Movies like Payday
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Payday (1973)
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A cynical look at the life of a not so nice country-western singer, Maury Dann - played by Rip Torn in one of his most memorable performances. He ruthlessly manipulates every one around him to suit his selfish needs...he even gets his limo driver to take the blame for the death of a fan which he stabbed.
Style:
light, psychological, tense, sincere, clever, serious, realistic, witty, talky, biting ...
Plot:
drug addiction, addiction, country music, music business, infidelity, mistress, music, friends, suspense, alcohol abuse, on the road, parents and children, love and romance, life is a bitch, couples, showbiz, country, ambition, rehabilitation, rise and fall, lifestyle, musician's life, drug abuse, artists and showbiz, unfulfillment ...
Time:
70s
Place:
usa, tennessee
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Most similar movies to Payday
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sincere films with plots about musician's life, artists and showbiz, music, ambition, lifestyle, singer and showbiz mostly in Drama, Music and Biography genres. Some movies like Payday: Shooting Livien (2005), Stardust (1974), King of Salsa (2006), What We Do Is Secret (2007), One-Trick Pony (1980). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A dark psychological drama, Shooting Livien explores the inner psyche of John Livien, a disillusioned New York musician who deals with a childhood trauma by claiming an alter ego. His band on the brink of success, fantasy becomes dangerously blurred ...
Style:
serious, realistic, bleak, psychological
Plot:
musician's life, drug abuse, addiction, music, life is a bitch, ambition, lifestyle, showbiz, nightlife, alcohol abuse, identity crisis, suspense ...
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Sequel to 1973's That'll Be The Day. Jim McLain is now enjoying the nomadic 'gigs and groupies' life on tour with his band. When he achieves all his wildest dreams of international stardom, the sweet taste of success begins to ...
Style:
serious, realistic, stylized, cult film
Plot:
rock and roll, music, musician, dancing, relationship vs career, celebrity culture, drug abuse, rock, showbiz, artists and showbiz, life is a bitch, music band ...
Time:
60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The rise and fall of salsa singer, Héctor Lavoe (1946-1993), as told from the perspective of his wife Puchi, who looks back from 2002.
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, disturbing, sentimental
Plot:
music, dancing, musician's life, artists and showbiz, ambition, showbiz, lifestyle, rise and fall, life is a bitch, drug abuse, salsa, drugs ...
Time:
70s, 60s
Place:
usa, new york, puerto rico
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A biopic of punk legend Darby Crash and his band, the Germs.
Style:
serious, realistic, tense, interesting
Plot:
punk, punk rock, music, musician's life, lifestyle, rising to stardom, nightlife, celebrity culture, drug abuse, rise and fall, life is a bitch, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
70s
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Jonah (Paul Simon) is an aging rock star trying to put together a new album in the face of an indifferent record label and a talentless producer. At the same time, he's struggling to save his failing marriage.
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, sincere, touching ...
Plot:
failed marriage, rock and roll, rock music, music business, musician's life, crumbling marriage, lifestyle, music band, human nature, music, aging, ambition ...
Time:
70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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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, ambition, artists and showbiz, musician's life, teaching the ways of the world, drug abuse, showbiz, celebrity culture, rock, elvis presley, fame ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Crazy is the story of a legendary guitar player who emerged from Nashville in the 1950s. Blessed with incomparable, natural talent, Hank Garland quickly established his reputation as the finest sessions player in Nashville.
Style:
serious, realistic, sincere, contemplative
Plot:
infidelity, womanizer, ambition, rise and fall, musician's life, desire for fame, rising to stardom, lifestyle, obsession, showbiz, relationship vs career, drug addiction ...
Time:
1940s, 70s, 50s, 60s, 20th century
Place:
tennessee, chicago illinois, usa, florida, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
A Star Is Born is a 1976 rock music film telling the story of a young woman, played by Barbra Streisand who enters show business, and meets and falls in love with an established male star, played by Kris Kristofferson, only to find her career ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, sentimental, touching ...
