Movies like Secrets 1992

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Secrets (1992)
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Secrets (1992)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: New Zealand, Australia
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Five teens get stuck in the basement in an attempt to see the Beatles in a local hotel.
Style: independent film
Plot: the beatles, friendship, pregnancy, rock band, hotel, teenage girl, rock and roll, memory, lie, teenage pregnancy, catholic, basement, liar, teenage boy, adolescence, arrogance, locked in, nostalgia, obsessed fan, secret, shyness, friend, love interest, cousin cousin relationship, music fan ...
Time: 60s, 1960s
Place: australia, melbourne
Keyword: melbourne australia

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, independent film, serious and captivating films with plots about musician, friendship, band, coming of age, music, rock and roll and teenage girl mostly in Drama, Music and Comedy genres. Some movies like Secrets: Moving Out (1983), That'll Be the Day (1973), Beck (2010), Quadrophenia (1979), All Ages Night (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Moving Out (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Coming-of-age story about an Italian-Australian teenager making his way in the world.
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous, independent film
Plot: immigrant, family relations, coming of age, suburbs, misfit, society, youth, life turned upside down, teenage life, culture clash, moving, trespassing ...
Time: 80s
Place: australia, melbourne
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95%
That'll Be the Day (1973)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Britain, 1958. Restless at school and bored with his life, Jim leaves home to take a series of low-level jobs at a seaside amusement park, where he discovers a world of cheap sex and petty crime. But when that world comes to a shockingly brutal end, ...
Style: offbeat, serious, realistic, gloomy, sincere ...
Plot: rock, rock and roll, singer, freakshow, the beatles, kitchen sink realism, circus, swing, working class, coming of age, showbiz, celebrity culture ...
Time: 1950s, 50s
Place: england, europe
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56%
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Beck (2010)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 145 min.
Story: Yukio is your average high school student who spends his days going to class and avoiding bullies. That is until he meets Ryusuke, a guitar prodigy. Together with Taira, Chiba, and Saku they form the rock band BECK. As their popularity increases so ...
Style: unusual plot structure, captivating, light, visually appealing, uplifting
Audience: teens
Plot: rock band, teenage boy, teenage girl, high school, teenager, youth, music, superhero, dog, drums, profanity, canine ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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 21K
Quadrophenia (1979)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Based on the 1973 rock opera album of the same name by The Who, this is the story of 60s teenager Jimmy. At work he slaves in a dead-end job. While after, he shops for tailored suits and rides his scooter as part of the London Mod scene.
Style: surreal, stylized, lyrical, melancholic, depressing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: motorcycle, music, rock, coming of age, rock and roll, working class, youth, teenage boy, male nudity, street fight, pharmacy, dancing ...
Time: 60s, year 1965, 20th century, year 1979
Place: england, london, brighton, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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All Ages Night (2009)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A teenage rock band believe one night on stage will change their life
Plot: voice over narration, teenager, father daughter relationship, singer, friendship, teenage boy, teenage girl, cartoonist, cousin cousin relationship, drummer, nightclub, bassist ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Telling Lies in America (1997)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Karchy (Brad Renfro) is a boy in school who has moved from Hungary to America in the 1960's. He is struggling in school and trying to adjust to America's culture. He then hears about a radio DJ Billy Magic (Kevin Bacon) who holds a contest ...
Style: sentimental, talky, realistic, touching, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, high school, radio dj, childhood, manipulation, happy ending, police investigation, love and romance, human nature, introspection, false accusation, high school life ...
Time: 60s, year 1997, 90s
Place: europe, ohio, hungary, cleveland ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
The Hours and Times (1991)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 57 min.
Story: A fictionalized account of what may have happened when John Lennon and Brian Epstein went on holiday together to Spain in 1963.
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, talky, sincere ...
Plot: the beatles, lgbtq, gay couple, friendship, gay subtext, unfulfilled love, twentysomething life, alcohol abuse, celebrity culture, couples, friends, human nature ...
Time: year 1991, 90s, 60s
Place: spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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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 ⇓
45%
Lackawanna Blues (2005)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In a story fueled by rhythm and blues, a young boy's life is shaped by love and the stories of a cast of characters in the boarding house where he lives in 1960s Lackawanna, New York.
Style: serious, touching, realistic, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: coming of age, friendship, family relations, family problems, youth, lifestyle, friends, parents and children, black, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, blaxploitation ...
