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Video Girl (2011)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Lorie Walker ( Meagan Good), attends a ritzy private school in a small southern town. Raised by her grandmother Valerie ( Ruby Dee), she often daydreams of becoming a professional dancer. After a chance meeting with a renowned music video director, her lifestyle changes completely. She finds herself struggling to stay grounded in this new, provocative, glamorous world.
Style:
realistic, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, serious
Plot:
desire for fame, ambition, dancer's life, sex scene, life is a bitch, follow your dream, rise and fall, small town, celebrity culture, rivalry, society, couples, teenager, hip hop, profanity, sexual content, artists and showbiz, performer's life, rising to stardom, fame, videotaping, injury, drugs/alcohol
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa
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Most similar movies to Video Girl
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and psychological films with plots about society, ambition, artists and showbiz, rivalry, hopes, lifestyle and follow your dream mostly in Drama and Music genres. Some movies like Video Girl: When Thugs Cry (2003), Filly Brown (2012), Into Temptation (2009), Louis (2010), 2nd Take (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Two brothers from Alabama struggle to rise above the ghetto rap scene to land a major record deal in Chicago in this journey through love, sibling rivalry, betrayal, violence and redemption.
Style:
realistic, serious, tense, crime drama
Plot:
musician's life, rise to the top, showbiz, ambition, siblings relations, celebrity culture, rich and poor, hopes, human spirit, urban ghetto life, artists and showbiz, life is a bitch ...
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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:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A call girl goes to a priest to confess a sin she hasn't committed yet: she plans to kill herself on her next birthday. Then she disappears and he goes looking for her, enlisting the help of an ad hoc congregation of troubled souls along the ...
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, captivating, psychological, independent film ...
Plot:
woman in danger, prostitute, priest, forgiveness, redemption, obsession, society, clergy, illegal prostitution, sin, catholic priest, suicide ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, minnesota
Similarity:
100%
249
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, offbeat ...
Plot:
follow your dream, musician's life, prodigy, self discovery, social relations, small town, jazz, hopes, artists and showbiz, music, rivalry, society ...
Time:
1900s
Place:
usa, new orleans
Similarity:
32%
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193
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Reclusive writer takes aspiring actress under his wing.
Style:
realistic, psychological, captivating, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot:
hollywood, desire for fame, artists and showbiz, love and romance, unfulfillment, hopes, writers, aspiring actress, rivalry, society, down on your luck, fall in love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
French rapper, author, and spoken word artist Abd Al Malik makes his directorial debut with this adaptation of his 2004 autobiography, chronicling his upbringing in the crime- and drug-ridden streets of Strasbourg and his life-changing encounters ...
Style:
captivating, inspirational, atmospheric, psychological, rough ...
Plot:
rising to stardom, urban ghetto life, religions or cults, hip hop, redemption, follow your dream, juvenile delinquency, coming of age, ambition, life is a bitch, islam, violent content ...
Time:
20th century, year 2014, 80s
Place:
france
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
When his father encounters insufferable hardship, Dwight Hawkins (real-life gospel singer Deitrick Haddon) is torn between Christian duty and his own desire to pursue his dreams as a gospel singer. But what does God really have planned for him? ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, captivating, contemplative, serious ...
Plot:
church, follow your dream, clergy, twists and turns, religions or cults, rivalry, redemption, ambition, family relations, society, african american, christian ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Jimmy Wayne Collins finds himself adrift in Memphis, Tennessee. Forced to return home to the piney woods of Southeast Texas, Jimmy will face his imprisoned brother, his dying father and the demons he left behind.
Style:
realistic, captivating, serious, emotional, psychological ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, family relations, estrangement, homecoming, introspection, small town, unfulfillment, lifestyle, profanity, bar fight, ambition, violent content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, usa, memphis, tennessee
Similarity:
26%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Amazon Falls tells the story of a faded B-movie actress JANA who refuses to let go of her dream of being a star. Famous for her roles in Amazon movies where she portrayed a variety of pre-Xena warrior-princesses, she desperately tries to keep her ...
