Movies like Django 2017
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Django (2017)
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, War
Country: France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
The story of Django Reinhardt, famous guitarist and composer, and his flight from German-occupied Paris in 1943.
Style:
costume drama
Plot:
world war two, musician, guitarist, gypsy camp, art, gypsy, jazz, black, biopic, escape, party, swing, blind man, composer, blues, choir, pregnant woman, french resistance, husband wife relationship, train conductor, border crossing, concert, rules, pregnant wife, recording studio ...
Time:
year 2017, year 1945, year 1943, 1940s
Place:
paris france, switzerland
Most similar movies to Django
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, captivating, serious and emotional films with plots about biopic, musician, music, husband wife relationship, art, singer and world war two mostly in Drama, Biography and Music genres. Some movies like Django: Lucie Aubrac (1997), Memoir of War (2017), Our Patriots (2017), Villa-Lobos: A Life of Passion (2000), The Pianist (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A love story or a tale of the resistance, this poignant movie tells both the haunting story of a French resistance cell in Lyon but also the love of Lucie Aubrac for her husband...
Style:
emotional, serious, realistic, visually appealing, sexy ...
Plot:
french resistance, world war two, gestapo, love, french history, resistance movement, nazi occupied france, biopic, resistance, male nudity, nazi, judaism ...
Time:
1940s, year 1997, 20th century, 19th century
Place:
france, lyon, california, england
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: France, Belgium, Switzerland
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
June 1944, France is still under the German Occupation. The writer Robert Antelme, major figure of the Resistance, is arrested and deported. His young wife, Marguerite, writer and resistant, was torn by the anguish of not having her news and her ...
Style:
factual, heartbreaking, compassionate, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
french resistance, world war two, gestapo, nazism, concentration camp, beach, wartime life, nazi occupied france, nazi, nazi occupation, police officer, female protagonist ...
Time:
year 1945, 1940s, 20th century, year 2017, year 1944
Place:
paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
90%
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
After the French defeat of summer 1940, Addi Ba, a young Senegalese rifleman escapes and hides in the Vosges. Aided by some villagers, he gets false documents that allow him to live openly.
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, suspense, touching, tense ...
Plot:
escape, world war two, french resistance, resistance, school, prisoner, teacher, racism, farm, arrest, pow, nazi ...
Time:
1940s, year 2017, year 1940
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Brazil
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
The film tells the story of an intuitive, adventurous man who loved his country and being Brazilian. This man fought to be loyal to himself. His music is a transparent portrait of his genius, intuition, freedom, adventure and passion for Brazil.
Plot:
composer, musician, fictional biography, biopic, passion, cellist, pianist, saxophonist, time, heart condition, childhood, memory ...
Time:
1940s, 1890s, 1900s, 1950s, 50s ...
Place:
rio de janeiro, new york, brazil, paris france
Similarity:
68%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, War
Country: France, Poland, Germany, UK, USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
The true story of pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he ...
Style:
emotional, sad, harsh, reflective, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, survival, genocide, nazi, classical music, wartime, war, nazism, anti semitism, hunger, nazi occupation ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1939, 1930s, year 2002 ...
Place:
poland, germany, europe, eastern europe, central europe ...
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music
Country: West Germany, Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Using letters Anna Magdalena Bach wrote to her husband, seminal composer Johann Sebastian, filmmakers Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet created one of the most precise, rewarding biopics ever put to screen. CHRONICLE OF ANNA MAGDALENA ...
Style:
contemplative, spiritual, captivating, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
composer, piano, music, biopic, musician, music composer, jazz, artist, spirituality, classical composer, art, european ...
Time:
year 1968, 18th century
Place:
europe, germany
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: France
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
A glimpse at the life of French singer Serge Gainsbourg, from growing up in 1940s Nazi-occupied Paris through his successful song-writing years in the 1960s to his death in 1991 at the age of 62.
Style:
surreal, atmospheric, sincere, lyrical, visually appealing ...
Plot:
musician, jazz, biopic, sex, songwriter, music, success, artist, female nudity, musician's life, art, introspection ...
Time:
60s, 80s, 20th century, 70s, 1940s ...
Place:
paris france, france, israel, europe, tokyo
Similarity:
61%
164K
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:
touching, sincere, emotional, inspirational, dramatic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
jazz, addiction, musician, musician's life, music, african american, blindness, biopic, blind character, heroin, blind boy, disability ...
