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Stepping Out (1991)
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Stepping Out (1991)
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 a band in the local clubs, often with the very talented Mavis singing at his elbow. But, they are just two bit players, mostly because of his total lack of ambition. On the side, Mavis runs a dance studio for ordinary folks. In her classes, among others, are a lovely nurse, a librarian, a lady with an overbearing husband, a lady with an unemployed son, a bossy middle aged housewife (Julie Walters) and a lone, divorced, very shy male. The studio pianist is a strong-willed senior (Shelley Winters). One day, a woman who operates a more prominent dance school in Buffalo invites Mavis and her class to perform a number in a charity dance recital.
Style: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Audience: kids
Plot: dancing, dancer, broadway, dance class, teachers and students, church, human spirit, love and romance, ambition, lifestyle, underdog, artists and showbiz, dancer's life, performer's life, rising to stardom, power relations, female protagonist, dance, stage musical, show tunes
Time: year 1991, 90s, 20th century

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and feel good films with plots about love and romance, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, dancing, ambition, friends and dancer mostly in Comedy, Drama and Musical genres. Some movies like Stepping Out: Bye Bye Birdie (1995), Sunday School Musical (2008), The Boy Friend (1971), Company (2011), The Music Man (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Bye Bye Birdie (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 135 min.
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Sunday School Musical (2008)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
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The Boy Friend (1971)
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, realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good ...
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Time: 1920s, year 1971, 1930s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Company (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
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Style: semi serious, stylized, realistic, humorous, feel good
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Music Man (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Musical, Romance, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
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Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, sentimental, realistic
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Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Aspiring dancer Phoenix lives in the countryside with her father, but she's got her eyes set on farther places. Jumping at the chance to move to shiny Shanghai, she makes ends and dreams meet by working as a janitor at an elite dance studio ...
Style: realistic, feel good, semi serious, sincere, humorous
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Gypsy (1993)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 153 min.
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Six Dance Lessons In Six Weeks (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hungary, USA
Duration: 107 min.
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The Cheetah Girls: One World (2008)
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Man Who Came to Dinner (2000)
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35%
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Country: USA
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Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, humorous
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⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Duration: 102 min.
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34%
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Genre: Comedy, Musical
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⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Style: uplifting, captivating, feel good, touching, realistic ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
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32%
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Bootmen (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 95 min.
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31%
 5.9
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Lloyd (2001)
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Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
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Style: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Seven Days of Grace (2006)
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Country: USA
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Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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