Movies like Hairspray Live!

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Hairspray Live! (2016)
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Hairspray Live! (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A teenage girl living in Baltimore in the early 1960s dreams of appearing on a popular TV dance show.
Style: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
Plot: theater, dance, live performance, racism, fat girl, race, dream, equality, broadway, dancing, society, music, television, rivalry, social relations, teenager, school, student, friendship, blonde, singer, jealousy, teenage girl, singing, african american ...
Time: 60s, year 1962, 1960s
Place: baltimore, maryland

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Most similar movies to Hairspray Live!

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out feel good, humorous, realistic and semi serious films with plots about dancing, dance, love, love and romance, friendship, singing and teenager mostly in Comedy, Musical and Drama genres. Some movies like Hairspray Live!: Hairspray (2007), Hairspray (1988), Dance Challenge (2002), Bye Bye Birdie (1995), Company (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Hairspray (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Pleasantly plump teenager, Tracy Turnblad and her best friend, Penny Pingleton audition to be on The Corny Collins Show – and Tracy wins. But when scheming Amber Von Tussle and her mother plot to destroy Tracy, it turns to chaos.
Style: feel good, romantic, lyrical, entertaining, humorous ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, family outing, kids ...
Plot: dancing, dance, dream come true, artists and showbiz, teenage love, interracial romance, teenage girl, racism, fat girl, broadway, teenager, follow your dream ...
Time: year 2007, 60s, 20th century, year 1962, 2000s
Place: baltimore, usa, maryland
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95%
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Hairspray (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Ample teen Tracy Turnblad wants nothing more than to be on the hip local TV dance program, "The Corny Collins Show" -- and when her dream comes true, her lively moves and bubbly personality meet with unexpected popularity. But after ...
Style: feel good, light, stylized, witty, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night, teen drama ...
Plot: teenager, rock and roll, high school, civil rights, music, social differences, satire, dancing, fat girl, racism, interracial love, hair ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1962, year 1963
Place: baltimore, usa, maryland, america
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Viva High School Musical: Mexico (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: Mexico, Argentina
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Cristobal sees Mariana with new eyes after the summer vacation since both love singing. The mexican version of the Disney musical.
Style: semi serious, captivating, feel good, entertaining
Audience: family outing
Plot: friendship, audition, love, teenager, contest, high school life, teenage life, rivalry, teamwork, school, friends, dance contest ...
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Dance Challenge (2002)
Genre: Musical, Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Approaching his 18th birthday, David drops out of school and runs away from home and from a conflicting relationship with his mother Elena. The only thing that matters for him is break dancing. With his own group, the Urban Cyber Breakers, he has ...
Style: inspirational, feel good, humorous, light
Plot: dancing, hip hop, dance contest, single mother, teenage boy, friendship, rivalry, mother son relationship, music, self discovery, breakdance, interracial relations ...
Place: paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Bye Bye Birdie (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Rock-and-roll icon Conrad Birdie is about to go into the Army, and plans are being made to arrange his final going-away concert.
Style: semi serious, realistic, feel good, touching, humorous ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: dancing, theater, friends, couples, teenage life, rock, lifestyle, contests and competitions, performer's life, love and romance, musician's life, ambition ...
Time: 20th century, 50s
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 7.7
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Company (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story: Following five couples and their friend Robert (Neil Patrick Harris), the perpetual bachelor, Company explores the true meaning of being in a relationship through a series of vignettes. Winner of the 1971 Tony Award for Best Musical, Neil Patrick ...
Style: semi serious, stylized, realistic, humorous, feel good
Plot: theater, friends, friendship, concert, bachelor, live performance, couple relations, redheaded woman, artists and showbiz, love and romance, broadway, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 7.2
 298K
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: feel good, sentimental, romantic, light, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick, kids, teens, girls' night, date night ...
Plot: high school, opposites attract, teenage love, coming of age, makeover, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, dancing, first love, dating, teenage girl, dance, rock and roll ...
Time: year 1959, 1950s, year 1978, 20th century, year 1958 ...
Place: california, australia, los angeles, usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Music Man (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Musical, Romance, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Contemporary rethinking of the legendary Broadway musical and 1962 film, updated to reflect a few early twenty-first-century sensibilities: A masterful con artist tries to bilk a staid Midwestern community, with unexpected results.
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, sentimental, realistic
Audience: kids, pre-teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: small town, fall in love, lifestyle, couples, society, artists and showbiz, love and romance, racism, clergy, music, dancing, librarian ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century
Place: iowa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Hello, Dolly! (1969)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story: Matchmaker, Dolly Levi takes a trip to Yonkers, New York to see the "well-known unmarried half-a-millionaire," Horace Vandergelder. While there, she convinces him, his two stock clerks and his niece and her beau to go to New York City.
