Movies like The Mambo Kings
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The Mambo Kings (1992)
6K
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, emotional, melancholic, serious, realistic, touching, captivating, fairy tale, romantic, sexy ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
music, musician's life, rags to riches, true love, performer's life, family relations, immigrant, love story, brother brother relationship, fame, sibling rivalry, love, rising to stardom, rich and poor, dancing, love triangle, nightclub, music business, musician, sex scene, male nudity, dance, rock, american history, pop music ...
Time:
50s, 1950s, year 1992, 20th century
Place:
cuba, new york, america, havana cuba, usa, latin america, manhattan new york city
Keyword:
latin, american, cuban, gangsters
Most similar movies to The Mambo Kings
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sentimental and touching films with plots about artists and showbiz, music, musician's life, ambition, lifestyle, musician and couples mostly in Drama, Music and Biography genres. Some movies like The Mambo Kings: Purple Rain (1984), Rock Star (2001), Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (2004), Habana Blues (2005), King of Salsa (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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:
exciting, captivating, realistic, sentimental, cult classic ...
Plot:
rivalry, musician, music, african american, motorcycle, dysfunctional family, singer, redemption, dancing, human spirit, rock and roll, aspiring singer ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
minnesota, minneapolis minnesota, usa
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100%
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Rock Star tells the story of Chris Cole and a rock band called Steel Dragon. Cole is a photocopier technician by day, and the lead singer of a Steel Dragon tribute band called "Blood Pollution" by night.Internal struggles between the Steel ...
Style:
stylized, melancholic, entertaining, intense, light ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
music, rock star, rock and roll, rock music, heavy metal, rock, audition, success, ambition, rock concert, rock band, relationship problems ...
Time:
80s, year 2001, y2k, 20th century
Place:
usa, pittsburgh, pennsylvania, seattle
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100%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
In pre-revolution Cuba, Katey Miller is about to defy everyone's expectations. Instead of a parent-approved suitor, Katey is drawn to the sexy waiter, Javier, who spends his nights dancing in Havana's nightclubs. As she secretly learns to ...
Style:
romantic, light, period piece, touching, feel good ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night
Plot:
dancing, dancer's life, young lovers, love story, revolution, love and romance, couples, dance, music, mentor, salsa, hopes ...
Time:
1950s, year 2004, 50s, 20th century
Place:
cuba, havana cuba, caribbean, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Spain, Cuba, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
When Spanish record producers express interest in Cuban musicians Ruy and Tito, the longtime friends are faced with the prospect of leaving their loved ones behind. After years of hoping and dreaming, they've finally earned the opportunity to ...
Style:
realistic, sincere, touching, emotional, semi serious ...
Plot:
ambition, musician's life, friends, music band, lifestyle, follow your dream, immigrant, artists and showbiz, music, rock and roll, couples, musician ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
cuba, latin america, usa, havana cuba
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The rise and fall of salsa singer, Héctor Lavoe (1946-1993), as told from the perspective of his wife Puchi, who looks back from 2002.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, disturbing, informative ...
Plot:
music, ambition, musician's life, artists and showbiz, showbiz, dancing, biopic, lifestyle, life is a bitch, rise and fall, drug abuse, salsa ...
Time:
70s, year 2006, 60s
Place:
usa, new york, puerto rico
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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8 Mile similar movies
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
In this biographical drama, Selena Quintanilla is born into a musical Mexican-American family in Texas. Her father, Abraham, realizes that his young daughter is talented and begins performing with her at small venues. She finds success and falls for ...
Style:
touching, sad, factual, emotional, sincere ...
Audience:
chick flick, kids, girls' night
Plot:
biopic, music, dancing, tragedy, childhood, musician's life, singer, rising to stardom, rock and roll, human spirit, racial segregation, musician ...
Time:
90s, 80s, year 1997, 20th century, year 1995 ...
Place:
texas, mexico, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
5K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 168 min.
Story:
Biographical movie about the famous rock singer Elvis Presley.
Style:
realistic, touching, emotional, serious, sentimental ...
