Movies and TV shows like Carmen 1987

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Carmen (1987)
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Carmen (1987)
Genre: Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 172 min.
TV show
Story: Carmen is a French opéra comique by Georges Bizet. The libretto is by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée, first published in 1845, itself influenced by the narrative poem The Gypsies (1824) by Alexander Pushkin. Mérimée had read the poem in Russian by 1840 and translated it into French in 1852.
Plot: opera, dancing, live performance, revenge, musician, passion, gypsy, love triangle, betrayal, murder, soldier, seduction, singer, jealousy, singing, dancer, anger, choir, factory, desperation, orchestra, rage, bullfighter, flamenco, train conductor ...
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, realistic, serious and humorous films and TV series with plots about dancing, singing, singer, song, musician, love and romance and couples mostly in Musical, Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like Carmen: The Pirates of Penzance (1980), Live from Lincoln Center (1976), Smash (2012), Soundtrack (2019), La fille du régiment (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Carmen in 3D (2011)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 170 min.
Story: Passion, jealousy and betrayal take center stage at Londons Royal Opera House in a spectacular production of the worlds most popular opera. Bizets Carmen is packed with some of the best-loved and memorable music in all of opera. In this ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, stylized
Plot: opera, rebelliousness, betrayal, destructive relationship, dishonesty, couples, murder, wooing, infidelity, dancing, love and romance, concert ...
Time: 19th century
Place: spain
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The Pirates of Penzance (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: This Pirates of Penzance is primarily a historical document, part of the Broadway Theater Archive television series. It presents, with some inevitable, tiny technical shortcomings, a live 1980 performance in Central Park, not the 1983 movie of the ...
Plot: pirate, operetta, maiden, sword fight, mirror, sailboat, woman, fan, orchestra, performer, police officer, theater ...
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82%
Barbra Streisand: The Television Specials: Barbra Streisand... and Other Musical Instruments (1973)
Genre: Music, Musical
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 52 min.
Story: A mulitcultural musical potpourri, Barbra's fifth television spectacular is her most adventurous. Performing a startling array of new songs and classic hits, with genre-bending arrangements, Barbra Streisand... and Other Musical Instruments is ...
Style: entertaining
Plot: makeover, showbiz, musician, dancing, singer, organist, singing, little boy, performer, pianist, belly dancing, camel ...
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80%
Live from Lincoln Center (1976)
Genre: Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story: Live From Lincoln Center is an ongoing series of musical performances produced by Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in conjunction with Thirteen/WNET in New York City. A series of concerts, ballets, operas, and recitals telecast, as the title ...
Style: anthology, captivating, serious, realistic
Plot: theater, concert, dancing, live performance, arts and culture, opera, ballet, jazz, music, artists and showbiz, celebrity guests, orchestral ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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Radio City Christmas Spectacular (2007)
Genre: Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: The Radio City Christmas Spectacular is an annual musical holiday stage show presented at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. The show features over 140 performers, lavish sets and costumes and an original musical score. The 90 minute revue ...
Plot: christmas, dance, dancing, bear, angel, ballet, deer, orchestra, flying, donkey, toy soldier, shepherd ...
Place: new york
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Smash (2012)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
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Story: Smash is an American musical drama television series created by playwright Theresa Rebeck and developed by Robert Greenblatt for NBC. Steven Spielberg served as one of the executive producers. The series was broadcast in the US by NBC and produced ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, stylized, teen ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: showbiz, dancer, actor's life, young woman, producer, actor, ambition, rising to stardom, follow your dream, lifestyle, desire for fame, starlet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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54%
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Soundtrack (2019)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 56 min.
TV show
Story: Love, loss and transformative luck intersect in this musical drama about two struggling artists experiencing life at full volume in Los Angeles.
Style: sincere, psychological, captivating, disturbing, thought provoking
Plot: coping, love, relationships, fall in love, life, love and romance, musician, musician's life, couples, music, couple relations, male female relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
La fille du régiment (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 127 min.
Story: This version of Donizetti’s comic opera zooms right to the top of any list of essential videos for opera fans. In this action filled physical comedy, the beautiful tomboy Marie was found on a battlefield as a baby and adopted, not by one soldier ...
Plot: opera, army life, nobility, soldier, live performance, regiment, french opera
Time: 19th century
Place: switzerland
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52%
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Offenbach: Les Contes D'Hoffman (1981)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 159 min.
Story: Seeking to exorcise the failure of his current love affair, the poet Hoffmann tells the tales of his three past loves - the doll-like Olympia, the high-class courtesan Giulietta, and the ambitious but delicate Antonia - and recalls how each was ...
