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Idlewild (2006)
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A musical set in the Prohibition-era American South, where a speakeasy performer and club manager Rooster must contend with gangsters who have their eyes on the club while his piano player and partner Percival must choose between his love, Angel or his obligations to his father.
Style:
erotic, stylized, serious, realistic, black comedy, hood, cult classic, psychological, sexy, clever ...
Plot:
nightclub, african american, hip hop, gangster, musician's life, artists and showbiz, love and romance, rivalry, music, black, blaxploitation, husband wife relationship, talking to the dead, jazz, dancing, violence, rapper, prohibition, murder, oral sex, urban, mortician, fistfight, black history, friendship ...
Time:
1930s, 1920s, 20th century, 30s, 20s
Place:
georgia, usa
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Most similar movies to Idlewild
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, stylized and hood films with plots about urban, black, african american, hip hop, friendship, gangster and mentor mostly in Drama, Crime and Romance genres. Some movies like Idlewild: The Cotton Club (1984), Mo' Better Blues (1990), Harlem Nights (1989), Moonlight Serenade (2009), Dreamgirls (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
The story of the people that frequented Harlem's famous nightclubs, 'The Cotton Club', and those that ran it.
Style:
visually stunning, period piece, intense, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
jazz, mafia, gangster, music, nightclub, prohibition, love triangle, love and romance, ambition, rivalry, flapper, mob boss ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1929, 70s ...
Place:
new york, usa, harlem, new york city, grand central station manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city ...
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95%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Opens with Bleek as a child learning to play the trumpet, his friends want him to come out and play but mother insists he finish his lessons. Bleek grows into adulthood and forms his own band - The Bleek Gilliam Quartet. The story of Bleek's ...
Style:
serious, psychological, romantic drama, clever, stylized ...
Plot:
jazz, music, black, friendship, rivalry, musician's life, musician, african american, sex scene, hip hop, urban, jealousy ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1969, 60s
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, africa, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
"Sugar" Ray is the owner of an illegal casino, who contend with the pressures of vicious gangster and corrupt policemen who want to see him go out of business. In the world of organized crime and police corruption in the 1920s, any ...
Style:
black comedy, hood, funny, stylized, humorous ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
nightclub, gangster, urban, black, organized crime, african american, fight scenes, mobster, husband and wife, corruption, gang, hip hop ...
Time:
1930s, year 1989, 1920s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
new york, harlem, new york city, usa, manhattan new york city, north america ...
Similarity:
79%
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A jazz musician performs alongside a coat check girl with a beautiful voice in this musical drama from director Giancarlo Tallarico. By day Nate earns his living as a financial manager, but when night falls, he helps the girl with her singing career ...
Style:
sexy, serious, sentimental, stylized, realistic ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
jazz, couples, love affair, artists and showbiz, fall in love, love and romance, musician's life, fired from the job, singer, musician, sexual content, anger ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
76%
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Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Three young women – Deena Jones, Effie White and Lorrell Robinson – dream of becoming pop stars and they get their wish when they're chosen to be backup singers for the legendary James 'Thunder' Early.
Style:
lyrical, melancholic, sentimental, visually appealing, inspirational ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
african american, singing, performer's life, showbiz, music, fame, dancing, broadway, musician, jazz, black, dance ...
Time:
70s, 2000s, year 2006, 20th century, 60s
Place:
michigan, detroit, los angeles, usa, las vegas ...
Similarity:
76%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
With help from his friends, a Memphis pimp in a mid-life crisis attempts to become a successful hip-hop emcee.
Style:
sexy, realistic, touching, bleak, emotional ...
Plot:
hip hop, music, rapper, midlife crisis, hip hop culture, career, destiny, drug abuse, friendship, black, profanity, ghetto ...
Time:
70s, 21st century
Place:
memphis, southern usa, tennessee, usa, egypt ...
Similarity:
72%
48K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
NOTORIOUS is the story of Christopher Wallace. Through raw talent and sheer determination, Wallace transforms himself from Brooklyn street hustler (once selling crack to pregnant women) to one of the greatest rappers of all time; THE NOTORIOUS ...
Style:
hood, sincere, melancholic, factual, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hip hop, african american, urban ghetto life, music, biopic, rising to stardom, musician, fame, success, ghetto, female singer, sacrifice ...
Time:
year 2009, 20th century, 80s, year 1983, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, los angeles, brooklyn new york city, new jersey
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
The story of a young man who must confront his own fears about love as well as his relationships with family and friends.
Style:
sexy, hood, romantic, erotic, serious ...
Audience:
date night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
urban, black, hip hop, african american, sex scene, love, making love, family relations, black history, violence, tragic romance, black woman ...
