Movies like Shall We Dance? 1996

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Shall We Dance? (1996)
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Shall We Dance? (1996)
Original name: Shall We ダンス?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 136 min.
Story: A bored Japanese accountant sees a beautiful woman in the window of a ballroom dance studio. He secretly starts taking dancing lessons to be near her, and then over time discovers how much he loves ballroom dancing. His wife, meanwhile, has hired a private detective to find out why he has started coming home late smelling of perfume.
Style: sentimental, humorous, romantic, thought provoking, offbeat, independent film, feel good, realistic, semi serious, funny ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: dancing, self discovery, dance, ballroom dancing, dancer's life, tango, asian, working class, marriage, accountant, husband wife relationship, dance lesson, instructor, follow your dream, couples, dance school, artists and showbiz, couple relations, power relations, train, computer, office, private detective, bicycle, dance teacher ...
Time: year 1996, 90s, 20th century, 1990s
Place: japan, tokyo, asia

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Most similar movies to Shall We Dance?

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, feel good, semi serious and humorous films with plots about love and romance, dancing, artists and showbiz, dancer's life, dance, ambition and hopes mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Shall We Dance?: Strictly Ballroom (1992), The Ramen Girl (2008), The Postman (1994), Dance with Me (1998), Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Shall We Dance? (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Upon first sight of a beautiful instructor, a bored and overworked estate lawyer signs up for ballroom dancing lessons.
Style: touching, feel good, inspirational, sentimental, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: dancing, friendship, couple relations, contests and competitions, couples, follow your dream, marriage, dancer's life, hopes, rags to riches, teachers and students, dance school ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: chicago, usa
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100%
Strictly Ballroom (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Brave new steps put Scott's career in jeopardy. With a new partner and determination, can he still succeed?
Style: romantic, humorous, sexy, melancholic, touching ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: dance, dancing, ballroom dancing, love story, love and romance, competition, partner, rise to the top, artists and showbiz, rivalry, ambition, female partner ...
Time: 20th century, year 1992, 90s
Place: australia, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.3
 11K
The Ramen Girl (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story: An American woman is stranded in Tokyo after breaking up with her boyfriend. Searching for direction in life, she trains to be a râmen chef under a tyrannical Japanese master.
Style: feel good, inspirational, touching, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot: cooking, restaurant, food, culture clash, american abroad, mentor, interracial romance, chef, cooking and food, language barrier, writers, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.8
 39K
The Postman (1994)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France, Belgium
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet; he uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice.
Style: sentimental, emotional, romantic, sad, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: poet, friendship, poetry, island, writers, love, communism, art, letter, postman, bicycle, life & death ...
Time: 20th century, 1950s, year 1994, 90s, future ...
Place: italy, corsica, sicily, chile, naples italy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Dance with Me (1998)
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, light, entertaining, exciting, feel good ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: dancing, music, dancer's life, ballroom dancing, dance, follow your dream, mentor, hopes, ambition, social differences, teachers and students, contests and competitions ...
Time: year 1998
Place: las vegas, austin texas, cuba, usa, texas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 167 min.
Story: A lonely 40-ish man, likely to remain a bachelor, has a chance to find the love of his life when he falls for a vivacious young woman.
Style: feel good, emotional, romantic, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: couples, couple relations, dancer's life, disorder, ambition, love and romance, dishonesty, shyness, dancer, artists and showbiz, hindu, love ...
Time: year 2008
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Happily Ever After (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Director Yukihiko Tsutsumi wrings laughs out of an unlikely topic -- domestic violence -- in this dark comedy about noodle-shop waitress Yukie Morita (Miki Nakatani), who puts up with the fiery temper, gambling and cruelty of her shiftless, ...
Style: stylized, semi serious, realistic, humorous, offbeat
Plot: couples, couple relations, love and romance, odd couple, hopes, dark humor, misfit, social misfits, peplum, woman
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
That's the Way I Like It (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Singapore
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Kung Fu meets disco in Singapore. Hock is a grocery clerk longing for a motorbike. He lives with his parents and sister; they idolize his younger brother, Beng, a medical student calling himself Leslie. Hock loves Bruce Lee; he works out and ...
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: friends, love and romance, artists and showbiz, coming of age, contests and competitions, rivalry, misfit, follow your dream, ambition, lifestyle, twentysomething life, filmmaking ...
