Movies like Lackawanna Blues

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Lackawanna Blues (2005)
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Lackawanna Blues (2005)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In a story fueled by rhythm and blues, a young boy's life is shaped by love and the stories of a cast of characters in the boarding house where he lives in 1960s Lackawanna, New York.
Style: touching, serious, realistic, sincere, sentimental, captivating, crying, hispanic, entertaining
Plot: coming of age, friendship, family relations, family problems, youth, friends, parents and children, lifestyle, black, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, blaxploitation, musician, african american, rock and roll, boarding house, music, homeless, poverty, boarding school, african, black man, black girl, age-gap relationship, blues ...
Time: 60s, 50s, 20th century, 1950s, 1960s
Place: new york, usa, russia, pennsylvania, toronto ontario canada, africa
Keyword: latin

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sentimental films with plots about singing, dancing, singer, song, father son relationship, drink and drinking mostly in Drama, Music and Biography genres. Some movies like Lackawanna Blues: The Five Heartbeats (1991), Hustle & Flow (2005), The Business of Fancydancing (2002), Angela's Ashes (1999), Crooklyn (1994). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Five Heartbeats (1991)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: In the early 1960's, a quintet of hopeful, young African-American men form an amateur vocal group called The Five Heartbeats. After an initially rocky start, the group improves, turns pro, and rises to become a top flight music sensation. Along ...
Style: sentimental, hood, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: music, racism, black, rock and roll, african american, friendship, blaxploitation, black history, music business, corruption, drug addiction, gangster ...
Time: 60s, year 1991, 70s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.3
 43K
Hustle & Flow (2005)
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: realistic, touching, bleak, hood, intense ...
Plot: hip hop, rapper, midlife crisis, music, hip hop culture, career, friendship, drug abuse, black, ghetto, musician, drug dealing ...
Time: 21st century
Place: memphis, tennessee, usa, egypt, mount everest
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Business of Fancydancing (2002)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Seymour Polatkin is a successful, gay Indian poet from Spokane who confronts his past when he returns to his childhood home on the reservation to attend the funeral of a dear friend.
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, touching, independent film ...
Plot: gay, friendship, lifestyle, self discovery, haunted by the past, tragic love, best friend, obsessive quest, orphan, youth, betrayal, writer's life ...
Time: 80s, 70s
Place: seattle, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.3
 23K
Angela's Ashes (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, UK, Ireland
Duration: 145 min.
Story: Based on the best selling autobiography by Irish expat Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes follows the experiences of young Frankie and his family as they try against all odds to escape the poverty endemic in the slums of pre-war Limerick. The film ...
Style: touching, depressing, sad, compassionate, serious ...
Audience: toddlers, teen drama
Plot: poverty, life is a bitch, ira, injustice, family relations, youth, parents and children, depression, children, society, human nature, childhood ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, 90s, year 1999, 20th century ...
Place: ireland, new york, brooklyn new york city, usa, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 7.0
 11K
Crooklyn (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: From Spike Lee comes this vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school-teacher, her stubborn jazz-musician husband and their five kids living in '70s Brooklyn.
Style: humorous, touching, sentimental, stylized, light ...
Plot: coming of age, poverty, parenthood, dysfunctional family, urban, black, african american, family relations, school, child's point of view, parents and children, black people ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1994, year 1973
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.9
 14K
Radio Flyer (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A father reminisces about his childhood when he and his younger brother moved to a new town with their mother, her new husband and their dog, Shane. When the younger brother is subjected to physical abuse at the hands of their brutal stepfather, ...
Style: emotional, touching, sentimental, serious, realistic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teen drama
Plot: brother brother relationship, physical abuse, bullying, coming of age, children, child abuse, childhood, dysfunctional family, abuse, family relations, parents and children, life is a bitch ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1992, year 1969
Place: california, northern california, oklahoma
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.8
 874
The Last Ride (2011)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The final days of Hank Williams.
Style: serious, captivating, touching, sincere, sad ...
Plot: country music, friendship, redemption, musician's life, starting over, rise and fall, road trip, rising to stardom, downfall, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, hopes ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, year 2010, year 1952, 1950s
Place: usa, alabama, ohio, west virginia, virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Tensions rise when the trailblazing Mother of the Blues and her band gather at a Chicago recording studio in 1927. Adapted from August Wilson's play.
Style: rough, serious, uplifting, suspense, visual ...
Plot: african american, musician, blues, black, racism, black american, lgbt, jazz, black history, bigger dreams, stuttering, fired from the job ...
Time: 1920s, 2020s
Place: chicago, harlem, detroit, memphis, birmingham alabama ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 7.3
 4K
Songcatcher (2000)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: After being denied a promotion at the university where she teaches, Doctor Lily Penleric, a brilliant musicologist, impulsively visits her sister, who runs a struggling rural school in Appalachia. There she stumbles upon the discovery of her life - ...
