Movies like Intimate Lighting
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Intimate Lighting (1965)
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Original name: Intimní osvětlení
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
Taking his young city girlfriend along for the trip, a man visits old musical friends in a country village for a string quartet rehearsal.
Style:
sentimental, sincere, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Plot:
husband wife relationship, musician, classmate, funeral, renaissance, small town, villa, exodus, modernism, gay subtext, village, music, friendship, friends, misfit, village life, lifestyle, social relations, culture clash, disorder, musician's life, fish out of water, bittersweet, artists and showbiz, wife ...
Time:
year 1965, 60s, 20th century
Place:
balkan, eastern europe, czechoslovakia, europe, czech republic
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out semi serious, realistic, humorous and touching films with plots about friends, music, lifestyle, musician's life, artists and showbiz, friendship and musician mostly in Comedy, Drama and Music genres. Some movies like Intimate Lighting: The Firemen's Ball (1967), The Commitments (1991), 1234 (2008), The Concert (2009), Black Peter (1964). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia, Italy
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
In Milos Forman's satire on Communism set in a small Czechoslovakian town in the 1960s, the local firemen decide to organize a ball, however the proceedings are dogged by difficulty at every step. They plan to organize a beauty pageant at the ...
Style:
black comedy, dark comedy, allegory, surreal, cult classic ...
Plot:
satire, firefighter, political satire, corruption, bureaucracy, fire, husband wife relationship, confusion, fire brigade, small town, renaissance, farce ...
Time:
year 1967, 60s, 20th century
Place:
czech republic, eastern europe, czechoslovakia
Similarity:
100%
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:
independent film, cult classic, realistic, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
musician, working class, music, rock and roll, profanity, singer, friendship, rock, blues, bittersweet, rock music, young couple ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s, 20th century
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland, england, europe
Similarity:
100%
136
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Ian Bonar is Stevie, a wannabe musician whose look is a hybrid of Jarvis Cocker and early Elvis Costello. Working with his drummer pal Neil (Matthew Baynton) in a call centre, they dream of breaking into the indie music scene. To do this they ...
Style:
feel good, sentimental, touching, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
musician's life, follow your dream, lifestyle, friendship, music band, hopes, buddies, music, artists and showbiz, rock, friends, drummer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london, europe
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31%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France, Italy, Romania, Belgium
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A former world-famous conductor of the Bolshoï orchestra, known as "The Maëstro", Andreï Filipov had seen his career publicly broken by Leonid Brezhnev for hiring Jewish musicians and now works cleaning the concert hall where he once ...
Style:
touching, breathtaking, melancholic, captivating, feel good ...
Plot:
classical music, music, redemption, twists and turns, hopes, violinist, adaptation, prodigy, music band, concert, haunted by the past, musician's life ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france, russia, europe, israel
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Reality movie of a few days in the life of a Czechoslovak teenager when he starts work.
Style:
thought provoking, avant garde, contemplative, biting, realistic ...
Plot:
coming of age, boy girl relationship, renaissance, adolescence, parent child relationship, youth, shoplifting, smoking, teenage boy, teenager in love, daydreamer, boys and girls ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
eastern europe, europe, czech republic
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Turkey
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
It is 80's Turkey, local musicians of Adiyaman are hired by the military and trained to welcome one of the forceful generals of coup regime.
Style:
sentimental, humorous, emotional, feel good, realistic ...
Plot:
military, musician, music band, musician's life, rebellion, political unrest, rebelliousness, small town, small town life, artists and showbiz, politics, state affairs ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
middle east, istanbul turkey, turkey
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The story of the night The Turtles met The Beatles and Howard Kaylan had dinner with Jimi Hendrix.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, captivating, semi serious, sincere ...
Plot:
music, music band, celebrity culture, performer's life, desire for fame, rise and fall, rise to the top, rock, ambition, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, showbiz ...
Time:
60s
Place:
london, england
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Music, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Chance, a hapless Los Angeles musician is searching for the coveted Moletron synthesizer through the classified ad paper the "Southlander", and meeting interesting characters along the way.
Style:
surreal, experimental, semi serious, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
musician's life, silly humor, artists and showbiz, friends, down on your luck, lifestyle, riddles and clues, satire, music, best friend, musician, rock ...