Style: period piece, feel good, retro, hilarious, captivating ...
Audience: kids, date night
Plot: dancing, broadway, love, music, music and dance, dance, merchant, railway, theater, progress, gilded age, teenager ...
Time: 19th century, year 1969, 1800s, 1890s
Place: new york, america, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 3.9
 538
Dance Camp (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: When Hunter gets sent to a dorky summer dance camp, he thinks he's about to have the worst summer of his life. But the quirky charm of the camp grows on him when he meets the passionate Cheyenne and joins her dance troupe to challenge the ...
Style: entertaining, feel good, humorous, inspirational, touching
Audience: teens
Plot: dancing, teenage love, teenage life, social relations, summer camp, friendship, teenage boy, happy ending, teenage girl, rehearsal, artists and showbiz, dance ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
High School Musical: The Musical: The Series (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 31 min.
TV show
Story: A group of East High students countdown to the opening night of their school’s first-ever production of “High School Musical.” Showmances blossom; friendships are tested while new ones are made; rivalries flare and lives are changed forever as ...
Style: feel good, sentimental, humorous, romantic, melancholic ...
Audience: teens, kids, teen drama
Plot: high school, teenager, music, singing, friendship, love and romance, sport team, happy ending, audition, family relations, parents and children, follow your dream ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
High School Musical 3: Senior Year (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: It's almost graduation day for high school seniors Troy, Gabriella, Sharpay, Chad, Ryan and Taylor ― and the thought of heading off in separate directions after leaving East High has these Wildcats thinking they need to do something ...
Style: feel good, teen, humorous, semi serious, romantic ...
Audience: teens, kids, girls' night, chick flick, pre-teens ...
Plot: high school, prom, teenage love, teenager, friendship, high school life, high school hunk, love and romance, music, teenage girl, buddies, dancing ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new mexico, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 5.9
 29K
The Prom (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: After the PTA of a conservative high school in Indiana bans same-sex couples from attending the annual prom, a gang of flamboyant Broadway stars try to boost their image by showing up to support two lesbian students.
Style: inspirational, captivating, sentimental, thought provoking, sincere ...
Audience: chick flick, kids, teens
Plot: lesbian, gay, lgbt teen, prom, lgbtq, high school, lesbian interest, lesbian love, civil rights, lgbtqi, sapphic, discrimination ...
Time: 2000s, 2020s
Place: indiana, ohio, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Camp (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Misfits in their lives back home, a group of young people live it up at musical-theater camp. While the sports counselor is completely ignored, the kids' spend all their time in rehearsal for a grueling schedule that involves a new show every ...
Style: talky, humorous, feel good, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: summer camp, gay, coming of age, dancing, lgbt, love and romance, teenage love, friendship, artists and showbiz, rock, love triangle, honest ...
Time: 2000s, year 2003, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Leave It on the Floor (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Our African-American hero , Brad is bullied by his dysfunctional mom; he flees his home and by chance tumbles down the rabbit-hole into the LA ball scene where he finds a ragtag new famiiy. With music by Beyonce music director, Kim Burse, screenplay ...
Style: realistic, humorous, emotional, independent film, captivating ...
Plot: gay, friendship, gay relationship, lgbtq, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, lgbt, society, rivalry, nightclub, ambition, gender ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 7.7
 19K
The Music Man (1962)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 151 min.
Story: A con man comes to an Iowa town with a scam using a boy's marching band program, but things don't go according to plan.
Style: period piece, sentimental, entertaining, aesthetic, retro ...
Audience: kids, chick flick, date night, family outing
Plot: broadway, small town, dancing, librarian, con artists, library, fall in love, american history, dance, love, town, bad guys win ...
Time: year 1962, 20th century, 1910s
Place: iowa, indiana, america, midwest, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Better Nate Than Ever (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: 13-year-old Nate Foster has big Broadway dreams but there’s only one problem — he can’t even land a part in the school play. When his parents leave town, Nate and his best friend Libby sneak off to the Big Apple for a once-in-a-lifetime ...
Style: disturbing, semi serious, feel good, captivating, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teen drama
Plot: teenager, broadway, love, teenage boy, best friend, follow your dream, coping, direction and purpose, coming of age, daydreamer, desire for fame, music ...
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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 14K
Something New (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Kenya McQueen, a corporate lawyer finds love in the most unexpected place when she agrees to go on a blind date with Brian Kelly, a sexy and free-spirited landscaper.
Style: romantic, sexy, light, sweet, humorous ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: interracial romance, interracial relations, white male black female relationship, interracial love, racism, opposites attract, career woman, prejudice, culture clash, blacks and whites, hot and sexy, looking for love ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: usa, indiana, los angeles, east africa, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Crossroads (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Three friends get together and bury a box making a pact to open it at midnight at their high school graduation. In the little town in Georgia that they live in, things soon change. One is little miss perfect, one is an engaged prom queen, and the ...