Style: sentimental, touching, lyrical, sincere, emotional ...
Plot: lesbian, culture clash, music, self discovery, fish out of water, social differences, love and romance, opposites attract, human nature, isolation, writers, sister sister relationship ...
Time: 1900s, 20th century
Place: scotland, appalachia, england, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Cat and the Moon (2019)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Nick comes to New York to temporarily live with a jazz musician friend of his late father's named Cal while his mom is in rehab. During his time in the city, he befriends a group of kids who show him what New York has to offer.
Style: captivating, suspense, psychological, contemplative, melancholic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: 18 year old, friendship, teenage boy, underage drinking, love triangle, african american, drug dealer, teenager, loss of father, black american, male camaraderie, musician ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.7
 427
Killer Diller (2004)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A guitar playing car thief meets an autistic savant piano player, and together they transform a group of reluctant halfway house convicts into The Killer Diller Blues Band.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching, captivating ...
Plot: blues, ambition, prodigy, musician's life, partner, misfit, criminal heroes, prison life, fish out of water, autism, piano, college ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, missouri
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 7.4
 111K
August Rush (2007)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA, South Korea
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A drama with fairy tale elements, where an orphaned musical prodigy uses his gift as a clue to finding his birth parents.
Style: touching, inspirational, sentimental, feel good, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, kids, family friendly, family outing ...
Plot: music, musician, childhood, prodigy, orphan, child prodigy, dancing, child protagonist, genius, youth, chance meeting, children ...
Time: 2000s, year 2007, 80s, year 1995, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, chicago, xian, san francisco ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.0
 537
Roseland (1977)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: "Roseland" is made up of three stories, sometimes connecting, all set in the famed New York dance palace, and all having the same theme: finding the right dance partner.
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, atmospheric, thought provoking ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: loneliness, friendship, looking for love, elderly, couples, party, music, dance, disco, love and romance, contests and competitions, dancer's life ...
Time: 70s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.6
 77K
Dreamgirls (2006)
Genre: Drama, Music, 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: stylized, emotional, lyrical, melancholic, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: african american, performer's life, showbiz, music, fame, dancing, broadway, jazz, manager, black, unlikely friendships, dance ...
Time: 60s, 70s, year 2006, 2000s, 20th century
Place: michigan, los angeles, detroit, usa, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Twist and Shout (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Denmark
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Danish teens come of age in 1963. Bjorn and Erik are close friends. Bjorn is pursued by Kirsten, a future Stepford wife, but he falls for Anna, who initiates him into love and sex. Erik is somber, caring for his home-bound mentally-ill mother while ...
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, sincere, sentimental ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, female nudity, traumatic childhood, age difference, adolescence, older woman younger man, family relations, pregnancy, friendship, dating, hide and seek, friends ...
Time: 80s, 60s, year 1963
Place: antwerp, denmark, copenhagen, scandinavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.6
 27K
Take the Lead (2006)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A former professional dancer volunteers to teach dance in the New York public school system and, while his background first clashes with his students' tastes, together they create a completely new style of dance. Based on the story of ballroom ...
Style: inspirational, sexy, entertaining, captivating, feel good ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot: dancing, teacher, dance, dancer, dancer's life, dedicated educator, teenager, music, high school, respect, teachers and students, prejudice ...
Time: year 2006, 20th century, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Forty Shades of Blue (2005)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A Russian woman living in Memphis with a much older rock-n-roll legend experiences a personal awakening when her husband's estranged son comes to visit.
Style: sincere, emotional, realistic, contemplative, serious ...
Plot: love affair, sex with stepmother, infidelity, love triangle, family relations, family problems, crumbling marriage, estrangement, couples, parents and children, couple relations, fall in love ...
Place: usa, tennessee, memphis, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Telling Lies in America (1997)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Karchy (Brad Renfro) is a boy in school who has moved from Hungary to America in the 1960's. He is struggling in school and trying to adjust to America's culture. He then hears about a radio DJ Billy Magic (Kevin Bacon) who holds a contest ...
Style: sentimental, talky, realistic, touching, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, high school, radio dj, childhood, manipulation, happy ending, police investigation, love and romance, human nature, introspection, false accusation, high school life ...
Time: 60s, year 1997, 90s
Place: europe, ohio, hungary, cleveland ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Running on Empty (1988)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: The Popes are a family who haven't been able to use their real identity for years. In the late sixties, the parents set a weapons lab afire in an effort to hinder the government's Vietnam war campaign. Ever since then, the Popes have been ...
Style: touching, serious, political, feel good, entertaining ...
Plot: coming of age, music, vietnam war, radical, hidden identity, follow your dream, love, parents and children, haunted by the past, eccentric family, rebelliousness, society ...
Time: 80s, 70s, year 1988, 20th century, 60s ...
