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Northern Soul (2014)
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Set in 1974, an authentic and uplifting tale of two friends whose horizons are opened up by the discovery of black American soul music.
Style:
period piece, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, sincere, realistic, stylized
Plot:
nightclub, dj, friendship, nightlife, obsession, youth, teenage life, society, music, coming of age, drug abuse, subculture, teenager, working class, party, kitchen sink realism, friends, profanity, urban, soul, dancing, school, teacher, sex scene, graffiti ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
england, northern england, american
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, sentimental, touching and serious films with plots about friendship, coming of age, friends, music, youth, teenager and society mostly in Drama, Music and Comedy genres. Some movies like Northern Soul: Quadrophenia (1979), SoulBoy (2010), 24 Hour Party People (2002), We Are the Best! (2013), Groove (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Based on the 1973 rock opera album of the same name by The Who, this is the story of 60s teenager Jimmy. At work he slaves in a dead-end job. While after, he shops for tailored suits and rides his scooter as part of the London Mod scene.
Style:
cult classic, surreal, stylized, melancholic, depressing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
motorcycle, coming of age, music, gang, rock, pharmacy, rock and roll, dancing, teenage boy, sex scene, street fight, love interest ...
Time:
year 1965, 20th century, year 1979, 60s, 70s
Place:
england, london, britain, europe, brighton ...
Similarity:
80%
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, captivating, contemplative, psychological, semi serious ...
Plot:
coming of age, nightlife, society, youth, lifestyle, buddies, unfulfillment, friendship, young lovers, subculture, youth culture, soul ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
england
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100%
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
In 1976, Tony Wilson sets up Factory Records and brings Manchester's music to the world.
Style:
witty, psychedelic, satirical, atmospheric, sincere ...
Plot:
clubbing, music, rock and roll, punk, party, rave, biopic, skinny dipping, rock, businessman, musician, profanity ...
Time:
80s, 70s, year 2002, 20th century, 90s ...
Place:
england, manchester, europe, northern england, united kingdom ...
Similarity:
100%
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:
touching, lyrical, feel good, semi serious, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, girls' night
Plot:
punk, music, teenager, teenage girl, coming of age, friendship, punk rock, rebellion, friendship between girls, children, girl power, adolescence ...
Time:
80s, year 1982, year 2013, 20th century, 70s
Place:
seattle, scandinavia, eastern europe, europe, stockholm sweden ...
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100%
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
An inside look into one night in the San Francisco underground rave scene.
Style:
independent film, atmospheric, intense, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot:
rave, dj, bisexual, drug dealing, lifestyle, drug, fish out of water, nightlife, city life, gay, party, drug use ...
Time:
90s
Place:
san francisco, usa, new york, california
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Set against the background of the 1984 Miner's Strike, Billy Elliot is an 11 year old boy who stumbles out of the boxing ring and onto the ballet floor. He faces many trials and triumphs as he strives to conquer his family's set ways, ...
Style:
touching, inspirational, feel good, uplifting, emotional ...
Audience:
date night, family outing, kids, teens, girls' night ...
Plot:
coming of age, ballet, working class, father son relationship, dancing, audition, gay, childhood, friendship, follow your dream, lgbtq, poverty ...
Time:
20th century, y2k, year 2000, 90s, year 1985 ...
Place:
england, london, northern england, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Musical film about the trials and tribulations of an idealistic drama teacher as she tries to put on the end of year show.
Style:
sincere, captivating, sentimental, touching, period piece ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
high school, self confidence, dedicated educator, idealism, teenage life, youth, society, teachers and students, rock, teacher, rehearsal, high school teacher ...
Time:
year 1976, 70s, 20th century
Place:
europe, england, united kingdom, wales
Similarity:
26%
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:
sentimental, touching, sincere, humorous, semi serious ...
Plot:
follow your dream, family relations, dysfunctional family, parents and children, hopes, youth, teenage life, adolescence vs adulthood, society, family problems, friendship, coming of age ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
25%
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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:
sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, feel good
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
dream come true, desire for fame, teenage life, follow your dream, rise and fall, ambition, musician's life, best friend, friendship, youth, hopes, showbiz ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
1990. The rave scene has arrived from Ibiza and warehouse parties are exploding across the UK bringing phenomenal wealth to the organisers. In Manchester, best mates Matt and Dylan are in their early 20's and long to be more than just punters. ...
