Movies like La La Land

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La La Land (2016)
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La La Land (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Mia, an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian, a jazz musician, scrapes by playing cocktail party gigs in dingy bars, but as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain in each other threaten to rip them apart.
Style: romantic, touching, sentimental, sad, melancholic, visually appealing, romantic drama, emotional, dramatic, visually stunning ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, date night, teens, family outing
Plot: music, jazz, dancing, love, musician, audition, bigger dreams, jazz club, love story, destiny, traffic jam, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, pianist, filmmaking, actress, trumpet player, meet cute, aspiring actress, singing, jazz musician, drummer, concert, quitting a job, rags to riches, mission ...
Time: year 2016, year 2015, future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, paris france, california

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Most similar movies to La La Land

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out romantic, touching, realistic and feel good films with plots about love, mentor, storytelling, dialogue, relationships, love story and love and romance mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like La La Land: 500 Days of Summer (2009), Begin Again (2013), When Harry Met Sally... (1989), Notting Hill (1999), Before We Go (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
500 Days of Summer (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Tom, greeting-card writer and hopeless romantic, is caught completely off-guard when his girlfriend, Summer, suddenly dumps him. He reflects on their 500 days together to try to figure out where their love affair went sour, and in doing so, Tom ...
Style: touching, romantic, sentimental, sweet, romantic comedy ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick, teens, teen drama
Plot: breakup, love, relationships, couples, love story, unrequited love, love and romance, couple relations, manic pixie dream girl, unfulfilled love, life philosophy, heartache ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 20th century, 2010s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, new york, usa
Similarity:
87%
 7.4
 175K
Begin Again (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A long lost music producer finds a singer-songwriter right about the moment he has given up all hope on life.
Style: inspirational, romantic, sincere, sentimental, independent film ...
Audience: date night, teens, girls' night
Plot: music, musician's life, love story, female singer, musician, infidelity, love, singer, father daughter relationship, relationships, music and dance, coping ...
Time: year 2013, year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
74%
When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: During their travels from Chicago to New York, Harry and Sally Will debate whether or not sex ruins a perfect relationship between a man and a woman. Eleven years later, and they're still no closer to finding the answer.
Style: feel good, romantic, romantic comedy, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot: male female friendship, friendship, fall in love, autumn, love and romance, love, love story, unlikely couple, initially antagonists, best friends in love, friends, life philosophy ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1989, 70s, year 1987 ...
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, chicago, seattle, usa
Similarity:
100%
 7.2
 380K
Notting Hill (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: William Thacker is a London bookstore owner whose humdrum existence is thrown into romantic turmoil when famous American actress Anna Scott appears in his shop. A chance encounter over spilled orange juice leads to a kiss that blossoms into a ...
Style: romantic, touching, feel good, rom com, romantic comedy ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night
Plot: couples, fame, love and romance, power of love, social differences, opposites attract, paparazzi, dating, male female relationship, ordinary person, love story, true love ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: london, england, europe, united kingdom, seattle
Similarity:
100%
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 6.8
 68K
Before We Go (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A woman who is robbed on her way to catch the 1:30 train to Boston is left stranded in New York City. She meets a man who helps her during the course of the night and the two form a romance.
Style: romantic, touching, sweet, rom com, emotional ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: love and romance, love, chance meeting, hopes, stranger, passion, husband wife relationship, jazz musician, life philosophy, love story, honest, nothing goes right ...
Time: year 2014, y2k, 21st century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa, grand central station manhattan new york city, boston
Similarity:
80%
 8.1
 373K
Before Sunrise (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Austria
Duration: 101 min.
Story: On his way to Vienna, American Jesse meets Céline, a student returning to Paris. After long conversations forge a surprising connection between them, Jesse convinces Celine to get off the train with him in Vienna. Since his flight to the U.S. ...
Style: philosophical, sentimental, sexy, intellectual, romantic comedy ...
Audience: date night, teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: love, chance meeting, destiny, lovers, tourist, young lovers, fall in love, relationships, coincidence, love story, teenage girl, stranger ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1995
Place: vienna, austria, europe, france, los angeles ...
