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CBGB (2013)
12K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
CBGB looks at New York's dynamic punk rock scene through the lens of the ground-breaking Lower East Side club started by eccentric Hilly Kristal (Alan Rickman) in 1973 which launched thousands of bands.
Style:
sincere, captivating, realistic, serious, melancholic, teen, independent film
Audience:
teens
Plot:
punk, rock music, nightclub, punk rock, music band, rock and roll, rock band, music, rock, subculture, musician's life, clubbing, ambition, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, music history, nightlife, club, musician, friendship, art, blonde, rocker, coming of age, fictional biography ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and independent film films with plots about music, artists and showbiz, musician's life, ambition, rock, rock and roll and musician mostly in Drama, Music and Romance genres. Some movies like CBGB: Crossroads (1986), Good Vibrations (2012), Vinyl (2016), Scenes from the Goldmine (1987), Rock Star (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Music, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Cult classic starring Ralph Macchio as a want-to-be blues guitar virtuoso who seeks a long-lost song by legendary musician Robert Johnson.
Style:
road movie, light, captivating, offbeat, serious ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
music, deal with the devil, blues, destiny, on the road, coming of age, rock and roll, mentor, supernatural, storytelling, life philosophy, transformation ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
mississippi, usa, new york, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
The story of music legend Terri Hooley, a key figure in Belfast's punk rock scene. Hooley founded the Good Vibrations store from which a record label sprung, representing bands such as The Undertones, Rudi and The Outcasts.
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, sincere, thought provoking ...
Plot:
music, punk, punk rock, musician, lifestyle, music band, artists and showbiz, follow your dream, musician's life, state affairs, subculture, rock and roll ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
ireland, northern ireland
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
Set in 1970s New York, Vinyl is a ride through the sex- and drug-addled music business at the dawn of punk, disco, and hip-hop. The show is seen through the eyes of a record label president, Richie Finestra, who is trying to save his company and his ...
Style:
captivating, tense, realistic, sensual, dark drama ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
music, music business, musician, showbiz, rock band, mafia, blackmail, historical character, disco, murder, racism, concert ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1973
Place:
new york, usa, las vegas
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A girl trying to make it in the 1980's New Wave rock and roll scene in L.A.
Style:
independent film, realistic, serious, captivating, emotional ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
rock and roll, club, teenager, ambition, betrayal, love and romance, artists and showbiz, music, dishonesty, music band, unfulfillment, musician's life ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
seattle
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Rock Star tells the story of Chris Cole and a rock band called Steel Dragon. Cole is a photocopier technician by day, and the lead singer of a Steel Dragon tribute band called "Blood Pollution" by night.Internal struggles between the Steel ...
Style:
period piece, cult classic, melancholic, stylized, intense ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, adult
Plot:
music, rock star, rock and roll, rock music, heavy metal, rock, rock band, orgy, rock concert, musician, success, audition ...
Time:
80s, year 2001, y2k, 20th century
Place:
pennsylvania, pittsburgh, seattle, los angeles, usa ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 168 min.
Story:
Biographical movie about the famous rock singer Elvis Presley.
Style:
realistic, emotional, touching, serious, sentimental ...
Plot:
elvis presley, music, rock music, biopic, musician's life, price of fame, rags to riches, rock and roll, celebrity culture, desire for fame, music band, showbiz ...
Time:
50s, 60s, 1950s
Place:
las vegas, mississippi
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Tony Manero is a Brooklyn paint-store clerk who'd give anything to break out of his dead-end existence. In life, Tony is a peasant; on the disco dance floor, he's a king. As the soundtrack plays one Bee Gees hit after another, white-suited ...
Style:
sexy, sentimental, rough, teen, light ...
Audience:
date night, teens, girls' night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
dancing, disco, dance, coming of age, dancer, nightclub, friendship, profanity, music, working class, slut, pizza ...
Time:
70s, year 1977, 20th century, 80s
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, north america, usa ...
Similarity:
100%
71K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: UK, France, Australia, Japan, USA
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:
atmospheric, depressing, sad, cult classic, stylized ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
music, suicide, punk, singer, musician's life, depression, musician, punk rock, rock and roll, biopic, epilepsy, music band ...
