Movies like The Tango Lesson

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The Tango Lesson (1997)
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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 this time their relationship changes, she realises they want different things from each other. On a trip to Buenos Aires they cement their friendship.
Style: realistic, visual, sentimental, atmospheric, epic, serious, stylized, independent film
Plot: tango, dancing, dance, women, art, destiny, mad love, dancer, flirting, partner, woman power, obsession, love and romance, showbiz, introspection, lifestyle, human nature, artists and showbiz, dancer's life, performer's life, couple relations, love, passion, death, model ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: paris france, argentina, england, france, london, latin america, europe ...
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Most similar movies to The Tango Lesson

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and touching films with plots about artists and showbiz, love and romance, dancing, dance, couples, dancer and dancer's life mostly in Drama, Romance and Music genres. Some movies like The Tango Lesson: The Man Who Cried (2000), Lisbon Story (1994), Carmen (1983), Staying Alive (1983), One Last Dance (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Man Who Cried (2000)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance, War
Country: UK, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A young refugee travels from Russia to America in search of her lost father and falls in love with a gypsy horseman.
Style: lyrical, intense, serious, touching, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: culture clash, gypsy, world war two, love story, anti semitism, adaptation, wartime, secrets, adoption, family relations, holocaust, love and romance ...
Time: 1930s, 1920s, 20th century
Place: russia, england, paris france, france, poland ...
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95%
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Lisbon Story (1994)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Germany, Portugal
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Lisbon Story is Wim Wender’s homage to Lisbon and films. A sound engineer obtains a mysterous postcard of a friend who at the moment is filming a film in Lisbon. He sets out across Europe to find him and help him.
Style: realistic, serious, atmospheric, sincere, sentimental ...
Plot: filmmaking, movie business, artists and showbiz, showbiz, amusement park, couple relations, musician, road trip, filmmaker, art, on the road, rock ...
Time: 90s
Place: portugal, lisbon portugal, germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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Carmen (1983)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 102 min.
Story: While rehearing Carmen of Bizet, the middle-aged choreographer Antonio brings the sexy Carmen to perform the lead role. Antonio falls in love for Carmen, who is an independent and seductive woman incapable to accept a possessive love. When Carmen ...
Style: atmospheric, inspirational, art house, emotional, stylized ...
Plot: obsessive love, dancing, music and dance, dancer, jealousy, sensuality, girl, scenery, underdog, passion, artist, tragic love ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
 4.7
 17K
Staying Alive (1983)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: It's five years later and Tony Manero's Saturday Night Fever is still burning. Now he's strutting toward his biggest challenger yet - making it as a dancer on the Broadway stage.
Style: cult classic, serious, realistic, stylized, freeze frame ...
Plot: dance, dancing, disco, nightclub, music, love, dysfunctional family, musician, new year, cannon, dj, music and dance ...
Time: 80s, year 1983, 20th century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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One Last Dance (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story: In the wake of tragedy, a renowed New York dance company is on the brink of collapse. After leaving the dance world for good, Travis, Chrissa, and Max are pulled in to resurrect the dance that shattered their careers. They have one last chance to ...
Style: serious, realistic, sexy, romantic, independent film
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: dancing, dance school, lifestyle, follow your dream, performer's life, dancer's life, love and romance, showbiz, teenage love, redemption, ambition, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 2000s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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Yes (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: She is a scientist. He is a Lebanese doctor. They meet at a banquet and fall into a carefree, passionate relationship. But difficulties abound because of his heritage and her loveless marriage. She flies to Havana to sort things out on the beach and ...
Style: stylized, witty, lyrical, philosophical, sincere ...
Plot: infidelity, culture clash, love affair, racism, social differences, society, couple relations, crumbling marriage, exile, dialogue, husband wife relationship, blues ...
Time: year 2004
Place: london, cuba, england, europe, latin america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 5.6
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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 ⇓
80%
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Center Stage (2000)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A group of 12 teenagers from various backgrounds enroll at the American Ballet Academy in New York to make it as ballet dancers and each one deals with the problems and stress of training and getting ahead in the world of dance.
Style: teen, serious, touching, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: dance, dancing, ballet, love triangle, music, teenager, homosexual, gay, competition, love and romance, hopes, lifestyle ...
