Movies like Sing Street

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Sing Street (2016)
 7.9
 96K
Sing Street (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A boy growing up in Dublin during the 1980s escapes his strained family life by starting a band to impress the mysterious girl he likes.
Style: sweet, touching, realistic, feel good, lyrical, sentimental, depressing, inspirational, romantic, sincere ...
Audience: teens, date night, kids, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: youth, friendship, music band, musician's life, teenager, school, rock and roll, dream girl, adolescence, bullying, coming of age, teenage life, bittersweet, singer, music, musician, creativity, teenage boy, brother brother relationship, high school, love, fall in love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, dancing, parent child relationship ...
Time: 80s, future, 20th century, year 1985
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, london, england

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Most similar movies to Sing Street

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, feel good, touching and melancholic films with plots about friendship, dialogue, mentor, coming of age, teenager, runaway and storytelling mostly in Drama, Music and Comedy genres. Some movies like Sing Street: Nowhere Boy (2009), The Commitments (1991), Almost Famous (2000), God Help the Girl (2014), Begin Again (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
 7.1
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Nowhere Boy (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The drama tells the story of Lennon's teenage years and the start of his journey to becoming a successful musician. The story also examines the impact on his early life and personality of the two dominant females in his childhood
Style: sentimental, intense, emotional, witty, sincere ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: prodigy, coming of age, follow your dream, the beatles, rock and roll, musician's life, music, adolescence, dysfunctional family, musician, rock, artist ...
Time: 50s, 1940s, 60s, 20th century, 70s
Place: new jersey, california, england, europe, hamburg germany ...
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100%
The Commitments (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Jimmy Rabbitte, just a tick out of school, gets a brilliant idea: to put a soul band together in Barrytown, his slum home in north Dublin. First he needs musicians and singers: things slowly start to click when he finds three fine-voiced females ...
Style: feel good, realistic, humorous, affectionate, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens, pre-teens
Plot: music, musician, rock and roll, working class, irish, singer, friendship, rock, bittersweet, blues, dancing, small town ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.9
 281K
Almost Famous (2000)
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, road movie, feel good, realistic, semi autobiographical ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, journalism, on the road, rock and roll, music, musician, rock music, musician's life, rock, rock band, fame, singer ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: california, new york, usa, phoenix arizona, cleveland ohio ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
God Help the Girl (2014)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Eve is a catastrophe—low on self-esteem but high on fantasy, especially when it comes to music. Over the course of one Glasgow summer, she meets two similarly rootless souls: posh Cass and fastidious James, and together they form a group.
Style: uplifting, realistic, serious, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night
Plot: anorexia, mental illness, friendship, music band, pop music, music, friends, self discovery, musician's life, blonde, love and romance, lifestyle ...
Time: 20th century, year 1969, year 1981, 21st century
Place: glasgow scotland, scotland, edinburgh scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 7.4
 160K
Begin Again (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A long lost music producer finds a singer-songwriter right about the moment he has given up all hope on life.
Style: touching, romantic, inspirational, sincere, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: music, musician's life, female singer, infidelity, love story, father daughter relationship, singer, love, city life, musician, relationships, betrayal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
That Thing You Do! (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A Pennsylvania band scores a hit in 1964 and rides the star-making machinery as long as it can, with lots of help from its manager.
Style: humorous, sentimental, feel good, sexy, light ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, girls' night, date night ...
Plot: music, drummer, recording studio, rock and roll, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, showbiz, small town, jazz musician, musician, music band, rising to stardom, ambition ...
Time: 60s, 50s, 20th century
Place: pennsylvania, ohio, usa, pittsburgh, los angeles ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.8
 118K
Once (2007)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A vacuum repairman moonlights as a street musician and hopes for his big break. One day a Czech immigrant, who earns a living selling flowers, approaches him with the news that she is also an aspiring singer-songwriter. The pair decide to ...
Style: touching, sentimental, emotional, sweet, sincere ...
Audience: date night
Plot: music, musician's life, pianist, street musician, friendship, singer, love, love and romance, recording studio, rock and roll, love story, lifestyle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, london, dublin ireland, czech republic, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 6.9
 80K
Frank (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A young wannabe musician who discovers he has bitten off more than he can chew when he joins an eccentric pop band led by the mysterious and enigmatic Frank.
Style: melancholic, surreal, lyrical, tragicomedy, semi serious ...
Plot: music, music band, suicide, mental illness, identity, eccentricity, musician, creativity, character study, deadpan, loneliness, depression ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, usa, britain, austin texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 8.0
 605K
La La Land (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Mia, an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian, a jazz musician, scrapes by playing cocktail party gigs in dingy bars, but as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile ...
