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Already Famous (2011)
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Original name: 一泡而红
Genre: Comedy
Country: Singapore
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A light hearted comedy about a girl from a small town in Malaysia who dreams of becoming a star in neighboring Singapore...
Style:
sentimental, touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
fall in love, follow your dream, ambition, desire for fame, love and romance, showbiz, lifestyle, celebrity culture, hopes, media, urban, artists and showbiz, village, cinema, coffee, gambler, hairdresser, grandmother, fat boy, effeminate man, immigrant, country, tv station, tv show, immigrants
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
singapore, malaysia, asia
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and feel good films with plots about lifestyle, artists and showbiz, love and romance, ambition, hopes, showbiz and follow your dream mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like Already Famous: The Breakdance Kid (2004), Dr. Cabbie (2014), Most Promising Young Actress (2000), Jump (2009), Stars 80 (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In 1984, loser pizza guy Whitey Johnson is run over by a semi truck on live television, making him a local hero. The world watches as Whitey vows to not only walk again but to win his town's breakdance competition. Whitey struggles to conquer ...
Style:
touching, semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
hip hop, teenage love, follow your dream, dancer's life, ambition, lifestyle, hopes, rivalry, love and romance, contests and competitions, youth, high school life ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada, India
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
An unemployed doctor turned cab driver becomes a local hero when he converts his taxi into a mobile clinic. Dr. CABBIE is the heart warming journey of a young Indian Doctor who immigrates to Canada with the selfless ambition of healing others while ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot:
taxi, hopes, doctor, fish out of water, disorder, follow your dream, workplace, buddies, misfit, love and romance, workplace situations, interracial relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Yvon Rance, a born hairdresser and an elegant middle-aged man with a perfect toupee, reigns in his native Brittany over a clientèle of little old ladies. But his main reason for living, his masterpiece, is Laetitia, his only daughter, whom he has ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic
Plot:
ambition, follow your dream, actor's life, desire for fame, life turned upside down, youth, artists and showbiz, overnight success, parents and children, beauty salon, father daughter relationship, hairdresser ...
Time:
90s
Place:
europe, france, brittany, paris france
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100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Aspiring dancer Phoenix lives in the countryside with her father, but she's got her eyes set on farther places. Jumping at the chance to move to shiny Shanghai, she makes ends and dreams meet by working as a janitor at an elite dance studio ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, feel good, sincere, humorous
Audience:
teens
Plot:
fall in love, hopes, lifestyle, ambition, follow your dream, love and romance, rivalry, dancer's life, youth, contests and competitions, artists and showbiz, hip hop ...
Time:
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Place:
asia, china
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Die-hard fans of the 1980s, Vincent and Antoine run a company that supplies doubles of faded stars throughout the whole of France. What starts out as a promising business venture ends up as a calamity when Vincent and Antoine have over forty ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, feel good, realistic
Plot:
ambition, performer's life, artists and showbiz, obsessive quest, follow your dream, against the odds, lifestyle, buddies, escapades, showbiz, partner, once promising ...
Time:
80s, 21st century
Place:
europe, france
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Elspeth Dickens dreams of finding her "voice" despite being stuck in an isolated farmhouse with her twin toddlers. A web-cam becomes her pathway to fame and fortune, but at a price.
Style:
semi serious, sentimental, humorous, feel good, rom com ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
follow your dream, lifestyle, ambition, musician's life, showbiz, rising to stardom, twins, hopes, parents and children, artists and showbiz, theater, girl ...
Time:
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Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Cannes, 1999. Alice, an actress, wants to direct an indie picture. Kaz, a talkative (and maybe bogus) deal maker, promises $3 million if she'll use Millie, an aging French star. But, Rick, a big producer, needs Millie for a small part in a fall ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, talky, witty, independent film ...
Plot:
filmmaking, actor's life, betrayal, friendship, couple relations, love and romance, lifestyle, crumbling marriage, desire for fame, ambition, rise to the top, couples ...
Time:
year 2001
Place:
cannes, riviera
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Looking for Lola is a comical look at the world of relationships and highlights just how far we will go to impress that special someone... Mike (Mark Kassen) has moved to L.A. with dreams of being a writer. In order to keep his parents satisfied, he ...
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious, touching, independent film
Plot:
young lovers, dancing, nightclub, comedy of errors, follow your dream, showbiz, dancer's life, true love, lie, illegal alien, twentysomething life, writer's life ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
An electronic ankle bracelet and being under house arrest aren't about to stop up-and-coming actress Maggie Chase (Tanna Frederick) from the two things she craves the most: real fame and true love. With more "Google points" than her ...
