Movies like Mrs. Henderson Presents

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Mrs. Henderson Presents (2005)
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Mrs. Henderson Presents (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Eccentric 70-year-old widow purchases the Windmill Theatre in London as a post-widowhood hobby. After starting an innovative continuous variety review, which is copied by other theaters, they begin to lose money. Mrs Henderson suggests they add female nudity similar to the Moulin Rouge in Paris
Style: feel good, sentimental, touching, emotional, period piece, talky, intense, humorous, realistic, exciting ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: world war two, showbiz, friendship, art, audition, brutality, love and romance, couples, artists and showbiz, couple relations, chorus line, follow your dream, women, nudity, war, husband wife relationship, nude women, unwanted pregnancy, theatre milieu, courage, grief, music, past, real life, burlesque ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, 1940s, year 2005, year 1937, 40s, 30s
Place: london, england, france, europe, flanders, west end london
Keyword: feminist film, jewish, scot, watching a movie, dutch

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, sentimental and semi serious films with plots about singer, singing, dancing, dancer, friendship, love and romance and husband wife relationship mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Mrs. Henderson Presents: Tea with Mussolini (1999), Calendar Girls (2003), Military Wives (2019), Topsy-Turvy (1999), Bright Young Things (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Tea with Mussolini (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Semi-autobiographical film directed by Franco Zeffirelli, telling the story of young Italian boy Luca's upbringing by a circle of English and American women, before and during World War II.
Style: period piece, light, costume drama, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: world war two, women, stepmother stepson relationship, nazi, fascism, friendship, coming of age, lesbian, world war, youth, british, art ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, year 1999, 20th century, year 1935
Place: italy, florence, germany, europe, paris france ...
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Calendar Girls (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Members of a Yorkshire branch of the Women's Institute cause controversy when they pose nude for a charity calendar.
Style: feel good, sentimental, touching, inspirational, realistic ...
Plot: charity, small town, female nudity, women, leukemia, female empowerment, elderly, life philosophy, model, human spirit, friendship, family drama ...
Time: 90s, year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: england, yorkshire, britain, northern england, los angeles ...
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Military Wives (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Inspired by global phenomenon of military wives choirs, the story celebrates a band of misfit women who form a choir on a military base. As unexpected bonds of friendship flourish, music and laughter transform their lives, helping each other to ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, sincere, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot: choir, friendship, british army, rivalry, little boy, fame, mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, father daughter relationship, british soldier, father son relationship, fear ...
Time: year 2010
Place: england, london
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The Last of the Blonde Bombshells (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: After Elizabeth's husband dies, she begins to play her tenor saxophone again, and remembers when she was 15 and a member of the Blonde Bombshells, an all-girl (with one exception) swing band. Accompanied by the exception and urged on by her ...
Style: humorous, sentimental, realistic, touching, semi serious ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: jazz, friendship, musician's life, music, starting over, love affair, showbiz, lifestyle, unfulfillment, fall in love, couple relations, father son relationship ...
Time: 1940s
Place: england, europe, london, scotland
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Topsy-Turvy (1999)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History, Music, Musical
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 160 min.
Story: After their production "Princess Ida" meets with less-than-stunning reviews, the relationship between Gilbert and Sullivan is strained to breaking. Their friends and associates attempt to get the two to work together again, which opens the ...
Style: talky, witty, historical drama, cult classic, meta ...
Plot: music, biopic, composer, writers, opera, rehearsal, theater, dancing, musician, filmmaking, female protagonist, humour ...
Time: victorian era, year 1999, 19th century, 1800s, 1880s
Place: london, england, britain, europe, paris france
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Bright Young Things (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: in the 1930’s a social set known to the press – who follow their every move – as the “Bright Young Things.” are Adam and his friends who are eccentric, wild and entirely shocking to the older generation. Amidst the madness, Adam, who is ...
Style: witty, stylized, melancholic, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: love triangle, writers, love and romance, love affair, flapper, social commentary, husband wife relationship, world war two, bittersweet, honest, male nudity, drinking ...
Time: 1930s, year 2003, 20th century, 1920s
Place: england, london, europe, dover england, cannes
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For the Boys (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, War
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: With the help of the singer and dancer Dixie Leonhard US-Entertainer Eddie Sparks wants to bring some fun to the soldiers during World War II. Becoming a perfect team they tour from North Africa to the Pacific to act for "the boys". Later ...
Style: touching, sentimental, entertaining, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: world war two, vietnam war, women, music, friendship, christmas, fame, world war, concert, dancer, violent content, profanity ...
Time: year 1991, 20th century, 50s
Place: vietnam, korea, england, europe, asia
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Being Julia (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA, Hungary, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Julia Lambert is a true diva: beautiful, talented, weathly and famous. She has it all - including a devoted husband who has mastermined her brilliant career - but after years of shining in the spotlight she begins to suffer from a severe case of ...
