Movies like Josie and the Pussycats 2001
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Josie and the Pussycats (2001)
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Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA, Canada
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, teen, feel good, witty, not serious, spoof, entertaining, satirical, absurd, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot:
satire, music, showbiz, rock and roll, friendship, fictional band, celebrity, music band, lifestyle, musician's life, desire for fame, disorder, artists and showbiz, comic book, fame, music industry, campus, secret, rock, manipulation, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, superhero, women, punk rock, girl power ...
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 realistic, humorous, absurd and feel good films with plots about artists and showbiz, music, lifestyle, friends, musician, runaway and satire mostly in Comedy, Music and Romance genres. Some movies like Josie and the Pussycats: Spice World (1997), Pitch Perfect 2 (2015), The Rocker (2008), Connie and Carla (2004), Wayne's World 2 (1993). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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, entertaining, humorous, light, satirical ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, kids, teens
Plot:
desire for fame, music, music band, friendship, childhood, stereotypes, media, performer's life, celebrity culture, on the road, disorder, paparazzi ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
england, europe, tower bridge london, london
Similarity:
100%
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, humorous, teen, melancholic, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, family outing, teen drama
Plot:
music band, teenager, music, girl band, friendship, singing competition, twists and turns, college life, competition, dancing, music business, stereotypes ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, georgia
Similarity:
100%
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, teen, humorous, funny, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
music, heavy metal, music band, youth, rock, musician, rock and roll, musician's life, teenage life, drummer, mentor, high school ...
Time:
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Place:
ohio, usa, cleveland ohio
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 98 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:
humorous, funny, feel good, laugh out loud, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
cross dressing, drag queen, gender bending, best friend, audition, gay, overnight success, hidden identity, performer's life, lifestyle, mistaken identity, wrong place wrong time ...
Time:
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Place:
chicago, usa, los angeles, san francisco
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Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
The story of the rise and fall of the Pre-Fab Four.
Style:
mockumentary, parody, spoof, humorous, absurd ...
Plot:
rock and roll, the beatles, music, satire, rock, monty python, music business, stupidity, music band, rising to stardom, musician's life, media ...
Time:
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Place:
england, europe, germany
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37%
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:
spoof, funny, buddy comedy, skit, cult classic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, date night
Plot:
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Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
illinois, usa, chicago, london
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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:
independent film, retro, psychotronic, thinking, cult classic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
punk, punk rock, punk rocker, girl band, punk band, feminist, rock and roll, rock, fictional band, taunting, teenager, girl group ...
Time:
80s, year 1982, 20th century
Place:
usa, pennsylvania
Similarity:
36%
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:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
rock and roll, friendship, women, rock, music, coming of age, teenager, teen angst, sexual content, profanity, friends, teenage life ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
hawaii, new jersey
Similarity:
35%
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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, funny, independent film, spoof ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
heavy metal, satire, musician, music, rock music, rock and roll, profanity, concert tour, singer, dating, chauffeur, friendship ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1984, 70s
Place:
seattle, middle east, austin texas, atlanta georgia, north carolina ...
Similarity:
35%
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:
semi serious, realistic, witty, humorous, suspense ...
Plot:
rock, rise and fall, punk, partner, best friend, rivalry, music band, buddies, artists and showbiz, ambition, music, lifestyle ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, oregon, seattle, portland oregon
Similarity:
35%
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, hilarious, psychotronic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
rock and roll, high school, rock, music, punk rock, punk, school, youth, adolescence, rebellion, rock music, college ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
los angeles, north america, california
Similarity:
35%
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, romantic comedy, cute, sweet, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens
Plot:
love story, musician's life, love and romance, love, relationships, singer, lovers, music, writers, songwriter, dance, mentor ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, new jersey, london
Similarity:
35%
5K
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 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, nothing goes right, music band, musician's life, introspection, drinking, ambition, buddies, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, death, found footage ...
Time:
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Place:
canada
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
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, teen, hilarious ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, boys' night, teens
Plot:
intern, friends, showbiz, marijuana, rock and roll, satire, musician's life, lifestyle, plan gone awry, disorder, escapades, celebrity culture ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, las vegas, new york, california, usa ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
mockumentary, humorous, parody, light, talky ...
Plot:
music, satire, musician, lovers reunited, folk singer, singer, music band, love and romance, showbiz, lifestyle, musician's life, buddies ...
