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Secret Superstar (2017)
32K
Original name: सीक्रेट सुपरस्टार
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: India, USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Insia Malik is a talented 15-year-old school girl from Baroda whose spirit is ripped because her mother is in a troubled and violent marriage. Of course she still dares to pursue her dream of becoming a singer and she also valiantly attempts to free her mother from her conservative, cold father.
Style:
sincere, touching, serious, captivating, feel good, extraordinary
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
teenage girl, longing, singing, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, secret, teenager, family secret, husband wife conflict, follow your dream, unsupportive parent, women, coming of age, airplane, lawyer, train, teacher, violence, telephone call, teenage boy, airport, female lawyer, ice cream, husband wife relationship, newspaper ...
Place:
india
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Most similar movies to Secret Superstar
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out sincere, realistic, serious and captivating films with plots about coming of age, teenager, teenage girl, mother daughter relationship, family relations, singing and music mostly in Drama, Music and Comedy genres. Some movies like Secret Superstar: Bluebird (2004), The Bélier Family (2014), Miss Impossible (2016), Teen Spirit (2018), Dance of the Wind (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Merel is a young girl with a lot of talent. She excels at school, is good on the springboard and is careful too. Her severely handicapped brother Kasper gets a lot of attention. Merel also has talent for singing. It is no surprise that she is asked ...
Style:
emotional, intense
Plot:
school, bullying, adolescence, social isolation, character study, realism, peer pressure, loneliness, coming of age, empathy, intimate, slice of life ...
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The whole Bélier family is deaf, except for sixteen year old Paula who is the important translator in her parents' day to day life especially when it comes to matters concerning the family farm. When her music teacher discovers she has a ...
Style:
sexy, touching, suspenseful, semi serious, emotional ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, girls' night
Plot:
sign language, coming of age, deaf, teenage girl, deafness, hopes, teacher, moral dilemma, audition, follow your dream, teenage life, family life ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france, australia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
They’re all nuts. Her parents, who want to send her off to boarding school. Her new teacher, who expects her to read impossibly old books. Her fellow band members, who make her sing ridiculous lyrics and dress her up in a frilly white dress for ...
Style:
sincere, sentimental, touching, suspenseful
Plot:
classmate, teenager, sister sister relationship, teenage girl, female protagonist, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, school, friendship, teacher student relationship, best friend, classmate classmate relationship ...
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Violet, a shy teenager living on the Isle of Wight off the south coast of England dreams of pop stardom and with the help of an unlikely mentor, she enters a singing competition that will test her integrity, talent and ambition.
Style:
captivating, light, entertaining, exciting
Audience:
teens, date night, teen drama
Plot:
musician, singing, music, singing competition, teenage girl, coming of age, singer, audition, mother daughter relationship, love and romance, fictional reality show, schoolgirl ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: India
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The mother of the Indian female singer Pallavi (Kitu Gidwani) is at the end of her life. She was master and teacher for her daughter for the art of Indian singing. But she will not be able to complete her lessons. So Pallavi experiences the lack of ...
Style:
meditative, mystical
Plot:
legacy, female protagonist, grief, resilience, child prodigy, spirituality, identity crisis, minimalism, emancipation, theft, husband wife relationship, old man ...
Place:
india, poetic realism
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100%
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Genre: Drama, Music, Musical
Country: Japan
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
Yukio is your average high school student who spends his days going to class and avoiding bullies. That is until he meets Ryusuke, a guitar prodigy. Together with Taira, Chiba, and Saku they form the rock band BECK. As their popularity increases so ...
Style:
unusual plot structure, visually appealing, light, captivating, uplifting ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
rock band, high school, teenage girl, teenage boy, teenager, youth, music, superhero, dog, drums, profanity, canine ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: India
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
Sakshi Shroff, the lonely and neglected wife of busy banking executive, Aditya, decides to give him a surprise on his birthday on July 22nd, but ends surprising him multiple times. While Aditya is thrilled to know that he is going to be a dad, he is ...
Style:
inspirational, serious, realistic, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
friendship, hopes, music, follow your dream, buddies, contests and competitions, bittersweet, boyfriend, music band, new beginning, second chance, music business ...
Time:
y2k, year 2008
Place:
india, asia, goa india
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A former professional dancer volunteers to teach dance in the New York public school system and, while his background first clashes with his students' tastes, together they create a completely new style of dance. Based on the story of ballroom ...
Style:
sexy, inspirational, teen, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick, kids
Plot:
dancing, teacher, dancer, dance, dancer's life, dedicated educator, high school, teenager, music, respect, teachers and students, tango ...
Time:
year 2006, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
36%
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Genre: Drama, Family, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Holly has everything it takes to be a star; the voice, the dream and the dedication, but she lacks the means to break away from her humble Texas upbringing. Then she gets the chance to attend an art and music school on the East coast and her future ...