Time: 70s, year 1977
Place: singapore
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan, France
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A newly unemployed salaryman meets a particularly sexual woman.
Style: surreal, sexy, sentimental, touching, sincere ...
Plot: sex, sexuality, couple relations, relationships, adultery, love affair, self discovery, sexual relations, mysterious character, starting over, unlikely couple, couples ...
Time: year 2001, post world war two, 21st century
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd. (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Six newly-married, diverse, honeymooning couples face marital bliss and discord, finding out more about themselves, their significant others and life in this happy-go-lucky, quirky drama.
Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: honeymoon, newlyweds, couple relations, love and romance, social differences, couples, tour guide, crumbling marriage, society, on the road, love, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, goa india
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Writer-director Randall Miller's heart-achingly sweet drama centers on the unsatisfying personal life of protagonist Frank Keane (Robert Carlyle), a sensitive baker who remains deeply despondent over his late wife's untimely death. When ...
Style: sentimental, feel good, touching, humorous, realistic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: dancer's life, starting over, couple relations, love and romance, dance school, parents and children, couples, dance, dancing, grief, dance lesson, baker ...
Time: year 2005
Place: pasadena california
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Mad About Mambo (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: High school student tries to improve soccer skills by practicing dance and falls for his dance partner.
Style: feel good, semi serious, sentimental, touching, humorous ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: couples, lifestyle, dancer's life, fall in love, cheerleader, society, hopes, working class, football, dance, soccer, love triangle ...
Time: 90s
Place: ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 5.8
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Footloose (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Ren MacCormack is transplanted from Boston to the small southern town of Bomont where loud music and dancing are prohibited. Not one to bow to the status quo, Ren challenges the ban, revitalizing the town and falling in love with the minister’s ...
Style: feel good, romantic, teen, sincere, serious ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: dancing, dance, teenage love, small town, teenager, dancer's life, music, love and romance, love, dancer, youth, teenage girl ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: georgia, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Six Dance Lessons In Six Weeks (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hungary, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A retired woman hires a dance instructor to give her private dance lessons at her home -- one per week for six weeks. What begins as an antagonistic relationship turns into a close friendship as they dance together.
Style: humorous, feel good, touching, sentimental, semi serious ...
Plot: friendship, teachers and students, self discovery, elderly, dancer's life, aging, gay, dancing, widow, lgbt, gay interest, power relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Honey 3: Dare to Dance (2016)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: While attending college in Cape Town, Melea Martin feels constrained by the school's strict policies, and decides to set out on her own. Searching for a way to use her talents as a dancer and inspire the community around her, Melea rents a ...
Style: inspirational, romantic, feel good, entertaining
Audience: date night, girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: dancing, hip hop, dance, creativity, human spirit, dancer's life, school, life philosophy, choreographer, lifestyle, follow your dream, ambition ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 5.8
 12K
StreetDance 3D (2010)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In order to win the Street Dance Championships, a dance crew is forced to work with ballet dancers from the Royal Dance School in exchange for rehearsal space.
Style: funny, feel good, realistic, sexy, inspirational ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: dancing, street dance, dancer's life, dance school, dance, dance contest, music, ballerina, ballet, teenager, competition, hip hop ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 5.3
 47K
Honey (2003)
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, teen drama
Plot: dancing, hip hop, music, dance, teenager, street dance, choreographer, follow your dream, lifestyle, love and romance, starting over, hopes ...
Time: year 2003, 20th century, 21st century
Place: usa, new york, harlem, new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.2
 2K
Bootmen (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Sean Odkin loves to dance much to his fathers distain. When the woman he loves cannot return his love Sean goes in search of the only thing that can make him whole again and that is dancing.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good, entertaining ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: dancing, brother brother relationship, dance, tap dance, family relations, father son relationship, artists and showbiz, ambition, dancer's life, love and romance, follow your dream, against the odds ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: australia, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (2004)
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 ⇓
19%
The Tango Lesson (1997)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK, France, Argentina, Germany, Netherlands, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: On a trip to Paris Sally meets Pablo, a tango dancer. He starts teaching her to dance then she returns to London to work on some "projects". She visits Buenos Aires and learns more from Pablo's friends. Sally and Pablo meet again but ...
Style: realistic, visual, serious, atmospheric, epic ...
