Movies like Vibrations

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Vibrations (1996)
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Vibrations (1996)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Rising rock star, TJ Cray, gets the shot of a lifetime, an audition with a A & R man. On the way into the city, a carload of drunks smash into his car, severing his hands. He drops out of the business and becomes a homeless drunk. Cray wakes up to a pulsing beat in an abandoned warehouse, where a "rave" party is in full action. To his rescue comes Anamika, a computer artist, who takes him outside for fresh air. They become friends and eventually reinvent TJ's career. With the help of friends, they replace his hands with prosthetics and design a metallic cyber looking suit. TJ quickly becomes an overnight sensation, known as Cyberstorm. The finale is a dramatic scenario where TJ has to make crucial decisions about his new life.
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, psychotronic
Plot: musician, cyberpunk, nightclub, dj, rock band, philosophy, dating, vigilantism, redemption, tolerance, pity, homelessness, dance club, alcoholism, friendship, friends, misfit, androids and robots, prodigy, alcohol abuse, rescue, love and romance, life is a bitch, profanity, fall in love ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york
Keyword: new age

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and semi serious films with plots about artists and showbiz, ambition, lifestyle, love and romance, musician's life, hopes and friendship mostly in Drama, Musical and Comedy genres. Some movies like Vibrations: Blue Valley Songbird (1999), One Perfect Day (2004), An American in Hollywood (2014), Out of Tune (2008), Sympathy for Delicious (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Blue Valley Songbird (1999)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Country singer Leana Taylor (Dolly Parton) struggles to escape from her controlling manager/boyfriend Hank (John Terry) as well as her troubled past. After turning to her guitarist (Billy Dean), Leanna finally faces her past, including her estranged ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, entertaining
Plot: country, country music, couples, follow your dream, ambition, lifestyle, rising to stardom, music, desire for fame, performer's life, love and romance, life is a bitch ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, tennessee, nashville tennessee
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
One Perfect Day (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Tommy Matisse, a gifted musician, undertakes an odyssey of self-discovery and tragedy in Melbourne's dance music scene.
Style: realistic, psychological, sentimental, captivating, gloomy ...
Plot: self discovery, musician's life, prodigy, addiction, redemption, couples, lifestyle, rave, nightclub, artists and showbiz, drug abuse, hopes ...
Place: australia, europe, london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
An American in Hollywood (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A talented young filmmaker from New York sets off to Los Angeles in pursuit of the Hollywood dream, only to discover through his relationship with a beautiful feisty young actress, that Hollywood is not all that it seems.
Style: semi serious, realistic, sincere, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: filmmaking, ambition, follow your dream, fall in love, hopes, buddies, showbiz, love and romance, hollywood, friends, artists and showbiz, young
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
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 433
Out of Tune (2008)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: Brazil
Duration: 139 min.
Story: 'Slightly Out Of Tune' is about a group of friends who come of age during the political turmoil that plagued Brazil in the 1960's and 70's. Together, these musicians form a band called "Os Desafinados" and become a part ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sentimental
Plot: music, friendship, love triangle, fall in love, rise to the top, ambition, desire for fame, love and romance, society, rising to stardom, youth, rivalry ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: rio de janeiro, brazil, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
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Sympathy for Delicious (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A newly paralyzed DJ gets more than he bargained for when he seeks out the world of faith healing.
Style: humorous, contemplative, semi serious, thought provoking, rough ...
Plot: dj, disorder, musician's life, music band, ambition, desire for fame, dark humor, supernatural, redemption, supernatural ability, disability, rising to stardom ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
 6.3
 436
Antonia (2006)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: Brazil
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Determined to escape their poverty-stricken lives, four talented young women living on the outskirts of Sao Paulo, Brazil, form an all-female rap group but find their road to success is riddled with sexism, racism, and violence. One by one, they ...
Style: captivating, serious, realistic, rough
Plot: hip hop, music band, prodigy, friendship, musician's life, ambition, rise to the top, rising to stardom, society, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil, latin america, sao paulo brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
 5.5
 782
Fast Forward (1985)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Eight young people from Ohio who are dancers, come to New York, to compete in a major talent competition. But when they get there, they learn that they have to wait some time before they take part in it. So they try to do their best to survive in ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, feel good, stylized, humorous
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: breakdance, dance, dancing, club, street kid, high school, couples, friends, family relations, rising to stardom, lifestyle, coming of age ...
Time: year 1985, 80s
Place: ohio, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Sunday School Musical (2008)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Two competing groups of high school students must rally together and enter a song and dance competition in order to save their church from closing.
