Movies like Valley of the Dolls

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Valley of the Dolls (1967)
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Valley of the Dolls (1967)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Film version of Jacqueline Susann's best-selling novel chronicling the rise and fall of three young ladies in show business.
Style: cynical, cult classic, stylized, serious, rough, realistic, erotic, suspense, dark, sad ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot: drug addiction, husband wife relationship, glamour, showbiz, price of fame, rise and fall, terminal illness, singer, porn actress, actress, psychiatric nurse, drinking, filmmaking, couples, artists and showbiz, lawyer, drug addict, winter, snow, model, theater, abortion, swimming pool, drug use, backstage ...
Time: 20th century, year 1967, 60s, 1960s
Place: manhattan new york city, usa, los angeles, new york, paris france, san francisco, yale university ...

Most similar movies to Valley of the Dolls

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, emotional and crying films with plots about husband wife relationship, dancing, love and romance, singer, singing, couples and cigarette smoking mostly in Drama, Romance and Music genres. Some movies like Valley of the Dolls: The Rose (1979), Inside Daisy Clover (1965), Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999), Dreamgirls (2006), Permanent Midnight (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Rose (1979)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Midler is the rock-and-roll singer Mary Rose Foster (known as the Rose to her legions of fans), whose romantic relationships and mental health are continuously imperiled by the demands of life on the road.
Style: retro, realistic, serious, captivating, sincere ...
Plot: addiction, rock and roll, rock band, love, musician, singer, women, drug abuse, rock, music, bittersweet, biopic ...
Time: year 1979, 20th century, 60s, year 1969
Place: usa
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100%
Inside Daisy Clover (1965)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: A girl on the road to stardom fights the dehumanizing effects of Hollywood life.
Style: realistic, tense, serious, emotional, retro ...
Plot: hollywood, coming of age, showbiz, rise and fall, family relations, lifestyle, human nature, ambition, rising to stardom, rags to riches, secret relationship, tomboy ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s, year 1936
Place: california, los angeles, usa, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: An acclaimed stage performer, Dorothy still struggled with the challenge of her color, in a time that wouldn't let some stars in by the front door. Yet against the odds she beat out many more famous rivals for the role of "Carmen ...
Style: cult classic, contemplative, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: biopic, racism, black, hollywood, women, rape, african american, filmmaking, women of color, sexual abuse, interracial romance, post war ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 1940s, 50s, 1950s
Place: usa, miami beach, new york, miami, las vegas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Dreamgirls (2006)
Genre: Drama, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Three young women – Deena Jones, Effie White and Lorrell Robinson – dream of becoming pop stars and they get their wish when they're chosen to be backup singers for the legendary James 'Thunder' Early.
Style: stylized, emotional, lyrical, melancholic, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: african american, performer's life, showbiz, music, fame, dancing, broadway, jazz, manager, black, unlikely friendships, dance ...
Time: 60s, 70s, year 2006, 2000s, 20th century
Place: michigan, los angeles, detroit, usa, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Permanent Midnight (1998)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Ben Stiller plays comedy writer Jerry Stahl, whose $6000-a-week heroin habit had him taking his infant daughter along on his drug runs and doing smack during TV script conferences. Departing detox, Stahl explores memories with survivor Kitty, who ...
Style: factual, intense, depressing, serious, cult classic ...
Plot: addiction, drug, writers, heroin, drug abuse, husband wife relationship, drug addict, human nature, drug addiction, lifestyle, family problems, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: los angeles, usa, pittsburgh, beverly hills
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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A Star Is Born (1976)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: A Star Is Born is a 1976 rock music film telling the story of a young woman, played by Barbra Streisand who enters show business, and meets and falls in love with an established male star, played by Kris Kristofferson, only to find her career ...
Style: grindhouse, independent film, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Plot: music, tragic love, alcoholic, women, drug addiction, dancing, rock and roll, radio, elvis presley, fame, rock star, self discovery ...
Time: year 1976, 20th century, 70s
Place: california, usa, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Gigolo and drifter, Chance Wayne, returns to his home town as the accompaniment of a faded movie star, Alexandra Del Lago, whom he hopes to use to help him break into the movies. Chance runs into trouble when he finds his ex-girlfriend, the daughter ...
Style: emotional, southern gothic, intense, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: hollywood, adultery, betrayal, drug addiction, loneliness, movie star, justice, tragedy, character study, couple relations, unlikely couple, actor's life ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: florida, usa
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36%
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Heights (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: 'Heights' follows five characters over 24 hours on a fall day in New York City. Isabel, a photographer, is having second thoughts about her upcoming marriage to Jonathan, a lawyer. On the same day, Isabel's mother Diana learns that ...
Style: realistic, stylized, serious, talky, clever ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: gay, infidelity, adultery, secrets, existentialism, character study, lifestyle, introspection, city life, artists and showbiz, love and romance, actor's life ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, czech republic, london, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Sylvie's Love (2020)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: When a young woman meets an aspiring saxophonist in her father’s record shop in 1950s Harlem, their love ignites a sweeping romance that transcends changing times, geography, and professional success.
