Movies like Born to Be Blue

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Born to Be Blue (2015)
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Born to Be Blue (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Jazz legend Chet Baker finds love and redemption when he stars in a movie about his own troubled life to mount a comeback.
Style: touching, exciting, thought provoking, captivating, visually stunning, colorful, rockumentary, weird
Plot: jazz musician, jazz, biopic, historical figure, musician, trust, promise, friendship, jealousy, father daughter relationship, flashback, drinking, love and romance, music, drinking alcohol, dancing, art, addiction, melancholy, transformation, stage play, famous people, trumpet player, sex, chess ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 90s, year 1966, year 1988, year 1954, 1950s ...
Place: usa, los angeles, new york, california, manhattan new york city, oklahoma
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and captivating films with plots about biopic, singer, music, drinking, dancing, musician and drink mostly in Drama, Biography and Music genres. Some movies like Born to Be Blue: Miles Ahead (2015), Low Down (2014), Sid and Nancy (1986), Ray (2004), Respect (2021). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Miles Ahead (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An exploration of the life and music of Miles Davis.
Style: touching, psychological, tense, captivating, historical drama ...
Plot: jazz, musician, biopic, trumpet player, historical figure, black, music, pursuit, african american, nightclub, party, drinking ...
Time: 70s
Place: manhattan new york city, usa, new york
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Low Down (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: The daughter of jazz pianist Joe Albany witnesses her beloved father's struggle -- and failure -- to kick his heroin habit.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, aesthetic ...
Plot: jazz, asthma, music, addiction, heroin, pianist, coming of age, artists and showbiz, daughter, parents and children, family relations, biopic ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 2014, 60s, year 1988 ...
Place: usa, los angeles
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Sid and Nancy (1986)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Following their breakout success in England, flagship punk rock band the Sex Pistols venture out on their first U.S. tour. Temperamental bassist Sid Vicious takes his troubled girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, along for the ride. Along the way, the ...
Style: bloody, cult classic, disturbing, independent film, psychedelic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: punk, addiction, rock and roll, drug abuse, heroin, drug addiction, biopic, punk rock, couples, musician, heroin addict, drug ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1986
Place: new york, london, paris france, england, usa ...
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72%
 7.7
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Ray (2004)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 152 min.
Story: Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by a fiercely independent mom who insisted he make his own way, He found his calling and his gift behind a piano keyboard. Touring across the Southern ...
Style: inspirational, touching, sincere, emotional, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: jazz, addiction, musician, musician's life, music, african american, blindness, biopic, pianist, disability, blind character, heroin ...
Time: year 2004, 1930s, 20th century, 60s, 50s ...
Place: georgia, new york, indianapolis indiana, california, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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Respect (2021)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 145 min.
Story: The rise of Aretha Franklin’s career from a child singing in her father’s church’s choir to her international superstardom.
Style: captivating, uplifting, factual, disturbing, emotional ...
Plot: biopic, rape, showbiz, blues, celebrity, african american, black, musician, concert, rising to stardom, fame, musician's life ...
Time: 60s, 70s, 20th century, year 2019, 1950s ...
Place: usa, los angeles, madison square garden manhattan new york city, atlanta georgia, paris france ...
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59%
Lady Sings the Blues (1972)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story: Chronicles the rise and fall of legendary blues singer Billie Holiday. Her late childhood, stint as a prostitute, early tours, marriages and drug addiction are featured.
Style: realistic, retro, intellectual, serious, touching ...
Plot: jazz, biopic, african american, drug abuse, music, blaxploitation, drug addiction, black, racism, blues, musician, singer ...
Time: 1930s, year 1972, 1940s, 20th century, 70s
Place: america, harlem, new york city, usa, new york, baltimore ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 7.4
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Love & Mercy (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: The life of reclusive and eccentric Beach Boys songwriter and musician Brian Wilson.
Style: factual, emotional, intense, melancholic, talky ...