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
hollywood, artists and showbiz, desire for fame, ambition, human nature, aging, actress, rivalry, society, biopic, lifestyle, downfall ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles, california
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An aspiring opera singer from Harlem teams up with a charismatic busker and a kindhearted hustler to share his voice with the world, and teaches his two newfound friends the importance of taking your destiny into your own hands. Anton (Gabriel ...
Style:
independent film, serious, realistic, captivating, uplifting ...
Plot:
hip hop, opera, city life, urban ghetto life, destiny, teaching the ways of the world, hopes, follow your dream, music, human spirit, performer's life, musician's life ...
Time:
90s
Place:
harlem, new york, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
26%
234
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A thought-provoking drama about the power that a famous university professor holds over his students and assistants.
Style:
realistic, psychological, serious, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
love triangle, power relations, dishonesty, ambition, unfulfillment, friendship, university, college, manipulation, power, mentor, teachers and students ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Bar worker Diana Diaz (Elsa Pataky) leaves Madrid for Miami and with new boyfriend, Robert (Luis Hacha), they then head for Hollywood, prepared to do anything for fame.
Style:
sexy, captivating, realistic, sexual, psychological ...
Plot:
sex scene, closeted homosexual, hollywood, casting couch, showbiz, desire for fame, actor's life, rising to stardom, follow your dream, ambition, agent, infidelity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, miami
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Elena Gallenti is an anthropology graduate student struggling to complete her thesis on 'modern means of communication.' All that changes when she meets her new boyfriend's teenage kids, who are going through their own journeys of ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, psychological, contemplative, independent film ...
Plot:
family relations, self discovery, couple relations, teaching the ways of the world, profanity, bittersweet, love and romance, society, power relations, couples, computers and web, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
An executive, a housewife and a youngster spend a day in their Long Island suburban town during the course of one curious autumn day afternoon.
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, atmospheric, independent film ...
Plot:
suburbs, society, estrangement, unfulfillment, lifestyle, couple relations, couples, dull life, human nature, multiple storylines, one day, sexual content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
People always told Santos he was something special. His Uncle told him to get a skill, so he became a hustler and with his three,they became "The Stick Up Kids" Harlem would never be the same. They thought they had it all... Money, cars, ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang, rivalry, friends, buddies, criminal's revenge, urban ghetto life, society, dishonesty, cons and scams, black, african american, sexual content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
harlem, new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Fueled by original music by members of Guns N' Roses, Bad Religion, No Doubt, Skid Row, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Hootie & The Blowfish and more... The Still Life tells the story of artist Julian Lamont who struggles to pick up the pieces of ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, emotional, captivating, erotic ...
Plot:
painter, recluse, rise and fall, unfulfillment, alcohol abuse, life is a bitch, ambition, addiction, making love, art, destruction, breakup ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Nemesis is the hottest rapper in rap's hottest city; Miami, the 305. But he has a little secret...he's not really a rapper. A record label discovers Nate's talent, and offers to make him a star, as a rapper. They create Nemesis, a Hip ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, captivating, disturbing, inspirational ...
Plot:
hip hop, jazz, rivalry, rise to the top, gangster, music, artists and showbiz, showbiz, society, ambition, desire for fame, rise and fall ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
florida, miami, usa
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A software developer becomes a billionaire and is distracted by fame, greed and power, then must save his invention and company from a hostile takeover.
Style:
realistic, captivating, atmospheric, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
relationship vs career, rivalry, redemption, rise to the top, materialism, infidelity, lifestyle, ambition, business, company, financier, betrayal ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Best friends LC and Roland are two young ministers, climbing the ranks at the First Baptist Church under the leadership of Pastor Dr. Ezekial Canon.
Style:
realistic, captivating, psychological, atmospheric, spiritual ...
Plot:
clergy, rise and fall, friendship, religions or cults, ambition, unfulfillment, betrayal, human nature, priest, aging, blind ambition, buddies ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Ronah's life unravels when she starts working with a new client, Johnny.
