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Joyful Noise (2012)
 5.7
 9K
Joyful Noise (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: G.G. Sparrow faces off with her choir's newly appointed director, Vi Rose Hill, over the group's direction as they head into a national competition.
Style: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, funny
Audience: chick flick
Plot: teenage love, music band, follow your dream, rivalry, contests and competitions, musician's life, artists and showbiz, youth, family relations, ambition, lifestyle, social relations, underdog, chorus girl, odd couple, unlikely partners, autism, teenage girl, gangsters, women, spirituality, rock and roll, interracial relations, christian, choir ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: usa, georgia

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Most similar movies to Joyful Noise

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and feel good films with plots about artists and showbiz, ambition, lifestyle, youth, love and romance, music and musician's life mostly in Comedy, Drama and Music genres. Some movies like Joyful Noise: Pitch Perfect (2012), Rags (2012), Let It Shine (2012), Bandslam (2009), The Commitments (1991). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
 7.1
 312K
Pitch Perfect (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: College student Beca knows she does not want to be part of a clique, but that's exactly where she finds herself after arriving at her new school. Thrust in among mean gals, nice gals and just plain weird gals, Beca finds that the only thing ...
Style: feel good, humorous, realistic, funny, light ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, family outing
Plot: music, youth, college, rivalry, female friendship, female protagonist, competition, performance, music band, singing competition, friends, social relations ...
Time: 80s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.7
 3K
Rags (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Rags follows the story of Charlie Prince, an orphan living with his acerbic and unloving stepfather and spoiled, simple-minded stepbrothers. Charlie's dream is to be a singer, and while he is vocally talented and can write music, he can't ...
Style: feel good, semi serious, humorous, fairy tale, realistic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: cinderella story, teenage love, hopes, cinderella, youth, showbiz, ambition, follow your dream, artists and showbiz, step siblings, love and romance, fall in love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 6.3
 4K
Let It Shine (2012)
Genre: Drama, Family, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The film follows a shy, talented musician who pens romantic hip-hop verses only to stand idly by as they're delivered to the girl of his dreams by a proxy, his best friend. Made for Disney Channel movie/
Style: feel good, semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, girls' night, pre-teens
Plot: hip hop, teenage life, teenage love, hip hop culture, performer's life, ambition, lifestyle, follow your dream, rapper, musician's life, dream come true, fall in love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.3
 15K
Bandslam (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A high school social outcast and the popular girl bond through a shared love of music.
Style: romantic, humorous, semi serious, light, witty ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: teenager, high school, music, rock band, cheerleading, teenage love, friends, ambition, love and romance, rock and roll, hopes, rock ...
Time: 70s, 21st century
Place: new jersey, california, texas, usa, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Deloris Van Cartier is again asked to don the nun's habit to help a run-down Catholic school, presided over by Mother Superior. And if trying to reach out to a class full of uninterested students wasn't bad enough, the sisters discover ...
Style: feel good, humorous, sexy, light, erotic ...
Audience: teens, kids, girls' night, family outing
Plot: nun, music, teacher, women, dancing, mentor, hip hop, catholic school, blues, woman, church, teenager ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 80s
Place: california, las vegas, san francisco, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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: feel good, realistic, humorous, affectionate, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens, pre-teens
Plot: music, musician, rock and roll, working class, irish, singer, friendship, rock, bittersweet, blues, dancing, small town ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Drumline: A New Beat (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A girl from New York attends a college in Atlanta to join their once-famous marching band.
Style: realistic, exciting
Audience: teens
Plot: hip hop, rivalry, musician's life, music band, ambition, youth, music, contests and competitions, follow your dream, college life, love and romance, competition ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Adventures of Power (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: In his quest to become the world's greatest air-drummer, a small-town dreamer must overcome obstacles and ridicule to save the day.
Style: not serious, humorous, realistic, captivating, funny ...
Plot: youth, contests and competitions, musician's life, underdog, working class, against the odds, family relations, social misfits, rivalry, follow your dream, hopes, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new jersey, new mexico, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Elle: A Modern Cinderella Tale (2010)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Elle wants to be a singer/songwriter, but her dreams are cut short by the sudden death of her parents. She moves in with her adoptive uncle, who runs a small independent record label whose biggest act, Sensation, is also Elle's biggest pain.
Style: semi serious, realistic, sentimental, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: teenage love, cinderella story, musician's life, cinderella, follow your dream, youth, fall in love, family relations, teenage life, love and romance, artists and showbiz, ambition ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Breakdance Kid (2004)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: In 1984, loser pizza guy Whitey Johnson is run over by a semi truck on live television, making him a local hero. The world watches as Whitey vows to not only walk again but to win his town's breakdance competition. Whitey struggles to conquer ...
