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Tango, the Exile of Gardel (1985)
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Tango, the Exile of Gardel (1985)
Original name: El exilio de Gardel: Tangos
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: Argentina, France
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Some Argentinians, exiled in Paris, decide to put on a tango-ballet, dedicated to Carlos Gardel, a legendary Argentinian tango star.
Style: cult classic, weird
Plot: tango, dance, music, coup, exile, dancer, dancing
Place: paris france, france, latin america, argentina
Keyword: latin, cuban

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, captivating, serious and stylized films with plots about dance, dancing, music, love and romance, artists and showbiz, tango and dancer mostly in Drama, Musical and Romance genres. Some movies like Tango, the Exile of Gardel: Tango (1998), Black Tights (1960), Aniceto (2008), Tango Bar (1987), The Ballroom (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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
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Black Tights (1960)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 140 min.
Story: Live scenes of Paris and a continuity Narrator link together four dramatic choreographies, all by Roland Petit: Carmen (1949), La croqueuse de diamants (1950), Deuil en 24 heures (1953), and Cyrano de Bergerac (1959).
Style: anthology, captivating, realistic, semi serious, feel good ...
Plot: ballet, opera, unfulfilled love, theater, love triangle, artists and showbiz, music, love and romance, dealing with death, unfulfillment, gangster, cancan dance ...
Time: year 1961, 60s
Place: paris france, france
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Aniceto (2008)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: Argentina
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Love, passion, disappointment, pain and sadness shape this love triangle between Aniceto, Francisca and Lucía, played by dancers Hernán Piquín, Natalia Pelayo and Alejandra Baldón.
Plot: tango, gaucho, rooster, relationships, lonely man, love triangle, love, dance, fight, tragedy
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33%
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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
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31%
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The Ballroom (2007)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An evening in an old time dance hall in Sao Paulo introduces us to local characters who reminisce about the past, wonder about the future, have fun, flirt, fight and, of course, dance. Its earthy humour and eternal themes of ageing, loneliness and ...
Plot: tango, dancer, betrayal, dancing, salsa, samba, flirting, dance
Time: future
Place: brazil
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27%
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 ...
Style: realistic, visual, serious, atmospheric, epic ...
Plot: tango, dancing, dance, destiny, women, art, woman power, flirting, partner, mad love, dancer, performer's life ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: paris france, argentina, london, latin america, europe ...
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26%
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Kamaladalam (1992)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: India
Duration: 154 min.
Story: Nandagopan (Mohanlal) is a respected dance teacher at the Kerala Kala Mandiram (alluding to the famed Kerala Kalamandalam repertory which performs Kerala's temple arts). However, his wife Sumangala (Parvathi) commits suicide, causing him to ...
Plot: wife, alcoholism, dancer, dancing, suicide, main character dies, dance teacher, dance, dance performance, death of protagonist, poisoning, loss of wife ...
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25%
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La nube (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, France, Germany, Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story: An eclectic group of actors struggle to save their theater from being demolished and replaced with a shopping mall. Max, the leader of the troupe, is a workaholic director who abandoned his family to build his career and is forced to confront the ...
Style: manga
Plot: tango, demonstration, government official, theater, actor, funeral, court, television, father daughter relationship, robbery, urban setting, courthouse ...
Place: buenos aires argentina
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25%
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Sons and Daughters (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Argentina
Duration: 92 min.
Story: We are in Argentina in 1977, a woman gives birth to twins. With the complicity of the midwife he manages to hide the child, second child. The first, a boy, is taken into custody by the regime's guards. The scene moves to the Milan of today. The ...
Plot: adoption, twins, coup, hotel room, soldier, train, beach, flashback, internet, ship, fishing, parachute ...
Place: latin america, argentina
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25%
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Tommy (1975)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind boy becomes a master pinball player and the object of a religious cult.
Style: surreal, cult classic, stylized, visual, clever ...
