Movies like One Love 2003
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One Love (2003)
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Jamaica, Norway, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Kassa a free-wheelin rasta man, falls for a straight laced gospel singer Serena, when they both meet as they enter a music contest. Serena's father the pastor forbids her to see him and wants her to marry one of his church members. Meanwhile the record boss organizing the contest, tries to get Kassa's band to sign to his label on his terms not theirs. By using heavy tactics, he pushes the band to fight back.
Style:
sentimental, captivating, emotional, realistic, touching, serious, stylized
Plot:
love, music, fall in love, couples, lifestyle, ambition, contests and competitions, clergy, unfulfillment, church, pastor, jamaican, rastafarian, rivalry, reggae, friendship, music competition, black cast, blaxploitation, father daughter relationship, christian, love and romance, tragic love, society, unfulfilled love ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
jamaica, africa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sentimental and touching films with plots about love and romance, artists and showbiz, couples, unfulfillment, lifestyle, music and love mostly in Drama, Romance and Music genres. Some movies like One Love: Oh Happy Day (2004), Once (2007), Preacher's Kid (2010), Romeo and Juliet (1966), Brooklyn Babylon (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Denmark, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Hannah (Lotte Andersen) is a housewife in a village Zealand, where she is married to the sad Carsten (Mikael Birkkjær). She sings in the mammal church choir along with his outspoken sister (Ditte Gråbøl). A choirmaster in transit - the black ...
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realistic, sentimental, humorous, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot:
church, social relations, lifestyle, clergy, unfulfillment, small town, choir, gospel, preacher, friendship, accident, interracial relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
denmark, harlem
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100%
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A vacuum repairman moonlights as a street musician and hopes for his big break. One day a Czech immigrant, who earns a living selling flowers, approaches him with the news that she is also an aspiring singer-songwriter. The pair decide to ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, emotional, sweet, sincere ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
music, musician's life, pianist, street musician, friendship, singer, love, love and romance, recording studio, rock and roll, love story, lifestyle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland, london, dublin ireland, czech republic, europe
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100%

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Small-town girl Angie King leaves the church and her home to pursue a dream of singing stardom. Luckett plays Angie, the daughter of a stern but loving bishop, whose attraction to the hunky star (Tank) of a traveling gospel show takes her on the ...
Style:
serious, touching, sentimental, realistic
Plot:
hopes, parents and children, lifestyle, love and romance, destructive relationship, couples, youth, friendship, christian, religion, father daughter relationship, music ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
georgia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Classic ballet by Kenneth MacMillan to the music of Prokofiev.
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, stylized, emotional
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
shakespeare, couples, forbidden love, true love, tragic love, artists and showbiz, dancer's life, unfulfillment, music, love and romance, ballet, shakespeare's romeo and juliet ...
Place:
england
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A charismatic rapper falls in love with a young Jewish girl despite the confines of her religious background.
Style:
sentimental, touching, sincere, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
culture clash, interracial relations, friendship, tragic love, social differences, social decay, unlikely couple, opposites attract, musician's life, fall in love, racism, love affair ...
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
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458

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Set in Japan in the early 1990s, there's one rising band called LANDS, that is starting to find success amidst a flood of other bands. Asako and Miharu are two Tokyo high school students. When Miharu gives Asako her favorite indie rock band; a ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, touching, romantic
Audience:
teens
Plot:
musician's life, friendship, betrayal, rising to stardom, contests and competitions, dishonesty, desire for fame, artists and showbiz, music band, rivalry, coming of age, love and romance ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%

Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A young singer turns his back on God and his father's church when tragedy strikes. He returns years later to find the once powerful congregation in disarray. With his childhood nemesis creating a "new vision" for the church, he is ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, touching, emotional
Plot:
church, redemption, ambition, family relations, relationship vs career, haunted by the past, parents and children, uninhibited rivalry, lifestyle, musician's life, hopes, homecoming ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Danny Foster doesn't have much: an apartment as small as his paychecks, no family, and a struggling music career. Yet for him, "every day is a great day to be alive," an attitude he gained from his mother's unwavering optimism ...
Style:
serious, sentimental, touching, realistic, sad ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
mute or deaf, family relations, fall in love, couples, couple relations, lifestyle, musician's life, love and romance, misfit, unfulfillment, parents and children, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, connecticut, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Egypt
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
A biopic of Egyptian singer Abdel-Halim Hafez.
Style:
realistic, captivating, emotional, sentimental, serious
Plot:
musician's life, ambition, rising to stardom, love and romance, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, life is a bitch, rise to the top, showbiz, singer, music, orphan ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 50s, 70s, 20th century ...
Place:
egypt, africa, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%

Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Tells the story of an African immigrant surviving on the fringes of New York City where music is his passion, life is a hustle and falling in love is his greatest risk.
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
immigrants, city life, society, fall in love, social misfits, music, love, rivalry, couples, hustler, blaxploitation, self discovery ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, africa, manhattan new york city, west africa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
This poignant love story stars Amy Grant as a beautiful, blind concert cellist who falls for a famous, self-centered pianist but doesn't realize that true love is right before her eyes.
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, emotional, feel good ...
Plot:
blind character, blind man, blindness, love, relationships, disability, power relations, couples, youth, love and romance, opposites attract, musician's life ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 159 min.
Story:
An uninhibited youth woos the hottest about-to-be-married college girl. He rises to become a rock-star - then self-destructs.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, emotional, touching, serious ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
terminal illness, love, love and romance, fall in love, artists and showbiz, musician's life, lovers, rebellious youth, rock star, singer, loneliness, tragic love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, prague
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%

Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
After returning back to family, Leyla tries to fix everytihng while starting a new life wit Iskender. Everything goes smoothly until troubles find Leyla...
Style:
sentimental, romantic, realistic, emotional, serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
tragic love, true love, family relations, love and romance, couples, love, destiny, relationships, friendship, dishonesty, loss of loved one, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%

Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Drama by Biju Viswanath, Marathon was adapted from Harteis's memoir of the same name. Explores the relation ship between two poets Richard Harteis and William Meredith former US poet laureate and winner of every major American award for poetry ...
Style:
emotional, captivating, realistic, serious, touching ...
Plot:
ambition, love and romance, hopes, writer's life, gender, contests and competitions, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, unfulfillment, gays and lesbians, tragic love, love ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A girl trying to make it in the 1980's New Wave rock and roll scene in L.A.
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, touching, emotional
Audience:
teens
Plot:
rock and roll, teenager, club, ambition, betrayal, couples, friends, infidelity, tragic love, rock, love affair, fall in love ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Genre: Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
A young woman meets a failing musician who launches her singing career, but their relationship is doomed when people assume he's with her for her fame and fortune.
Style:
emotional, serious, touching, realistic, romantic ...
Plot:
love and romance, musician's life, follow your dream, artist, tragic love, artists and showbiz, fall in love, alcohol abuse, relationship vs career, celebrity culture, couples, family disapproval ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%

Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK, Ireland
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A young woman, Tara Maguire (Robin Wright) scandalizes her provincial Irish village in the 1950s by having a baby out of a wedlock, and refusing to name the father. She has a rare beauty and every man in town desires her, especially Sergeant Hegarty ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
love, sin, circus, society, small town life, small town, fall in love, human nature, social relations, pregnancy, theatrical troupe, beauty ...
Time:
50s
Place:
ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
Visually-challenged Tamizh and Suthanthirakodi fall in love with each other, but her self-centred brother wants to marry her off to his friend, which leads to the lovers' separation. Can their love help them find each other?
Style:
emotional, realistic, captivating, sentimental, psychological ...
Plot:
love and romance, blindness and impaired vision, disability, friendship, fall in love, love story, journey, couples, relationship vs career, unfulfillment, society, train travel ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Singapore
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The story of three people whose lives are pulled into review and assessment when their paths cross. The initial sparks of what could be a new romance plays off against a couple falling out of love, a student and teacher, a father and son, a ...
Style:
touching, realistic, atmospheric, stylized, serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
ambition, family relations, follow your dream, dance school, couple relations, fall in love, couples, dishonesty, love affair, teachers and students, love and romance, love triangle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
singapore, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
The film follows aspiring singer-songwriter Jed King (Alan Powell) as he struggles to catch a break and escape the long shadow of his father, a country music legend. After reluctantly accepting a gig at a local vineyard harvest festival, Jed is ...
Style:
serious, sentimental, uplifting, captivating, touching ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
ambition, musician's life, love affair, christian, artists and showbiz, desire for fame, music, couples, americana, country singer, introspection, hopes ...
Time:
80s, year 2006, 2000s, year 1981, 21st century
Place:
usa, nashville tennessee
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Chance Harris looks to find a balance between his school, work, relationships and opportunity to perform at the nationally televised step competition during homecoming weekend at Truth University.
Style:
captivating, feel good, realistic, serious
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
dancing, hip hop, dancer's life, college life, contests and competitions, rivalry, lifestyle, college, student life, artists and showbiz, ambition, high school ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In Glasgow, Toni Cocozza, age 28, aspires to be a lounge singer; his repertoire is strictly Sinatra, backed by Bill, an aging piano player and his only friend. Toni dreams big and enters a local television talent show. About that time, a local Mob ...
Style:
realistic, enigmatic, captivating, semi serious, tense ...
Plot:
gangsters, ambition, desire for fame, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, music, love and romance, relationship vs career, jazz, singer, suspense, bittersweet ...
Place:
scotland, europe, new york, glasgow scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%

