Movies like Mirrors 1985

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Mirrors (1985)
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Mirrors (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: An aspiring Midwestern ballerina (Marguerite Hickey) struggles in New York as the only jobs she can get are as chorus performers. Her personal life is equally dismal.
Plot: love, dancing, ballet, love triangle, ballerina, career, dancer, reporter, female protagonist, marriage proposal, muscleman, bare chested male, bathroom, footsie under the table
Place: new york

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, psychological, realistic and emotional films with plots about love, dancing, dancer, dance, ballet, female protagonist and love triangle mostly in Drama, Thriller and Music genres. Some movies like Mirrors: A Secret Affair (2012), Birds of Paradise (2021), The Promised Land (2015), Out of Step (2002), Melissa (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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A Secret Affair (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Rafi (Anne Curtis) is happily committed to her lovely partner in life, Mark (Derek Ramsay). She's a bachelorette from a rich family, who belongs to the "Friday Club", the regular get-together of her college friends. Rafi is an ...
Style: psychological, thought provoking, realistic, semi serious, psychotronic
Plot: marriage proposal, living together, unfulfillment, runaway, breakup, bittersweet, one night stand, life turned upside down, love triangle, fall in love, chance meeting, fiance fiancee relationship ...
Place: the philippines
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Birds of Paradise (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Two dancers at an elite ballet academy in Paris must compete for a contract to join the highly coveted Opéra National de Paris as they confront their competitive nature, sexual awakenings and how far they would go to win.
Style: captivating, tense, disturbing, teen, touching
Plot: ballet, ballerina, dancing, dancehall girl, dancer's life, rivalry, ambition, ambitious woman, female protagonist, dancer, showdown, direction and purpose ...
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The Promised Land (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Ling Ai and He Jiang are young, ambitious, and in pursuit of careers imported from the West, but romantic longings and career ambitions are inevitably shaped by larger social forces.
Plot: ballerina, female protagonist, dancer, relocation, love affair, friendship, romantic relationship, dancing, relationships, big city, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, relationship vs career ...
Place: beijing china
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Out of Step (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Graced with the instinctive ability to dance, Jenny Thomas wants nothing more than to become a professional dancer. All of her hard work pays off when she is accepted to a prominent dance program in New York. Against her mother's will, but with ...
Style: independent film
Plot: dancer, mormon, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, dancing, latter day saints, dance
Place: new york, utah
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Melissa (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Melissa follows her dream of becoming a dancer all the way to New York City but finds when she gets there that reaching her goal might cost more than she is willing to sacrifice. In dire need of money, she becomes an exotic dancer in a strip club ...
Style: erotic
Plot: stripper, dancer, arrest, striptease, love triangle, dream, love, divorced father, strip club, best friend, police arrest, female nudity ...
Place: new york
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The Bolshoi (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Julia is incredibly talented. She can become a great ballerina. But for this purpose she must give up everything: the interests of the family, her first love, friendship. Over and over again the heroine will face a complex choice between the dream ...
Style: colorful, realistic, sad, artsy
Audience: chick flick
Plot: ballet, ballerina, dancing, female protagonist, theater, teacher, mentor protege relationship, social relations, friendship, manipulation, dishonesty, rivalry ...
Time: 2000s
Place: russia
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39%
Dancing on Glass (2022)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 137 min.
Story: When immense pressure threatens a ballerina in a new lead role, she and another dancer escape into a friendship that isolates them from the real world.
Style: captivating, disturbing, psychological
Plot: ballerina, dancing, friendship, dancer, outcast, ballroom dancing, dancehall girl, ballet, relationship problems, life is a bitch, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, career ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Story of a Love Story (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Harry is a married writer who has an affair with a woman whose husband knows that she is unfaithful. As a result of his work, Harry has trouble distinguishing between fantasy and reality leaving us to wonder whether the affair is real or just a ...
Style: independent film
Plot: writers, love triangle, imagination, love, female nudity, self discovery, affair, writing, pregnant woman nude
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Dance Academy: The Movie (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Australia
Duration: 101 min.
