Movies like A Time for Dancing

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A Time for Dancing (2002)
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A Time for Dancing (2002)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Their love of dance, and their friendship, is challenged for two high school girls when one is diagnosed with cancer.
Style: sincere, emotional, sentimental, touching, sad, serious, realistic
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: dancing, terminal illness, friendship, life is a bitch, follow your dream, teenage life, cancer, single parent, lifestyle, society, unfulfillment, determination, disease, dance, teenager, coming of age, youth, friends, family relations, love and romance, best friend, couples, high school life, working class, strong female presence ...
Time: 90s

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sentimental films with plots about youth, friendship, hopes, friends, lifestyle, family relations and teenage life mostly in Drama, Music and Romance genres. Some movies like A Time for Dancing: Saturday Night Fever (1977), Silence Like Glass (1989), Beat the World (2011), How She Move (2007), High Strung (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Saturday Night Fever (1977)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Tony Manero is a Brooklyn paint-store clerk who'd give anything to break out of his dead-end existence. In life, Tony is a peasant; on the disco dance floor, he's a king. As the soundtrack plays one Bee Gees hit after another, white-suited ...
Style: sexy, sentimental, rough, light, serious ...
Audience: date night, teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: dancing, disco, dance, nightclub, working class, dancer, music, love, dysfunctional family, slut, coming of age, slutty attitude ...
Time: 70s, year 1977, 20th century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city, usa
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100%
Silence Like Glass (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: True story of two diametrically opposed young women dealing with terminal illness.
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, emotional, touching
Plot: friendship, couples, friends, artists and showbiz, forbidden love, dancer's life, unfulfillment, life is a bitch, society, love and romance, hopes, working class ...
Time: 80s
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100%
Beat the World (2011)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Three dance crews – one Latin American, one European and one Canadian – prepare to battle at the International Beat the World competition in Detroit. Along the way, they struggle with gambling debt, bad break-ups and their own egos. In the final ...
Style: stylized, realistic, exciting, serious, independent film
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: street dance, dance, dancer's life, lifestyle, dancing, friendship, hip hop, buddies, rivalry, youth, world spanning, music ...
Time: 21st century
Place: detroit, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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How She Move (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: After the death of Raya Green's(Rutina Wesley) sister, she gets out from her classes at school, and sees a stomp crew practicing. She meets Bishop(Dwain Murphy) which is the dance crew leader. She then meets Michelle and does a stomp battle ...
Style: realistic, touching, serious, exciting, independent film
Audience: teens
Plot: dancing, dance, coming of age, youth, follow your dream, contests and competitions, teenage life, friendship, black people, ambition, hopes, lifestyle ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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High Strung (2016)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When a hip hop violinist busking in the New York subway encounters a classical dancer on scholarship at the Manhattan Conservatory of the Arts, sparks fly. With the help of a hip hop dance crew they must find a common ground while preparing for a ...
Style: romantic, light, sweet, entertaining, happy
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot: dancing, ballet, dancer's life, dance, violin, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, youth, unlikely couple, competition, music, breaking point, musician ...
Place: new york
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100%
Gospel Road: A Story of Jesus (1973)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Johnny Cash appears in and narrates this version of the story of Jesus' life, death and resurrection.
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, atmospheric, biblical
Plot: jesus, faith, jesus christ, biopic, righting the wronged, religions or cults, society, unfulfillment, music, hopes, ambition, heroes ...
Time: 1st century
Place: holy land, middle east, israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.2
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Face (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Genie, a Chinese-American teenager, develops feelings for a charming African-American DJ, but her grandmother forbids their romance forcing Genie to choose between family and love.
Style: sincere, emotional, touching, serious, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, parents and children, teenage life, immigrant, opposites attract, friends, introspection, culture clash, single parent, youth, coming of age, friendship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Tamla Rose (2013)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Three teen girls in a Motown band embark on an emotional ride to hell and back.
Style: touching, serious, sentimental, realistic, feel good
Audience: girls' night
Plot: dream come true, rise and fall, musician's life, follow your dream, ambition, teenage life, desire for fame, best friend, hopes, youth, friendship, showbiz ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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You Got Served (2004)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: At Mr. Rad's Warehouse, the best hip-hop crews in Los Angeles compete for money and respect. But when a suburban crew crashes the party, stealing their dancers - and their moves - two warring friends have to pull together to represent the ...
