Movies like Thank God It's Friday

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Thank God It's Friday (1978)
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Thank God It's Friday (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: It's Friday and everyone is going to the hot new disco. The Commodore's are scheduled to play if Floyd shows up with the instruments and Nicole dreams of becoming a disco star. Other characters are there to win the dance contest, or to put a little excitement into a fifth anniversary.
Style: sexy, grindhouse, laugh out loud, offbeat, feel good, humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious, sexual ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: disco, dj, american history, love, rock, rock and roll, african, generation, coming of age, blaxploitation, nightclub, music, youth, friends, womanizer, love and romance, follow your dream, couples, teenage life, nightlife, ambition, contests and competitions, lifestyle, silly humor, artists and showbiz ...
Time: year 1978, 70s
Place: los angeles
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Most similar movies to Thank God It's Friday

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and feel good films with plots about artists and showbiz, ambition, friends, music, lifestyle, love and romance and youth mostly in Comedy, Music and Drama genres. Some movies like Thank God It's Friday: Disco (2008), Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979), The Breakdance Kid (2004), Killing Bono (2011), That's the Way I Like It (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Disco (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Endetté jusqu'au cou dans une affaire de water bed, Didier Travolta, 40 ans, vit au Havre dans le quartier populaire du Grand Large chez sa maman : Madame Graindorge. Il reçoit une lettre de la mère de son fils Brian, 8 ans, qui vit en ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, stylized, feel good, realistic ...
Plot: nightclub, follow your dream, rise and fall, dancer's life, self discovery, society, rising to stardom, rivalry, love and romance, buddies, starting over, contests and competitions ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, france, normandy
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95%
Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A group of rock-music-loving students, with the help of the Ramones, take over their school to combat its newly installed oppressive administration.
Style: grindhouse, teen, cult classic, psychotronic, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: rock and roll, high school, music, rock, teenager, punk, punk rock, school, youth, rebellion, adolescence, rock music ...
Time: year 1979, 20th century, 70s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
The Breakdance Kid (2004)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: In 1984, loser pizza guy Whitey Johnson is run over by a semi truck on live television, making him a local hero. The world watches as Whitey vows to not only walk again but to win his town's breakdance competition. Whitey struggles to conquer ...
Style: touching, semi serious, humorous, feel good, realistic ...
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: hip hop, teenage love, follow your dream, lifestyle, dancer's life, ambition, rivalry, love and romance, hopes, contests and competitions, youth, high school life ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 6.3
 7K
Killing Bono (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Neil and Ivan McCormick, two Irish brothers who attempt to become rock stars but can only look on as their high school friends U2 become the biggest band in the world.
Style: feel good, semi serious, humorous, realistic, witty ...
Plot: desire for fame, follow your dream, friends, ambition, teenage life, teenage boy, brother brother relationship, rivalry, rock and roll, family relations, youth, hopes ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1976, 70s
Place: europe, dublin ireland, ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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That's the Way I Like It (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Singapore
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Kung Fu meets disco in Singapore. Hock is a grocery clerk longing for a motorbike. He lives with his parents and sister; they idolize his younger brother, Beng, a medical student calling himself Leslie. Hock loves Bruce Lee; he works out and ...
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: friends, love and romance, artists and showbiz, coming of age, contests and competitions, rivalry, misfit, follow your dream, ambition, lifestyle, twentysomething life, filmmaking ...
Time: 70s, year 1977
Place: singapore
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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Satisfaction (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When a young rock group called The Mystery gets its first gig at a club, it's an opportunity to see what life is all about! Fresh out of high school, the rockers are hired by an exclusive beach resort thanks to a faded '60s songwriter. ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, feel good, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, date night, girls' night
Plot: rock and roll, friendship, women, rock, coming of age, music, teenager, teen angst, friends, teenage life, resort, teenage love ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
 5.3
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Roadie (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A young Texas good ol' boy has a knack with electronic equipment, and that talent gets him a job as a roadie with a raucous traveling rock-and-roll show.
Style: offbeat, funny, cult classic, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: rock and roll, rock, club, hicksploitation, dancing, car, rock music, on the road, ambition, fall in love, obsessive quest, artists and showbiz ...
Time: year 1980, 70s
Place: austin texas, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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The Rocker (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Rob "Fish" Fishman is the drummer in '80s hair metal band Vesuvius. He's unceremoniously booted as the group signs a big record deal, is out of the music world for 20 years - and then receives a second chance with his ...