Style:
sincere, touching, sentimental, cute, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
showbiz, hopes, follow your dream, parents and children, music, rising to stardom, mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, fish out of water, humiliation, family relations, snobbism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Hungary
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
Betty and her friend V have a major project: the open-air music festival, Sziget Festival held every summer on one of the Danube islands in Hungary. Instead of money the teenagers have a stash of grass waiting for a buyer. Food? Nothing wrong with ...
Style:
sincere, realistic, serious, captivating, experimental
Plot:
friendship, coming of age, youth, teenage life, best friend, friendship between girls, adulthood, teenage girl, festival, female friendship, teenager, adolescence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hungary, europe
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The most feared battle emcee in early-'80s NYC was a fierce teenager from the Queensbridge projects with the weight of the world on her shoulders. At age 14, hustling the streets to provide for her family, Roxanne Shanté was well on her way to ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, hood
Plot:
longing, hip hop, ambition, rise to the top, gang, black, strong female character, life is a bitch, ghetto, homeless, african, poverty ...
Place:
indiana
Similarity:
34%
17K
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A young Scottish singer, Rose-Lynn Harlan, dreams of making it as a country artist in Nashville after being released from prison.
Style:
thought provoking, sincere, humorous, disturbing, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
country music, bigger dreams, musician, single mother, women's prison, working class, singer, party, mother daughter reunion, rehearsal, promise, released from prison ...
Time:
year 2019, 2010s, year 1943
Place:
glasgow scotland, nashville tennessee, scotland, london
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
“Majo” Tonorio, a.k.a. Filly Brown, is a raw, young Los Angeles hip-hop artist who spits from the heart. When a sleazy record producer offers her a crack at rap stardom, Majo faces some daunting choices. With an incarcerated mother, a record ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, sincere, psychological, hood ...
Plot:
hip hop, ambition, moral dilemma, rising to stardom, desire for fame, radio dj, musician's life, follow your dream, artists and showbiz, music, music industry, exploitation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Norway, Denmark
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
After a recent and difficult divorce, Alice hasn't seen her children in two months as she awaits a custody verdict. When her son calls her in the middle of the night, Alice takes action, abducting the children on an illicit charter trip to the ...
Style:
sincere, captivating, realistic, touching, serious ...
Plot:
custody battle, abduction, boy, children, family relations, on the run, family conflict, husband wife conflict, father son relationship, resort, mother daughter conflict, teenage girl ...
Place:
canary islands, eastern europe, scandinavia
Similarity:
34%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France, Canada, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
As a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults), Ruby is the only hearing person in her deaf family. When the family's fishing business is threatened, Ruby finds herself torn between pursuing her love of music and her fear of abandoning her parents.
Style:
sexy, psychological, teen, sad, sincere ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
deaf, deafness, sign language, coming of age, teenager, mute or deaf, musician, fishing boat, fisherman, disability, women, parents and children ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
persia, hawaii, massachusetts
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
In this stylish Finnish drama, the secrets and desires of a family can no longer be suppressed. Mikko turns out to have a hereditary illness. Since then he has been worried. How long can he continue to run the family business that he and inherited ...
Style:
serious, captivating, sincere, touching
Plot:
adopted daughter, secret, parent child relationship, family relations, husband wife relationship, adoption, little girl, interracial adoption, family secret, family problems, family crisis, dysfunctional family ...
Place:
finland
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Rock singer John Mellencamp makes his screen and directorial debut in this story by "Lonesome Dove" author, Larry McMurtry. The story, not too separated from Mellencamp's real life, finds him as a country music star whose meanderings ...
Style:
independent film, contemplative, serious, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
homecoming, infidelity, farm, bittersweet, haunted by the past, country, small town life, midlife crisis, countryside, on the road, love affair, small town ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s
Place:
indiana, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Iran
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Iranian musicians Negar and Ashkan look for band members to play at a London concert ... and the visa that allows them to leave Tehran to do so.
Style:
serious, realistic, exciting, sentimental, melancholic ...
Plot:
musician, music band, artists and showbiz, ambition, state affairs, follow your dream, against the rules, youth, musician's life, hopes, teenage life, music ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
iran, tehran iran, middle east, london, persia
Similarity:
50%
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Three girls in 1980s Stockholm decide to form a punk band -- despite not having any instruments and being told by everyone that punk is dead.
Style:
touching, lyrical, feel good, semi serious, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, girls' night
Plot:
punk, music, teenager, teenage girl, coming of age, friendship, punk rock, rebellion, friendship between girls, children, girl power, adolescence ...
Time:
80s, year 1982, year 2013, 20th century, 70s
Place:
seattle, scandinavia, eastern europe, europe, stockholm sweden ...
