Movies like Josie and the Pussycats 2001

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Josie and the Pussycats (2001)
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Josie and the Pussycats (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Josie, Melody and Val are three small-town girl musicians determined to take their rock band out of their garage and straight to the top, while remaining true to their look, style and sound. They get a record deal which brings fame and fortune but soon realize they are pawns of two people who want to control the youth of America. They must clear their names, even if it means losing fame and fortune.
Style: humorous, cult classic, feel good, witty, not serious, entertaining, teen, satirical, spoof, romantic comedy ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot: music, showbiz, rock and roll, friendship, teenager, celebrity, fictional band, music band, ambition, lifestyle, musician's life, desire for fame, fighting the system, megalomaniac, disorder, artists and showbiz, girl, comic book, fame, secret, rock, manipulation, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, music industry, conspiracy ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century, contemporary
Place: new york
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Most similar movies to Josie and the Pussycats

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, feel good and semi serious films with plots about artists and showbiz, music, lifestyle, friends, musician's life, rock and showbiz mostly in Comedy, Music and Romance genres. Some movies like Josie and the Pussycats: Spice World (1997), The Rocker (2008), Connie and Carla (2004), Pitch Perfect 2 (2015), Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 3.7
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Spice World (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The film follows the Spice Girls and their entourage (mostly fictional characters) - manager Clifford, his assistant Deborah, filmmaker Piers (who is trying to shoot a documentary on "the real Spice Girls") and others in their everyday ...
Style: feel good, humorous, entertaining, light, satirical ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, kids
Plot: desire for fame, music, friendship, music band, stereotypes, childhood, performer's life, media, on the road, celebrity culture, paparazzi, disorder ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: england, europe, london, tower bridge london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.2
 40K
The Rocker (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Rob "Fish" Fishman is the drummer in '80s hair metal band Vesuvius. He's unceremoniously booted as the group signs a big record deal, is out of the music world for 20 years - and then receives a second chance with his ...
Style: feel good, humorous, funny, teen, light ...
Audience: teens
Plot: music, heavy metal, music band, youth, rock, rock and roll, musician's life, teenage life, mentor, high school, drums, desire for fame ...
Time: year 2008, 70s, 80s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: ohio, usa, cleveland ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Connie and Carla (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: After accidentally witnessing a mafia hit in the Windy City, gal pals Connie and Carla skip town for L.A., where they go way undercover as singers working the city's dinner theater circuit ... as drag queens. Now, it's not enough that they ...
Style: feel good, humorous, funny, laugh out loud, not serious ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: cross dressing, drag queen, gay, performer's life, hidden identity, lifestyle, overnight success, mistaken identity, dishonesty, disorder, wrong place wrong time, comedy of errors ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
 169K
Pitch Perfect 2 (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The Bellas are back, and they are better than ever. After being humiliated in front of none other than the President of the United States of America, the Bellas are taken out of the Aca-Circuit. In order to clear their name, and regain their status, ...
Style: feel good, romantic, funny, humorous, teen ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, family outing, teen drama
Plot: music band, music, teenager, college, friendship, singing competition, college life, competition, dancing, dance, stereotypes, music business ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: georgia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: The story of the rise and fall of the Pre-Fab Four.
Style: parody, mockumentary, spoof, humorous, light ...
Plot: rock and roll, the beatles, music, satire, rock, found footage, monty python, stupidity, music business, musician's life, rising to stardom, music band ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, year 1978
Place: england, europe, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A group of rock-music-loving students, with the help of the Ramones, take over their school to combat its newly installed oppressive administration.
Style: grindhouse, teen, cult classic, psychotronic, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: rock and roll, high school, music, rock, teenager, punk, punk rock, school, youth, rebellion, adolescence, rock music ...
Time: year 1979, 20th century, 70s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 4.9
 4K
Satisfaction (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When a young rock group called The Mystery gets its first gig at a club, it's an opportunity to see what life is all about! Fresh out of high school, the rockers are hired by an exclusive beach resort thanks to a faded '60s songwriter. ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, feel good, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, date night, girls' night
Plot: rock and roll, friendship, women, rock, coming of age, music, teenager, teen angst, friends, teenage life, resort, teenage love ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Corrine Burns retreats far into plans for her band, The Fabulous Stains, after her mother's death.
