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Wu-Tang: An American Saga (2019)
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Tracks the Wu-Tang Clan's formation, a vision of Bobby Diggs, who strives to unite a dozen young, black men that are torn between music and crime but eventually rise to become the unlikeliest of American success stories.
Style:
suspense, realistic, exciting, sincere
Plot:
rapper, medieval, urban ghetto life, hip hop, hip hop culture, music, ambition, musician's life, artists and showbiz, artist, friends, life is a bitch, rise to the top, society, social problems, lifestyle, celebrity culture, black cast, black, entertainment industry, black lives matter, female nudity, entertainment, show
Time:
90s, 20th century, 1990s
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Most similar movies to Wu-Tang: An American Saga
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, captivating and sincere films and TV series with plots about music, musician's life, ambition, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, biopic and musician mostly in Music, Drama and Biography genres. Some movies like Wu-Tang: An American Saga: Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2005), Atlanta (2016), Empire (2015), The Get Down (2016), The Bobby Brown Story (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Music
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A tale of an inner city drug dealer who turns away from crime to pursue his passion, rap music.
Style:
hood, stylized, harsh, serious, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hip hop, ghetto, rap, rapper, gangster, urban ghetto life, redemption, music, urban, rags to riches, male pubic hair, gang ...
Time:
year 2005, 80s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york, new jersey
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Story:
Two cousins, with different views on art versus commerce, on their way up through the Atlanta rap scene; Earnest 'Earn' Marks, an ambitious college dropout and his estranged cousin, who suddenly becomes a star.
Style:
humorous, satirical, sitcom, captivating, cynical ...
Plot:
cousin cousin relationship, rapper, hip hop culture, satire, hip hop, black, starlet, black sitcom, african american, opposites attract, social satire, brother brother relationship ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
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Story:
A powerful family drama about the head of a music empire whose three sons and ex-wife all battle for his throne.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, exciting, soap opera ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
music, music business, hip hop, artists and showbiz, gay son, rapper, african american family, gay, ceo, musician's life, hip hop culture, sibling rivalry ...
Time:
2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
indiana, idaho, new york, usa
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Genre: Drama, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 52 min.
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Story:
A ragtag group of teenagers run wild in the streets of the Bronx in the late 1970s.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thought provoking, powerful, serious ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
hip hop, black, black cast, teenager, subculture, young adult, class society, teenage life, city life, society, social relations, hip hop culture ...
Time:
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Place:
bronx new york city, indiana, new york
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 155 min.
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Story:
The life and career of R&B singer Bobby Brown, who left the pop group New Edition to score eight consecutive top-10 pop singles as a solo artist before his life began to unravel after his marriage to pop icon Whitney Houston.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, intense, emotional, period piece ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
musician, singer, fame, biopic, musician's life, black, rise and fall, substance abuse, glory, addiction, celebrity, music ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The setting is Detroit in 1995. The city is divided by 8 Mile, a road that splits the town in half along racial lines. A young white rapper, Jimmy "B-Rabbit" Smith Jr. summons strength within himself to cross over these arbitrary ...
Style:
inspirational, sexy, realistic, serious, harsh ...
Audience:
girls' night, boys' night, teens
Plot:
hip hop, underdog, music, rap, follow your dream, musician, urban ghetto life, success, urban ghetto, street gang, musician's life, trailer park ...
Time:
year 2002, 90s, year 1995, y2k, 2000s ...
Place:
detroit, michigan, los angeles, america, usa
Similarity:
100%
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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31%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story:
Picking up where the original movie leaves off, it's 1990 in New York City at the height of rap's "Golden Age" of creativity, but corporate America has been hesitant to embrace the genre. Nikki lands a dream job as the assistant ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, realistic, period drama
Plot:
hip hop, rap, friendship, ambition, black cast, black, music industry, friends, direction and purpose, musician's life, rap star, rapper ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, bronx new york city
Similarity:
31%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
TLC's humble beginnings in Atlanta quickly led to an unprecedented rise to fame in the 1990's as one of the world's most talented, celebrated and highest-selling female groups of all time. Through very public and high profile success, ...
Style:
serious, realistic, sincere, captivating
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
music band, rising to stardom, musician's life, hip hop, artists and showbiz, ambition, bankruptcy, music, blaxploitation, black, pop star, girl power ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min.
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Story:
This movie re-creates the life stories of the members of the rock group "The Beach Boys. The film focuses primarily on the Wilson brothers and their parents, but also includes stories about the rest of members of the band. A two-part television ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating
Plot:
music band, rising to stardom, musician's life, teenage love, friends, artists and showbiz, ambition, life is a bitch, listener, beach boys, rock and roll, rock band ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
TV show
Story:
The true story of The Temptations, the Soul vocal group of the 1960s, as seen from the viewpoint of the last surviving member, Otis Williams. Beginning from their humble origins in the late 50s and continuing through the 90s and the deaths of the ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, period drama, black cinema ...
Plot:
african american, biopic, black, pop music, music, rock, r&b, black american, flashback, singer, rock and roll, black girl ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 70s, 60s, 50s ...
Place:
detroit, michigan, usa
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The life story of German gangsta rapper, Bushido.
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, crying, sad ...
Plot:
self discovery, artists and showbiz, musician's life, dysfunctional family, ambition, life is a bitch, lifestyle, music, urban ghetto, parents and children, monkey, sadness ...
Time:
year 2010, 21st century
Place:
germany
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
"Meat Loaf" Aday is an overgrown Texas youngster, the son of a gentle woman dying of cancer and an alcoholic, abusive father. Tormented by his father and schoolmates over his size, he strikes out on his own after his mother's death, ...
