Movies like And All That Jazz

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And All That Jazz (1983)
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And All That Jazz (1983)
Original name: Był Jazz
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Poland
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Set in 1952, film tells the story of young musicians playing - then forbidden - jazz music in basements and attics around Poland. The group hires itself to social parties, youth dances, etc, each time waiting for the management to disappear in order to shift gears to hot music. The crowd either loves it or does not know what to do. Occasionally they are harassed by the police.
Plot: radio station, dancing, renaissance, university, jazz, exile, communism, teenage boy, josef stalin, propaganda, concert, protest, jazz band
Time: 1950s, 50s
Place: eastern europe

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and emotional films with plots about renaissance, dancing, communism, music, musician, artists and showbiz and politics mostly in Drama, Music and History genres. Some movies like And All That Jazz: Wielki bieg (1981), The Touch (1992), Sunday Pranks (1983), The Conductor (1980), Fucha (1984). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Wielki bieg (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Set in 1952, the story follows events around the "Peace Run", a propaganda 3-day marathon for peace. The winner is to be presented with a new motorcycle by the country's president. Chief organizer is a ruthless manipulator who will ...
Plot: renaissance, stalinism, communist propaganda, political activist, communism, letter, president, race, male nudity, shower
Time: 1950s
Place: poland, eastern europe
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The Touch (1992)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Poland, UK, Denmark
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Henry Kesdi is a silenced classical composer and a survivor of the Holocaust. He is coaxed out from retirement by an inspired musicologist, Stefan, who convinces him to compose a complex symphony on his neglected piano. As a help Kesdi gets his new ...
Plot: musician, classical music, renaissance, age-gap relationship, unfaithfulness, empathy, train conductor, male female relationship, adultery, love, infidelity, extramarital affair ...
Place: eastern europe
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Sunday Pranks (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 60 min.
Story: Made in 1983, shelved for four years. A chilling tale about kids playing in a bombed-out Warsaw courtyard on the day of Stalin's death, while their parents are away at the church or a memorial procession.
Plot: renaissance, group of children, medal, leader, communism, stalinism, kitten, bullying, arrest, children, cat, game ...
Time: 1950s
Place: poland, eastern europe
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The Conductor (1980)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Poland
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A violinist in a provincial Polish orchestra, whose husband is the director of the ensemble, on a visit to the US ties up with the world- renowned symphony conductor. As it turns out he was once in love with violinist's mother. The conductor, a ...
Style: serious, psychological, realistic, captivating, emotional ...
Plot: musician, renaissance, envy, marriage crisis, travel, opportunism, performer's life, politics, artists and showbiz, unlikely couple, couple relations, musician's life ...
Time: year 1980, 70s
Place: poland, eastern europe, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Fucha (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 63 min.
Story: International Critics’ Week - Cannes Festival 1985
Plot: renaissance, national identity, drunkard, grave, dignity, renovation, cemetery, history teacher, lie, heroes, coffin, headstone
Place: eastern europe
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The Pad (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 65 min.
Story: Two former classmates (one an honest working man with a wife and children, the other a conman) meet at a train station. The conman comes to stay with his old friend and slowly begins to assume the role of master of the house, taking the place of ...
Plot: renaissance, con man, criminal, poverty, honesty, affair, bribe, loss of job, old friend, con artists, card playing, apartment
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Gra (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 91 min.
Story: About an existentialist alienation drama between a bourgeois couple caught in a stationary environment. Between a man and a woman lost in themselves.
Plot: renaissance, couples, married, solitude, cemetery, marital crisis, male female relationship, flashback, betrayal, husband wife relationship, funeral, kiss
Place: eastern europe
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The Structure of Crystal (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Physicist John worked as a meteorologist. He lives in a small village with his wife, a teacher. Meanwhile, his friend from university, Mark, is doing a research career. Trying to get John to return to academic work in the capital. Mark is not ...
Style: poetic, intellectual, masterpiece
Plot: identity, old friend, renaissance, provincial life, moral dilemma, university, married, persuasion, science, point of view, physics, discussion ...
Time: year 1969
Place: poland, eastern europe
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42%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 89 min.
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Plot: exile, teenage boy, teenage girl, classmate, high school, communism, suicide attempt, anti semitism, emigration, youth, party, teenager
Time: 60s
Place: poland
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41%
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Kontrakt (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Bearing traces of the old Anton Chekhov play The Wedding, The Contract is set during an "arranged" ceremony. The bride and groom barely know each other, but this matters not at all to their tradition-bound families. At the last minute, the ...