Plot: opera, drinking, doll, singer, scientist, drunk, magic, poet, live performance, courtesan, french opera, stage performance
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52%
Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert (2018)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The award-winning show is re-imagined as a live concert event, featuring an all-star cast of recording artists, set during the last week of Jesus' life as he deals with betrayal, love and jealousy, and told from the perspective of Judas.
Style: captivating, sincere, serious
Plot: christianity, live performance, betrayal, concert, dancing, singing, jesus, rock opera, spectacle, stage musical, theater, roman empire ...
Place: jerusalem
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49%
Notre Dame de Paris - Live Arena di Verona (2002)
Genre: Musical, Music, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 130 min.
Story: A musical adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel "Notre Dame de Paris" which follows the gypsy dancer Esmeralda and the three men who vie for her love: the kind hunchback Quadimodo, the twisted priest Frollo, and the unfaithful soldier ...
Plot: live performance, hunchback, priest, unfaithful, notre dame cathedral, gypsy, dancing, obsession, singing, opera, stage musical, obsessive love ...
Time: middle ages
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46%
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Love Duo (2012)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: Lebanon
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: The story of a singer who is married to her business manager, and falls in love with another guy who works as a co-singer in her band.
Style: thrilling, captivating, psychological
Plot: secret love, musician, love triangle, female protagonist, male female relationship, relationships, love story, couple relations, music, love affair, couples, female singer ...
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Carmen (2005)
Genre: Musical, Drama, Romance
Country: South Africa
Duration: 122 min.
Story: U-CARMEN is a feature film based on Georges Bizet's 19th-century opera that was filmed on location in a modern South African township setting. The energy, compassion, and heat of township life in all its elements create a constantly visually ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, suspense
Plot: opera, murder, tragic love, dangerous attraction, vengeance, crimes of passion, love affair, love triangle, couples, destructive relationship, dishonesty, obsession ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa, south africa
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45%
Blue Valley Songbird (1999)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Country singer Leana Taylor (Dolly Parton) struggles to escape from her controlling manager/boyfriend Hank (John Terry) as well as her troubled past. After turning to her guitarist (Billy Dean), Leanna finally faces her past, including her estranged ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, entertaining
Plot: country, country music, couples, follow your dream, ambition, lifestyle, rising to stardom, music, desire for fame, performer's life, love and romance, life is a bitch ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, tennessee, nashville tennessee
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Karmen Gei (2001)
Genre: Musical, Romance, Drama
Country: Senegal, France, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Bizet's Carmen gets a modern adaptation. Seducting, provocating, sensual. All the ingredients for a perfect drama. With her charm, Karmen gets out of many situations.
Style: psychological, serious, captivating, stylized, erotic ...
Plot: escape, femme fatale, women's prison, murder, lesbian, dangerous attraction, couples, love and romance, destructive relationship, obsession, dishonesty, prison life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa, senegal
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Lost in the Stars (1974)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Musical from the American Film Theatre series, based on the play Cry The Beloved Country.
Style: serious, realistic
Plot: murder, redemption, fighting the system, society, human spirit, life is a bitch, hopes, injustice, friends, discrimination, courtroom drama, parents and children ...
Time: 70s
Place: africa, south africa
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Only for Love (2022)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Deusa’s solo career puts her romance with Tadeu to the test. Eva wants a great artist to sing her lyrics. Soon, their musical dreams collide.
Style: captivating, thrilling, romantic
Audience: date night
Plot: singer, friendship, love, friend, music band, musician's life, love story, relationship problems, romantic relationship, couples, love interest, lifestyle ...
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39%
The Phantom of the Opera (2004)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story: Deformed since birth, a bitter man known only as the Phantom lives in the sewers underneath the Paris Opera House. He falls in love with the obscure chorus singer Christine, and privately tutors her while terrorizing the rest of the opera house and ...
Style: gothic, stylized, gothic horror, sentimental, breathtaking ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, kids, girls' night, date night ...
Plot: obsession, opera, disfigurement, musician's life, dangerous attraction, destructive relationship, theater, disguise, love and romance, fall in love, prodigy, broadway ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s, year 2004, 18th century ...
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Bogan Pride (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: Australia
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Bogan Pride is an Australian comedy television series which first screened on SBS TV in 2008. The six-part series created by and starring actress, Rebel Wilson, is directed by Peter Templeman and produced by Tony Ayres and Michael McMahon. The ...
Style: captivating, satirical, semi serious, sitcom
Plot: competitor, satire, money, girlfriend, teenager, teenage girl, dancer, dance, ambition, lesbian, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, lesbian relationship ...
Place: australia
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37%
Guerra de Idolos (2017)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: USA
TV show
Story: This series focuses on the growing fortunes of the Solar family and their famous son, and explores the drama of the music world from all angles.