Time:
70s, year 2007, y2k, year 1980, year 1973 ...
Place:
england, london, manchester, northern england, europe
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A biopic of punk legend Darby Crash and his band, the Germs.
Style:
serious, realistic, tense, suspense, informative ...
Plot:
punk rock, punk, music, rock, biopic, lifestyle, musician's life, rising to stardom, artists and showbiz, life is a bitch, ambition, rise and fall ...
Time:
70s
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Chronicles the early days of The Beatles in Hamburg, Germany. The film focuses primarily on the relationship between Stuart Sutcliffe (played by Stephen Dorff) and John Lennon (played by Ian Hart), and also with Sutcliffe's German girlfriend ...
Style:
independent film, realistic, serious, sentimental, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
the beatles, music, rock and roll, musician, biopic, rock, artist, music history, art, friendship, rock music, pop music ...
Time:
60s, year 1994, 20th century
Place:
hamburg germany, england, germany, liverpool, northern germany ...
Similarity:
36%
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:
captivating, serious, psychedelic, bloody, cult classic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
punk, rock and roll, addiction, drug abuse, heroin, punk rock, drug addiction, musician, heroin addict, punk music, drug, music history ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1986
Place:
paris france, england, europe, usa, new york ...
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A chronicle of the days leading up to Jeff Buckley's performance at his father's tribute concert in 1991.
Style:
captivating, realistic, atmospheric, gloomy, serious ...
Plot:
rock, musician's life, music, introspection, artists and showbiz, love and romance, lifestyle, ambition, art, biopic, junkie, punk ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Rude Boy is a semi-documentary, part character study, part 'rockumentary', featuring a British punk band, The Clash. The script includes the story of a fictional fan juxtposed with actual public events of the day, including political ...
Style:
realistic, serious, cynical, biting, suspense
Plot:
punk, punk rock, rock, skinhead, rock and roll, rock music, hard rock, art, alienation, pop music, satire, club ...
Time:
year 1980, 70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
england, london, europe
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Music, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Nada, a beautiful French journalist on assignment in New York, records the life and work of an up and coming punk rock star, Billy. Soon she enters into a volatile relationship with him and must decide whether to continue with it, or return to her ...
Style:
independent film, bleak, serious, realistic, cynical
Plot:
punk, rock, punk rock, satire, alienation, self discovery, subculture, club, music, artists and showbiz, media, destructive relationship ...
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
33%
10K
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Midler is the rock-and-roll singer Mary Rose Foster (known as the Rose to her legions of fans), whose romantic relationships and mental health are continuously imperiled by the demands of life on the road.
Style:
retro, serious, realistic, captivating, sincere ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
addiction, rock band, rock and roll, musician, singer, female singer, love, women, stalker, blues, rock, drug abuse ...
Time:
year 1979, 60s, 20th century, year 1969, 70s
Place:
usa, new jersey, new york
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Corrine Burns retreats far into plans for her band, The Fabulous Stains, after her mother's death.
Style:
independent film, retro, psychotronic, thinking, cult classic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
punk, punk rock, punk rocker, girl band, punk band, feminist, rock and roll, rock, fictional band, taunting, teenager, girl group ...
Time:
80s, year 1982, 20th century
Place:
usa, pennsylvania
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In this film, childhood friends come face to face with the demons of rock and roll (lust, drugs, and passion) on a cross-country road trip that compels them to face their past, present, and future. Rocker Spyder, whose debut album was a huge hit saw ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, captivating, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot:
rock star, musician's life, homecoming, friendship, on the road, rock, small town, music band, artists and showbiz, ego clash, rock and roll, entertainment industry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Sasha is a young Russian violinist on a scholarship to Juilliard, living with his affectionate but overbearing father, a cellist determined to manage his son's career. While Sasha prepares for a critical recital that will launch him on a path ...
Style:
sincere, serious, touching, realistic, independent film
Audience:
date night
Plot:
fall in love, musician's life, follow your dream, culture clash, self discovery, family relations, hopes, love and romance, parents and children, lifestyle, music band, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
31%
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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:
31%
83
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll are what a young underground punk band are striving for, but once they get a taste of it, they are forced to decide how far they're willing to go for fame and fortune and who they're willing to leave ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, sincere, independent film
Audience:
teens
Plot:
desire for fame, rise and fall, friendship, artists and showbiz, youth, music band, friends, showbiz, bittersweet, unfulfillment, music, punk ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
In 1976, Tony Wilson sets up Factory Records and brings Manchester's music to the world.