Style: psychotronic, retro, thinking, cult classic, independent film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: punk, punk rock, rock and roll, rock, feminist, satire, coming of age, rock music, girl gang, feminism, counterculture, strong female character ...
Time: year 1982, 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Wayne's World 2 (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A message from Jim Morrison in a dream prompts cable access TV stars Wayne and Garth to put on a rock concert, "Waynestock," with Aerosmith as headliners. But amid the preparations, Wayne frets that a record producer is putting the moves ...
Style: funny, spoof, buddy comedy, skit, romantic comedy ...
Audience: teens, date night, boys' night
Plot: rock and roll, buddy, music, dumb, heat wave, satire, rock, heavy metal, hard rock, dream, concert, stoner ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: illinois, usa, chicago, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 5.7
 4K
Tapeheads (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The story of Ivan and Josh, two dim witted ex-security guards who love music videos. Out of work, with no job prospects, they form a music video production company. They soon learn the in's and out's of the business in LA and with some ...
Style: humorous, satirical, light, semi serious, cult classic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: music, blackmail, disorder, music band, ambition, showbiz, artists and showbiz, buddies, media, partner, rock and roll, punk ...
Time: 80s
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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 ...
Plot: rock, rise and fall, punk, partner, best friend, music, rivalry, artists and showbiz, music band, friendship, ambition, buddies ...
Time: 21st century
Place: oregon, usa, seattle, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Electric Apricot (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Electric Apricot is a spoof of jam bands centered around the band, Electric Apricot, in the style of "This Is Spinal Tap"
Style: realistic, cynical, humorous, mockumentary, semi serious ...
Plot: partner, music band, performer's life, lifestyle, music, friends, disorder, filmmaking, on the road, rock, artists and showbiz, musician's life ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Music and Lyrics (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A washed up singer is given a couple days to compose a chart-topping hit for an aspiring teen sensation. Though he's never written a decent lyric in his life, he sparks with an offbeat younger woman with a flair for words.
Style: feel good, light, romantic comedy, romantic, sweet ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens
Plot: love story, musician's life, love and romance, love, music, writers, dance, relationships, mentor, opposites attract, career, romancing partners ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: "This Is Spinal Tap" shines a light on the self-contained universe of a metal band struggling to get back on the charts, including everything from its complicated history of ups and downs, gold albums, name changes and undersold concert ...
Style: mockumentary, parody, spoof, funny, humorous ...
Audience: adult
Plot: heavy metal, music, musician, rock and roll, satire, singer, rock, music band, pianist, found footage, rock music, fame ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1984
Place: seattle, middle east, austin texas, memphis, los angeles ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 6.2
 56K
Airheads (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The Lone Rangers have heavy-metal dreams and a single demo tape they can't get anyone to play. The solution: Hijack an AM rock station and hold the deejays hostage until they agree to broadcast the band's tape.
Style: funny, light, entertaining, not serious, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: heavy metal, music, rock and roll, farce, hostage, radio, stupidity, rock band, satire, music band, artists and showbiz, rock ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 7.2
 29K
A Mighty Wind (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In "A Mighty Wind", director Christopher Guest reunites the team from "Best In Show" and "Waiting for Guffman" to tell tell the story of 60's-era folk musicians, who inspired by the death of their former manager, ...
Style: mockumentary, humorous, funny, talky, stylized ...
Plot: music, satire, musician, folk singer, singer, love and romance, music band, showbiz, musician's life, buddies, lifestyle, lovers reunited ...
Time: 2000s, 60s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 6.8
 4K
Fubar (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: Canada
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Terry and Dean are lifelong friends who have grown-up together: shotgunning their first beers, forming their first garage band, and growing the great Canadian mullet known as "hockey hair". Now the lives of these Alberta everymen are ...
Style: mockumentary, humorous, ironic, funny, witty ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: friendship, musician's life, nothing goes right, music band, introspection, ambition, buddies, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, found footage, beer, death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Get Him to the Greek (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Pinnacle records has the perfect plan to get their sinking company back on track: a comeback concert in LA featuring Aldous Snow, a fading rockstar who has dropped off the radar in recent years. Record company intern Aaron Green is faced with the ...