Plot: tango, dancing, dance, destiny, women, art, woman power, flirting, partner, mad love, dancer, performer's life ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: paris france, argentina, london, latin america, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 5.6
 10K
StreetDance 2 (2012)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story: After suffering humiliation by the crew Invincible, street dancer Ash looks to gather the best dancers from around the world for a rematch.
Style: sexy, realistic, serious, light, captivating ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: dancing, street dance, hip hop, salsa, dance contest, dance, dancer, dancer's life, love and romance, rivalry, ambition, music ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 5.5
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Jump (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Aspiring dancer Phoenix lives in the countryside with her father, but she's got her eyes set on farther places. Jumping at the chance to move to shiny Shanghai, she makes ends and dreams meet by working as a janitor at an elite dance studio ...
Style: realistic, feel good, semi serious, sincere, humorous
Audience: teens
Plot: follow your dream, ambition, lifestyle, fall in love, love and romance, artists and showbiz, dancer's life, contests and competitions, hip hop, hopes, rivalry, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 7.0
 2K
Hula Girls (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Young women in a small Japanese town look to revive their home's declining fortunes by building a Hawaiian village tourist attraction.
Style: touching, realistic, humorous, semi serious
Plot: hopes, starting over, dancing, rise to the top, social relations, small town life, small town, society, working class, mining town, japanese teenager, japanese girl ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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 5.2
 8K
Honey 2 (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Sequel to the 2003 dance movie Honey. Recently released from juvenile detention, talented dancer Maria Ramirez finds an outlet for her passion with a new dance crew.
Style: uplifting, captivating, feel good, touching, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: dance, dancing, dancer's life, street dance, juvenile delinquency, dance school, music, hip hop, rise to the top, dancer, female protagonist, lifestyle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: bronx new york city, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.2
 60K
Step Up 3D (2010)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A tight-knit group of New York City street dancers, including Luke and Natalie, team up with NYU freshman Moose, and find themselves pitted against the world's best hip hop dancers in a high-stakes showdown that will change their lives forever.
Style: romantic, teen, serious, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: dancing, dance, dancer's life, happy ending, street dance, hip hop, contests and competitions, teenager, young lovers, dance club, high school, love and romance ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 5.9
 36K
Step Up All In (2014)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 112 min.
Story: All-stars from the previous Step Up installments come together in glittering Las Vegas, battling for a victory that could define their dreams and their careers.
Style: romantic, teen, entertaining, captivating, feel good ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: dancing, dance, hip hop, music, dance contest, rivalry, follow your dream, competition, love and romance, teenager, uninhibited rivalry, music and dance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: las vegas, usa, nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 6.7
 206
Afula Express (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 95 min.
Story: David is a garage electrician, who dreamt all of his life of becoming a magician, but had no luck in it. His girlfriend Batya wants an ordinary life, but David is still looking for his dream, so he links up with Romanian immigrant Shimon, who is an ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, uplifting, sentimental, offbeat ...
Plot: israeli, wizards and magicians, couples, follow your dream, love and romance, couple relations, hopes, failed attempt, magician, magic, cashier
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: israel, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 7.1
 2K
Midnight Sun (2006)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Kaoru was suffering from xeroderma pigmentosum (XP), an illness, which also might be described as the allergy to the sun, and was not allowed to be exposed to sunlight. The only motivation in her life was singing, which also was the only connection ...
Style: psychological, humorous, realistic, semi serious, romantic ...
Plot: fall in love, couple relations, friendship, obsessive quest, love affair, surfing, love and romance, teenage life, illness, friendship between girls, teenage love, teenage protagonist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Center Stage: Turn It Up (2008)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: All self-taught dancer Kate Parker has ever wanted to do was perform with the American Academy of Ballet. But when she doesnt make it after auditioning, she learns that it takes more than precision and perfection to succeed in the dance world.
Style: light, sex comedy, teen, funny, realistic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: dancing, dancer's life, ballet, street dance, dance, follow your dream, performer's life, youth, ambition, hopes, rivalry, lifestyle ...
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Detroit Metal City (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Soichi Negishi moved to Tokyo to chase his dream of becoming a musician playing stylish, Swedish-style pop. Instead, he finds himself leading the death metal band Detroit Metal City, or DMC, as the costumed and grotesquely made-up "demon ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, anime, slapstick comedy ...
Plot: music, rock, ambition, follow your dream, rock music, friends, disorder, hopes, love and romance, musician's life, hidden identity, lifestyle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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