Movies like Swing Girls

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Swing Girls (2004)
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Swing Girls (2004)
Original name: スウィングガールズ
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A tale of delinquent and lazy school girls. In their efforts to cut remedial summer math class, they end up poisoning and replacing the schools brass band.
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, uplifting, sad, realistic
Audience: teens
Plot: japanese schoolgirl, high school, jazz, hardcase students, summer school, friendship, against the odds, youth, music band, rebellion, teenage life, ambition, mischievous children, lifestyle, performance, weight loss, teenager, schoolgirl, feminist, child, sexy girl, siblings, baseball, teenage girl, supermarket ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: japan, asia

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Most similar movies to Swing Girls

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, realistic and touching films with plots about friends, youth, teenage life, high school, high school life, teenager and coming of age mostly in Comedy, Drama and Music genres. Some movies like Swing Girls: Linda Linda Linda (2005), Waterboys (2001), Detroit Metal City (2008), The Kirishima Thing (2012), Ping Pong (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Linda Linda Linda (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A group of four high school girls decide to put together a band for their school cultural festival. Three days before they are to play the festival, the guitarist and singer quit the band. The remaining members must figure out what to do or risk ...
Style: semi serious, touching, feel good, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience: teens
Plot: japanese schoolgirl, japanese girl, music band, musician's life, teenage life, love and romance, music, youth, lifestyle, contests and competitions, artists and showbiz, high school life ...
Place: japan
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Waterboys (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In a Japanese school, 5 adolescent geeks join the new sport teacher and take up the challenge to take part in the synchronised swimming competition, in-spite of the mockeries of the "real sportsmen".
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous, uplifting ...
Audience: teens
Plot: swimming, high school, athlete's life, against the odds, ambition, follow your dream, human spirit, lifestyle, teenage life, sport, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions ...
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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: realistic, semi serious, humorous, anime
Plot: heavy metal culture, music, ambition, follow your dream, rock music, musician's life, love and romance, desire for fame, artists and showbiz, hidden identity, lifestyle, hopes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
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32%
The Kirishima Thing (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A story about the disappearance of Kirishima, a star athlete of the volleyball club, and how his disappearance affects every person in school.
Style: realistic, atmospheric, semi serious, touching, psychological ...
Plot: high school, disappearance, friendship, society, social relations, youth, rivalry, teenager, japanese schoolgirl, student life, social differences, teenage life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Ping Pong (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story: As children, the introverted Smile was being bullied by a gang of kids until the brash Peco comes by and chases all of them them away. Peco then takes Smile under his wings and teaches him how to play the game of ping pong. From there a life long ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, uplifting, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: sport, athlete's life, youth, follow your dream, ambition, lifestyle, human spirit, contests and competitions, rivalry, friendship, opponent, underdog ...
Place: japan, asia
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32%
About the Pink Sky (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min.
Story: High school student Izumi Kawashima, whose daily routine is rating newspaper articles, finds a wallet containing a large sum of cash. Instead of returning the wallet to its owner, Izumi decides to lend a substantial portion of the money to a ...
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, atmospheric, offbeat ...
Plot: high school, social relations, youth, best friends, teenage life, high school life, friends, moral dilemma, photographer, teenager, coming of age, feminine wiles ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
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Gippi (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Gippi is a coming-of-age story of an ordinary, overweight girl, who, through the course of the film, learns to love herself for exactly who she is. It is also a tale of an underdog, who picks herself up from nothing and finds herself at the top of ...
Style: humorous, captivating, inspirational, light, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: coming of age, teenager, popularity, underdog, rivalry, teenage life, youth, social misfits, ambition, misfit, social relations, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The Cheetah Girls 2 (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Best friends Galleria, Chanel, Dorinda, and Aqua, A.K.A. the girl band "The Cheetahs," get the opportunity of a lifetime when they strut their way to Barcelona, Spain, to perform in an international music festival. Along the way, the ...
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, captivating
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night, date night
Plot: music band, disney, musician's life, lifestyle, friendship, teenage life, teenage love, girl group, artists and showbiz, youth, disorder, fish out of water ...
Place: spain, europe, usa, new york, barcelona
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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The Cheetah Girls (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Music, Musical
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A four-member teen girl group named the Cheetah Girls go to a Manhattan High School for the Performing Arts and try to become the first freshmen to win the talent show in the school's history. During the talent show auditions, they meet a ...
