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Beat Street (1984)
5K
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
An aspiring DJ, from the South Bronx, and his best friend, a promoter, try to get into show business by exposing people to hip-hop music and culture.
Style:
hood, independent film, grim, intense, serious, realistic, light, bloody, melancholic, affectionate ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hip hop, graffiti, dancing, subway, rap, gangster, urban, black, ghetto, music, christmas, gang, clubbing, street gang, subculture, city, discrimination, street art, african, teen angst, youth culture, blaxploitation, street gangster, youth, college ...
Time:
80s, 70s
Place:
new york, usa, bronx new york city, california, israel, san francisco, tokyo
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, feel good and hood films with plots about hip hop, urban, artists and showbiz, music, ambition, dancing and youth mostly in Music, Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like Beat Street: Breakin' (1984), Empire (2015), Stomp the Yard 2: Homecoming (2010), Feel the Noise (2007), Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A struggling young dancer joins forces with two breakdancers and together they become a street sensation.
Style:
cult classic, hood, grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
dancing, hip hop, breakdance, music, redneck, dj, gangster, ghetto, cannon, street kid, dance, urban ...
Time:
80s
Place:
los angeles, australia, tokyo, california
Similarity:
100%
42K
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
A powerful family drama about the head of a music empire whose three sons and ex-wife all battle for his throne.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, exciting, soap opera ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
music, music business, hip hop, artists and showbiz, gay son, rapper, african american family, gay, ceo, musician's life, hip hop culture, sibling rivalry ...
Time:
2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
indiana, idaho, new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Chance Harris looks to find a balance between his school, work, relationships and opportunity to perform at the nationally televised step competition during homecoming weekend at Truth University.
Style:
serious, feel good, captivating, realistic, independent film
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
dance, dancing, hip hop, dancer's life, contests and competitions, college life, lifestyle, rivalry, ambition, student life, artists and showbiz, black college ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
After a run-in with local thugs, aspiring Harlem rapper Rob flees to a place and father he never knew, and finds his salvation in Reggaeton, a spicy blend of hip-hop, reggae and Latin beats. Puerto Rico, the spiritual home of Reggaeton, inspires Rob ...
Style:
realistic, feel good, hood, serious
Audience:
teens
Plot:
rapper, dancer's life, dance, culture clash, fish out of water, society, ambition, youth, human spirit, music, lifestyle, rivalry ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, puerto rico, latin america
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Music
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A tale of an inner city drug dealer who turns away from crime to pursue his passion, rap music.
Style:
hood, stylized, harsh, serious, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hip hop, ghetto, rap, rapper, gangster, urban ghetto life, redemption, music, urban, rags to riches, male pubic hair, gang ...
Time:
year 2005, 80s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A tight-knit group of New York City street dancers, including Luke and Natalie, team up with NYU freshman Moose, and find themselves pitted against the world's best hip hop dancers in a high-stakes showdown that will change their lives forever.
Style:
romantic, teen, serious, breathtaking, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
dancing, dance, dancer's life, street dance, happy ending, young lovers, hip hop, teenage girl, contests and competitions, love and romance, dance club, high school ...
Time:
year 2010, 70s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
When rebellious street dancer Andie lands at the elite Maryland School of the Arts, she finds herself fighting to fit in while also trying to hold onto her old life. When she joins forces with the schools hottest dancer, Chase, to form a crew of ...
Style:
romantic, teen, entertaining, captivating, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, date night, family friendly, girls' night, chick flick ...
Plot:
dancing, dancer, dance, ballet, dancer's life, dance contest, street dance, hip hop, contests and competitions, music, love and romance, breakdance ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
maryland, baltimore, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
All-stars from the previous Step Up installments come together in glittering Las Vegas, battling for a victory that could define their dreams and their careers.
Style:
romantic, erotic, sexy, teen, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
dancing, dance, hip hop, music, dance contest, rivalry, follow your dream, dialogue, competition, love and romance, teenager, uninhibited rivalry ...
Time:
2010s, 18th century, 21st century
Place:
las vegas, usa, nevada
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music, Musical
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
In 1987, five young men, using brutally honest rhymes and hardcore beats, put their frustration and anger about life in the most dangerous place in America into the most powerful weapon they had: their music. Taking us back to where it all began, ...
Style:
realistic, hood, intense, clever, inspirational ...
Audience:
manly
Plot:
hip hop, racism, music, ghetto, gangster, redemption, rap, rags to riches, profanity, rapper, african american, gang ...
