Movies like Louis & Frank

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Louis & Frank (1998)
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Louis & Frank (1998)
Genre: Music, Comedy, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Third-rate doo-wop singers making a comeback hook up with a campy manager who books them to perform in drag.
Style: retro, independent film
Plot: singer, dream, singing, bowling, beautician, comeback, husband wife relationship, partner, gay club, talent agent, cousin cousin relationship, drag, bar owner, drag queen, female impersonator, song, bar, karaoke, italian american, lounge singer, bowling alley
Place: new york, sicily, manhattan new york city, new jersey

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Most similar movies to Louis & Frank

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and independent film films with plots about singer, singing, song, friendship, bar, ambition and music mostly in Drama, Music and Comedy genres. Some movies like Louis & Frank: In the Soup (1992), Hometown Blue (1999), 13 Moons (2002), Beaches (1988), CODA (2021). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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In the Soup (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, Spain
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An aspiring young filmmaker gets involved with an eccentric gangster for the financing of his first film.
Style: black and white, dark comedy, indie film, thought provoking, intellectual ...
Plot: filmmaking, poverty, disability, stoner, gangster, ambition, artists and showbiz, writer's life, unlikely partners, friends, cons and scams, friendship ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: new york
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95%
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Hometown Blue (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Solange is unhappy. She's a meter maid in Tours, working in the rain, subject to verbal abuse from those she cites. Her husband Patrick is consumed by the work of finishing their new house: carpet, tile, faucets. He's also a hothead, ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, witty, sincere, humorous
Plot: strong female presence, bittersweet, weatherman, couples, dull life, unfulfillment, unsupportive spouse, urban, midlife crisis, cookbook, writers, satire ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: france, paris france
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91%
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13 Moons (2002)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Can you solve the mystery of the 13 moons?
Style: humorous, witty, semi serious, absurd, independent film ...
Plot: obsessive quest, performer's life, nothing goes right, profanity, life is a bitch, escapades, comedy of errors, cons and scams, artists and showbiz, disorder, estrangement, down on your luck ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
 7.0
 29K
Beaches (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A privileged rich debutante and a cynical struggling entertainer share a turbulent, but strong childhood friendship over the years.
Style: heartbreaking, tear jerker, sad, sentimental, melancholic ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, kids, teens
Plot: friendship, childhood friend, best friend, singer, terminal illness, female bonding, mother daughter relationship, life is a bitch, coming of age, family relations, honest, grief ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 70s, 80s, 1950s
Place: new york, atlantic city new jersey, san francisco, los angeles, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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CODA (2021)
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: psychological, teen, sad, sincere, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: deaf, sign language, mute or deaf, musician, coming of age, family relations, disability, teenager, deafness, fisherman, women, parents and children ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: persia, hawaii, massachusetts
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69%
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Duets (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Duets is a road-trip comedy which revolves around the little known world of karaoke and the whimsical characters who inhabit it. All roads lead to Omaha, site of a national karaoke competition where this motley group of singers and stars come ...
Style: touching, sentimental, entertaining, humorous, road movie ...
Audience: date night
Plot: partner, road trip, family relations, love and romance, contests and competitions, ambition, musician, singing competition, on the road, father daughter relationship, singer, con men ...
Time: 90s
Place: las vegas, usa, nevada, utah
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Piaf: The Early Years (1974)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Édith Giovanna Gassion is born in 1915. As a young girl she sings on the streets of Paris until a nightclub owner, Louis Leplée, discovers her. When he is murdered the composer Raymond Asso takes care of her and lets her perform at the ABC ...
Plot: singer, singing, song
Place: paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
The Right Approach (1961)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: An opportunistic young Hollywood singer, loyal only to himself, steps on everyone he meets in order to achieve success and fame.
Style: slang
Plot: singer, pianist, hollywood, lawyer, doctor, drinking, cigarette smoking, hotel, singing, lawsuit, bartender, abortion ...
Time: year 1961
Place: los angeles, pasadena california
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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The Wedding Weekend (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A group of guys who sang together in a college a cappella group reunite 15 years later to perform at a friend's wedding and discover how their lives have progressed -- and in some cases regressed -- since their college heyday.
Style: humorous, light, captivating, feel good, semi serious ...
Plot: friendship, wedding, college, music band, lifestyle, music, reunited friends, weekend, group of friends, marriage, rivalry, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Mods (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 59 min.
Story: A quasi-musical by Serge Bozon.
Plot: doctor, college, illness, disease, dance, campus, singing, student, brother brother relationship, love, singer, young ...