Time: 60s, 50s, 20th century, 1950s
Place: new york, usa, pennsylvania, russia, toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Loren Cass (2006)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Adolescents come to terms with their lives after the rebellions of 1996 St. Petersburg.
Style: independent film
Plot: sex, punk, punk rock, rock, punk rocker, teenage girl, suicide, robbery, graffiti, rock band, cocaine, burglary ...
Place: florida, los angeles, new york, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Things Behind the Sun (2001)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A young music journalist's dark memories are awakened when he goes to interview a female rock singer, and both are forced to confront troubling secrets from their pasts.
Style: sincere, emotional, serious, realistic, erotic ...
Plot: rape, haunted by the past, sexual abuse, forced sexual contact, gang rape, teenage girl, rapist, journalist, musician's life, memory, secret, coping ...
Place: florida, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Amy (1997)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Amy's father, Franco, was a popular rock musician accidentally electrocuted while performing on stage. The psychological trauma leaves Amy mute and deaf. So the 8-year-old is brought by her mother, Tanya, to Melbourne to diagnose the reasons ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, touching, sentimental ...
Plot: deaf, youth, coming of age, girl, children, psychological disorder, family relations, witness, singer, grief, working class, neighbor ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: australia, melbourne
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
We Are the Best! (2013)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Three girls in 1980s Stockholm decide to form a punk band -- despite not having any instruments and being told by everyone that punk is dead.
Style: touching, stylized, lyrical, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: music, punk, teenager, coming of age, teenage girl, friendship, punk rock, rebellion, adolescence, children, girl power, teenage life ...
Time: 80s, year 1982, year 2013, 20th century
Place: seattle, europe, eastern europe, scandinavia, stockholm sweden
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Rock On!! (2008)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: India
Duration: 145 min.
Story: Sakshi Shroff, the lonely and neglected wife of busy banking executive, Aditya, decides to give him a surprise on his birthday on July 22nd, but ends surprising him multiple times. While Aditya is thrilled to know that he is going to be a dad, he is ...
Style: realistic, serious, inspirational, captivating, sincere ...
Plot: friendship, music, follow your dream, buddies, hopes, contests and competitions, boyfriend, bittersweet, music band, music business, second chance, chance meeting ...
Time: y2k, year 2008
Place: india, asia, goa india
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36%
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Backstage (2005)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: France
Duration: 115 min.
Story: An adolescent groupie zeroes in on her Blondie-like idol after the singer chances to cross her orbit on a publicity tour. Gradually their lives intertwine as, with near-operatic intensity, the film delves into the emotional dependency on both sides ...
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, disturbing, crying
Plot: lesbian subtext, obsession, love affair, desire for fame, self discovery, musician's life, rising to stardom, actor's life, stalking, love and romance, artists and showbiz, couples ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: paris france
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The True-Hearted (1992)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: China
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The film illustrates classical Beijing Opera in different generations and the boy’s process of growing-up.
Plot: voice over narration, husband wife reunion, divorced parents, childhood, aunt, buddhist, opera, grandfather grandson relationship, neighborhood, memory, old man, tradition ...
Place: taiwan
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33%
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Teen Spirit (2018)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Violet, a shy teenager living on the Isle of Wight off the south coast of England dreams of pop stardom and with the help of an unlikely mentor, she enters a singing competition that will test her integrity, talent and ambition.
Style: captivating, light, entertaining
Audience: teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: musician, singing, music, coming of age, teenage girl, mother daughter relationship, audition, singing competition, singer, love and romance, schoolgirl, fictional reality show ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Give My Regards to Broad Street (1984)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Having written the music and screenplay for this film, Paul McCartney also plays himself in the leading role. When the mastertape of McCartney's latest album is misplaced, he must discover its whereabouts in less than 24 hours or else risk ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, captivating, humorous
Plot: the beatles, rock, music, rock and roll, gangster, friends, showbiz, heist, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, musician's life, ambition ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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My Best Pals (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: They are the best friends of the world. Five friends who shared everything: may 68, hippies years, the rock and their love for Bernadette. This Bernadette has left them to become a rock-star, and is back 15 years later for a weekend. Jean-Marie ...
Style: contemplative, realistic, semi serious, talky, humorous
Plot: lgbt, friendship, once promising, nudity, friends, lifestyle, music band, buddies, introspection, ex lover ex lover relationship, stoned, male female relationship ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 70s, 60s
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Charly og Steffen (1979)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Denmark
Duration: 83 min.