Plot:
music, tragic love, drug addiction, dancing, rock and roll, women, rock star, fame, self discovery, rise and fall, friends, couples ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
usa, california, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The story of the country and western singer Hank Williams.
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, sentimental, sincere ...
Plot:
singer, rock and roll, country music, alcohol abuse, songwriter, bittersweet, remarry, new year, relationship vs career, showbiz, country, musician's life ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
alabama
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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, desire for fame, musician's life, love and romance, music, lifestyle, rise to the top, americana, ambition, hopes, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
tennessee, usa, austin texas, dallas texas, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Movies like What's Love Got to Do with It
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, melancholic, serious, sincere, realistic ...
Plot:
music, addiction, dysfunctional family, drugs, musician's life, redemption, eccentricity, life is a bitch, artists and showbiz, human nature, estrangement, sisters ...
Time:
90s
Place:
seattle, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 57 min.
Story:
A fictionalized account of what may have happened when John Lennon and Brian Epstein went on holiday together to Spain in 1963.
Style:
realistic, serious, talky, sincere, queer cinema
Plot:
the beatles, lgbtq, gay couple, friendship, unfulfilled love, celebrity culture, couple relations, twentysomething life, alcohol abuse, couples, friends, crumbling marriage ...
Time:
90s, 60s
Place:
spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Chronicles the rise and fall of pop king Michael Jackson.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching
Plot:
rise and fall, ambition, music, rising to stardom, performer's life, showbiz, musician's life, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, singer, reputation, pop star ...
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
"Meat Loaf" Aday is an overgrown Texas youngster, the son of a gentle woman dying of cancer and an alcoholic, abusive father. Tormented by his father and schoolmates over his size, he strikes out on his own after his mother's death, ...
Style:
realistic, sincere, touching, captivating, semi serious
Plot:
showbiz, ambition, rise to the top, desire for fame, rising to stardom, life is a bitch, love and romance, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, musician's life, music band, curses spells and rituals ...
Time:
70s
Place:
usa, texas, dallas texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 168 min.
Story:
Biographical movie about the famous rock singer Elvis Presley.
Style:
realistic, touching, emotional, serious, sentimental ...
Plot:
elvis presley, music, rock music, musician's life, price of fame, celebrity culture, rags to riches, desire for fame, music band, showbiz, lifestyle, ambition ...
Time:
50s, 60s
Place:
las vegas, mississippi
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Crazy Heart similar movies
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Midler is the rock-and-roll singer Mary Rose Foster (known as the Rose to her legions of fans), whose romantic relationships and mental health are continuously imperiled by the demands of life on the road.
Style:
sexy, talky, road movie, intense, melancholic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
addiction, rock and roll, rock band, love, musician, women, alcohol abuse, rock, drug abuse, music, bittersweet, blues ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1969, 70s
Place:
new york, usa, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Soon after the rising young singer-songwriter Beau Williams gets involved with a fallen, emotionally unstable country star Kelly Canter, the pair embark on a career resurrection tour helmed by her husband/manager James and featuring a beauty ...
Style:
romantic, melancholic, intense, serious, sentimental ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
country music, infidelity, dancing, love triangle, twists and turns, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, musician's life, ambition, showbiz, love and romance, musician ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, tennessee, las vegas, usa, dallas texas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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, sexy, light, talky, satirical ...
Plot:
music, racism, rock and roll, african american, gangsters, friendship, blaxploitation, drug addiction, music business, corruption, musician, twists and turns ...
Time:
60s, 70s, 20th century
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Prey for Rock & Roll is set in the Los Angeles club scene of the late 1980s and follows the story of Jacki (Gershon) and her all-girl punk rock band, Clam Dandy. On the verge of turning 40, Jacki decides that if the band's one last shot ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, cynical, serious, sexy ...
Plot:
lesbian, revenge, rape, female musician, music band, ambition, musician's life, rise and fall, inspiration, lifestyle, life is a bitch, showbiz ...
