Movies like The Blackout 2013

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The Blackout (2013)
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The Blackout (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A rag tag band of idiots on the verge of signing a recording contract is sandbagged by their lead singer, Chas Knopfler, into throwing the mother of all parties the night before they embark on a world tour. Eddie Mesmer, the rhythm guitarist, awakens to find his drummer, Toss Dunbar, hanging from a tree like a scarecrow, and the house completely destroyed. Eddie and Toss quickly realize that A: they can't remember anything and B: there's a dead guy in the pool. Now, they have to figure out what happened the night before or their Rock and Roll dream is over.
Style: teen sex comedy, humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good, captivating, scenic, epic
Audience: adult
Plot: musician's life, drug abuse, artists and showbiz, desire for fame, rising to stardom, friends, music band, sexual relations, ambition, celebrity culture, student life, gay, party, cocaine, amnesia, masturbation, orgasm, swimming pool, corpse, female orgasm, flashback, man in underwear, dead body, bare chested male, erection ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary

Most similar movies to The Blackout

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and captivating films with plots about artists and showbiz, ambition, friends, showbiz, rising to stardom, lifestyle and desire for fame mostly in Comedy, Music and Romance genres. Some movies like The Blackout: Buzzin' (2008), 30 Days Until I'm Famous (2004), Stupid Hype (2013), Moon in a Bottle (2007), My Boyfriend's Back (1989). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Buzzin' (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Buzzin' was a TV series that focus on musicians Cisco Adler and Shwayze. The show documents how Shwayze and Adler are becoming more famous and the exciting and entertaining life of being famous. They are both from Malibu, California. Their ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating, sexual
Plot: lifestyle, ambition, desire for fame, aspiring singer, best friend, showbiz, musician's life, relationship vs career, hip hop, music band, rising to stardom, hip hop culture ...
Time: 21st century
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30 Days Until I'm Famous (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A Latina working in Los Angeles as a messenger is randomly discovered and fashioned into a pop music star.
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious, realistic
Audience: date night
Plot: rising to stardom, musician's life, ambition, starting over, fall in love, teenage life, showbiz, teaching the ways of the world, lifestyle, wooing, couples, celebrity culture ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, california
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Stupid Hype (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Story: When the dopest white break dancer of the 1990's tries to bust a move but ends up busting an ankle instead, he seeks the wise counsel of a hip-hop grand master (Flavor Flav) to reinvent himself as an MC and rapper.
Style: humorous, realistic, not serious, parody, captivating
Audience: teens
Plot: goofy hero, hip hop culture, musician's life, ambition, rising to stardom, desire for fame, follow your dream, silly humor, performer's life, career change, music, hip hop ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Moon in a Bottle (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Zeta has a month to hand in a novel she has been commissioned to write and every day she searches for inspiration among the strange customers who are regulars at the Café Rossignol. There she becomes close to Alicia, a pretty waitress who ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating
Plot: fall in love, ambition, desire for fame, friends, writer's life, love and romance, ghost writer, artists and showbiz, blind ambition, cafe, donkey, piano ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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My Boyfriend's Back (1989)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A female singing group from the '60s reunites for a TV special.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: girl group, female friendship, couples, friends, performer's life, ambition, love and romance, musician's life, artists and showbiz, unfulfillment, lifestyle, rise and fall ...
Time: 60s, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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Incognito (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: This offbeat musical drama stars Lucas (Bénabar), an up-and-coming singer ready to do anything to be on top of the French pop scene.
Style: witty, semi serious, humorous, realistic
Plot: desire for fame, musician's life, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, rising to stardom, disorder, dishonesty, rock, hopes, cons and scams, hidden identity, friends ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
The Rutles 2: Can't Buy Me Lunch (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Twenty-three years after the release of the original Beatles mockumentary, 'The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash', famous artists, actors and musicians speak out on how The Rutles influenced them.
Style: mockumentary, parody, not serious, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: friends, artists and showbiz, rise and fall, unfulfillment, music band, desire for fame, performer's life, workplace, musician's life, music, journalism, ambition ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
The Godfather of Green Bay (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Joe Keegan is the 'Rocky' of stand-up comedy. A fifteen-year comedy veteran who was pegged for stardom early on in his career but has blown every major audition he has ever had in legendary fashion. Fresh off a recent fiasco with a heckler ...
Style: humorous, feel good, realistic, semi serious
Plot: lifestyle, ambition, once in a lifetime opportunity, desire for fame, best friend, showbiz, drug dealing, partner, buddies, artists and showbiz, contests and competitions, dull life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, wisconsin
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58%
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Pretty Bird (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A comic tale of three would-be entrepreneurs who set out to invent a rocket belt. The clash of their mismatched personalities soon dissolves the business into a morass of recriminations and retaliations, kidnapping, and murder in this parable of ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, sentimental, feel good ...