Style: touching, semi serious, humorous, feel good, realistic
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: hip hop, teenage love, ambition, dancer's life, follow your dream, lifestyle, hopes, rivalry, contests and competitions, love and romance, youth, high school life ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Nodame Cantabile: The Movie I (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Following the success of the popular Japanese romantic comedy drama, NODAME CANTABILE: THE MOVIE hits the big screen! Hiroshi Tamaki and Juri Ueno reprise in their roles and continue their love for music and their pursuit for their ambitions. Chiaki ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good, anime ...
Plot: orchestra, classical music, lifestyle, ambition, musician's life, friendship, rivalry, couple relations, youth, makeover, superhero, farce ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 4.5
 2K
School Dance (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: High schooler Jason has found his dream girl—the gorgeous Anastacia. There’s just one problem: she doesn’t know he exists. If he can win a spot on the school’s hottest dance crew, Jason might have a shot. But before he does, he’ll have to ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, touching, captivating, light ...
Audience: teens
Plot: high school life, teenage love, music, misfit, youth, teenage life, family relations, hip hop, rivalry, love and romance, gangsters, high school ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 4.7
 1K
Queen Sized (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: An overweight girl, Maggie Baker, is elected Homecoming queen by the mean girls in the high school.
Style: feel good, uplifting, humorous, touching, realistic ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: high school, rivalry, society, against the odds, best friends, follow your dream, ambition, hopes, lifestyle, family relations, underdog, prom ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, south carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Preaching to the Choir (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Estranged since the death of their parents years ago, twin brothers, Teshawn and Wesley Tucker, have taken radically different paths in life. Wes (Darien Sills-Evans) has become a minister in a Harlem gospel church while Te (Billoah Greene) ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, uplifting, humorous, feel good
Plot: preacher, lifestyle, follow your dream, redemption, family problems, family relations, estrangement, ego clash, hopes, musician's life, on the run, drug dealing ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, harlem
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Feel the Noise (2007)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: After a run-in with local thugs, aspiring Harlem rapper Rob flees to a place and father he never knew, and finds his salvation in Reggaeton, a spicy blend of hip-hop, reggae and Latin beats. Puerto Rico, the spiritual home of Reggaeton, inspires Rob ...
Style: realistic, feel good, serious
Audience: teens
Plot: rapper, dancer's life, fish out of water, culture clash, ambition, youth, society, music, hopes, follow your dream, human spirit, rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, puerto rico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Steppin : The Movie (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Every college campus has its rivalries and UTS is no different. At this university, the Geeks run the campus and the greatest Steppers are king of the hill. When a local radio station announces the beginning of the step competition season, the ...
Style: humorous, not serious, realistic, captivating
Plot: ambition, fall in love, love and romance, buddies, rivalry, youth, prank, underdog, contests and competitions, college, disorder, gangsters ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 7.0
 4K
Cape No. 7 (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Taiwan, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Aga, a band singer, returns to Hengchun with frustration. Tomoko is a Japanese model assigned to organize a local warm-up band for the Japanese super star beach concert. Together with other five ordinary Hengchun residents who were not expected to ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous
Audience: date night
Plot: rivalry, ambition, underdog, music band, contests and competitions, musician's life, music, love and romance, disorder, nothing goes right, artists and showbiz, one last chance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, taiwan
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 5.4
 8K
Jump In! (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Story revolves around a young boxer, Izzy Daniels, who trains to follow in his father's footsteps by winning the Golden Glove. When his friend, Mary, however, asks him to substitute for a team member in a Double Dutch tournament, the young man ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: sport, human spirit, friendship, follow your dream, athlete's life, against the odds, disney, lifestyle, ambition, teenage life, teenager, contests and competitions ...
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Detroit Metal City (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Soichi Negishi moved to Tokyo to chase his dream of becoming a musician playing stylish, Swedish-style pop. Instead, he finds himself leading the death metal band Detroit Metal City, or DMC, as the costumed and grotesquely made-up "demon ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, anime
Plot: heavy metal culture, music, ambition, follow your dream, rock music, musician's life, love and romance, desire for fame, artists and showbiz, hidden identity, lifestyle, hopes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Mitchie can't wait to go back to Camp Rock and spend the summer making new music with her friends and superstar Shane Gray. But the slick new camp across the lake, Camp Star, has drummed up some serious competition — featuring newcomers Luke ...
Style: sentimental, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night, pre-teens ...
