Movies like My Foolish Heart

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My Foolish Heart (2018)
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My Foolish Heart (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 83 min.
Story: The last day of legendary jazz trumpeter Chet Baker.
Style: captivating, entertaining
Plot: jazz, jazz club, musician's life, musician, life, legend, lifestyle, police detective, trumpet, jazz music
Time: year 1988
Place: amsterdam

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, psychological, disturbing and thrilling films with plots about lifestyle, musician's life, musician, music, life, relationships and female protagonist mostly in Drama, Music and Biography genres. Some movies like My Foolish Heart: HeartLand Blues (2016), My Best Friend Anne Frank (2021), Ted - Show Me Love (2018), Life Inside Out (2013), Louis (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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HeartLand Blues (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story: The story Follows Reid Morrison, a down and out musician who tries to escape his hometown mistakes and start over in New Orleans. Thinking the mistakes he has made will never be forgiven, he attempts to seclude himself from anything worth while. ...
Style: captivating
Plot: confronting the past, blues, musician, musician's life, music, love affair, lifestyle change, relationships, changing lives, new life, troubled past, secret past ...
Place: new orleans
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95%
My Best Friend Anne Frank (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Based on the real-life friendship between Anne Frank and Hannah Goslar, from Nazi-occupied Amsterdam to their harrowing reunion in a concentration camp.
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot: world war two, nazi occupation, friend, best friend, life is a bitch, memories, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, women, female protagonist, childhood memory, occupation, life ...
Time: 1930s
Place: netherlands
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Ted - Show Me Love (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Sweden
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Chronicling the beautiful and tragic life and career of Ted Gärdestad, this biopic tells the story of the great highs and lows of one of Sweden's most loved artists.
Style: thought provoking, psychological, semi autobiographical, captivating, disturbing
Plot: musician's life, social problems, lifestyle, musician, pop music, life, historical figure, celebrity, music, music industry, young adult, female nudity ...
Place: eastern europe
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Life Inside Out (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: When a mother returns to her musical roots, she rediscovers the passion of her youth, and finds a way to connect with her troubled youngest son.
Style: sincere, captivating, independent film
Plot: female protagonist, teenage son, mother son relationship, family relations, teenager, relationships, musician, lifestyle change, music, changing lives, songwriter, lifestyle ...
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Louis (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A silent film about Louis Armstrong as a young boy and how he acquired his first cornet.
Style: atmospheric, realistic, psychological, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot: prodigy, follow your dream, musician's life, self discovery, artists and showbiz, social relations, music, hopes, jazz, small town, rivalry, society ...
Time: 1900s
Place: new orleans, usa
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67%
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Ito (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A shy country girl chooses a part-time job at a maid cafe where she serves customers while dressed up as a maid.
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing
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My Father's Violin (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Through their shared grief and connection to music, an orphaned girl bonds with her emotionally aloof, successful violinist uncle.
Style: sincere, suspense, disturbing, captivating, psychological
Plot: music, musician, musician's life, relationships, uncle, family relations, violin, girl, orphan, violinist, life is a bitch
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55%
The Clark Sisters: First Ladies of Gospel (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: With guidance from their mother, five siblings overcome humble beginnings to form the renowned gospel group the Clark Sisters.
Style: captivating
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Asphalt Goddess (2020)
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 126 min.
Story: Max returns to her slum turned into the vocalist of a rock band. There, the memories await, the latest news and the truths that were silent for years: Sonia is a voice that speaks from the death.
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating
Plot: musician, lgbt, rock band, confronting the past, troubled past, music band, music, social problems, lifestyle, musician's life, female protagonist, social issues ...
Place: mexico
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The Nightingale of Bursa (2023)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Cengiz is the singer at a tea garden in Bursa and his greatest ambition is to release an album. Cengiz's life changes when he meets Taskin. Believing that the song composed by Taskin's father, Serafettin, would be a great start for his ...
Style: entertaining, funny, humorous, captivating, dramatic
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Thalsamayam Oru Penkutty (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 172 min.