Style: tense, disturbing, captivating
Plot: romantic rivalry, tragic love, relationships, music competition, music, relationship problems, love affair, contests and competitions, romantic triangle, love triangle, love interest, male female relationship
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35%
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Stiffelio (2012)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: Germany, Italy
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Part of Tutto Verdi series - Stiffelio (2012) Parma. 'Stiffelio' is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi, from an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. The origin of this was the novel “Le pasteur d’hommes”, by Émile ...
Plot: opera, italian opera, duel, live performance, religion, cemetery, forgiveness, unfaithful wife, betrayal, stage performance
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Acropole (1996)
Genre: Musical, Drama
Country: Italy, Germany, Bulgaria, Greece
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Akropol is a musical by Pantelis Voulgaris about the set of a theatre in Athens and the people trying to make their way in the show business. The movie claimed the Music Award in the Valencia Festival, and also the Directing Award in the Cairo ...
Plot: drag queen, singing, cross dressing, drunkenness, dancing, replacement, success, child star, diva, actor, theater, stage
Time: 1950s
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Frankie and Johnny (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Elvis plays Johnny, a riverboat entertainer with a big gambling problem. Donna Douglas plays Johnny's girl, Frankie. A fortune teller tells Johnny how he can change his luck. Enter a new lady luck played by Nancy Kovack and the cat fight begins.
Style: psychotronic, semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good
Audience: date night
Plot: elvis presley, music, gambling, dancing, twins, love triangle, boat, love and romance, dishonesty, fall in love, opposites attract, lifestyle ...
Time: year 1966, 60s
Place: mississippi, new york, new orleans, louisiana, manhattan new york city
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33%
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Glee (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Glee is an American teen musical comedy-drama television series that airs on the Fox network in the United States. It focuses on the reconstituted William McKinley High School glee club, New Directions, which competes on the show choir competition ...
Style: feel good, stylized, humorous, semi serious, witty ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night, teen drama ...
Plot: high school, gay, coach, teenage life, youth, cheerleader, friendship, contests and competitions, outcast, teenage girl, gay teenager, music band ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: ohio, idaho, usa
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33%
The Fantasticks (2000)
Genre: Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Two rural teens sing and dance their way through a forbidden romance and a dangerous travelling carnival.
Style: lyrical, semi serious, humorous, feel good, anamorphic ...
Plot: dancing, couple relations, couples, social relations, small town, cabaret, broadway, family feud, father son relationship, father daughter relationship, teenage boy, teenage girl ...
Time: 90s
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33%
Rainbow Around the Sun (2008)
Genre: Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Zachary Blasto, a hard-drinking, talented songwriter and performer, envisions madcap musical fantasies in order to avoid dealing with the downward spiral of his personal life.
Style: independent film, avant garde
Plot: self acceptance, progressive rock, very little dialogue, male female relationship, rock music, self identity, surrealism, singer, loss of father, love, singing, reporter ...
Time: 70s
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32%
Flight of the Conchords (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Music, Musical
Country: USA, New Zealand
Duration: 28 min.
TV show
Story: The trials and tribulations of a two man, digi-folk band who have moved from New Zealand to New York in the hope of forging a successful music career. So far they've managed to find a manager (whose "other" job is at the New Zealand ...
Style: surreal, sitcom, humorous, funny, atmospheric ...
Plot: musician's life, musician, aspiring singer, folklore, roommate, buddies, music band, artists and showbiz, goofy hero, lifestyle, odd couple, rock ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, new zealand, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Naked Boys Singing! (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: This whimsical Off-Broadway hit musical is aptly reworked and transferred to the screen. The self-descriptively titled Naked Boys Singing is a musical revue of songs that poke fun at gay life, body image, love, loss and yearning.
Style: humorous, realistic, sexy, semi serious, independent film ...
Plot: male nudity, dancing, nudity, porn star, singer, pianist, voyeurism, dancer, human nature, naked in public, movie star, choreography ...
Place: usa, los angeles
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32%
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Up Here (2023)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
TV show
Story: Set in New York City in 1999, Lindsay and Miguel fall in love and discover that the single greatest obstacle to finding happiness together might just be themselves — and the memories, obsessions, fears, and fantasies that lives inside their heads.
Style: funny, feel good, entertaining, captivating, light ...
Plot: love, couples, dance, life, couple relations, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, relationships, dancing, love and romance, male female relationship, inner voice, fear ...
Time: 90s, year 1999
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
High School Musical: The Musical: The Series (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 31 min.
TV show
Story: A group of East High students countdown to the opening night of their school’s first-ever production of “High School Musical.” Showmances blossom; friendships are tested while new ones are made; rivalries flare and lives are changed forever as ...
Style: feel good, sentimental, humorous, romantic, melancholic ...
Audience: teens, kids, teen drama
Plot: high school, teenager, music, singing, friendship, love and romance, sport team, happy ending, audition, family relations, parents and children, follow your dream ...
Place: usa
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