Plot: summer camp, rivalry, camp, teenage life, artists and showbiz, ambition, music band, teenage love, singing competition, friendship, friends, underdog ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
The American Mall (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The executive producers of High School Musical keep the good times rolling with this upbeat musical comedy set in the one place every American teenager's home away from home - the local shopping mall. Ally (Nina Dobrev) is an optimistic ...
Style: touching, feel good, realistic, humorous, witty ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: ambition, musician, love and romance, rise to the top, save the day, musician's life, youth, lifestyle, hopes, rising to stardom, teenage life, desire for fame ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 5.1
 8K
Honey 2 (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Sequel to the 2003 dance movie Honey. Recently released from juvenile detention, talented dancer Maria Ramirez finds an outlet for her passion with a new dance crew.
Style: captivating, uplifting, feel good, touching, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot: dancing, dance school, dancer's life, street dance, juvenile delinquency, music, rise to the top, rivalry, ambition, fall in love, dancer, female protagonist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: bronx new york city, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
The Cheetah Girls 2 (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Best friends Galleria, Chanel, Dorinda, and Aqua, A.K.A. the girl band "The Cheetahs," get the opportunity of a lifetime when they strut their way to Barcelona, Spain, to perform in an international music festival. Along the way, the ...
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, captivating
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night, date night
Plot: music band, disney, musician's life, lifestyle, friendship, teenage life, teenage love, girl group, artists and showbiz, youth, disorder, fish out of water ...
Place: spain, europe, usa, new york, barcelona
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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 2.2
 2K
Siren (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: She seems like your ordinary overweight middle-aged wife & mom except her dream of being a rock star still weighs heavy on her soul, "they" say she can't do it, watch her transform and over come life's brutal obstacles to ...
Style: uplifting, realistic, semi serious, humorous
Audience: girls' night
Plot: against the odds, follow your dream, musician's life, ambition, lifestyle, underdog, rock, friends, music, music band, artists and showbiz, hopes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: las vegas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 6.2
 698
Humble Pie (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: At nearly 400 pounds, Tracy Orbison is a wide target. When he sets out to pursue his dream of acting, the grocery clerk finds an assortment of people waiting to dash his dreams. Through it all, Tracy remains irrepressibly upbeat, convinced he's ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous, whimsical
Plot: rise to the top, optimism, follow your dream, humble, society, youth, family relations, hopes, social misfits, teenage love, physical appearance, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 6.3
 7K
Killing Bono (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Neil and Ivan McCormick, two Irish brothers who attempt to become rock stars but can only look on as their high school friends U2 become the biggest band in the world.
Style: feel good, semi serious, realistic, humorous, witty
Plot: rivalry, desire for fame, follow your dream, teenage life, friends, ambition, teenage boy, brother brother relationship, rock and roll, family relations, youth, hopes ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1976, 70s
Place: europe, dublin ireland, ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 4.7
 409
Pop Star (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When talented young singer, Roxie Santos, meets music producer, Eddie Marz, he promises her an amazing new lifestyle and a future record deal. All he needs her to do is first lend her voice to a celebrity with no singing talent. However, when things ...
Style: sentimental, realistic, humorous, feel good, serious
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: musician's life, teenage life, follow your dream, lifestyle, desire for fame, ambition, love and romance, hopes, artists and showbiz, teenage love, youth, music band ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 6.4
 11K
Soul Men (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Two former backup soul singers, Louis and Floyd, have not spoken to each other in 20 years, and reluctantly agree to travel across the country together to a reunion concert to honor their recently-deceased lead singer. Cleo, a beautiful young woman ...
Style: sentimental, realistic, touching, humorous, semi serious
Audience: adult
Plot: african american, artists and showbiz, showbiz, musician's life, buddies, music band, lifestyle, on the road, gangsters, porn star, hip hop, black cast ...
Time: year 2008
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
The Cheetah Girls (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Music, Musical
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A four-member teen girl group named the Cheetah Girls go to a Manhattan High School for the Performing Arts and try to become the first freshmen to win the talent show in the school's history. During the talent show auditions, they meet a ...
Style: semi serious, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic
Audience: teens, family outing, chick flick, girls' night, kids ...
Plot: friendship, girl group, high school, coming of age, showbiz, teenager, follow your dream, musician's life, fashion, disney, rising to stardom, music band ...
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
The Cheetah Girls: One World (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Chanel, Dorinda, and Aqua, are off to India to star in a Bollywood movie. But when there they discover that they will have to compete against each other to get the role in the movie. Will the Cheetah's break up again?
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious, realistic, touching ...
Audience: family outing, teens, kids, chick flick, pre-teens
Plot: rivalry, disney, contests and competitions, follow your dream, hopes, rising to stardom, friendship, love and romance, family life, teenager, teenage girl, female friendship ...
Place: asia, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%