Time:
future
Place:
usa, california, los angeles
Similarity:
23%
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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:
humorous, realistic, light, sentimental, semi serious
Plot:
follow your dream, social relations, uninhibited rivalry, lifestyle, musician's life, ambition, talented, artists and showbiz, music business, friends, friendship, youth ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A former boy band star unexpectedly gets a second shot at success when he forms a bond with a gifted young drummer.
Style:
psychological, semi serious, captivating, satirical, thrilling ...
Plot:
musician, friend, autism, drums, pop star, friendship, boy band, musician's life, pop music, music, second chance, music band ...
Time:
year 2002
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Spain, Cuba, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
When Spanish record producers express interest in Cuban musicians Ruy and Tito, the longtime friends are faced with the prospect of leaving their loved ones behind. After years of hoping and dreaming, they've finally earned the opportunity to ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, touching, sincere, semi serious ...
Plot:
musician's life, friends, music band, follow your dream, lifestyle, immigrant, artists and showbiz, music, musician, couples, rock and roll, moral dilemma ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
cuba, latin america, usa, havana cuba
Similarity:
22%
12K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Two former backup soul singers, Louis and Floyd, have not spoken to each other in 20 years, and reluctantly agree to travel across the country together to a reunion concert to honor their recently-deceased lead singer. Cleo, a beautiful young woman ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, semi serious, touching, humorous ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
african american, profanity, black, artists and showbiz, showbiz, musician's life, buddies, music band, lifestyle, on the road, hip hop, hip hop culture ...
Time:
year 2008
Place:
usa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A story about a young girl who leaves her hometown to pursue her dream of becoming a famous punk artist.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, sentimental, realistic
Plot:
youth, misfit, musician's life, teenage life, music band, lifestyle, scandinavian girl, friendship between girls, teenage protagonist, naked woman, male nudity, nudity ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
europe, eastern europe, scandinavia
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Israel, USA, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Once-not long ago-a small Egyptian police band arrived in Israel. Not many remember this... It wasn't that important. A band comprised of members of the Egyptian police force head to Israel to play at the inaugural ceremony of an Arab arts ...
Style:
emotional, atmospheric, sincere, humorous, feel good ...
Plot:
culture clash, musician, israeli, orchestra, small town, ethnic conflict, fish out of water, society, disorder, melancholy, desert, loneliness ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
israel, middle east, palestine, maghreb, alexandria egypt ...
Similarity:
21%
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:
sexy, sentimental, humorous, period piece, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, date night, teens, girls' night ...
Plot:
music, rock and roll, drummer, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, recording studio, fictional band, small town, showbiz, rock band, dentist, music industry, breakup ...
Time:
60s, year 1996, 90s, 50s, 20th century
Place:
pennsylvania, los angeles, wisconsin, illinois, pittsburgh ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Germany
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Schultze is an accordion player and newly without work. When the local music club celebrates its 50th anniversary, his taste of music changes unexpectedly.
Style:
humorous, touching, melancholic, road movie, realistic ...
Plot:
small town, friendship, music, drinking, obsession, retirement, life philosophy, self discovery, musician's life, boat, artists and showbiz, lifestyle ...
Time:
year 2003
Place:
louisiana, germany, texas, east germany, austin texas ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Spain, UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A comic drama set on a Mediterranean island, where a motley collection of characters is seeking musical redemption.
Style:
semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic
Audience:
date night
Plot:
musician's life, opposites attract, artists and showbiz, love triangle, siblings relations, couples, disorder, family problems, music, nothing goes right, lifestyle, hopes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain, europe
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Finland
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Antti "Zombie" Autiomaa does two things well: play the bass guitar and drink. After several months' sleeping on the streets of Istanbul, he returns to Helsinki where he's called into the army but discharged on mental health ...
Style:
realistic, offbeat, semi serious, humorous, gloomy
Plot:
musician's life, zombie, alcoholism, death, on the road, rock band, outsider, relationships, music band, losing-it hero, lifestyle, social misfits ...
Time:
90s
Place:
europe, finland, turkey, helsinki finland, istanbul turkey
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Austria, France, Iran, Iraq
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Mamo, an old and legendary Kurdish musician living in Iran, plans to give one final concert in Iraqi Kurdistan. After seven months of trying to get a permit and rounding up his ten sons, he sets out for the long and troublesome journey in a derelict ...
Style:
captivating, sentimental, realistic, touching, humorous ...