Story: Manju, a village belle becomes popular after she participates in a reality show that records her day-to-day life events and telecasts it to the world
Style: captivating, thrilling, psychological
Plot: life, relationships, lifestyle, male female relationship, couple relations, slice of life, female protagonist, lifestyle change, love affair, changing lives, village, world
Place: india
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50%
Vico C: The Life Of A Philosopher (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
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Duration: 114 min.
Story: A biographical film based on the story of the singer, songwriter and pioneer of urban music in Spanish. From his humble beginnings until his jump to international fame. The harsh experiences of a warrior of life that changed the perspective of music ...
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50%
Ms. White Light (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Lex Cordova is a young woman who counsels terminally ill clients that have trouble letting go. While proving uniquely talented in her ability to connect with the dying, Lex is at a total loss when it comes to dealing with everyone else. When ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot: social problems, doctor patient relationship, death, moral dilemma, life is a bitch, female protagonist, lifestyle, slice of life, socially awkward, female doctor, social issues, life
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Zeta (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Alex, a poor italian guy living on the streets of Rome finally realizes his dream of becoming a rap singer, known as Zeta. He will find himself in the world of hip-hop in a flash, having to struggle against the severity of the real world and his ...
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49%
I Tita, A Life of Tango (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Argentina
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A portrait of the life of Tita Merello, famous Argentinian singer and actress.
Style: thought provoking, captivating
Plot: female protagonist, actress, rags to riches, female singer, tango, mother daughter relationship, musician's life, rising to stardom, celebrity, lifestyle, historical figure, musician ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s
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Adopting Audrey (2021)
Genre: Drama
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43%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 98 min.
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 113 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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'Round Midnight (1986)
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⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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37%
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El Rey, Vicente Fernández (2022)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Mexico, Colombia
Duration: 52 min.
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Style: thrilling, captivating, period piece
Plot: music, career, life, musician's life, musician, historical figure, singer, historical character, lifestyle, based on real people, singing, song
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⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
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Duration: 109 min.
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Time: 20th century
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36%
One Perfect Day (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Tommy Matisse, a gifted musician, undertakes an odyssey of self-discovery and tragedy in Melbourne's dance music scene.
Style: realistic, psychological, sentimental, captivating, gloomy ...
Plot: self discovery, musician's life, prodigy, addiction, redemption, couples, lifestyle, rave, nightclub, artists and showbiz, drug abuse, hopes ...
Place: australia, europe, london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Terezín (2023)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The story of Antonio, an Italian clarinetist, and Martina, a Czech violinist, who fall in love with each other during the World War II, in Prague.
Style: psychological, romantic, captivating, thrilling
Plot: violinist, world war two, czech german relations, violin, musician, relationships, love and romance, musician's life, love affair, life is a bitch, nazism, in love ...
Place: central europe, prague
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
A Moment in June (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Thailand
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Set in Thailand, between April-June 1999, 'A Moment In June' is a story of the fusion of six lives, a song that links them together, a hope of the second chance that might never come and a moment they all need to make a life-changing ...
Style: sincere, captivating
Plot: lgbt, lifestyle, hopes, relationships, love affair, life, male female relationship, second chance, romantic rivalry, love interest, love and romance, love story ...
Place: thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
My Mother is a Belly Dancer (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A story of four women who take belly dancing lessons to escape from their lives.
Style: captivating
Plot: women, dancer's life, family relations, belly dancer, relationships, coping, problem solving, parents and children, dancehall girl, kids and family, lifestyle, life ...
Place: east asia
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35%
Meat Loaf: To Hell and Back (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: "Meat Loaf" Aday is an overgrown Texas youngster, the son of a gentle woman dying of cancer and an alcoholic, abusive father. Tormented by his father and schoolmates over his size, he strikes out on his own after his mother's death, ...
Style: realistic, sincere, touching, captivating, semi serious
Plot: showbiz, ambition, desire for fame, rise to the top, love and romance, rising to stardom, life is a bitch, artists and showbiz, musician's life, lifestyle, music band, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: 70s
Place: texas, usa, dallas texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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