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Life is to Whistle (1998)
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Life is to Whistle (1998)
Original name: La vida es silbar
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Cuba, Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Three characters in present-day Havana must choose between clinging to their self-restricting beliefs, or getting rid of them to live more freely. Ballerina Mariana has promised God celibacy if she gets the role of "Giselle"; Social-worker Julia always faints after hearing a certain word; and pot-smoking percussionist Elpidio was abandoned by his mother, coincidentally named Cuba, some time ago and has not yet gotten over the loss.
Style: surreal, realistic, semi serious
Plot: parallel story, orphan, celibacy, male nudity, petty theft, public nudity, pregnancy, youth, politics, family relations, destiny, love and romance, singleness, sexual relations, couples, looking for love, introspection, coming of age, political unrest, human nature, artists and showbiz, hopes, dancer's life, twentysomething life, love ...
Time: 90s, 2020s
Place: cuba, latin america, havana cuba
Keyword: cuban, peacock

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and touching films with plots about singer, singing, love and romance, song, dancer, dancing and father son relationship mostly in Drama, Comedy and Music genres. Some movies like Life is to Whistle: Twist and Shout (1984), Marguerite (2015), The Five Senses (1999), Aria (1987), 10,000 Saints (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Twist and Shout (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Denmark
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Danish teens come of age in 1963. Bjorn and Erik are close friends. Bjorn is pursued by Kirsten, a future Stepford wife, but he falls for Anna, who initiates him into love and sex. Erik is somber, caring for his home-bound mentally-ill mother while ...
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, sincere, sentimental ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, female nudity, traumatic childhood, age difference, adolescence, older woman younger man, family relations, pregnancy, friendship, dating, hide and seek, friends ...
Time: 80s, 60s, year 1963
Place: antwerp, denmark, copenhagen, scandinavia
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95%
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Marguerite (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France, Czech Republic, Belgium
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Paris in the 1920s. Marguerite Dumont is a wealthy woman with a passion for music and the opera. For years, she has performed regularly for a circle of guests. But Marguerite sings tragically out of tune and no one has ever told her. Her husband and ...
Style: light, sincere, captivating, humorous, crying
Plot: opera, eccentricity, delusion, secret, bad singing, money, fan, infidelity, opera singer, women, girl, dancing ...
Time: 1920s, year 1915, post world war one
Place: paris france, france
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89%
The Five Senses (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Three sets of tenants in a live/work building have daily lives and/or current stories acutely involving one or more of the five senses.
Style: touching, emotional, clever, psychological, erotic ...
Plot: loneliness, missing person, existentialism, melancholy, looking for love, love and romance, unfulfillment, family problems, food, voyeurism, psychology, polyamory ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: milan italy, toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
 5.7
 3K
Aria (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, and Nicolas Roeg. Each short uses an aria as soundtrack/sound (Vivaldi, Bach, Wagner), and is an interpretation of the ...
Style: anthology, mind bending, comedy drama, erotic, independent film ...
Plot: nudity, infidelity, male nudity, sex club, gay interest, cheating wife, bare chested male, male pubic hair, erotica, opera, making love, dancing ...
Time: year 1987, year 1931, 1930s, 18th century
Place: albania, vienna, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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10,000 Saints (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A sweeping multigenerational story set against the backdrop of the raw, roaring New York City of the late 1980s; adoption, teen pregnancy, drugs, hardcore punk rock, the unbridled optimism and reckless stupidity of the young—and old—are all ...
Style: sentimental, humorous, semi serious, touching, realistic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, teenage pregnancy, friendship, boy, pregnancy, parents and children, estrangement, city life, punk, rehabilitation, youth, drug abuse ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1980
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city, vermont
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71%
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Autumn Moon (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A Japanese tourist, Tokio, meets a 15-year-old Hong Kong girl and her grandmother left behind in Hong Kong while their family emmigrates to Canada.
Style: realistic, semi serious, touching, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: food, age-gap relationship, sex, autumn, restaurant, immigration, family relations, friendship, culture clash, immigrant, first time, grandparent grandchild relationship ...
Time: 90s, future
Place: hong kong, canada, asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Happily Ever After (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Is love compatible with coupledom? And what of freedom and fidelity? These are some of the questions facing two married men.
Style: witty, semi serious, humorous, sentimental, sex comedy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: midlife crisis, love, marriage, friendship, battle of the sexes, pregnancy, infidelity, introspection, lifestyle, love affair, buddies, crumbling marriage ...
Time: year 2004
Place: france, paris france
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63%
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: After Elizabeth's husband dies, she begins to play her tenor saxophone again, and remembers when she was 15 and a member of the Blonde Bombshells, an all-girl (with one exception) swing band. Accompanied by the exception and urged on by her ...
Style: humorous, sentimental, realistic, touching, semi serious ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: jazz, friendship, musician's life, music, starting over, love affair, showbiz, lifestyle, unfulfillment, fall in love, couple relations, father son relationship ...
