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SoulBoy (2010)
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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 all-nighter dancing at The Wigan Casino - the home of Northern Soul. Swept along on this tide of pulsating dance and lust, Joe becomes embroiled in the darker side of soul scene that will put his friendship to the test.
Style:
humorous, psychological, captivating, contemplative, sentimental, touching, realistic, semi serious
Plot:
coming of age, nightlife, youth, society, friendship, lifestyle, buddies, unfulfillment, young lovers, subculture, youth culture, friends, love and romance, small town, soul, dancing, artist, drug overdose, dj, male nudity, male pubic hair, music, amphetamine, record store, soul music ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
england
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Most similar movies to SoulBoy
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and touching films with plots about friends, friendship, coming of age, youth, society, lifestyle and love and romance mostly in Drama, Comedy and Music genres. Some movies like SoulBoy: Northern Soul (2014), That's the Way I Like It (1998), Human Traffic (1999), Quadrophenia (1979), The Commitments (1991). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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, semi serious, humorous, sentimental, sincere ...
Plot:
nightclub, dj, friendship, nightlife, obsession, youth, society, teenage life, music, coming of age, drug abuse, subculture ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
england, northern england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Singapore
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Kung Fu meets disco in Singapore. Hock is a grocery clerk longing for a motorbike. He lives with his parents and sister; they idolize his younger brother, Beng, a medical student calling himself Leslie. Hock loves Bruce Lee; he works out and ...
Style:
independent film, semi serious, realistic, offbeat, humorous ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
contests and competitions, ambition, rivalry, artists and showbiz, coming of age, misfit, follow your dream, love and romance, lifestyle, friends, friendship, twentysomething life ...
Time:
70s, year 1977
Place:
singapore
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
All that exists now is clubs, drugs, pubs and parties. I've got 48 hours off from the world, man I'm gonna blow steam out of my head like a screaming kettle. I'm gonna talk cods hit to strangers all night. I'm gonna lose the plot ...
Style:
entertaining, independent film, semi serious, realistic, dark comedy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
clubbing, nightlife, weed, music, party, rave, paranoia, caught masturbating, drug, lifestyle, society, friendship ...
Time:
90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place:
england, britain, wales, amsterdam, london
Similarity:
100%
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:
100%
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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%
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:
25%
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:
23%
10K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Five college buddies from the University of Texas circa 1971 embark on a final road trip odyssey across the Mexican border before facing up to uncertain futures, in Vietnam and otherwise.
Style:
sentimental, emotional, road movie, inspirational, touching ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, date night
Plot:
coming of age, on the road, friendship, young lovers, road trip, culture clash, male bonding, travel, adolescence, adolescence vs adulthood, student life, obsessive quest ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1985, 80s, future
Place:
texas, austin texas, vietnam
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France, Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In a suburb of Strasbourg, Alsace, France, ten year old boy, Max, spends his summer vacation with his grandmother. He hears Manouche gypsy Romani music being played in a local bar, and loves it. He goes to visit the gypsies in search of a guitar, ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, captivating, realistic
Plot:
young lovers, coming of age, social differences, musician's life, teaching the ways of the world, society, youth, artists and showbiz, interracial relations, social misfits, music, gypsy ...
Time:
year 2002, 21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
22%
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
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
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A comedy centered on eight men in their 40s, all with identity crises.
Style:
humorous, cynical, psychological, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, family relations, buddies, friends, unfulfillment, society, latina, friendship, machismo, party, elevator, ex husband ex wife relationship ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
spain, barcelona
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The film deals with an Indian American student who wanted to pursue his love of music over the more 'typical' academic endeavors of Indian Americans (e.g., medicine, engineering, law, and business).
Style:
witty, touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic
Plot:
college, culture clash, lifestyle, follow your dream, parents and children, friendship, teenage life, society, nothing goes right, misfit, youth, hopes ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The film tells the story of two boys who become friends at the start of the Troubles in 1970. The boys share an obsession with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, with the consequence that they run away to Australia.
Style:
sincere, sentimental, touching, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
youth, kids in trouble, friendship, mischievous children, boy, coming of age, political unrest, society, obsession, boyhood, friends, little boy ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
ireland, northern ireland, europe, belfast
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
At fifteen Robbie has only one thing on his mind - losing his virginity. The problem is that he's in hospital with a fatal heart condition. And who has to overcome the odds and help him fulfil his final wish? His best friend Ziggy.
Style:
touching, realistic, humorous, captivating, sex comedy ...
Plot:
terminal illness, friendship, loss of virginity, last wish, looking for sex, teenage life, first sex, hospital, youth, unfulfillment, bittersweet, heart condition ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe, liverpool
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A young man having an existential crisis convinces a Canadian self-help guru to come to London and become his personal life coach.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching, melancholic ...