Similarity:
100%
 7.8
 679K
The Notebook (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to a woman with Alzheimer's. From a faded notebook, the old man's words bring to life the story about a couple who is separated by World War II, and is then passionately ...
Style: touching, romantic, emotional, sentimental, sweet ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens, adult
Plot: love story, love, love and romance, fall in love, true love, rich woman poor man, youth, forbidden love, power of love, love of one's life, young lovers, love triangle ...
Time: 1940s, year 2004, post world war two, year 1941, 50s ...
Place: north carolina, charleston south carolina, southern usa, iran, usa ...
Similarity:
67%
 7.8
 125K
Once (2006)
Genre: Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A vacuum repairman moonlights as a street musician and hopes for his big break. One day a Czech immigrant, who earns a living selling flowers, approaches him with the news that she is also an aspiring singer-songwriter. The pair decide to ...
Style: touching, sentimental, sexy, independent film, heartbreaking ...
Audience: date night
Plot: music, musician's life, love, street musician, pianist, love and romance, musician, friendship, singer, young lovers, love story, recording studio ...
Time: year 2007, year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, europe, london, czech republic
Similarity:
64%
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 7.6
 446K
A Star is Born (2018)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Seasoned musician Jackson Maine discovers-and falls in love with-struggling artist Ally. She has just about given up on her dream to make it big as a singer – until Jack coaxes her into the spotlight. But even as Ally's career takes off, the ...
Style: sad, romantic drama, romantic, uplifting, touching ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, adult
Plot: singer, country music, fame, showbiz, friendship, brother brother relationship, alcoholic, alcoholism, addiction, concert, musician, drinking problem ...
Time: 2010s
Place: los angeles, america, memphis, boston, arizona
Similarity:
80%
 6.4
 99K
Burlesque (2010)
Genre: Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: The Burlesque Lounge has its best days behind it. Tess, a retired dancer and owner of the venue, struggles to keep the aging theater alive, facing all kinds of financial and artistic challenges. With the Lounge's troupe members becoming ...
Style: romantic, sexy, entertaining, light, inspirational ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot: dancing, performer's life, desire for fame, cabaret, dancer, burlesque, ambition, love and romance, happy ending, sexy woman, nightlife, nightclub ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, iowa, usa, canada
Similarity:
71%
 7.9
 107K
Sing Street (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A boy growing up in Dublin during the 1980s escapes his strained family life by starting a band to impress the mysterious girl he likes.
Style: sweet, teen, touching, lyrical, sentimental ...
Audience: family friendly, date night, teens, girls' night, kids ...
Plot: friendship, youth, coming of age, music band, musician's life, rock and roll, teenager, singing, bullying, dream girl, adolescence, teenage boy ...
Time: 80s, year 2016, 2010s, year 1985, future ...
Place: dublin ireland, ireland, london, nebraska, england
Similarity:
64%
The Last Five Years (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In New York, a struggling actress and a successful writer sing about their failed marriage from two perspectives.
Style: melancholic, surreal, lyrical, romantic, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot: love affair, marriage, writer's life, depression, artists and showbiz, wife, bittersweet, marital problem, breakup, memory, aspiring writer, living together ...
Time: year 2011, year 2009, year 2013, year 2010, 21st century
Place: usa, ohio, new jersey, manhattan new york city, new york
Similarity:
67%
 7.1
 278K
Dirty Dancing (1987)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Expecting the usual tedium that accompanies a summer in the Catskills with her family, 17-year-old Frances 'Baby' Houseman is surprised to find herself stepping into the shoes of a professional hoofer – and unexpectedly falling in love.
Style: feel good, romantic, sexy, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night, kids ...
Plot: dancing, coming of age, love story, summer romance, forbidden love, couples, dancer, fall in love, love and romance, unlikely couple, abortion, dance ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1963, 90s, 1950s ...
Place: usa, new york state, new york
Similarity:
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: On the cusp of his 30th birthday, Jonathon Larson, a promising young theater composer, navigates love, friendship, and the pressures of life as an artist in New York City.
Style: touching, emotional, sincere, sweet, powerful ...