Style: sad, romantic, touching, emotional, sentimental ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, family outing, teens, date night
Plot: music, jazz, love, dancing, musician, audition, love story, bigger dreams, jazz club, destiny, rags to riches, dreams ...
Time: future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, paris france, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
 6.7
 31K
Singles (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Romantic comedy about six of Seattle's young people, most of whom live in the same apartment building and whose lives revolve around the city's ever-expanding music scene. The interrelated stories about each character's progress ...
Style: feel good, humorous, sweet, touching, realistic ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot: music, music band, clubbing, friendship, city life, love and romance, looking for love, couple relations, rock, musician's life, loneliness, roommate ...
Time: 90s, 80s, 20th century
Place: seattle, usa, new jersey, california, washington state
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.7
 92K
Flipped (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When Juli meets Bryce in the second grade, she knows it's true love. After spending six years trying to convince Bryce the same, she's ready to give up - until he starts to reconsider.
Style: touching, sweet, feel good, romantic, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, kids, chick flick, date night ...
Plot: first love, fall in love, childhood, love and romance, school, adolescence, childhood sweetheart, young love, teenage life, teenage love, neighbor, crush ...
Time: 60s, 50s, year 1963, 20th century, year 1957 ...
Place: usa, michigan
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.6
 84K
Footloose (1984)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: When teenager Ren and his family move from big-city Chicago to a small town in the West, he's in for a real case of culture shock.
Style: feel good, serious, captivating, intense, humorous ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, kids, chick flick, family outing ...
Plot: dancing, high school, teenager, youth, music, love and romance, small town, rebellion, rebelliousness, dancer's life, church, teenage rebellion ...
Time: 80s, year 1984, 20th century, 70s
Place: chicago illinois, usa, utah
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.2
 8K
Roll Bounce (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Roll Bounce is a 2005 American comedy-drama film written by Norman Vance Jr. and directed by Malcolm D. Lee. The film stars hip hop artist Bow Wow as the leader of a roller skating crew in 1970s Chicago. The ...
Style: humorous, feel good, sweet, light, sentimental ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, kids
Plot: coming of age, dancing, father son relationship, rivalry, kids and family, unlikely friendships, contests and competitions, friendship, teenage love, underdog, youth, ambition ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 80s
Place: chicago illinois, usa, new jersey, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
We Are the Best! (2013)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Three girls in 1980s Stockholm decide to form a punk band -- despite not having any instruments and being told by everyone that punk is dead.
Style: feel good, touching, stylized, lyrical, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, pre-teens
Plot: music, teenager, punk, coming of age, friendship, rebellion, teenage girl, punk rock, children, best friends, ambition, teenage life ...
Time: 80s, year 1982, 70s, 20th century
Place: sweden, california, tokyo, eastern europe, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Way Way Back (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Over the course of his summer break, a teenager comes into his own thanks in part to the friendship he strikes up with one of the park's managers.
Style: touching, feel good, emotional, realistic, sweet ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids, teen drama
Plot: summer, teenager, friendship, vacation, coming of age, loneliness, shyness, youth, childhood, dysfunctional family, bittersweet, small town ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Georgia Nicolson is fourteen, lives with nosey parents who don't understand her, an annoying three year old sister and has to wear a beret to school. She would, however, rather be blonde, have a smaller nose and a boyfriend. Revolving around ...
Style: touching, feel good, romantic, humorous, sexy ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: school, high school, coming of age, teenage life, youth, teenage love, couples, love and romance, parents and children, friends, high school life, teenager ...
Time: 80s
Place: england, london, europe, new zealand, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Greg is coasting through senior year of high school as anonymously as possible, avoiding social interactions like the plague while secretly making spirited, bizarre films with Earl, his only friend. But both his anonymity and friendship threaten to ...
Style: touching, emotional, depressing, sad, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: high school, adolescence, teenager, cancer, terminal illness, coming of age, dying, friendship, school, leukemia, teenage boy, death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: pennsylvania, pittsburgh, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Spectacular Now (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A hard-partying high school senior's philosophy on life changes when he meets the not-so-typical "nice girl."
Style: touching, sincere, melancholic, emotional, romantic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, teenager, youth, teenage life, couples, first love, teenage love, high school, family relations, classmate, drinking problem, love ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: new jersey, california, usa, philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Spike Island (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Teenage musicians travel to England's Spike Island in the hope of attending an outdoor performance by their favorite band, the Stone Roses.
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, touching, sad
Audience: teens
Plot: ambition, follow your dream, music band, teenage life, teenage love, friendship, music business, love and romance, hopes, youth, coming of age, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: manchester, england, liverpool
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 7.8
 64K
The Chorus (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France, Switzerland, Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Set in 1940's France, a new teacher at a school for disruptive boys gives hope and inspiration.
