Movies like Sweet and Lowdown
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Sweet and Lowdown (1999)
37K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A comedic biopic focused on the life of fictional jazz guitarist Emmett Ray. Ray was an irresponsible, free-spending, arrogant, obnoxious, alcohol-abusing, miserable human being, who was also arguably the best guitarist in the world.
Style:
atmospheric, talky, sentimental, humorous, tragicomedy, realistic, semi serious, clever, witty, independent film ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
music, jazz, art, infidelity, love and romance, musician's life, fall in love, dishonesty, artists and showbiz, dark humor, writers, addiction, artist, music business, nightlife, gangster, gambling, time travel, alcoholic, railway, cinema, basement, alcoholism, actress, musician ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1999, 30s
Place:
new york, usa, chicago, new jersey
Keyword:
gangsters
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and clever films with plots about artists and showbiz, love and romance, couples, art, couple relations, lifestyle and friends mostly in Comedy, Drama and Music genres. Some movies like Sweet and Lowdown: Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989), Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), Melinda and Melinda (2004), Topsy-Turvy (1999), The Commitments (1991). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Time:
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Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.
Style:
ironic, talky, humorous, witty, sentimental ...
Audience:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
While dining out with friends, Sy suggests the difficulty of separating comedy from tragedy. To illustrate his point, he tells his guests two parallel stories about Melinda ; both versions have the same basic elements, but one take on her state of ...
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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:
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Place:
london, england, britain, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Jimmy Rabbitte, just a tick out of school, gets a brilliant idea: to put a soul band together in Barrytown, his slum home in north Dublin. First he needs musicians and singers: things slowly start to click when he finds three fine-voiced females ...
Style:
cult classic, independent film, realistic, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
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Plot:
musician, music, working class, rock and roll, singer, friendship, profanity, rock, bittersweet, blues, rock music, trouble ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s, 20th century
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland, england, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
While attending a retrospect of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspirations for his films.
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A hapless talent manager named Danny Rose, by helping a client, gets dragged into a love triangle involving the mob. His story is told in flashback, an anecdote shared amongst a group of comedians over lunch at New York's Carnegie Deli. ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
The career and personal life of writer Lee are at a standstill, so he divorces his bashful wife, Robin, and dives into a new job as an entertainment journalist. His assignments take him to the swankiest corners of Manhattan, but as he jumps from one ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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24%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: USA, France, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Jerry Falk, an aspiring writer in New York, falls in love at first sight with a free-spirited young woman named Amanda He has heard the phrase that life is like "anything else," but soon he finds that life with the unpredictable Amanda ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When Lenny and his wife, Amanda, adopt a baby, Lenny realizes that his son is a genius and becomes obsessed with finding the boy's biological mother in hopes that she will be brilliant too. But when he learns that Max's mother is Linda ...
Style:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Bill is the guest of honor as the "Man of the Year". A very successful head of a large energy firm, he is a man with many dark secrets. His best friend, Stuart, hosts the party at his ritzy ultra modern Hollywood Hills home. During the ...
Style:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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60s, 50s, 90s, year 1996, 20th century
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pennsylvania, columbus ohio, ohio, usa, las vegas ...
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23%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA, France
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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22%
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Country: USA
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Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Story:
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