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Sparkle (2012)
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Musical prodigy, Sparkle (Jordin Sparks) struggles to become a star while overcoming issues that are tearing her family apart. From an affluent Detroit area and daughter to a single mother (Whitney Houston), she tries to balance a new romance with music manager Stix (Derek Luke) while dealing with the unexpected challenges her new life will bring as she and her two sisters (Carmen Ejogo and Tika Sumpter) strive to become a dynamic singing group during the Motown-era.
Style:
serious, sentimental, emotional, realistic, inspirational, stylized, gloomy, independent film, black cinema
Plot:
musician's life, family relations, music band, ambition, lifestyle, desire for fame, rising to stardom, showbiz, family problems, artists and showbiz, black, african american, sister, mother daughter relationship, equality, female singer, women, abusive relationship, black cast, girl group, black american, black history, marital abuse, women of color, profanity ...
Time:
year 2012, 60s, 20th century, 1960s
Place:
usa, detroit, michigan
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Most similar movies to Sparkle
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sentimental and touching films with plots about musician's life, artists and showbiz, music, ambition, singer, showbiz and musician mostly in Drama, Music and Biography genres. Some movies like Sparkle: Beyond the Lights (2014), Empire (2015), The Sapphires (2012), Violeta Went to Heaven (2011), The Five Heartbeats (1991). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Three sisters (Sister and the Sisters) from Harlem who become singers Sister (Lonette McKee) becomes involved with drugs and Sparkle ends up being the one who gets famous. This movie tells about how drugs ruined Sister's relationships and ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, entertaining ...
Plot:
black, african american, drug addiction, girl group, showbiz, urban, performer, female protagonist, singing, musician, girl power, african ...
Time:
year 1976, 50s, 20th century, 1950s
Place:
new york, harlem, new york city, usa, harlem, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Noni Jean is a hot new rising star. But not all is what it seems, and the pressure causes Noni to nearly fall apart - until she meets Kaz Nicol, a promising young cop and aspiring politician who's been assigned to her detail. Can Kaz's ...
Style:
romantic, sexy, emotional, teen, melancholic ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, suicide attempt, police officer, musician, black romance, fall in love, happy ending, showbiz, domestic abuse, price of fame, public humiliation, singer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
indiana, usa, los angeles, london, mexico ...
Similarity:
100%
42K
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
A powerful family drama about the head of a music empire whose three sons and ex-wife all battle for his throne.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, exciting, soap opera ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
music, music business, hip hop, artists and showbiz, gay son, rapper, african american family, gay, ceo, musician's life, hip hop culture, sibling rivalry ...
Time:
2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
indiana, idaho, new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
It's 1968, and four young, talented Australian Aboriginal girls learn about love, friendship and war when they entertain the US troops in Vietnam as singing group The Sapphires.
Style:
humorous, sweet, captivating, feel good, sentimental ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, chick flick, adult
Plot:
girl group, vietnam war, friendship, biopic, female singer, indigenous people, family relations, lifestyle, desire for fame, musician's life, ambition, goodhearted ...
Time:
60s, year 1968, 70s, year 1967, year 2012 ...
Place:
vietnam, australia, oceania, saigon, southeast asia ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Chile, Argentina, Brazil
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A portrait of famed Chilean singer and folklorist Violeta Parra filled with her musical work, her memories, her loves and her hopes.
Style:
serious, sentimental, sincere, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
museum, music, folklore, follow your dream, loss of daughter, lifestyle, musician's life, performer's life, artists and showbiz, rising to stardom, hopes, musical tour ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, 1940s, 60s, 50s
Place:
chile, latin america, europe, france, paris france ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
In the early 1960's, a quintet of hopeful, young African-American men form an amateur vocal group called The Five Heartbeats. After an initially rocky start, the group improves, turns pro, and rises to become a top flight music sensation. Along ...
Style:
sentimental, hood, independent film, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
music, friendship, racism, black, rock and roll, african american, drug addiction, music business, rise and fall, blaxploitation, black history, corruption ...
Time:
60s, year 1991, 70s, 20th century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
In the mid-80s, three women (each with an attorney) arrive at the office of New York entertainment manager, Morris Levy. One is an L.A. singer, formerly of the Platters; one is a petty thief from Philly; one teaches school in a small Georgia town. ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, touching, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
music, biopic, showbiz, addiction, greed, music business, dialogue, music band, black, drug addiction, rise and fall, rising to stardom ...
