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The Legend of 1900 (1998)
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The Legend of 1900 (1998)
Original name: La leggenda del pianista sull'oceano
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 169 min.
Story: The story of a virtuoso piano player who lives his entire life aboard an ocean liner. Born and raised on the ship, 1900 (Tim Roth) learned about the outside world through interactions with passengers, never setting foot on land, even for the love of his life. Years later, the ship may be destroyed, and a former band member fears that 1900 may still be aboard, willing to go down with the ship.
Style: touching, breathtaking, sincere, inspirational, sentimental, philosophical, unusual plot structure, sad, stylized, costume drama ...
Plot: jazz, music, genius, ship, prodigy, musician, child prodigy, pianist, cruise ship, orphan, piano, trumpet player, friendship, classical music, musician's life, loneliness, immigrant, art, european, dancing, sea, world war two, artist, music and dance, love ...
Time: 1900s, 90s, victorian era, year 1998, 1930s, 1920s, 1910s ...
Place: italy, america, new york, new orleans
Keyword: dutch, oldies, dreams

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Most similar movies to The Legend of 1900

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out touching, realistic, serious and sincere films with plots about music, musician, dancing, musician's life, artists and showbiz, piano and love and romance mostly in Drama, Music and Romance genres. Some movies like The Legend of 1900: The Red Violin (1998), August Rush (2007), Amadeus (1984), The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989), Vitus (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Red Violin (1998)
Genre: Drama, Music, Mystery, Romance
Country: Canada, Italy, USA, UK, Austria, China
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Spans 300 years in the life of one famed musical instrument that winds up in present-day Montreal on the auction block. Crafted by the Italian master Bussotti (Cecchi) in 1681, the red violin derives its unusual color from the human blood mixed into ...
Style: epic, suspense, dramatic, period piece, spiritual ...
Audience: adult
Plot: classical music, music, violin, musician, art, drug addiction, magic realism, justice, sex, violinist, gypsy, world history ...
Time: 18th century, year 1998, 1800s, 17th century, georgian era
Place: oxford university, prussia, montreal, shanghai, beijing china ...
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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 ...
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100%
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Amadeus (1984)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA, France
Duration: 160 min.
Story: The incredible story of genius musician Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, told in flashback by his peer and secret rival Antonio Salieri – now confined to an insane asylum.
Style: inspirational, epic, costume drama, clever, period piece ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: music, classical music, composer, genius, mozart, envy, opera, musician, musician's life, mentor, obsession, bohemian life ...
Time: 18th century, 1790s, 1820s, 1800s, georgian era ...
Place: vienna, austria, eastern europe, italy, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA, West Germany
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Frank and Jack Baker are professional musicians who play small clubs. They play smaltzy music and have never needed a day job...
Style: sexy, offbeat, sex comedy, sensual, serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: jazz, nightclub, hotel, music, brother brother relationship, piano, dog, audition, art, rock and roll, drinking, brothers ...
Time: year 1989, 80s, 20th century, 90s
Place: seattle, washington state, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Vitus (2006)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Vitus tells the story of a highly-gifted boy (played by real-life piano prodigy Teo Gheorghiu) whose parents have demanding and ambitious plans for him.
Style: sincere, semi serious, realistic, feel good, touching ...
Plot: child prodigy, prodigy, boy, youth, music, coming of age, childhood, family relations, pianist, parents and children, overbearing parent, friendship ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: switzerland, europe, zurich switzerland
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100%
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Once (2007)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A vacuum repairman moonlights as a street musician and hopes for his big break. One day a Czech immigrant, who earns a living selling flowers, approaches him with the news that she is also an aspiring singer-songwriter. The pair decide to ...
Style: sentimental, touching, emotional, inspirational, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: music, musician's life, pianist, street musician, friendship, love, singer, love and romance, musician, recording studio, immigrant, rock and roll ...
Time: year 2007, year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, london, europe, czech republic
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Begin Again (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A long lost music producer finds a singer-songwriter right about the moment he has given up all hope on life.
Style: touching, romantic, inspirational, independent film, sincere ...
Audience: teens, date night, girls' night
Plot: music, musician's life, love story, female singer, infidelity, musician, father daughter relationship, singer, love, city life, music and dance, betrayal ...
Time: year 2013, year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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100%
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 67K
The Chorus (2004)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: France, Switzerland, Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Set in 1940's France, a new teacher at a school for disruptive boys gives hope and inspiration.
