance contest, or to put ...
Style: sexy, laugh out loud, grindhouse, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: disco, dj, american history, coming of age, love, rock and roll, rock, blaxploitation, generation, african, nightclub, silly humor ...
Time: year 1978, 70s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 6.4
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Podium (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Bernand Fréderic is a mediocre bank executive. He's married and have a son. He used to have antother profession: to be French star Claude Francois. Now, with the Imitators Gala Night coming up, he must choose between his wife or the only thing ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, surprise ending
Plot: performer's life, desire for fame, ambition, showbiz, dull life, lifestyle, obsessive quest, rivalry, artists and showbiz, crumbling marriage, celebrity culture, lookalikes ...
Time: 2000s, 70s, 60s, 20th century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 4.4
 2K
Disco (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Endetté jusqu'au cou dans une affaire de water bed, Didier Travolta, 40 ans, vit au Havre dans le quartier populaire du Grand Large chez sa maman : Madame Graindorge. Il reçoit une lettre de la mère de son fils Brian, 8 ans, qui vit en ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, stylized, feel good, realistic ...
Plot: nightclub, follow your dream, rise and fall, dancer's life, self discovery, society, rising to stardom, rivalry, love and romance, buddies, starting over, contests and competitions ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, france, normandy
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Double Trouble (1967)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When singer Gut Lambert goes on tour in Europe, he is pursued by two beautiful women, bumbling jewel thieves, and a mysterious killer.
Style: psychotronic, cult classic, romantic comedy, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: elvis presley, music, age difference, twins, musician, gangster, chase, fall in love, disorder, couples, rock, frame up ...
Time: year 1967, 60s
Place: antwerp, belgium, england, europe, brussels ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 5.6
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Svengali (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Svengali tells the story of Dixie, a postman from South Wales, and a music fanatic. All his life he’s dreamed of discovering a great band and then one day, trawling through YouTube, he finds them… ‘The Premature Congratulations’. He hunts ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, feel good, sincere
Plot: hopes, follow your dream, music band, music, desire for fame, artists and showbiz, ambition, relationship vs career, music industry, friends, couples, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 6.3
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Girl Happy (1965)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A Chicago mobster hires a rock and roll singer and his band to keep an eye on his daughter during Spring Break in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Style: retro, semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good ...
Plot: elvis presley, love, rock and roll, spring break, nightclub, gangster, couples, friends, disorder, opposites attract, forbidden love, lifestyle ...
Time: 60s
Place: florida, usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 4.2
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Undiscovered (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A group of aspiring entertainers try to establish careers for themselves in the city of Los Angeles.
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: showbiz, friendship, desire for fame, rising to stardom, music, musician's life, music band, friends, rock, love triangle, relationship vs career, fall in love ...
Time: year 2005
Place: los angeles, new york, usa, california, jamaica
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Down and Out with the Dolls (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The raunchy, spunky tale of the rise and fall of an all-girl rock band from Portland, Oregon.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, witty, suspense ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
That Thing You Do! (1996)
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Duration: 108 min.
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Style: humorous, sentimental, feel good, light, sincere ...
Audience: kids, family outing, date night, teen drama
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Time: 60s, 50s, 90s, year 1996, 20th century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Follow That Dream (1962)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
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Time: year 1962, 60s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 5.3
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Country: USA
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Style: offbeat, funny, cult classic, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: rock and roll, rock, club, hicksploitation, dancing, car, rock music, on the road, ambition, fall in love, obsessive quest, artists and showbiz ...
Time: year 1980, 70s
Place: austin texas, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Live a Little, Love a Little (1968)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Pin-up photographer, who doesn't want to get pinned down, comes up against a girl who won't take no for an answer.
Style: realistic, humorous, surreal, semi serious, psychotronic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: elvis presley, disorder, love triangle, fall in love, unlikely couple, boss and employee, fashion photographer, couples, impossible love, workplace, journalism, lifestyle ...
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 5.8
 7K
Breakin' (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A struggling young dancer joins forces with two breakdancers and together they become a street sensation.
Style: hood, cult classic, grindhouse, independent film, psychotronic ...