Plot: disorder, friendship, partner, unemployment, buddies, dark humor, desire for fame, friends, aviation, unfulfillment, nasa, obsessive quest ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 56 min.
Story: For four decades comic genius Mel Brooks and talk show king Dick Cavett have partnered to give the world scintillating conversation and sidesplitting humor. In 2010 they reunited on stage to share show business memories and hilarious stories for ...
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, entertaining, feel good ...
Plot: artists and showbiz, humour, celebrity, celebrity culture, showbiz, media, lifestyle, filmmaking, elderly, star
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
He's Way More Famous Than You (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When once-up-and-coming indie film starlet Halley Feiffer loses her boyfriend, her agent and her career in one fell swoop she finally realizes that something in her life has got to change... she has to become WAY MORE FAMOUS! Armed with a stolen ...
Style: not serious, humorous, captivating, feel good, realistic
Plot: desire for fame, artists and showbiz, actor's life, lifestyle, hopes, filmmaking, showbiz, fame, escapades, society, gay, hollywood ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Comedy Central Roast of David Hasselhoff (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: Time to hassle the Hoff at the rudest, raunchiest television event of the year--The Comedy Central Roast of David Hasselhoff. From running in slo-mo on the beach to inspiring Germany with the power of cheesy pop--it's almost too easy.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, captivating
Plot: actor's life, relationship vs career, showbiz, couples, ambition, rising to stardom, celebrity culture, performer's life, media satire, artists and showbiz, stand up comedy, journalism ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Sunset Strip (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A day in Hollywood, 1972, with young people looking for the 24 hours that will change their lives. Zach will open that night for a British rocker at Whisky a Go-Go; he lives in a canyon and plays impromptu duets with a mysterious guitarist he ...
Style: semi serious, captivating, realistic, humorous, sentimental ...
Plot: hollywood, musician, desire for fame, ambition, rising to stardom, music band, lifestyle, love triangle, nightlife, celebrity culture, artists and showbiz, actor's life ...
Time: 70s, y2k, year 1972
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
The Girls on the Beach (1965)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: The girls of Alpha Beta need to raise $10,000 in two weeks to save the sorority house. Among their schemes to raise the funds are a beauty contest, a newspaper puzzle, and a baking contest. But when three guys hit the beach with love on their minds, ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous, stylized ...
Plot: beach, surfing, the beatles, sorority, beach party, rock and roll, ocean, loss of virginity, disorder, friends, journalism, rivalry ...
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Leading Ladies (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A zany comedy about two sisters, their gay best friend, and their overzealous stage mom.
Style: humorous, semi serious, feel good, captivating, light ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: gender, lesbian, family relations, eccentric family, couples, parents and children, fall in love, contests and competitions, ambition, dancer's life, lgbt, sister sister relationship ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Punching the Clown (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A satirical songwriter comes to Los Angeles and puts his life's work in jeopardy.
Style: humorous, satirical, captivating, entertaining, cult classic ...
Plot: mistaken identity, showbiz, rising to stardom, media, ambition, musician's life, overnight success, farce, comedian, folklore, down on your luck, music ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
I Married Who? (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Straight-laced Jordan (Martin) is about to marry Peter (Snedeker), a clean-cut ambitious attorney. Before she walks down the aisle, Jordan and her best friends, Claire (Adrienne Frantz) and Jessica (Daphnee Duplaix), head to Vegas for a bachelorette ...
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating, cute ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: eligible bachelor, unlikely couple, disorder, celebrity culture, life turned upside down, showbiz, couples, love and romance, actor's life, bachelorette party, wedding, movie star ...
Time: 21st century
Place: las vegas, san diego california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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The Tour (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
TV show
Story: Laura, Carol y Bruno forman Pop 4U, el grupo musical más exitoso del momento, que está de gira mundial. Les acompañan Los Cuervo, una banda de rock formada por los hermanos Lucas, Sara y Marcos, que no aceptan su rol de teloneros. Desde su ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, captivating, sitcom
Audience: family outing
Plot: teenage life, ambition, friends, escapades, musician's life, youth, music band, music, heavy metal, latina, siblings relations, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A kid from the Midwest moves out to Hollywood in order to follow in his parents footsteps -- and become a porn star.
Style: humorous, not serious, feel good, entertaining, dark comedy ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: sexual humor, filmmaking, porn industry, follow your dream, lifestyle, rising to stardom, ambition, desire for fame, misfit, goofy hero, showbiz, fish out of water ...