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:
realistic, serious, captivating, sentimental, emotional ...
Plot:
elvis presley, unhappy ending, rock and roll, couples, unfulfillment, love and romance, folk hero, introspection, desire for fame, musician's life, artists and showbiz, hopes ...
Time:
60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Genre: Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Three angels bestow the gift of song to a young girl, who must follow a series of rules in order hold on to it during her rise to fame and fortune.
Style:
realistic, sincere, serious, sentimental, contemplative
Plot:
country, friendship, desire for fame, musician's life, love and romance, music, lifestyle, rise to the top, americana, ambition, hopes, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
tennessee, usa, austin texas, dallas texas, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%

Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
When his dancer partner, Mia, lands in the hospital after an accident, Armando persuades her to train for an upcoming wheelchair ballroom dancing contest
Style:
emotional, realistic, sentimental, captivating, sincere ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
disability, human spirit, follow your dream, lifestyle, couples, dance school, against the odds, hopes, ambition, contests and competitions, society, dancing ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, bronx new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A talented young singer and aspiring songwriter’s Christian faith and family ties are tested when she defies her worship-pastor father and pursues pop-music stardom in GRACE UNPLUGGED, a moving and inspiring new film that explores the true meaning ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, realistic, serious, christian film ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
christianity, ambition, desire for fame, musician's life, lifestyle, teenage life, religious, once in a lifetime opportunity, family relations, society, youth, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, alabama, birmingham alabama
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%

Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
Story:
Romantic drama set in rural Ireland of the 1930s. The story begins when 19-year-old Elizabeth has a brief fling with an actor and falls pregnant. Community pressure forces her to marry a dull middle-aged man, but maybe there is hope on the horizon.
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, thought provoking, gloomy ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
family relations, countryside, pregnancy, couples, unfulfillment, artists and showbiz, love and romance, society, haunted by the past, love affair, tragic love, unfulfilled love ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A young Hip Hop star named Summer G falls for a middle to upper class sister while in college. After she rejects him for a fellow social climber, Summer G spends ten years building a Hip Hop empire, then moves to the Hamptons where he finds the ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, sentimental, gloomy ...
Plot:
lovers reunited, love triangle, lifestyle, haunted by the past, unfulfilled love, tragic love, social differences, love affair, infidelity, showbiz, dishonesty, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, long island, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%

Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Their love of dance, and their friendship, is challenged for two high school girls when one is diagnosed with cancer.
Style:
sincere, emotional, touching, sentimental, sad ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night
Plot:
dancing, friendship, ambition, life is a bitch, terminal illness, follow your dream, teenage life, lifestyle, single parent, society, unfulfillment, determination ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%

Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Snehmoy (Rahul Bose) and Miyage (Chigusa Takaku) are pen friends who exchange wedding vows through letters. Fifteen years pass but they never meet. Yet the bond of marriage is strong between them. This unusual relationship comes under a cloud when a ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, sentimental, captivating, serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
looking for love, couples, love triangle, unfulfillment, lovers apart, village, pen pal, friendship, society, love and romance, cure, unlikely couple ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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