Style: humorous, mockbuster, exciting, feel good, light ...
Audience: teens
Plot: high school, church, music band, rivalry, follow your dream, lifestyle, friends, ambition, teachers and students, teenage love, save the day, choir ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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 485
The Tic Code (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A 10 year old gifted boy wants to be a jazz pianist much to the chagrin of his more classical oriented piano instructor. With his mother's help, he is an underage regular at a local nightspot, where he is teamed up with a sax superstar. Both ...
Style: realistic, touching, sentimental, independent film, serious ...
Plot: disability, jazz, youth, music, illness, musician's life, fall in love, hopes, coming of age, love and romance, prodigy, misfit ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
 5.2
 781
Video Girl (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Lorie Walker ( Meagan Good), attends a ritzy private school in a small southern town. Raised by her grandmother Valerie ( Ruby Dee), she often daydreams of becoming a professional dancer. After a chance meeting with a renowned music video director, ...
Style: realistic, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, serious
Plot: desire for fame, dancer's life, ambition, small town, life is a bitch, celebrity culture, rise and fall, follow your dream, society, rivalry, sex scene, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
 5.8
 324
Harlem Aria (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An aspiring opera singer from Harlem teams up with a charismatic busker and a kindhearted hustler to share his voice with the world, and teaches his two newfound friends the importance of taking your destiny into your own hands. Anton (Gabriel ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, captivating, uplifting ...
Plot: opera, hip hop, ambition, life is a bitch, lifestyle, performer's life, artists and showbiz, hopes, prodigy, desire for fame, musician's life, human spirit ...
Time: 90s
Place: harlem, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Preaching to the Choir (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Estranged since the death of their parents years ago, twin brothers, Teshawn and Wesley Tucker, have taken radically different paths in life. Wes (Darien Sills-Evans) has become a minister in a Harlem gospel church while Te (Billoah Greene) ...
Style: uplifting, realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good
Plot: preacher, lifestyle, follow your dream, redemption, family relations, estrangement, family problems, ego clash, drug dealing, musician's life, on the run, rivalry ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: usa, new york, harlem
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Glenn, the Flying Robot (2010)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Belgium
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Henry and Jack are two famous and talented pianists: they are rivals and try to outdo each other in the various music events where they regularly compete. The former friends will clash with no mercy, from contest to contest until the day a domestic ...
Style: tense, captivating, psychological, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: friendship, rivalry, uninhibited rivalry, friends, love triangle, musician's life, vengeance, androids and robots, couples, danger, musician, dancing ...
Time: future, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
 6.0
 212
Almost Heaven (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Story: A Canadian television director is hired to salvage an international fishing show in Scotland. The only hitch: his ex-wife is the host. What he finds in Scotland is love in the form of a local fishing guide (called a ghillie) and the chance to repair ...
Style: touching, realistic, semi serious, captivating, humorous ...
Plot: relationship vs career, ambition, redemption, couples, one more chance, artists and showbiz, hopes, couple relations, rescue, actor's life, love and romance, opposites attract ...
Time: 21st century
Place: scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
 7.2
 226
Louis (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A silent film about Louis Armstrong as a young boy and how he acquired his first cornet.
Style: atmospheric, realistic, psychological, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot: prodigy, follow your dream, musician's life, self discovery, artists and showbiz, social relations, music, hopes, jazz, small town, rivalry, society ...
Time: 1900s
Place: new orleans, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Slow Dancing in the Big City (1978)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: An aging out of shape reporter falls for a pretty but seriously ill ballerina.
Style: realistic, captivating, emotional, touching, sentimental
Plot: ballet, ballerina, misfit, unlikely couple, society, hopes, dancer's life, opposites attract, doctors and patients, fall in love, artists and showbiz, orphan ...
Time: year 1978, 70s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Pure Country 2: The Gift (2010)
Genre: Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Three angels bestow the gift of song to a young girl, who must follow a series of rules in order hold on to it during her rise to fame and fortune.
Style: realistic, sincere, serious, sentimental, contemplative
Plot: country, friendship, musician's life, desire for fame, music, love and romance, lifestyle, rise to the top, friends, hopes, ambition, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 21st century
Place: tennessee, usa, dallas texas, austin texas, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
The Cheetah Girls: One World (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Chanel, Dorinda, and Aqua, are off to India to star in a Bollywood movie. But when there they discover that they will have to compete against each other to get the role in the movie. Will the Cheetah's break up again?
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, touching ...
