Movies like Glitter

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Glitter (2001)
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Glitter (2001)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A young woman is catapulted into pop stardom, with her already-famous DJ boyfriend calling the shots.
Style: touching, melancholic, exciting, sentimental, cult classic, disturbing, romantic drama, rom com, serious, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: music, female protagonist, showbiz, hopes, ambition, rise and fall, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, love affair, follow your dream, rising to stardom, parents and children, music business, women, hip hop, singer, teenager, jazz, wrestling, teenage girl, black cast, rock and roll, trippy, girl power, black ...
Time: 80s, year 2001, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, maryland, madison square garden manhattan new york city
Keyword: music video, gangsters, dreams

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Most similar movies to Glitter

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sentimental and touching films with plots about artists and showbiz, music, ambition, love and romance, lifestyle, musician's life and hopes mostly in Drama, Music and Romance genres. Some movies like Glitter: Scenes from the Goldmine (1987), Pure Country 2: The Gift (2010), La Bamba (1987), A Star Is Born (1976), Rock of Ages (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Scenes from the Goldmine (1987)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A girl trying to make it in the 1980's New Wave rock and roll scene in L.A.
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, captivating, touching ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teenager, club, rock and roll, betrayal, ambition, couples, friends, dishonesty, fall in love, unfulfillment, love and romance, musician's life ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Pure Country 2: The Gift (2010)
Genre: Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Three angels bestow the gift of song to a young girl, who must follow a series of rules in order hold on to it during her rise to fame and fortune.
Style: realistic, sincere, serious, sentimental, contemplative
Plot: country, friendship, musician's life, desire for fame, music, love and romance, lifestyle, rise to the top, friends, hopes, ambition, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 21st century
Place: tennessee, usa, dallas texas, austin texas, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.9
 36K
La Bamba (1987)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Biographical story of the rise from nowhere of singer Ritchie Valens whose life was cut short by a plane crash.
Style: inspirational, touching, hispanic, intense, suspense ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: musician's life, biopic, music, rock and roll, interracial romance, rock, music business, musician, happy ending, love story, racism, audition ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, 20th century, year 1987
Place: los angeles, usa, southern california, new york, tijuana mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.1
 13K
A Star Is Born (1976)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: A Star Is Born is a 1976 rock music film telling the story of a young woman, played by Barbra Streisand who enters show business, and meets and falls in love with an established male star, played by Kris Kristofferson, only to find her career ...
Style: grindhouse, independent film, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Plot: music, tragic love, alcoholic, women, drug addiction, dancing, rock and roll, radio, elvis presley, fame, rock star, self discovery ...
Time: year 1976, 20th century, 70s
Place: california, usa, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
 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%
The Jazz Singer (1980)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Neil Diamond stars as Yussel in this tale of a young Jewish cantor who strives to make a career in music.
Style: touching, intense, serious, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot: father son relationship, music, tradition, family relations, showbiz, parents and children, follow your dream, desire for fame, religions or cults, musician's life, artists and showbiz, lifestyle ...
Time: 70s, year 1980
Place: california, new york, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Shooting Livien (2005)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A dark psychological drama, Shooting Livien explores the inner psyche of John Livien, a disillusioned New York musician who deals with a childhood trauma by claiming an alter ego. His band on the brink of success, fantasy becomes dangerously blurred ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspense, bleak, independent film ...
Plot: musician's life, drug abuse, addiction, life is a bitch, music, lifestyle, ambition, showbiz, nightlife, alcohol abuse, identity crisis, lgbt ...
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Eddie and the Cruisers II: Eddie Lives! (1989)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In the sixties, Eddie and the cruisers was the hottest band around. But the tragic death of its lead singer broke the band up. Only Eddie is not dead. He works as a carpenter in Montreal. His love of music forces him to create a new band which will ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, emotional, sentimental
Plot: music, redemption, rising to stardom, artists and showbiz, human nature, hidden identity, music band, starting over, desire for fame, dishonesty, ambition, performer's life ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
Place: new jersey, usa, montreal, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Movie in collections
 6.8
 31K
Selena (1997)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: In this biographical drama, Selena Quintanilla is born into a musical Mexican-American family in Texas. Her father, Abraham, realizes that his young daughter is talented and begins performing with her at small venues. She finds success and falls for ...