Time:
year 2004, 20th century, 1930s, 50s, 2000s ...
Place:
georgia, new york, california, indianapolis indiana, usa ...
Similarity:
56%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Paris, June 1940. The de Gaulle couple is confronted with the military and political collapse of France. Charles de Gaulle joins London while Yvonne, his wife, finds herself with her three children on the road of the exodus.
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, captivating, psychological, historical drama ...
Plot:
world war two, french history, french president, male pubic hair, husband wife relationship, politician, politics, political leader, political unrest, world politics, flashback, philosopher ...
Time:
1940s, year 1940
Place:
france, paris france, brittany, england, north africa ...
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: France, Canada, Czech Republic
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In occupied France, Maurice and Joseph, two young Jewish brothers left to their own devices demonstrate an incredible amount of cleverness, courage, and ingenuity to escape the enemy invasion and to try to reunite their family once again.
Style:
tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, brother brother relationship, ss, nazi occupation, nazi, german occupation, children in wartime, german soldier, shoah, military, soldier ...
Time:
1940s, year 2017, year 1943, year 1942, year 1944
Place:
paris france, nice france, france
Similarity:
54%
19K
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, period piece, factual, disturbing ...
Plot:
musician, rape, preacher, abusive husband, concert, showbiz, black history, biopic, blues, celebrity, african american, black ...
Time:
60s, 70s, 1950s, year 1960, year 1969 ...
Place:
usa, madison square garden manhattan new york city, los angeles, atlanta georgia, detroit ...
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Arizona Indian Ira Hayes' (Tony Curtis) life is a tragedy after he joins the Marines and helps raise the flag at Iwo Jima.
Plot:
world war two, spy, soldier, addiction, lonely, u.s. marine, ptsd, biopic, marines, alcoholism, pacific war, american indian ...
Time:
1940s, year 1961, year 1945, year 1955, 20th century ...
Place:
arizona
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: France
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
From his poor childhood to his rise to fame, from his triumphs to his failures, from Paris to New York, discover the exceptional journey of an artist. Intimate, intense, fragile and indestructible, devoted to his art until the very end, here is one ...
Plot:
songwriter, singer, biopic, marriage, concert tour, wealth, pop music, drag queen, suicide, rags to riches, depression, death ...
Time:
1940s, 60s, 20th century
Place:
paris france, montreal, french riviera, new york
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, Slovakia
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
As Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels creates films and pictures used to prepare the Germans for Total War and the Holocaust. When the war is lost, he conceives his last staging, the most radical propaganda act still possible to him.
Style:
historical drama, disturbing, grim, period piece, dark ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, propaganda, nazi germany, hitler, biopic, manipulation, political corruption, husband wife relationship, infidelity, flashback, nazi propaganda ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s
Place:
berlin germany, germany
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A film about the life and career of the early rock and roll star.
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, touching, feel good ...
Plot:
biopic, music, musician, rock, rock music, singer, showbiz, musician's life, pop music, real life, subculture, art ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, year 1978, 20th century, 70s ...
Place:
texas, austin texas, usa, new york
Similarity:
50%
27K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
A chronicle of James Brown's rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history.
Style:
emotional, talky, heartbreaking, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
music, biopic, musician, musician's life, friendship, showbiz, black, creativity, rising to stardom, artists and showbiz, ambition, desire for fame ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 70s, year 2014, 80s ...
Place:
usa, south carolina, georgia, north america, boston ...
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA, Ireland, UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A drama based on Jimi Hendrix's life as he left New York City for London, where his career took off.
Style:
realistic, captivating, atmospheric, sincere, cult classic ...
Plot:
musician, rock star, music, biopic, rock, musician's life, rising to stardom, artists and showbiz, infidelity, drug use, guitarist, rock music ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
england, london, seattle, new york
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: France, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Inside the Blue Note nightclub one night in 1959 Paris, an aged, ailing jazzman coaxes an eloquent wail from his tenor sax. Outside, a young Parisian too broke to buy a glass of wine strains to hear those notes. Soon they will form a friendship that ...
Style:
sentimental, gloomy, touching, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
jazz, musician, music, addiction, alcoholism, art, friendship, saxophonist, bittersweet, drug addiction, biopic, alcoholic ...
Time:
year 1986, 50s, 20th century, year 1959, 60s ...
Place:
france, paris france, usa, europe, new york
Similarity:
47%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
The life of Blues and folk singer Huddie Leadbetter, nicknamed Leadbelly is recounted. Covering the good times and bad from his 20s to 40s. Much of that time was spent on chain gangs in the south. Even in prison he became well known for the songs he ...