Audience: date night
Plot: theater, believe in yourself, broadway, gay interest, composer, music, musician, gay friend, male male relationship, screenwriter, lost love, best friend ...
Time: 2020s, 90s, year 1992, year 1990
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, north america
Similarity:
83%
 8.5
 1.1M
Whiplash (2014)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Under the direction of a ruthless instructor, a talented young drummer begins to pursue perfection at any cost, even his humanity.
Style: dramatic, realistic, psychological, motivational, inspirational ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, teen drama, adult
Plot: music, jazz, obsession, emotional abuse, mentor, musician, teachers and students, drummer, follow your dream, desire for fame, musician's life, public humiliation ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place: manhattan new york city, north america, peru, new york, usa
Similarity:
48%
 6.3
 75K
Elizabethtown (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Drew Baylor is fired after causing his shoe company to lose hundreds of millions of dollars. To make matters worse, he's also dumped by his girlfriend. On the verge of ending it all, Drew gets a new lease on life when he returns to his ...
Style: sweet, sentimental, melancholic, road movie, romantic ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: small town, love story, suicide attempt, love, bittersweet, stewardess, road trip, destiny, hometown, life philosophy, self discovery, on the road ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: kentucky, oklahoma city, usa, memphis, mississippi ...
Similarity:
100%
 7.0
 441K
Easy A (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Olive, an average high school student, sees her below-the-radar existence turn around overnight once she decides to use the school's gossip grapevine to advance her social standing. Now her classmates are turning against her and the school ...
Style: feel good, romantic, entertaining, teen sex comedy, sex comedy ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot: high school, coming of age, teenager, adolescence, youth, teenage love, high school life, teenage girl, teenage life, notoriety, classmate, love and romance ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 80s, 21st century
Place: california, xian, usa, florida, seattle
Similarity:
50%
 6.8
 213K
The Vow (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Australia, France, Canada, Germany, Brazil, UK, China
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Happy young married couple Paige and Leo are, well, happy. Then a car accident puts Paige into a life-threatening coma. Upon awakening she has lost the previous five years of memories, including those of her beloved Leo, her wedding, a confusing ...
Style: romantic, touching, sentimental, inspirational, emotional ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: love story, amnesia, memory loss, marriage, love and romance, love, true love, relationships, couple relations, power of love, wooing, destiny ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place: chicago, usa
Similarity:
100%
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Dan in Real Life (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Advice columnist, Dan Burns is an expert on relationships, but somehow struggles to succeed as a brother, a son and a single parent to three precocious daughters. Things get even more complicated when Dan finds out that the woman he falls in love ...
Style: touching, humorous, sexy, sweet, cute ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: love, fall in love, love story, love and romance, parenthood, love triangle, relationships, wedding, widower, in love, single parent, destiny ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: rhode island, new jersey, new york, usa, new england
Similarity:
100%
 7.2
 324K
Grease (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Australian good girl Sandy and greaser Danny fell in love over the summer. But when they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance despite their eccentric friends?
Style: romantic, sexy, feel good, sentimental, cult classic ...
Audience: chick flick, kids, teens, girls' night, date night ...
Plot: high school, opposites attract, coming of age, dancing, dance, makeover, summer romance, teenage love, love story, first love, teenager, teenage girl ...
Time: 1950s, year 1959, year 1978, 20th century, year 1958 ...
Place: california, australia, los angeles, bronx new york city, usa ...
Similarity:
100%
Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: After spending eight months in a mental institution, a former teacher moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife.
Style: romantic, touching, romantic comedy, inspirational, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens, adult
Plot: mental illness, love, family drama, bipolar disorder, depression, adaptation, character study, social misfits, supportive parent, father son relationship, male female friendship, mental patient ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place: philadelphia, peru, usa, pennsylvania, america ...
Similarity:
100%
 7.1
 204K
Babylon (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 189 min.
Story: A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, tracing the rise and fall of multiple characters in an era of unbridled decadence and depravity during Hollywood's transition from silent films and to sound films in the late 1920s.
Style: costume drama, visual, thrilling, atmospheric, stylized ...
