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Fuga (2006)
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Fuga (2006)
Genre: Drama, Music, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Chile
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Could a brilliant composer's music actually be killing his loved ones? Eliseo can't help but believe it when his younger sister dies tragically and then his pianist Georgina suddenly dies on the piano. Completely traumatized, Eliseo is taken to a mental hospital where he can find escape only through music.
Style: serious, touching, captivating, realistic, bleak
Plot: mental institution, musician's life, dishonesty, music, obsession, haunted by the past, mentally unstable, artists and showbiz, uncover truth, mental disorder, composer, intrigue, unfulfillment, losing-it hero, desire for fame, rape, pianist, boat, piano, orchestra, train conductor, childhood trauma, shock treatment, insane asylum, classical composer ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: chile, argentina

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and touching films with plots about artists and showbiz, musician's life, music, unfulfillment, ambition, obsession and musician mostly in Drama, Music and Thriller genres. Some movies like Fuga: Broken Bridges (2006), Paradise Cruise (2013), Filly Brown (2012), The Sandy Bottom Orchestra (2000), Gloria (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Broken Bridges (2006)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A fading country music star (Keith) returns to his hometown, where he reunites with his childhood sweetheart and also meets his 16-year-old daughter for the first time.
Style: realistic, sentimental, serious, touching, independent film
Plot: starting over, artists and showbiz, homecoming, parents and children, music, unfulfillment, musician's life, family relations, family problems, haunted by the past, country, country music ...
Time: year 2006
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Paradise Cruise (2013)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Israel, France, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An impossible love story between Yossi, a former IDF soldier, and Dora, a mysterious French photographer visiting Israel, as they both struggle in vain to leave their pasts behind.
Style: non-linear, captivating, tense, serious, realistic
Plot: haunted by the past, vengeance, obsession, couples, impossible love, obsessive quest, couple relations, dishonesty, love and romance, unfulfillment, beach, male nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
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Filly Brown (2012)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: “Majo” Tonorio, a.k.a. Filly Brown, is a raw, young Los Angeles hip-hop artist who spits from the heart. When a sleazy record producer offers her a crack at rap stardom, Majo faces some daunting choices. With an incarcerated mother, a record ...
Style: realistic, captivating, sincere, psychological, hood ...
Plot: hip hop, rising to stardom, desire for fame, moral dilemma, ambition, follow your dream, musician's life, artists and showbiz, music, radio dj, strong female presence, producer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
The Sandy Bottom Orchestra (2000)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The young-adult novel by Garrison Keillor and Jenny Lind Nilsson gets a lively update in this Showtime feature about an unusual family in Sandy Bottom, Wisconsin. The Greens share musical aspirations, but daughter Rachel (Madeline Zima), a talented ...
Style: serious, realistic, feel good, sincere, touching
Audience: girls' night
Plot: small town, family life, culture clash, musician's life, dull life, performer's life, supportive spouse, family relations, music, music conductor, choir, orchestra ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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Gloria (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Mexico
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Gloria never imagined that an audition for the music producer Sergio Andrade was going to change her life so drastically. King Midas not only brought her to stardom, but also to a dramatic story of love, heartbreak and betrayal. Based on the life ...
Style: realistic, captivating, emotional, serious
Plot: ambition, musician's life, desire for fame, downfall, artists and showbiz, rising to stardom, biopic, girl, pop singer, strong female presence, unfulfillment, music ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: latin america, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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Scott Joplin (1977)
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.
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, period piece
Plot: composer, jazz, piano, art history, art, blaxploitation, syphilis, biopic, interracial relations, music, society, musician's life ...
Time: 20th century, 1910s, 1900s
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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Tony Manero (2008)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Chile, Brazil
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A man is obsessed with John Travolta's disco dancing character from "Saturday Night Fever".
Style: serious, rough, contemplative, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: dictatorship, brutality, murder, desire for fame, lifestyle, ambition, nightlife, showbiz, contests and competitions, life is a bitch, follow your dream, dictator ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1978
Place: chile, santiago chile, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Tamla Rose (2013)
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: touching, serious, sentimental, realistic, feel good
Audience: girls' night
Plot: dream come true, rise and fall, musician's life, follow your dream, ambition, teenage life, desire for fame, best friend, hopes, youth, friendship, showbiz ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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I Am Not a Hipster (2012)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Things are not looking good for Brook, a young, talented singer/songwriter who has become the clichéd tortured artist. Slow to come to terms with the death of his mother, Brook is self-absorbed, aggressive, and the major obstruction to his own ...
Style: serious, touching, realistic, sincere, atmospheric ...