Style: intense, stylized, humorous, hood, inspirational ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: hip hop, dancing, dance, street dance, breakdance, competition, friendship, music, betrayal, rivalry, follow your dream, dance performance ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Step Up 2: The Streets (2008)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When rebellious street dancer Andie lands at the elite Maryland School of the Arts, she finds herself fighting to fit in while also trying to hold onto her old life. When she joins forces with the schools hottest dancer, Chase, to form a crew of ...
Style: romantic, teen, inspirational, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience: teens, date night, girls' night, family friendly, chick flick
Plot: dancing, dance, dancer, youth, ballet, dancer's life, hip hop, music, dance contest, street dance, contests and competitions, competition ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: maryland, usa, baltimore
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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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 ⇓
34%
Stomp the Yard 2: Homecoming (2010)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Chance Harris looks to find a balance between his school, work, relationships and opportunity to perform at the nationally televised step competition during homecoming weekend at Truth University.
Style: serious, captivating, feel good, realistic, independent film
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: dance, dancing, hip hop, dancer's life, college, rivalry, lifestyle, college life, contests and competitions, student life, ambition, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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34%
Feel the Noise (2007)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: After a run-in with local thugs, aspiring Harlem rapper Rob flees to a place and father he never knew, and finds his salvation in Reggaeton, a spicy blend of hip-hop, reggae and Latin beats. Puerto Rico, the spiritual home of Reggaeton, inspires Rob ...
Style: realistic, feel good, hood, serious
Audience: teens
Plot: rapper, dancer's life, dance, fish out of water, culture clash, youth, ambition, society, lifestyle, music, rivalry, follow your dream ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, puerto rico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Bumblebee Flies Anyway (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An amnesiac youth tries to piece together his past, but what he discovers may jeopardize his future.
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, emotional, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: patient, twins, memory, terminal illness, hospital, bittersweet, friendship, life is a bitch, doctors and patients, love and romance, coming of age, hopes ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Due East (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The movie spotlights an intelligent high school senior and National Merit Scholar (Bryant) who has never been part of the "in crowd." She teaches a high school equivalency night class, tends to the needs of her widower father, Jesse ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, sincere, contemplative ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: single parent, teenage pregnancy, small town, coming of age, teenage life, destructive relationship, couples, family relations, parents and children, lifestyle, love and romance, youth ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Fifteen and Pregnant (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Based on a true story, 15 year old Tina Spangler discovers she is pregnant. Her choices are abortion, adoption, or a lonely, exhausting life as a single parent. Abandoned by her boyfriend, she turns to her mother. Tina discovers although it has torn ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, emotional, psychological ...
Audience: teens
Plot: pregnancy, teenage pregnancy, family problems, lifestyle, teenage life, family in crisis, hopes, parent child relationship, sister sister relationship, youth, family relations, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Rails & Ties (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A deadly collision between a train and car lead to an unlikely bond between the train engineer and a young boy who escapes the carnage.
Style: emotional, touching, realistic, sincere, psychological ...
Plot: orphan, train, family relations, friendship, terminal illness, family problems, father figure, grief, coming of age, parents and children, collision, suicidal ...
Time: year 2007
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Papa Was Not a Rolling Stone (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The 1980s. Stéphanie grows up in La Courneuve, on the outskirts of Paris, in a home where her mother is rarely there and her step-father is brutal. She quickly decides to escape her morose everyday life. Thanks to her grandmother's love, ...
Style: humorous, touching, sentimental, sincere, semi serious ...
Plot: follow your dream, teenage life, hopes, youth, parents and children, family problems, adolescence vs adulthood, society, family relations, friendship, dysfunctional family, coming of age ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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A Walk to Remember (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: When the popular, restless Landon Carter is forced to participate in the school drama production he falls in love with Jamie Sullivan, the daughter of the town's minister. Jamie has a "to-do" list for her life and also a very big ...
Style: touching, romantic, inspirational, sad, tear jerker ...
Audience: teens, date night, chick flick, girls' night, kids ...