Audience: adult
Plot: film history, filmmaking, hedonism, orgy, party, hollywood, movie star, film industry, gambling, profanity, sex scene, graphic violence ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century, 2020s, 1930s, year 1932 ...
Place: los angeles, california, new york
Similarity:
100%
The Bridges of Madison County (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in the 1960s.
Style: romantic, atmospheric, touching, sad, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: love story, photographer, adultery, love affair, passion, impossible love, relationships, housewife, couples, photography, extramarital affair, lovers ...
Time: year 1995, 90s, 20th century, year 1965, post world war two ...
Place: iowa, usa, midwest
Similarity:
100%
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Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (2004)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: In pre-revolution Cuba, Katey Miller is about to defy everyone's expectations. Instead of a parent-approved suitor, Katey is drawn to the sexy waiter, Javier, who spends his nights dancing in Havana's nightclubs. As she secretly learns to ...
Style: romantic, period piece, feel good, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night
Plot: dancing, love story, young lovers, dancer's life, couples, love and romance, revolution, hopes, music, dance, mentor, salsa ...
Time: year 2004, 1950s, 20th century, 50s, 80s
Place: cuba, havana cuba, caribbean, latin america
Similarity:
100%
 6.8
 131K
Serendipity (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Although strangers Sara and Jonathan are both already in relationships, they realize they have genuine chemistry after a chance encounter – but part company soon after. Years later, they each yearn to reunite, despite being destined for the altar. ...
Style: romantic, feel good, touching, sentimental, sweet ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens
Plot: destiny, fall in love, coincidence, serendipity, christmas, true love, love and romance, friendship, looking for love, fate, love, friends ...
Time: year 2001, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, california, san francisco, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
 6.0
 39K
Raising Helen (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Helen Harris has a glamorous, big-city life working for one of New York's hottest modeling agencies. But suddenly her free-spirited life gets turned upside down when she must chose between the life she's always loved, and the new loves of ...
Style: romantic, feel good, sentimental, touching, entertaining ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night, kids
Plot: adoption, custody, happy ending, couple relations, parents and children, couples, teenage girl, destiny, family bonds, orphan, love, love and romance ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, san francisco, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
 6.8
 35K
Singles (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Romantic comedy about six of Seattle's young people, most of whom live in the same apartment building and whose lives revolve around the city's ever-expanding music scene. The interrelated stories about each character's progress ...
Style: feel good, sweet, humorous, touching, cult classic ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, date night, chick flick
Plot: music, music band, city life, clubbing, love and romance, friendship, couple relations, rock, looking for love, young lovers, musician's life, relationships ...
Time: 90s, year 1992, 20th century, 80s
Place: seattle, usa, washington state, california, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Letters to Juliet (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: An American girl on vacation in Italy finds an unanswered "letter to Juliet" -- one of thousands of missives left at the fictional lover's Verona courtyard, which are typically answered by a the "secretaries of Juliet" -- ...
Style: romantic, touching, romantic comedy, scenic, feel good ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night, adult
Plot: fall in love, road trip, youth, love and romance, couples, enemies to lovers, beautiful scenery, love, love affair, couple relations, love story, writers ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: italy, tuscany, new york, europe, new jersey ...
Similarity:
100%
Under the Tuscan Sun (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 113 min.
Story: After a rough divoce, Frances, a 35 year old book editor from San Francisco takes a tour of Tuscany at the urgings of her friends. On a whim she buys Bramasole, a run down villa in the Tuscan countryside and begins to piece her life together ...
Style: feel good, romantic, sentimental, touching, scenic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: small town, writers, divorce, love, passion, life, tourist, starting over, male female relationship, middle aged woman, friendship, vineyard ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: italy, europe, tuscany, san francisco, california ...
Similarity:
100%
The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Rose Morgan, who still lives with her mother, is a professor of Romantic Literature who desperately longs for passion in her life. Gregory Larkin, a mathematics professor, has been burned by passionate relationships and longs for a sexless union ...
Style: light, feel good, humorous, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: couple relations, looking for love, fall in love, wedding, love and romance, love story, professor, friendship, love, self discovery, starting over, university ...
Time: 90s, year 1996
Place: new york, venice, london, paris france, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
100%