Time:
2000s, 20th century, 60s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Discouraged by her lack of success and her parents' disapproval of her career choice, a struggling singer is about to give up on her dream when her manager cooks up a scandal designed to finally bring her some long-awaited fame.
Style:
entertaining, feel good, semi serious, satirical, captivating
Plot:
music industry, ambition, female protagonist, rock and roll, rock band, scandal, musician, music manager, aspiring musician, rock, satire, record producer ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
35%
59K
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:
hostage, heavy metal, music, rock and roll, stupidity, farce, satire, radio, rock band, hard rock, music band, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
seattle
Similarity:
34%
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:
feel good, parody, humorous, melancholic, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
satire, desire for fame, agent, contests and competitions, disorder, rising to stardom, head of state, media, state affairs, ambition, artists and showbiz, lifestyle ...
Time:
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Place:
iraq, usa, manhattan new york city, ohio, new york
Similarity:
34%
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Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Fatal... c'est Fatal Bazooka, un rappeur bling-bling et hardcore. En fait, un personnage de sketch créé par Michaël Youn dans son show-télé "Morning Live", puis développé dans l'album "T'as vu" vendu à plus ...
Style:
humorous, not serious, captivating, witty, parody ...
Plot:
musician's life, lifestyle, hidden identity, silly humor, artists and showbiz, dishonesty, disorder, physical appearance, amusement park, satire, irreverent, pop star ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
alps, france, europe
Similarity:
34%
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, lifestyle, music, performer's life, music band, friends, disorder, on the road, rock, filmmaking, buddies, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
34%
11K
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, satire, music, black, urban, rock and roll, hip hop culture, fictional band, gang, rapper, shaman, discrimination ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Singer Dewey Cox overcomes adversity to become a musical legend.
Style:
funny, spoof, parody, satirical, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
musician, music, addiction, divorce, singer, marijuana, stupidity, success, rock, satire, farce, hip hop ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 80s, 90s, 60s ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
34%
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, semi serious, cult classic, intense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
blackmail, disorder, music band, partner, media, artists and showbiz, buddies, showbiz, rock and roll, punk, job, misfit ...
Time:
80s
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
Similarity:
34%
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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, fish out of water, satire, interracial relations, love and romance, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, unlikely couple, opposites attract, disorder, family relations, media ...
Time:
year 2003
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
34%
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, girls' night, chick flick, kids, pre-teens ...
Plot:
teenager, teenage girl, teenage life, friends, double life, celebrity, fall in love, lifestyle, hidden identity, love and romance, youth, parents and children ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
malibu california, los angeles, usa, nashville tennessee, tennessee
Similarity:
33%
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:
sexy, sentimental, humorous, period piece, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, date night, teens, girls' night ...
Plot:
music, rock and roll, drummer, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, recording studio, fictional band, small town, showbiz, rock band, dentist, music industry, breakup ...
Time:
60s, year 1996, 90s, 50s, 20th century
Place:
pennsylvania, los angeles, wisconsin, illinois, pittsburgh ...
Similarity:
33%
966
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: Australia
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
They were the hottest thing in the eighties, the pin-up boys on every teenage girl’s wall. And with hits like “Tough Titties” and “BoyTown”, they cemented their reputation as the biggest boy band on the planet. Now two decades later, ...
Style:
feel good, semi serious, humorous, realistic, lighthearted ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
midlife crisis, music band, rising to stardom, desire for fame, ambition, performer's life, lifestyle, boy band, buddies, artists and showbiz, once promising, music ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
australia
Similarity:
33%
788
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:
realistic, not serious, humorous, biting, suspense
Plot:
satire, music band, showbiz, dishonesty, artists and showbiz, hidden identity, youth, friends, rock, shallowness, music business, punk ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Music, Romance
Country: Germany, USA, Canada
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, cute, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night, pre-teens, kids ...
Plot:
teenager, high school, coming of age, rivalry, mother daughter relationship, happy ending, family relations, fish out of water, girl, love and romance, lifestyle, teenage life ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
new jersey, usa, new york
Similarity:
33%
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:
friendship, showbiz, music, musician's life, desire for fame, rising to stardom, music band, friends, relationship vs career, rock, fall in love, love triangle ...
Time:
year 2005
Place:
los angeles, new york, usa, california, jamaica
Similarity:
33%
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