Movies like Mr. Holland's Opus

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Mr. Holland's Opus (1995)
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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 generations of students inspired through his teaching, Holland must redefine his life's purpose.
Style: inspirational, touching, sentimental, sincere, serious, realistic, dramatic, sad, motivational, uplifting ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, girls' night
Plot: music, high school, classical music, school, composer, teacher, teaching, honest, musician, sign language, unlikely friendships, education, inspiration, music teacher, teachers and students, follow your dream, dedicated educator, apprentice, hopes, power relations, disability, deaf, mentor, husband wife relationship, high school teacher ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 90s, 80s, 60s, 1960s, 1990s
Place: oregon, portland oregon
Keyword: dreams

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, serious and sincere films with plots about hopes, youth, teacher, education, musician, school and music mostly in Drama, Music and Romance genres. Some movies like Mr. Holland's Opus: Vitus (2006), Whiplash (2014), Once (2007), Boychoir (2014), Billy Elliot (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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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 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 ⇓
75%
 7.8
 121K
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.7
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Boychoir (2014)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Stet, a troubled and angry 11-year-old orphan from a small Texas town, ends up at a Boy Choir school back East after the death of his single mom. Completely out of his element, he finds himself in a battle of wills with a demanding Choir Master who ...
Style: sentimental, serious, realistic, touching
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: boy, music, music school, choir, boarding school, boys' choir, teachers and students, dedicated educator, orphan, classical music, troubled teen, death of mother ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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
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67%
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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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50%
Finding Forrester (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Gus van Sant tells the story of a young African American man named Jamal who confronts his talents while living on the streets of the Bronx. He accidentally runs into an old writer named Forrester who discovers his passion for writing. With help ...
Style: sentimental, touching, feel good, uplifting, sincere ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: mentor, friendship, dedicated educator, prejudice, literature, basketball, teacher, african american, prodigy, writers, coming of age, writer's life ...
Time: year 2000, 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, scotland, usa, bronx new york city
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67%
Music of the Heart (1999)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Story of a schoolteacher's struggle to teach violin to inner-city Harlem kids.
Style: touching, sentimental, uplifting, emotional, inspirational ...
Audience: family outing, teens, girls' night
Plot: teacher, dedicated educator, music teacher, female protagonist, school, music, violinist, biopic, happy ending, education, school teacher, fighting the system ...
Time: 20th century, year 1999, 90s, 80s
Place: new york, harlem, new york city, usa, manhattan new york city, harlem
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Madame Sousatzka (1988)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 122 min.
Story: The relationship between a demanding piano teacher and her student, an Indian prodigy.
Style: touching, sentimental, multicultural, realistic, serious
Plot: teacher, piano, women, music, coming of age, culture clash, youth, child prodigy, dedicated educator, eccentricity, teaching, friendship ...
Time: 80s
Place: london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Front of the Class (2008)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: "Front of the Class" is based on the true story of Brad Cohen -- played in the movie by Jimmy Wolk -- who, "after being challenged by Tourette's syndrome from a very young age, defies all odds to become a gifted teacher
Style: inspirational, touching, realistic, sentimental, emotional ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: teacher, teachers and students, dedicated educator, tourette's syndrome, school, disability, social misfits, stuttering, honest, friendship, father son relationship, understanding ...
Time: 21st century
Place: louisiana, usa, atlanta georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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
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34%
 6.6
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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 ⇓
33%
 7.4
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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 ⇓
32%
The Sandy Bottom Orchestra (2000)
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: 90s
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32%
 6.8
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Selena (1997)
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 ⇓
32%
The Emperor's Club (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: William Hundert is a passionate and principled Classics professor who finds his tightly-controlled world shaken and inexorably altered when a new student, Sedgewick Bell, walks into his classroom. What begins as a fierce battle of wills gives way to ...
Style: realistic, touching, inspirational, contemplative, emotional ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: teacher, coming of age, dedicated educator, boarding school life, boarding school, youth, teachers and students, hardcase students, school, friendship, mentor, education ...
Time: 20th century, year 2002, 70s, 2000s
Place: washington d.c., pennsylvania
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30%
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Tender Mercies (1983)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Alchoholic former country singer Mac Sledge makes friends with a young widow and her son. The friendship enables him to find inspiration to resume his career.
Style: touching, sentimental, realistic, atmospheric, sincere ...
Audience: family outing, date night
Plot: country music, character study, music, self discovery, small town, alcoholism, comeback, musician's life, starting over, divorce, love and romance, couples ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1983
Place: texas, midwest, austin texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Stand and Deliver (1988)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Jaime Escalante is a mathematics teacher in a school in a hispanic neighbourhood. Convinced that his students have potential, he adopts unconventional teaching methods to try and turn gang members and no-hopers into some of the country's top ...
Style: inspirational, touching, sentimental, realistic, uplifting ...
