Movies like Bye Bye Birdie 1995
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Bye Bye Birdie (1995)
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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:
sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
dancing, theater, rock, friends, love and romance, couples, teenage life, ambition, contests and competitions, lifestyle, musician's life, artists and showbiz, performer's life, friendship, singer, rock music, teenage girl, singing, rock star, father daughter relationship, dancer, male female relationship, teenage boy, high school, military service ...
Time:
50s, 20th century
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Most similar movies to Bye Bye Birdie
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out semi serious, humorous, realistic and feel good films with plots about love and romance, artists and showbiz, dancing, ambition, singing, friends and singer mostly in Comedy, Musical and Drama genres. Some movies like Bye Bye Birdie: Rock It! (2010), A Diva's Christmas Carol (2000), The Music Man (2003), Stepping Out (1991), Fancy Dancing (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When being sent to a boarding school for classical music, teenager Julia discovers rock music - and rock musicians. Torn between these two musical worlds, she has to find her own way.
Style:
feel good, realistic, semi serious, sweet
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teen romance, boarding school, friendship, singing, musician's life, artists and showbiz, ambition, traditional versus modern, talented, music band, teenage love, friends ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Fantasy, Romance, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A remake of the Dicken's classic, "A Christmas Carol" featuring a very nasty pop singer who gets a reality check by three Christmas spirits.
Style:
sentimental, semi serious, feel good, humorous, christmas classics ...
Audience:
family outing, teens
Plot:
christmas, christmas carol, ghost, supernatural, unlikely couple, couples, workplace situations, change of heart, lifestyle, self discovery, redemption, performer's life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
Story:
The cast of “High School Musical: The Musical: The Series” delivers an abundance of feel-good holiday cheer as they perform their favorite Christmas, Hanukkah and New Year’s songs and share their fondest holiday memories.
Style:
feel good, uplifting, lighthearted, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
holiday, christmas, friendship, teenager, family relations, heartwarming, teenage life, love and romance, follow your dream, christmas season, teenage love, parents and children ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A singer goes to a small town for a performance before he is drafted
Style:
funny, retro, hilarious, black and white, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, kids
Plot:
cheerleader, teenager, broadway, love, small town, dancing, theater, dating, turtle, secretary, singer, songwriter ...
Time:
year 1963, 60s, 20th century
Place:
ohio, usa, washington d.c., new york, columbus ohio
Similarity:
61%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Contemporary rethinking of the legendary Broadway musical and 1962 film, updated to reflect a few early twenty-first-century sensibilities: A masterful con artist tries to bilk a staid Midwestern community, with unexpected results.
Style:
semi serious, sentimental, humorous, feel good, realistic
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
small town, lifestyle, fall in love, couples, society, love and romance, artists and showbiz, racism, clergy, music, librarian, dancing ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century
Place:
iowa
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Mavis (Liza Minnelli) was a chorus line dancer on Broadway. Just as she was on the verge of getting more prominent roles, she fell in love. Her full-of-himself boyfriend moved them to Buffalo, far from the theater scene. As a musician, he plays with ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous
Audience:
kids
Plot:
dancing, broadway, dancer, dance class, power relations, church, lifestyle, performer's life, ambition, love and romance, rising to stardom, underdog ...
Time:
year 1991, 20th century, 90s
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A composer finds love with a co-worker after taking a job at his uncle's advertising agency.
Style:
captivating, semi serious, touching, humorous, emotional ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
ex wife, lifestyle, going straight, starting over, ambition, hopes, womanizer, couples, infidelity, custody, parents and children, performer's life ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
Following five couples and their friend Robert (Neil Patrick Harris), the perpetual bachelor, Company explores the true meaning of being in a relationship through a series of vignettes. Winner of the 1971 Tony Award for Best Musical, Neil Patrick ...
Style:
semi serious, stylized, realistic, humorous, feel good
Plot:
live performance, theater, friends, redheaded woman, friendship, concert, bachelor, couple relations, artists and showbiz, love and romance, broadway, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
57%
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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:
semi serious, realistic, stylized, humorous, feel good
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
dancing, breakdance, dance, club, street kid, high school, couples, friends, family relations, hopes, artists and showbiz, rivalry ...
