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Quartet (2012)
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Quartet (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The directorial debut of Dustin Hoffman, Quartet is a high-drama comedy about temperamental divas and old grudges, passion and pride, romance and Rigoletto. At a home for retired musicians, the annual concert to celebrate Verdi's birthday is disrupted by the arrival of Jean, an eternal diva and former wife of one of the residents. Expect poignancy and plenty of laughs.
Style: sentimental, touching, sincere, humorous, feel good, funny, sexy, rom com, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: adult
Plot: elderly, opera, aging, retirement home, retired, reconciliation, concert, old age, musician, friendship, music, human spirit, rehearsal, retirement, divorced couple, classical music, musician's life, artists and showbiz, dementia, ex husband ex wife relationship, musical performance, retirement home life, social relations, bittersweet, love ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, 21st century, contemporary
Place: england, paris france

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, semi serious and sentimental films with plots about friendship, friends, aging, elderly, bittersweet, artists and showbiz and dancing mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Quartet: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011), Is Anybody There? (2008), The Lady in the Van (2015), Last Vegas (2013), Song for Marion (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 124 min.
Story: British retirees travel to India to take up residence in what they believe is a newly restored hotel. Less luxurious than its advertisements, the Marigold Hotel nevertheless slowly begins to charm in unexpected ways as the residents find new purpose ...
Style: feel good, touching, uplifting, inspirational, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: hotel, elderly, aging, self discovery, goodhearted, old age, introspection, loneliness, marital problem, choice, life changing experience, retirement home ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia, delhi, mumbai india
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The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, India, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: As the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has only a single remaining vacancy - posing a rooming predicament for two fresh arrivals - Sonny pursues his expansionist dream of opening a second hotel.
Style: sweet, sentimental, feel good, bad ending, melancholic ...
Plot: hotel, elderly lovers, elderly, aging, wedding, twists and turns, culture clash, honest, mistaken identity, mentor, love story, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
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Is Anybody There? (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A young boy who lives in an old folks' home strikes up a friendship with a retired magician.
Style: touching, emotional, depressing, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot: coming of age, friendship, youth, loneliness, aging, character study, retirement home, justice, adolescence, sexual harassment, reconciliation, elderly ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 2008
Place: england, europe
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The Lady in the Van (2015)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The true story of the relationship between Alan Bennett and the singular Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who ‘temporarily’ parked her van in Bennett’s London driveway and proceeded to live there for 15 years.
Style: witty, touching, talky, semi serious, social ...
Plot: homeless, elderly, intergenerational friendship, friendship, van, poverty, social differences, old woman, life & death, loneliness, character study, nun ...
Time: 70s, 21st century
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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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100%
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Last Vegas (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Three sixty-something friends take a break from their day-to-day lives to throw a bachelor party in Las Vegas for their last remaining single pal.
Style: feel good, funny, humorous, touching, hilarious ...
Plot: elderly, bachelor party, friendship, vacation, aging, buddies, friendship between men, marriage, funeral, old friend, disorder, weekend ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: las vegas, new jersey, brooklyn new york city, usa, nevada ...
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100%
Song for Marion (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A feel-good, heart-warming story about how music can inspire you. Song for Marion stars Terence Stamp as Arthur, a grumpy pensioner who can't understand why his wife Marion (Vanessa Redgrave) would want to embarrass herself singing silly songs ...
Style: sentimental, touching, uplifting, feel good, crying ...
Plot: elderly lovers, elderly, cancer, self discovery, death of wife, music band, life is a bitch, fish out of water, parents and children, choir, father son relationship, senior citizen ...
Place: london, england
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24%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Still Crazy (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In the seventies Strange Fruit were it. They lived the rock lifestyle to the max, groupies, drugs, internal tension and an ex front man dead from an overdose. Even their demise was glamorous; when lightning struck the stage during an outdoor ...
Style: clever, humorous, neurotic, contemplative, semi serious ...
Plot: music, rock and roll, rock band, comeback, rock, satire, british, fictional band, musician, singer, death, underdog ...
Time: 70s, year 1998, 20th century, 90s
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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
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23%
 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 ⇓
21%
 7.5
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The Concert (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France, Italy, Romania, Belgium
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A former world-famous conductor of the Bolshoï orchestra, known as "The Maëstro", Andreï Filipov had seen his career publicly broken by Leonid Brezhnev for hiring Jewish musicians and now works cleaning the concert hall where he once ...
