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Mogul Mowgli (2020)
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Mogul Mowgli (2020)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Zed, a young British rapper, is about to start his first world tour, when a crippling illness strikes him down, and he is forced to move back in with his family. He tries to find himself between an international music career and Pakistani family traditions.
Style: serious, realistic, dark, suspenseful, poignant, cult classic, aesthetic, compassionate
Plot: rap, rapper, illness, career, dream, parents and children, sick, direction and purpose, aspiration, treatment, doctors and patients, social relations, desire for fame, music, religion, islam, hospital, destiny, life is a bitch, courage, hip hop culture, father and son, hallucination, father son relationship, contests and competitions ...
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and independent film films with plots about music, musician's life, artists and showbiz, family relations, hopes, father son relationship and life is a bitch mostly in Drama, Music and Crime genres. Some movies like Mogul Mowgli: Just Another Day (2009), The Music Never Stopped (2011), Jamojaya (2023), Sound of Metal (2019), 8 Mile (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Just Another Day (2009)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Follows a day in the life of two men living at either end of the music game. A successful rapper, A-Maze, is dealing with the pitfalls and trappings of his success and facing new challenges in the music business to get a check while the other, Young ...
Style: realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful, hood
Plot: profanity, rivalry, music, musician's life, rapper, artists and showbiz, desire for fame, ambition, showbiz, hip hop, urban, black ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
The Music Never Stopped (2011)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Henry struggles to bond with his estranged son, Gabriel, who suffers from a brain tumor that prevents him from forming new memories. With Gabriel unable to shed the beliefs and interests that caused their physical and emotional distance, Henry must ...
Style: uplifting, sincere, touching, surprise ending, indie film ...
Plot: memory loss, father son relationship, human spirit, introspection, terminal illness, parents and children, generation gap, rehabilitation, redemption, life is a bitch, estrangement, treatment ...
Time: 2010s, y2k, 90s, 20th century
Place: peru, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
 6.8
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Jamojaya (2023)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A rapper with a rising career hires a US manager and label, taking over from his father who has steered it to date.
Style: entertaining, dramatic, funny, captivating
Plot: death of brother, rapper, father son relationship, musician, rap, career, music manager, music industry, music, manager, rap star, father
Place: hawaii
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 7.7
 149K
Sound of Metal (2019)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Metal drummer Ruben begins to lose his hearing. When a doctor tells him his condition will worsen, he thinks his career and life is over. His girlfriend Lou checks the former addict into a rehab for the deaf hoping it will prevent a relapse and help ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, melancholic, tense, realistic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: musician, drummer, music, sign language, drums, society, deafness, deaf man, heavy metal, anger, deaf, emotional abuse ...
Time: 2010s
Place: missouri, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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8 Mile (2002)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA, Germany
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, serious, realistic, harsh, hood ...
Audience: girls' night, boys' night
Plot: hip hop, underdog, music, follow your dream, rap, urban ghetto life, success, urban ghetto, musician, rapper, poverty, street gang ...
Time: 90s, year 2002, y2k, 2000s, year 1995 ...
Place: detroit, michigan, america, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Feel the Noise (2007)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: After a run-in with local thugs, aspiring Harlem rapper Rob flees to a place and father he never knew, and finds his salvation in Reggaeton, a spicy blend of hip-hop, reggae and Latin beats. Puerto Rico, the spiritual home of Reggaeton, inspires Rob ...
Style: realistic, feel good, hood, serious
Audience: teens
Plot: rapper, dancer's life, dance, fish out of water, culture clash, youth, ambition, society, lifestyle, music, rivalry, follow your dream ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, puerto rico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
The One I Wrote For You (2014)
Genre: Drama, Family, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: THE ONE I WROTE FOR YOU follows a songwriter who defers his dreams to support his family. He gets a second chance when his 10-year-old daughter, Gracie, secretly enters his name into a song writing contest/reality show. Fourteen original songs help ...
Style: serious, touching, sentimental, feel good, realistic
Audience: family outing
Plot: ambition, family relations, musician's life, rising to stardom, parents and children, contests and competitions, hopes, music, artists and showbiz, songwriter, father daughter relationship, aspiring musician ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, chicago, san antonio texas, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 6.7
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Tamla Rose (2013)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Three teen girls in a Motown band embark on an emotional ride to hell and back.
Style: touching, serious, sentimental, realistic, feel good
Audience: girls' night
Plot: dream come true, rise and fall, musician's life, follow your dream, ambition, teenage life, desire for fame, best friend, hopes, youth, friendship, showbiz ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 5.9
 586
The Taqwacores (2010)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Three years in the making, this feature documentary follows the progression of the Muslim Punk scene: from its imaginary inception in a novel written by a white-convert named Michael Muhammad Knight to a full-blown, real-life scene of Muslim punk ...