Style:
sexy, serious, psychological, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
life turned upside down, prostitute, women, female protagonist, couples, society, sex, female nudity, doctor patient relationship, sex therapy, psychotherapy, woman ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
23%
188
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
It's hard being a Korean popstar! For every Gangnam Style, there are a hundred flameouts. K-Pop sensation Jay Park stars in this musical romp about a sassy music executive on her quest to resurrect a disgraced boy band against all odds.
Style:
captivating, realistic, emotional, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
artists and showbiz, desire for fame, music band, ambition, against the odds, music, escapades, musician's life, rivalry, idol, society, boy band ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south korea, korea, asia
Similarity:
23%
621
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
When a teenager finds herself pregnant, with no memory of having had sex, she determines that she is carrying the child of God.
Style:
realistic, touching, erotic, captivating, psychological ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
pregnancy, coming of age, family relations, clergy, youth, society, parents and children, teenage life, small town, teenage girl, virginity, pastor ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
The bittersweet events in the lives of people in Hakodate, a regional city connected by a streetcar network. A laid-off man and his younger sister go up a mountain to see the first sunrise of the year. Meanwhile, Haruo has inherited his ...
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, psychological, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
working class, society, life is a bitch, family relations, small town, unemployment, rivalry, social relations, parents and children, down on your luck, siblings relations, small town life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia, hokkaido
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Odessa is a beautiful girl addicted to the attention and money that being an adult film star brings. William, a lonely mechanic, has a crush on her, and she indulges his fantasy and leads him on. Thinking he can save her and help her find a normal ...
Style:
serious, realistic, sincere, touching, independent film ...
Plot:
porn star, ambition, desire for fame, impossible love, fall in love, showbiz, love and romance, artists and showbiz, celebrity culture, actor's life, sexual content, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles, california
Similarity:
22%
377
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Renowned actress Colleen West abandons her successful career for a secluded life in the hills. But the peace and quiet she longed for is disrupted by the noisy construction of neighboring housing developments. Before long, Colleen discovers that she ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, atmospheric, psychological, black and white ...
Plot:
actor's life, introspection, direction and purpose, artists and showbiz, aging, unfulfillment, love affair, ambition, society, art, lifestyle, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A New York City-set drama of interlocking stories which occur over a 36-hour period.
Style:
realistic, emotional, captivating, psychological, gloomy ...
Plot:
human nature, city life, estrangement, redemption, introspection, hopes, addiction, unfulfillment, lifestyle, multiple storylines, family problems, urban ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
After the death of Raya Green's(Rutina Wesley) sister, she gets out from her classes at school, and sees a stomp crew practicing. She meets Bishop(Dwain Murphy) which is the dance crew leader. She then meets Michelle and does a stomp battle ...
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, exciting, independent film
Audience:
teens
Plot:
dancing, dance, coming of age, youth, contests and competitions, follow your dream, friendship, teenage life, lifestyle, ambition, hopes, dancer's life ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
usa, canada
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
When big-city TV journalist Kelly Faraday (Laura Leighton) gets fired, she moves back to her Nevada hometown, where a severe drought may force her aging mother, Ruth (Angie Dickinson), to sell the family farm to a casino developer. As Kelly and Ruth ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
family relations, corporate crime, homecoming, farm, small town, dishonesty, legal, rivalry, love affair, small town life, love and romance, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, nevada
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Bob Geldof and Harvey Goldsmith set up one of the world's greatest ever concerts, Live Aid in 1984 to help ease the Ethiopian Famine.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, sentimental ...
Plot:
music, artists and showbiz, follow your dream, musician's life, partner, media, charity, idealism, rock, hopes, ambition, society ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Set in suburban New Jersey in the 1960s, a group of friends form a rock band and try to make it big.
Style:
sincere, captivating, touching, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
music band, rivalry, ambition, lifestyle, follow your dream, desire for fame, rebelliousness, friendship, social relations, ego clash, hopes, youth ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1967, year 1963
Place:
new jersey, usa, los angeles, california, pacific ocean
Similarity:
21%
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