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Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny (2006)
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Music, Musical
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In Venice Beach, naive Midwesterner JB bonds with local slacker KG and they form the rock band Tenacious D. Setting out to become the world's greatest band is no easy feat, so they set out to steal what could be the answer to their prayers... a magical guitar pick housed in a rock-and-roll museum some 300 miles away.
Style:
humorous, entertaining, funny, stylized, lyrical, not serious, surreal, cult classic, road movie, raunchy ...
Plot:
rock, music, musician, heavy metal, rock star, rock and roll, stoner, weed, road trip, farce, stupidity, obsessive quest, mission, drug, friendship, odd couple, desire for fame, misfit, follow your dream, ambition, dimwit, lifestyle, partner, artists and showbiz, rock music ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, venice beach california
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Most similar movies to Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, funny, realistic and cult classic films with plots about music, rock, musician, rock and roll, rock music, friends and storytelling mostly in Comedy, Music and Adventure genres. Some movies like Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny: School of Rock (2003), Detroit Rock City (1999), Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991), Almost Famous (2000), Tenacious D (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Fired from his band and hard up for cash, guitarist and vocalist Dewey Finn finagles his way into a job as a fifth-grade substitute teacher at a private school, where he secretly begins teaching his students the finer points of rock 'n' ...
Style:
feel good, funny, entertaining, inspirational, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family friendly, chick flick, pre-teens ...
Plot:
music, teacher, teachers and students, musician, children, rock music, student, school, fish out of water, music band, rock concert, rock band ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, y2k, 80s, 21st century
Place:
america, new york, usa, los angeles, north america ...
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In 1978, a Kiss concert was an epoch-making event. For the three teen fans in Detroit Rock City getting tickets to the sold-out show becomes the focal point of their existence. They'll do anything for tickets -- compete in a strip club's ...
Style:
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Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
rock and roll, virginity, heavy metal, coming of age, youth, friendship, high school, road trip, domineering mother, telephone call, runaway, music ...
Time:
70s, year 1999, 90s, 20th century, year 1978 ...
Place:
michigan, detroit, ohio, usa, cleveland ohio
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100%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Music, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Amiable slackers Bill and Ted are once again roped into a fantastical adventure when De Nomolos, a villain from the future, sends evil robot duplicates of the two lads to terminate and replace them. The robot doubles actually succeed in killing Bill ...
Style:
funny, cult classic, light, humorous, slapstick ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, kids, family friendly, date night ...
Plot:
time travel, time machine, heaven, death, afterlife, robot, musician, escape, rock and roll, sent to the past, time, grim reaper ...
Time:
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Place:
california
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
In 1973, 15-year-old William Miller's unabashed love of music and aspiration to become a rock journalist lands him an assignment from Rolling Stone magazine to interview and tour with the up-and-coming band Stillwater – fronted by lead guitar ...
Style:
sentimental, feel good, teen, road movie, semi autobiographical ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, family friendly, date night ...
Plot:
coming of age, journalism, rock and roll, rock music, on the road, musician, musician's life, music, rock, fame, manic pixie dream girl, road trip ...
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70s, 2000s, year 2000, y2k, 20th century ...
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Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Style:
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Plot:
entertainment, heavy metal, partner, profanity, singer, disorder, musician, friends, performer's life, odd couple, buddies, musician's life ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
funny, cult classic, spoof, parody, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, kids, boys' night, date night
Plot:
rock and roll, heavy metal, music, musician, dumb, satire, rock, basement, hard rock, stoner, sarcasm, rock music ...
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90s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
chicago, illinois, milwaukee wisconsin, seattle, wisconsin ...
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Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
funny, spoof, parody, satirical, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
musician, music, addiction, divorce, singer, marijuana, stupidity, success, rock, satire, farce, hip hop ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 80s, 90s, 60s ...
Place:
usa
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67%
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: Finland, Norway, Belgium
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Turo is stuck in a small village and the best thing in his life is being the lead vocalist for the amateur metal band Impaled Rektum. He and his bandmates have practiced for 12 years without playing a single gig. The guys get a surprise visitor from ...
Style:
road movie, humorous, captivating, feel good, light ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
heavy metal, rock, rock band, rock music, border, black metal, viking, small town, grave robbing, friendship, entertainment industry, punk ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
europe, scandinavia, eastern europe, finland
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The Lone Rangers have heavy-metal dreams and a single demo tape they can't get anyone to play. The solution: Hijack an AM rock station and hold the deejays hostage until they agree to broadcast the band's tape.
Style:
funny, light, entertaining, not serious, humorous ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hostage, heavy metal, music, rock and roll, stupidity, farce, satire, radio, rock band, hard rock, music band, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
seattle
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Determined to avoid another night of driving aimlessly around Torrance in the Blue Torpedo, Joe and Hubbs set out on a quest for fine chicks. Their paths soon cross with Tack, from whom they learn about a pair of foreign radical chicks hanging out ...