Plot: rock and roll, surrealism, music, rock, rock opera, dancing, social commentary, trippy, musician, deaf, satire, misfit ...
Time: year 1975, post world war two
Place: england, europe
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24%
Battlefield America (2012)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A young businessman hires an instructor to turn a group of misfit kids into a team on the underground dance competition circuit.
Style: realistic, inspirational, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Audience: teens
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, california
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23%
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Fast Forward (1985)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Eight young people from Ohio who are dancers, come to New York, to compete in a major talent competition. But when they get there, they learn that they have to wait some time before they take part in it. So they try to do their best to survive in ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, feel good, stylized, humorous
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: breakdance, dance, dancing, club, street kid, high school, couples, friends, family relations, rising to stardom, lifestyle, coming of age ...
Time: year 1985, 80s
Place: ohio, new york, usa
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23%
Dance Challenge (2002)
Genre: Musical, Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Approaching his 18th birthday, David drops out of school and runs away from home and from a conflicting relationship with his mother Elena. The only thing that matters for him is break dancing. With his own group, the Urban Cyber Breakers, he has ...
Style: inspirational, feel good, humorous, light
Plot: dancing, hip hop, dance contest, single mother, teenage boy, friendship, rivalry, mother son relationship, music, self discovery, breakdance, interracial relations ...
Place: paris france
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23%
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Sing (1989)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When a volatile young street tough with a talent for singing and dancing is tapped by the high school music teacher to lead the upcoming senior "Sing," he is forced to come to terms with his defiant self-destructive lifestyle and his ...
Style: cult classic
Plot: teenager, high school, street life, dancing, school play
Time: year 1989
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22%
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The Way South (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia, UK, Argentina
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A thirty year old man returns from South America to his native village, in the mountains of Yugoslavia, to find his spouse and take her along. He chooses the youngest daughter of self-supporting Jewish woman. The deceit gets discovered on the way to ...
Plot: skinny dipping, female nudity, immigrant, tango, immigration, lesbian, revenge, prostitution, female full frontal nudity
Time: 1920s
Place: former yugoslavia, argentina
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22%
Jeanne and the Perfect Guy (1998)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Jeanne, a receptionist at a travel agency, is looking for the love of her life. She thinks she has finally found it with Olivier. However, Olivier reveals he has AIDS and disappears from her life after her profession of love and confession of ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, gloomy, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: date night
Plot: hiv, aids, activism, lgbt, love, gay interest, strong female presence, bittersweet, fall in love, tragic hero, couple relations, unfulfillment ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: paris france, montmartre paris, france, europe
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NY Export: Opus Jazz (2010)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 46 min.
Story: Shot on location in New York City and starring an ensemble cast of New York City Ballet dancers, NY Export: Opus Jazz takes Jerome Robbins‘ 1958 “ballet in sneakers” and reimagines it for a new generation in this scripted adaptation. After ...
Plot: jazz, dancing, dance, ballet, no dialogue
Place: new york
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21%
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Moulin Rouge! (2001)
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Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Parisian nightclub, at the cusp of the 20th century. A young poet, who is plunged into the heady world of Moulin Rouge, begins a passionate affair with ...
Style: sentimental, sexy, visually stunning, romantic, colorful ...
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Plot: cabaret, love story, showbiz, tragic love, nightclub, jealousy, music, performer's life, love and romance, seduction, tango, terminal illness ...
Time: 19th century, 1890s, year 2001, victorian era, 1800s ...
Place: paris france, europe, detroit, montmartre paris, france ...
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21%
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Funes, un gran amor (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A group of musicians, prostitutes, gamblers, and laborers, react to the arrival of a tango pianist at a saloon.
Plot: tango, brothel madam, game, brothel, prostitution, sex, lesbian, mafia, female nudity, group, saloon
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21%
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Antonia (2006)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: Brazil
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Determined to escape their poverty-stricken lives, four talented young women living on the outskirts of Sao Paulo, Brazil, form an all-female rap group but find their road to success is riddled with sexism, racism, and violence. One by one, they ...