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Blinded by the Light (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK, USA, France
Duration: 118 min.
Story: In 1987, during the austere days of Thatcher’s Britain, a teenager learns to live life, understand his family, and find his own voice through the music of Bruce Springsteen.
Style: captivating, touching, humorous, feel good, tense ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: coming of age, teenage protagonist, father son relationship, friendship, teenager, aspiring writer, friendship between boys, diary, neighbor, interracial friendship, college student, father son conflict ...
Time: year 2019, 80s, year 1987, year 1988
Place: new jersey, england, london, america
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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54 (1998)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Shane, a Jersey boy with big dreams, crosses the river in hopes of finding a more exciting life at Studio 54. When Steve Rubell, the mastermind behind the infamous disco, plucks Shane from the sea of faces clamoring to get inside his club, Shane not ...
Style: atmospheric, sexy, serious, realistic, sexual ...
Plot: disco, nightclub, gay, drug abuse, clubbing, addiction, nightlife, father son relationship, drug, lifestyle, lesbian, lgbtq ...
Time: 70s, 80s, 20th century, year 1979
Place: new york, new jersey, usa, bahamas, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Swim Little Fish Swim (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Between surrealism, unusual characters, art and magic tricks, "Swim Little Fish Swim" is a dreamlike journey from childhood to adulthood.
Style: sincere, humorous, semi serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot: family relations, dream, art, modern art, twenty something, musician's life, female nudity, relationship problems, parent child relationship, unfulfillment, artists and showbiz, couple relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Dance of the Wind (1997)
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 ...
Plot: little girl, death of mother, singing, emancipation, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, concert, death, tradition, singer, mourning, solitude ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Hotel Oasis (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Music
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The life of motel owner is turned upside down by a femme-fatale lounge singer and her abusive manager.
Style: semi serious, humorous, cynical, realistic, witty ...
Plot: murder, disorder, dark humor, unlikely criminals, nothing goes right, dishonesty, cons and scams, fatal accident, sister sister relationship, husband wife relationship, twins, small town ...
Place: kansas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Kinky Boots (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Charles Price may have grown up with his father in the family shoe business in Northampton, in central England, but he never thought that he would take his father's place. Yet, the untimely death of his father places him in that position, only ...
Style: touching, humorous, inspirational, feel good, sweet ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: transvestism, drag queen, cabaret, fashion, small town, family business, gay slur, gender bending, fashion show, transvestite, gay, working class ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: milan italy, england, europe, london, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia (1981)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: An aspiring country singer (Dennis Quaid) and his feisty younger sister/manager (Kristy McNichol) struggle to reach their dreams of Nashville stardom-as long as she can keep her brother out of trouble with the ladies and the law-in this drama ...
Style: southern gothic, independent film, semi serious, realistic, crying
Plot: music, revenge, volunteer, teenager, hillbilly, hicksploitation, disorder, friends, country, against the odds, siblings relations, desire for fame ...
Time: year 1981, 80s
Place: georgia, tennessee, usa, memphis
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Bigger Than Tina (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The story of Dan Vardy-Cobb as he aspires to become a pop star.
Style: mockumentary, fake documentary
Plot: overweight girl, satire, male female relationship, music industry, vanity, rise and fall, cd, talent agent, shopping mall, talent show, bully, singing ...
Place: australia, melbourne
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Living in Oblivion (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Nick is the director of a low-budget indie film. He tries to keep everything together as his production is plagued with an insecure actress, a megalomaniac star, a pretentious, beret-wearing director of photography and lousy catering. Divided in ...
Style: surreal, independent film, humorous, funny, talky ...
Plot: filmmaking, actor, filmmaker, nothing goes right, artists and showbiz, showbiz, friends, actor's life, lifestyle, satire, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, dark humor ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Adam & Steve (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Follows two New York city couples -- one heterosexual and one gay who explore the peaks and the valleys of their respective relationships.
Style: feel good, semi serious, independent film, clever, realistic ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: gay, couples, gays and lesbians, love and romance, lgbt, gay relationship, family relations, one night stand, nothing goes right, disorder, gay wedding, lgbtq ...
Time: year 1987, year 2004, 80s
Place: new york, greenwich village manhattan new york city, usa, new jersey, brooklyn new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Hearts Beat Loud (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In the hip Brooklyn neighborhood of Red Hook, single dad and record store owner Frank is preparing to send his hard-working daughter Sam off to college while being forced to close his vintage shop. Hoping to stay connected through their shared ...