Plot:
elvis presley, music, rock music, biopic, musician's life, price of fame, celebrity culture, rags to riches, rock and roll, desire for fame, music band, showbiz ...
Time:
50s, 60s, 1950s
Place:
las vegas, mississippi
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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 ⇓
35%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A film about the life and career of the early rock and roll star.
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, feel good, touching ...
Plot:
biopic, music, musician, rock, rock music, singer, showbiz, musician's life, pop music, price of fame, rags to riches, art ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, year 1978, 20th century
Place:
texas, austin texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
36K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Biographical story of the rise from nowhere of singer Ritchie Valens whose life was cut short by a plane crash.
Style:
inspirational, touching, hispanic, intense, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
musician's life, biopic, music, rock and roll, interracial romance, rock, music business, musician, happy ending, love story, racism, audition ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 20th century, year 1987
Place:
los angeles, usa, southern california, new york, tijuana mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Biography of Loretta Lynn, a country and western singer that came from poverty to fame.
Style:
sentimental, touching, realistic, inspirational, factual ...
Plot:
country music, music, biopic, female protagonist, musician's life, poverty, singer, rags to riches, musician, mining, music business, rising to stardom ...
Time:
1950s, year 1980, 70s, 20th century
Place:
kentucky, usa, washington state, nashville tennessee, appalachia
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Neil Diamond stars as Yussel in this tale of a young Jewish cantor who strives to make a career in music.
Style:
touching, intense, serious, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot:
father son relationship, music, tradition, family relations, showbiz, parents and children, follow your dream, desire for fame, religions or cults, musician's life, artists and showbiz, lifestyle ...
Time:
70s, year 1980
Place:
california, new york, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Soon after the rising young singer-songwriter Beau Williams gets involved with a fallen, emotionally unstable country star Kelly Canter, the pair embark on a career resurrection tour helmed by her husband/manager James and featuring a beauty ...
Style:
romantic, intense, serious, sentimental, visually appealing ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
country music, infidelity, dancing, love triangle, musician's life, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, showbiz, ambition, love and romance, love, addiction ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, tennessee, usa, austin texas, dallas texas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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 ⇓
33%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
In the mid-80s, three women (each with an attorney) arrive at the office of New York entertainment manager, Morris Levy. One is an L.A. singer, formerly of the Platters; one is a petty thief from Philly; one teaches school in a small Georgia town. ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, inspirational, touching, realistic ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
music, biopic, showbiz, addiction, music business, greed, music band, black, drug addiction, rising to stardom, rise and fall, human nature ...
Time:
20th century, year 1998, 60s, 50s, 80s ...
Place:
new york, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: France, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Sadie looks up to her older sister Georgia, a successful folk singer who's happily married with children, but can't break out of the bar-band circuit and hit the big time she desperately covets. It's in part due to her attraction to ...
Style:
melancholic, emotional, serious, sincere, realistic ...
Plot:
music, addiction, drug addiction, dysfunctional family, sisters, musician's life, sister sister relationship, redemption, eccentricity, life is a bitch, female singer, sister sister conflict ...
Time:
90s
Place:
seattle, usa, oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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 ⇓
33%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
A Star Is Born is a 1976 rock music film telling the story of a young woman, played by Barbra Streisand who enters show business, and meets and falls in love with an established male star, played by Kris Kristofferson, only to find her career ...
Style:
grindhouse, independent film, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
music, tragic love, alcoholic, women, drug addiction, dancing, rock and roll, radio, elvis presley, fame, rock star, self discovery ...
Time:
year 1976, 20th century, 70s
Place:
california, usa, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
An aspiring singer, Denise Waverly/Edna Buxton, sacrifices her own singing career to write hit songs that launch the careers of other singers. The film follows her life from her first break, through the pain of rejection from the recording industry ...
Style:
touching, lyrical, inspirational, sentimental, cult classic ...
Plot:
songwriter, music, music industry, existentialism, loneliness, showbiz, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, ambition, rise and fall, self discovery, rock and roll ...
Time:
year 1996, 70s, 60s, 1950s, 20th century ...