Plot: mental illness, musician, music, pop music, biopic, psychotherapist, rock music, songwriter, drug abuse, addiction, showbiz, medical malpractice ...
Time: 60s, 80s, year 2014, year 2016, 2010s ...
Place: california, los angeles, usa, malibu california, southern california
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Liverpool, 1978: What starts as a vibrant affair between a legendary femme-fatale, the eccentric Academy Award-winning actress Gloria Grahame, and her young lover, British actor Peter Turner, quickly grows into a deeper relationship, with Turner ...
Style: thought provoking, touching, melancholic, captivating, neo noir
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, doctor, terminal illness, promise, dying, breast cancer, femme fatale, lie, mother daughter relationship, actress, life is a bitch, love ...
Time: year 2017, year 1979, 70s, year 1981, 80s
Place: liverpool, los angeles, california, england, new york ...
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52%
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Bird (1988)
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, factual, stylized, realistic ...
Plot: jazz, music, biopic, drug abuse, addiction, heroin, musician's life, drug addict, character study, childhood, showbiz, musician ...
Time: 1940s, year 1988, 1950s, 20th century, 50s
Place: usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: An acclaimed stage performer, Dorothy still struggled with the challenge of her color, in a time that wouldn't let some stars in by the front door. Yet against the odds she beat out many more famous rivals for the role of "Carmen ...
Style: cult classic, contemplative, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: biopic, racism, black, hollywood, women, rape, african american, filmmaking, women of color, sexual abuse, interracial romance, post war ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 1940s, 50s, 1950s
Place: usa, miami beach, new york, miami, las vegas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 7.1
 39K
Nowhere Boy (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The drama tells the story of Lennon's teenage years and the start of his journey to becoming a successful musician. The story also examines the impact on his early life and personality of the two dominant females in his childhood
Style: sentimental, intense, emotional, sincere, witty ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: musician's life, music, rock and roll, coming of age, the beatles, follow your dream, biopic, prodigy, adolescence, rock, dysfunctional family, artist ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, 60s, 1940s, 1950s ...
Place: europe, england, liverpool, hamburg germany, new zealand
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 6.8
 61K
I'm Not There (2007)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Germany, Canada, USA, France, UK
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Six actors portray six personas of music legend Bob Dylan in scenes depicting various stages of his life, chronicling his rise from unknown folksinger to international icon and revealing how Dylan constantly reinvented himself.
Style: non-linear, meditative, stylized, talky, lyrical ...
Plot: music, musician, biopic, actor, poet, rock, musician's life, art, brutality, african american, artist, drug addiction ...
Time: 60s, 70s, 2000s, year 2007, 90s ...
Place: usa, minnesota, new york, manhattan new york city, california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 7.6
 90K
La Vie en Rose (2007)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, UK, Czech Republic
Duration: 140 min.
Story: A swirling, impressionistic portrait of an artist who regretted nothing, writer-director Olivier Dahan's La Vie en Rose stars Marion Cotillard in a blazing performance as the legendary French icon Edith Piaf. From the mean streets of the ...
Style: touching, disturbing, atmospheric, gloomy, melancholic ...
Plot: music, musician's life, singer, biopic, death, musician, childhood, art, artist, love story, rising to stardom, loss of child ...
Time: 20th century, year 2007, 1940s, 90s, 1910s ...
Place: france, europe, paris france, new york, montmartre paris ...
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45%
 4.4
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Stardust (2020)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story: David Bowie went to America for the first time to promote his third album, The Man Who Sold the World. There, he embarked on a coast-to-coast publicity tour. During this tour, Bowie came up with the idea of his iconic Ziggy Stardust character, ...
Style: lyrical, melancholic, touching, disturbing, retro ...
Plot: musician, biopic, musician's life, music business, friendship, rock and roll, character study, follow your dream, honest, unlikely friendships, bittersweet, creativity ...