Time: 1940s
Place: england, europe, london, scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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The Good Life (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: This humorous movie charts the life of a 14-year-old (Tristan) as he deals with some major issues in his life. At the beginning of the movie, he has already decided to dedicate his life to writing and losing his virginity (while his parents are away ...
Style: serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, sexual ...
Plot: coming of age, chess, age difference, family relations, prostitute, friendship, loss of virginity, friends, couples, self discovery, love and romance, youth ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: madrid, paris france
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62%
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Sueño (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A Mexican immigrant new to Los Angeles enters into a love triangle with two very different women.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching, freeze frame ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love triangle, family relations, love and romance, couples, relationship vs career, lifestyle, fall in love, single parent, musician's life, family business, unfulfilled love, father son relationship ...
Place: usa, los angeles, latin america, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
 7.0
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Danny Collins (2015)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: An ageing rock star decides to change his life when he discovers a 40-year-old letter written to him by John Lennon.
Style: sentimental, touching, inspirational, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: aging, rock star, musician's life, elderly, midlife crisis, transformation, musician, family relations, introspection, starting over, cancer, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 70s, year 2014, year 1971, 21st century
Place: new jersey, los angeles, usa, new york
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57%
Military Wives (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Inspired by global phenomenon of military wives choirs, the story celebrates a band of misfit women who form a choir on a military base. As unexpected bonds of friendship flourish, music and laughter transform their lives, helping each other to ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, sincere, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot: choir, friendship, british army, rivalry, little boy, fame, mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, father daughter relationship, british soldier, father son relationship, fear ...
Time: year 2010
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 5.8
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Adam & Steve (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Follows two New York city couples -- one heterosexual and one gay who explore the peaks and the valleys of their respective relationships.
Style: feel good, semi serious, independent film, clever, realistic ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: gay, couples, gays and lesbians, love and romance, lgbt, gay relationship, family relations, one night stand, nothing goes right, disorder, gay wedding, lgbtq ...
Time: year 1987, year 2004, 80s
Place: new york, greenwich village manhattan new york city, usa, new jersey, brooklyn new york city ...
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Baaria (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 163 min.
Story: Giuseppe Tornatore traces three generations of a Sicilian family in in the Sicilian town of Bagheria (known as Baarìa in the local Sicilian dialect), from the 1930s to the 1980s, to tell the story of the loves, dreams and delusions of an unusual ...
Style: atmospheric, sincere, touching, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: fascism, politics, communism, world war two, social differences, family life, small town, election, mafia, injustice, state affairs, hopes ...
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Place: sicily, italy, europe
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56%
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Hear My Song (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Singer Josef Locke fled to Ireland 25 years ago to escape the clutches of the tax man and police Chief Jim Abbott. What he also left behind was the love of his life Cathleen Doyle. Now, Micky O’Neill is desperate to save both his ailing Liverpool ...
Style: touching, road movie, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: date night
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Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: ireland, england, europe, pacific ocean, london
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The Last of the High Kings (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland, Denmark, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: It is 1977, Dublin rocks to the music of Thin Lizzy and the world is stunned by the death of Elvis Presley. Frankie, caught between acne and adulthood, has just completed his final exams in school. Convinced he will fail, he survives the summer ...
Style: humorous, light, talky, feel good, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: politics, coming of age, friendship, infidelity, self discovery, single parent, teenage love, cheerleader, teenage boy, male nudity, fall in love, misfit ...
Time: year 1996, 70s, year 1977, 90s
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, milwaukee wisconsin, massachusetts, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
The Thing Called Love (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Miranda Presley moves from New York to Nashville to become a songwriter. At an unsuccessful audition she meets James Wright, a promising newcomer. After only a few days they marry but start to quickly regret it.
Style: semi serious, feel good, sentimental, humorous, realistic ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: friendship, country music, bittersweet, love, couples, musician's life, couple relations, friends, twentysomething life, love and romance, artists and showbiz, hopes ...
Time: 90s, year 1993
Place: new york, tennessee, usa, connecticut, austin texas ...
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52%
Fisherman's Friends (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Ten fisherman from Cornwall are signed by Universal Records and achieve a top ten hit with their debut album of Sea Shanties. Based on the true-life story of Cornish folk band, Fisherman's Friends.
Style: feel good, realistic, semi serious, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot: fisherman, remote village, music, coastal town, friendship, choir, artist, musician, society, ambition, musician's life, rise to the top ...
Time: year 1968, year 2011, year 2010, year 1964
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⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Strictly Ballroom (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Brave new steps put Scott's career in jeopardy. With a new partner and determination, can he still succeed?
Style: romantic, humorous, sexy, melancholic, touching ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: dance, dancing, ballroom dancing, love story, love and romance, competition, partner, rise to the top, artists and showbiz, rivalry, ambition, female partner ...
Time: 20th century, year 1992, 90s
Place: australia, sydney australia
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As It Is in Heaven (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 133 min.