Plot: cancer, teenager, love story, opposites attract, fall in love, terminal illness, love and romance, love, first love, youth, teen romance, true love ...
Time: year 2002, 1900s, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: north carolina
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33%
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Preacher's Kid (2010)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Small-town girl Angie King leaves the church and her home to pursue a dream of singing stardom. Luckett plays Angie, the daughter of a stern but loving bishop, whose attraction to the hunky star (Tank) of a traveling gospel show takes her on the ...
Style: sentimental, realistic, touching, serious, independent film ...
Plot: parents and children, lifestyle, hopes, love and romance, destructive relationship, youth, couples, friendship, christian, religion, father daughter relationship, music ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Brave New Girl (2004)
Genre: Drama, Family, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Holly has everything it takes to be a star; the voice, the dream and the dedication, but she lacks the means to break away from her humble Texas upbringing. Then she gets the chance to attend an art and music school on the East coast and her future ...
Style: sincere, uplifting, touching, sentimental, cute ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ambition, showbiz, follow your dream, hopes, parents and children, music, rising to stardom, mother daughter relationship, fish out of water, female protagonist, humiliation, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Our Song (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Focusing on the bonding between three female (an African American female, a half African American half Latino American female, and a Latino American female) high school members of Brooklyn's "Jackie Robinson Steppers Marching Band" ...
Style: disturbing, sincere, touching, thought provoking, independent film ...
Plot: friendship, high school, teenager, asthma, adolescence, against the odds, lifestyle, musician's life, working class, life is a bitch, hopes, music band ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Matching Jack (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A woman struggles with her son's illness and her husband's infidelity, but, after a chance encounter with an Irish sailor and his son, her life is turned upside down in a love story that defies explanation and breaks all the rules.
Style: sincere, uplifting, realistic, emotional, serious ...
Plot: infidelity, coming of age, hopes, dishonesty, friendship, parents and children, bittersweet, terminal illness, unfulfillment, life turned upside down, child illness, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia, ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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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 ⇓
32%
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Ricochet River (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: hree teenagers looking for adventure find more than they expected in this coming-of-age drama. High school seniors Wade (Jason James Richter) and Lorna (Kate Hudson) have spent all their lives in the small logging town of Calamus Grove, a ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, independent film ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: coming of age, culture clash, interracial relations, teenage life, love and romance, self discovery, small town, on the road, youth, lifestyle, society, social misfits ...
Time: 60s, 90s
Place: oregon, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
What Girls Learn (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Two teenage girls must come to terms with their stepfather when their mother is struck by illness.
Style: touching, sincere, sentimental, emotional, contemplative ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: teenage girl, single mother, stepfather, family relations, teenage love, teenage life, human nature, love and romance, youth, estrangement, couples, family problems ...
Time: 80s
Place: georgia, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 4.2
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Body Language (2011)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 97 min.
Story: An hour before the five best Dutch dance crews fly to a contest in New York, the subsidized trip is cancelled. Five dancers from totally different crews don't want to give up their free plane ticket and go anyway. In New York they realize what ...
Style: exciting, serious, feel good, realistic
Audience: teens
Plot: dancer's life, youth, follow your dream, contests and competitions, friendship, disorder, lifestyle, music, hopes, hip hop, infidelity, dancing ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Something Like Happiness (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Over the course of a year, in a small town scarred and beaten down by industrialization, Tonda and Monika, friends since childhood, come to experience what life might be like if they could be with one another – which they seemingly can't. Or ...
Style: sincere, emotional, serious, sentimental, touching ...
Plot: mental illness, family problems, dysfunctional family, family relations, couples, friendship, life is a bitch, eccentric family, love and romance, single parent, working class, psychopath ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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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 ⇓
31%
 6.4
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Let It Shine (2012)
Genre: Drama, Family, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The film follows a shy, talented musician who pens romantic hip-hop verses only to stand idly by as they're delivered to the girl of his dreams by a proxy, his best friend. Made for Disney Channel movie/
Style: feel good, realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, girls' night, pre-teens
Plot: hip hop, teenage life, teenage love, hip hop culture, ambition, follow your dream, lifestyle, performer's life, fall in love, musician's life, dream come true, best friend ...
Time: 21st century
Place: georgia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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