Style: touching, sad, factual, emotional, sincere ...
Audience: chick flick, kids, girls' night
Plot: biopic, music, dancing, tragedy, childhood, musician's life, singer, rising to stardom, rock and roll, human spirit, racial segregation, musician ...
Time: 90s, 80s, year 1997, 20th century, year 1995 ...
Place: texas, mexico, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.9
 9K
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 ⇓
49%
 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 ⇓
49%
 6.7
 2K
Sparkle (1976)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Three sisters (Sister and the Sisters) from Harlem who become singers Sister (Lonette McKee) becomes involved with drugs and Sparkle ends up being the one who gets famous. This movie tells about how drugs ruined Sister's relationships and ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sentimental, entertaining ...
Plot: black, african american, drug addiction, urban, girl group, showbiz, african, girl power, rock and roll, ambitious woman, black cast, black history ...
Time: year 1976, 20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place: new york, harlem, new york city, usa, harlem, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 4.3
 525
Hearts of Fire (1987)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A reclusive musician, once a huge rock star, takes a young female protegee. While on a tour she meets a younger, more popular rocker and switches her loyalties.
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, stylized
Audience: date night
Plot: rock, farm, sex scene, female singer, desire for fame, rising to stardom, fall in love, rise and fall, ambition, unfulfillment, self discovery, musician's life ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
Place: england, europe, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 4.7
 17K
Staying Alive (1983)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: It's five years later and Tony Manero's Saturday Night Fever is still burning. Now he's strutting toward his biggest challenger yet - making it as a dancer on the Broadway stage.
Style: cult classic, serious, realistic, stylized, freeze frame ...
Plot: dance, dancing, disco, nightclub, music, love, dysfunctional family, musician, new year, cannon, dj, music and dance ...
Time: 80s, year 1983, 20th century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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 ⇓
48%
 6.7
 1K
Tamla Rose (2013)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Three teen girls in a Motown band embark on an emotional ride to hell and back.
Style: touching, serious, sentimental, realistic, feel good
Audience: girls' night
Plot: dream come true, rise and fall, musician's life, follow your dream, ambition, teenage life, desire for fame, best friend, hopes, youth, friendship, showbiz ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 5.0
 872
Preacher's Kid (2010)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Small-town girl Angie King leaves the church and her home to pursue a dream of singing stardom. Luckett plays Angie, the daughter of a stern but loving bishop, whose attraction to the hunky star (Tank) of a traveling gospel show takes her on the ...
Style: sentimental, realistic, touching, serious, independent film ...
Plot: parents and children, lifestyle, hopes, love and romance, destructive relationship, youth, couples, friendship, christian, religion, father daughter relationship, music ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 5.9
 2K
The Song (2014)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: The film follows aspiring singer-songwriter Jed King (Alan Powell) as he struggles to catch a break and escape the long shadow of his father, a country music legend. After reluctantly accepting a gig at a local vineyard harvest festival, Jed is ...
Style: serious, sentimental, uplifting, captivating, christian film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: musician's life, love affair, christian, artists and showbiz, desire for fame, music, couples, country singer, faith, unfulfillment, introspection, hopes ...
Time: 80s, 2000s, year 2006, year 1981, 21st century
Place: usa, nashville tennessee
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Movie in collections
 7.8
 265K
Walk the Line (2005)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story: A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his rise to fame with Sun Records in Memphis, where he recorded alongside Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins.
Style: sentimental, touching, emotional, road movie, captivating ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: music, rock and roll, country music, musician's life, musician, addiction, marriage, biopic, accident, prison, drug, rise and fall ...
Time: 70s, 60s, 50s, 2000s, 1940s ...
Place: tennessee, memphis, usa, arkansas, west germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
What's Love Got to Do with It (1993)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A film about the singer Tina Turner and how she rose to stardom with her abusive husband Ike Turner and how she gained the courage to break free.