Plot: renaissance, exhibitionist, male pubic hair, nudity, female pubic hair, wedding, party, sex, snow, doctor, female nudity, sauna ...
Time: year 1980
Place: eastern europe
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40%
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30 Door Key (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, UK, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young writer in 1939 Warsaw faces the conflict of acting his age or relapsing into childhood during the brink of World War II. Based on the famous novel Ferdydurke by Witold Gombrowicz.
Style: mindfuck
Plot: renaissance, writers, teacher, surrealism, bully, boarding school, adult as child, young
Place: eastern europe, poland
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Little Paris (2008)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story: "Little Paris" is the nickname given to Luna's hometown in provincial Baden Württemberg. Its name comes from a replica of the Eiffel Tower on a factory roof on an industrial estate next to the A9 autobahn. Luna knows she has to leave ...
Plot: dancing, boyfriend, dance, hip hop, small town, dancer, bare chested male
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Whiplash (2014)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Under the direction of a ruthless instructor, a talented young drummer begins to pursue perfection at any cost, even his humanity.
Style: motivational, dramatic, psychological, inspirational, realistic ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, teen drama, adult
Plot: music, jazz, obsession, mentor, teachers and students, follow your dream, emotional abuse, desire for fame, drummer, musician's life, musician, public humiliation ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, 21st century
Place: peru, manhattan new york city, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Short Working Day (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 73 min.
Story: Kieślowski’s study of a political strike, controversially told from the viewpoint of a Communist functionary trying to keep order.
Plot: renaissance, political party, clerk, communist, government, politics, job, demonstration, worker, solidarity, window, aquarium ...
Place: poland, eastern europe
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34%
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Swing Kids (1993)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: The story of a close-knit group of young kids in Nazi Germany who listen to banned swing music from the US. Soon dancing and fun leads to more difficult choices as the Nazi's begin tightening the grip on Germany. Each member of the group is ...
Style: serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, political ...
Audience: kids
Plot: nazi, world war two, dancing, dance, anti semitism, coming of age, swing dancing, holocaust, jazz, fighting the system, brainwashing, friendship ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1993, 1900s, pre world war two
Place: germany, europe, new york, usa, hamburg germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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A Lonely Woman (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The first motion picture film by Agnieszka Holland about loneliness, longing for affection, and misfortune. Irena, a postal delivery worker, is struggling with a inadequate housing, a drunk neighbor who wants to take her place, and a heartless boss, ...
Plot: renaissance, love, social injustice, youth, murder, school, suffocation, hotel, car accident, postman, poverty, pessimism ...
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33%
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Rigoletto (1987)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: West Germany
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Rigoletto is a jester in the court of the Duke of Mantua. He has a hunch-back and he's rather unattractive, but he's good at his job of humiliating the courtiers for the amusement of the Duke. The courtiers, of course, are not amused. The ...
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A down-on-his-luck coach is hired to prepare a team of the best American dancers for an international tournament that attracts all the best crews from around the world, but the Americans haven't won in fifteen years.
Style: realistic, exciting, captivating, serious, vintage
Audience: teens
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 105 min.
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Style: semi autobiographical
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32%
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Genre: Drama, Music
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Duration: 91 min.
Story: A boy who is helping lonely, elderly people revives their urge to live and receives in return their love and understanding, which have been denied to him by his parents.
Style: pre war
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Place: eastern europe, serbia, former yugoslavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
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Story: Beginning with a sci-fi prologue before finding itself with several doctors attending a medical school reunion in a sealed-up railway carriage. Between drinks, the disenchanted medicos ruminate over the effect that communism (particularly the ...
Style: philosophical, dark comedy, experimental, avant garde
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32%
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Shivers (1981)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Poland
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Set in the early 1950's, during the Stalin's Personality Cult. The story opens in a provincial town. Tomek's father, a former member of the Home Army is arrested so the mother is left with the task of raising two kids alone. The ...
Style: political
Plot: coming of age, exploitation, love letter, renaissance, boy, train, teenage boy, young boy, school, indoctrination, polish history, prisoner of war camp ...
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Place: eastern europe, poland
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32%
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Country: USA
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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
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Genre: Drama, Music
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
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Style: independent film
Plot: disco, airplane, singer, dancing, vodka, tennis, cocaine, night, neon sign, champagne
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
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