Style: period piece, stylized, emotional, entertaining, witty ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: midlife crisis, older woman younger man relationship, theater, loneliness, women, complex characters, actor's life, love, art, adultery, backstage, vengeance ...
Time: 1930s, year 2004, 20th century, year 1938
Place: england, europe, london, west end london
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Cousin Bette (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Cousin Bette is a poor and lonely seamstress, who, after the death of her prominent and wealthy sister, tries to ingratiate herself into lives of her brother-in-law, Baron Hulot, and her niece, Hortense Hulot. Failing to do so, she instead finds ...
Style: light, humorous, talky, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: infidelity, slut, adultery, manipulation, dysfunctional family, family relations, love, fall in love, love and romance, couple relations, love triangle, love affair ...
Time: 19th century, 1840s, victorian era
Place: france, paris france, europe
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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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The Land Girls (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story: During World War II, the organisation "The Women's Land Army" recruited women to work on British farms while the men were off to war. Three such "land girls" of different social backgrounds - quiet Stella, young hairdresser ...
Style: period piece, touching, sentimental, realistic, historical drama ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: world war two, friendship, love, wartime life, working class, war, countryside, farm, woman, women, wine, world war ...
Time: 1940s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: england, united kingdom, english channel, europe, britain ...
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Made in Dagenham (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination.
Style: inspirational, touching, factual, emotional, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: working class, gender, revolution, politics, discrimination, women, fighting the system, workplace, idealism, injustice, protest, underdog ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1966, year 1968, year 1970
Place: england, london, europe, united kingdom, michigan ...
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The Man Who Cried (2000)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance, War
Country: UK, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A young refugee travels from Russia to America in search of her lost father and falls in love with a gypsy horseman.
Style: lyrical, intense, serious, touching, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: culture clash, gypsy, world war two, love story, anti semitism, adaptation, wartime, secrets, adoption, family relations, holocaust, love and romance ...
Time: 1930s, 1920s, 20th century
Place: russia, england, paris france, france, poland ...
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Hear My Song (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Singer Josef Locke fled to Ireland 25 years ago to escape the clutches of the tax man and police Chief Jim Abbott. What he also left behind was the love of his life Cathleen Doyle. Now, Micky O’Neill is desperate to save both his ailing Liverpool ...
Style: touching, road movie, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: redemption, showbiz, nightclub, chase, death, nude women, landscape, singer, dishonesty, hidden identity, lifestyle, actor's life ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: ireland, england, europe, pacific ocean, london
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Their Finest (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, Sweden, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story: During the Blitz of World War II, a female screenwriter (Gemma Arterton) works on a film celebrating England's resilience as a way to buoy a weary populace's spirits. Her efforts to dramatise the true story of two sisters (Lily Knight and ...
Style: historical drama, costume drama, humorous, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot: world war two, filmmaking, war propaganda, screenwriter, bomb shelter, world war, friendship, lie, writers, war, feminism, woman ...
Time: 1940s, year 1940, 20th century
Place: england, united kingdom, dunkirk, london, america
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Hope and Glory (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: British writer/director John Boorman (The Emerald Forest) draws us into an astonishing and exhilarating portrait of his own childhood, set against the terrors of a London torn apart by the onset of WWII. Seven-year-old Billy Rohan (Sebastian Rice ...
Style: touching, realistic, humorous, sentimental, intense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: world war two, wartime, childhood, children in wartime, war, boy, youth, wartime life, coming of age, character study, unlikely friendships, ethnic conflict ...
Time: 1940s, year 1939, year 1987
Place: england, london, europe, britain, big ben london
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Philomena (2013)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A woman searches for her adult son, who was taken away from her decades ago when she was forced to live in a convent.
Style: touching, sentimental, realistic, captivating, sad ...
Plot: adoption, convent, catholic church, journalist, catholic, journalism, self discovery, religious intolerance, faith, nun, elderly, illegitimate son ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 1950s, 20th century, 50s ...
Place: ireland, england, washington d.c., britain, usa ...
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Last Orders (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Jack Dodd was a London butcher who enjoyed a pint with his mates for over 50 years. When he died, he died as he lived, with a smile on his face watching a horse race on which he had bet, with borrowed money. But before he died he had a final ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, touching, talky, atmospheric ...
Plot: friendship, last wish, road trip, grief, memory, life, family relations, friendship between men, self discovery, parents and children, partner, last will and testament ...
Time: year 2001, year 1989, 21st century
Place: england, europe, london
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The Upside of Anger (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Germany, UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story: After her husband runs off with his secretary, Terry Wolfmeyer is left to fend for herself -- and her four daughters. As she hits rock bottom, Terry finds a friend and drinking buddy in next-door neighbor Denny, a former baseball player. As the two ...
