Movies like Gloria

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Gloria (2014)
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Gloria (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Mexico
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Gloria never imagined that an audition for the music producer Sergio Andrade was going to change her life so drastically. King Midas not only brought her to stardom, but also to a dramatic story of love, heartbreak and betrayal. Based on the life story of pop/rock singer Gloria Trevi.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, emotional
Plot: ambition, musician's life, desire for fame, downfall, artists and showbiz, rising to stardom, biopic, girl, pop singer, music, strong female presence, unfulfillment, power relations, female nudity, male nudity, abusive boss, male pubic hair, women in prison, women's prison, pubic hair
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: mexico, latin america
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and emotional films with plots about biopic, ambition, artists and showbiz, music, musician's life, rising to stardom and lifestyle mostly in Drama, Biography and Music genres. Some movies like Gloria: Worried About the Boy (2010), Whitney (2015), Two Sons of Francisco (2005), Hendrix (2000), Amália (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Worried About the Boy (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: In 1980 young George O'Dowd baffles his parents with his love of frocks and make-up and moves into a squat with kindred spirit Peter, who dresses as Marilyn Monroe and calls himself Marilyn. They make a splash at Steve Strange's trendy ...
Style: realistic, serious, sentimental, captivating, period piece ...
Plot: gay, musician's life, lifestyle, desire for fame, rise and fall, ambition, music band, rising to stardom, love and romance, anti conformity, love affair, addiction ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: england, london
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Whitney (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Chronicles Whitney Houston's rise to fame and turbulent relationship with husband Bobby Brown.
Style: realistic, emotional, serious, touching, sincere ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: musician's life, music, rising to stardom, desire for fame, ambition, couple relations, fall in love, addiction, celebrity culture, showbiz, price of fame, pop star ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s
Place: usa, indiana
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Two Sons of Francisco (2005)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Brazil
Duration: 132 min.
Story: The story of Francisco, a very simple and poor man whose dream was to see his children become country music stars, and who made all the efforts to make it happen.
Style: touching, emotional, serious, captivating, stylized ...
Plot: rags to riches, musician's life, obsession, success, death, rise to the top, parents and children, society, lifestyle, music, car accident, peasant ...
Place: brazil, latin america
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Hendrix (2000)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Biography of rock star Jimi Hendrix chronicles his early career, including a stint with Little Richard who fired him for getting too flamboyant, to his tragic failure.
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, gloomy
Plot: musician's life, biopic, ambition, rising to stardom, prodigy, tragic hero, music band, life is a bitch, rise and fall, artists and showbiz, drug abuse, hotshot hero ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
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48%
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Amália (2008)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Portugal
Duration: 127 min.
Story: You already know the legendary singer. For the first time, you'll get to know the woman behind the myth.
Style: emotional, realistic, serious, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: rise and fall, love and romance, musician's life, rising to stardom, human nature, family relations, lifestyle, unfulfillment, music, artists and showbiz, haunted by the past, love affair ...
Time: 20th century, 50s, 60s, 80s, 70s ...
Place: europe, portugal
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47%
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Céline (2008)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A biopic on singer Céline Dion.
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, captivating
Plot: desire for fame, rise to the top, prodigy, relationship vs career, ambition, musician's life, showbiz, couples, rising to stardom, lifestyle, fall in love, tragic love ...
Time: 21st century
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Filly Brown (2012)
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, rising to stardom, desire for fame, moral dilemma, ambition, follow your dream, musician's life, artists and showbiz, music, radio dj, strong female presence, producer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, california
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Nina (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The story of the late jazz musician and classical pianist Nina Simone including her rise to fame and relationship with her manager Clifton Henderson.
Style: captivating, serious, touching, controversial, thought provoking ...
Plot: jazz, music, biopic, love affair, ambition, musician's life, rising to stardom, society, discrimination, artists and showbiz, racism, love and romance ...
Time: 20th century
Place: usa
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44%
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Sister Smile (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A biography of the Belgian nun Jeannine Deckers, who became a popular singer in the early 1960s and struggled with the contradiction between the church and her true self.
Style: sincere, realistic, serious, emotional, captivating ...
Plot: nun, convent, ambition, musician's life, follow your dream, showbiz, mother superior, society, against the rules, rising to stardom, life is a bitch, rise and fall ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: belgium, europe
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44%
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Cilla (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 138 min.
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Story: Three-part biopic of the Liverpudlian songbird who would later find fame and fortune. It tells of her rocky road to fame and captures the essence of 1960s Liverpool.
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, sentimental, entertaining ...