Audience: family outing, teens, kids, chick flick, pre-teens
Plot: rivalry, contests and competitions, hopes, rising to stardom, follow your dream, friendship, love and romance, family life, teenager, teenage girl, music and dance, occupation ...
Place: asia, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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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 ⇓
57%
Small Town Saturday Night (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Just days before Rhett (Chris Pine) is leaving for Nashville to pursue a lifelong dream of being a singer/songwriter, his girlfriend Samantha (Bre Blair) realizes that "his" future may not be "their" future. This news comes as a ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot: small town, friends, ambition, follow your dream, troublemaker, couples, family relations, lifestyle, musician's life, hopes, love and romance, relationship vs career ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Honeydripper (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: In 1950s Alabama, the owner of the Honeydripper juke joint finds his business dropping off and against his better judgment, hires a young electric guitarist in a last ditch effort to draw crowds during harvest time.
Style: realistic, atmospheric, captivating, psychological, cult classic ...
Plot: blues, music, rise and fall, prodigy, friendship, musician's life, follow your dream, rising to stardom, ambition, love triangle, redneck, club ...
Time: 50s, year 2007, 1950s
Place: alabama, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench (2009)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: After connecting with the shy Madeline, a jazz trumpeter embarks on a quest for a more gregarious paramour, but through a series of twists and turns punctuated by an original score, the two lovers seem destined to be together.
Style: feel good, atmospheric, serious, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience: date night
Plot: jazz, young lovers, couples, looking for love, couple relations, breakup, lifestyle, love and romance, performer's life, musician's life, artists and showbiz, love affair ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, boston, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 6.2
 29
Matchups (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Ian Willams -- who was born blind in one eye -- grew up undaunted to become an elite college basketball player. But his dream of winning a national championship and turning pro was sidetracked when a tragic accident left him completely blind. ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, independent film
Plot: blindness, prodigy, against the odds, disability, human spirit, dedicated educator, ambition, follow your dream, athlete and trainer, society, rivalry, youth ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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 5.8
 931
Bye Bye Birdie (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Rock-and-roll icon Conrad Birdie is about to go into the Army, and plans are being made to arrange his final going-away concert.
Style: semi serious, realistic, feel good, touching, humorous ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: dancing, theater, friends, couples, teenage life, rock, lifestyle, contests and competitions, performer's life, love and romance, musician's life, ambition ...
Time: 20th century, 50s
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Battlefield America (2012)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A young businessman hires an instructor to turn a group of misfit kids into a team on the underground dance competition circuit.
Style: realistic, inspirational, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: street dance, dancing, music, ambition, rivalry, youth, misfit, social misfits, hip hop, dance, mentor, training ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Moonlight Serenade (2009)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A jazz musician performs alongside a coat check girl with a beautiful voice in this musical drama from director Giancarlo Tallarico. By day Nate earns his living as a financial manager, but when night falls, he helps the girl with her singing career ...
Style: sexy, serious, stylized, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: jazz, couples, love affair, fall in love, artists and showbiz, musician's life, love and romance, fired from the job, singer, musician, sexual content, anger ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Leave It on the Floor (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Our African-American hero , Brad is bullied by his dysfunctional mom; he flees his home and by chance tumbles down the rabbit-hole into the LA ball scene where he finds a ragtag new famiiy. With music by Beyonce music director, Kim Burse, screenplay ...
Style: realistic, humorous, emotional, independent film, captivating ...
Plot: gay, friendship, gay relationship, lgbtq, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, lgbt, society, rivalry, nightclub, ambition, gender ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
May Allah Bless France! (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: French rapper, author, and spoken word artist Abd Al Malik makes his directorial debut with this adaptation of his 2004 autobiography, chronicling his upbringing in the crime- and drug-ridden streets of Strasbourg and his life-changing encounters ...
Style: captivating, inspirational, psychological, atmospheric, rough ...
Plot: rising to stardom, urban ghetto life, juvenile delinquency, follow your dream, religions or cults, hip hop, redemption, coming of age, ambition, life is a bitch, islam, biopic ...
Time: 20th century, year 2014, 80s
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Dancing in September (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A black female TV producer struggles in Hollywood.
Style: semi serious, humorous, witty, realistic, independent film
Plot: lifestyle, friendship, ambition, love and romance, artists and showbiz, unlikely couple, media satire, workplace romance, journalism, society, hollywood, african american ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
A Midsummer Night's Rave (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A Midsummer Night's Rave is a modern rave take on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream released in 2002
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: rave, clubbing, party, shakespeare, dj, tragic love, club, drug use, profanity, sexual content, stoner, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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