Style: semi serious, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic
Audience: teens, family outing, chick flick, girls' night, kids ...
Plot: friendship, girl group, high school, coming of age, showbiz, teenager, follow your dream, musician's life, fashion, disney, rising to stardom, music band ...
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Rebelde Way (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Argentina
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: Rebelde Way is a Martín Fierro Award—nominated Argentine soap opera created and produced by Cris Morena. It originally aired from 26 May 2002 to 18 December 2003. The series was broadcast in many countries worldwide, including Peru, Germany, ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, feel good, entertaining ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friends, high school life, boarding school life, youth, teenage life, teenage love, music, love and romance, friendship, boarding school, teenager, music band ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Spike Island (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Teenage musicians travel to England's Spike Island in the hope of attending an outdoor performance by their favorite band, the Stone Roses.
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, touching, sad
Audience: teens
Plot: ambition, follow your dream, music band, teenage life, teenage love, friendship, music business, love and romance, hopes, youth, coming of age, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: manchester, england, liverpool
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Cheeky Girls (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Three teen-aged girlfriends navigate multiple love triangles.
Style: realistic, touching, semi serious, humorous, sexy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, high school life, school, young love, youth, friends, high school, teenage life, teenage crush, teachers and students, lifestyle, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Student of the Year (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance, Sport
Country: India
Duration: 146 min.
Story: Several alumni reminisce about their final year at St. Theresa's College and the events that shaped their lives.
Style: sentimental, semi serious, realistic, humorous, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: high school, love triangle, friendship, ambition, teenage life, fall in love, teenage love, lifestyle, contests and competitions, youth, rivalry, friends ...
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Chalk (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Life in the trenches of that most honorable and frustrating profession...teaching. It's the start of a memorable new year at Harrison High. The self-conscious Mr. Stroope is convinced that his time has come - this year he will be furnished with ...
Style: humorous, semi documentary, psychological, captivating, biting ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: teacher, high school, teachers and students, hardcase students, youth, lifestyle, power relations, ambition, rivalry, education, suspense, school ...
Place: usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Kick'n Rush (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The story revolves around Jakob, Bo and Mikkel - three friends who spend their days lusting over unattainable women and engaging in a variety of illegal activities (i.e. they'll rent a movie and then break into a house to watch it). After ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous
Audience: teens, pre-teens
Plot: teenage love, friendship, teenage life, teaching the ways of the world, family relations, society, buddies, youth, lifestyle, parents and children, friendship between boys, football ...
Place: europe, denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
When Inge Is Dancing (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The ambitious punk rocker Max and the eco-activist Inge cannot stand each other, ever since Max publicly exposed her by singing the offensive song "When Inge is Dancing" in front of the whole school. But for Max and his classmates Fabio, ...
Style: feel good, semi serious, humorous, light, realistic
Audience: teens
Plot: opposites attract, music band, desire for fame, teenage life, ambition, friends, artists and showbiz, music, social relations, high school, teenager, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Frenemies (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: What happens when three sets of BFF's become enemies?
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, sentimental, teen comedy ...
Audience: kids, teens, pre-teens
Plot: teenager, teenage girl, teenage life, high school, friends, youth, best friends, rivalry, friendship, ambition, computers and web, disney ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Girl (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Andrea Marr is a bright, straight-A, mature, 18-year-old high school senior on the verge of womanhood who decides to abandon her sheltered, boring lifestyle and her bookish friend Darcy for a look into the local rock and roll scene as a groupie to ...
Style: realistic, touching, humorous, sentimental, sexy ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: coming of age, high school, musician's life, groupie, young lovers, best friends, lifestyle, teenage life, teenage love, music band, suburbs, innocence lost ...
Time: 90s
Place: seattle, usa, portland oregon
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30%
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Jump In! (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Story revolves around a young boxer, Izzy Daniels, who trains to follow in his father's footsteps by winning the Golden Glove. When his friend, Mary, however, asks him to substitute for a team member in a Double Dutch tournament, the young man ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: sport, human spirit, friendship, follow your dream, athlete's life, against the odds, disney, lifestyle, ambition, teenage life, teenager, contests and competitions ...