Plot: pop singer, desire for fame, ambition, musician's life, artists and showbiz, rising to stardom, friendship, fame, biopic, post war, dating, redheaded woman ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 70s
Place: liverpool, england
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44%
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Halim (2006)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Egypt
Duration: 155 min.
Story: A biopic of Egyptian singer Abdel-Halim Hafez.
Style: realistic, captivating, sentimental, emotional, serious
Plot: musician's life, rising to stardom, ambition, rise to the top, life is a bitch, love and romance, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, showbiz, biopic, singer, cop ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, 60s, 20th century, 50s ...
Place: middle east, africa, egypt
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Elvis (1979)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 168 min.
Story: Biographical movie about the famous rock singer Elvis Presley.
Style: realistic, touching, emotional, serious, sentimental ...
Plot: elvis presley, music, rock music, biopic, musician's life, price of fame, celebrity culture, rags to riches, rock and roll, desire for fame, music band, showbiz ...
Time: 50s, 60s, 1950s
Place: las vegas, mississippi
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44%
In His Life: The John Lennon Story (2000)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A film about the early life of the rock musician and his burgeoning career as a member of the Beatles.
Style: captivating, sincere, serious, realistic, rockumentary
Plot: musician, the beatles, prodigy, musician's life, rise to the top, ambition, against the odds, rock music, rising to stardom, lifestyle, youth, working class ...
Time: 60s, 50s, 1950s
Place: england, europe
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43%
Waltz for Monica (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Sweden
Duration: 111 min.
Story: "Monica Z" is a biopic about the Swedish singer and actress Monica Zetterlund focusing on her journey from a job as a telephone operator in a small town in Sweden to stardom in the clubs of New York and Stockholm.
Style: realistic, emotional, factual, uplifting, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: jazz singer, single mother, jazz, rising to stardom, father daughter relationship, ambition, female singer, nightclub singer, fame, follow your dream, drinking problem, family problems ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: new york, stockholm sweden, europe, usa, eastern europe
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43%
Jimi: All Is by My Side (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA, Ireland, UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A drama based on Jimi Hendrix's life as he left New York City for London, where his career took off.
Style: realistic, captivating, atmospheric, sincere, retro ...
Plot: musician, music, biopic, rock, musician's life, rising to stardom, rock star, artists and showbiz, infidelity, drug use, guitarist, rock music ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: england, seattle, new york, london
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43%
Daydream Believers: The Monkees' Story (2000)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In 2000, VH-1 produced the television biopic Daydream Believers: The Monkees' Story. In 2002, the movie was released on DVD, and featured both commentaries and interviews with Dolenz, Jones and Tork. The aired version did differ from the DVD ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, sentimental, captivating
Plot: overnight success, desire for fame, lifestyle, rising to stardom, showbiz, daydreamer, artists and showbiz, ambition, music band, bittersweet, music, music industry ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
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Elvis and Me (1988)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min.
Story: The story of Priscilla's life with rock and roll star Elvis Presley.
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, emotional, touching ...
Plot: elvis presley, biopic, rock and roll, unhappy ending, couples, rock, music, couple relations, artists and showbiz, musician's life, desire for fame, introspection ...
Time: 60s
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42%
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Jersey Boys (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: From director Clint Eastwood comes the big-screen version of the Tony Award-winning musical Jersey Boys. The film tells the story of four young men from the wrong side of the tracks in New Jersey who came together to form the iconic 1960s rock group ...
Style: stylized, intense, sentimental, realistic, serious ...
Plot: music, biopic, music band, broadway, rock and roll, musician, life philosophy, desire for fame, rising to stardom, ambition, showbiz, friends ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 50s, 1950s
Place: new jersey, usa
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The Brittany Murphy Story (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A look at Brittany Murphy's rise to Hollywood fame in the 1990s, her struggles with celebrity and self-esteem, and her mysterious death in 2009 at the age of 32.
Style: sentimental, serious, realistic, captivating
Plot: rising to stardom, desire for fame, rise and fall, ambition, actor's life, artists and showbiz, celebrity culture, parents and children, mental illness, death of wife, death of daughter, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: year 1994, year 2004, year 2003, year 2005, year 1990 ...
Place: puerto rico, new jersey, usa
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Hilde (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Germany
Duration: 137 min.
Story: A biography of Hildegard Knef, one of Germany's biggest post-war stars.
Style: captivating, atmospheric, sentimental, serious, realistic ...