Style:
witty, psychedelic, satirical, atmospheric, sincere ...
Plot:
clubbing, music, rock and roll, punk, party, rave, biopic, skinny dipping, rock, businessman, musician, profanity ...
Time:
80s, 70s, year 2002, 20th century, 90s ...
Place:
england, manchester, europe, northern england, united kingdom ...
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Prey for Rock & Roll is set in the Los Angeles club scene of the late 1980s and follows the story of Jacki (Gershon) and her all-girl punk rock band, Clam Dandy. On the verge of turning 40, Jacki decides that if the band's one last shot ...
Style:
realistic, cynical, captivating, serious, sexual ...
Plot:
lesbian, female musician, revenge, concert, rape, musician's life, music band, ambition, rise and fall, inspiration, life is a bitch, lifestyle ...
Time:
80s, year 2003, y2k, 90s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
Similarity:
31%
175K
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:
31%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Jonah (Paul Simon) is an aging rock star trying to put together a new album in the face of an indifferent record label and a talentless producer. At the same time, he's struggling to save his failing marriage.
Style:
contemplative, serious, realistic, emotional, touching ...
Plot:
rock music, rock star, rock concert, music industry, musician, failed marriage, talk show host, rock and roll, music business, rising to stardom, starting over, performer's life ...
Time:
year 1980, 70s
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A dramatization of the early years of the hard rock band, Def Leppard, the group faces both success and personal tragedies such as drummer, Rick Allen losing his arm in a car accident and guitarist Steve Clark's alcohol addiction.
Style:
captivating, disturbing
Plot:
heavy metal, musician, rock music, music band, hard rock, rehearsal, desire for fame, musician's life, alcohol abuse, ambition, coping, direction and purpose ...
Time:
80s
Place:
britain
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
When a young rock group called The Mystery gets its first gig at a club, it's an opportunity to see what life is all about! Fresh out of high school, the rockers are hired by an exclusive beach resort thanks to a faded '60s songwriter. ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
rock and roll, friendship, women, rock, music, coming of age, teenager, teen angst, sexual content, profanity, friends, teenage life ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
hawaii, new jersey
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A dark psychological drama, Shooting Livien explores the inner psyche of John Livien, a disillusioned New York musician who deals with a childhood trauma by claiming an alter ego. His band on the brink of success, fantasy becomes dangerously blurred ...
Style:
realistic, serious, bleak, suspense, independent film ...
Plot:
musician's life, addiction, drug abuse, music, life is a bitch, ambition, lifestyle, showbiz, alcohol abuse, nightlife, identity crisis, lgbt ...
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
From director Clint Eastwood comes the big-screen version of the Tony Award-winning musical Jersey Boys. The film tells the story of four young men from the wrong side of the tracks in New Jersey who came together to form the iconic 1960s rock group ...
Style:
intense, stylized, sentimental, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
music, biopic, music band, broadway, rock and roll, life philosophy, desire for fame, rising to stardom, ambition, showbiz, friends, performer's life ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 20th century, 60s, 70s
Place:
new jersey, usa
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Claude and Ellen are best friends who live in a not-so-nice area of New York. They're involved in the subculture of 90s youth, complete with drugs, live music, and homophobia. All is changed one night when a violent and meaningless death rocks ...
Style:
sad, melancholic, sincere, touching, teen ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
lesbian, lgbtq, punk, lesbian teen, lesbian interest, coming of age, friendship, lesbian relationship, glbt, youth, sexuality, character study ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
new york, seattle, usa, manhattan new york city, california ...
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
The story of the people that frequented Harlem's famous nightclubs, 'The Cotton Club', and those that ran it.
Style:
visually stunning, period piece, intense, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
jazz, mafia, gangster, music, nightclub, prohibition, love triangle, love and romance, ambition, rivalry, flapper, mob boss ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1929, 70s ...
Place:
new york, usa, harlem, new york city, grand central station manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
30%
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