Movies like Shake, Rattle and Roll: An American Love Story

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Shake, Rattle and Roll: An American Love Story (1999)
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Shake, Rattle and Roll: An American Love Story (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min.
Story: A group of high school friends starts a rock band during the 1950's.
Plot: rock band, suburbs, rock and roll, rock star, elvis presley, guitarist, band, elvis
Time: 1950s, 50s

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, serious, realistic and sincere films with plots about suburbs, rock and roll, coming of age, family relations, parents and children, rock band and couples mostly in Drama and Music genres. Some movies like Shake, Rattle and Roll: An American Love Story: Finn & the Sea of Noise (2013), Bigger Than the Beatles (2017), The Woman Who Loved Elvis (1993), Rough Winds (2009), I Hate Tom Petty (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Finn & the Sea of Noise (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: As Finn slips back into a groove of mindless parties, sunburn, and hangovers, he let's his life take a mind-numbing vacation. But when he's confronted with death first hand, he takes a new outlook on life, remembering his endless dreams ...
Style: mumblecore, independent film, dark comedy
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, suburbs, american midwest
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Bigger Than the Beatles (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story: When Beach Boy Dennis Wilson introduced his new pal to the L.A. music scene, sparks began to fly. Charlie, an intense singer-songwriter, penned some songs for The Beach Boys, but his worldwide fame came for another reason entirely.
Plot: charles manson, lie, rock and roll, beach boys
Time: year 1968
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The Woman Who Loved Elvis (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Drama - It's 1982, and Midwestern housewife Joyce Jackson (Roseanne) is obsessed with Elvis Presley; she's even used the King of Rock and Roll's inspiration to turn her house into a wacky shrine. Convinced Presley's still alive, ...
Style: serious, realistic
Plot: social relations, family relations, social misfits, obsession, artists and showbiz, rock, eccentric family, obsessed fan, rock and roll, delusional woman, delusion, music fan ...
Time: 80s, year 1982
Place: iowa
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Rough Winds (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Three devastating teenage stories fuse beneath the calm of a quiet, average neighborhood.
Style: teen
Plot: suicide attempt, closeted gay, anorexia, high school, suburbs, teenager, post traumatic stress disorder, coming of age
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I Hate Tom Petty (2011)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Through music and dramatic performances, the film tells the story of the relationship between a young emerging guitar player/songwriter named Bob and a the sexy free spirited singer-songwriter Kitt. They are brought together by their friends and one ...
Plot: boyfriend girlfriend relationship, father son relationship, bassist, rock and roll, guitarist, rock band, young, band, guitar, bass, keyboard
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September 30, 1955 (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Rebel. Icon. Legend. James Dean’s untimely death on September 30, 1955, shocked the world and helped define an entire generation. This gripping drama chronicles the reactions of an Arkansas college town to the tragedy and focuses on Jimmy J., a ...
Plot: filmmaking, radio, suburbs, movie star, college, friend, autumn, actor, death, fandom
Time: 1950s, year 1955
Place: arkansas
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Asphalt Goddess (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Max returns to her slum turned into the vocalist of a rock band. There, the memories await, the latest news and the truths that were silent for years: Sonia is a voice that speaks from the death.
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating
Plot: musician, lgbt, rock band, confronting the past, troubled past, music band, music, social problems, lifestyle, musician's life, female protagonist, social issues ...
Place: mexico
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Not Fade Away (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Set in suburban New Jersey in the 1960s, a group of friends form a rock band and try to make it big.
Style: sincere, captivating, sentimental, touching, realistic ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: music band, rivalry, follow your dream, desire for fame, lifestyle, ambition, rebelliousness, friendship, social relations, youth, buddies, ego clash ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1967, year 1963
Place: new jersey, usa, los angeles, pacific ocean, california
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Clean and Sober (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Hotshot real estate salesman Daryl has a bad cocaine habit. After embezzling his company's money, he wakes up next to a girl who overdosed. To hide from the police, he checks into a rehabilitation program guaranteeing anonymity. Under the ...
Style: realistic, touching, compassionate, emotional, melancholic ...