Time:
20th century, year 1998, 50s, 80s, 1950s ...
Place:
new york, los angeles, usa, california, new jersey
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A film about the singer Tina Turner and how she rose to stardom with her abusive husband Ike Turner and how she gained the courage to break free.
Style:
inspirational, sincere, intense, serious, emotional ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
music, musician, domestic violence, african american, black woman, biopic, singer, violence against women, abusive husband, rape victim, african american woman, female protagonist ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 70s, 60s, year 1993 ...
Place:
usa, tennessee, california, africa, new york ...
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
TLC's humble beginnings in Atlanta quickly led to an unprecedented rise to fame in the 1990's as one of the world's most talented, celebrated and highest-selling female groups of all time. Through very public and high profile success, ...
Style:
serious, realistic, sincere, captivating
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
music band, rising to stardom, musician's life, hip hop, artists and showbiz, ambition, bankruptcy, music, blaxploitation, black, pop star, girl power ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
23%
27K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
A chronicle of James Brown's rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history.
Style:
emotional, talky, heartbreaking, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
music, biopic, musician, musician's life, friendship, showbiz, black, creativity, rising to stardom, artists and showbiz, ambition, desire for fame ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 70s, year 2014, 80s ...
Place:
usa, south carolina, georgia, north america, boston ...
Similarity:
23%
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, atmospheric, sincere, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
coping, rock, music, musician's life, family problems, parents and children, artists and showbiz, siblings relations, family relations, estrangement, twentysomething life, urban ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
california, usa, san diego california
Similarity:
22%
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, suspenseful, rough, independent film ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
hip hop, ambition, rivalry, profanity, urban, music, musician's life, artists and showbiz, desire for fame, showbiz, rap, music industry ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
miami, orlando florida, usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Preacher's daughter Amara Winter sings in the church choir before being discovered by a well-established musician. She soon rises to international fame as a pop singer.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, serious, emotional, independent film
Plot:
family relations, ambition, desire for fame, follow your dream, musician's life, relationship vs career, rising to stardom, parents and children, lifestyle, hopes, black cast, black ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In a story fueled by rhythm and blues, a young boy's life is shaped by love and the stories of a cast of characters in the boarding house where he lives in 1960s Lackawanna, New York.
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, sincere, sentimental ...
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, family relations, family problems, friends, parents and children, youth, lifestyle, black, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, blaxploitation ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place:
new york, usa, pennsylvania, russia, toronto ontario canada ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
The story of sex, violence, race and rock and roll in 1950s Chicago, and the exciting but turbulent lives of some of America's musical legends, including Muddy Waters, Leonard Chess, Little Walter, Howlin' Wolf, Etta James and Chuck Berry.
Style:
inspirational, intense, stylized, talky, sincere ...
Plot:
music, musician's life, blues, rock and roll, jazz, biopic, african american, singer, pop music, success, chess, music business ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 1950s, year 2008, 1940s ...
Place:
chicago, usa, indiana, london, mississippi ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Neil Diamond stars as Yussel in this tale of a young Jewish cantor who strives to make a career in music.
Style:
touching, intense, serious, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
father son relationship, music, tradition, generation gap, family relations, showbiz, parents and children, dancing, religions or cults, desire for fame, follow your dream, estrangement ...
Time:
70s, year 1980, 80s
Place:
california, new york, usa, los angeles, venice california
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
From director Clint Eastwood comes the big-screen version of the Tony Award-winning musical Jersey Boys. The film tells the story of four young men from the wrong side of the tracks in New Jersey who came together to form the iconic 1960s rock group ...
Style:
intense, stylized, sentimental, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
music, biopic, music band, broadway, rock and roll, life philosophy, desire for fame, rising to stardom, ambition, showbiz, friends, performer's life ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 20th century, 60s, 70s
Place:
new jersey, usa
Similarity:
20%
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:
serious, realistic, captivating
Plot:
on the road, lifestyle, musician's life, artists and showbiz, drug abuse, celebrity culture, showbiz, teaching the ways of the world, rock, elvis presley, fame, bodyguard ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 70s
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: France, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Sadie looks up to her older sister Georgia, a successful folk singer who's happily married with children, but can't break out of the bar-band circuit and hit the big time she desperately covets. It's in part due to her attraction to ...