Style: road movie, sentimental, teen, sexy, feel good ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: teenager, high school, road trip, friendship, on the road, pregnancy, female bonding, virgin, teenage girl, fall in love, singer, audition ...
Time: 2000s, year 2002
Place: austin texas, los angeles, tucson arizona, usa, georgia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 5.8
 6K
Candy Jar (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Dueling high school debate champs who are at odds on just about everything forge ahead with ambitious plans to get into the colleges of their dreams.
Style: entertaining, light, captivating, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: teens
Plot: interracial romance, high school, high school life, teenager, rivalry, teachers and students, debate, dream, disorder, dishonesty, happy ending, cons and scams ...
Place: georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 7.3
 10K
Grease Live! (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story: After enjoying a holiday romance, high school students Danny and Sandy are unexpectedly reunited when she transfers to Rydell High, where she must contend with cynical Rizzo and the Pink Ladies.
Style: light, lyrical, captivating, sentimental, feel good ...
Plot: dancing, high school life, friends, teenage love, coming of age, youth, broadway, live performance, teen romance, twins, theater, opposites attract ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, 20th century, year 1959
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Billy Elliot: The Musical Live (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 169 min.
Story: A talented young dancer has to learn to fight for his dream despite social and parental disapproval.
Style: captivating, thought provoking, psychological, disturbing, sincere ...
Audience: kids
Plot: dancing, dancer, society, dance, live performance, follow your dream, music, ambitious man, dancer's life, ambition, ambitious, dream ...
Time: 80s
Place: northern england
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Step Up 2: The Streets (2008)
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, inspirational, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience: teens, date night, girls' night, family friendly, chick flick
Plot: dancing, dance, dancer, youth, ballet, dancer's life, hip hop, music, dance contest, street dance, contests and competitions, competition ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: maryland, usa, baltimore
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Bye Bye Birdie (1963)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A singer goes to a small town for a performance before he is drafted
Style: black and white, funny, retro, hilarious, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids
Plot: cheerleader, teenager, broadway, love, small town, theater, dancing, musician, generation, revolutionary war, rock and roll, beat generation ...
Time: year 1963, 20th century, 60s
Place: ohio, usa, new york, washington d.c., columbus ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 5.9
 81K
Rock of Ages (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A small town girl and a city boy meet on the Sunset Strip, while pursuing their Hollywood dreams.
Style: entertaining, feel good, sexy, visually appealing, romantic ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot: rock, broadway, rock and roll, music, dancing, gay, nightclub, dance, teenager, striptease, music business, nostalgia ...
Time: 80s, year 2012, 20th century, year 1987
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 4.5
 38K
Grease 2 (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: It's 1961, two years after the original Grease gang graduated, and there's a new crop of seniors and new members of the coolest cliques on campus, the Pink Ladies and T-Birds. Michael Carrington is the new kid in school - but he's ...
Style: sexy, cult classic, romantic, period piece, retro ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night, date night ...
Plot: dancing, high school, dance, motorcycle, cheerleader, music, teen romance, teenage girl, teenager, biker, love, bowling ...
Time: year 1982, 60s, 20th century, year 1961, 1950s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 5.0
 17K
Fame (2009)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: An updated version of the 1980 musical, which centered on the students of the New York Academy of Performing Arts.
Style: romantic, melancholic, intense, semi serious, emotional ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, kids, date night, chick flick
Plot: dancing, teacher, dance, high school, music, music business, follow your dream, desire for fame, youth, showbiz, dream come true, teenage life ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 3.9
 279
Breaking Legs (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: It's 'Footloose' meets 'Mean Girls' as high school freshman Bloom moves to a town where there's no place to dance - except the school dance team! But when the boyfriend of the team's lead girl falls for her, ...
Style: captivating, contemplative, entertaining, feel good, light ...
Plot: sexy teenager, teenage girl, high school, dancing, rivalry, friends, fall in love, couples, youth, couple relations, love and romance, dance school ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 6.5
 272K
Mamma Mia! (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, UK, Germany
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Set on an idyllic Greek island, the plot serves as a background for a wealth of ABBA hit songs. Donna, an independent, single mother who owns a small hotel on the island is about to let go of Sophie, the spirited young daughter she's raised ...
Style: romantic, feel good, light, stylized, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, family outing, kids ...
Plot: wedding, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, dancing, greek island, dance, single mother, broadway, single parent, parents and children, meet the parents, free spirited ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: greece, europe, italy, fictional island, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 7.0
 415K
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, teen sex comedy, entertaining, sex comedy ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot: high school, coming of age, teenager, adolescence, youth, teenage girl, high school life, teenage life, notoriety, love and romance, classmate, popularity ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: california, xian, usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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