Time:
90s, year 2015, 2010s, year 1990, year 1995 ...
Place:
los angeles, california, milwaukee wisconsin, usa, detroit ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Emily arrives in Miami with aspirations to become a professional dancer. She sparks with Sean, the leader of a dance crew whose neighborhood is threatened by Emily's father's development plans.
Style:
romantic, entertaining, teen, sexy, light ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, date night, family friendly, girls' night
Plot:
dancing, dance, dancer, dancer's life, teenager, hip hop, music, teenage love, competition, teenage girl, happy ending, teenage life ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
usa, miami, florida, canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A group of rock-music-loving students, with the help of the Ramones, take over their school to combat its newly installed oppressive administration.
Style:
grindhouse, teen, cult classic, hilarious, psychotronic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
rock and roll, high school, rock, music, punk rock, punk, school, youth, adolescence, rebellion, rock music, college ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
los angeles, north america, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Russell Walker is a young, successful manager of rap performers, handling acts for the Krush Groove label, including Run-DMC and The Fat Boys. When Run-D.M.C. has a hit record and Russell needs more money to press more copies, he borrows it from a ...
Style:
hood, black comedy, grim, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
hip hop, breakdance, black, blaxploitation, dancing, urban, black man, black girl, hip hop culture, clubbing, youth culture, teen angst ...
Time:
year 1985, 80s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
At Mr. Rad's Warehouse, the best hip-hop crews in Los Angeles compete for money and respect. But when a suburban crew crashes the party, stealing their dancers - and their moves - two warring friends have to pull together to represent the ...
Style:
intense, stylized, humorous, hood, inspirational ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
hip hop, dancing, street dance, dance, breakdance, competition, friendship, music, betrayal, follow your dream, rivalry, black ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
40%
692
Genre: Drama, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
An ex-con and break-dancer helps save a neighborhood from a greedy developer while trying to win a rap contest.
Style:
independent film, crime drama, feel good, grindhouse, grim
Plot:
hip hop, breakdance, urban, rap, ex convict, music competition, neighborhood, nostalgia, friendship, underdog, talent show, street dance ...
Time:
80s, year 1985
Place:
new york
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
After the death of his younger brother, a troubled 19-year-old street dancer from Los Angeles is able to bypass juvenile hall by enrolling in the historically black, Truth University in Atlanta, Georgia. But his efforts to get an education and woo ...
Style:
captivating, exciting, touching, hood, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
dancing, music, street dance, dance, hip hop, competition, high school, black, campus, teenage love, university, black college ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, atlanta georgia
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Nemesis is the hottest rapper in rap's hottest city; Miami, the 305. But he has a little secret...he's not really a rapper. A record label discovers Nate's talent, and offers to make him a star, as a rapper. They create Nemesis, a Hip ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, captivating, disturbing, inspirational ...
Plot:
hip hop, jazz, rivalry, rise to the top, gangster, music, artists and showbiz, showbiz, society, ambition, desire for fame, rise and fall ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
florida, miami, usa
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Action, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Trying to bootstrap his way out of Brooklyn's mean streets is Diamond, a rap musician. With his long-time pal Gage acting as his manager, he's trying to lay down a demo tape with cut-rate studio time. To pay the bills, he and Gage run ...
Style:
disturbing, realistic, serious, rough, hood ...
Plot:
hip hop, gang, friendship, musician's life, lifestyle, addiction, social decay, down on your luck, juvenile delinquency, artists and showbiz, going straight, drug dealing ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
32%
49K
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Honey Daniels (Jessica Alba) dreams of making a name for herself as a hip-hop choreographer. When she's not busy hitting downtown clubs with her friends, she teaches dance classes at a nearby community center in Harlem, N.Y., as a way to keep ...
Style:
sexy, inspirational, teen, exciting, semi serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, teens, chick flick, kids ...
Plot:
dancing, hip hop, music, dance, street dance, choreographer, love and romance, lifestyle, teenager, hopes, starting over, young lovers ...
Time:
year 2003, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york, harlem, new york city, harlem
Similarity:
32%
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Follows a day in the life of two men living at either end of the music game. A successful rapper, A-Maze, is dealing with the pitfalls and trappings of his success and facing new challenges in the music business to get a check while the other, Young ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough, independent film ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
hip hop, ambition, rivalry, profanity, urban, music, musician's life, artists and showbiz, desire for fame, showbiz, rap, music industry ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
miami, orlando florida, usa
Similarity:
32%
348K
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The setting is Detroit in 1995. The city is divided by 8 Mile, a road that splits the town in half along racial lines. A young white rapper, Jimmy "B-Rabbit" Smith Jr. summons strength within himself to cross over these arbitrary ...