Time:
year 1994, 90s
Place:
asia, vietnam, texas, houston texas
Similarity:
67%
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13K
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
As four friends prepare for life after high school, different challenges bring about turning points in each of their lives. The dramas unfold and resolve at their local rollerskating rink, Cascade.
Style:
hood, cult classic, stylized, talky, feel good ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hip hop, coming of age, friendship, urban, black, drug dealing, ambition, family relations, self discovery, social differences, teenage life, siblings relations ...
Time:
year 2006, 80s, 21st century
Place:
usa, georgia, atlanta georgia, hawaii, london
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A musical set in the great Busby Berkeley style. In Chicago during the depression, sheet music salesman, Arthur Parker, is trying to sell his products, but it's not easy to convince unwilling music store owners to buy them. Although he's ...
Style:
surreal, stylized, serious, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
dancing, murder, great depression, bittersweet, melancholy, unrequited love, female protagonist, pop music, teacher, marriage, traveling salesman, bank ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1981
Place:
chicago, usa, england
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Darius Lovehall is a young black poet in Chicago who starts dating Nina Moseley, a beautiful and talented photographer. While trying to figure out if they've got a "love thing" or are just "kicking it," they hang out with ...
Style:
sexy, light, sentimental, erotic, talky ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, adult
Plot:
black romance, sex, love affair, friendship, love, black, hip hop, women, life philosophy, lifestyle, writer's life, opposites attract ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s
Place:
usa, chicago, africa
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Based on Verdi's (Bizet's not Verdi's) classic opera and its all African American musical counterpart Carmen Jones, Carmen a Hiphopera is a modern retelling of the story of the tragic gypsy Carmen. The setting has been taken from the ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, stylized, dramatic ...
Plot:
hip hop, femme fatale, tragic love, performer's life, fall in love, destructive relationship, betrayal, obsession, destiny, black, rapper, passion ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
philadelphia
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Our African-American hero , Brad is bullied by his dysfunctional mom; he flees his home and by chance tumbles down the rabbit-hole into the LA ball scene where he finds a ragtag new famiiy. With music by Beyonce music director, Kim Burse, screenplay ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, emotional, independent film, captivating ...
Plot:
gay, friendship, dance, gay relationship, lgbtq, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, lgbt, rivalry, society, nightclub, gender ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He's quite rightly worried that the racial difference would make an already taboo relationship even worse.
Style:
sexy, realistic, serious, emotional, controversial ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
interracial romance, architect, african american, love affair, adultery, racism, interracial love, sexual intercourse, relationships, prejudice, hip hop, black ...
Time:
90s, year 1991, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, africa, harlem, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Brooklyn, 1985. With the mob world as a backdrop, three life-long friends struggle with questions of love, loss and loyalty.
Style:
realistic, captivating, psychological, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot:
gangster, friendship, friends, mafia, love affair, coming of age, youth, murder, revenge, crime family, city life, danger ...
Time:
80s, year 2007, 20th century, 70s
Place:
brooklyn new york city, new york, usa
Similarity:
55%
18K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
The story of Jody, a misguided, 20-year-old African-American who is really just a baby boy finally forced-kicking and screaming to face the commitments of real life. Streetwise and jobless, he has not only fathered two children by two different ...
Style:
emotional, hood, stylized, light, intense ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
gang, womanizer, lone hero, single parent, african american, black, blaxploitation, gangster, unlikely friendships, urban, organized crime, twists and turns ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, south central los angeles, usa
Similarity:
53%
14K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Tommy Brown and Sincere are best friends as well as infamous and ruthless criminals and shot-callers in the hood. Respected by many but feared by all. As the police are closing in on them and new players are looking for a come up, will their reign ...
Style:
hood, independent film, stylized, crime drama, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
gangster, hip hop, african american, urban, urban ghetto life, ghetto, drug dealer, black, drug, violence, gangsta, gang ...
Time:
year 1998, 90s
Place:
jamaica, new york, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Goldie returns from five years at the state pen and winds up king of the pimping game. Trouble comes in the form of two corrupt white cops and a crime lord who wants him to return to the small time.
Style:
grindhouse, hood, independent film, funny, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
blaxploitation, urban, african american, black, exploitation, ghetto, pimp, corrupt cop, street life, corruption, revenge, prison ...
Time:
70s
Place:
oakland california, bay area, usa, california
Similarity:
46%
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A young man with a talent for music meets an aspiring singer, Apollonia, and finds that talent alone isn't all that he needs.
Style:
captivating, exciting, realistic, sentimental, cult classic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
musician, rivalry, african american, motorcycle, singer, music, redemption, dysfunctional family, rock band, possessiveness, skinny dipping, dysfunctional marriage ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
minneapolis minnesota, minnesota, usa, north america
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
Spike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American South Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, sexual, captivating, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, dark humor, psycho killer, punk, vigilante, infidelity, killer, true crime, profanity, lust, sex ...