Time:
year 1985, 80s
Place:
ohio, new york, usa
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A high school choir is fading in popularity, as it continues to lose most of its' members one by one. A wannabe rock singer is convinced to join the choir, in hopes of winning the upcoming competition and cash prize.
Style:
humorous, entertaining, captivating, feel good, light ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
contests and competitions, youth, music band, music, rivalry, rock, ambition, teenager, choir, teenage girl, contest, high school ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
56%
2K
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
Based on the autobiography of Gypsy Rose Lee, this made-for-TV movie - previously a Broadway smash and a 1962 film - depicts the life and times of a stripper and her domineering mother.
Style:
captivating, humorous, stylized, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot:
stripper, theater, dancing, burlesque, broadway, art, domineering mother, vaudeville, family relations, showbiz, ambition, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
20th century, 1920s, 1930s
Place:
ohio, new york, texas, los angeles, seattle
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
The assistant stage manager of a small-time theatrical company is forced to understudy for the leading lady at a matinée performance at which an illustrious Hollywood director is in the audience scouting for actors to be in his latest ...
Style:
romantic comedy, semi serious, realistic, stylized, humorous ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
showbiz, dancing, broadway, choreography, choreographer, love, morality, past, couples, filmmaking, fall in love, ambition ...
Time:
1920s, year 1971, 1930s, 20th century
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Music, Musical
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A four-member teen girl group named the Cheetah Girls go to a Manhattan High School for the Performing Arts and try to become the first freshmen to win the talent show in the school's history. During the talent show auditions, they meet a ...
Style:
semi serious, feel good, humorous, touching, teen ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, kids, pre-teens, chick flick ...
Plot:
friendship, biracial, high school, coming of age, showbiz, musician's life, follow your dream, fashion, music band, rising to stardom, lifestyle, teenage life ...
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Edd Byrnes tries to get an ethnic-music-studies grant to buy instruments for his rock and roll group.
Style:
psychotronic, independent film, realistic, semi serious, feel good ...
Plot:
rock and roll, surfing, beach party, racing, music and dance, pop music, beach, music festival, silly humor, disorder, friends, buddies ...
Time:
60s
Place:
long beach california
Similarity:
51%
6K
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Misfits in their lives back home, a group of young people live it up at musical-theater camp. While the sports counselor is completely ignored, the kids' spend all their time in rehearsal for a grueling schedule that involves a new show every ...
Style:
teen, talky, humorous, feel good, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, kids, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
gay, coming of age, summer camp, dancing, lgbt, love and romance, teenage love, artists and showbiz, rock, gay teenager, glbt, friendship ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york, new jersey
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The executive producers of High School Musical keep the good times rolling with this upbeat musical comedy set in the one place every American teenager's home away from home - the local shopping mall. Ally (Nina Dobrev) is an optimistic ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, realistic, touching, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
musician, youth, love and romance, save the day, rise to the top, musician's life, lifestyle, optimism, teenage life, couples, desire for fame, rising to stardom ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
50%
7K
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Based on the Broadway hit about the life and times of burlesque dancer Gypsy Rose Lee and her aggressive stage mother, Mama Rose.
Style:
retro, realistic, semi serious, captivating, humorous ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot:
stripper, burlesque, dancing, mother daughter relationship, mother, theater, fame, domineering mother, ambition, broadway, based on broadway musical, theatrical agent ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, 20th century, 1950s, 50s ...
Place:
kansas
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In order to win the heart of counselor Cindy Keyes, kitchen boy Will Cross comes to realize that becoming King of the Camp takes much more than beating tough guy Chase Gunn in a wake boarding competition.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
ambition, teenage life, fall in love, love and romance, youth, rivalry, contests and competitions, camp, summer, tough heroes, rock, rock music ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
50%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Following a passion for country music, Ralph leaves his father’s sheep farm in a remote Australian town, armed with a guitar and a plane ticket to Nashville, Tennessee. He hopes to hitchhike to Sydney Airport where his take-off into a successful ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous, touching ...
Plot:
hitchhiker, jail, country music, partner, musician's life, artists and showbiz, innocence lost, lifestyle, obsessive quest, follow your dream, ambition, nothing goes right ...