Style: romantic, captivating, emotional, period drama
Plot: love, music, black, african american, black history, fall in love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, dancing, male female relationship, musician, love and romance, relationships ...
Time: 2020s, year 1957, 1950s, 60s, year 1967 ...
Place: new york, detroit, manhattan new york city, harlem, atlanta georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Forty Shades of Blue (2005)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A Russian woman living in Memphis with a much older rock-n-roll legend experiences a personal awakening when her husband's estranged son comes to visit.
Style: sincere, emotional, realistic, contemplative, serious ...
Plot: love affair, sex with stepmother, infidelity, love triangle, family relations, family problems, crumbling marriage, estrangement, couples, parents and children, couple relations, fall in love ...
Place: usa, tennessee, memphis, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Hottest State (2006)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A young actor from Texas tries to make it in New York while struggling in his relationship with a beautiful singer/songwriter.
Style: realistic, sentimental, semi serious, touching, gloomy ...
Plot: musician, sexuality, love affair, youth, couple relations, fall in love, young lovers, actor's life, musician's life, lifestyle, actor, living together ...
Time: year 2006
Place: texas, new york, usa, manhattan new york city, lower east side manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Last Tycoon (1976)
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.
Style: realistic, stylized, captivating, sentimental, cult classic ...
Plot: hollywood, filmmaking, producer, introspection, ambition, film industry, showbiz, fall in love, great depression, literary, female nudity, time travel ...
Time: 1930s, 1920s, 20th century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Song to Song (2017)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: In this modern love story set against the Austin, Texas music scene, two entangled couples — struggling songwriters Faye and BV, and music mogul Cook and the waitress whom he ensnares — chase success through a rock ‘n’ roll landscape of ...
Style: stylized, serious, atmospheric, art house, independent film ...
Audience: chick flick, teens
Plot: love triangle, music, love and romance, ambition, rivalry, love, nightclub, restaurant, party, concert, infidelity, musician ...
Time: year 2017, year 2015, future, 21st century
Place: austin texas, texas, usa, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Nine (2009)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Arrogant, self-centered movie director Guido Contini finds himself struggling to find meaning, purpose, and a script for his latest film endeavor. With only a week left before shooting begins, he desperately searches for answers and inspiration from ...
Style: emotional, clever, lyrical, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot: infidelity, filmmaking, midlife crisis, memory, broadway, lifestyle, femme fatale, self discovery, dancing, couples, family relations, love and romance ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 2000s, year 2009, 1920s ...
Place: italy, rome italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Crazy Heart (2009)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: When reporter Jean Craddock interviews Bad Blake -- an alcoholic, seen-better-days country music legend -- they connect, and the hard-living crooner sees a possible saving grace in a life with Jean and her young son. But can he leave behind an ...
Style: touching, romantic, depressing, emotional, sincere ...
Audience: adult
Plot: musician, country music, loneliness, alcoholism, addiction, music, journalist, country singer, alcohol abuse, love and romance, alcoholic, love ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new mexico, texas, austin texas, usa, nashville tennessee ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Roseland (1977)
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: serious, realistic, sincere, atmospheric, thought provoking ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: loneliness, friendship, looking for love, elderly, couples, party, music, dance, disco, love and romance, contests and competitions, dancer's life ...
Time: 70s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Purple Rain (1984)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A young man with a talent for music meets an aspiring singer, Apollonia, and finds that talent alone isn't all that he needs.
Style: exciting, captivating, realistic, sentimental, cult classic ...
Plot: rivalry, musician, music, african american, motorcycle, dysfunctional family, singer, redemption, dancing, human spirit, rock and roll, aspiring singer ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: minnesota, minneapolis minnesota, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The Carpetbaggers (1964)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story: The Carpetbaggers is a 1964 American film starring George Peppard as a character based largely on Howard Hughes and Alan Ladd as a former western gunslinger turned actor with the pseudonym Nevada Smith, played the following year in a prequel ...
Style: retro, stylized, clever, serious, realistic ...
Plot: showbiz, hollywood, aviation, sex, love story, friendship, filmmaking, uncontrollable, family problems, friends, couples, lifestyle ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s, 20th century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Parting Glances (1986)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Michael and Robert, two gay men living in Brooklyn, spend their last day together before Robert leaves for Africa on work assignment. Michael still has feelings for his friend Nick, who has AIDS.
Style: independent film, sad, semi serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot: aids, gay, lgbt, hiv, lgbtq, gay interest, gays and lesbians, paranoia, infection, hopeless romantic, glbt, advocate ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, africa, manhattan new york city, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The Last of Robin Hood (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Errol Flynn, the swashbuckling Hollywood star and notorious ladies man, flouted convention all his life, but never more brazenly than in his last years when, swimming in vodka and unwilling to face his mortality, he undertook a liaison with an ...
Style: disturbing, touching, realistic, serious, independent film ...