Plot:
musician, coming of age, self discovery, introspection, unfulfillment, hopes, youth, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, psychology, musician's life, teenager ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london, england, europe
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Meena, a 12-year-old living in a mining village in the English Midlands in 1972, is the daughter of Indian parents who've come to England to give her a better life. This idyllic existence is upset by the arrival in the village of Anita Rutter ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, realistic, humorous, semi serious
Plot:
youth, culture clash, family relations, best friend, friendship, racism, family problems, hopes, teenage life, coming of age, interracial friendship, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1972
Place:
england, britain, europe
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Home for Thanksgiving break after their first semester at college, five friends discover just how much things change (and don't) after high school.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, light, feel good, captivating ...
Plot:
adolescence vs adulthood, friendship, friends, youth, homecoming, thanksgiving, college, society, woman, coming of age, small town, small town life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, pittsburgh
Similarity:
20%
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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:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
WORST FRIENDS is the story of two childhood friends who are forced to re-think their friendship as adults. When Jake (Richard Tanne) is injured in a car accident, the only person willing to take care of him is his childhood friend Sam (Noah Barrow). ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, emotional, captivating ...
Plot:
suburban life, friendship, car accident, love and romance, friends, disability, unfulfillment, rivalry, society, suburbs, childhood friend, thirtysomething life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new jersey
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
It's always a good day for a funeral at St. Mark's Middle School. Andy and Charlie, two altar servers, don't just get to miss class anytime a parishioner kicks the bucket, they cut out early and play hooky as soon as the service is ...
Style:
humorous, realistic, captivating, psychological, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, altar boy, friendship between boys, youth, group of friends, teenage boy, profanity, friendship, best friend, male friendship, boy, sexual content ...
Time:
near future, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
15-year-old Natalie, confused to begin with, finds out about her father's affair with one of his students. Refusing to simply stand by and watch her family disintegrate, Natalie takes it upon herself to expose the problem, and in doing so calls ...
Style:
independent film, realistic, semi serious, psychological, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
teenage girl, secret life, coming of age, high school life, high school, bittersweet, love and romance, lifestyle, youth, family relations, teenage life, family in crisis ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In 1970s England, three blue-collar friends spend their days joking, drinking, fighting and chasing girls. Freddie wants to leave their working-class world but cool, charismatic Bruce and lovable loser Snork are happy with life the way it is. When ...
Style:
inspirational, witty, stylized, funny, humorous ...
Plot:
coming of age, small town, friendship, relationships, profanity, friends, runaway, old love, love, love and romance, social differences, factory ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
england, europe, london
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Spain
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Jorge and Enrique are two artist in the post Spanish Civil War times that adopt an orphan child called Miguel. With a varieté company that travel around the country, Jorge and Enrique see the horrors left by the war meanwhile the Republic Army ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, atmospheric, captivating ...
Plot:
spanish civil war, performer's life, artists and showbiz, family relations, society, orphan, life is a bitch, political repression, friendship, rivalry, spanish history, world war two ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s
Place:
spain, europe
Similarity:
19%
295
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A struggling writer and his engaged buddy hit the road for California wine country. Remake of the 2004 film 'Sideways'.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, road movie, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot:
wedding, road trip, friendship, on the road, self discovery, friends, unfulfillment, buddies, couples, love, japanese man, humanity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
19%
276
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The Flats tells a cautionary tale of friendship and desire played out among a group of 20-somethings transitioning into adulthood. Main character Harper and his buddies make the most of their freedom prior to an impending court-ordered jail ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching, independent film ...
Plot:
youth, friendship, coming of age, love triangle, love and romance, human nature, unemployment, friendship between men, moral dilemma, loss of innocence, betrayal, regret ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
washington state, oregon, usa
Similarity:
19%
736
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Filipino-American high school student Ben (Dante Mercado) works in a comic book shop to earn money to pay his way into Cal Arts. His father, a postman, is determined that his son--who has won a pre-med scholarship to UCLA--will become a doctor. The ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, witty, touching ...
Plot:
culture clash, coming of age, high school, friendship, couples, school, looking for love, high school life, lifestyle, love and romance, family life, nightlife ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Viscerally experience a "year off" in Aspen, Colorado with a group of recent college grads who have elected to defer graduate school and career opportunities to ski, snow-board, climb, party, fall in love and basically live life to its ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, independent film
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
young lovers, fall in love, lifestyle, ambition, buddies, youth, love and romance, teenage life, friendship, resort, adolescence vs adulthood, skiing ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Leo falls in love with Beatrice, a slightly older high-school student who has leukemia.
Style:
sentimental, touching, semi serious, humorous, psychological
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teenage life, love and romance, friendship, self discovery, youth, high school, leukemia, teenager in love, love story, mentally unstable, friends, power relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A film about three high school friends who find their happy-go-lucky existence tarnished forever the instant they get embroiled in a drug-running scheme that goes awry. When things start getting messy, they rue the day they agreed to the venture; ...
Style:
humorous, touching, sentimental, semi serious, realistic
Audience:
teens
Plot:
friendship, coming of age, heroin, partner, going straight, drug dealing, social misfits, human nature, youth, buddies, redemption, lifestyle ...
Time:
70s, year 1992, 90s, year 1975
Place:
detroit, michigan, canada, usa
Similarity:
19%
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