Plot: musician's life, music, rock, siblings relations, parents and children, family problems, artists and showbiz, coping, creative block, estrangement, family relations, twentysomething life ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: california, usa, san diego california
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Two Sons of Francisco (2005)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Brazil
Duration: 132 min.
Story: The story of Francisco, a very simple and poor man whose dream was to see his children become country music stars, and who made all the efforts to make it happen.
Style: touching, emotional, serious, captivating, stylized ...
Plot: rags to riches, musician's life, obsession, success, death, rise to the top, parents and children, society, lifestyle, music, car accident, peasant ...
Place: brazil, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
The Page Turner (2006)
Genre: Drama, Music, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Mélanie Prouvost, a ten-year-old butcher's daughter, is a gifted pianist. That is why she and her parents decide that she sit for the Conservatory entrance exam. Although Mélanie is very likely to be admitted, she unfortunately gets ...
Style: suspense, serious, psychological, realistic, tense ...
Plot: revenge, older woman younger woman relationship, music, lesbian, family relations, audition, vengeance, friendship, parents and children, pianist, lesbian subtext, mentally unstable ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Just Another Day (2009)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Follows a day in the life of two men living at either end of the music game. A successful rapper, A-Maze, is dealing with the pitfalls and trappings of his success and facing new challenges in the music business to get a check while the other, Young ...
Style: realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful, hood
Plot: profanity, rivalry, music, musician's life, rapper, artists and showbiz, desire for fame, ambition, showbiz, hip hop, urban, black ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
 3.6
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Crew 2 Crew (2012)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Lucas joins a break dancing troupe and, traveling the world, finds himself torn between the life he knows and the chance to do something more. Inspired by true events.
Style: sincere, captivating, serious, touching, independent film ...
Plot: self discovery, dancer's life, ambition, love and romance, introspection, dancing, unfulfillment, artists and showbiz, haunted by the past, nudity, sex scene, bare butt ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Protecting the King (2007)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Sex, drugs and violence--they're all part of the job when you're protecting The King of Rock & Roll. And when you're only 16, the on-the-job training comes in ways that can't be taught in school. The story of David ...
Style: captivating, serious, realistic
Plot: on the road, lifestyle, musician's life, artists and showbiz, celebrity culture, teaching the ways of the world, showbiz, drug abuse, rock, fame, elvis presley, rise and fall ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 6.3
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Prodigy (2007)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Naruse Uta is a "unique" 13 year old child. She possessed the talent to read sheet music even before she could speak, but has now come to the point where she hates playing the piano. Her father was also a piano virtuoso, but mysteriously ...
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, touching
Plot: prodigy, musician's life, ambition, relationship vs career, self discovery, orphan, family relations, hopes, youth, dedicated educator, single parent, music ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 6.9
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Dingo (1991)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: France, Australia
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Young John Anderson is captivated by jazz musician, Billy Cross when he performs on the remote airstrip of his Western Australian outback hometown after his plane is diverted. Years later, now a family man and making a meagre living tracking dingoes ...
Style: realistic, independent film, serious, emotional, touching
Plot: jazz, music, outback, art, family relations, couples, friends, self discovery, hopes, human nature, desire for fame, follow your dream ...
Time: year 1991, 90s, 20th century
Place: paris france, australia, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Canada, Netherlands, Portugal, Finland
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A collection of vignettes highlighting different aspects of the life, work, and character of the acclaimed Canadian classical pianist.
Style: existential, independent film, anthology, spiritual, realistic ...
Plot: music, biopic, classical music, piano, obsession, musician, artist, radio, spirituality, composer, art history, showbiz ...
Time: year 1993
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
The Bottom of the Sea (2003)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 92 min.
Story: An architect (Daniel Hendler) trails a man (Gustavo Garzón) who was hiding under his girlfriend's (Dolores Fonzi) bed.
Style: psychological, suspense, captivating, tense, realistic ...
Plot: jealousy, love, obsession, investigation, danger, couples, stalking, infidelity, rivalry, lovers, unfaithful, true love ...
Time: 20th century, 1920s
Place: argentina, buenos aires argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Paganini (1989)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Kinski believed that he lived through the same experiences as the legendary "devil violinist" Niccolo Paganini, who set whole Europe of the 19th century into frenzy and through whose personality Kinski offers us an incredibly profound and ...
Style: serious, captivating, realistic, touching, sincere ...
Plot: classical music, ambition, musician's life, music, artists and showbiz, unfulfillment, sexual relations, violinist, composer, father son relationship, older man younger woman relationship, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 18th century, 19th century
Place: europe, italy, venice
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Enter the Dangerous Mind (2013)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A psychological thriller set in the world of underground dubstep, Snap is the story of Jim Whitman, a brilliant but painfully introverted musician who develops a crush on a young social worker.
