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Wagner (1983)
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music
Country: UK, Austria, Hungary
Duration: 300 min.
TV show
Story:
A huge panorama of Wagner's life and work, from before the 1848 Revolution, through his exile in Switzerland, his rescue by the besotted King Ludwig II of Bavaria to the final triumph at Bayreuth.
Style:
sentimental, epic, serious, emotional, realistic
Plot:
musician, composer, anarchist, classical composer, politics, anti semitism, music, prodigy, love and romance, life is a bitch, revolution, tragic love, social differences, society, radical, ambition, rise and fall, lifestyle, rebelliousness, musician's life, artists and showbiz, state affairs, unfulfillment, performer's life, celebrity culture ...
Time:
19th century, 1850s
Place:
germany, europe, switzerland, austria, prussia, bavaria
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and touching films and TV series with plots about music, musician's life, artists and showbiz, ambition, lifestyle, unfulfillment and rising to stardom mostly in Drama, Biography and Music genres. Some movies like Wagner: The Overture (2004), Forever Enthralled (2008), Elvis (2005), King of Salsa (2006), Selena: The Series (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music
Country: West Germany, Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Using letters Anna Magdalena Bach wrote to her husband, seminal composer Johann Sebastian, filmmakers Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet created one of the most precise, rewarding biopics ever put to screen. CHRONICLE OF ANNA MAGDALENA ...
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music, musician, composer, classical composer, art, couples, hopes, couple relations, ambition, musician's life, crumbling marriage, introspection ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
germany, europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music
Country: Thailand
Duration: 103 min.
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Based on the life of Luang Pradit Pairoh (Sorn Silapabanleng) the most revered traditional Thai music master who lived during the reigns of Kings Rama V to VIII, the movie traces the life of Sorn, who picked up the ra-nad ek (Thai xylophone) mallets ...
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Time:
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Place:
asia, thailand
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 150 min.
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A biographical account of Mei Lanfang, China's greatest opera star.
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, stylized, epic
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opera, tragic love, ambition, lifestyle, couples, love and romance, performer's life, society, warning, music, unfulfillment, chinese ...
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china, asia
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 173 min.
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A chronicle of the life of Elvis Presley (Rhys Meyers), from his humble beginnings to his rise to international stardom.
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realistic, captivating, touching, sentimental, serious ...
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musician's life, desire for fame, rise and fall, ambition, success, life is a bitch, rising to stardom, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, folk hero, showbiz, fame ...
Time:
50s, 60s
Place:
las vegas, usa, beverly hills, memphis
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The rise and fall of salsa singer, Héctor Lavoe (1946-1993), as told from the perspective of his wife Puchi, who looks back from 2002.
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, disturbing, sentimental
Plot:
music, dancing, musician's life, artists and showbiz, ambition, showbiz, lifestyle, rise and fall, life is a bitch, drug abuse, salsa, drugs ...
Time:
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usa, new york, puerto rico
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 40 min.
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As Mexican-American Tejano singer Selena comes of age and realizes her dreams, she and her family make tough choices to hold on to love and music.
Style:
uplifting, touching, sincere, factual
Plot:
singer, performer's life, dying young, lifestyle, showbiz, female protagonist, ambition, childhood, tragedy, hopes, rising to stardom, relationship vs career ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Egypt
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
A biopic of Egyptian singer Abdel-Halim Hafez.
Style:
realistic, captivating, emotional, sentimental, serious
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musician's life, ambition, rising to stardom, love and romance, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, life is a bitch, rise to the top, showbiz, singer, music, orphan ...
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1940s, 1930s, 50s, 70s, 20th century ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Musical
Country: Canada, Germany, USA
Duration: 170 min.
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The film, which chronicles Garland's life from her first public performance in 1924 until her death in 1969, is divided into two parts: the first part depicts her rise to fame in the 1930s, her descent into drugs, and her fall from grace in the ...
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realistic, touching, captivating, serious, gloomy ...
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addiction, showbiz, filmmaking, actor's life, rising to stardom, singer, ambition, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, couple relations, musician's life, life is a bitch ...
