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Musical Chairs (2011)
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
When his dancer partner, Mia, lands in the hospital after an accident, Armando persuades her to train for an upcoming wheelchair ballroom dancing contest
Style:
emotional, sentimental, realistic, captivating, sincere, romantic, romantic drama, serious, hispanic
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
disability, human spirit, follow your dream, couples, dance school, lifestyle, against the odds, society, ambition, contests and competitions, hopes, dancing, dance teacher, physical disability, misfit, love and romance, social differences, bittersweet, artists and showbiz, dancer's life, couple relations, love triangle, hotel, transsexual, ballroom dancing ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, bronx new york city
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and emotional films with plots about love and romance, couples, hopes, love, society, lifestyle and dancing mostly in Drama, Romance and Music genres. Some movies like Musical Chairs: 1 Chance 2 Dance (2014), One Last Dance (2003), Not Easily Broken (2009), Washington Heights (2002), G (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When a 17-year old aspiring dancer is uprooted in her high school senior year, she finds herself divided between two boys, and she will have one last shot at making her dream a reality.
Style:
captivating, sincere, emotional, light, romantic drama
Audience:
family friendly, girls' night, chick flick, kids
Plot:
dance school, one last chance, teenager, dancer, 17 year old, follow your dream, rivalry, dancing, love triangle, couples, friendship, family relations ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, los angeles, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
dancing, lifestyle, follow your dream, dancer's life, performer's life, love and romance, redemption, artists and showbiz, ambition, showbiz, teenage love, dance school ...
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Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
sentimental, realistic, emotional, serious, inspirational ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
relationship vs career, hopes, couples, love and romance, family problems, ambition, crumbling marriage, infidelity, couple relations, black, christian, african american protagonist ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, los angeles
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32%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
"Washington Heights" tells the story of Carlos Ramirez, a young illustrator burning to escape the Latino neighborhood of the same name to make a splash in New York City's commercial downtown comic book scene. When his father, who owns ...
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sentimental, sincere, emotional, tense, touching ...
Plot:
opposites attract, family relations, couples, young lovers, parents and children, urban ghetto life, lifestyle, human nature, heist, love and romance, society, disability ...
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Place:
new york, las vegas, usa
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32%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A young Hip Hop star named Summer G falls for a middle to upper class sister while in college. After she rejects him for a fellow social climber, Summer G spends ten years building a Hip Hop empire, then moves to the Hamptons where he finds the ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, sentimental, gloomy ...
Plot:
lovers reunited, unfulfilled love, love triangle, lifestyle, haunted by the past, social differences, tragic love, infidelity, showbiz, love affair, society, betrayal ...
Time:
year 2002, 21st century
Place:
new york, long island, usa
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Young Cuban Rafael just buried his mother, and comes to Houston to meet his father John for the first time. The difficult part is that John doesn't know he is Rafael's father. John runs a dance studio, and everyone prepares for the World ...
Style:
romantic, cute, entertaining, exciting, light ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot:
music, dancing, ballroom dancing, dancer's life, hopes, dance, follow your dream, mentor, ambition, teachers and students, social differences, contests and competitions ...
Time:
year 1998
Place:
las vegas, austin texas, latin america, cuba, usa ...
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
An aging out of shape reporter falls for a pretty but seriously ill ballerina.
Style:
realistic, captivating, sentimental, emotional, touching
Plot:
ballet, ballerina, life is a bitch, opposites attract, orphan, love and romance, society, hopes, ambition, dancer's life, doctors and patients, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Alexis Winston is a young girl who dreams of becoming a champion figure skater. While practicing, Alexis suffers a terrible accident that takes her sight and threatens to destroy her dreams. In the midst of feeling sorry for herself she falls in ...
Style:
sentimental, emotional, realistic, serious, teen ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
figure skating, skating, hopes, blindness, romantic rivalry, athlete's life, follow your dream, contests and competitions, love and romance, lifestyle, human spirit, against the odds ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, iowa, boston
Similarity:
26%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Bruce Pritchard is paralysed in a soccer game and is confined to a wheelchair in a convalescence home. But this doesn't slow his lust for life. Then he meets Jill and has to think about the effects of disability.
