Movies like CODA

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CODA (2021)
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CODA (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France, Canada, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: As a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults), Ruby is the only hearing person in her deaf family. When the family's fishing business is threatened, Ruby finds herself torn between pursuing her love of music and her fear of abandoning her parents.
Style: psychological, sad, teen, sincere, captivating, funny, romantic, sexy, feel good, cute ...
Audience: teens
Plot: deaf, sign language, mute or deaf, musician, coming of age, family relations, teenager, disability, deafness, fisherman, women, parents and children, family problems, female singer, moral dilemma, dream, kids and family, family life, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, direction and purpose, social problems, family business, aspiration, financial problem ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: hawaii, persia, massachusetts
Keyword: mexican, challenge, marketplace

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, feel good, touching and captivating films with plots about coming of age, musician, family relations, teenager, music, singing and youth mostly in Drama, Music and Comedy genres. Some movies like CODA: The Bélier Family (2014), Begin Again (2013), Amy (1997), Fisherman's Friends (2019), Hearts Beat Loud (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Bélier Family (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The whole Bélier family is deaf, except for sixteen year old Paula who is the important translator in her parents' day to day life especially when it comes to matters concerning the family farm. When her music teacher discovers she has a ...
Style: touching, suspenseful, semi serious, emotional, humorous ...
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: sign language, coming of age, teenage girl, deaf, teenager, teacher, moral dilemma, follow your dream, teenage life, audition, family life, deafness ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place: france, paris france
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Begin Again (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A long lost music producer finds a singer-songwriter right about the moment he has given up all hope on life.
Style: touching, romantic, inspirational, independent film, sincere ...
Audience: teens, date night, girls' night
Plot: music, musician's life, love story, female singer, infidelity, musician, father daughter relationship, singer, love, city life, music and dance, betrayal ...
Time: year 2013, year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.7
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Amy (1997)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Amy's father, Franco, was a popular rock musician accidentally electrocuted while performing on stage. The psychological trauma leaves Amy mute and deaf. So the 8-year-old is brought by her mother, Tanya, to Melbourne to diagnose the reasons ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, touching, sentimental ...
Plot: deaf, youth, coming of age, girl, children, psychological disorder, family relations, witness, singer, grief, working class, neighbor ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: australia, melbourne
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Fisherman's Friends (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Ten fisherman from Cornwall are signed by Universal Records and achieve a top ten hit with their debut album of Sea Shanties. Based on the true-life story of Cornish folk band, Fisherman's Friends.
Style: feel good, realistic, semi serious, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot: fisherman, remote village, music, coastal town, friendship, choir, artist, musician, society, ambition, musician's life, rise to the top ...
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Hearts Beat Loud (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In the hip Brooklyn neighborhood of Red Hook, single dad and record store owner Frank is preparing to send his hard-working daughter Sam off to college while being forced to close his vintage shop. Hoping to stay connected through their shared ...
Style: feel good, sincere, light, touching, indie film ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: father daughter relationship, coming of age, music, lesbian, musician, teenage daughter, lgbt, lgbtq, love and romance, lesbian love, youth, dialogue ...
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Graced with a velvet voice, 21-year-old Violet Sanford heads to New York to pursue her dream of becoming a songwriter only to find her aspirations sidelined by the accolades and notoriety she receives at her "day" job as a barmaid at ...
Style: entertaining, romantic, stylized, exciting, sexy ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: dancing, music, nightclub, ambition, dancer's life, love affair, father daughter relationship, nightlife, parents and children, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, employer employee relationship, dance ...
Time: 2000s, year 2000, y2k, 21st century
Place: new york, new jersey, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Billy Elliot (2000)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Set against the background of the 1984 Miner's Strike, Billy Elliot is an 11 year old boy who stumbles out of the boxing ring and onto the ballet floor. He faces many trials and triumphs as he strives to conquer his family's set ways, ...
Style: inspirational, touching, feel good, uplifting, emotional ...
Audience: date night, family outing, kids, teens, girls' night ...
Plot: coming of age, ballet, working class, father son relationship, dancing, friendship, childhood, gay, audition, poverty, follow your dream, boxing ...
Time: year 1984, 20th century, y2k, year 2000, 90s ...
Place: england, northern england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.7
 49K
Saved! (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Teenage Mary Cummings, who has "been Born Again her whole life," is about to enter her senior year at American Eagle Christian High School near Baltimore with her Fundamentalist Christian friends Hilary Faye and Veronica, the three of whom ...
Style: touching, independent film, witty, humorous, funny ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama ...