Plot: drug addiction, addiction, introspection, alcoholism, alcoholic, drug abuse, yuppie, alcoholics anonymous, drug, tragedy, character study, recovery ...
Time: 80s
Place: usa, philadelphia
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The Last Winter (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Tells the story of a young man's struggle to keep his world from changing. Placed in the rural setting of the mid 1950s.
Style: independent film
Audience: kids
Plot: suburbs, childhood, grandfather, moving, city, child's point of view, big city, coming of age, grandfather grandson relationship
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Mull (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An Australian film about a teenage girl who takes responsibility for keeping her "family" together.
Style: independent film
Plot: lgbt, suburbs, gay interest, love triangle, cancer, gay brother, precocious child, loss of mother, coming of age, girl
Place: australia
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At Any Cost (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Two brothers and their best friend start a rock band and try to make it big in Los Angeles.
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Plot: price of fame, rock band, music industry, musician, heroin addict, husband wife relationship, drug overdose, deception, record producer, rock music, abortion, manager ...
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Crime of the Decade (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A young man in a depressed satellite city, meets a woman who offers him love and hope.
Plot: murder, physical abuse, suburbs, youth, social criticism, dead boy, accidental death, motor scooter
Place: australia
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3 Backyards (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: An executive, a housewife and a youngster spend a day in their Long Island suburban town during the course of one curious autumn day afternoon.
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Nine Lives (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.
Style: emotional, intense, talky, serious, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: dysfunctional family, pregnancy, friendship, abortion, family relations, multiple storylines, couples, family problems, love and romance, human nature, couple relations, love affair ...
Time: year 2005
Place: los angeles
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Jacknife (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A conflict develops between a troubled Vietnam veteran and the sister he lives with when she becomes involved romantically with the army buddy who reminds him of the tragic battle they both survived.
Style: realistic, talky, psychological, sincere, cult classic ...
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Time: 80s, year 1989, 20th century
Place: usa, vietnam, connecticut
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Too Young to Be a Dad (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: When 15-year-old, Matt Freeman, gets his girlfriend, Francesca, pregnant her family decides to put the unborn baby up for adoption. Matt agrees to the decision, but begins to rethink it. This movie is taken from the father's point of view.
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Duration: 88 min.
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Duration: 83 min.
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Drunkboat (2010)
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Style: serious, touching, realistic, sincere, sad
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Small Town Saturday Night (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Just days before Rhett (Chris Pine) is leaving for Nashville to pursue a lifelong dream of being a singer/songwriter, his girlfriend Samantha (Bre Blair) realizes that "his" future may not be "their" future. This news comes as a ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Psych-Out (1968)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Jenny, a deaf runaway who has just arrived in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district to find her long-lost brother, a mysterious bearded sculptor known around town as The Seeker. She falls in with a psychedelic band, Mumblin' Jim, whose ...
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The Loveless (1981)
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Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
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Style: period piece, slasher, cult classic, realistic, serious ...
Plot: motorcycle, biker, bike, gang, murder, women, rock and roll, criminal activity, street gangster, on the road, erotica, suburbs ...
Time: year 1981, 50s, year 1960, year 1959, 1950s
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Ben and Benedict (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Ben (Françoise Lebrun) is a woman who never gets to do what she really wants to do and is the victim of everybody and everything. Benedict is her imaginary creation: the girl who would respond with strength and mastery to situations she can only ...
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Black Dogs Barking (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Restless and young, best buddies Selim and Çaça live a meager existence on the outskirts of Istanbul. By day they breed pigeons on the roof, by night they roam the streets with their entourage in their pimped-up car, "My Orange Angel". ...
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Mass Appeal (1984)
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The Girl, the Body, and the Pill (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A suburban high school teacher is fired from her job for teaching sex education. But she continues to give private sessions at her home to her former students leading to rumors and complications around town.
Style: grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
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Plot: youth, single parent, working class, family problems, suburbs, family relations, society, siblings relations, eviction, parents and children, child, poverty ...
Place: boston, usa
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Suburban Roulette (1968)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Sexy Sixties Swingers invite tragedy in the simmering suburban cauldron of Chaicago's fringe.
Style: independent film
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