Style: touching, inspirational, uplifting, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience: kids, teens, teen drama
Plot: boarding school, teacher, childhood, music, teachers and students, children, boss, boarding school life, musician, friendship, orphan, school ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 2004
Place: france, new york, switzerland, europe
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100%
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Ladies in Lavender (2004)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Andrea, a gifted young Polish violinist from Krakow, is bound for America when he is swept overboard by a storm. When the Widdington sisters discover the handsome stranger on the beach below their house, they nurse him back to health. However, the ...
Style: touching, sentimental, atmospheric, emotional, period piece ...
Plot: friendship, violinist, polish, sisters, sister sister relationship, human nature, village life, aging, foreigner, bittersweet, rivalry, painter ...
Time: 1930s, year 2004, 2000s, 20th century
Place: england, cornwall, europe
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75%
Jackie & Ryan (2014)
Genre: Drama, Family, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A modern day train hopper fighting to be a successful musician and a single mom battling to maintain custody of her daughter defy their circumstances by coming together in a relationship that may change each others lives forever.
Style: atmospheric, romantic, sincere, touching, extraordinary
Plot: musician, divorce, daughter, friends, family relations, love and romance, family problems, poverty, love, travel, drifter, dancing ...
Place: utah
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La La Land (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Mia, an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian, a jazz musician, scrapes by playing cocktail party gigs in dingy bars, but as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile ...
Style: romantic, sad, touching, melancholic, sentimental ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, family outing, teens, date night
Plot: music, jazz, dancing, love, musician, audition, bigger dreams, jazz club, love story, traffic jam, pianist, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, year 2015, future, 21st century
Place: los angeles, paris france, california
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67%
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Shine (1996)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.
Style: inspirational, emotional, feel good, intense, realistic ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: music, classical music, piano, biopic, pianist, prodigy, schizophrenia, child prodigy, psychology, father son relationship, mental illness, genius ...
Time: year 1996, 20th century, 1950s, 60s, 70s
Place: australia, middle east, oceania, london, south australia
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La Vie en Rose (2007)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, UK, Czech Republic
Duration: 140 min.
Story: A swirling, impressionistic portrait of an artist who regretted nothing, writer-director Olivier Dahan's La Vie en Rose stars Marion Cotillard in a blazing performance as the legendary French icon Edith Piaf. From the mean streets of the ...
Style: touching, disturbing, atmospheric, gloomy, melancholic ...
Plot: music, musician's life, singer, biopic, death, musician, childhood, art, artist, love story, rising to stardom, loss of child ...
Time: 20th century, year 2007, 1940s, 90s, 1910s ...
Place: france, europe, paris france, new york, montmartre paris ...
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Nowhere Boy (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The drama tells the story of Lennon's teenage years and the start of his journey to becoming a successful musician. The story also examines the impact on his early life and personality of the two dominant females in his childhood
Style: sentimental, intense, emotional, sincere, witty ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: musician's life, music, rock and roll, coming of age, the beatles, follow your dream, biopic, prodigy, adolescence, rock, dysfunctional family, artist ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, 60s, 1940s, 1950s ...
Place: europe, england, liverpool, hamburg germany, new zealand
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Mr. Holland's Opus (1995)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story: In 1965, passionate musician Glenn Holland takes a day job as a high school music teacher, convinced it's just a small obstacle on the road to his true calling: writing a historic opus. As the decades roll by with the composition unwritten but ...
Style: inspirational, touching, sentimental, serious, realistic ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: music, high school, classical music, school, composer, teacher, teaching, honest, musician, sign language, unlikely friendships, inspiration ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 60s, 80s, 90s
Place: oregon, portland oregon
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29%
Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (2009)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, Japan, Switzerland
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Paris 1913. Coco Chanel is infatuated with the rich and handsome Boy Capel, but she is also compelled by her work. Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring is about to be performed. The revolutionary dissonances of Igor's work parallel ...
Style: realistic, sexy, talky, intense, period piece ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: fashion, art, classical music, art history, composer, follow your dream, ambition, lifestyle, refugee, couples, blind ambition, life turned upside down ...
Time: 1920s, 1910s, edwardian era, year 2009, 20th century
Place: paris france, europe, france
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29%
Immortal Beloved (1994)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: The life and death of the legendary Ludwig van Beethoven. Beside all the work he is known for, the composer once wrote a famous love letter to a nameless beloved and the movie tries to find out who this beloved was. Not easy as Beethoven has had ...
Style: emotional, visual, costume drama, informative, dramatic ...
Plot: composer, classical music, biopic, music, classical composer, musician, artist, art, deafness, piano, life, dialogue ...
Time: 19th century, 18th century, regency period, 1820s, 1800s ...