Time:
70s, 90s, year 1977, year 1999, 20th century
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, harlem, usa ...
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Elijah has been bounced from group home to group home throughout his turbulent young life. What has sustained him is his art. After a promised scholarship is taken away, Elijah ends up in a fight that result in the death of another boy. Now, ...
Style:
serious, captivating, sincere, rough, hood ...
Plot:
prison, injustice, hip hop, juvenile delinquency, criminal heroes, musician's life, redemption, prison life, youth, society, murder, life sentence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa
Similarity:
42%
14K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
In 1934, the second most lucrative business in New York City was running "the numbers". When, Madam Queen, the powerful woman who runs the scam in Harlem, is arrested. Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson takes over the business and must ...
Style:
period piece, hood, stylized, neo noir, black and white ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, mafia, organized crime, african american, skinny dipping, black, gangsta, urban, black history, crime family, prison, violence ...
Time:
1930s, 90s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
harlem, new york, israel, illinois, usa ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Country singer Leana Taylor (Dolly Parton) struggles to escape from her controlling manager/boyfriend Hank (John Terry) as well as her troubled past. After turning to her guitarist (Billy Dean), Leanna finally faces her past, including her estranged ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, entertaining
Plot:
country, country music, couples, follow your dream, love and romance, hopes, life is a bitch, ambition, musician's life, performer's life, desire for fame, lifestyle ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, tennessee, nashville tennessee
Similarity:
40%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Sport, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Story of a promising high school basketball star and his relationships with two brothers, one a drug dealer and the other a former basketball star fallen on hard times and now employed as a security guard.
Style:
hood, inspirational, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hip hop, basketball, african american, gang, high school, urban, ghetto, black, gangster, violence, coming of age, thug ...
Time:
year 1994, 90s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
harlem, new jersey, new york
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Bernie Casey portrays Tyrone and Pamela Grier plays a sultry skin-flick star in this first Americanized remake of the iconic Michael Caine action film Get Carter. From Watts to the West Side, from porno parlors to a high-rise, from motel dives to a ...
Style:
psychotronic, neo noir, grindhouse, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
blaxploitation, lawyer, black, exploitation, revenge, martial arts, tough heroes, hitman, vengeance, criminal's revenge, lone wolves, rivalry ...
Time:
year 1972, 20th century, 70s
Place:
los angeles, usa
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Zora Banks is a school teacher and aspiring singer hoping to become a successful star while taking a break from heartache. Franklin Swift is a down-on-his-luck construction worker and not-quite divorced father of two hoping to start his own ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, talky, sentimental ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, adult
Plot:
couples, lovers reunited, love affair, looking for love, family problems, couple relations, opposites attract, family relations, love and romance, introspection, follow your dream, starting over ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
In the slums of the upper West Side of Manhattan, New York, a gang of Polish-American teenagers called the Jets compete with a rival gang of recently immigrated Puerto Ricans, the Sharks, to "own" the neighborhood streets. Tensions are ...
Style:
romantic, stylized, tear jerker, neo noir, aesthetic ...
Audience:
date night, teens, chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot:
forbidden love, rivalry, tragic love, dance, street gang, gang, broadway, interracial relations, shakespeare, racism, dancing, love story ...
Time:
1950s, 20th century, year 1961, 50s, 1930s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, empire state building manhattan new york city
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Boyz n the Hood is the popular and successful film and social criticism from John Singleton about the conditions in South Central Los Angeles where teenagers are involved in gun fights and drug dealing on a daily basis.
Style:
cult classic, brutal, independent film, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
hip hop, gang, ghetto, african american, poverty, coming of age, urban ghetto life, street gang, juvenile delinquency, rapper, gangster, teenager ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s, year 1991, year 1984
Place:
los angeles, south central los angeles, california, america, usa ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: South Korea, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A pair of star-crossed dancers in New York find themselves at the center of a bitter rivalry between their brothers' underground dance clubs.
Style:
sexy, serious, captivating, realistic, romantic drama ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
dancer's life, love and romance, dancing, young lovers, dance, contests and competitions, ambition, youth, artists and showbiz, music, lifestyle, interracial relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
In 1950s Alabama, the owner of the Honeydripper juke joint finds his business dropping off and against his better judgment, hires a young electric guitarist in a last ditch effort to draw crowds during harvest time.
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, captivating, psychological, cult classic ...
Plot:
blues, music, rise and fall, prodigy, friendship, follow your dream, ambition, musician's life, rising to stardom, love triangle, redneck, club ...
Time:
50s, year 2007, 1950s
Place:
alabama, usa, southern usa
Similarity:
37%
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