Movies like Wild Tango

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Wild Tango (1993)
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Wild Tango (1993)
Original name: Tango feroz: La leyenda de Tanguito
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A biopic based on the life of one of the pioneer argentine rock stars 'Tanguito'. The movie tells the story of his rise and fall from grace, encompassed in violent times of a military regime.
Style: manga, mindfuck
Plot: dancing, rock, bad father, medical profession, love, prison, police officer, military, police, student, female nudity, politics, death, singer, male nudity, rock and roll, father daughter relationship, single mother, fall in love, tango, slum, rebel, tragic love, historical event, dictatorship ...
Time: 60s, 1960s
Place: argentina, buenos aires argentina
Keyword: argentine

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Most similar movies to Wild Tango

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and touching films with plots about singer, artists and showbiz, singing, musician, biopic, song and music mostly in Drama, Music and Romance genres. Some movies like Wild Tango: Camila (1984), Backbeat (1994), Sid and Nancy (1986), Nowhere Boy (2009), Tangos Are for Two (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Camila (1984)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In Buenos Aires of the 1840s, a young Jesuit and a wealthy socialite fall in love and begin a torrid affair. They escape from the city, and, in disguise, set up house in a village, assuming they are safe and beyond the cares of anyone. However, both ...
Style: romantic, cult classic, manga, captivating, serious ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: forbidden love, priest in love, love, girl, first love, religion, sensuality, tragic love, village life, village, social differences, small town ...
Time: 19th century, 1840s
Place: argentina, latin america, buenos aires argentina
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95%
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Backbeat (1994)
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, rough, sincere ...
Plot: the beatles, music, rock and roll, biopic, rock, artist, musician, art, friendship, music history, rock music, lgbt ...
Time: 60s, year 1994, 20th century
Place: hamburg germany, england, germany, liverpool, northern germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
 7.0
 35K
Sid and Nancy (1986)
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: bloody, cult classic, disturbing, independent film, psychedelic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: punk, addiction, rock and roll, drug abuse, heroin, drug addiction, biopic, punk rock, couples, musician, heroin addict, drug ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1986
Place: new york, london, paris france, england, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
 7.1
 39K
Nowhere Boy (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The drama tells the story of Lennon's teenage years and the start of his journey to becoming a successful musician. The story also examines the impact on his early life and personality of the two dominant females in his childhood
Style: sentimental, intense, emotional, sincere, witty ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: musician's life, music, rock and roll, coming of age, the beatles, follow your dream, biopic, prodigy, adolescence, rock, dysfunctional family, artist ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, 60s, 1940s, 1950s ...
Place: europe, england, liverpool, hamburg germany, new zealand
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Tangos Are for Two (1997)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A woman's voice says she was wife to Renzo Franchi and Carlos Gardel (1890-1935), Argentina's great tango singer. People say she's crazy. Her story unfolds. Buenos Aires, 1933: Juana Romero, a seamstress who lives for the music of ...
Style: manga
Plot: tango, mistaken identity, wedding, mystery woman, ambition, couple relations, artists and showbiz, unfulfillment, rise and fall, music, dishonesty, love and romance ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: buenos aires argentina, argentina, colombia, spain, peru ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
The Linda McCartney Story (2000)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In a dramatization of her life, Linda Eastman, takes a job snapping pictures for Rolling Stone Magazine, despite the objections of her straight-laced father, Lee Eastman. As Linda rubs elbows with music royalty, she bumps into rock star Paul ...
Style: realistic, touching, serious, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: the beatles, tragic event, lifestyle, couple relations, supportive spouse, music band, rising to stardom, unfulfillment, couples, terminal illness, husband wife relationship, nightclub ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 60s, year 1996, year 1969
Place: japan, new york, london, manhattan new york city, scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 7.0
 2K
Wild Horses (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Still Breathing and theft in a financial, Joseph (Hector Alterio), an old anarchist, and a young employee, Pedro (Leonardo Sbaraglia) live for four days violent and compassionate alternatives in their desperate flight from the Patagonia Argentina. ...
Style: road movie, twisted, dark comedy, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: anarchist, wild horse, chase, bank, on the road, hostage, horse, satire, pretense, partner, fugitives, criminal heroes ...
Time: 90s
Place: argentina, latin america, patagonia
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 7.8
 265K
Walk the Line (2005)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story: A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his rise to fame with Sun Records in Memphis, where he recorded alongside Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins.
Style: sentimental, touching, emotional, road movie, captivating ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: music, rock and roll, country music, musician's life, musician, addiction, marriage, biopic, accident, prison, drug, rise and fall ...
Time: 70s, 60s, 50s, 2000s, 1940s ...
Place: tennessee, memphis, usa, arkansas, west germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Selena (1997)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: In this biographical drama, Selena Quintanilla is born into a musical Mexican-American family in Texas. Her father, Abraham, realizes that his young daughter is talented and begins performing with her at small venues. She finds success and falls for ...