Place: austria, europe, hungary
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29%
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Marina (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Belgium, Italy
Duration: 118 min.
Story: The true story of Rocco Granata, an Italian coal miner's son who followed his passion for music against his father's wishes and social barriers.
Style: touching, sincere, sentimental, realistic, visual ...
Plot: against the odds, ambition, follow your dream, artists and showbiz, society, musician's life, musician, parents and children, hopes, first love, father son relationship, time travel ...
Time: 50s, 1950s, 1940s, 20th century
Place: belgium, europe, italy
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28%
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Mo' Better Blues (1990)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 129 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, stylized, clever, hood ...
Plot: jazz, music, black, friendship, rivalry, musician's life, hip hop, african american, urban, jealousy, saxophonist, blaxploitation ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1969, 60s
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, africa, usa, manhattan new york city
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27%
 8.5
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Whiplash (2014)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Under the direction of a ruthless instructor, a talented young drummer begins to pursue perfection at any cost, even his humanity.
Style: motivational, dramatic, psychological, inspirational, realistic ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, teen drama, adult
Plot: music, jazz, obsession, mentor, teachers and students, follow your dream, emotional abuse, desire for fame, drummer, musician's life, musician, public humiliation ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, 21st century
Place: peru, manhattan new york city, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Three Colors: Blue (1993)
Genre: Drama, Music, Mystery, Romance
Country: France, Poland, Switzerland
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Julie is haunted by her grief after living through a tragic auto wreck that claimed the life of her composer husband and young daughter. Her initial reaction is to withdraw from her relationships, lock herself in her apartment and suppress her pain. ...
Style: emotional, visual, art house, philosophical, spiritual ...
Plot: loneliness, loss of child, solitude, grief, loss of spouse, depression, stripper, classical music, existentialism, philosophy, love, trauma ...
Time: 90s, year 1993, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, poland, eastern europe, europe
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26%
Chopin: Desire for Love (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Music
Country: Poland
Duration: 134 min.
Story: The biography of world famous Polish composer Fryderyk Chopin.
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, sentimental, emotional ...
Plot: composer, biopic, prodigy, musician's life, lifestyle, love affair, couples, destructive relationship, fall in love, society, chess, friendship ...
Time: 19th century, ancient times, 1830s
Place: poland, vienna, mallorca, warsaw poland, paris france ...
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26%
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 ⇓
25%
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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 ⇓
25%
 7.5
 62K
Cold War (2018)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Poland, UK, France, Belgium
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A Cold War-era love story follows the passionate love affair between a mismatched couple.
Style: black and white, romantic, sad, thought provoking, art film ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: cold war, musician, communism, audition, female singer, loveless marriage, love story, suicide, tragic love, jazz, folklore, defector ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, 60s, 2010s, 90s ...
Place: poland, paris france, east berlin, former yugoslavia, eastern europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
A Heart of Stone (1992)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Beautiful violin virtuoso Camille has two obsessions: the music of Ravel, and a friend of her husband's who crafts violins. But his heart seems to be as cold as her playing is passionate.
Style: psychological, heartbreaking, thought provoking, sincere, anthology ...
Plot: love, classical music, music, obsession, violin, passion, unrequited love, love story, glamour, asexual, violinist, solitude ...
Time: 90s, year 1992
Place: france, paris france, europe, hungary, geneva switzerland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 7.7
 142K
Billy Elliot (2000)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Set against the background of the 1984 Miner's Strike, Billy Elliot is an 11 year old boy who stumbles out of the boxing ring and onto the ballet floor. He faces many trials and triumphs as he strives to conquer his family's set ways, ...
Style: inspirational, touching, feel good, uplifting, emotional ...
Audience: date night, family outing, kids, teens, girls' night ...
Plot: coming of age, ballet, working class, father son relationship, dancing, friendship, childhood, gay, audition, poverty, follow your dream, boxing ...
Time: year 1984, 20th century, y2k, year 2000, 90s ...
Place: england, northern england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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 ⇓
24%
 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 ⇓
24%
 7.4
 4K
Together (2002)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: China, South Korea
Duration: 116 min.
Story: When a violin prodigy Xiaochun and his father head to Beijing seeking fame and fortune, they soon discover a fierce world of cutthroat ambition. But when Xiaochun is "adopted" by a famous music tutor, success finally seems within reach - ...
Style: touching, sentimental, stylized, uplifting, atmospheric ...
Plot: father son relationship, youth, music, coming of age, prodigy, rise to the top, musician's life, teenage life, hopes, teachers and students, humanity, family relations ...
Time: year 2002
Place: china, beijing china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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