Time: 90s, year 2000
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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The Company (2003)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA, Germany, UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Ensemble drama centered around a group of ballet dancers, with a focus on one young dancer who's poised to become a principal performer.
Style: stylized, lyrical, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot: ballet, dancing, choreographer, dancer's life, rising to stardom, lifestyle, love and romance, fall in love, couple relations, artists and showbiz, art, female nudity ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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Tango (1998)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A dangerous love affair inspires a director to create the most spectacular and bodly seductive dance film ever made. 1998 Oscar Nominee Best Foreign Language Film.
Style: sexy, captivating, serious, realistic, stylized ...
Plot: tango, dance, filmmaking, love, dancer, legion, music and dance, foreign legion, colonialism, dancing, rehearsal, love triangle ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: buenos aires argentina, latin america, argentina, south america
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Tangos Are for Two (1997)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A woman's voice says she was wife to Renzo Franchi and Carlos Gardel (1890-1935), Argentina's great tango singer. People say she's crazy. Her story unfolds. Buenos Aires, 1933: Juana Romero, a seamstress who lives for the music of ...
Style: manga
Plot: tango, mistaken identity, wedding, mystery woman, ambition, couple relations, artists and showbiz, unfulfillment, rise and fall, music, dishonesty, love and romance ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: buenos aires argentina, argentina, colombia, spain, peru ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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B-Girl (2009)
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: captivating, serious, realistic, touching, independent film
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: dancing, hip hop, family relations, ambition, follow your dream, dancer's life, teenage life, dance, lifestyle, youth, contests and competitions, human spirit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, new york, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 6.0
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Roseland (1977)
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: serious, realistic, sincere, atmospheric, thought provoking ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: loneliness, friendship, looking for love, elderly, couples, party, music, dance, disco, love and romance, contests and competitions, dancer's life ...
Time: 70s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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One Night (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Fifteen New Yorkers go into a Friday night unaware of the fact that their lives are about to change.
Style: serious, realistic, atmospheric, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: date night
Plot: lifestyle, looking for love, couple relations, love and romance, dishonesty, couples, infidelity, nightclub, meaning of life, male female relationship, multiple storylines, music band ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
The Jazz Singer (1980)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Neil Diamond stars as Yussel in this tale of a young Jewish cantor who strives to make a career in music.
Style: touching, intense, serious, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot: father son relationship, music, tradition, family relations, showbiz, parents and children, follow your dream, desire for fame, religions or cults, musician's life, artists and showbiz, lifestyle ...
Time: 70s, year 1980
Place: california, new york, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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The Singer (2006)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Alain Moreau sings for one of the few remaining dance-bands in Clermont-Ferrand. Though something of an idol amongst his female audience he has a melancholic awareness of the slow disappearance of that audience and of his advancing years. He is ...
Style: humorous, touching, semi serious, realistic
Plot: older man younger woman relationship, couples, change of heart, love affair, love and romance, fall in love, performer's life, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, unlikely couple, singer, single mother ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (2009)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, Japan, Switzerland
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Paris 1913. Coco Chanel is infatuated with the rich and handsome Boy Capel, but she is also compelled by her work. Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring is about to be performed. The revolutionary dissonances of Igor's work parallel ...
Style: realistic, sexy, talky, intense, period piece ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: fashion, art, classical music, art history, composer, follow your dream, ambition, lifestyle, refugee, couples, blind ambition, life turned upside down ...
Time: 1920s, 1910s, edwardian era, year 2009, 20th century
Place: paris france, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
Listen to Your Heart (2010)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Danny Foster doesn't have much: an apartment as small as his paychecks, no family, and a struggling music career. Yet for him, "every day is a great day to be alive," an attitude he gained from his mother's unwavering optimism ...
Style: serious, touching, sentimental, realistic, heartbreaking ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, teens
Plot: mute or deaf, family relations, fall in love, love and romance, couple relations, lifestyle, musician's life, couples, misfit, unfulfillment, parents and children, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, connecticut, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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Shall We Dance? (1996)
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 ...
Style: humorous, sentimental, independent film, romantic, offbeat ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: dancing, self discovery, dance, ballroom dancing, dancer's life, marriage, working class, tango, asian, accountant, husband wife relationship, dance lesson ...
Time: year 1996, 90s, 20th century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Dance of the Dragon (2008)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Singapore
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The story of three people whose lives are pulled into review and assessment when their paths cross. The initial sparks of what could be a new romance plays off against a couple falling out of love, a student and teacher, a father and son, a ...