Audience: teens, date night
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Time: 80s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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 5.2
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Sueño (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A Mexican immigrant new to Los Angeles enters into a love triangle with two very different women.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching, freeze frame ...
Audience: date night
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Place: usa, los angeles, latin america, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Killing Bono (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 114 min.
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Style: feel good, semi serious, humorous, realistic, witty ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.1
 700
City of Rock (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: China
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A young musician from a small town in China tries to save his town's treasured Rock Park by organizing a charity rock concert.
Style: semi serious, realistic, light, humorous, sentimental
Plot: uninhibited rivalry, lifestyle, follow your dream, social relations, musician's life, ambition, rivalry, talented, music business, group of friends, friends, competition ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 5.7
 9K
Joyful Noise (2012)
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 ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Frankie and Johnny (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Elvis plays Johnny, a riverboat entertainer with a big gambling problem. Donna Douglas plays Johnny's girl, Frankie. A fortune teller tells Johnny how he can change his luck. Enter a new lady luck played by Nancy Kovack and the cat fight begins.
Style: psychotronic, semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good
Audience: date night
Plot: elvis presley, music, gambling, dancing, twins, love triangle, boat, love and romance, dishonesty, fall in love, opposites attract, lifestyle ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Adventures of Power (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: In his quest to become the world's greatest air-drummer, a small-town dreamer must overcome obstacles and ridicule to save the day.
Style: not serious, humorous, realistic, captivating, funny ...
Plot: youth, underdog, musician's life, contests and competitions, against the odds, working class, family relations, rivalry, hopes, artists and showbiz, follow your dream, social misfits ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new jersey, new mexico, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 3.0
 5K
Marci X (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A Jewish-American Princess is forced to take control of a hard-core hip-hop record label and tries to rein the one of the label's most controversial rappers.
Style: feel good, semi serious, humorous, realistic, witty ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, teens
Plot: hip hop, interracial relations, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, unlikely couple, opposites attract, love and romance, disorder, family relations, music, media, fish out of water ...
Time: year 2003
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Viva Las Vegas (1964)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Lucky Jackson arrives in town with his car literally in tow ready for the first Las Vegas Grand Prix - once he has the money to buy an engine. He gets the cash easily enough but mislays it when the pretty swimming pool manageress takes his mind off ...
Style: retro, psychotronic, hilarious, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: racing, dancing, rock and roll, elvis presley, gambling, music, auto racing, dance, race, rock, car, casino ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: las vegas, nevada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Steppin : The Movie (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Every college campus has its rivalries and UTS is no different. At this university, the Geeks run the campus and the greatest Steppers are king of the hill. When a local radio station announces the beginning of the step competition season, the ...
Style: realistic, not serious, humorous, hood, captivating ...
Plot: ambition, buddies, rivalry, love and romance, youth, fall in love, prank, disorder, college, contests and competitions, underdog, ghetto ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 6.0
 931
Sugar Town (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Look at the lives of struggling L.A. scene rock stars follows main character, Gwen, on her quest for the top. Working as an assistant to a film production designer, she tries to steal her boy friend who is a music producer by offering sexual favors. ...
Style: cult classic, humorous, witty, independent film, semi serious ...
Plot: music, rock, addiction, musician, music band, love and romance, ambition, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, musician's life, couple relations, buddies ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA, Iceland, Canada
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Two small-town aspiring musicians chase their pop star dreams at a global music competition, where high stakes, scheming rivals and onstage mishaps test their bond.
Style: feel good, romantic, funny, touching, humorous ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: musician, contest, father son relationship, small town, rivalry, competition, love, seaside town, ethnic stereotype, underdog, fisherman, ambition ...
Time: future, 2020s
Place: iceland, edinburgh scotland, reykjavik iceland
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 4.0
 8K
Rhinestone (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: After a big-time country singer brags that she can turn anybody in to a country-singin' star, she's out to prove she can live up to her talk when she recruits a cab-driver as a country singer. He's scheduled to sing at a big-time NYC ...
Style: humorous, light, entertaining, semi serious, inspirational ...
Plot: fish out of water, music business, happy ending, against the odds, odd couple, teaching the ways of the world, nightclub, musician's life, artists and showbiz, love and romance, taxi, music ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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