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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 ⇓
32%
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Films like Ray
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A cynical look at the life of a not so nice country-western singer, Maury Dann - played by Rip Torn in one of his most memorable performances. He ruthlessly manipulates every one around him to suit his selfish needs...he even gets his limo driver to ...
Style:
light, independent film, contemplative, tense, talky ...
Plot:
drug addiction, addiction, music business, country music, infidelity, mistress, friends, couples, on the road, country, relationship vs career, parents and children ...
Time:
70s
Place:
usa, tennessee
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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 ⇓
32%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA, France
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Inside the Blue Note nightclub one night in 1959 Paris, an aged, ailing jazzman coaxes an eloquent wail from his tenor sax. Outside, a young Parisian too broke to buy a glass of wine strains to hear those notes. Soon they will form a friendship that ...
Style:
contemplative, gloomy, sentimental, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
jazz, music, addiction, alcoholism, musician, art, friendship, bittersweet, drug addiction, biopic, alcoholic, solitude ...
Time:
year 1986, 50s, 20th century, year 1959
Place:
france, paris france, europe, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Genre: Drama, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
An egotistical saxophone player and a young singer meet on V-J Day and embark upon a strained and rocky romance, even as their careers begin a long uphill climb.
Style:
sentimental, stylized, realistic, cult classic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
jazz, music, musician, saxophonist, dancing, fall in love, world war two, american football, music and dance, gotham city, doomed romance, orchestra ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, harlem
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Sex, drugs and violence--they're all part of the job when you're protecting The King of Rock & Roll. And when you're only 16, the on-the-job training comes in ways that can't be taught in school. The story of David ...
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic
Plot:
on the road, lifestyle, musician's life, artists and showbiz, celebrity culture, teaching the ways of the world, showbiz, drug abuse, rock, fame, elvis presley, rise and fall ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Films like Dreamgirls
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
After a run-in with local thugs, aspiring Harlem rapper Rob flees to a place and father he never knew, and finds his salvation in Reggaeton, a spicy blend of hip-hop, reggae and Latin beats. Puerto Rico, the spiritual home of Reggaeton, inspires Rob ...
Style:
realistic, feel good, hood, serious
Audience:
teens
Plot:
rapper, dancer's life, dance, fish out of water, culture clash, youth, ambition, society, lifestyle, music, rivalry, follow your dream ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, puerto rico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The young-adult novel by Garrison Keillor and Jenny Lind Nilsson gets a lively update in this Showtime feature about an unusual family in Sandy Bottom, Wisconsin. The Greens share musical aspirations, but daughter Rachel (Madeline Zima), a talented ...
Style:
serious, realistic, feel good, sincere, touching
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
small town, family life, culture clash, musician's life, dull life, performer's life, supportive spouse, family relations, music, music conductor, choir, orchestra ...
Time:
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32%
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A young woman is catapulted into pop stardom, with her already-famous DJ boyfriend calling the shots.
Style:
touching, melancholic, exciting, sentimental, cult classic ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
music, female protagonist, showbiz, hopes, rise and fall, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, ambition, love affair, rising to stardom, follow your dream, parents and children ...
Time:
80s, year 2001, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, maryland, madison square garden manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
During the Great Depression, identical twins are separated at birth. One, Drexel Hemsley becomes a wildly successful '50s rock star, while the other, Ryan Wade, struggles to balance his passion for music and pleasing his parents, who want him ...
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, touching, sentimental ...
Plot:
musician, family relations, musician's life, ambition, supportive spouse, twin brother, rising to stardom, artists and showbiz, follow your dream, jazz, christian, family secret ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 50s, 60s, 1930s ...
Place:
usa, alabama
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Tony Manero is a Brooklyn paint-store clerk who'd give anything to break out of his dead-end existence. In life, Tony is a peasant; on the disco dance floor, he's a king. As the soundtrack plays one Bee Gees hit after another, white-suited ...
Style:
sexy, sentimental, rough, light, serious ...
Audience:
date night, teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
dancing, disco, dance, nightclub, working class, dancer, music, love, dysfunctional family, slut, coming of age, slutty attitude ...
Time:
70s, year 1977, 20th century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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