Style: funny, humorous, not serious, hilarious, road movie ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, boys' night
Plot: showbiz, marijuana, rock and roll, musician's life, lifestyle, plan gone awry, celebrity culture, alcohol abuse, escapades, friends, road trip, intern ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 2000s, year 2009, 21st century
Place: las vegas, los angeles, california, new york, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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That Thing You Do! (1996)
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 ⇓
42%
American Dreamz (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The new season of "American Dreamz," the wildly popular television singing contest, has captured the country's attention, as the competition looks to be between a young Midwestern gal (Moore) and a showtunes-loving young man from ...
Style: humorous, feel good, parody, light, melancholic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: satire, desire for fame, contests and competitions, disorder, rising to stardom, fish out of water, showbiz, media, artists and showbiz, music, state affairs, head of state ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: iraq, usa, ohio, manhattan new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Singer Dewey Cox overcomes adversity to become a musical legend.
Style: funny, humorous, parody, stylized, melancholic ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: music, rock, farce, hip hop, stupidity, success, drug abuse, rock and roll, addiction, drug, divorce, team ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 60s, 70s, 90s ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Hannah Montana: The Movie (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: When Miley Stewart (aka pop-star Hannah Montana) gets too caught up in the superstar celebrity lifestyle, her dad decides it's time for a total change of scenery. But sweet nibblets! Miley must trade in all the glitz and glamour of Hollywood ...
Style: feel good, teen, entertaining, melancholic, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night, pre-teens ...
Plot: teenager, double life, teenage life, parents and children, teenage girl, fall in love, celebrity, lifestyle, youth, hidden identity, love and romance, pop star ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: usa, nashville tennessee, malibu california, tennessee
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 6.2
 10K
CB4 (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A "rockumentary", covering the rise to fame of MC Gusto, Stab Master Arson, and Dead Mike: members of the rap group "CB4". We soon learn that these three are not what they seem and don't apear to know as much about rap music ...
Style: spoof, mockumentary, black comedy, hood, funny ...
Plot: hip hop, music, black, urban, rock and roll, hip hop culture, fictional band, satire, gangster, shaman, stoner, ghetto ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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 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 ⇓
40%
 4.2
 3K
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 ⇓
40%
 7.1
 674
Bandwagon (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Tony gets fired from his job. He's not really sad about this because he prefers writing songs and playing the guitar. He meets the drummer Charlie and they decide to start a band, although Tony is afraid of playing in front of other people. He ...
Style: independent film, realistic, not serious, humorous, offbeat
Plot: rock and roll, monkey, coming of age, rivalry, friendship, friends, music, ego clash, lifestyle, music band, musician's life, ambition ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: north carolina, seattle, usa, georgia, alabama ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 5.9
 766
Vinyl (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Based on true events. When a new record by an old band is turned down by ageist record companies, the veteran punk band assemble a group of youngsters to stand in for them, and fool the music industry.
Style: not serious, realistic, humorous, biting
Plot: music band, satire, youth, hidden identity, artists and showbiz, dishonesty, showbiz, friends, rock, shallowness, punk, music business ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Lizzie McGuire has graduated from middle school and takes a trip to Rome, Italy.
Style: teen, feel good, romantic, entertaining, sweet ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids, date night, girls' night ...
Plot: teenage girl, teenager, american abroad, friendship, youth, high school, love and romance, teenage life, musician's life, hidden identity, disorder, rise to the top ...
Time: 2000s, year 2003
Place: rome italy, europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 5.5
 1K
Fierce (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: Poland
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Talent and passion for music can take one to the very top. On the way, however, there are going to be showbiz traps.
Style: captivating, feel good, humorous, entertaining
Plot: rising to stardom, music, price of fame, talented, female singer, talent, follow your dream, teenager, musician's life, desire for fame, aspiration, dream ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Music, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When the teenager Mary Elizabeth Steppe, a.k.a. Lola, moves with her mother and two younger twin sisters from New York to the suburb of Dellwood, New Jersey, she has the feeling that her cultural and entertaining world ended. While in school, the ...
Style: teen, melancholic, romantic, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, pre-teens, kids, date night ...
Plot: teenager, high school, coming of age, rivalry, mother daughter relationship, family relations, fish out of water, girl, love and romance, lifestyle, teenage life, happy ending ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new jersey, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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