Story: A musical romantic tragedy about a famous composer who moves back to his small hometown after having had heart troubles. His search for a simple everyday life leads him into teaching the local church choir which is not easily accepted by the town ...
Style: touching, sincere, emotional, lyrical, inspirational ...
Plot: music, choir, bullying, character study, self discovery, village, musician's life, teachers and students, human nature, nordic, love, destiny ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, austria, milan italy, scandinavia, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Wild Rose (2018)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A young Scottish singer, Rose-Lynn Harlan, dreams of making it as a country artist in Nashville after being released from prison.
Style: sincere, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing, humorous ...
Audience: adult
Plot: country music, single mother, women's prison, bigger dreams, musician, singer, party, working class, mother daughter reunion, promise, rehearsal, released from prison ...
Time: year 2019, 2010s, year 1943
Place: nashville tennessee, glasgow scotland, scotland, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 6.8
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Paris (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Pierre, a professional dancer, suffers from a serious heart disease. While he is waiting for a transplant which may (or may not) save his life, he has nothing better to do than look at the people around him, from the balcony of his Paris apartment.
Style: atmospheric, sentimental, romantic, uplifting, semi serious ...
Plot: family relations, fall in love, city life, friendship, artist, self discovery, age difference, dancing, love, dancer, siblings, lsd ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe, montmartre paris
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 6.1
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Last Wedding (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Three couples in Vancouver navigate their relationships: first jobs, first crises, professional jealousy, an affair, and lack of communication. Noah and Zipporah marry after a brief courtship. She wants to be a singer and stalls out when she fails. ...
Style: humorous, touching, realistic, semi serious, erotic ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: infidelity, family relations, love affair, friendship, lifestyle, introspection, couples, family problems, looking for love, parents and children, human nature, hopes ...
Place: vancouver, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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The Son of Gascogne (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: You're a provincial kid in Paris and suddenly you're the center of attention: Movie stars, famous directors and sexy women are doting on you because they all think you're the son of their long-dead legendary friend. You never knew ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, feel good, offbeat, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: bad father, chase, filmmaking, mistaken identity, tour guide, restaurant, love and romance, dishonesty, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, hidden identity, twins ...
Time: 90s
Place: paris france, europe, france, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 7.4
 111K
August Rush (2007)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA, South Korea
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A drama with fairy tale elements, where an orphaned musical prodigy uses his gift as a clue to finding his birth parents.
Style: touching, inspirational, sentimental, feel good, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, kids, family friendly, family outing ...
Plot: music, musician, childhood, prodigy, orphan, child prodigy, dancing, child protagonist, genius, youth, chance meeting, children ...
Time: 2000s, year 2007, 80s, year 1995, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, chicago, xian, san francisco ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Alive and Kicking (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A passionately committed young dancer is forced to re-examine his career and life when faced with death, finding hope through an older man who becomes his lover, mentor and companion.
Style: touching, sentimental, semi serious, realistic, clever ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: gay, aids, bittersweet, lgbt, death, dancing, dance, hospital, hiv, glbt, lgbtq, pregnancy ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: greece, athens greece, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Songs from the Second Floor (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden, Norway, Denmark, France, Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A film poem inspired by the Peruvian poet César Vallejo. A story about our need for love, our confusion, greatness and smallness and, most of all, our vulnerability. It is a story with many characters, among them a father and his mistress, his ...
Style: surreal, black comedy, art house, philosophical, talky ...
Plot: surrealism, loneliness, multiple storylines, dark humor, existentialism, insanity, poetry, religions or cults, human nature, worldwide chaos, nordic, obsession ...
Time: 90s, 2000s
Place: russia, eastern europe, scandinavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Kings and Queen (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Nora Cotterelle, a woman in her 30s is caring for her ill father, Louis Jenssens. While Nora tries to present a facade that all is well with her life, she is twice divorced and has a son, Elias, whose father is dead. Nora's present relationship ...
Style: touching, serious, emotional, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot: terminal illness, adoption, family relations, parents and children, destiny, love and romance, single parent, couple relations, musician's life, life is a bitch, couples, husband wife relationship ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Acid House (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story: THE ACID HOUSE is a surreal triptych adapted by "Trainspotting" author Irvine Welsh from his acclaimed collection of short stories. Combining a vicious sense of humor with hard-talking drama, the film reaches into the hearts and minds of ...
Style: surreal, psychedelic, dark comedy, disturbing, humorous ...
Plot: drug abuse, lsd, surrealism, god, rave, breast feeding, dark humor, transformation, infidelity, murder, family relations, vandalism ...
Time: 90s
Place: scotland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
I'm Going Home (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The comfortable daily routines of aging Parisian actor Gilbert Valence, 76, are suddenly shaken when he learns that his wife, daughter, and son-in-law have been killed in a car crash. Having to take care of his now-orphaned grandson, he struggles to ...
Style: psychological, realistic, touching, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: old age, family problems, love and romance, actor's life, getting home, couples, couple relations, dealing with death, hopes, death in the family, male female relationship, love ...
Time: year 2001
Place: france, portugal, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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