Style: inspirational, sincere, intense, emotional, serious ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: music, black woman, domestic violence, biopic, african american, musician, rock and roll, violence against women, african american woman, showbiz, childhood, musician's life ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 60s, 80s, year 1993
Place: usa, africa, tennessee
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 6.9
 5K
Elvis (1979)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 168 min.
Story: Biographical movie about the famous rock singer Elvis Presley.
Style: realistic, touching, emotional, serious, sentimental ...
Plot: elvis presley, music, rock music, biopic, musician's life, price of fame, celebrity culture, rags to riches, rock and roll, desire for fame, music band, showbiz ...
Time: 50s, 60s, 1950s
Place: las vegas, mississippi
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Beyond the Lights (2014)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Noni Jean is a hot new rising star. But not all is what it seems, and the pressure causes Noni to nearly fall apart - until she meets Kaz Nicol, a promising young cop and aspiring politician who's been assigned to her detail. Can Kaz's ...
Style: romantic, sexy, melancholic, emotional, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: music, mother daughter relationship, suicide attempt, musician, love, pop star, showbiz, police officer, domineering mother, musician's life, relationship vs career, black ...
Time: 21st century
Place: indiana, usa, mexico, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 6.7
 23K
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 ⇓
46%
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B-Girl (2009)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A young female breakdancer, Angel, moves to Los Angeles after an attack by an ex-boyfriend nearly ends her dance career forever. B-Girl follows Angel through recovery and acceptance of a new life as she busts a move into the male-centric world of ...
Style: captivating, serious, realistic, touching, independent film
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: dancing, hip hop, family relations, ambition, follow your dream, dancer's life, teenage life, dance, lifestyle, youth, contests and competitions, human spirit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, new york, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 7.0
 254K
Dirty Dancing (1987)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Expecting the usual tedium that accompanies a summer in the Catskills with her family, 17-year-old Frances 'Baby' Houseman is surprised to find herself stepping into the shoes of a professional hoofer – and unexpectedly falling in love.
Style: feel good, sexy, sentimental, touching, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night, kids ...
Plot: love story, dancing, coming of age, couples, forbidden love, summer, summer romance, youth, love and romance, fall in love, dance, unlikely couple ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 90s, year 1963, 1950s
Place: usa, new york, new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 5.7
 7K
Sparkle (2012)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Musical prodigy, Sparkle (Jordin Sparks) struggles to become a star while overcoming issues that are tearing her family apart. From an affluent Detroit area and daughter to a single mother (Whitney Houston), she tries to balance a new romance with ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, sentimental, inspirational ...
Plot: musician's life, family relations, ambition, rising to stardom, desire for fame, music band, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, family problems, showbiz, black, african american ...
Time: year 2012, 60s, 20th century
Place: detroit, usa, michigan
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Listen to Your Heart (2010)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Danny Foster doesn't have much: an apartment as small as his paychecks, no family, and a struggling music career. Yet for him, "every day is a great day to be alive," an attitude he gained from his mother's unwavering optimism ...
Style: serious, touching, sentimental, realistic, heartbreaking ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, teens
Plot: mute or deaf, family relations, fall in love, love and romance, couple relations, lifestyle, musician's life, couples, misfit, unfulfillment, parents and children, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, connecticut, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Crazy Sexy Cool: The TLC Story (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: TLC's humble beginnings in Atlanta quickly led to an unprecedented rise to fame in the 1990's as one of the world's most talented, celebrated and highest-selling female groups of all time. Through very public and high profile success, ...
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, captivating
Audience: girls' night
Plot: musician's life, music band, rising to stardom, ambition, hip hop, artists and showbiz, music, bankruptcy, black, blaxploitation, girl power, pop star ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 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
Plot: dancing, hip hop, breakdance, music, ghetto, gangster, dance, cannon, street kid, gang, urban, subculture ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Competition (1980)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: The movie centers on a piano competition whose winner is assured of success. It is Paul's last chance to compete, but newcomer Heidi may be a better pianist. Can romance be far away? Will she take a dive despite the pressure to win from her ...
Style: romantic, sentimental, serious, realistic, uplifting ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: piano, love, music, fall in love, love affair, in love, musician, family relations, female nudity, bare breasts, sex, male nudity ...
Time: year 1980, 70s, 20th century
Place: san francisco, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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