Style:
inspirational, sexy, realistic, serious, harsh ...
Audience:
girls' night, boys' night, teens
Plot:
hip hop, underdog, music, rap, follow your dream, musician, urban ghetto life, success, urban ghetto, street gang, musician's life, trailer park ...
Time:
year 2002, 90s, year 1995, y2k, 2000s ...
Place:
detroit, michigan, los angeles, america, usa
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Kid'N'Play leave their neighborhood and enter the world of adulthood and higher education. Play attempts to get rich quick in the music business while Kid faces the challenges of college.
Style:
hood, independent film, humorous, black comedy, rom com ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
hip hop, college, black, urban, ghetto, party, friendship, gangster, black college, blaxploitation, campus, african american ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The most feared battle emcee in early-'80s NYC was a fierce teenager from the Queensbridge projects with the weight of the world on her shoulders. At age 14, hustling the streets to provide for her family, Roxanne Shanté was well on her way to ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, hood
Plot:
longing, hip hop, ambition, rise to the top, gang, black, strong female character, life is a bitch, ghetto, homeless, african, poverty ...
Place:
indiana
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Street dancer Skyler comes out of the shadow of her trained dancer sister, Tosha, & joins a dance competition with the Honey dance studio; the prize is a college scholarship.
Style:
sincere, inspirational, captivating, entertaining, romantic
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
hip hop, ambition, follow your dream, dance, friendship, creativity, youth, rivalry, artists and showbiz, life philosophy, human spirit, choreographer ...
Similarity:
31%
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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:
realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, entertaining ...
Plot:
black, african american, drug addiction, girl group, showbiz, urban, performer, female protagonist, singing, musician, girl power, african ...
Time:
year 1976, 50s, 20th century, 1950s
Place:
new york, harlem, new york city, usa, harlem, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
The film is a day in the life of a young artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat, who needs to raise money to reclaim the apartment from which he has been evicted. He wanders the downtown streets carrying a painting he hopes to sell, encountering friends, ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, witty, contemplative, atmospheric ...
Plot:
art, artist, prodigy, profanity, musician's life, twentysomething life, graffiti, art history, punk, street life, african, painting ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, africa
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Hip Hop duo Kid & Play return in the second follow-up to their 1990 screen debut House Party. Kid (Christopher "Kid" Reid) is taking the plunge and marrying his girlfriend Veda (Angela Means), while his friend Play (Christopher ...
Style:
hood, black comedy, rom com, independent film, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
hip hop, ghetto, gangster, urban, black, music, party, black girl, discrimination, street crime, high school romance, stoner ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Sequel to the 2003 dance movie Honey. Recently released from juvenile detention, talented dancer Maria Ramirez finds an outlet for her passion with a new dance crew.
Style:
captivating, feel good, touching, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
dance, dancing, street dance, dancer's life, juvenile delinquency, dance school, music, dancer, hip hop, rise to the top, female protagonist, lifestyle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
bronx new york city, new york, usa
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Three dance crews – one Latin American, one European and one Canadian – prepare to battle at the International Beat the World competition in Detroit. Along the way, they struggle with gambling debt, bad break-ups and their own egos. In the final ...
Style:
realistic, stylized, exciting, serious, independent film
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
street dance, dance, dancer's life, lifestyle, dancing, friendship, youth, rivalry, buddies, world spanning, friends, hopes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
detroit, usa
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Ex-con attempting to go straight runs across serious problems. His girlfriend gets arrested for dealing crack to an undercover police officer. In a desperate attempt to get the charges dropped against his woman, he strikes deal with weapons cop to ...
Style:
hood, grim, crime drama, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
urban, ghetto, hip hop, gang, arms dealing, black, kids in trouble, african american, police, poverty, troubled youth, rap ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
An hour before the five best Dutch dance crews fly to a contest in New York, the subsidized trip is cancelled. Five dancers from totally different crews don't want to give up their free plane ticket and go anyway. In New York they realize what ...
Style:
exciting, serious, feel good, realistic
Audience:
teens
Plot:
follow your dream, dancer's life, contests and competitions, youth, friendship, disorder, lifestyle, music, hopes, hip hop, infidelity, dancing ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
30%
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