Movies like The Tango Lesson
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The Tango Lesson (1997)
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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, sentimental, atmospheric, epic, serious, stylized
Plot:
dancing, tango, women, art, destiny, dancer, woman power, obsession, love and romance, showbiz, latin, introspection, lifestyle, human nature, artists and showbiz, dancer's life, performer's life, couple relations, love, passion, jewish, death, model, fashion designer, murder ...
Time:
90s
Place:
paris france, argentina, england, france, london, latin america, europe ...
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and stylized films with plots about artists and showbiz, love and romance, dancing, couples, lifestyle, music and couple relations mostly in Drama, Romance and Music genres. Some movies like The Tango Lesson: The Man Who Cried (2000), Carmen (1983), Lisbon Story (1994), One Last Dance (2003), Tango (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance, War
Country: UK, France
Duration: 100 min.
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A young refugee travels from Russia to America in search of her lost father and falls in love with a gypsy horseman.
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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 ...
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dancing, jealousy, dancer, artist, sensuality, girl, tragic love, latin, dancer's life, betrayal, couple relations, unfulfillment ...
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Place:
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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.
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Plot:
filmmaking, movie business, showbiz, artists and showbiz, amusement park, couple relations, musician, road trip, filmmaker, art, rock, car journey ...
Time:
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Place:
portugal, lisbon portugal, germany, europe
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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:
realistic, serious, romantic, sexy
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
dance school, dancing, follow your dream, lifestyle, performer's life, dancer's life, love and romance, redemption, ambition, artists and showbiz, teenage love, showbiz ...
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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.
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sexy, serious, realistic, captivating, atmospheric ...
Plot:
tango, dancing, love, dancer, rehearsal, latin, lifestyle, love and romance, rivalry, artists and showbiz, music, innocence lost ...
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Place:
buenos aires argentina, latin america, argentina
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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 ...
Plot:
mistaken identity, tango, wedding, mysterious woman, ambition, music, rise and fall, unfulfillment, love and romance, dishonesty, artists and showbiz, latin ...
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buenos aires argentina, argentina, spain, bolivia, colombia ...
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, Italy
Duration: 85 min.
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, touching, atmospheric, sentimental
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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:
semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic
Plot:
older man younger woman relationship, change of heart, fall in love, love affair, couples, love and romance, performer's life, artists and showbiz, unlikely couple, lifestyle, singer, single mother ...
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Plot:
mute or deaf, family relations, fall in love, couples, couple relations, lifestyle, musician's life, love and romance, misfit, unfulfillment, parents and children, friendship ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Singapore
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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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, realistic, serious, touching
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teens, girls' night
Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
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sexy, affectionate, visually appealing, allegory, talky ...
Plot:
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spain, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Story:
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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:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, intense, serious, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
jewish, father son relationship, music, tradition, family relations, showbiz, parents and children, religions or cults, follow your dream, desire for fame, estrangement, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
70s, 80s
Place:
california, new york, los angeles, usa
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74%
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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:
realistic, serious, sincere, atmospheric, thought provoking ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
loneliness, friendship, looking for love, elderly, couples, party, music, disco, dancer's life, love and romance, human nature, hopes ...
Time:
70s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: France
Duration: 184 min.
Story:
The film follows four families, with different nationalities (French, German, Russian and American) but with the same passion for music, from the 1930s to the 1960s. The various story lines cross each other time and again in different places and ...
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73%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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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.
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Audience:
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72%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
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Duration: 119 min.
Story:
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71%
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Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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musician's life, ambition, starting over, opera singer, aging, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, celebrity culture, showbiz, friendship, hopes, women ...
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71%
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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70%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Country: USA, Germany, UK
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
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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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⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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