Style: realistic, captivating, serious, thought provoking, independent film ...
Plot: punk, islam, rock, lifestyle, rebelliousness, youth, moral dilemma, fighting the system, college life, student life, social misfits, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: pakistan, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
The Jazz Singer (1980)
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 ...
Plot: father son relationship, music, tradition, family relations, showbiz, parents and children, follow your dream, desire for fame, religions or cults, musician's life, artists and showbiz, lifestyle ...
Time: 70s, year 1980
Place: california, new york, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
I Am Not a Hipster (2012)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Things are not looking good for Brook, a young, talented singer/songwriter who has become the clichéd tortured artist. Slow to come to terms with the death of his mother, Brook is self-absorbed, aggressive, and the major obstruction to his own ...
Style: serious, touching, realistic, sincere, atmospheric ...
Plot: musician's life, music, rock, siblings relations, parents and children, family problems, artists and showbiz, coping, creative block, estrangement, family relations, twentysomething life ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: california, usa, san diego california
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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 1K
Duet for One (1986)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: When Stephanie, a famous violinist, contracts multiple sclerosis her life begins to fall apart. Her career ends, her husband leaves her for another woman and her favorite pupil leave the country. Unable to bear all this loss, Stephanie attempts ...
Style: serious, sincere, realistic, touching, emotional ...
Plot: disability, multiple sclerosis, tragic hero, life is a bitch, family problems, musician's life, crumbling marriage, couples, life turned upside down, family in crisis, violin, extramarital affair ...
Time: 80s
Place: soviet union, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Broken Bridges (2006)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A fading country music star (Keith) returns to his hometown, where he reunites with his childhood sweetheart and also meets his 16-year-old daughter for the first time.
Style: realistic, sentimental, serious, touching, independent film
Plot: starting over, artists and showbiz, homecoming, parents and children, music, unfulfillment, musician's life, family relations, family problems, haunted by the past, country, country music ...
Time: year 2006
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44%
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Filly Brown (2012)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: “Majo” Tonorio, a.k.a. Filly Brown, is a raw, young Los Angeles hip-hop artist who spits from the heart. When a sleazy record producer offers her a crack at rap stardom, Majo faces some daunting choices. With an incarcerated mother, a record ...
Style: realistic, captivating, sincere, psychological, hood ...
Plot: hip hop, rising to stardom, desire for fame, moral dilemma, ambition, follow your dream, musician's life, artists and showbiz, music, radio dj, strong female presence, producer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Don't Come Knocking (2005)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Howard Spence has seen better days. Once a big Western movie star, he now drowns his disgust for his selfish and failed life with alcohol, drugs and young women. If he were to die now, nobody would shed a tear over him, that's the sad truth. ...
Style: realistic, road movie, talky, sentimental, sad ...
Plot: redemption, cowboy, father son relationship, hopes, self discovery, parents and children, haunted by the past, family relations, human nature, actor's life, small town, road trip ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: montana, usa, utah, nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 7.1
 11K
Ill Manors (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Ensemble film revolving around characters living in Forest Gate, London. Over the course of a few days, six inter-linking stories explore issues of drug use, prostitution and urban poverty.
Style: tense, realistic, serious, hood, anthology ...
Plot: urban ghetto life, gangster, drug addict, society, urban, ghetto, hip hop, police raid, british gangster, mafia, rivalry, danger ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: london, england, united kingdom, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Singing the Blues in Red (1986)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK, West Germany, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Persona Non Grata in his homeland, protest singer Klaus Drittemann must leave East Berlin, his wife and child and emigrate to West Berlin, where the representatives of an American record company are eagerly waiting for him. They plan to exploit his ...
Style: realistic, serious, independent film
Plot: berlin wall, cold war, stasi, journalist, singer, politics, urban ghetto, urban ghetto life, rock, political unrest, unemployment, political intrigue ...
Place: east germany, germany, europe, england, dover england ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Hustle & Flow (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: With help from his friends, a Memphis pimp in a mid-life crisis attempts to become a successful hip-hop emcee.
Style: realistic, touching, bleak, hood, intense ...
Plot: hip hop, rapper, midlife crisis, music, hip hop culture, career, friendship, drug abuse, black, ghetto, musician, drug dealing ...
Time: 21st century
Place: memphis, tennessee, usa, egypt, mount everest
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Life Is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story (2006)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In the Lifetime® movie, THE FANTASIA BARRINO STORY: LIFE IS NOT A FAIRYTALE, a single teenage mother overcomes all odds - sexual abuse, poverty and illiteracy - by relying on her spectacular singing voice. She ultimately gains national prominence ...