Style:
exciting, sentimental, realistic, serious
Plot:
rave, drug dealing, gangster, ambition, friendship, dream come true, buddies, partner, clubbing, dj, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, party ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
england, amsterdam, europe, ibiza, manchester
Similarity:
23%
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, teen, light ...
Audience:
date night, teens, girls' night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
dancing, disco, dance, coming of age, dancer, nightclub, friendship, profanity, music, working class, slut, pizza ...
Time:
70s, year 1977, 20th century, 80s
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, north america, usa ...
Similarity:
23%
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, touching, sentimental, sad ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night
Plot:
dancing, terminal illness, friendship, life is a bitch, follow your dream, teenage life, cancer, lifestyle, single parent, society, unfulfillment, determination ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
In the early 1960's, a quintet of hopeful, young African-American men form an amateur vocal group called The Five Heartbeats. After an initially rocky start, the group improves, turns pro, and rises to become a top flight music sensation. Along ...
Style:
sentimental, hood, independent film, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
music, friendship, racism, black, rock and roll, african american, drug addiction, music business, rise and fall, blaxploitation, black history, corruption ...
Time:
60s, year 1991, 70s, 20th century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Hungary
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
Betty and her friend V have a major project: the open-air music festival, Sziget Festival held every summer on one of the Danube islands in Hungary. Instead of money the teenagers have a stash of grass waiting for a buyer. Food? Nothing wrong with ...
Style:
sincere, realistic, serious, captivating, experimental
Plot:
friendship, coming of age, youth, teenage life, best friend, friendship between girls, adulthood, teenage girl, festival, female friendship, teenager, adolescence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hungary, europe
Similarity:
23%
6K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: France
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Paul, a teenager in the underground scene of early-nineties Paris, forms a DJ collective with his friends and together they plunge into the nightlife of sex, drugs, and endless music.
Style:
realistic, stylized, touching, social
Plot:
dj, coming of age, youth, rise and fall, friendship, disco, nightclub, music, rave, bare breasts, debt, electronic music ...
Time:
90s, 2010s, 2000s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
paris france, france, new york, europe, usa ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Britain, 1958. Restless at school and bored with his life, Jim leaves home to take a series of low-level jobs at a seaside amusement park, where he discovers a world of cheap sex and petty crime. But when that world comes to a shockingly brutal end, ...
Style:
offbeat, serious, realistic, sincere, gloomy ...
Plot:
rock, rock and roll, singer, amusement park, the beatles, circus, kitchen sink realism, freakshow, swing, working class, coming of age, rich and poor ...
Time:
1950s, 50s
Place:
europe, england
Similarity:
23%
474
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A med student, a teenage runaway, a lawyer, a drag queen, a high school basketball player, a drug dealer, and a teacher all cross paths in the Ecstasy-riddled L.A. underground party scene. Rolling is a turbulent journey that takes a tough yet ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, captivating, psychedelic, independent film ...
Plot:
drug abuse, clubbing, rave, drug overdose, lifestyle, society, drug dealing, social misfits, juvenile delinquency, youth, addiction, nightlife ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
22%
2K
Genre: Drama, Music, Musical
Country: Sweden
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Three friends, Robban, Alexander and Kim has just left the compulsory school, and now they consider themselves grown-up and mature, being 16 years old. During the summer holiday they also get a bit of experience of the world: Robban becomes a ...
Style:
colorful, serious, realistic, captivating, sexual ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
coming of age, gay, swedish, teen social issues, homosexuality, gays and lesbians, going straight, youth, love and romance, redemption, desire for fame, self discovery ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
eastern europe, stockholm sweden
Similarity:
21%
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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:
captivating, realistic, serious, touching, sad
Audience:
teens
Plot:
music band, ambition, follow your dream, teenage love, teenage life, friendship, music business, youth, artists and showbiz, love and romance, hopes, coming of age ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
manchester, england, liverpool
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
The relationship between a demanding piano teacher and her student, an Indian prodigy.