Audience: teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot: teacher, mathematics, high school, education, school, biopic, bullying, dedicated educator, mentor, chicano, civil rights, teenager ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, america, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Pay It Forward (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Like some other kids, 12-year-old Trevor McKinney believed in the goodness of human nature. Like many other kids, he was determined to change the world for the better. Unlike most other kids, he succeeded.
Style: touching, inspirational, emotional, motivational, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, kids, teens, teen drama
Plot: teacher, childhood, single parent, teachers and students, alcoholic, life philosophy, good deed, disfigurement, death, boy, alcoholism, addiction ...
Time: year 2000, 90s, 20th century
Place: tibet, nevada, usa, las vegas
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30%
Beyond Silence (1996)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Beyond Silence is about a family and a young girl’s coming of age story. This German film looks into the lives of the deaf and at a story about the love for music. A girl who has always had to translate speech into sign language for her deaf ...
Style: touching, realistic, sad, spiritual, crying ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: coming of age, father daughter relationship, sign language, deaf mute, deaf, brother sister relationship, aunt niece relationship, love, bicycle, audition, deafness, music ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: berlin germany, germany, italy
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30%
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 ⇓
29%
Children of a Lesser God (1986)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: James is a new speech teacher at a school for the deaf. He falls for Sarah, a pupil who decided to stay on at the school rather than venture into the big bad world. She shuns him at first, refusing to read his lips and only using signs. Will her ...
Style: touching, realistic, sentimental, compassionate, emotional ...
Plot: sign language, teacher, deaf, disability, deafness, couple relations, communication problem, couples, love and romance, opposites attract, mute or deaf, dialogue ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: new england, maine, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
To Sir, with Love (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Idealistic engineer-trainee and his experiences in teaching a group of rambunctious white high school students from the slums of London's East End.
Style: touching, inspirational, educational, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience: teens
Plot: high school, teacher, teaching, dedicated teacher, mentor, education, teenager, coming of age, teacher student relationship, new teacher, cockney, gym teacher ...
Time: 60s, year 1967, 20th century
Place: england, east end london, europe, london, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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The BĂ©lier Family (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The whole BĂ©lier family is deaf, except for sixteen year old Paula who is the important translator in her parents' day to day life especially when it comes to matters concerning the family farm. When her music teacher discovers she has a ...
Style: touching, suspenseful, semi serious, emotional, humorous ...
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: sign language, coming of age, teenage girl, deaf, teenager, teacher, moral dilemma, follow your dream, teenage life, audition, family life, deafness ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 7.4
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Lean on Me (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: When principal Joe Clark takes over decaying Eastside High School, he's faced with students wearing gang colors and graffiti-covered walls. Determined to do anything he must to turn the school around, he expels suspected drug dealers, padlocks ...
Style: inspirational, feel good, hood, realistic, political ...
Audience: teens
Plot: african american, high school, teacher, black, education, mentor, school, teenager, urban, teaching, teenage pregnancy, violence ...
Time: 80s, year 1989, 20th century, 60s
Place: new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 8.0
 162K
CODA (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France, Canada, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: As a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults), Ruby is the only hearing person in her deaf family. When the family's fishing business is threatened, Ruby finds herself torn between pursuing her love of music and her fear of abandoning her parents.
Style: psychological, teen, sad, sincere, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: deaf, sign language, mute or deaf, musician, coming of age, family relations, disability, teenager, deafness, fisherman, women, parents and children ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: persia, hawaii, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 6.9
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La Bamba (1987)
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 ⇓
28%
 7.1
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A Late Quartet (2012)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: When the beloved cellist of a world-renowned string quartet is diagnosed with a life threatening illness, the group’s future suddenly hangs in the balance as suppressed emotions, competing egos and uncontrollable passions threaten to derail years ...
Style: realistic, intense, sincere, sentimental, touching ...
Plot: classical music, aging, music, musician's life, rehearsal, musician, intrigue, ego clash, friendship, life is a bitch, rivalry, under the surface ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Won't Back Down (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Two determined mothers­, one a teacher, look to transform their children's failing inner city school. Facing a powerful and entrenched bureaucracy, they risk everything to make a difference in the education and future of their children
Style: touching, realistic, uplifting, serious, emotional ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: education, teacher, fighting the system, school, human spirit, hopes, parents and children, teachers and students, youth, society, changing lives, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 6.6
 91K
Footloose (1984)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: When teenager Ren and his family move from big-city Chicago to a small town in the West, he's in for a real case of culture shock.
Style: teen, cult classic, serious, captivating, colorful ...
Audience: teens, kids, chick flick, girls' night, family outing ...
Plot: dancing, high school, youth, small town, dance, music, love and romance, rebellion, rebelliousness, dancer's life, teenage rebellion, teenager ...
Time: 80s, 90s, year 1984, 20th century, 70s
Place: utah, pittsburgh, usa
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28%
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