Time:
80s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Spain, Cuba, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
When Spanish record producers express interest in Cuban musicians Ruy and Tito, the longtime friends are faced with the prospect of leaving their loved ones behind. After years of hoping and dreaming, they've finally earned the opportunity to ...
Style:
realistic, touching, sincere, emotional, semi serious ...
Plot:
ambition, musician's life, friends, music band, follow your dream, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, music, immigrants, couples, musician, latin ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
cuba, usa, latin america, havana cuba
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Movies similar to Rock Star
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, sincere, captivating, psychological, serious
Plot:
hip hop, desire for fame, rising to stardom, moral dilemma, ambition, artists and showbiz, radio dj, follow your dream, musician's life, music, strong female presence, producer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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:
serious, realistic, sentimental, touching
Plot:
african american, drug addiction, girl group, showbiz, black history, black cast, ambitious woman, women, rock and roll, gangsters, alcohol abuse, performer ...
Time:
50s, 20th century
Place:
new york, africa, harlem, new york city, usa, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Biography of Loretta Lynn, a country and western singer that came from poverty to fame.
Style:
sentimental, touching, emotional, realistic, feel good ...
Plot:
country music, music, female protagonist, poverty, singer, musician, rags to riches, music business, rising to stardom, women, human spirit, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 20th century, 50s
Place:
usa, kentucky, nashville tennessee, washington state, appalachia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A film about the life and career of the early rock and roll star.
Style:
humorous, feel good, enigmatic, talky, entertaining ...
Plot:
music, musician, rock, singer, rock music, showbiz, air disaster, tragedy, runaway, life & death, lone hero, suspense ...
Time:
50s, 70s, 80s, 20th century
Place:
texas, austin texas, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A Russian woman living in Memphis with a much older rock-n-roll legend experiences a personal awakening when her husband's estranged son comes to visit.
Style:
emotional, sincere, realistic, serious, erotic ...
Plot:
love affair, love triangle, infidelity, sex with stepmother, family relations, family problems, crumbling marriage, couples, estrangement, parents and children, fall in love, love and romance ...
Place:
usa, tennessee, memphis, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 161 min.
Story:
Saxophone player Charlie Parker comes to New York in 1940. He is quickly noticed for his remarkable way of playing. He becomes a drug addict but his loving wife Chan tries to help him.
Style:
atmospheric, psychological, gloomy, sexy, factual ...
Plot:
jazz, music, heroin, addiction, childhood, drug abuse, showbiz, musician, tragedy, rock and roll, character study, african american ...
Time:
1940s, 50s, 20th century
Place:
africa, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Alchoholic former country singer Mac Sledge makes friends with a young widow and her son. The friendship enables him to find inspiration to resume his career.
Style:
sentimental, emotional, touching, realistic, atmospheric ...
Audience:
date night, family outing
Plot:
country music, music, character study, self discovery, small town, comeback, musician's life, starting over, divorce, love and romance, couples, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
texas, austin texas, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A Tennessee-set drama focused on an individual's spiritual redemption.
Style:
semi serious, atmospheric, captivating, psychological, talky ...
Plot:
friends, self discovery, on the road, music, musician's life, friendship, americana, haunted by the past, blues, journey, blaxploitation, alcohol abuse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
tennessee, texas, usa, alabama, nashville tennessee
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
A week in the life of a young drug addict.
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, witty ...
Plot:
addiction, drug addiction, downfall, rehabilitation, life is a bitch, lifestyle, hopes, drug dealing, fired from the job, couples, going straight, prostitute ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Biography of rock star Jimi Hendrix chronicles his early career, including a stint with Little Richard who fired him for getting too flamboyant, to his tragic failure.
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, gloomy
Plot:
musician's life, ambition, prodigy, rising to stardom, music band, tragic hero, artists and showbiz, rise and fall, life is a bitch, drug abuse, overdose, hotshot hero ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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