Style:
talky, realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching ...
Plot:
actor's life, showbiz, bittersweet, paparazzi, desire for fame, artists and showbiz, love triangle, alcohol abuse, couples, unstoppable, lifestyle, rising to stardom ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Tinseltown has its movers and shakers, but they all first started somewhere as The Assistants in Hollywood. The Assistants is a new movie opening December 3. It's a story about a group of Hollywood assistants who use their positions to lie, ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, feel good, witty, realistic ...
Plot:
filmmaking, rivalry, follow your dream, desire for fame, ambition, satire, workplace, boss and employee, manipulation, workplace situations, artists and showbiz, workplace intrigue ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Joe Keegan is the 'Rocky' of stand-up comedy. A fifteen-year comedy veteran who was pegged for stardom early on in his career but has blown every major audition he has ever had in legendary fashion. Fresh off a recent fiasco with a heckler ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, feel good, realistic
Plot:
lifestyle, ambition, desire for fame, once in a lifetime opportunity, best friend, partner, buddies, drug dealing, showbiz, dull life, artists and showbiz, contests and competitions ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, wisconsin
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy
Country: China
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Romance gets complicated in modern-day Beijing.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, captivating, romantic drama ...
Plot:
ambition, filmmaking, love triangle, fall in love, best friend, follow your dream, showbiz, love and romance, actor's life, couples, film industry, struggle ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
china, beijing china
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Ally (Emmanuelle Vaugier) is a smart young career woman who needs a new job. Samantha (Cynthia Gibb) is a busy Beverly Hills advertising executive/mom whose too-well-mannered kids need some fun in their lives. And Danny Donner (Dean Cain) is the ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, touching, sentimental, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
christmas, holiday, love and romance, nanny, comedy of errors, lifestyle, fall in love, workplace, family relations, dishonesty, disorder, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
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Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
When once-up-and-coming indie film starlet Halley Feiffer loses her boyfriend, her agent and her career in one fell swoop she finally realizes that something in her life has got to change... she has to become WAY MORE FAMOUS! Armed with a stolen ...
Style:
not serious, humorous, captivating, feel good, satirical ...
Plot:
showbiz, hopes, artists and showbiz, actor's life, desire for fame, lifestyle, filmmaking, hollywood, celebrity culture, fame, aspiring actress, escapades ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, new york
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Hyun-Ju is a woman in her late twenties who keeps waiting for her boyfriend–So-Hun, a professional exterminator–to pop the big question. Yet he doesn’t. We soon learn that he’s caught between the desires of two women and Hyun-Ju's rival ...
Style:
sentimental, semi serious, realistic, humorous
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
nothing goes right, fall in love, love triangle, opposites attract, best friend, love and romance, obsessive quest, society, disorder, couples, couple relations, lifestyle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
korea, asia
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A neurotic writer working on his new film gets into a tricky situation when an A-list actress shows interest in the role intended for his girlfriend.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, light, sincere ...
Plot:
desire for fame, artists and showbiz, showbiz, hollywood, once in a lifetime opportunity, couples, ambition, unlikely couple, fame, love, american dream, teenage girl ...
Time:
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Place:
los angeles, usa, new york
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France, Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Val is 23 years old and full of dreams. She travels to New York to become an actress. She is lonely in a strange country, in a strange city, with little money and no friends. In her path, she meets weird people who they, also, seek their dreams but ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, semi serious, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
fall in love, actor's life, unlikely couple, follow your dream, opposites attract, hopes, love and romance, lifestyle, showbiz, artists and showbiz, loneliness, destiny ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A pair of thrill-seeking nerds pioneer a new extreme craze that doesn't so much sweep the nation as portions of a small faction of their high school. The craze is 'boxboarding,' really just rolling down a hill with your vision ...
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious
Plot:
ambition, follow your dream, partner, friends, uninhibited rivalry, contests and competitions, high school life, celebrity culture, beach, rivalry, school, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
20%
226
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A game between four characters. A comedy about love and friendship. A film about the great lie of story telling that moves between reality and fiction.