Plot: hollywood, movie star, sexual abuse, womanizer, actor's life, forbidden love, love affair, love and romance, youth, life is a bitch, teenage life, showbiz ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, year 1960, year 1957, year 2010 ...
Place: cuba, los angeles, new york, usa, manhattan new york city ...
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31%
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A Star is Born (2018)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Seasoned musician Jackson Maine discovers-and falls in love with-struggling artist Ally. She has just about given up on her dream to make it big as a singer – until Jack coaxes her into the spotlight. But even as Ally's career takes off, the ...
Style: sad, inspirational, romantic drama, sincere, uplifting ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, adult
Plot: showbiz, singer, country music, alcoholic, fame, friendship, addiction, brother brother relationship, concert, alcoholism, drinking problem, suicide ...
Time: 2010s
Place: america, los angeles, memphis, boston, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Clean (2004)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, Canada, UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story: After losing her husband to a heroin overdose, Emily Wang fights to overcome her own addictions and to be reconciled with her estranged son.
Style: stylized, atmospheric, touching, serious, sincere ...
Plot: addiction, drug overdose, prison, redemption, road trip, loneliness, life is a bitch, going straight, rock star, musician's life, custody, estranged son ...
Time: year 2004
Place: paris france, ontario canada, vancouver, canada, france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Walk the Line (2005)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story: A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his rise to fame with Sun Records in Memphis, where he recorded alongside Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins.
Style: sentimental, touching, emotional, road movie, captivating ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: music, rock and roll, country music, musician's life, musician, addiction, marriage, biopic, accident, prison, drug, rise and fall ...
Time: 70s, 60s, 50s, 2000s, 1940s ...
Place: tennessee, memphis, usa, arkansas, west germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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The Boost (1988)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Lenny Brown moves to California to find his fortune in tax shelter investments. When the federal government changes the tax laws, poor Lenny finds himself $700,000 in hock with nowhere to turn. His friend, Joel, introduces him to cocaine to give ...
Style: bleak, independent film, gloomy, touching, serious ...
Plot: addiction, drug addiction, drug, recovery, alcoholism, drug abuse, drug addict, cautionary tale, substance abuse, couples, life is a bitch, downfall ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, usa, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
The Way We Were (1973)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Two desperate people have a wonderful romance, but their political views and convictions drive them apart.
Style: sentimental, realistic, serious, captivating, intellectual ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: mccarthyism, naval officer, couples, politics, breakup, husband wife relationship, adultery, love story, passion, world war two, love and romance, friendship ...
Time: 1940s, 50s, 1930s, 1950s, pre world war two ...
Place: usa, new york, california, middle east, malibu california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 5.6
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Harlow (1965)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Hollywood drama loosely based on the life of film actress Jean Harlow, with Carroll Baker in the title role. One of two feature film biographies, both released in 1965 and both with the same title, about the '30s platinum blonde movie star.
Style: sexual, serious, realistic, entertaining, crying
Plot: hollywood, actor's life, rise and fall, film industry, women, wedding, filmmaking, showbiz, couples, fashion, celebrity culture, voyeurism ...
Time: 1930s, 1920s
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 7.9
 248K
Beauty Spot (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Hollywood, 1927: As silent movie star George Valentin wonders if the arrival of talking pictures will cause him to fade into oblivion, he sparks with Peppy Miller, a young dancer set for a big break.
Style: black and white, romantic, touching, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, family friendly, date night
Plot: hollywood, filmmaking, actor, movie star, showbiz, love and romance, dog, actor's life, fame, actress, love, art ...
Time: 1920s, 2010s, year 2011, 1930s, 1900s ...
Place: los angeles, usa, california, iran
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 7.0
 29K
Beaches (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A privileged rich debutante and a cynical struggling entertainer share a turbulent, but strong childhood friendship over the years.
Style: heartbreaking, tear jerker, sad, sentimental, melancholic ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, kids, teens
Plot: friendship, childhood friend, best friend, singer, terminal illness, female bonding, mother daughter relationship, life is a bitch, coming of age, family relations, honest, grief ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 70s, 80s, 1950s
Place: new york, atlantic city new jersey, san francisco, los angeles, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 7.0
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Sid and Nancy (1986)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Following their breakout success in England, flagship punk rock band the Sex Pistols venture out on their first U.S. tour. Temperamental bassist Sid Vicious takes his troubled girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, along for the ride. Along the way, the ...
Style: bloody, cult classic, disturbing, independent film, psychedelic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: punk, addiction, rock and roll, drug abuse, heroin, drug addiction, biopic, punk rock, couples, musician, heroin addict, drug ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1986
Place: new york, london, paris france, england, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
A Song for Martin (2001)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Sweden, Germany, Denmark
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Martin, conductor of a symphonic orchestra, meet Barbara, violine player and they start a relationship. Five years later Martin starts to develop loss of memory and becomes more and more confused. Finally he is diagnosed with Alzheimer's ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, emotional ...
Plot: family relations, infidelity, couple relations, couples, love affair, violin, lifestyle, love and romance, musician's life, crumbling marriage, fall in love, family problems ...
Time: year 2001
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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