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Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
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Mr. Holland's Opus (1995)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story: In 1965, passionate musician Glenn Holland takes a day job as a high school music teacher, convinced it's just a small obstacle on the road to his true calling: writing a historic opus. As the decades roll by with the composition unwritten but ...
Style: inspirational, touching, sentimental, serious, realistic ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: music, high school, classical music, school, composer, teacher, teaching, honest, musician, sign language, unlikely friendships, inspiration ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 60s, 80s, 90s
Place: oregon, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Beyond Silence (1996)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Beyond Silence is about a family and a young girl’s coming of age story. This German film looks into the lives of the deaf and at a story about the love for music. A girl who has always had to translate speech into sign language for her deaf ...
Style: touching, realistic, sad, spiritual, crying ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: coming of age, father daughter relationship, sign language, deaf mute, deaf, brother sister relationship, aunt niece relationship, love, bicycle, audition, deafness, music ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: berlin germany, germany, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 7.9
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Sing Street (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A boy growing up in Dublin during the 1980s escapes his strained family life by starting a band to impress the mysterious girl he likes.
Style: sweet, touching, realistic, teen, feel good ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, date night, teen drama
Plot: youth, music band, musician's life, friendship, rock and roll, coming of age, bullying, dream girl, singing, adolescence, teenager, school ...
Time: 80s, year 2016, 2010s, future, 20th century ...
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, nebraska, london, england
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Juno (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A young girl named Juno gets herself pregnant and tries to stand on her own, but soon learns a few lessons about being grown up.
Style: funny, touching, sweet, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night, teen drama
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 6.7
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
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Duration: 111 min.
Story: Inspired by her mom's rebellious past and a confident new friend, a shy 16-year-old publishes an anonymous zine calling out sexism at her school.
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Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating, semi serious, comedy drama ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: James is a new speech teacher at a school for the deaf. He falls for Sarah, a pupil who decided to stay on at the school rather than venture into the big bad world. She shuns him at first, refusing to read his lips and only using signs. Will her ...
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Plot: sign language, teacher, deaf, disability, deafness, couple relations, communication problem, couples, love and romance, opposites attract, mute or deaf, dialogue ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
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Duration: 102 min.
Story: A successful music producer quits the industry and exiles himself in upstate New York, but the solitude he seeks is shattered when his estranged son and the pop star he's created come looking for answers.
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Listen to Your Heart (2010)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
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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, touching, sentimental, realistic, heartbreaking ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Story: A privileged rich debutante and a cynical struggling entertainer share a turbulent, but strong childhood friendship over the years.
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The Edge of Seventeen (2016)
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Country: USA, China
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Story: Two high school girls are best friends until one dates the other's older brother, who is totally his sister's nemesis.
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Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
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Double Parked (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Duration: 98 min.
Story: A resourceful and high-spirited woman deals with financial distress and her asthmatic thirteen-year-old son when his life is gravely complicated by a new friendship with the son of her former drunken and abusive husband.
Style: suspenseful, serious, psychological, suspense, captivating ...
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Style: captivating, touching, humorous, feel good, tense ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
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⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Carrie Pilby (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Awkward, isolated and disapproving of most of the people around her, a precocious 19-year-old genius is challenged to put her convictions to the test by venturing out on to the NYC dating scene, in this adaptation of Caren Lissner’s best-selling ...
Style: romantic, humorous, light, captivating, sincere ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
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⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 5.6
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Cavedweller (2004)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 101 min.
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Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing, sexy
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⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Teen Spirit (2018)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
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Style: captivating, light, entertaining
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 7.1
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Pitch Perfect (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: College student Beca knows she does not want to be part of a clique, but that's exactly where she finds herself after arriving at her new school. Thrust in among mean gals, nice gals and just plain weird gals, Beca finds that the only thing ...
Style: feel good, humorous, realistic, teen, funny ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, family outing, teen drama ...
Plot: music, youth, competition, female friendship, college life, teenager, college, rivalry, female protagonist, singing competition, music band, friends ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 7.2
 328K
School of Rock (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Fired from his band and hard up for cash, guitarist and vocalist Dewey Finn finagles his way into a job as a fifth-grade substitute teacher at a private school, where he secretly begins teaching his students the finer points of rock 'n' ...
Style: feel good, funny, entertaining, inspirational, humorous ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, chick flick, family friendly ...
Plot: music, teacher, teachers and students, school, children, musician, rock music, rock and roll, high school, music band, rock band, music history ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, y2k, 21st century
Place: america, new york, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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