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, americana, lifestyle, musician's life, artists and showbiz, performer's life, friendship, singer, rock music, teenage girl, rock star, father daughter relationship, dancer, male female relationship, teenage boy, high school, military service ...
Time:
50s, 20th century
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, realistic and feel good films with plots about love and romance, artists and showbiz, dancing, lifestyle, couples, ambition and friends mostly in Comedy, Musical and Drama genres. Some movies like Bye Bye Birdie: The Music Man (2003), Stepping Out (1991), Company (2011), Fancy Dancing (2002), Fast Forward (1985). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Musical, Romance, Drama
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, feel good, sentimental, humorous, realistic
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
small town, lifestyle, fall in love, couples, love and romance, artists and showbiz, society, racism, americana, clergy, music, dancing ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century
Place:
iowa
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95%
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, realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, kids
Plot:
teenager, love, small town, dancing, theater, turtle, songwriter, secretary, singer, rock, trippy, music ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
ohio, usa, washington d.c., new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
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 ...
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semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good
Audience:
kids
Plot:
dancer, dancing, dance class, human spirit, dancer's life, underdog, performer's life, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, rising to stardom, ambition, love and romance ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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, feel good, humorous
Plot:
theater, friends, friendship, bachelor, live performance, couple relations, love and romance, artists and showbiz, love, husband wife relationship, marriage, broadway ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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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:
semi serious, captivating, touching, humorous, emotional ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
starting over, going straight, lifestyle, womanizer, ambition, hopes, couples, infidelity, custody, parents and children, ex wife, performer's life ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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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:
campy, realistic, semi serious, humorous, stylized ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
breakdance, dancing, street kid, club, high school, friends, couples, family relations, follow your dream, contests and competitions, love and romance, performer's life ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, usa, ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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, performance, teenage girl, choir, contest ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good, touching
Plot:
love affair, love triangle, dancing, high society, adopted son, estate, couples, friends, love and romance, actor's life, desire for fame, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
austria
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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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:
semi serious, realistic, stylized, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
showbiz, dancing, love, couples, artists and showbiz, ambition, rising to stardom, actor's life, couple relations, love and romance, lifestyle, filmmaking ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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, campy, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot:
surfing, beach party, beach, music festival, silly humor, disorder, friends, lifestyle, love and romance, contests and competitions, performer's life, ambition ...
Time:
60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Music, Musical
Country: Canada, USA
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, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic
Audience:
teens, family outing, chick flick, girls' night, kids ...
Plot:
friendship, girl group, high school, coming of age, showbiz, teenager, follow your dream, musician's life, fashion, disney, rising to stardom, music band ...
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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, feel good, humorous, realistic
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
friendship, family relations, human nature, best friends, introspection, love and romance, couples, mother daughter relationship, single mother, friends, friend, dancing ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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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:
feminist film, humorous, stylized, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
stripper, theater, dancing, domineering mother, art, showbiz, family relations, ambition, dysfunctional family, parents and children, nightlife, friends ...
Time:
1930s, 1920s
Place:
texas, new york, ohio, seattle, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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:
touching, feel good, realistic, humorous, witty ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
ambition, musician, love and romance, rise to the top, save the day, musician's life, youth, lifestyle, hopes, rising to stardom, teenage life, desire for fame ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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:
humorous, feel good, semi serious, realistic, touching ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, kids, chick flick, pre-teens
Plot:
rivalry, disney, contests and competitions, follow your dream, hopes, rising to stardom, friendship, love and romance, family life, teenager, teenage girl, female friendship ...
Place:
asia, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Four socialites unexpectedly clash: heiress Brooke Carter runs into gambler Johnny Spanish at the race track while playboy Michael O. Pritchard nearly runs into stage star Kitty O'Kelly with his car. Backstage at Kitty's show, it turns out ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous, stylized ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
gambling, singer, fall in love, love and romance, artists and showbiz, master and servant, performer's life, lifestyle, couples, chauffeur, party, dancing ...
Time:
1930s
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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:
semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous, sentimental
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
ambition, fall in love, teenage life, youth, rivalry, love and romance, contests and competitions, camp, summer, tough heroes, rock, rock music ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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, semi serious, realistic, touching ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
christmas, family relations, ambition, church choir, couples, love and romance, holiday, small town, contests and competitions, artists and showbiz, christmas season, country singer ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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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:
feel good, humorous, talky, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, kids
Plot:
summer camp, gay, coming of age, dancing, lgbt, love and romance, teenage love, friendship, artists and showbiz, rock, love triangle, honest ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new jersey, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A girl in the 1970s dreams of becoming a ballerina while struggling with the divorce of her kooky parents.
Style:
sincere, light, humorous, entertaining, twisted ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
teenage girl, sex, teenage life, sexual relations, love and romance, parents and children, teenage love, artists and showbiz, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, father daughter relationship, teen angst, family relations ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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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:
sentimental, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night, pre-teens ...
Plot:
summer camp, rivalry, camp, teenage life, artists and showbiz, ambition, music band, teenage love, singing competition, friendship, friends, underdog ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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, touching, humorous
Plot:
jail, hitchhiker, country music, friends, disorder, couples, lifestyle, innocence lost, partners, nothing goes right, artists and showbiz, ambition ...
Time:
90s
Place:
australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Elspeth Dickens dreams of finding her "voice" despite being stuck in an isolated farmhouse with her twin toddlers. A web-cam becomes her pathway to fame and fortune, but at a price.
Style:
sentimental, feel good, semi serious, humorous, realistic
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
follow your dream, lifestyle, ambition, rising to stardom, musician's life, showbiz, twins, hopes, parents and children, artists and showbiz, girl, theater ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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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, feel good, light, exciting, christian film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
high school, church, rivalry, music band, follow your dream, lifestyle, friends, ambition, teachers and students, teenage love, save the day, choir ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Fantasy, Romance, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 120 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
Audience:
family outing, teens
Plot:
christmas, ghost, unlikely couple, supernatural, couples, change of heart, workplace situations, nothing goes right, lifestyle, performer's life, self discovery, introspection ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Movies like Let It Shine
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A small town girl and a city boy meet on the Sunset Strip, while pursuing their Hollywood dreams.
Style:
entertaining, feel good, humorous, sexy, romantic ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
rock, dancing, music, rock and roll, gay, teenager, music business, ambition, nostalgia, young love, betrayal, love story ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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:
realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous
Plot:
friends, couples, family relations, unfulfillment, love and romance, crumbling marriage, artists and showbiz, breakup, friendship, french countryside, divorced couple, songwriter ...
Time:
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34%
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:
family relations, lifestyle, love affair, couples, love and romance, musician's life, actor's life, comedy of errors, parents and children, wooing, life is a bitch, down on your luck ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, middle east, egypt
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
204
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Aspiring writer (with no talent) gets a job on a TV commercial, falls for an advertising executive.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, feel good, witty, humorous
Audience:
date night
Plot:
writers, couples, disorder, love triangle, down on your luck, opposites attract, lifestyle, love and romance, nothing goes right, writer's life, artists and showbiz, male female relationship ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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:
touching, humorous, sentimental, feel good, semi serious ...
Plot:
friendship, teachers and students, elderly, self discovery, dancer's life, aging, golden years, widow, dancing, gay, lgbt, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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