Style:
realistic, sincere, touching, captivating, semi serious
Plot:
showbiz, ambition, rise to the top, desire for fame, artists and showbiz, rising to stardom, love and romance, musician's life, life is a bitch, music band, lifestyle, terminal illness ...
Time:
70s
Place:
usa, texas, dallas texas
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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captivating, realistic, atmospheric, gloomy, serious ...
Plot:
rock, musician's life, music, introspection, artists and showbiz, love and romance, lifestyle, ambition, art, biopic, junkie, punk ...
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864
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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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:
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27%
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Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Real life hip hop recording artists Method Man and Redman play themselves as they move into a comfortable luxury estate from the success of their recording albums and acting gigs and then try to fit in with the uptight, predominately Caucasian ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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27%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story:
The Jacksons are your average working-class family in Gary, Indiana; but when their father discovers the kids have an extraordinary musical talent they form a band. Winning talent show after talent show they soon hit it big when Motown calls. From ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, controversial
Plot:
music, music band, desire for fame, musician's life, follow your dream, youth, performer's life, family problems, working class, black, artists and showbiz, hopes ...
Time:
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Place:
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26%
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
An agoraphobic hip-hop prodigy and a disgraced former music manager cross paths in Chicago’s South Side and help each other face demons of their pasts.
Style:
inspirational, sincere, disturbing, psychological, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hip hop, mentor, black, rivalry, hopes, artists and showbiz, ambition, escapades, musician's life, rags to riches, music, youth ...
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Similarity:
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 87 min.
TV show
Story:
A chronicle of the life of Elvis Presley (Rhys Meyers), from his humble beginnings to his rise to international stardom.
Style:
realistic, captivating, sentimental, touching, serious ...
Plot:
singer, biopic, desire for fame, rise and fall, musician's life, musician, success, artists and showbiz, folk hero, rising to stardom, life is a bitch, lifestyle ...
Time:
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Place:
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26%
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:
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Time:
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Place:
los angeles, usa, california
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
In the mid-80s, three women (each with an attorney) arrive at the office of New York entertainment manager, Morris Levy. One is an L.A. singer, formerly of the Platters; one is a petty thief from Philly; one teaches school in a small Georgia town. ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, touching, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
music, biopic, showbiz, addiction, greed, music business, dialogue, music band, black, drug addiction, rise and fall, rising to stardom ...
Time:
20th century, year 1998, 50s, 80s, 1950s ...
Place:
new york, los angeles, usa, california, new jersey
Similarity:
26%
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Tremé takes its name from a neighborhood of New Orleans and portrays life in the aftermath of the 2005 hurricane. Beginning three months after Hurricane Katrina, the residents of New Orleans, including musicians, chefs, Mardi Gras Indians, and ...
Style:
sincere, touching, serious, sentimental, erotic ...
Plot:
musician, jazz, social problems, disappearance, musician's life, starting over, survival, tragic event, lifestyle, life turned upside down, talented, poverty ...
Time:
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Place:
new orleans, usa, louisiana
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
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:
realistic, serious, captivating, sentimental, entertaining ...
Plot:
closeted homosexual, pop singer, ambition, desire for fame, musician's life, artists and showbiz, rising to stardom, friendship, fame, biopic, redheaded woman, dating ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 70s
Place:
liverpool, england
Similarity:
26%
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, serious, realistic, sincere, rockumentary
Plot:
musician, the beatles, rock music, prodigy, musician's life, rise to the top, against the odds, youth, lifestyle, rising to stardom, teenage life, working class ...
Time:
50s, 1950s, 60s
Place:
europe, england
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Follows the biopic of Vicente Fernández, the indisputable king of traditional Mexican ranchera music.
Style:
dramatic, thrilling, serious, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
biopic, family relations, musician, lifestyle, singer, social problems, life is a bitch, singing, musician's life, music, ambition, passion ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
mexico
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The Heights is an American musical drama series that aired on the Fox network from August to November 1992.
Style:
serious, captivating, sentimental, realistic
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teenager, suburbs, bittersweet, friends, artists and showbiz, ambition, music, suburban life, follow your dream, youth, rock, love and romance ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Biography, Music
Country: USA, Colombia
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Follow Reggaeton artist Nicky Jam's struggles to overcome drug addiction and rise to international success in this dramatization of his life story.
Style:
rough, serious, realistic
Plot:
nervous breakdown, musician's life, lifestyle, music industry, ambition, cocaine, music, hopes, nightlife, drug abuse, mentally unstable, artists and showbiz ...
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25%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story:
From their humble beginnings in Boston to their chart topping super status, The New Edition Story chronicles the storied journey of one of America's most beloved boy bands.
Style:
captivating, thought provoking, disturbing, dramatic, emotional ...
Plot:
celebrity culture, biopic, black, music history, price of fame, music band, music, rising to stardom, musician's life, boy band, music industry, fame ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 90s
Place:
boston
Similarity:
25%
474
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 250 min.
TV show
Story:
An extensive biopic of one of the most famous entertainers of the 20th century - Frank Sinatra. The only thing that could engage the public more than his songs and films was his sometimes controversial private life.
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, touching, sentimental ...
Plot:
art history, art, jazz, dancing, singer, friendship, celebrity, biopic, couples, relationship vs career, showbiz, ambition ...
Time:
60s, 70s, 1940s, 20th century, 50s ...
Place:
new jersey, usa
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