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
The Breakdance Kid (2004)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: In 1984, loser pizza guy Whitey Johnson is run over by a semi truck on live television, making him a local hero. The world watches as Whitey vows to not only walk again but to win his town's breakdance competition. Whitey struggles to conquer ...
Style: touching, semi serious, humorous, feel good, realistic
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: hip hop, teenage love, ambition, dancer's life, follow your dream, lifestyle, hopes, rivalry, contests and competitions, love and romance, youth, high school life ...
Time: 80s
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30%
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Out of It (1969)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An introverted nerd and a dumb, violent jock vie for the attentions of a cheerleader.
Style: sexy, realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: rivalry, coming of age, beach, cheerleader, high school football, performer's life, social relations, sport team, friends, power relations, ambition, introspection ...
Time: 60s
Place: new york
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29%
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Killing Bono (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Neil and Ivan McCormick, two Irish brothers who attempt to become rock stars but can only look on as their high school friends U2 become the biggest band in the world.
Style: feel good, semi serious, realistic, humorous, witty
Plot: rivalry, desire for fame, follow your dream, teenage life, friends, ambition, teenage boy, brother brother relationship, rock and roll, family relations, youth, hopes ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1976, 70s
Place: europe, dublin ireland, ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Yarukkya Knight (2015)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Story: Makoto Gousuke has just transferred to a new high school with the intention of being the toughest kid there. Little does he know that there‘s an entire group of toughs who already rule the school, and they‘re all girls! After being humiliated by ...
Style: ecchi, humorous, entertaining, feel good, light ...
Plot: sex, japanese girl, sexuality, japanese schoolgirl, teacher, high school, teenager, teenage girl, japanese teenager, society, friendship, dishonesty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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White as Milk, Red as Blood (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Leo falls in love with Beatrice, a slightly older high-school student who has leukemia.
Style: sentimental, touching, semi serious, humorous, psychological
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, teenage life, love and romance, high school, self discovery, youth, leukemia, love story, mentally unstable, social relations, power relations, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy
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29%
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Body Language (2011)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 97 min.
Story: An hour before the five best Dutch dance crews fly to a contest in New York, the subsidized trip is cancelled. Five dancers from totally different crews don't want to give up their free plane ticket and go anyway. In New York they realize what ...
Style: exciting, serious, feel good, realistic
Audience: teens
Plot: dancer's life, contests and competitions, follow your dream, youth, friendship, disorder, lifestyle, music, hopes, hip hop, dancing, infidelity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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29%
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Cape No. 7 (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Taiwan, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Aga, a band singer, returns to Hengchun with frustration. Tomoko is a Japanese model assigned to organize a local warm-up band for the Japanese super star beach concert. Together with other five ordinary Hengchun residents who were not expected to ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous
Audience: date night
Plot: rivalry, ambition, underdog, music band, contests and competitions, musician's life, music, love and romance, disorder, nothing goes right, artists and showbiz, one last chance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, taiwan
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Hana and Alice (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Two teenage best pals attracted to the same boy end up scrambling his life after he walks into a door and is knocked unconscious.
Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, hot
Audience: teen drama
Plot: coming of age, love triangle, amnesia, fall in love, couples, love and romance, youth, friendship, teenage life, high school, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, deception ...
Place: japan, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
I Don't Have Many Friends (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Second year high school student Kodaka Hasegawa has transferred to his new school about a month ago, but he still hasn't made any friends. Kodaka Hasegawa was born from a Japanese father and a British mother. Because of his appearance, people ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, entertaining, stylized ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, friends, youth, teenage love, society, social misfits, physical appearance, self discovery, teenage life, love and romance, social relations, high school life
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Struck by Lightning (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After being struck and killed by lightning, a young man recounts the way he blackmailed his fellow classmates into contributing to his literary magazine.
Style: witty, semi serious, humorous, funny, touching ...
Audience: teens
Plot: high school, dead boy, blackmail, teenage life, gay, ambition, social misfits, misfit, social relations, coming of age, best friends, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Just Peck (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: At 104 pounds dripping wet, baby-faced sophomore Michael Peck (age 15) is not exactly the coolest guy at American High. Peck’s teachers make him feel like an idiot, his classmates make him feel like a geek and his home life is just as bad, with ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, realistic, humorous
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: high school, friendship, teenage love, high school life, parents and children, love and romance, lifestyle, youth, ambition, family relations, disorder, teenage life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%