Movies like One Love
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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:
jamaican, rastafarian, reggae, love, music, fall in love, couples, lifestyle, ambition, contests and competitions, clergy, unfulfillment, church, pastor, rivalry, friendship, music competition, father daughter relationship, christian, black cast, blaxploitation, love and romance, tragic love, society, unfulfilled love ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
jamaica, africa
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Most similar movies to One Love
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sentimental films with plots about love and romance, couples, artists and showbiz, love, music, fall in love and lifestyle mostly in Drama, Music and Romance genres. Some movies like One Love: Oh Happy Day (2004), Once (2006), Preacher's Kid (2010), Romeo and Juliet (1966), Brooklyn Babylon (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, humorous, captivating, intercultural ...
Plot:
church, small town, choir, gospel, friendship, social relations, lifestyle, clergy, unfulfillment, preacher, accident, culture clash ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
denmark, harlem
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Music, Musical, 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, sexy, independent film, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
music, musician's life, love, street musician, pianist, love and romance, musician, friendship, singer, young lovers, love story, recording studio ...
Time:
year 2007, year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland, europe, london, czech republic
Similarity:
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:
realistic, serious, sentimental, touching, independent film ...
Plot:
love and romance, hopes, lifestyle, parents and children, youth, destructive relationship, friendship, couples, christian, religion, father daughter relationship, music ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, georgia
Similarity:
33%
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, unfulfillment, dancer's life, love and romance, music, tragedy, ballet ...
Time:
year 1966
Place:
england
Similarity:
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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:
sincere, touching, sentimental, serious, crime drama ...
Plot:
interracial relations, friendship, culture clash, street life, social decay, tragic love, social differences, opposites attract, unlikely couple, musician's life, racism, love affair ...
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
Similarity:
28%
481
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, coming of age, artists and showbiz, music, love and romance, music band, rivalry, desire for fame ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
28%
414
Genre: Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Giacomo Puccini's immortal opera, in a high budget feature-film version directed by Academy Award nominee Robert Dornhelm, stars opera's 'Golden Couple', Rolando Villazon and Anna Netrebko as the protagonists, Rodolfo and Mimi. ...
Style:
serious, stylized, captivating, romantic, realistic
Plot:
love affair, opposites attract, lifestyle, tragic love, fall in love, couple relations, unfulfilled love, love and romance, social differences, couples, male female relationship, opera ...
Time:
19th century, 1830s
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
The movie centers on a piano competition whose winner is assured of success. It is Paul's last chance to compete, but newcomer Heidi may be a better pianist. Can romance be far away? Will she take a dive despite the pressure to win from her ...
Style:
romantic, sentimental, realistic, serious, uplifting ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
piano, love, fall in love, music, love affair, female nudity, bare breasts, male nudity, sex, in love, musician, family relations ...
Time:
year 1980, 70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
san francisco, usa
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Jamaica
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Street vendor Marcia is scraping together a living in the ghetto section of Kingston, Jamaica. Her young daughter is being hounded by a rich sugar daddy who has been supporting the family; her brother's life is being threatened by a local thug. ...
Style:
independent film, captivating, realistic, semi serious, disturbing ...
Plot:
reggae, jamaican, african, black, dancing, black girl, blaxploitation, urban, clergy, rivalry, human spirit, society ...
Time:
90s
Place:
jamaica, caribbean, africa, west indies
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
When friendship deepens into what veterinarian Keng hopes could become love, he learns that beautiful Fai still harbors feelings for her ex-husband who also happens to be Keng's best friend.
Style:
emotional, sentimental, realistic, touching, captivating ...
Plot:
unfulfillment, friendship, unfulfilled love, family relations, elderly, aging, friends, parents and children, true love, fall in love, couple relations, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
thailand, asia
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, cute ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
mute or deaf, fall in love, couples, family relations, lifestyle, love and romance, couple relations, musician's life, unfulfillment, misfit, parents and children, deaf ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, connecticut, new york, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
24%
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:
independent film, realistic, serious, captivating, emotional ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
rock and roll, club, teenager, ambition, betrayal, love and romance, artists and showbiz, music, dishonesty, music band, unfulfillment, musician's life ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
seattle
Similarity:
24%
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:
realistic, serious, captivating, touching, feel good ...
Plot:
blindness, blind character, blind man, love, relationships, concert, disability, power relations, couples, lifestyle, love and romance, musician's life ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
23%
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, captivating, enigmatic, suspense, independent film ...