Time: year 1971, year 1972, 70s
Place: ohio, new york, london, washington d.c., los angeles
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45%
 6.7
 15K
Beyond the Sea (2004)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Musical
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Based on the life and career of legendary entertainer, Bobby Darin, the biopic moves back and forth between his childhood and adulthood, to tell the tale of his remarkable life. Kevin Spacey did his own singing for Beyond the Sea, recreating Bobby ...
Style: sentimental, touching, stylized, intense, realistic ...
Plot: music, biopic, showbiz, musician, musician's life, lifestyle, singer, ambition, rising to stardom, rise and fall, nightclub, dancing ...
Time: 50s, year 2004, 60s, 20th century, 1950s
Place: usa, las vegas, pacific ocean, new york, italy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Sylvie's Love (2020)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: When a young woman meets an aspiring saxophonist in her father’s record shop in 1950s Harlem, their love ignites a sweeping romance that transcends changing times, geography, and professional success.
Style: romantic, captivating, emotional, period drama
Plot: love, music, black, african american, black history, fall in love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, dancing, male female relationship, musician, love and romance, relationships ...
Time: 2020s, year 1957, 1950s, 60s, year 1967 ...
Place: new york, detroit, manhattan new york city, harlem, atlanta georgia
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42%
 6.4
 13K
The High Note (2020)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK, USA, China
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Set in the dazzling world of the LA music scene comes the story of Grace Davis, a superstar whose talent, and ego, have reached unbelievable heights. Maggie is Grace’s overworked personal assistant who’s stuck running errands, but still aspires ...
Style: light, sweet, touching, rom com, sentimental
Audience: teens, family outing
Plot: assistant, personal assistant, musician, music, relationship vs career, singer, showbiz, artists and showbiz, ambition, black, hopes, musician's life ...
Time: 2020s, future, year 1989, year 1970, 21st century
Place: usa, chicago, california, new york, miami ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 7.2
 99K
The Doors (1991)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: France, USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story: The story of the famous and influential 1960's rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison.
Style: psychedelic, factual, realistic, serious, cult classic ...
Plot: rock and roll, music band, drug addiction, life philosophy, musician's life, addiction, music, biopic, musician, drug abuse, singer, hippie ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 60s, year 1949, year 1967 ...
Place: california, paris france, los angeles, usa, new mexico ...
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41%
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The Last of Robin Hood (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Errol Flynn, the swashbuckling Hollywood star and notorious ladies man, flouted convention all his life, but never more brazenly than in his last years when, swimming in vodka and unwilling to face his mortality, he undertook a liaison with an ...
Style: disturbing, touching, realistic, serious, independent film ...
Plot: hollywood, movie star, sexual abuse, womanizer, actor's life, forbidden love, love affair, love and romance, youth, life is a bitch, teenage life, showbiz ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, year 1960, year 1957, year 2010 ...
Place: cuba, los angeles, new york, usa, manhattan new york city ...
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41%
 7.6
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Control (2007)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: UK, USA, Australia, Japan, France
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Control is the biography of Joy Division lead singer Ian Curtis, taking his story from schoolboy days of 1973 to his suicide on the eve of the band's first American tour in 1980.
Style: depressing, atmospheric, black and white, stylized, sad ...
Audience: teens
Plot: music, punk, singer, depression, suicide, musician's life, punk rock, musician, rock and roll, biopic, epilepsy, music band ...
Time: 70s, y2k, year 2007, year 1980, year 1973 ...
Place: england, manchester, london, northern england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Mo' Better Blues (1990)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Opens with Bleek as a child learning to play the trumpet, his friends want him to come out and play but mother insists he finish his lessons. Bleek grows into adulthood and forms his own band - The Bleek Gilliam Quartet. The story of Bleek's ...
Style: serious, psychological, stylized, clever, hood ...
Plot: jazz, music, black, friendship, rivalry, musician's life, hip hop, african american, urban, jealousy, saxophonist, blaxploitation ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1969, 60s
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, africa, usa, manhattan new york city
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39%
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Nina (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The story of the late jazz musician and classical pianist Nina Simone including her rise to fame and relationship with her manager Clifton Henderson.