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50s, 1940s, 1930s
Place:
california, usa, new york, london, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 175 min.
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The true story of The Temptations, the Soul vocal group of the 1960s, as seen from the viewpoint of the last surviving member, Otis Williams. Beginning from their humble origins in the late 50s and continuing through the 90s and the deaths of the ...
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic
Plot:
african american, music, rock, r&b, singer, flashback, black cast, dancing, blaxploitation, rock and roll, loss of son, rise and fall ...
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80s, 70s, 50s, 60s, 20th century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min.
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The Jacksons are your average working-class family in Gary, Indiana; but when their father discovers the kids have an extraordinary musical talent they form a band. Winning talent show after talent show they soon hit it big when Motown calls. From ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, controversial
Plot:
music, musician's life, music band, desire for fame, follow your dream, performer's life, youth, family problems, working class, rising to stardom, crumbling marriage, hopes ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 1940s, 50s, 60s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 200 min.
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The passionate love story that was Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's lengthy marriage. Beginning in 1837, the year of King William IV's death and 18-year-old Victoria's ascension to the throne, the series charts the tumultuous period ...
Style:
captivating, sentimental, realistic, serious, factual ...
Plot:
queen victoria, husband wife relationship, royal family, victorian england, royalty, monarch, state affairs, royal court, head of state, couple relations, political unrest, love and romance ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
england, europe, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
In the early 1970s, Cuban trumpeter Arturo Sandoval (Andy Garcia) is torn between his own musical dreams and the dreams of his wife, Marianela (Mía Maestro), a fervent supporter of the ideals of the Castro revolution. Also starring Charles S. ...
Style:
realistic, touching, emotional, sincere, serious
Plot:
jazz, musician's life, unfulfillment, politics, political unrest, showbiz, couples, relationship vs career, human spirit, state affairs, family problems, ambition ...
Place:
usa, cuba, latin america
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 138 min.
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Three-part biopic of the Liverpudlian songbird who would later find fame and fortune. It tells of her rocky road to fame and captures the essence of 1960s Liverpool.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, sentimental
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pop singer, desire for fame, musician's life, ambition, rising to stardom, artists and showbiz, friendship, fame, post war, singer, friends, religion ...
Time:
60s, 70s, 20th century
Place:
liverpool, england
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A biopic of punk legend Darby Crash and his band, the Germs.
Style:
serious, realistic, tense, interesting
Plot:
punk, punk rock, music, musician's life, lifestyle, rising to stardom, nightlife, celebrity culture, drug abuse, rise and fall, life is a bitch, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
70s
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 250 min.
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An extensive biopic of one of the most famous entertainers of the 20th century - Frank Sinatra. The only thing that could engage the public more than his songs and films was his sometimes controversial private life.
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, touching, sentimental ...
Plot:
singer, dancing, jazz, art, friendship, celebrity, couples, relationship vs career, showbiz, lifestyle, crumbling marriage, musician's life ...
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60s, 50s, 70s, 1940s, 20th century
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Germany, UK, Hungary
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A fictionalised exploration of Beethoven's life in his final days working on his Ninth Symphony. It is 1824. Beethoven is racing to finish his new symphony. However, it has been years since his last success and he is plagued by deafness, ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, touching, serious, stylized ...
Audience:
date night
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composer, classical music, musician, artist, mute or deaf, music, performance, pianist, musician's life, contests and competitions, love and romance, obsession ...
Time:
19th century, regency period, 1820s, georgian era
Place:
germany, europe, austria, vienna
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Drama, History, Music
Country: France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Louis XIV, the French sun-king has two passions, establishing absolute rule over the realm -after decades of religious/civil wars- by divine right and artistic brilliancy as a dancer
Style:
atmospheric, stylized, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
king of france, performer's life, french history, royal family, ballet, dancing, prodigy, playwright, composer, intrigue, dishonesty, love and romance ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
france, versailles, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Biography, Music
Country: West Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
"Spring Symphony" is the story of Robert Schumann and Clara Wieck. Both were music entities. Robert Schumann turns out to have been a second tier composer, if that, never rising to the heights of a Beethoven or Mozart. In contrast, Clara ...
