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The International (2006)
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The International (2006)
Original name: Beynelmilel
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Turkey
Duration: 105 min.
Story: It is 80's Turkey, local musicians of Adiyaman are hired by the military and trained to welcome one of the forceful generals of coup regime.
Style: sentimental, humorous, emotional, uplifting, touching, feel good, realistic, semi serious, political thriller, art house
Plot: military, music band, rebellion, political unrest, musician's life, politics, small town, rebelliousness, small town life, artists and showbiz, state affairs, revolution, musician, turk, society, social activist, social relations, idealism, bittersweet, hopes, coup, orchestral, general, turkish
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: middle east, istanbul turkey, turkey

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The Concert (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France, Italy, Romania, Belgium
Duration: 119 min.
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Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: france, paris france, russia, europe
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All That I Love (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Poland
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Follows four friends in their quest to form a punk band. As workers protests sweep across the country, Janek and Staszek, the sons of a navy man, the rebellious Kazik, and the affluent Diabel gel as a band, but their disparate lives are touched by ...
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Time: 20th century, 80s
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1234 (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Ian Bonar is Stevie, a wannabe musician whose look is a hybrid of Jarvis Cocker and early Elvis Costello. Working with his drummer pal Neil (Matthew Baynton) in a call centre, they dream of breaking into the indie music scene. To do this they ...
Style: uplifting, realistic, feel good, touching, sentimental ...
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An Earthy Paradise for the Eyes (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 114 min.
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Plot: idealism, teenage life, rebelliousness, fighting the system, hopes, youth, politics, actor's life, political unrest, parents and children, adolescence, society ...
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Half Moon (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Austria, France, Iran, Iraq
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Mamo, an old and legendary Kurdish musician living in Iran, plans to give one final concert in Iraqi Kurdistan. After seven months of trying to get a permit and rounding up his ten sons, he sets out for the long and troublesome journey in a derelict ...
Style: captivating, sentimental, realistic, humorous, touching ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: iraq, kurdistan, middle east, iran, persia ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
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Duration: 113 min.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 71 min.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 110 min.
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Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic, profound ...
Plot: family relations, culture clash, television, traditional versus modern, lifestyle, society, social relations, life changing experience, mayor, turk, kurd, advice ...
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For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story (2000)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In the early 1970s, Cuban trumpeter Arturo Sandoval (Andy Garcia) is torn between his own musical dreams and the dreams of his wife, Marianela (Mía Maestro), a fervent supporter of the ideals of the Castro revolution. Also starring Charles S. ...
Style: emotional, realistic, touching, sincere, serious ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Duration: 99 min.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
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Duration: 119 min.
Story: No overview found.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The 1980s. Stéphanie grows up in La Courneuve, on the outskirts of Paris, in a home where her mother is rarely there and her step-father is brutal. She quickly decides to escape her morose everyday life. Thanks to her grandmother's love, ...
Style: humorous, touching, sentimental, sincere, semi serious ...
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Place: paris france, france
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Duration: 98 min.
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Style: uplifting, emotional, touching, sentimental, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
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Duration: 103 min.
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Duration: 121 min.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Croatia
Duration: 107 min.
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Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, light, funny ...
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Play It Loud! (2003)
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Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous
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21%
That Thing You Do! (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
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Style: humorous, sentimental, feel good, light, sincere ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
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Style: touching, sentimental, feel good, humorous, semi serious ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
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Duration: 94 min.
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Style: semi serious, humorous, sentimental, realistic
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Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: europe, scandinavia
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21%
The Sandy Bottom Orchestra (2000)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The young-adult novel by Garrison Keillor and Jenny Lind Nilsson gets a lively update in this Showtime feature about an unusual family in Sandy Bottom, Wisconsin. The Greens share musical aspirations, but daughter Rachel (Madeline Zima), a talented ...
Style: serious, realistic, feel good, sincere, touching
Audience: girls' night
Plot: small town, family life, culture clash, musician's life, dull life, performer's life, supportive spouse, family relations, music, music conductor, choir, orchestra ...
Time: 90s
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21%
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City of Rock (2017)
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Duration: 117 min.
Story: A young musician from a small town in China tries to save his town's treasured Rock Park by organizing a charity rock concert.
Style: semi serious, realistic, light, humorous, sentimental
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⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Soul Men (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
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Style: realistic, sentimental, semi serious, humorous, touching ...
Audience: adult
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Time: year 2008
Place: usa
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