Style:
emotional, sincere, melancholic, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
music, addiction, drug addiction, sister sister relationship, dysfunctional family, musician's life, sisters, redemption, female singer, sister sister conflict, eccentricity, life is a bitch ...
Time:
90s
Place:
seattle, oregon, usa
Similarity:
20%
24K
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A young woman is catapulted into pop stardom, with her already-famous DJ boyfriend calling the shots.
Style:
cult classic, melancholic, touching, exciting, sentimental ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
music, hopes, female protagonist, showbiz, rise and fall, lifestyle, ambition, artists and showbiz, love affair, follow your dream, rising to stardom, parents and children ...
Time:
80s, year 2001, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, maryland, madison square garden manhattan new york city
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Story:
Tommy is a troubled young man with a history of crime. When he meets Memaw, an elderly lady, the two form a special bond with Memaw encouraging Charlie to sing in the local church choir, a talent he has ignored until now. While Charlie excels in ...
Style:
christian film, uplifting, touching, realistic, feel good ...
Plot:
musician's life, self discovery, church, starting over, society, family relations, religions or cults, hopes, christian, faith, singing, cons and scams ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A talented young singer and aspiring songwriter’s Christian faith and family ties are tested when she defies her worship-pastor father and pursues pop-music stardom in GRACE UNPLUGGED, a moving and inspiring new film that explores the true meaning ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, realistic, serious, christian film ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, family friendly
Plot:
christianity, religious, ambition, desire for fame, musician's life, lifestyle, teenage life, youth, society, family relations, once in a lifetime opportunity, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, alabama, usa, birmingham alabama
Similarity:
20%
12K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Two former backup soul singers, Louis and Floyd, have not spoken to each other in 20 years, and reluctantly agree to travel across the country together to a reunion concert to honor their recently-deceased lead singer. Cleo, a beautiful young woman ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, semi serious, touching, humorous ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
african american, profanity, black, artists and showbiz, showbiz, musician's life, buddies, music band, lifestyle, on the road, hip hop, hip hop culture ...
Time:
year 2008
Place:
usa
Similarity:
19%
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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:
sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, feel good
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
dream come true, desire for fame, teenage life, follow your dream, rise and fall, ambition, musician's life, best friend, friendship, youth, hopes, showbiz ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
19%
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, parents and children, homecoming, unfulfillment, musician's life, music, family problems, family relations, haunted by the past, country, country music ...
Time:
year 2006
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Family, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
THE ONE I WROTE FOR YOU follows a songwriter who defers his dreams to support his family. He gets a second chance when his 10-year-old daughter, Gracie, secretly enters his name into a song writing contest/reality show. Fourteen original songs help ...
Style:
realistic, feel good, serious, sentimental, touching
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
hopes, family relations, rising to stardom, ambition, musician's life, contests and competitions, parents and children, music, artists and showbiz, dream, singer, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, san antonio texas, new york, chicago
Similarity:
19%
6K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 168 min.
Story:
Biographical movie about the famous rock singer Elvis Presley.
Style:
realistic, emotional, touching, serious, sentimental ...
Plot:
elvis presley, music, rock music, biopic, musician's life, price of fame, rags to riches, rock and roll, celebrity culture, desire for fame, music band, showbiz ...
Time:
50s, 60s, 1950s
Place:
las vegas, mississippi
Similarity:
19%
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, lifestyle, love and romance, rise to the top, music, overnight success, friends, hopes, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, tennessee, dallas texas, austin texas, texas
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
When her husband is sentenced to eight years in prison, Ruby drops out of medical school in order to focus on her husband's well-being while he's incarcerated - leading her on a journey of self-discovery in the process.
Style:
captivating, sincere, serious, emotional, social ...
Plot:
prison, self discovery, family problems, introspection, human nature, supportive spouse, black, family in crisis, medical school, urban, blaxploitation, women of color ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
indiana, usa, los angeles, africa
Similarity:
19%
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, ambition, moral dilemma, rising to stardom, desire for fame, radio dj, musician's life, follow your dream, artists and showbiz, music, music industry, exploitation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
Similarity:
19%
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