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, stylized, sentimental ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
children, musician, classical composer, couples, disability, family relations, music, artists and showbiz, ambition, love and romance, unfulfillment, musician's life ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
europe, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A biography of the Belgian nun Jeannine Deckers, who became a popular singer in the early 1960s and struggled with the contradiction between the church and her true self.
Style:
sincere, emotional, realistic, serious, entertaining ...
Plot:
nun, convent, musician's life, ambition, showbiz, follow your dream, mother superior, rebellion, clergy, rise and fall, lifestyle, rising to stardom ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
europe, belgium
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In this purely fictional story, Paul McCartney drops by The Dakota to visit John Lennon in 1976. Paul is still on top of the music world, reaching #1 with his new band, Wings. John, however, has retired from public life, choosing to raise his son, ...
Style:
serious, humorous, sentimental, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, new york
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Details the life story of Scott Joplin and how he became the greatest ragtime composer of all time.
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captivating, serious, realistic
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composer, blaxploitation, art, jazz, syphilis, interracial relations, americana, artists and showbiz, music, rise and fall, musician's life, unfulfillment ...
Time:
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Germany, UK
Duration: 689 min.
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Story:
Heimat 3 is the third cycle of Edgar Reitz's monumental Heimat series, which premiered at the 2004 Venice Film Festival. The third Heimat completes the trilogy and brings together particularly the settings of Heimat 1. It follows the new ...
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Place:
germany, europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Like the play from which it derived, the film tells of the early struggles of composer Edvard Grieg and his attempts to develop an authentic Norwegian national music. It stars Toralv Maurstad as Grieg and features an international cast including ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, sentimental, 70mm film
Plot:
composer, art, classical composer, couples, power relations, musician's life, artists and showbiz, rise to the top, love and romance, ambition, society, music ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
europe, norway
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Portugal
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
You already know the legendary singer. For the first time, you'll get to know the woman behind the myth.
Style:
emotional, serious, realistic, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
love and romance, human nature, rise and fall, musician's life, rising to stardom, family relations, lifestyle, unfulfillment, music, artists and showbiz, parents and children, haunted by the past ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 80s, 60s, 50s ...
Place:
europe, portugal
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42%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The story of the country and western singer Hank Williams.
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, sentimental, sincere ...
Plot:
singer, rock and roll, country music, alcohol abuse, songwriter, bittersweet, remarry, new year, relationship vs career, showbiz, country, musician's life ...
Time:
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alabama
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Russia
Duration: 62 min.
TV show
Story:
Biography of the most famous Russian chansonnier of the 20th century. The story of the artist who left Russia in 1919 and returned to the USSR in 1943, in the midst of World War II. Vertinsky lived, sang, and was popular in Constantinople, Paris, ...
Style:
captivating, thought provoking, psychological, sincere
Plot:
music, performer's life, musician's life, musician, celebrity culture, historical figure, classical music, life philosophy, artist, lifestyle, historical character, female nudity ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 168 min.
Story:
Biographical movie about the famous rock singer Elvis Presley.
Style:
realistic, touching, emotional, serious, sentimental ...
Plot:
elvis presley, music, rock music, musician's life, price of fame, celebrity culture, rags to riches, desire for fame, music band, showbiz, lifestyle, ambition ...
Time:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Mexico
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Mni series about the life of Mexican singer Alejandra Guzmán.
Style:
sentimental, emotional, serious, touching, talky ...
Audience:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 235 min.
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The chronicle of Charles II's time on the throne, his 10 year exile from Oliver Cromwell's England, and his triumphant return.
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serious, realistic, epic, political, baroque ...
Plot:
king, royal family, mistress, politics, ambition, rise and fall, social differences, revolution, betrayal, love and romance, rise to the top, rivalry ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Chronicles the rise and fall of pop king Michael Jackson.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching
Plot:
rise and fall, ambition, music, rising to stardom, performer's life, showbiz, musician's life, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, singer, reputation, pop star ...
Place:
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