Plot:
kurd, on the road, follow your dream, musician's life, social relations, self discovery, against the rules, renaissance, music, composer, independence, dictatorship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, iran, persia, turkey, iraq ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Andula, an innocent Czech girl from a factory town, is desperately in search of love. She believes she's found it when she beds Milda, a charming young musician visiting from Prague. Milda, however, is only looking for a casual encounter, and ...
Style:
art house, cynical, realistic, witty, humorous ...
Plot:
working class, one night stand, factory worker, boys and girls, blonde, female protagonist, love, female nudity, renaissance, small town, youth, satire ...
Time:
year 1965, 60s, 20th century
Place:
prague, eastern europe, balkan, europe, czechoslovakia ...
Similarity:
21%
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
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Music
Country: Canada
Duration: 51 min.
Story:
When his mother rents their vacant room to a peculiar composer, Christoph can't believe his bad luck. But as the abrasive boarder, Ludwig Van Beethoven, begins creating his masterful 9th Symphony, Christoph is won over by the majesty of his ...
Style:
independent film, captivating, realistic, semi serious, touching ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
composer, beethoven, youth, musician, classical composer, classical music, coming of age, friendship, performer's life, biopic, disability, family relations ...
Time:
1900s, 19th century, 1800s, regency period
Place:
europe, austria, vienna
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In New York City in 1980, Dexter Mitchell plays half-willing big brother to his neighbors, a trio of exchange students from the People's Republic of China.
Style:
touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, non-linear ...
Plot:
looking for love, culture clash, fish out of water, love and romance, fall in love, disorder, lifestyle, misfit, society, buddies, social differences, nightlife ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Sweden
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
This is a comedy about people who work in the theater, live for the theater, think of nothing but the theater. The director seems crazy, the art director has idiotic ideas, and the acting coach is eccentric: they even look like brothers, related by ...
Style:
experimental, realistic, semi serious, humorous, stylized ...
Plot:
opera, disorder, workplace, obsession, artists and showbiz, musician's life, music, ghost, workplace situations, chaos and mayhem, culture clash, rehearsal ...
Time:
80s
Place:
europe, eastern europe
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A group of guys who sang together in a college a cappella group reunite 15 years later to perform at a friend's wedding and discover how their lives have progressed -- and in some cases regressed -- since their college heyday.
Style:
humorous, captivating, light, feel good, semi serious ...
Plot:
wedding, friendship, college, music band, lifestyle, music, reunited friends, weekend, group of friends, marriage, rivalry, thirtysomething life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
17K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Czech Republic, UK, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The Czech Republic Director Jan Sverák tells in this Oscar winning film the story of the disillusioned Prague man named Cellisten Louka, who after a fictitious marriage with a Russian emigrant must suddenly take responsibility for her son. However ...
Style:
emotional, sincere, touching, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
adoption, communism, coming of age, nudity, friendship, musician, cellist, renaissance, lovers, single father, revolution, boy ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1989, year 1996
Place:
czech republic, eastern europe, prague, balkan, europe ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The movie's main storyline follows the life of Otík, a mentally retarded young man, in a tight-knit village community. The sweet-tempered Otík works as an assistant truck driver with Mr. Pávek, his older colleague and practical-minded ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous
Plot:
husband and wife, village life, mental retardation, provincial life, working class, marital infidelity, married woman, cheating on husband, magic realism, summer, couple relations, society ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
balkan, czech republic, czechoslovakia, eastern europe
Similarity:
20%
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:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Serbia, USA, Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Here and There (Serbian: Tamo i ovde) is a Serbian film which was premiered at the Belgrade Film Festival FEST 2009. Here and There follows two interconnected stories on two different continents. Robert (Thornton), a depressed New Yorker, tries to ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, clever, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
immigrant, lifestyle, life is a bitch, misfit, fish out of water, family relations, eviction, disorder, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, husband wife relationship, culture clash, emigration ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, balkan, new york, serbia, europe ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Two girls of different background, one a immigrant from Turkey and the other a girl that needs to get out of her fathers shadow both apply to the police academy were they become close friends.
Style:
sentimental, realistic, semi serious, humorous
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
starting over, lifestyle, friendship, social differences, society, fish out of water, culture clash, officers and cadets, academy, family life, hopes, immigrant ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
eastern europe, stockholm sweden
Similarity:
20%
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