Style: tense, psychological, suspenseful, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: mental illness, obsession, danger, dangerous attraction, composer, stalking, haunted by the past, mind control, mentally unstable, unfulfillment, young people, tied feet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Committed (1991)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A nurse is taken hostage by a patient pretending to be a doctor and is forced to administer to everyone.
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, bleak, independent film ...
Plot: mental institution, doctor, murder, mistaken identity, nurse, power relations, dishonesty, mentally unstable, misfit, patient, trap, woman in danger ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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The Conductor (1980)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Poland
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A violinist in a provincial Polish orchestra, whose husband is the director of the ensemble, on a visit to the US ties up with the world- renowned symphony conductor. As it turns out he was once in love with violinist's mother. The conductor, a ...
Style: serious, psychological, realistic, captivating, emotional ...
Plot: musician, renaissance, envy, marriage crisis, travel, opportunism, performer's life, politics, artists and showbiz, unlikely couple, couple relations, musician's life ...
Time: year 1980, 70s
Place: poland, eastern europe, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Kissed by Winter (2005)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Following her son's death, Victoria moves to a small community to work as a doctor at the local clinic. She attempts to forget and move on with her life but finds it impossible when a local boy is found dead in the snow and Victoria must tell ...
Style: serious, captivating, disturbing, enigmatic, sexy ...
Plot: investigation, amateur detective, murder, uncover truth, love and romance, who done it, dishonesty, winter, immigrant, refugee, mountain, snow ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Hank Williams: The Show He Never Gave (1980)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: This is a lonely New Year's Eve for Hank Williams as he spends it en route to a huge New Years Day concert in Ohio. Hank Williams died that night on the road. Stars Sean McCann, Dixie Seatle. (
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, gloomy, touching ...
Plot: music, biopic, country music, musician, dancing, fictional biography, songwriter, friends, performer's life, folk hero, artists and showbiz, tragic hero ...
Time: 20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place: ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Man Next Door (2009)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 110 min.
Story: When two neighbours clash, their argument becomes less about proposed building alterations and more about the wider battle between class and social status. The hugely impressive building in question is the only example of a Le Corbusier residential ...
Style: tense, captivating, serious, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: obsession, mentally unstable, voyeurism, dishonesty, small town, neighbor neighbor relationship, conflict, rivalry, danger, secrets, forgiveness, lawyer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
California Solo (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Lachlan MacAldonich is a self-described “lazy Scotsman” and former guitar player for a once-popular 1990s rock band. No longer famous, he now lives a comfortably numb existence working on an organic farm outside Los Angeles. He drinks himself ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: music, haunted by the past, deportation, musician's life, introspection, estrangement, life is a bitch, society, age difference, drug, musician, young love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll (2009)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In this film, childhood friends come face to face with the demons of rock and roll (lust, drugs, and passion) on a cross-country road trip that compels them to face their past, present, and future. Rocker Spyder, whose debut album was a huge hit saw ...
Style: realistic, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: rock star, musician's life, homecoming, on the road, rock, friendship, small town, music band, ego clash, artists and showbiz, entertainment industry, rock and roll ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The Invisible Witness (2018)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A businessman must explain to his lawyers how he came to be found in a locked hotel room with his dead partner, whose body was covered in money.
Style: suspense, captivating, bleak, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: twists and turns, murder, uncover truth, dark secret, murder suspect, lawyer, parents, couples, lovers, deception, dishonesty, accident ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
King of Paper Chasin' (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: In the city of 9 Million people everyone is engulfed in the everyday rat race chasing that almighty dollar. This movie tells the story of one of its own 'Carter Blanche'. Carter has staked his claim to the American dream. But history ...
Style: tense, captivating, suspenseful, psychological, hood ...
Plot: hip hop, rivalry, drug dealing, urban ghetto, betrayal, starting over, ambition, artists and showbiz, musician's life, urban, african american, danger ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Othello (1986)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Netherlands, USA, Italy
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Having previously staged Verdi's 1887 opera Otello at the Met and La Scala, filmmaker Franco Zeffirelli committed his production to film in 1986. Starring as the fatally jealous Moor of Venice is Placido Domingo, who had also headlined ...
Style: atmospheric, stylized, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: opera, shakespeare, obsession, betrayal, medieval, dancing, tragedy, rivalry, dishonesty, love and romance, losing-it hero, intrigue ...
Place: italy, europe, venice
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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