Story: No overview found.
Plot: teenage boy, male nudity, friendship, mother, school, male pubic hair, shower, pubic hair
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33%
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DonT Stop (2012)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Prague, 1983. The communist regime, in a suffocating atmosphere ruled over by the secret police, imposes "normalization". Miki and David need some kind of motivation to carry on in the communist wasteland. They discover The Clash's ...
Style: freeze frame
Plot: father son relationship, friendship between men, teen rebel, teenage girl, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, student, teenage boy, friendship, rock music, husband wife relationship, musician, friend ...
Time: 80s, year 1983
Place: prague
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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 5K
The Fits (2015)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story: Toni, a tomboyish boxer, lands a spot on an after-school drill team in the West End community of Cincinnati. She eagerly absorbs routines, masters drills, and even pierces her own ears to fit in. It’s the joy of her first friendships and her ...
Style: captivating, suspense, tense, enigmatic, poignant
Audience: teen drama
Plot: tomboy, girl, friendship, coming of age, infection, secret, competition, illness, mother daughter relationship, boxing, black, african american ...
Place: cincinnati ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Boy's Choir (2000)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min.
Story: A young teen's father dies, and he is sent to an orphanage. He's teased because he stutters almost runs away, until a beautiful, androgynous boy, Yasuo (Sora Toma), convinces him to join the choir.
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot: choir, music teacher, boys' school, singer, friendship, boys' choir, orphan, friendship between boys, gay, musician, relationships, life is a bitch ...
Time: 70s
Place: tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Secret Superstar (2017)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Insia Malik is a talented 15-year-old school girl from Baroda whose spirit is ripped because her mother is in a troubled and violent marriage. Of course she still dares to pursue her dream of becoming a singer and she also valiantly attempts to free ...
Style: sincere, touching, captivating, serious, feel good ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: teenage girl, father daughter relationship, secret, mother daughter relationship, teenager, husband wife conflict, family secret, follow your dream, longing, unsupportive parent, coming of age, women ...
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Light of Day (1987)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Fox and Jett play a brother and sister who are lead performers in a rock band, The Barbusters, in Cleveland, Ohio. The sister, Patti Rasnick, is an unmarried mother and has a troubled relationship with her own mother, who is deeply religious. ...
Style: touching, independent film, captivating, serious, realistic ...
Plot: rock and roll, rock, rock band, cancer, music, working class, hospital, death, club, siblings, brother sister relationship, ambition ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
Place: ohio, cleveland ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 5.8
 3K
Garage Days (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Australia
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A young garage band in Sydney, is trying to make it big in Australia.
Style: humorous, entertaining, semi serious, feel good, exciting ...
Plot: rock music, music, loneliness, friends, lifestyle, rock and roll, rock, musician's life, music band, love and romance, punk, punk rock ...
Place: australia, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 6.5
 1K
Stardust (1974)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Sequel to 1973's That'll Be The Day. Jim McLain is now enjoying the nomadic 'gigs and groupies' life on tour with his band. When he achieves all his wildest dreams of international stardom, the sweet taste of success begins to ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, stylized
Plot: rock and roll, music, musician, dancing, swing, post war, rock star, nudity, music band, rise and fall, lifestyle, life is a bitch ...
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
The Five Heartbeats (1991)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: In the early 1960's, a quintet of hopeful, young African-American men form an amateur vocal group called The Five Heartbeats. After an initially rocky start, the group improves, turns pro, and rises to become a top flight music sensation. Along ...
Style: sentimental, hood, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: music, racism, black, rock and roll, african american, friendship, blaxploitation, black history, music business, corruption, drug addiction, gangster ...
Time: 60s, year 1991, 70s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Miss Blue Jeans (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Year 1977. Punk and new wave rock´n roll has arrived to remote Finland and a bleak small town Oulu where increasingly odd-looking youths began to appear in the street with a message. Their rebellion speaks to Välde (17). Välde dreams of joining a ...
Style: light, captivating, entertaining, feel good
Audience: teens
Plot: musician, adolescence, first love, teenager, outcast, mother son relationship, age-gap relationship, beauty pageant, songwriter, teenage girl, teenage boy, youth ...
Time: year 1977, 70s
Place: finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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