Plot: world war two, musician's life, performer's life, artists and showbiz, older man younger woman relationship, nazi germany, desire for fame, rise and fall, showbiz, human nature, music, lifestyle ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 60s, 50s, 1950s
Place: berlin germany, germany, europe
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King of Salsa (2006)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The rise and fall of salsa singer, Héctor Lavoe (1946-1993), as told from the perspective of his wife Puchi, who looks back from 2002.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, disturbing, informative ...
Plot: music, ambition, musician's life, artists and showbiz, showbiz, dancing, biopic, lifestyle, life is a bitch, rise and fall, drug abuse, salsa ...
Time: 70s, year 2006, 60s
Place: usa, new york, puerto rico
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Rembetiko (1983)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Greece
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The story of a group of Rembetes, singers and musicians of the Greek equivalent to the blues, in the early decades of the 20th century, seen through the eyes of a young female singer.
Style: philosophical, realistic, serious, captivating, atmospheric ...
Plot: greek, refugee, women, ethnicity, sex crime, myth, mythology, resistance, musician, singer, biopic, friends ...
Time: 20th century, 50s, 1940s, 1930s, 1920s
Place: greece, europe, athens greece
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What We Do Is Secret (2007)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A biopic of punk legend Darby Crash and his band, the Germs.
Style: serious, realistic, tense, suspense, informative ...
Plot: punk rock, punk, music, rock, biopic, musician's life, lifestyle, rising to stardom, drug abuse, celebrity culture, nightlife, ambition ...
Time: 70s
Place: los angeles, usa, california
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Paulo Coelho's Best Story (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Brazil, Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Paulo Coelho is the world’s most translated living author, his books having sold over 165 million copies. But he was not always the inspirational global phenomenon he is today. Like the heroes in his spiritual classics THE ALCHEMIST and THE ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, thought provoking, disturbing
Plot: writers, writer's life, ambition, follow your dream, hopes, rising to stardom, life, lifestyle, historical figure, biopic, relationships, historical character ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 70s, 60s
Place: brazil
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40%
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Scott Joplin (1977)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Details the life story of Scott Joplin and how he became the greatest ragtime composer of all time.
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, period piece
Plot: composer, jazz, piano, art history, art, blaxploitation, syphilis, biopic, interracial relations, music, society, musician's life ...
Time: 20th century, 1910s, 1900s
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Telstar: The Joe Meek Story (2008)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Set against a backdrop of early 60's London, Telstar is the story of the world's first independent record producer, Joe Meek. A maverick genius who enjoyed phenomenal success with Telstar - the biggest selling record of it's time - ...
Style: serious, touching, realistic, captivating, spiritual ...
Plot: gay, recording studio, paranoia, suicide, musician's life, prodigy, experimental music, homosexual, artists and showbiz, rise and fall, lifestyle, music industry ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: england, london
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40%
Violeta Went to Heaven (2011)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Chile, Argentina, Brazil
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A portrait of famed Chilean singer and folklorist Violeta Parra filled with her musical work, her memories, her loves and her hopes.
Style: serious, sincere, sentimental, realistic, touching ...
Plot: music, museum, folklore, follow your dream, loss of daughter, hopes, lifestyle, musician's life, performer's life, rising to stardom, artists and showbiz, musical tour ...
Time: 20th century, 50s, 60s, 1940s, 1930s
Place: chile, latin america, geneva switzerland, paris france, santiago chile ...
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40%
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Get on Up (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: A chronicle of James Brown's rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history.
Style: emotional, talky, heartbreaking, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: music, biopic, musician's life, friendship, showbiz, black, musician, creativity, ambition, rising to stardom, desire for fame, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, 70s, year 2014, 80s ...
Place: usa, south carolina, georgia
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The Overture (2004)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music
Country: Thailand
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Based on the life of Luang Pradit Pairoh (Sorn Silapabanleng) the most revered traditional Thai music master who lived during the reigns of Kings Rama V to VIII, the movie traces the life of Sorn, who picked up the ra-nad ek (Thai xylophone) mallets ...
Style: touching, emotional, sincere, captivating, serious ...
Plot: prodigy, ambition, fighting the system, musician's life, rebellion, lifestyle, society, injustice, life is a bitch, rivalry, politics, biopic ...
Time: 20th century
Place: asia, thailand
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Best (2000)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The life story of former Manchester United football legend, George Best.
Style: realistic, captivating, serious, emotional
Plot: athlete's life, football player, ambition, rising to stardom, sport team, life is a bitch, rivalry, celebrity culture, professional sports, football, biopic, unfulfillment ...
Time: 60s, 70s, 90s, 20th century
Place: ireland, europe, england, manchester, northern england
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