Style: touching, inspirational, uplifting, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience: kids
Plot: boarding school, teacher, childhood, orphan, music, children, friendship, musician, teachers and students, boarding school life, boss, school ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: france, new york, europe, paris france, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Blinded by the Light (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK, USA, France
Duration: 118 min.
Story: In 1987, during the austere days of Thatcher’s Britain, a teenager learns to live life, understand his family, and find his own voice through the music of Bruce Springsteen.
Style: captivating, feel good, touching, humorous, tense ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: coming of age, teenage protagonist, teenager, aspiring writer, father son relationship, neighbor, diary, interracial friendship, friendship, college student, father son conflict, poetry ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, year 1988
Place: new jersey, england, punjab, london, america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.0
 17K
Little Voice (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: After the death of her father, Little Voice or LV becomes a virtual recluse, never going out and hardly ever saying a word. She just sits in her bedroom listening to her father's collection of old records of Shirley Bassey, Marilyn Monroe and ...
Style: touching, poignant, affectionate, feel good, road movie ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: women, obsession, music, showbiz, singer, mother daughter relationship, dysfunctional family, british, working class, recluse, daughter, pigeon ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: england, yorkshire, northern england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.7
 3K
Girl (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Andrea Marr is a bright, straight-A, mature, 18-year-old high school senior on the verge of womanhood who decides to abandon her sheltered, boring lifestyle and her bookish friend Darcy for a look into the local rock and roll scene as a groupie to ...
Style: realistic, touching, humorous, sentimental, sexy ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: coming of age, high school, musician's life, groupie, young lovers, best friends, lifestyle, teenage life, teenage love, music band, suburbs, innocence lost ...
Time: 90s
Place: seattle, usa, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 7.1
 187K
About a Boy (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Will Freeman is a hip Londoner who one day realizes that his friends are all involved with the responsibilities of married life and that leaves him alone in the cold. Passing himself off as a single father, he starts to meet a string of single mums, ...
Style: feel good, romantic, sentimental, humorous, realistic ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, kids, date night, family outing ...
Plot: coming of age, friendship, father son relationship, loneliness, dating, mentor, bullying, dysfunctional family, christmas, childhood, motherhood, boy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: london, england, britain, united kingdom, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Nick cannot stop obsessing over his ex-girlfriend, Tris, until Tris' friend Norah suddenly shows interest in him at a club. Thus beings an odd night filled with ups and downs as the two keep running into Tris and her new boyfriend while ...
Style: feel good, funny, sweet, humorous, sexy ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: teenager, teenage love, youth, nightlife, teenage life, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, high school, love, unlikely couple, love and romance, lifestyle, ex couple relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, new jersey, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
No Small Affair (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The 16 years old amateur photographer Charles accidentally takes a photo of Laura - and falls in love with her, when he develops the picture. He finds out that she works as singer in a bar, but is about to be thrown out. Although rejected at first ...
Style: humorous, melancholic, sweet, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: love, teenager, coming of age, happy ending, teenage love, topless woman, female nudity, fall in love, teenage life, young lovers, photographer, high school ...
Time: 80s
Place: san francisco, california, new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 7.4
 183K
High Fidelity (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: When record store owner Rob Gordon gets dumped by his girlfriend, Laura, because he hasn't changed since they met, he revisits his top five breakups of all time in an attempt to figure out what went wrong. As Rob seeks out his former lovers to ...
Style: realistic, melancholic, feel good, romantic, funny ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: music, musician's life, breakup, love and romance, rock, musician, rock and roll, self discovery, love story, love, workplace, relationships ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 80s, 2000s
Place: chicago illinois, usa, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 4.9
 4K
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: feel good, humorous, sexy, sweet, unusual plot structure ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot: rock and roll, friendship, women, rock, music, coming of age, teenager, fantasy world, destiny, camp, dancing, runaway ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new jersey, hawaii
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Permanent Record (1988)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: David Sinclair seems to have everything going for him: he's smart, musically talented, and very successful. To top off his senior year in high school, his band is trying to get a recording session. Therefore, David's suicide leaves ...
Style: realistic, emotional, touching, sad, harsh ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: high school, suicide, coming of age, teenager, runaway, death, friendship, grief, redemption, vengeance, stereotypes, childhood ...
Time: 80s, 70s
Place: new jersey, oregon, portland oregon, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 6.8
 163K
Adventureland (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In the summer of 1987, a college graduate takes a 'nowhere' job at his local amusement park, only to find it's the perfect course to get him prepared for the real world.
Style: romantic, funny, humorous, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: teenager, summer job, friendship, workplace, coming of age, amusement park, youth, drugs, marijuana, first sexual experience, college, misfit ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1987
Place: california, pennsylvania, new jersey, usa, pittsburgh ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%