Style: feel good, humorous, funny, teen, light ...
Audience: teens
Plot: music, heavy metal, music band, youth, rock, rock and roll, musician's life, teenage life, mentor, high school, drums, desire for fame ...
Time: year 2008, 70s, 80s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: ohio, usa, cleveland ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Tapeheads (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The story of Ivan and Josh, two dim witted ex-security guards who love music videos. Out of work, with no job prospects, they form a music video production company. They soon learn the in's and out's of the business in LA and with some ...
Style: humorous, satirical, light, semi serious, cult classic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: music, blackmail, disorder, music band, ambition, showbiz, artists and showbiz, buddies, media, partner, rock and roll, punk ...
Time: 80s
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Loins of Punjab Presents (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: India, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A ruthless philantrophist. A bhangra rapper. An over-protected prodigy. A reckless actress. A lovelorn businessman. An entrepreneurial yogi. And a Loin King. Enter a roller-coaster world of seven strangers whose lives collide during a singing ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, captivating, mockumentary ...
Plot: immigrant, ambition, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, contests and competitions, hotshot hero, hip hop culture, music, punjabi, gays and lesbians, hip hop, town ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new jersey, india, usa, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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Breakin' (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A struggling young dancer joins forces with two breakdancers and together they become a street sensation.
Style: hood, cult classic, grindhouse, independent film, psychotronic ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: dancing, hip hop, breakdance, music, ghetto, gangster, dance, cannon, street kid, gang, urban, subculture ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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Undiscovered (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A group of aspiring entertainers try to establish careers for themselves in the city of Los Angeles.
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: showbiz, friendship, desire for fame, rising to stardom, music, musician's life, music band, friends, rock, love triangle, relationship vs career, fall in love ...
Time: year 2005
Place: los angeles, new york, usa, california, jamaica
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Svengali (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Svengali tells the story of Dixie, a postman from South Wales, and a music fanatic. All his life he’s dreamed of discovering a great band and then one day, trawling through YouTube, he finds them… ‘The Premature Congratulations’. He hunts ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, feel good, sincere
Plot: hopes, follow your dream, music band, music, desire for fame, artists and showbiz, ambition, relationship vs career, music industry, friends, couples, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Rock 'n' Roll High School Forever (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Those rambunctious kids are back in school and back in trouble in a smash sequel to the 1978 worldwide hit. Corey Feldman leads a rock and roll rally at Ronald Reagon High, but must triumph over the evil plans of the school's fascist principal, ...
Style: independent film, captivating, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: rock, punk, dancing, punk rock, prom, disorder, high school, chaos and mayhem, teenage life, high school life, teachers and students, rebellion ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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FM (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Q-SKY is the #1 radio station in Los Angeles mainly because of the music they play; running the station the way they want to, it has made them a ratings success.
Style: political, semi serious, realistic, biting, offbeat ...
Plot: radio, radio station, workplace, love, musician, satire, revolution, friends, media, artists and showbiz, fighting the system, love and romance ...
Time: year 1978, 70s
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Down and Out with the Dolls (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The raunchy, spunky tale of the rise and fall of an all-girl rock band from Portland, Oregon.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, witty, suspense ...
Plot: rock, rise and fall, punk, partner, best friend, music, rivalry, artists and showbiz, music band, friendship, ambition, buddies ...
Time: 21st century
Place: oregon, usa, seattle, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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Sugar Town (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Look at the lives of struggling L.A. scene rock stars follows main character, Gwen, on her quest for the top. Working as an assistant to a film production designer, she tries to steal her boy friend who is a music producer by offering sexual favors. ...
Style: cult classic, humorous, witty, independent film, semi serious ...
Plot: music, rock, addiction, musician, music band, love and romance, ambition, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, musician's life, couple relations, buddies ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
The American Mall (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The executive producers of High School Musical keep the good times rolling with this upbeat musical comedy set in the one place every American teenager's home away from home - the local shopping mall. Ally (Nina Dobrev) is an optimistic ...
Style: feel good, realistic, touching, humorous, witty ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: musician, musician's life, save the day, rise to the top, youth, love and romance, lifestyle, rising to stardom, couple relations, desire for fame, teenage life, hopes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Singer Dewey Cox overcomes adversity to become a musical legend.
Style: funny, humorous, parody, stylized, melancholic ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: music, rock, farce, hip hop, stupidity, success, drug abuse, rock and roll, addiction, drug, divorce, team ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 60s, 70s, 90s ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Steppin : The Movie (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Every college campus has its rivalries and UTS is no different. At this university, the Geeks run the campus and the greatest Steppers are king of the hill. When a local radio station announces the beginning of the step competition season, the ...