Style: captivating, serious, realistic, rough
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Time: 21st century
Place: brazil, latin america, sao paulo brazil
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21%
Make It Happen (2008)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Embarking on a journey to fulfill her dreams as a dancer, a young girl discovers a new style of dance that will prove to be the source of both conflict and self-discovery.
Style: sexy, teen, feel good, light, captivating ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night
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Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: usa, chicago
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20%
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Greendale (2003)
Genre: Musical, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Neil Young's "musical novel", telling the story of a family, the murder of a cop and the evolution of a young girl named Sun Green. This is not a concert film. YOung himself shot actors on locations on his native Northern California ...
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Plot: small town, social differences, satire, journalism, society, couple relations, culture clash, parents and children, family life, cheerleader, music, family relations ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: california, usa
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19%
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An Open Heart (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Argentina
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Mila and Javier, both renowned surgeons and both passionate about their work, have been madly in love for the past 10 years. They have always taken great care to preserve their extraordinary love for each other and refuse to succumb to the routine ...
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, captivating, gloomy
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Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Stuck (2017)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A musical about six strangers who find themselves stuck on the New York City subway.
Style: thought provoking, captivating, disturbing, psychological
Plot: subway, compassion, social problems, changing lives, unlikely friendships, music, public, social issues, lifestyle change, society, trapped, song ...
Place: new york
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19%
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Love Songs (2007)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: This modernist musical about love and loss in Paris centers around a young couple, Ismael and Julie, who in the hope of sparking their stalled relationship, enter a playful yet emotionally laced threesome with Alice. When tragedy strikes, these ...
Style: realistic, emotional, sexy, sentimental, sexual ...
Audience: date night
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Time: year 2007, 90s, 21st century
Place: paris france, europe, france
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19%
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A Chorus Line (1985)
Genre: Drama, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A group of dancers congregate on the stage of a Broadway theatre to audition for a new musical production directed by Zach (Michael Douglas). After the initial eliminations, seventeen hopefuls remain, among them Cassie (Alyson Reed), who once had a ...
Style: stylized, lyrical, sexy, clever, emotional ...
Audience: kids, date night
Plot: broadway, showbiz, audition, dancing, music, ballet, rehearsal, ballet school, rise to the top, choreography, dance, choreographer ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1985
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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19%
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story: This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening ...
Style: sentimental, visual, colorful, romantic, lyrical ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: love, love triangle, unfulfilled love, young lovers, marriage, separation, teenage girl, pregnancy, relationships, first love, love and romance, couple relations ...
Time: 1950s, 60s, 20th century, 50s, year 1957 ...
Place: france, algeria, normandy, europe
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19%
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All That Jazz (1979)
Genre: Drama, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Joe Gideon is at the top of the heap, one of the most successful directors and choreographers in musical theater. But he can feel his world slowly collapsing around him - his obsession with work has almost destroyed his personal life, and only his ...
Style: surreal, captivating, touching, humorous, cerebral ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: music, showbiz, jazz, dancing, workaholic, death, divorce, life is a bitch, artists and showbiz, dancer's life, love and romance, downfall ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 70s, year 1979
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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18%
Belleville-Tokyo (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 72 min.
Story: Un couple se dirige vers un train en partance pour Venise. Sur le quai, Julien annonce à Marie qu’il part en rejoindre une autre et s’en va, la laissant seule à Paris, enceinte. Bouleversée, Marie se refuse à être victime de cette ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, psychological, captivating, serious ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
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18%
Billy Elliot: The Musical Live (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 169 min.
Story: A talented young dancer has to learn to fight for his dream despite social and parental disapproval.
Style: captivating, thought provoking, psychological, disturbing, sincere ...
Audience: kids
Plot: dancing, dancer, society, dance, live performance, follow your dream, music, ambitious man, dancer's life, ambition, ambitious, dream ...
Time: 80s
Place: northern england
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18%
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