Style: captivating, serious, touching, controversial, thought provoking ...
Plot: jazz, music, biopic, love affair, ambition, musician's life, rising to stardom, society, discrimination, artists and showbiz, racism, love and romance ...
Time: 20th century
Place: usa
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39%
Permanent Midnight (1998)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Ben Stiller plays comedy writer Jerry Stahl, whose $6000-a-week heroin habit had him taking his infant daughter along on his drug runs and doing smack during TV script conferences. Departing detox, Stahl explores memories with survivor Kitty, who ...
Style: factual, intense, depressing, serious, cult classic ...
Plot: addiction, drug, writers, heroin, drug abuse, husband wife relationship, drug addict, human nature, drug addiction, lifestyle, family problems, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: los angeles, usa, pittsburgh, beverly hills
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Stoned (2005)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A chronicle of the sordid life and suspicious death of Rolling Stones co-founder Brian Jones, who was found in the bottom of his swimming pool weeks after being let go from the band.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, psychedelic, retro ...
Plot: rock, music, drug abuse, musician's life, musician, showbiz, life is a bitch, rock star, rise and fall, rock and roll, addiction, artists and showbiz ...
Time: year 2005, 60s
Place: britain, paris france, morocco, munich germany, london
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37%
 7.5
 62K
Cold War (2018)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Poland, UK, France, Belgium
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A Cold War-era love story follows the passionate love affair between a mismatched couple.
Style: black and white, romantic, sad, thought provoking, art film ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: cold war, musician, communism, audition, female singer, loveless marriage, love story, suicide, tragic love, jazz, folklore, defector ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, 60s, 2010s, 90s ...
Place: poland, paris france, east berlin, former yugoslavia, eastern europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.8
 55K
Judy (2019)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Legendary performer Judy Garland arrives in London in the winter of 1968 to perform a series of sold-out concerts.
Style: sad, tragic ending, period piece, emotional, factual ...
Plot: concert, hollywood, biopic, female singer, actress, drug addict, musician, women, life is a bitch, life & death, alcoholic, female musician ...
Time: 60s, 1930s, year 2019, year 1969, year 1968
Place: london
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
It's All Gone Pete Tong (2004)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Its All Gone Pete Tong is a comedy following the tragic life of legendary Frankie Wilde. The story takes us through Frankie's life from one of the best DJ's alive, through subsequent battle with a hearing disorder, culminating in his ...
Style: humorous, dark comedy, touching, mockumentary, feel good ...
Audience: pre-teens
Plot: dj, music, disability, clubbing, recording studio, mute or deaf, addiction, rave, comeback, musician's life, rise to the top, lifestyle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ibiza
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Mao's Last Dancer (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 117 min.
Story: At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he fell in love with an American woman. Two years later, he ...
Style: uplifting, serious, emotional, touching, powerful ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: communism, ballet, interracial romance, against the odds, dancer, dancing, ambition, promise, immigrant, human spirit, follow your dream, self fulfillment ...
Time: year 2009, 60s, 70s, 20th century, year 1986 ...
Place: china, austin texas, texas, usa, asia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Burton and Taylor (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story: TV drama based on Richard Burton's diaries, about his last performance in 1983 with ex-wife Elizabeth Taylor. They meet after several years and he agrees to her suggestion that they star in a stage revival on Broadway of Noel Coward's ...
Style: realistic, captivating, serious, stylized, historical drama ...
Plot: actor's life, artists and showbiz, couple relations, couples, celebrity culture, hollywood, biopic, love, art, love affair, showbiz, love and romance ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1983
Place: usa, los angeles, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 5.8
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The Last Ride (2011)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The final days of Hank Williams.
Style: serious, captivating, touching, sincere, sad ...
Plot: country music, friendship, redemption, musician's life, starting over, rise and fall, road trip, rising to stardom, downfall, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, hopes ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, year 2010, year 1952, 1950s
Place: usa, alabama, ohio, west virginia, virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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