Time:
90s
Place:
australia, nashville tennessee
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A starry-eyed young girl journeys from the mountains of Appalachia to the stage at Dollywood, where she discovers the impact of African-Americans on the world of country music - while at the same time competing in a country music competition for ...
Style:
sentimental, captivating, realistic, semi serious, touching ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
christmas, church choir, family relations, ambition, couples, love and romance, holiday, small town, singing, christmas eve, xmas, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: France, Egypt
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A rollicking paean to the Hollywood and Bollywood musicals of yesteryear.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, sentimental
Plot:
lifestyle, love affair, couples, love and romance, actor's life, musician's life, comedy of errors, wooing, parents and children, life is a bitch, down on your luck, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
egypt, africa, middle east
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Musical
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Claude Duty's feature-length debut Filles Perdues, Cheveux Gras (Hypnotized and Hysterical, (Hairstylist Wanted)) is an offbeat comedy about three women. Elodi (Olivia Bonamy) is a struggling single mother. Natacha (Marina Fois) is an upbeat ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, feel good, realistic, black comedy ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
friendship, family relations, human nature, best friend, love and romance, introspection, couples, storytelling, mother daughter relationship, single mother, friends, pets ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
49%
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, realistic, semi serious, touching ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, kids, chick flick, pre-teens
Plot:
hopes, rivalry, rising to stardom, contests and competitions, follow your dream, friendship, love and romance, family life, teenager, teenage girl, music and dance, occupation ...
Place:
asia, india
Similarity:
49%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: Australia
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A new-wave extravaganza in which a young woman wants to become the next big singer with the help of her friends and despite the wishes of her working class family.
Style:
erotic, realistic, laugh out loud, psychotronic, semi serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
couples, hopes, friends, cinderella story, love and romance, follow your dream, artists and showbiz, ambition, showbiz, rising to stardom, musician's life, rock and roll ...
Time:
80s, year 1982
Place:
australia, sydney australia, new south wales
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: West Germany, Austria, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
"Fredrik Egerman is very happy in his marriage to a seventeen-year-old virgin, Anne. Only she's been a virgin for the whole eleven months of the marriage, and being a bit restless, Fredrik goes to see an old flame, the famous actress ...
Style:
independent film, semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching ...
Plot:
broadway, love affair, love triangle, dancing, high society, adopted son, actress, lawyer, couples, estate, friends, master and servant ...
Time:
20th century, 1900s
Place:
austria, europe, central europe
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Divorced couple Charlie and Lisa Hunter once a song writing team decide to spend a weekend in the French countryside to inspire them to write one last song together. But there is one person who isn't too crazy about the idea... Charlie's ...
Style:
independent film, realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching
Plot:
power of love, singer, love triangle, friendship, breakup, artists and showbiz, love and romance, unfulfillment, crumbling marriage, friends, family relations, couples ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Similarity:
49%
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, light, exciting, feel good ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
high school, choir, church, friends, rivalry, music band, lifestyle, follow your dream, ambition, teachers and students, teenage love, save the day ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
49%
3K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Rags follows the story of Charlie Prince, an orphan living with his acerbic and unloving stepfather and spoiled, simple-minded stepbrothers. Charlie's dream is to be a singer, and while he is vocally talented and can write music, he can't ...
Style:
feel good, semi serious, humorous, fairy tale, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
cinderella story, cinderella, teenage love, hopes, orphan, youth, follow your dream, artists and showbiz, social differences, unlikely couple, love and romance, step siblings ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Mitchie can't wait to go back to Camp Rock and spend the summer making new music with her friends and superstar Shane Gray. But the slick new camp across the lake, Camp Star, has drummed up some serious competition — featuring newcomers Luke ...
Style:
teen, sentimental, feel good, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens, kids, chick flick, girls' night, pre-teens ...
Plot:
summer camp, camp, teenager, singing competition, music band, artists and showbiz, contests and competitions, teenage life, teenage love, rivalry, friends, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hungary, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A retired woman hires a dance instructor to give her private dance lessons at her home -- one per week for six weeks. What begins as an antagonistic relationship turns into a close friendship as they dance together.
Style:
feel good, touching, humorous, sentimental, semi serious ...
Plot:
friendship, teachers and students, aging, self discovery, elderly, dancer's life, gay, widow, dancing, gay interest, lgbt, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, florida
Similarity:
49%
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