Style:
independent film, captivating, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Plot:
disability, physical disability, soccer, paraplegic, wedding, unfulfillment, life is a bitch, misfit, athlete's life, human nature, hopes, love and romance ...
Time:
year 1971, 70s
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
26%
746
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A young female breakdancer, Angel, moves to Los Angeles after an attack by an ex-boyfriend nearly ends her dance career forever. B-Girl follows Angel through recovery and acceptance of a new life as she busts a move into the male-centric world of ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, touching, independent film
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
dancing, hip hop, family relations, follow your dream, dancer's life, ambition, teenage life, dance, human spirit, youth, lifestyle, contests and competitions ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
A blind man has an operation to regain his sight at the urging of his girlfriend and must deal with the changes to his life.
Style:
romantic, touching, emotional, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
blindness, blind character, disability, happy ending, winter, love, bittersweet, brother sister relationship, father son relationship, illness, happiness, meme ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, san francisco
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
It was the best time of their lives. A kid from Oklahoma. An immigrant's daughter. A senator's son, a society girl, and a college professor with a dream. They had one thing in common...the will to win. A group of college debaters learn ...
Style:
independent film, serious, realistic, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
college, friendship, disability, teenager, love, politics, opposites attract, college life, social relations, couples, power relations, youth ...
Time:
year 1989, 80s
Place:
washington d.c., usa
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In a post-September 11th world overflowing with fear and hate, two Latino teens discover that sometimes the only thing that can keep them from drowning is love.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
coming of age, immigrant, family relations, society, youth, parents and children, teenager, post september 11 2001, love, opposites attract, african american, young love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: South Korea, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A pair of star-crossed dancers in New York find themselves at the center of a bitter rivalry between their brothers' underground dance clubs.
Style:
sexy, serious, captivating, realistic, romantic drama ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
dancer's life, love and romance, dancing, young lovers, dance, contests and competitions, ambition, youth, artists and showbiz, music, lifestyle, interracial relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The Other Side of the Mountain Part 2 is a 1978 film directed by Larry Peerce. It stars Marilyn Hassett and Timothy Bottoms. It is a sequel to The Other Side of the Mountain
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sincere, sentimental ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
disability, physical disability, quadriplegic, love, grief, paralysis, fall in love, human spirit, love and romance, hopes, misfit, unfulfillment ...
Time:
year 1978, 70s
Place:
california, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When a bored-with-life English teacher meets a West Coast Swing champion dancer, they have an instant connection. Both feel that the other can fulfill what was missing in their lives. Jake and Jessica must try to elude all obstacles, romantic or ...
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, emotional, independent film ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
infidelity, dancing, dance, contests and competitions, fall in love, against the odds, partner, follow your dream, dancer's life, love and romance, couple relations, obsessive quest ...
Time:
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Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Puerto Rico, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Amaryllis Campos is a young, classically trained Latina ballerina, who dreams of leaving her impoverished home in Puerto Rico to pursue fame and fortune as a dancer. Amaryllis heads for New York City, where she is forced to work in a seedy strip ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, serious, emotional, realistic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
fall in love, follow your dream, self discovery, lifestyle, relationship vs career, dancer's life, nightlife, love affair, sex scene, making love, striptease, stripper ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
puerto rico, usa, new york
Similarity:
24%
663
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:
realistic, serious, atmospheric, sincere, thought provoking ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
loneliness, friendship, looking for love, elderly, couples, party, music, dance, male prostitution, ladies man, male prostitute, dance teacher ...
Time:
70s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
When rebellious street dancer Andie lands at the elite Maryland School of the Arts, she finds herself fighting to fit in while also trying to hold onto her old life. When she joins forces with the schools hottest dancer, Chase, to form a crew of ...
Style:
romantic, teen, entertaining, captivating, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, date night, family friendly, girls' night, chick flick ...
Plot:
dancing, dancer, dance, ballet, dancer's life, dance contest, street dance, hip hop, contests and competitions, music, love and romance, breakdance ...
Time:
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Place:
maryland, baltimore, usa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
In a luxurious hotel, the lives of 6 people cross. A story about love, life and the search for happiness.