Style:
semi serious, feel good, touching, humorous, meta ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
introspection, friendship, love affair, love triangle, couples, fall in love, battle of the sexes, couple relations, hopes, lifestyle, pregnancy, filmmaking ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain, europe
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Ji-hwan is a taekwondo student with a part time job as a stunt man, who dreams of becoming Korea's answer to Jackie Chan. Dal-rae is a drama student and aspiring actress, but tends to fail auditions because of her timid personality.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic, uplifting ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
ambition, love and romance, fall in love, lifestyle, friends, desire for fame, artists and showbiz, actor's life, taekwondo, young adult, coming of age, youth culture ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
asia, seoul, east asia, korea
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
It's 1982 and Brad Roberts is the best high school quarterback in the country. He dates the sexiest girl in town and is extremely popular, but Brad is not satisfied. He wants to prove that he's more than just a hot-shot quarterback; Brad ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, light, inspirational, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
follow your dream, desire for fame, youth, ambition, music band, high school, heavy metal, music, artists and showbiz, coming of age, social relations, eccentric family ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
usa, massachusetts
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Romaine, a tall thirty-year-old woman, has not found herself yet. She has been living for several years with her boyfriend Justin. When, overnight, the latter drags her after him to Canada in order to start a new life, she blows smoke. Not only does ...
Style:
clever, sentimental, realistic, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
hopes, love triangle, couple relations, lifestyle, couples, introspection, unfulfillment, love and romance, crumbling marriage, women, self discovery, sexual content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The making of a serious, Canadian art house film descends into Hollywood farce when its producer is forced to compromise his vision to accommodate his drug-addled star, his leading lady and his venal backers.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, witty, humorous, biting ...
Plot:
filmmaking, hollywood, showbiz, actor's life, celebrity culture, lifestyle, obnoxious boss, love and romance, curses spells and rituals, older woman younger man, older woman younger man relationship, movie business ...
Time:
70s, 80s
Place:
canada
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A female singing group from the '60s reunites for a TV special.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
girl group, female friendship, partner, couples, friends, unfulfillment, lifestyle, love and romance, rise and fall, music band, performer's life, rising to stardom ...
Time:
60s, 80s
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Jeff Goldblum put his Hollywood actor life on hold to star alongside his new girlfriend in a Pittsburgh regional theater production of The Music Man. Co-directors Bradley and LaBrache tread a surprisingly elegant line between genuine documentary and ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, witty, humorous, mockumentary ...
Plot:
lifestyle, showbiz, relationship vs career, actor's life, couple relations, artists and showbiz, couples, celebrity culture, hollywood, audition, filmmaking, media ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Going from a lawyer to a writer, and then to a film director, is the career path on which we find the bashful Leo Harrigan. But Leo has problems as well, such as being hopelessly smitten with his leading lady, who chooses to reward his attentions by ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, sentimental, humorous
Plot:
filmmaking, hollywood, love triangle, american history, movie business, writers, film industry, lifestyle, love and romance, artists and showbiz, ambition, showbiz ...
Time:
1910s, year 1976, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
Similarity:
19%
405
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A once-idealistic writer inadvertently ignites a feeding frenzy in Hollywood with the mention of a mysterious new screenplay and its illusive author.
Style:
semi serious, witty, realistic, humorous, offbeat ...
Plot:
filmmaking, media, hidden identity, writer's life, lifestyle, workplace, showbiz, artists and showbiz, innocence lost, dishonesty, disorder, nothing goes right ...
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
After learning her boyfriend (Harmon) cheated on her with his co-host (Olson), a Seattle morning show weather girl (O’Kelley) freaks out on-air and is fired. Forced to move in with her little brother (Devlin) and deal with his best friend (Adams), ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, light, entertaining, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
self discovery, weatherman, couples, identity crisis, down on your luck, infidelity, grownups, family relations, ambition, love and romance, dating, slacker ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
seattle, usa, washington d.c.
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Just three weeks before her wedding, Lola (Greta Gerwig) finds herself suddenly without a partner when her longtime fiance, Luke (Joel Kinnaman), dumps her. With her 30th birthday looming and being forced to re-enter the New York City dating scene, ...
Style:
sexy, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
best friend, couples, starting over, singleness, disorder, introspection, hopes, lifestyle, life turned upside down, ex boyfriend, coming of age, grieving ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A Latina working in Los Angeles as a messenger is randomly discovered and fashioned into a pop music star.
Style:
humorous, feel good, semi serious, realistic
Audience:
date night
Plot:
rising to stardom, fall in love, musician's life, ambition, starting over, couples, teaching the ways of the world, showbiz, wooing, celebrity culture, teenage life, lifestyle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, california
Similarity:
18%
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