Style:
contemplative, emotional, touching, rough, realistic ...
Plot:
blues, blaxploitation, biopic, racism, black, rock and roll, civil rights, singer, pop music, composer, folklore, injustice ...
Time:
year 1976, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
america, texas, usa
Similarity:
47%

Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Poland, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
historical drama, heartbreaking, bleak, grim, period piece ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, gypsy, genocide, discrimination, nazi occupation, loss, auschwitz, suffering, persecution, tragedy, ethnic cleansing ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
poland
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress, who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice.
Style:
emotional, witty, stylized, touching, melancholic ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
bad singing, opera singer, concert, heiress, biopic, music, musician, recording studio, transformation, singing, passion, bald woman ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944, year 2016, 1930s, 1920s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: France
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of acclaimed music icon "Dalida" born in Cairo, who gained celebrity in the 50s, singing in French, Spanish, Arabic, Hebrew, German, Italian, playing in awarded Youssef Chahine's picture "Le Sixième ...
Style:
sentimental, realistic, disturbing, sincere, crying ...
Plot:
female singer, biopic, husband wife relationship, suicide, musician's life, music, woman, girl, gay, art, eating disorder, airport ...
Time:
50s, year 1933, 60s, 70s, year 1956 ...
Place:
paris france, montmartre paris, france, cairo egypt, india ...
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The story of legendary blues performer, Bessie Smith, who rose to fame during the 1920s and '30s.
Style:
realistic, emotional, serious, factual, historical drama ...
Plot:
blues, lesbian, black lgbt, african american, lgbt, rise to the top, musician's life, jazz, music, artists and showbiz, ambition, rising to stardom ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, 1920s
Place:
indiana, southern usa, new york, tennessee, pennsylvania ...
Similarity:
44%
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181
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Biopic of troubled jazz musician/composer Bix Beiderbecke (1903-1931), who played with the Paul Whiteman band, among others.
Style:
art house, period drama
Plot:
jazz, musician, biopic, music history, alcoholism, live performance, loneliness, prohibition era, recording studio, speakeasy, friendship, professional rivalry ...
Time:
1920s, year 1991
Similarity:
44%
14K
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, drug addict, musician, childhood, character study, musician's life, showbiz ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s, year 1988, 20th century, 50s
Place:
usa, brooklyn new york city, africa
Similarity:
41%
307
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music
Country: Netherlands, UK, Denmark, West Germany, Sweden
Duration: 157 min.
Story:
The story of the great Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) and his life and career during the rule of Stalin.
Style:
black and white, independent film
Plot:
composer, musician, classical composer, cold war, cold war era, art, biopic, opera, dream, death, journalist, surrealism ...
Time:
post world war two
Place:
ussr, new york, russia, soviet union
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Romania
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
The extraordinary life of Sergiu Celibidache, from his childhood in Romania to his exile in pursuit of a career in music, his struggle for survival in wartime Germany and his rise, fall and rise again, in an unimaginable life journey.
Style:
inspirational, emotional, dramatic, historical drama, intense ...
Plot:
biopic, world war two, classical music, orchestra, exile, train conductor, legacy, ambition, survival, resilience, rise and fall, perseverance ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
germany, romania
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An exploration of the life and music of Miles Davis.
Style:
touching, psychological, captivating, tense, historical drama ...
Plot:
jazz, musician, biopic, trumpet player, historical figure, music, black, nightclub, african american, pursuit, husband wife relationship, party ...
Time:
70s
Place:
manhattan new york city, usa, columbus ohio, new york
Similarity:
40%
16K
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A ticking-clock thriller following Winston Churchill in the 24 hours before D-Day.
Style:
factual, disturbing, political, independent film, educational ...
Plot:
winston churchill, world war two, politician, prime minister, biopic, husband wife relationship, invasion, courage, world war, world politics, mind game, life risking ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 2017, year 1944
Place:
normandy, england, britain, united kingdom
Similarity:
39%
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, inspirational, disturbing, gloomy, period piece ...
Plot:
music, musician's life, singer, biopic, musician, love story, death, life philosophy, childhood, art, artist, rising to stardom ...
Time:
20th century, year 2007, 1940s, 90s, 1950s ...
Place:
france, europe, paris france, new york, montmartre paris ...
Similarity:
37%
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