Plot:
gangster, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, ambition, desire for fame, music, love and romance, relationship vs career, jazz, singer, unfulfillment, performer's life ...
Place:
scotland, europe, new york, glasgow scotland
Similarity:
23%
54K
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:
sentimental, realistic, serious, touching, emotional ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
love, terminal illness, rock star, love and romance, musician's life, artists and showbiz, fall in love, rebellious youth, lovers, passionate love, passion, singer ...
Time:
year 2011, 21st century
Place:
india, delhi, prague
Similarity:
22%
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:
contemplative, realistic, atmospheric, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
immigrant, society, city life, music, social misfits, fall in love, love, african, rivalry, couples, hustler, blaxploitation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, africa, manhattan new york city, west africa ...
Similarity:
22%
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:
realistic, touching, atmospheric, stylized, serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
medieval, dance school, couples, ambition, follow your dream, couple relations, fall in love, family relations, hopes, parents and children, love triangle, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
singapore, asia
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
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, fall in love, small town life, small town, social relations, human nature, pregnancy, beauty, theatrical troupe ...
Time:
50s, year 1992
Place:
ireland, europe
Similarity:
22%
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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, captivating, christian film, touching ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
country singer, musician's life, love affair, christian, artists and showbiz, desire for fame, music, couples, faith, introspection, hopes, unfulfillment ...
Time:
year 2006, 80s, 2000s, year 1981, 21st century
Place:
usa, nashville tennessee
Similarity:
21%
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, musician's life, desire for fame, lifestyle, love and romance, rise to the top, music, overnight success, friends, hopes, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, tennessee, dallas texas, austin texas, texas
Similarity:
21%
940
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, friendship, disability, fall in love, love story, unfulfillment, journey, couples, relationship vs career, society, train travel ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, asia
Similarity:
21%
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:
serious, realistic, captivating, emotional, touching ...
Plot:
biopic, love, unhappy ending, rock and roll, famous people, married life, autobiography, singer, musician, celebrity, adaptation, couples ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
21%
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:
romantic, serious, touching, emotional, realistic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
tragic love, true love, family relations, love and romance, couples, love, relationships, destiny, dishonesty, dialogue, storytelling, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
21%
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38K
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, touching, realistic, romantic, serious ...
Plot:
tragic love, love and romance, musician's life, follow your dream, artist, relationship vs career, artists and showbiz, alcohol abuse, celebrity culture, family disapproval, couples, singer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, asia
Similarity:
21%
864
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A biopic on singer Céline Dion.
Style:
realistic, captivating, sincere, serious
Plot:
desire for fame, rise to the top, ambition, musician's life, prodigy, relationship vs career, tragic love, fall in love, artists and showbiz, love and romance, lifestyle, rising to stardom ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
21%
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:
sentimental, touching, realistic, serious, christian film ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, family friendly
Plot:
christianity, religious, ambition, desire for fame, musician's life, lifestyle, teenage life, youth, society, family relations, once in a lifetime opportunity, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, alabama, usa, birmingham alabama
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Neil Diamond stars as Yussel in this tale of a young Jewish cantor who strives to make a career in music.
Style:
touching, intense, serious, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
father son relationship, music, tradition, generation gap, family relations, showbiz, parents and children, dancing, religions or cults, desire for fame, follow your dream, estrangement ...
Time:
70s, year 1980, 80s
Place:
california, new york, usa, los angeles, venice california
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Sasha is a young Russian violinist on a scholarship to Juilliard, living with his affectionate but overbearing father, a cellist determined to manage his son's career. While Sasha prepares for a critical recital that will launch him on a path ...
Style:
sincere, serious, touching, realistic, independent film
Audience:
date night
Plot:
fall in love, musician's life, follow your dream, culture clash, self discovery, family relations, hopes, love and romance, parents and children, lifestyle, music band, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
20%
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, terminal illness, friendship, life is a bitch, follow your dream, teenage life, cancer, lifestyle, single parent, society, unfulfillment, determination ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
20%
24K
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A young woman is catapulted into pop stardom, with her already-famous DJ boyfriend calling the shots.
Style:
cult classic, melancholic, touching, exciting, sentimental ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
music, hopes, female protagonist, showbiz, rise and fall, lifestyle, ambition, artists and showbiz, love affair, follow your dream, rising to stardom, parents and children ...
Time:
80s, year 2001, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, maryland, madison square garden manhattan new york city
Similarity:
20%
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