Story: This 2017 movie follows the original dance academy TV show and tracks where the characters are in their lives now.
Style: captivating, sentimental
Audience: teens
Plot: dancing, ballet, dance, friendship, dancer, artists and showbiz, school, dance school, teacher, teenage life, hopes, ambition ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Center Stage: On Pointe (2016)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In Center Stage: On Pointe, Jonathan Reeves (Gallagher) is tasked with infusing more contemporary styles and modernism into the American Ballet Academy, and enlists his his top choreographers Charlie (Radetsky), Cooper (Stiefel) and Tommy (Wormald) ...
Style: emotional, captivating, realistic, psychological, funny
Audience: teens
Plot: dancing, friendship, dancer, ballet, audition, ballerina, modern dance, partner, rivalry, reputation, camp, dance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Love Finds You in Charm (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A young Amish woman, who isn't satisfied with her path at home, visits a cousin for the summer. Over the summer, she is exposed to another world, finds friendship and more. Soon she must choose and come to terms with the life she wants.
Style: captivating, touching, contemplative, sincere
Plot: amish, female bonding, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, family relations, female protagonist, breakup, young woman, librarian, competition, aunt niece relationship, female friendship, sister sister relationship ...
Place: ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Six Weeks (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A wealthy cosmetic tycoon and her 12-year-old daughter who's dying from leukemia, strike up a sentimental friendship with a California politician. Since the girl has only six weeks or less to live, the trio fly to New York City where the ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, emotional, sentimental ...
Plot: terminal illness, cancer, christmas, illness, cancer patient, campaign, couples, family relations, forbidden love, youth, life is a bitch, dancer's life ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
Place: new york, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Dying to Dance (2001)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A young man must teach a woman to dance - at any cost.
Style: inspirational, thought provoking
Plot: eating disorder, ballet, dancing, anorexia, ballerina, dancer, teenager, food, weight loss, malnutrition, parents, jealous woman ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Time of Indifference (1964)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A penniless countess falls in love with a cad, unaware that he is also involved on the side with her beautiful daughter.
Style: dread
Plot: fascism, family relations, deception, bankruptcy, love triangle, affair, mother, daughter, love, stockings, legs
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Babymaker: The Dr. Cecil Jacobson Story (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Married couples, unable to conceive, are thrilled to find they are going to become parents, thanks to a larger-than-life "miracle doctor" and his unusual treatments.
Style: medical drama
Plot: parents, love, dilemma, prosecutor, fatherhood, mother child relationship, disguise, obese man, courtroom, fraud, childbirth, guilty verdict ...
Time: year 1985
Place: virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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For Michelle (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When Brett Cornell learns that the mother of a child he is alleged to have Fathered 5 years prior, has died in an accident, he heads south to try and take custody of the daughter that he never knew. Brett takes to desperate measures to make it in ...
Plot: love, death, accident, court, intimacy, custody
Place: south carolina, new york, north carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Though None Go with Me (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Elizabeth Leroy devotes her life to serving God but her faith is tested over the years as she has to overcome many hardships and sorrows.
Style: period drama
Plot: faith, christian, bike, correspondence, father daughter relationship, neighbor, dancing, insurance agent, romantic triangle, wedding ceremony, first love, reverend ...
Time: 1950s, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
NY Export: Opus Jazz (2010)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 46 min.
Story: Shot on location in New York City and starring an ensemble cast of New York City Ballet dancers, NY Export: Opus Jazz takes Jerome Robbins‘ 1958 “ballet in sneakers” and reimagines it for a new generation in this scripted adaptation. After ...
Plot: jazz, dancing, dance, ballet, no dialogue
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Flesh and Bone (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A talented but emotionally troubled dancer runs away to New York City and quickly finds herself immersed in the cutthroat world of professional ballet.
Style: psychological, atmospheric, stylized, bleak, serious ...
Plot: ballet, dancer's life, mentally unstable, incest, dancer, eating disorder, dancing, brother sister incest, ballerina, dance, trauma, incestuous relationship ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, pittsburgh
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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She Lives! (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A young couple searches for the cure for the girl's terminal illness.