Style: touching, melancholic, captivating, sentimental, feel good ...
Plot: classical music, music, redemption, orchestra, violinist, prodigy, music band, concert, twists and turns, haunted by the past, hopes, musician's life ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: france, paris france, russia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The story of an old Jewish widow named Daisy Werthan and her relationship with her colored chauffeur Hoke. From an initial mere work relationship grew in 25 years a strong friendship between the two very different characters in a time when those ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, touching, feel good, inspirational ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: racism, friendship, elderly, master and servant, civil rights, old age, african american, racial segregation, chauffeur, prejudice, stereotypes, black ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, 1940s, 70s, 20th century ...
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Duration: 95 min.
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Style: sentimental, romantic, touching, realistic, twisted ...
Plot: aging, age difference, art, elderly, friendship, older man younger woman relationship, art class, teenage life, lifestyle, actor's life, peeping tom, old age ...
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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 ...
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Plot: ambition, musician's life, starting over, opera singer, aging, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, showbiz, friendship, celebrity culture, classical music, hopes ...
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19%
 7.0
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Grumpy Old Men (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
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Story: For decades, next-door neighbors and former friends John and Max have feuded, trading insults and wicked pranks. When an attractive widow moves in nearby, their bad blood erupts into a high-stakes rivalry full of naughty jokes and adolescent ...
Style: funny, feel good, hilarious, light, humorous ...
Audience: kids, date night
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Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1978
Place: minnesota, usa
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18%
 6.7
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Five old friends decide to move in together as an alternate to living in a retirement home; joining them is an ethnology student whose thesis is on the aging population.
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, sentimental
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Style: emotional, semi serious, humorous, sentimental, happy ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
The Thing Called Love (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Miranda Presley moves from New York to Nashville to become a songwriter. At an unsuccessful audition she meets James Wright, a promising newcomer. After only a few days they marry but start to quickly regret it.
Style: semi serious, feel good, sentimental, humorous, realistic ...
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Time: 90s, year 1993
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18%
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Brassed Off (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A small Yorkshire mining town is threatened with being shut down and the only hope is for the men to enter their Grimley Colliery Brass Band into a national competition. They believe they have no hope until Gloria appears carrying her Flugelhorn. At ...
Style: feel good, emotional, touching, sexy, indie film ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 108 min.
Story: When the retired seventy-seven years old hypochondriac widower Fred moves to an apartment in Madrid, his temperamental daughter Cuca has an incident with his next door neighbor, the elder Argentinean Elsa. Later, they meet each other and Elsa ...
Style: touching, semi serious, captivating, sentimental, humorous ...
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Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Intimate Lighting (1965)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 71 min.
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Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous, sincere ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Duration: 107 min.
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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 ...
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Style: romantic, touching, sentimental, melancholic, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 7.4
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A long lost music producer finds a singer-songwriter right about the moment he has given up all hope on life.
Style: touching, romantic, inspirational, independent film, sincere ...
Audience: teens, date night, girls' night
Plot: music, musician's life, love story, female singer, infidelity, musician, father daughter relationship, singer, love, city life, music and dance, betrayal ...
Time: year 2013, year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 7.9
 100K
Sing Street (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A boy growing up in Dublin during the 1980s escapes his strained family life by starting a band to impress the mysterious girl he likes.
Style: sweet, touching, realistic, teen, feel good ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, date night, teen drama
Plot: youth, music band, musician's life, friendship, rock and roll, coming of age, bullying, dream girl, singing, adolescence, teenager, school ...
Time: 80s, year 2016, 2010s, future, 20th century ...
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18%
Shall We Dance? (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
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Style: touching, feel good, inspirational, sentimental, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
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Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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 13K
One Chance (2013)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min.
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Style: feel good, uplifting, sentimental, humorous, touching ...
Plot: opera, bullying, biopic, follow your dream, ambition, musician's life, lifestyle, against the odds, self fulfillment, opera singer, talent show, audition ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, venice, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 6.5
 10K
Brown Sugar (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Sidney is a writer who's just left her L.A. Times music review gig to edit New York hip-hop magazine XXL. Dre is an executive with a hip-hop record company based in New York. They've known each other since they met as children, when both ...
Style: romantic, intense, touching, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, adult
Plot: hip hop, wedding, friendship, infidelity, music, fall in love, black, dating, best friend, looking for love, couples, happy ending ...
Time: year 2002
Place: new york, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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