Style: sentimental, sexy, witty, melancholic, emotional ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, friendship, suburban life, neighbor, parenthood, family relations, couple relations, love and romance, starting over, couples, lifestyle, fall in love ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: usa, michigan, detroit
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The Accompanist (1992)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance, War
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In Nazi-occupied Paris, a young accompanist named Sophie Vasseur gets a job with famed singer Irene Brice. As Irene's husband Charles, a businessman collaborating with the Nazis, wrestles with his conscience, Sophie becomes obsessed with Irene, ...
Style: serious, psychological, realistic, sincere, crying
Plot: world war two, betrayal, railway, singer, maid, pianist, obsession, politics, infidelity, love, manipulation, strong female presence ...
Time: year 1992, 1940s
Place: vichy, paris france, france, london, england ...
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Ellie Parker (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Ellie Parker, an aspiring actress from Australia, lives a hectic Hollywood lifestyle, perpetually trying to land the role that will elevate her career. Living with her lothario musician boyfriend, Justin, Ellie is far from happy, finding support ...
Style: semi serious, neurotic, humorous, witty, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: hollywood, friendship, actor's life, artists and showbiz, showbiz, nude, love and romance, lifestyle, couple relations, nightclub, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship ...
Time: year 2005
Place: usa, los angeles
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39%
These Foolish Things (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: As war looms on the horizon, a hopeful ingenue (Zoe Tapper) finds herself caught between the warring affections of a playwright (David Leon) and a director (Andrew Lincoln) in 1930s London. Director Julia Taylor-Stanley's heartwarming ensemble ...
Style: touching, emotional, sentimental, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: love triangle, family relations, rise to the top, lifestyle, actor's life, love affair, showbiz, ego clash, fall in love, hopes, couples, rich and poor ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, post world war two
Place: london, england
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Me and Orson Welles (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: New York, 1937. A teenager hired to star in Orson Welles' production of Julius Caesar becomes attracted to a career-driven production assistant.
Style: talky, emotional, realistic, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: coming of age, art, historical figure, actor's life, youth, teenage life, artists and showbiz, boss and employee, fall in love, blind ambition, mentor, self discovery ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 2008, year 1937
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, grand central station manhattan new york city
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Swing Shift (1984)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In 1941 America Kay and her husband are happy enough until he enlists after Pearl Harbor. Against his wishes, his wife takes a job at the local aircraft plant where she meets Hazel, the singer from across the way the two soon become firm friends and ...
Style: sentimental, emotional, touching, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: world war two, friendship, love triangle, wartime, courage, adultery, storytelling, unlikely friendships, betrayal, fascism, love and romance, sexism ...
Time: 1940s, year 1941, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, santa monica california
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39%
The Harmonists (1997)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Comedian Harmonists tells the story of a famous, German male sextet, five vocals and piano, the "Comedian Harmonists", from the day they meet first in 1927 to the day in 1934, when they become banned by the upcoming Nazis, because three of ...
Style: visually stunning, touching, sentimental, visual, realistic ...
Plot: world war two, nazi, politics, music, anti semitism, bittersweet, holocaust, biopic, friendship, radio, musician, singer ...
Time: 1930s, 1920s, 20th century
Place: germany, berlin germany, europe, budapest, bulgaria ...
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That Thing You Do! (1996)
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: humorous, sentimental, feel good, light, sincere ...
Audience: kids, family outing, date night, teen drama
Plot: music, drummer, recording studio, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, rock and roll, fictional band, showbiz, small town, music band, jazz, friendship, rising to stardom ...
Time: 60s, 50s, 90s, year 1996, 20th century
Place: pennsylvania, columbus ohio, ohio, usa, las vegas ...
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38%
Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance, War
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: When a Greek fisherman leaves to fight with the Greek army during WWII, his fiancee falls in love with the local Italian commander. The film is based on a novel about an Italian soldier's experiences during the Italian occupation of the Greek ...
Style: sentimental, romantic, intense, melancholic, realistic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: world war two, war, italian army, wartime, resistance fighter, fascism, world war, love and romance, social relations, fall in love, impossible love, wartime life ...
Time: 1940s, year 2001, 20th century
Place: greece, europe, albania
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38%
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Guinevere Pettigrew, a middle-aged London governess, finds herself unfairly dismissed from her job. An attempt to gain new employment catapults her into the glamorous world and dizzying social whirl of an American actress and singer, Delysia Lafosse.
Style: touching, light, romantic, humorous, emotional ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: love affair, love and romance, social differences, friendship, actress, high society, farce, couples, actor's life, lifestyle, love triangle, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 1930s, year 1939, year 2008, 1900s, 20th century ...
Place: england, london, britain, europe
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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1234 (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Ian Bonar is Stevie, a wannabe musician whose look is a hybrid of Jarvis Cocker and early Elvis Costello. Working with his drummer pal Neil (Matthew Baynton) in a call centre, they dream of breaking into the indie music scene. To do this they ...
Style: uplifting, realistic, feel good, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: date night
Plot: musician's life, follow your dream, lifestyle, friendship, music band, hopes, buddies, music, artists and showbiz, rock, friends, drummer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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