Plot: cancer, love, death, college student, star crossed lovers, disease, dying young, melancholy, terminal illness
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Third Girl from the Left (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A chorus girl comes to the realization that she is not getting any younger and that her longtime relationship with a nightclub comedian is going nowhere. She finds herself attracted to an unassuming but attentive--and much younger--delivery boy.
Plot: nightclub, chorus girl, infidelity, affair, delivery man, love, comedian, dancer, male female relationship
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Something Wild (1961)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A young rape victim tries desperately to pick up the pieces of her life, only to find herself at the mercy of a would-be rescuer.
Style: social, serious, realistic, emotional, bleak ...
Plot: rape victim, rape, kidnapping, hardcore, stockholm syndrome, loneliness, dream, missing daughter, police, pregnancy, student, christmas ...
Time: year 1961, 60s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Maiden Danced to Death (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary, Canada, Slovenia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: There were two brothers - two dancers - in Communist Hungary. One defected, the other stuck it out. One gave his soul to commerce, the other to the Party. After twenty years, they meet again. And the dance begins.
Style: captivating, emotional, atmospheric, psychological, independent film ...
Plot: love triangle, family relations, husband wife relationship, love, dancing, jealousy, homecoming, rivalry, brother brother relationship, society, couples, friendship ...
Time: 90s
Place: hungary, central europe, eastern europe, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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The Empty Canvas (1963)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: An aspiring young artist breaks from his wealthy, possessive mother to live a bohemian existence in the artist's section of Rome and falls in love with a beautiful model who wants an uncommitted relationship
Plot: artist, swing, circus, summer, relationships, biopic, sexual obsession, cigarette smoking, femme fatale, older woman younger man relationship, male objectification, sexual attraction ...
Time: year 1963
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Pan (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Denmark, Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story: When Edvarda arrives at the little Norwegian village, to stay with some family, she find the Lt., Thomas Glahn, very interesting. Soon they fall in love. It's a very passionate relationship, but this leads to problems. Both of them are very ...
Plot: scandinavian culture, murder, love, unfaithfulness, forest
Place: arabia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Native Son (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A young African-American man named Bigger Thomas takes a job working for a highly influential Chicago family, a decision that will change the course of his life forever.
Style: bleak, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing, surprise ending
Plot: poverty, african american, danger, love, driver, crime and punishment, racial issues, black, forbidden love, lovers, economist, blaxploitation ...
Place: chicago, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Doctor Glas (1968)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Doktor Glas finds himself attracted to a young woman, married to a corrupt clergyman. She's miserable in her marriage, so he agrees to help in anyway he can. But he is quickly torn between passion and morality. The story is based on the 1905 ...
Plot: women, death, love, doctor, husband wife relationship, flashback, love triangle, murder, male female relationship, wife abuse, older man younger woman relationship, death of wife ...
Time: 60s, 1900s
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Silencing Mary (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Mary Stuartson is proud to be the first in her family to attend a university, but when her roommate, Holly, is raped by the school's star football player, Mary, who is a reporter for the college newspaper, begins her own investigation.
Plot: american football, college, campus, reporter, drinking, party, dancing, journalism, loyalty, newspaper, rape, undressing ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Malibu (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min.
Story: A young couple from Milwaukee moves into the fabled, high-society Malibu beach community and becomes involved with the lives of the various people living in the community.
Plot: infidelity, scandal, crooked lawyer, corrupt lawyer, tennis, beach, reporter, coast
Place: malibu california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.4
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Sunset Song (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Luxembourg
Duration: 135 min.
Story: The daughter of a Scottish farmer comes of age in the early 1900s.
Style: captivating, psychological, realistic, tense, historical drama ...
Plot: world war one, farmer, father daughter relationship, love, shepherd, female protagonist, marriage proposal, father son relationship, sex scene, village, execution, death of father ...
Time: 1910s, edwardian era, 2010s
Place: scotland, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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