Time: 21st century
Place: idaho, california, los angeles, usa
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44%
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Svengali (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Svengali tells the story of Dixie, a postman from South Wales, and a music fanatic. All his life he’s dreamed of discovering a great band and then one day, trawling through YouTube, he finds them… ‘The Premature Congratulations’. He hunts ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, feel good, sincere
Plot: hopes, follow your dream, music band, music, desire for fame, artists and showbiz, ambition, relationship vs career, music industry, friends, couples, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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The Cool Ones (1967)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A young, millionaire rock promoter creates a new boy/girl team for his teen TV dance show. Will the ambitious go-go dancer and has-been pop star fall in love for real?
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good
Plot: dancer, rock and roll, manipulation, unlikely couple, music, ambition, artists and showbiz, rising to stardom, youth, media, rock, showbiz ...
Time: year 1967, 60s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Dudes (2001)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Urban comedy, happening during a night in Belgrade. Mare, Pop and Gojko are three friends who grew up together. Mare and Pop have always been musicians, while Gojko (who was harassed by them in school and nicknamed 'Sissy') became a ...
Style: humorous, funny, semi serious, captivating, feel good ...
Plot: flashback, nightclub, music band, record producer, ambition, musician's life, stormy night, music business, musician, confronting the past, friends, resentment ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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A True Story (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Mike and Matt own nothing and share everything, including their life's work, a screenplay, which seems to be their only escape from the harsh reality that is the Hollywood machine.
Style: humorous, captivating, entertaining, light, independent film ...
Plot: friendship, friends, buddies, hollywood, showbiz, partner, desire for fame, writer's life, rivalry, love, youth, screenwriter ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Death of a Dynasty (2003)
Genre: Musical, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A story which centers around Dave Katz, a journalist at a hip-hop magazine who is sent on assignment to uncover the often comedic underworld of Roc-a-Fella Records run by Damon Dash and Jay-Z.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, talky, independent film ...
Plot: hip hop, musician's life, showbiz, lifestyle, journalism, desire for fame, media, artists and showbiz, rise and fall, ambition, buddies, satire ...
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Reality & Stuff (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: COMEDY/MOCKUMENTARY - (2005) CAN'T GET TOO MUCH REALITY TV? CAN'T GET ENOUGH REALITY TV? You know the drill! Eight strangers are chosen to live in a house and have their lives recorded.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, feel good, light ...
Plot: disorder, media satire, friends, artists and showbiz, media, flirting, gay slur, sexism, voyeurism, emotional manipulation, resort, racism ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Gangsta Rap: The Glockumentary (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: The hardest group you've never heard of is back. Gangsta Rap is a mockumentary based on a group of over the hill gangster rappers (circa NWA), trying to make a comeback. Its a hilarious look at the soft underbelly of hard core hip hop.
Style: not serious, humorous, witty, mockumentary, captivating ...
Plot: hip hop, profanity, lifestyle, showbiz, silly humor, artists and showbiz, musician's life, buddies, music band, celebrity culture, friends, urban ghetto ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, south central los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Body Slam (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Music, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: M. Harry Smilac is a down-on-his-luck music manager who is having a hard time attracting talent and booking gigs for his band, Kicks (The most recent of the gigs is a Dairy Queen opening!!). When making arrangements for a campaign fund-raiser, he ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, realistic, independent film ...
Plot: wrestling, rock band, down on your luck, desire for fame, artists and showbiz, ambition, music band, rise to the top, showbiz, athlete's life, performer's life, musician's life ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Go, Masao! (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Go, Masao! describes the relationship between people and their dogs. Comedian Hideki Matsumoto and a labrador retriever named Masao are selected to appear on the travel corner segment of a TV animal program. Until Hideki Matsumoto and the labrador ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, touching, feel good, realistic
Audience: family outing, date night
Plot: unlikely partners, friends, ambition, animal life, rising to stardom, pets, partner, nothing goes right, disorder, human animal relationship, struggling actor, media ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Holyman Undercover (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An Amish man comes to Hollywood to be a missionary, and gets cast as Satan on a nighttime soap opera.
Style: humorous, semi serious, feel good, captivating, light ...
Plot: hollywood, filmmaking, society, ambition, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, actor, missionary, nightclub, fame, tv star, christian ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Farm Girl in New York (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Sam and Matt flee their small mid-western town for New York City, where hot girls roam the streets! After months of trying to pick up ladies and failing miserably, they come up with the idea to hold a fake audition to meet chicks. Hilarity ensues ...
Style: humorous, light, feel good, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: audition, fall in love, friends, fish out of water, looking for sex, cons and scams, artists and showbiz, broadway, looking for love, inspiration, big city, urban ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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37%
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