Style:
funny, realistic, feel good, independent film, atmospheric ...
Plot:
stoner, weed, party, coming of age, heavy metal, rebelliousness, drug, teenage life, youth, lifestyle, slacker, stoned ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
seattle, california, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Pinnacle records has the perfect plan to get their sinking company back on track: a comeback concert in LA featuring Aldous Snow, a fading rockstar who has dropped off the radar in recent years. Record company intern Aaron Green is faced with the ...
Style:
funny, humorous, not serious, teen, hilarious ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, boys' night, teens
Plot:
intern, friends, showbiz, marijuana, rock and roll, satire, musician's life, lifestyle, plan gone awry, disorder, escapades, celebrity culture ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
spoof, funny, buddy comedy, skit, cult classic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, date night
Plot:
rock and roll, buddy, dumb, satire, music, heat wave, hard rock, concert, rock, heavy metal, stoner, autistic ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
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35%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
humorous, stylized, funny, talky, not serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
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usa, venice california, california
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Country: UK, USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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34%
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, not serious, humorous, witty, funny ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
weed, drug, buddies, stoner, anti hero, mistaken identity, nothing goes right, misfit, goofy hero, disorder, fish out of water, drug abuse ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
34%
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Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
teens
Plot:
rock and roll, high school, rock, music, punk rock, punk, school, youth, adolescence, rebellion, rock music, college ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
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Similarity:
34%
Genre: Comedy, Music, Musical
Country: USA, New Zealand
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
The trials and tribulations of a two man, digi-folk band who have moved from New Zealand to New York in the hope of forging a successful music career. So far they've managed to find a manager (whose "other" job is at the New Zealand ...
Style:
surreal, sitcom, humorous, funny, atmospheric ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new york, new zealand, usa
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
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Style:
road movie, humorous, funny, light, satirical ...
Plot:
music, road trip, rock and roll, music business, music band, career, family relations, artists and showbiz, siblings relations, dancing, rock band, culture clash ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, mexico, russia, finland, new orleans ...
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Genre: Comedy, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, humorous, not serious, captivating, parody ...
Plot:
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Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, midwest, usa, california
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33%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Musical
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
germany, east germany, berlin germany, usa, europe ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Musical
Country: USA, China
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
32%
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
satirical, entertaining, semi serious, disturbing, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
heavy metal, music, musician, rock music, friendship, high school, music competition, desire for fame, music band, contests and competitions, teenage life, rebellious youth ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
32%
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
offbeat, funny, cult classic, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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32%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
When Jay and Silent Bob learn that their comic-book alter egos, Bluntman and Chronic, have been sold to Hollywood as part of a big-screen movie that leaves them out of any royalties, the pair travels to Tinseltown to sabotage the production.
Style:
humorous, funny, talky, absurd, not serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, adult
Plot:
stoner, jay and silent bob, profanity, weed, dumb, hitchhiker, road trip, filmmaking, marijuana, hollywood, internet, drug ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s, 70s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new jersey, california, utah
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
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Style:
humorous, sentimental, funny, light, colorful ...
Plot:
rock, radio, music, hippie, rock and roll, rock music, boat, musician, friendship, rebellion, marijuana, counterculture ...
Time:
year 2009, 20th century, 60s
Place:
london, britain, england
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
surreal, mondo, cult classic, independent film, semi serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
rock, rock and roll, trippy, musician, music, satire, surrealism, rock musician, rock music, counterculture, pop music, dancing ...
Time:
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Similarity:
32%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
funny, humorous, hilarious, feel good, not serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
bigfoot, stupidity, dumb, road trip, stoner, farce, friendship, gross out humor, obsessive quest, disorder, nothing goes right, rivalry ...
Time:
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Place:
ecuador, latin america, usa
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
humorous, satirical, semi serious, cult classic, intense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
blackmail, disorder, music band, partner, media, artists and showbiz, buddies, showbiz, rock and roll, punk, job, misfit ...
Time:
80s
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, realistic, witty, humorous, suspense ...
Plot:
rock, rise and fall, punk, partner, best friend, rivalry, music band, buddies, artists and showbiz, ambition, music, lifestyle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, oregon, seattle, portland oregon
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In "A Mighty Wind", director Christopher Guest reunites the team from "Best In Show" and "Waiting for Guffman" to tell tell the story of 60's-era folk musicians, who inspired by the death of their former manager, ...
Style:
mockumentary, humorous, parody, light, talky ...
Plot:
music, satire, musician, lovers reunited, folk singer, singer, music band, love and romance, showbiz, lifestyle, musician's life, buddies ...
Time:
2000s, 20th century, 60s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
31%
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