Style: touching, sad, factual, emotional, sincere ...
Audience: chick flick, kids, girls' night
Plot: biopic, music, dancing, tragedy, childhood, musician's life, singer, rising to stardom, rock and roll, human spirit, racial segregation, musician ...
Time: 90s, 80s, year 1997, 20th century, year 1995 ...
Place: texas, mexico, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 4.2
 127
Down on Us (1984)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: The story of Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, and Janis Joplin, and how their message for their generation made them targets of a US government plot.
Style: independent film, grindhouse, psychotronic
Plot: hippie, rock and roll, alternate history, rock, punk, jealousy, concert, musician, drinking, death, hotel, television ...
Time: 70s, 60s
Place: san francisco, miami, los angeles, vietnam, woodstock ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 7.2
 4K
Marina (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Belgium, Italy
Duration: 118 min.
Story: The true story of Rocco Granata, an Italian coal miner's son who followed his passion for music against his father's wishes and social barriers.
Style: touching, sincere, sentimental, realistic, visual ...
Plot: against the odds, ambition, follow your dream, artists and showbiz, society, musician's life, musician, parents and children, hopes, first love, father son relationship, time travel ...
Time: 50s, 1950s, 1940s, 20th century
Place: belgium, europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 5.5
 230
Summer Affair (1971)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A very young Ornella Muti plays a rich girl who falls for an older hippie boy. Her parents don't approve and try to stop her from seeing him so they run away to a villa (Her parents') by the sea. Later they are shipwrecked on a deserted ...
Style: ambiguous ending, surprise ending, freeze frame
Plot: erotica, young love, hippie, island, desert island, love, coming of age, rich girl, parents, nudity, bare chested male, family relations ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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 4K
Stoned (2005)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A chronicle of the sordid life and suspicious death of Rolling Stones co-founder Brian Jones, who was found in the bottom of his swimming pool weeks after being let go from the band.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, psychedelic, retro ...
Plot: rock, music, drug abuse, musician's life, musician, showbiz, life is a bitch, rock star, rise and fall, rock and roll, addiction, artists and showbiz ...
Time: year 2005, 60s
Place: britain, paris france, morocco, munich germany, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 6.1
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A Star Is Born (1976)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: A Star Is Born is a 1976 rock music film telling the story of a young woman, played by Barbra Streisand who enters show business, and meets and falls in love with an established male star, played by Kris Kristofferson, only to find her career ...
Style: grindhouse, independent film, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Plot: music, tragic love, alcoholic, women, drug addiction, dancing, rock and roll, radio, elvis presley, fame, rock star, self discovery ...
Time: year 1976, 20th century, 70s
Place: california, usa, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Lennon Naked (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A profile of John Lennon in the late 1960s as the Beatles are set to fall apart.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sincere, sentimental ...
Plot: rock, music band, musician's life, the beatles, lifestyle, family relations, couples, peaceful mission, disagreement, dysfunctional family, artists and showbiz, music ...
Time: 60s, 70s, 20th century
Place: england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Lady Sings the Blues (1972)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story: Chronicles the rise and fall of legendary blues singer Billie Holiday. Her late childhood, stint as a prostitute, early tours, marriages and drug addiction are featured.
Style: realistic, retro, intellectual, serious, touching ...
Plot: jazz, biopic, african american, drug abuse, music, blaxploitation, drug addiction, black, racism, blues, musician, singer ...
Time: 1930s, year 1972, 1940s, 20th century, 70s
Place: america, harlem, new york city, usa, new york, baltimore ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Bride of the Wind (2001)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, Austria
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A biopic of Alma Mahler, the wife of composer Gustav Mahler (as well as Walter Gropius and Franz Werfel), and the mistress of Oskar Kokoschka.
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, atmospheric, heartbreaking ...
Plot: painter, biopic, fall in love, artist, family relations, infidelity, prodigy, lifestyle, ambition, love affair, couples, remarry ...
Time: edwardian era, year 2001, 1900s, 19th century, 20th century ...
Place: austria, vienna, new york, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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La Vie en Rose (2007)
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, disturbing, atmospheric, gloomy, melancholic ...
Plot: music, musician's life, singer, biopic, death, musician, childhood, art, artist, love story, rising to stardom, loss of child ...
Time: 20th century, year 2007, 1940s, 90s, 1910s ...
Place: france, europe, paris france, new york, montmartre paris ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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The Way to Mandalay (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Denmark
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The Way to Mandalay tells the story of one of Denmark's greatest and most beloved musicians. The film takes us on a journey from Mogenson's childhood to manhood and throughout his career which spanned more than twenty years, first with ...
Style: touching, melancholic, sincere, thought provoking, sentimental ...
