Movies like Cha-Cha-Cha
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Cha-Cha-Cha (1982)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Gruber is a normal 16-year-old growing up in Budapest in 1962, but he has a problem -- how does he get to know the opposite sex? At the Sunday afternoon dance classes the young "ladies and gentlemen" hold each other while dancing, and that makes the lessons worth something. Otherwise, the pianist's attention wanders and the orchestra does not exactly play with a single-minded dedication. In fact, everybody seems to have other things on their minds, except for the enthusiastic dance instructor and his ever-smiling assistant.
Plot:
dance school, teenage love, music, pianist, teenager
Time:
60s, 1960s
Place:
hungary
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, semi serious and humorous films with plots about teenager, coming of age, youth, teenage love, high school, love and romance and school mostly in Drama, Comedy and Music genres. Some movies like Cha-Cha-Cha: Aloha Summer (1988), A Very Moral Night (1977), The Year of the First Kiss (2002), Vagabond (2003), Out of It (1969). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Duration: 110 min.
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Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Story:
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Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Country: Hungary
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Story:
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