Style: realistic, not serious, humorous, hood, captivating ...
Plot: ambition, buddies, rivalry, love and romance, youth, fall in love, prank, disorder, college, contests and competitions, underdog, ghetto ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Fun in Acapulco (1963)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Mike works on a boat in Acapulco. When the bratty daughter of the boat owner gets him fired, Mike must find new work. Little boy Rauol helps him get a job as a lifeguard and singer at a local hotel. Clashes abound when Mike runs into the rival ...
Style: psychotronic, retro, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: elvis presley, music, lifeguard, beach, love, youth, musician, rivalry, unfulfillment, hopes, love and romance, artists and showbiz ...
Time: year 1963, 60s
Place: latin america, acapulco mexico, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Roller Boogie (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Teen lovers Bobby and Terry band together with other roller skaters to try and prevent a powerful mobster taking over the land their favourite skating rink sits on, and compete in the Boogie Contest.
Style: grindhouse, independent film, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: disco, extortion, flirting, dance contest, teensploitation, love, underground, skater, friendship, love and romance, underdog, ambition ...
Time: year 1979, 20th century, 70s
Place: california, usa, venice beach california, santa monica california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Electric Apricot (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Electric Apricot is a spoof of jam bands centered around the band, Electric Apricot, in the style of "This Is Spinal Tap"
Style: realistic, cynical, humorous, mockumentary, semi serious ...
Plot: partner, music band, performer's life, lifestyle, music, friends, disorder, filmmaking, on the road, rock, artists and showbiz, musician's life ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Dance Flick (2009)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Street dancer, Thomas Uncles is from the wrong side of the tracks, but his bond with the beautiful Megan White might help the duo realize their dreams as they enter in the mother of all dance battles.
Style: parody, spoof, not serious, humorous, realistic ...
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: hip hop, dance, youth, contests and competitions, dancer's life, teenage love, follow your dream, love and romance, rivalry, couple relations, lifestyle, ambition ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
 5.7
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Leading Ladies (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A zany comedy about two sisters, their gay best friend, and their overzealous stage mom.
Style: humorous, semi serious, feel good, captivating, light ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: gender, lesbian, family relations, eccentric family, couples, parents and children, fall in love, contests and competitions, ambition, dancer's life, lgbt, sister sister relationship ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
 6.1
 700
City of Rock (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: China
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A young musician from a small town in China tries to save his town's treasured Rock Park by organizing a charity rock concert.
Style: semi serious, realistic, light, humorous, sentimental
Plot: uninhibited rivalry, lifestyle, follow your dream, social relations, musician's life, ambition, rivalry, talented, music business, group of friends, friends, competition ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
The St?ned Age (1994)
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, cult classic, atmospheric ...
Plot: stoner, weed, party, coming of age, heavy metal, rebelliousness, drug, teenage life, lifestyle, youth, stoned, slacker ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: seattle, california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Girls Just Want to Have Fun (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Janey is new in town, and soon meets Lynne, who shares her passion for dancing in general, and "Dance TV" in particular. When a competition is announced to find a new Dance TV regular couple, Janey and Lynne are determined to audition. The ...
Style: teen, feel good, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, kids, date night
Plot: dancing, teenager, high school, friendship, coming of age, love, dance, teenage girl, vengeance, competition, courage, boarding school ...
Time: 80s, year 1985
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Fear of a Black Hat (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Chronicling the controversial career of bad boys N.W.H. (Niggaz With Hats), this uproarious 'mockumentary' lampoons all of hardcore rap's hot-button issues. This underground laugh riot recounts the rise, fall and resurrection of a ...
Style: mockumentary, spoof, parody, humorous, witty ...
Plot: hip hop, satire, music, black, musician, hip hop culture, urban, rapper, african american, blaxploitation, stoned, dj ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
Place: los angeles, usa, south central los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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SoulBoy (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story: 1974. Amidst power cuts, strikes and boot-boy aggro on the football terraces, Joe McCain is bored of a life that's going nowhere. Enter hair-dresser Jane: blonde, beautiful, and moving to the beat of a whole new world of sound, movement and ...
Style: humorous, contemplative, psychological, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot: coming of age, nightlife, youth, society, buddies, unfulfillment, lifestyle, music, friendship, youth culture, subculture, soul ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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