Place: new jersey, new york, oakland california, usa, florida ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Cadillac Records (2008)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: The story of sex, violence, race and rock and roll in 1950s Chicago, and the exciting but turbulent lives of some of America's musical legends, including Muddy Waters, Leonard Chess, Little Walter, Howlin' Wolf, Etta James and Chuck Berry.
Style: realistic, inspirational, intense, stylized, talky ...
Plot: musician's life, music, rock and roll, blues, jazz, biopic, african american, pop music, success, music business, singer, greed ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 1950s, year 2008, 1940s ...
Place: chicago, usa, indiana, london, mississippi
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.1
 298
Along the Way (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A funny, gripping and powerful drama about the post graduation summer of four lifelong friends and one night that changed the course of their lives... forever. Like Crash , Saint Elmo s Fire and it s inspiration Stand By Me, Along the WAY is a ...
Style: touching, offbeat, gloomy, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: best friend, college, friendship, friends, youth, hopes, redemption, buddies, coming of age, showbiz, partner, doctor ...
Time: 90s, year 1996, year 1983, 21st century
Place: new york, connecticut, madison square garden manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Killer of Sheep (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Stan works in drudgery at a slaughterhouse. His personal life is drab. Dissatisfaction and ennui keep him unresponsive to the needs of his adoring wife, and he must struggle against influences which would dishonor and endanger him and his family.
Style: independent film, realistic, sincere, serious, emotional ...
Plot: ghetto, friendship, black, dysfunctional family, lifestyle, human nature, parents and children, family life, couple relations, family problems, african american, blaxploitation ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1978
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 7.7
 157K
Ray (2004)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 152 min.
Story: Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by a fiercely independent mom who insisted he make his own way, He found his calling and his gift behind a piano keyboard. Touring across the Southern ...
Style: inspirational, touching, sincere, emotional, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: jazz, addiction, musician, musician's life, music, african american, blindness, biopic, pianist, disability, blind character, heroin ...
Time: year 2004, 1930s, 20th century, 60s, 50s ...
Place: georgia, new york, indianapolis indiana, california, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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 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 ⇓
19%
 6.9
 1K
Two of Us (2000)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: In this purely fictional story, Paul McCartney drops by The Dakota to visit John Lennon in 1976. Paul is still on top of the music world, reaching #1 with his new band, Wings. John, however, has retired from public life, choosing to raise his son, ...
Style: serious, humorous, sentimental, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: friendship, music, the beatles, father son relationship, assassination, rising to stardom, lifestyle, love and romance, musician's life, celebrity culture, rock, music band ...
Time: year 1976, 90s, 70s
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
A Time for Dancing (2002)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Their love of dance, and their friendship, is challenged for two high school girls when one is diagnosed with cancer.
Style: emotional, sincere, touching, sentimental, sad ...
Audience: teens, date night, girls' night
Plot: dancing, terminal illness, friendship, life is a bitch, follow your dream, teenage life, cancer, single parent, lifestyle, society, unfulfillment, determination ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 5.9
 34K
54 (1998)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Shane, a Jersey boy with big dreams, crosses the river in hopes of finding a more exciting life at Studio 54. When Steve Rubell, the mastermind behind the infamous disco, plucks Shane from the sea of faces clamoring to get inside his club, Shane not ...
Style: atmospheric, sexy, serious, realistic, sexual ...
Plot: disco, nightclub, gay, drug abuse, clubbing, addiction, nightlife, father son relationship, drug, lifestyle, lesbian, lgbtq ...
Time: 70s, 80s, 20th century, year 1979
Place: new york, new jersey, usa, bahamas, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Mambo Kings (1992)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: France, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The Mambo Kings tells the story of César and Nestor Castillo, brothers and aspiring musicians who flee from Cuba to America in search of the American Dream.
Style: sentimental, melancholic, emotional, serious, realistic ...
Plot: music, musician's life, rags to riches, true love, performer's life, family relations, immigrant, love story, brother brother relationship, sibling rivalry, fame, love ...
Time: 50s, 1950s, year 1992, 20th century
Place: cuba, new york, america, havana cuba, latin america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
The Thing Called Love (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Miranda Presley moves from New York to Nashville to become a songwriter. At an unsuccessful audition she meets James Wright, a promising newcomer. After only a few days they marry but start to quickly regret it.
Style: semi serious, feel good, sentimental, humorous, realistic ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: friendship, country music, bittersweet, love, couples, musician's life, couple relations, friends, twentysomething life, love and romance, artists and showbiz, hopes ...
Time: 90s, year 1993
Place: new york, tennessee, usa, connecticut, austin texas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 6.1
 2K
Low Down (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: The daughter of jazz pianist Joe Albany witnesses her beloved father's struggle -- and failure -- to kick his heroin habit.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, aesthetic ...
Plot: jazz, asthma, music, addiction, heroin, pianist, coming of age, artists and showbiz, daughter, parents and children, family relations, biopic ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 2014, 60s, year 1988 ...
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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