Style: atmospheric, touching, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: couple relations, ambition, couples, fall in love, dance school, follow your dream, family relations, medieval, parents and children, dishonesty, love triangle, love affair ...
Time: 21st century
Place: singapore, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
The Last Tycoon (1976)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: F.Scott Fitzgerald's novel is brought to life in this story of a movie producer slowly working himself to death.
Style: realistic, stylized, captivating, sentimental, cult classic ...
Plot: hollywood, filmmaking, producer, introspection, ambition, film industry, showbiz, fall in love, great depression, literary, female nudity, time travel ...
Time: 1930s, 1920s, 20th century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Step Up Revolution (2012)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Emily arrives in Miami with aspirations to become a professional dancer. She sparks with Sean, the leader of a dance crew whose neighborhood is threatened by Emily's father's development plans.
Style: romantic, feel good, entertaining, teen, light ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, family friendly
Plot: dancing, dance, dancer, dancer's life, hip hop, music, teenage love, competition, teenager, teenage life, revolution, culture clash ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa, miami, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
The Way She Moves (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In Houston, the aspirant to photographer Amie receives a complete Salsa and Mambo dancing course from her close colleagues and friends as her wedding gift. Her wedding with the wealthy and arrogant Jason is close and she intends to dance...
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot: dancing, love triangle, dancehall girl, love and romance, dance, dancer's life, love story, troubled marriage, romantic relationship, romantic triangle, marriage crisis, couples ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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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 ⇓
70%
 6.1
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A Star Is Born (1976)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: A Star Is Born is a 1976 rock music film telling the story of a young woman, played by Barbra Streisand who enters show business, and meets and falls in love with an established male star, played by Kris Kristofferson, only to find her career ...
Style: grindhouse, independent film, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Plot: music, tragic love, alcoholic, women, drug addiction, dancing, rock and roll, radio, elvis presley, fame, rock star, self discovery ...
Time: year 1976, 20th century, 70s
Place: california, usa, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
 6.3
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Tango Bar (1987)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: Argentina, Puerto Rico
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After many years, Ricardo and Antonio, two former partners, will reunite in their Tango Bar in Buenos Aires. Ricardo, the partner still owning the bar, reminiscences the days of their old show "Esto es Tango" while waiting for Antonio.
Style: anthology, realistic, serious
Plot: tango, love triangle, politics, friendship, political unrest, folk hero, love and romance, state affairs, intrigue, artists and showbiz, dancer's life, male female relationship ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
Place: argentina, buenos aires argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
The Turning Point (1977)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: When her daughter joins a ballet company, a former dancer is forced to confront her long-ago decision to give up the stage to have a family.
Style: sentimental, touching, emotional, realistic, serious ...
Plot: ballet, dancing, ballerina, regret, choreography, dance, bittersweet, midlife crisis, mother daughter relationship, jealousy, rivalry, friendship ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: new york, usa, oklahoma
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
 6.2
 59K
Flashdance (1983)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The popular 1980’s dance movie that depicts the life of an exotic dancer with a side job as a welder who true desire is to get into ballet school. It’s her dream to be a professional dancer and now is her chance. The film has a great soundtrack ...
Style: retro, sexy, teen, erotic, inspirational ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot: dancing, music, dance, women, stripper, hip hop, happy ending, fashion, love, music and dance, teenager, breakdance ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s, year 1982
Place: pittsburgh, pennsylvania, chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Battle: Freestyle (2022)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Norway
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Amalie and Mikael lead their street dance team to the finals in France but tough competition and personal distractions threaten to ruin their dreams.
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing
Audience: teens
Plot: dancing, dancer, dance, contests and competitions, dancer's life, ambition, relationships, couple relations, female protagonist, contest, rivalry, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Place: paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
A Heart of Stone (1992)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Beautiful violin virtuoso Camille has two obsessions: the music of Ravel, and a friend of her husband's who crafts violins. But his heart seems to be as cold as her playing is passionate.
Style: psychological, heartbreaking, thought provoking, sincere, anthology ...
Plot: love, classical music, music, obsession, violin, passion, unrequited love, love story, glamour, asexual, violinist, solitude ...
Time: 90s, year 1992
Place: france, paris france, europe, hungary, geneva switzerland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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