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Destined for Blues (2005)
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Destined for Blues (2005)
Original name: Skazany na bluesa
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Poland
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The life of Ryszard Riedel, former leader of cult Polish rock-blues band Dzem, including the history of his family relationships, music career and addiction to alcohol and drugs.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating
Plot: musician, music band, music industry, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, white horse, biopic, sea, wedding, rock band, beach, family relations, coma, blues, hallucination, hitchhiking, coming of age, concert, death of friend, concert tour, harmonica, black horse, cult music band, heroin addict, band ...
Time: year 2005, 90s, 80s, 70s, 1990s
Place: poland, warsaw poland

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, realistic, serious and sincere films with plots about biopic, music, musician, musician's life, artists and showbiz, ambition and rising to stardom mostly in Biography, Drama and Music genres. Some movies like Destined for Blues: You Are God (2012), The Rose of the Rascal (2001), Crazy Sexy Cool: The TLC Story (2013), Two of Us (2000), Gods (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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You Are God (2012)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Poland
Duration: 110 min.
Story: One of the biggest Polish film premieres of 2012 and eagerly anticipated for over a decade, it is the story of the late 90s generation and the three friends behind the music: Magik, Focus and Rahim. The fact-based film directed by Leszek Dawid ...
Style: captivating, factual
Plot: music manager, hip hop, rise and fall, musician's life, hip hop culture, glory, music, historical figure, music band, musician, rising to stardom, price of fame ...
Time: 2000s, 90s
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The Rose of the Rascal (2001)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Finland
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The life of Irwin Goodman, a Finnish singer.
Style: sincere, serious, captivating, realistic
Plot: celebrity, musician, friendship, friendship between men, music industry, rags to riches, alcohol abuse, music, biopic, singer, alcoholism, friend ...
Time: 70s, 60s
Place: finland
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Crazy Sexy Cool: The TLC Story (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: TLC's humble beginnings in Atlanta quickly led to an unprecedented rise to fame in the 1990's as one of the world's most talented, celebrated and highest-selling female groups of all time. Through very public and high profile success, ...
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, captivating
Audience: girls' night
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Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
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Daydream Believers: The Monkees' Story (2000)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In 2000, VH-1 produced the television biopic Daydream Believers: The Monkees' Story. In 2002, the movie was released on DVD, and featured both commentaries and interviews with Dolenz, Jones and Tork. The aired version did differ from the DVD ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, sentimental, captivating
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Two of Us (2000)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
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Duration: 89 min.
Story: In this purely fictional story, Paul McCartney drops by The Dakota to visit John Lennon in 1976. Paul is still on top of the music world, reaching #1 with his new band, Wings. John, however, has retired from public life, choosing to raise his son, ...
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Place: usa, new york
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Gods (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 120 min.
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Style: captivating, serious, realistic, tense, sexy
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Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1985, year 1987
Place: poland
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 123 min.
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Finland
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Biopic of Finnish singer and songwriter, Juice Leskinen.
Style: thought provoking, captivating
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
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Duration: 111 min.
Story: A story of five Finnish youth growing up during the devastating 90's recession. They live in the small, timber industrial town of Heinola. As the parents of these young teens struggle through hard economic times, the five very different youth ...
Style: captivating, sentimental, exciting, melancholic, tense
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 115 min.
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
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Duration: 90 min.
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Style: captivating, disturbing
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
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Style: inspirational, factual, realistic, captivating, retro
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
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Duration: 103 min.
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
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Duration: 140 min.
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
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Style: realistic, touching, serious, captivating, suspenseful ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
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Style: captivating, realistic, serious, gloomy
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