Style:
emotional, realistic, sentimental, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
introspection, couples, couple relations, hopes, unfulfillment, hotel, love and romance, friendship, society, erotica, wedding, dull life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
belgium, brussels
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
For years, Doug Collins has been wading through a routine unsatisfying job and an increasingly miserable relationship. After his girlfriend moves out, Doug pushes himself to live a more fulfilling life starting with a trek to the summit of Mt. ...
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, independent film, psychological ...
Plot:
couple relations, breakup, starting over, follow your dream, unfulfillment, couples, buddies, hopes, self discovery, personal growth, character study, mountain ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
tanzania, usa, new york
Similarity:
22%
300
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The son of the richest man in town wants to marry the town's beauty queen, but she meets a more interesting stranger who just got off the train.
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, tense
Plot:
love triangle, social differences, love affair, lifestyle, rivalry, society, fall in love, friendship, couples, social relations, small town, stranger ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
kansas, usa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Barmaid Stella Claire and blueblood Stephen Dallas have very little in common -- except they've fallen in love. When their relationship fails, Stella decides to raise the child they had, Jenny, alone. But Jenny and Stella are far from the ...
Style:
serious, emotional, sentimental, sexual, captivating ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
pregnancy, single parent, working class, society, breakup, love and romance, youth, moral dilemma, starting over, parents and children, family life, family problems ...
Time:
80s, 1930s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
21%
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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, period piece, feel good, touching, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night
Plot:
dancing, love story, young lovers, dancer's life, couples, love and romance, revolution, hopes, music, dance, mentor, salsa ...
Time:
year 2004, 1950s, 20th century, 50s, 80s
Place:
cuba, havana cuba, caribbean, latin america
Similarity:
21%
1K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A young novelist tries to write about love, but realizes he will first need some real-life experience before taking on the subject.
Style:
sentimental, realistic, sincere, psychological, captivating ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
asthma, fall in love, self discovery, novelist, love affair, lifestyle, couples, unfulfillment, young lovers, society, in love, womanizer ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
21%
49K
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Honey Daniels (Jessica Alba) dreams of making a name for herself as a hip-hop choreographer. When she's not busy hitting downtown clubs with her friends, she teaches dance classes at a nearby community center in Harlem, N.Y., as a way to keep ...
Style:
sexy, inspirational, teen, exciting, semi serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, teens, chick flick, kids ...
Plot:
dancing, hip hop, music, dance, street dance, choreographer, love and romance, lifestyle, teenager, hopes, starting over, young lovers ...
Time:
year 2003, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york, harlem, new york city, harlem
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Jerry Ryan wanders aimlessly around New York after giving up his Nebrascan law practice. His wife asks for a divorce. He meets Gittel, a struggling dancer from Greenwich Village and they try to sort out their lives. An extended conversation piece ...
Style:
black and white, independent film, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
crazy love, minefield, love, midlife crisis, young lovers, fall in love, artists and showbiz, love and romance, unfulfillment, dishonesty, opposites attract, unlikely couple ...
Time:
60s
Place:
new york, nebraska, usa, new york state, greenwich village manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The life of Gaby Brimmer, a girl physically handicapped, who finally gets her goals of study and triumph.
Style:
realistic, emotional, sincere, touching, serious ...
Plot:
disability, forbidden love, hopes, human spirit, college, artists and showbiz, misfit, unfulfillment, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, love, teenage girl ...
Time:
1940s, year 1987, 1930s
Place:
mexico, latin america, austria
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
With a great career, close friends, and an upwardly mobile fiancé, ‘How To’ book writer Grace (Chandra West) appears to have the perfect life. Meanwhile, local firefighter Steve (Mark Consuelos), having just been suspended for his reckless, yet ...
Style:
emotional, captivating, sentimental, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
love, infidelity, fire, daring rescue, couples, estrangement, love triangle, society, loss of wife, friendship, firefighter, cooking ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A female skiing champion is paralyzed in a tragic skiing accident. Her girlfriend is taken out of competition when she contracts polio.
Style:
independent film, realistic, serious, uplifting, emotional ...
Plot:
quadriplegic, disability, skiing, physical disability, love, winter olympics, polio, accident, illness, psychopath, grief, paralysis ...
Time:
70s, 1950s, year 1975, 50s
Similarity:
20%
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