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: Dominican Republic
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Twelve-year-old Desi is in pursuit of becoming a famous singer. As Desi braces to leave her hometown, she's met with deep-seated secrets that have long tormented her family and their coastal Dominican community.
Style:
captivating, serious, sincere, dramatic
Plot:
coming of age, aspiring singer, adolescent girl, family relations, teenage girl, girl, female singer, teenage life, singing, teenager, adolescence, birthday party ...
Place:
dominican republic
Similarity:
34%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Meet 17-year-old Hala, who struggles to balance being a suburban teenager with her traditional Muslim upbringing. As she comes into her own, Hala finds herself grappling with a secret that threatens to unravel her family.
Style:
captivating, psychological, disturbing, inspirational, crying
Audience:
teens
Plot:
muslim girl, teenage girl, muslim woman, muslim, coming of age, teenager, mother daughter relationship, family relations, religion, teenage life, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, secret ...
Time:
year 2019
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In a story fueled by rhythm and blues, a young boy's life is shaped by love and the stories of a cast of characters in the boarding house where he lives in 1960s Lackawanna, New York.
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, sincere, sentimental ...
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, family relations, family problems, friends, parents and children, youth, lifestyle, black, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, blaxploitation ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place:
new york, usa, pennsylvania, russia, toronto ontario canada ...
Similarity:
34%
151K
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Set against the background of the 1984 Miner's Strike, Billy Elliot is an 11 year old boy who stumbles out of the boxing ring and onto the ballet floor. He faces many trials and triumphs as he strives to conquer his family's set ways, ...
Style:
touching, inspirational, feel good, uplifting, emotional ...
Audience:
date night, family outing, kids, teens, girls' night ...
Plot:
coming of age, ballet, working class, father son relationship, dancing, audition, gay, childhood, friendship, follow your dream, lgbtq, poverty ...
Time:
20th century, y2k, year 2000, 90s, year 1985 ...
Place:
england, london, northern england, europe
Similarity:
34%
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
David Sinclair seems to have everything going for him: he's smart, musically talented, and very successful. To top off his senior year in high school, his band is trying to get a recording session. Therefore, David's suicide leaves ...
Style:
cult classic, realistic, touching, emotional, retro ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
high school, suicide, coming of age, grief, teenager, loss, drinking, friendship, death, runaway, mental illness, education ...
Time:
80s, year 2016, 70s
Place:
oregon, portland oregon, california, new jersey
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Their love of dance, and their friendship, is challenged for two high school girls when one is diagnosed with cancer.
Style:
sincere, emotional, touching, sentimental, sad ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night
Plot:
dancing, terminal illness, friendship, life is a bitch, follow your dream, teenage life, cancer, lifestyle, single parent, society, unfulfillment, determination ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
This Belgian drama is about the special bond between father and daughter. Paul is a 46 year old PI. Dorothy is almost 16 and has an identity crisis when she finds out her father isn't her biological father. Her mother won't tell her ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, touching, sincere, serious ...
Plot:
private detective, unknown father, obsession, youth, teenage life, paternity revealed, mother daughter relationship, teenage girl, fatherhood, nightclub, coming of age, photograph ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brussels, europe, belgium
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: France, Switzerland, Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Set in 1940's France, a new teacher at a school for disruptive boys gives hope and inspiration.
Style:
touching, inspirational, uplifting, feel good, sentimental ...
Audience:
kids, teens, teen drama
Plot:
boarding school, teacher, childhood, music, teachers and students, abuse, musician, children, boarding school life, friendship, boss, orphan ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 2004
Place:
france, new york, switzerland, europe, paris france ...
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Stevie, a precocious 14-year-old girl must cope with the instabilities of her immoderate parents. When they decide to move to a small provincial town in Germany, Stevie attempts to slip into a normal life. Whilst her parents playfully escape their ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, sincere, serious
Plot:
dysfunctional family, generation gap, teenage girl, mother daughter relationship, parent child relationship, relocation, coming of age, drug use, unfaithful husband, female nudity, cheating wife, bare breasts ...
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
An emotionally dysfunctional ukulele minstrel lands a gig at a nursing home where he strikes up an unlikely relationship with an ancient jazz chanteuse and awakens from a lifetime of loneliness and inconsequence.
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, touching, independent film
Plot:
redemption, musician's life, hopes, love and romance, haunted by the past, friendship, daydreamer, comeback, jazz, singer, cruise, retirement home ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Devoted teacher Anne Sullivan (Alison Elliott) leads deaf, blind and mute Helen Keller (Hallie Kate Eisenberg) out of solitude and helps integrate her into the world.
Style:
serious, touching, sincere, emotional, uplifting ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
mute or deaf, disability, teachers and students, education, blindness and impaired vision, teacher, dedicated educator, human spirit, lifestyle, teacher student relationship, deaf, blind character ...
Time:
90s, victorian era, 19th century
Place:
boston
Similarity:
34%
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