Plot: marital problem, husband wife relationship, father daughter relationship, marriage, musician, stage fright, singer, baptism, piano, pianist, drunkenness, telephone call ...
Time: 70s, 60s
Place: denmark
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39%
An Impossible Love (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Spans the period from 1958 to the present day and tells the story of an unconditional love between a mother and her daughter which is endangered by an unsteady and manipulative father.
Style: sincere, psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot: love, single mother, violence against women, class differences, implied incest, mother daughter relationship, unrequited love, incest, father daughter incest, illegitimate child, father daughter relationship, office worker ...
Time: 1950s, 90s, 60s, 70s
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: An acclaimed stage performer, Dorothy still struggled with the challenge of her color, in a time that wouldn't let some stars in by the front door. Yet against the odds she beat out many more famous rivals for the role of "Carmen ...
Style: cult classic, contemplative, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: biopic, racism, black, hollywood, women, rape, african american, filmmaking, women of color, sexual abuse, interracial romance, post war ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 1940s, 50s, 1950s
Place: usa, miami beach, new york, miami, las vegas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Tango Bar (1987)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: Argentina, Puerto Rico
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After many years, Ricardo and Antonio, two former partners, will reunite in their Tango Bar in Buenos Aires. Ricardo, the partner still owning the bar, reminiscences the days of their old show "Esto es Tango" while waiting for Antonio.
Style: anthology, realistic, serious
Plot: tango, love triangle, politics, friendship, political unrest, folk hero, love and romance, state affairs, intrigue, artists and showbiz, dancer's life, male female relationship ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
Place: argentina, buenos aires argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
I Saw the Light (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Singer and songwriter Hank Williams rises to fame in the 1940s, but alcohol abuse and infidelity take a toll on his career and marriage to fellow musician Audrey Mae Williams.
Style: atmospheric, stylized, emotional, romantic, historical drama ...
Plot: country music, marriage, biopic, musician, country singer, husband wife relationship, singer, alcoholism, songwriter, infidelity, drinking, divorce ...
Time: 1940s, 50s, year 1944
Place: usa, new york, nashville tennessee
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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 6.4
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Miles Ahead (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An exploration of the life and music of Miles Davis.
Style: touching, psychological, tense, captivating, historical drama ...
Plot: jazz, musician, biopic, trumpet player, historical figure, black, music, pursuit, african american, nightclub, party, drinking ...
Time: 70s
Place: manhattan new york city, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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The Rose (1979)
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, realistic, serious, captivating, sincere ...
Plot: addiction, rock and roll, rock band, love, musician, singer, women, drug abuse, rock, music, bittersweet, biopic ...
Time: year 1979, 20th century, 60s, year 1969
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Tango Lesson (1997)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK, France, Argentina, Germany, Netherlands, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: On a trip to Paris Sally meets Pablo, a tango dancer. He starts teaching her to dance then she returns to London to work on some "projects". She visits Buenos Aires and learns more from Pablo's friends. Sally and Pablo meet again but ...
Style: realistic, visual, serious, atmospheric, epic ...
Plot: tango, dancing, dance, destiny, women, art, woman power, flirting, partner, mad love, dancer, performer's life ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: paris france, argentina, london, latin america, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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 3K
Isadora (1968)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 131 min.
Story: A biography of the dancer Isadora Duncan, the 1920s dancer who forever changed people's ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance projects as well as her attitudes on free love, debt, dress, and lifestyle shocked the public of ...
Style: historical drama, sad, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: ballet, female nudity, women, dancing, children, dancer, biopic, art, girl, fictional history, age-gap relationship, philosophy ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century, 19th century, 1890s, year 1900
Place: europe, chicago, russia, nice france, san francisco ...
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34%
 5.6
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Hendrix (2000)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Biography of rock star Jimi Hendrix chronicles his early career, including a stint with Little Richard who fired him for getting too flamboyant, to his tragic failure.
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, gloomy
Plot: musician's life, biopic, ambition, rising to stardom, prodigy, tragic hero, music band, life is a bitch, rise and fall, artists and showbiz, drug abuse, hotshot hero ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 6.9
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Elvis and Me (1988)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min.
Story: The story of Priscilla's life with rock and roll star Elvis Presley.
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, emotional, touching ...
Plot: elvis presley, biopic, rock and roll, unhappy ending, couples, rock, music, couple relations, artists and showbiz, musician's life, desire for fame, introspection ...
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 7.2
 99K
The Doors (1991)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: France, USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story: The story of the famous and influential 1960's rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison.
Style: psychedelic, factual, realistic, serious, cult classic ...
Plot: rock and roll, music band, drug addiction, life philosophy, musician's life, addiction, music, biopic, musician, drug abuse, singer, hippie ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 60s, year 1949, year 1967 ...
Place: california, paris france, los angeles, usa, new mexico ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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