Style: feel good, sincere, light, touching, indie film ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: father daughter relationship, coming of age, music, lesbian, musician, teenage daughter, lgbt, lgbtq, love and romance, lesbian love, youth, dialogue ...
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city
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49%
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Coyote Ugly (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Graced with a velvet voice, 21-year-old Violet Sanford heads to New York to pursue her dream of becoming a songwriter only to find her aspirations sidelined by the accolades and notoriety she receives at her "day" job as a barmaid at ...
Style: entertaining, romantic, stylized, exciting, sexy ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: dancing, music, nightclub, ambition, dancer's life, love affair, father daughter relationship, nightlife, parents and children, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, employer employee relationship, dance ...
Time: 2000s, year 2000, y2k, 21st century
Place: new york, new jersey, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
One More Time (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Beautiful aspiring rock star Jude is stuck in a rut - relegated to recording commercial jingles and lost in a series of one night stands. When she is evicted from her Brooklyn apartment, she is forced to move into the Hamptons home of her wealthy - ...
Style: captivating, sincere, humorous, light, grindhouse ...
Plot: career, father, comeback, father daughter relationship, mansion, family home, music, rock and roll, art, daughter, female protagonist, sister sister relationship ...
Place: usa, brooklyn new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Rhinestone (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: After a big-time country singer brags that she can turn anybody in to a country-singin' star, she's out to prove she can live up to her talk when she recruits a cab-driver as a country singer. He's scheduled to sing at a big-time NYC ...
Style: humorous, light, entertaining, semi serious, inspirational ...
Plot: fish out of water, music business, happy ending, against the odds, odd couple, teaching the ways of the world, nightclub, musician's life, artists and showbiz, love and romance, taxi, music ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Where's Firuze? (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Turkey
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Having failed incredibly many times in attempts to find a big talent and to be rich, the two producers and their only two contracted singers struggle to clean their debts and make their dreams come true, no matter what happens. Being in a tight ...
Style: semi serious, witty, humorous, feel good, art house ...
Plot: ambition, desire for fame, lifestyle, rising to stardom, showbiz, musician's life, nothing goes right, artists and showbiz, fall in love, buddies, comedy team, partner ...
Time: 21st century
Place: turkey, istanbul turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Looking for Kitty (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A high school baseball coach and a down-on-his-luck private investigator form a bond as they scour New York City for the coach's wife, who's run away with a second-rate rock star
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, melancholic, disturbing ...
Plot: bittersweet, friendship, introspection, crumbling marriage, fish out of water, odd couple, private detective, unfulfillment, couples, dream, private investigator, down on your luck ...
Place: new york, grand central station manhattan new york city, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Stanley's Gig (2000)
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: serious, realistic, sincere, touching, independent film
Plot: musician's life, redemption, hopes, love and romance, haunted by the past, friendship, daydreamer, comeback, jazz, singer, cruise, retirement home ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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 12K
Bamboozled (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: TV producer Pierre Delacroix (Damon Wayans) becomes frustrated when network brass reject his sitcom idea. Hoping to get fired, Delacroix pitches the worst idea he can think of: a minstrel show. The network not only airs it, but it incredibly becomes ...
Style: thought provoking, black comedy, humorous, semi serious, witty ...
Plot: racism, hip hop, blaxploitation, overnight success, rise and fall, civil rights, showbiz, media satire, society, artists and showbiz, black, satire ...
Time: year 2000, 20th century, 90s, 60s
Place: america, usa, harvard university, south carolina, yale university ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Ricki and the Flash (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Meryl Streep stars as Ricki Rendazzo, a guitar heroine who made a world of mistakes as she followed her dreams of rock-and-roll stardom. Returning home, Ricki gets a shot at redemption and a chance to make things right as she faces the music with ...
Style: romantic, sweet, realistic, serious, touching ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: divorce, father daughter relationship, female protagonist, ex husband ex wife relationship, female musician, family relations, singer, rock star, mother daughter relationship, kids and family, aging, character study ...
Time: 21st century
Place: illinois, usa, chicago, indianapolis indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Commitments (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Jimmy Rabbitte, just a tick out of school, gets a brilliant idea: to put a soul band together in Barrytown, his slum home in north Dublin. First he needs musicians and singers: things slowly start to click when he finds three fine-voiced females ...
Style: cult classic, independent film, realistic, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: teens
Plot: musician, music, working class, rock and roll, singer, friendship, profanity, rock, bittersweet, blues, rock music, trouble ...
Time: year 1991, 90s, 20th century
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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