Style: uplifting, realistic, serious, touching
Audience: girls' night
Plot: sexual abuse, poverty, family relations, biopic, teenage pregnancy, ambition, rising to stardom, aspiring singer, parents and children, artists and showbiz, youth, single parent ...
Time: 21st century
Place: north carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Grace Unplugged (2013)
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, serious, realistic, christian film ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, girls' night
Plot: christianity, religious, musician's life, ambition, desire for fame, lifestyle, teenage life, family relations, youth, society, once in a lifetime opportunity, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, alabama, usa, birmingham alabama
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In Greenwich Village in the early 1960s, gifted but volatile folk musician Llewyn Davis struggles with money, relationships, and his uncertain future following the suicide of his singing partner.
Style: depressing, atmospheric, bleak, meditative, clever ...
Plot: music, homeless, musician, loneliness, cat, musician's life, financial problem, road trip, aspiring singer, depression, art, eccentricity ...
Time: 60s, year 2013, 2010s, year 1961, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, somalia, indiana, chicago ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.7
 253
Jacir (2022)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A glance at the divided U.S. political system through the eyes of a young Syrian refugee on the streets of Memphis, TN, as he faces the harsh realities of chasing the American dream.
Style: realistic, dramatic, social, captivating, serious
Plot: social injustice, poverty, politics, syrian refugee, independence, refugee, addiction, neighbor, poor, drug addict, social relations, social issues ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Camino (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 138 min.
Story: A religious organization interferes with the life of a terminally ill girl.
Style: touching, emotional, realistic, serious, spiritual ...
Plot: child cancer, children, guardian angel, doctors and patients, family problems, family relations, hopes, parents and children, youth, life is a bitch, family in crisis, religion ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, iberian peninsula, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Saturday Night Fever (1977)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Tony Manero is a Brooklyn paint-store clerk who'd give anything to break out of his dead-end existence. In life, Tony is a peasant; on the disco dance floor, he's a king. As the soundtrack plays one Bee Gees hit after another, white-suited ...
Style: sexy, sentimental, rough, light, serious ...
Audience: date night, teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: dancing, disco, dance, nightclub, working class, dancer, music, love, dysfunctional family, slut, coming of age, slutty attitude ...
Time: 70s, year 1977, 20th century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 7.5
 3K
Ocean Heaven (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The story of a father's tireless love for his autistic son. A terminally ill father's attempt to teach his autistic son the necessary life skills to survive on his own before he passes away. It is also a poignant tribute to the infinite ...
Style: serious, emotional, sentimental, realistic, cult classic ...
Plot: terminal illness, autism, single parent, life is a bitch, father son relationship, love, family problems, parents and children, unfulfillment, disability, mentally challenged, illness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 7.7
 3K
The Violin (2005)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Mexico
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In an unnamed Latin American country that closely resembles Mexico, the government fights a rural insurgency with torture, assault, rape, and murder. Soldiers descend on a town, cutting off the rebels from their cache of ammunition hidden in a ...
Style: serious, thought provoking, captivating, suspenseful, black and white ...
Plot: village, rebelliousness, rebellion, against the odds, injustice, life is a bitch, musician's life, society, political unrest, family in danger, state affairs, father son relationship ...
Time: 70s
Place: latin america, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.5
 4K
Beat Street (1984)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: An aspiring DJ, from the South Bronx, and his best friend, a promoter, try to get into show business by exposing people to hip-hop music and culture.
Style: hood, independent film, grim, serious, realistic ...
Plot: hip hop, dancing, graffiti, subway, rap, hip hop culture, gangster, urban, black, ghetto, music, street gang ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, usa, bronx new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.3
 45K
Rock Star (2001)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Rock Star tells the story of Chris Cole and a rock band called Steel Dragon. Cole is a photocopier technician by day, and the lead singer of a Steel Dragon tribute band called "Blood Pollution" by night.Internal struggles between the Steel ...
Style: stylized, melancholic, entertaining, intense, light ...
Audience: adult
Plot: music, rock star, rock and roll, rock music, heavy metal, rock, audition, success, ambition, rock concert, rock band, relationship problems ...
Time: 80s, year 2001, y2k, 20th century
Place: usa, pittsburgh, pennsylvania, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.3
 152
Reconciliation (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: RECONCILIATION is a groundbreaking, provocative story about an estranged father and son struggling to overcome the heartbreaking consequences of their past. Grant Taylor (Eric Nenninger) has been troubled by intense childhood memories ever since his ...
Style: realistic, serious, uplifting, touching, emotional ...
Plot: gay parent, family relations, redemption, haunted by the past, last wish, family problems, estrangement, life is a bitch, hopes, terminal illness, parents and children, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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