Style:
touching, sentimental, multicultural, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
teacher, piano, music, women, coming of age, culture clash, child prodigy, youth, dedicated educator, teaching, friendship, eccentricity ...
Time:
80s
Place:
london, england, europe
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
During a long, hot summer in seventies London, young neighbors Holly and Marina make a childhood pact to be friends forever. For Marina, troubled, fiercely independent, determined to try everything, Holly stays the only constant in a life of ...
Style:
humorous, touching, sentimental, sincere, teen ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, teenage life, siblings relations, couple relations, human nature, love and romance, youth, family relations, teenager, women, life ...
Time:
80s, 70s, year 2001, 20th century
Place:
london, england, europe, brighton, california
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
The Boat that Rocked is an ensemble comedy, where the romance is between the young people of the 60s, and pop music. It's about a band of DJs that captivate Britain, playing the music that defines a generation and standing up to a government ...
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:
20%
36K
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Shane, a Jersey boy with big dreams, crosses the river in hopes of finding a more exciting life at Studio 54. When Steve Rubell, the mastermind behind the infamous disco, plucks Shane from the sea of faces clamoring to get inside his club, Shane not ...
Style:
sexy, sexual, atmospheric, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
disco, nightclub, gay, drug abuse, clubbing, addiction, lesbian, father son relationship, party, drug, lifestyle, sex ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 20th century, year 1979
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa, bahamas, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
50%
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
The story of a close-knit group of young kids in Nazi Germany who listen to banned swing music from the US. Soon dancing and fun leads to more difficult choices as the Nazi's begin tightening the grip on Germany. Each member of the group is ...
Style:
serious, realistic, breathtaking, period piece, sentimental ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night, teens
Plot:
nazi, world war two, dancing, coming of age, dance, swing dancing, anti semitism, holocaust, friendship, jazz, fighting the system, brainwashing ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, pre world war two, year 1993, 1900s ...
Place:
germany, new york, europe, usa, hamburg germany ...
Similarity:
20%
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:
chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
hip hop, dancing, street dance, dance, breakdance, competition, friendship, music, betrayal, follow your dream, rivalry, black ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
20%
27K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
A chronicle of James Brown's rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history.
Style:
emotional, talky, heartbreaking, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
music, biopic, musician, musician's life, friendship, showbiz, black, creativity, rising to stardom, artists and showbiz, ambition, desire for fame ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 70s, year 2014, 80s ...
Place:
usa, south carolina, georgia, north america, boston ...
Similarity:
19%
539
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
VS. is an urban rites of passage drama set in the hostile and exciting UK rap battle scene.
Style:
captivating, suspense, psychological, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot:
rivalry, musician, battles, urban, rap, rapper, competitor, city life, rivals, social problems, urban setting, social issues ...
Place:
london
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Rude Boy is a semi-documentary, part character study, part 'rockumentary', featuring a British punk band, The Clash. The script includes the story of a fictional fan juxtposed with actual public events of the day, including political ...
Style:
realistic, serious, cynical, biting, suspense
Plot:
punk, punk rock, rock, skinhead, rock and roll, rock music, hard rock, art, alienation, pop music, satire, club ...
Time:
year 1980, 70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
england, london, europe
Similarity:
19%
966
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Two girl friends in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina find their relationship changing as they encounter new arrivals to the town.
Style:
touching, sentimental, sincere, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, youth, fall in love, couple relations, self discovery, teenage life, small town life, teenage love, best friend, human nature, gender ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, south carolina
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Christina is living in a suburb to Copenhagen. With her class mates Cecilie, Trine and Pernille she slacks her school work, living mostly for the weekends of gate crashing, getting drunk, experimenting with drugs and scoring guys. But her world is ...
Style:
rough, serious, bleak, realistic, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
revenge, lifestyle, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, teenage life, friendship, high school life, bullying, youth, social misfits, drug abuse, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, denmark
Similarity:
19%
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