Movies like Billy Elliot: The Musical Live

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Billy Elliot: The Musical Live (2014)
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Billy Elliot: The Musical Live (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 169 min.
Story: A talented young dancer has to learn to fight for his dream despite social and parental disapproval.
Style: psychological, sincere, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing, inspirational, uplifting, humorous, inter cultural
Audience: kids
Plot: dancing, dancer, society, live performance, dance, music, dream, follow your dream, ambition, ambitious, ambitious man, dancer's life, gender roles, gay, theater, broadway, lgbtq, boyhood, stage musical, christmas, ballet, child abuse, mine, christmas eve, sadness ...
Time: 80s
Place: northern england

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Most similar movies to Billy Elliot: The Musical Live

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, humorous, realistic and feel good films with plots about dancing, ambition, dance, society, dancer, gay and dream mostly in Drama, Comedy and Musical genres. Some movies like Billy Elliot: The Musical Live: Billy Elliot (2000), Dancing Queens (2021), Come From Away (2021), Better Nate Than Ever (2022), National Theatre Live: Amadeus (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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
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Dancing Queens (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The story of Dylan Pettersson, a 23-year-old girl from a small island in the Swedish archipelago with big dancing aspirations.
Style: entertaining, sincere, captivating, humorous
Plot: dancing, lgbt, dancer, dancehall girl, dancer's life, woman, ambition, direction and purpose, longing, dance club, talented, dream ...
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31%
Come From Away (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: 7,000 passengers are stranded in the small town of Gander, Newfoundland after all flights into the US are grounded on September 11, 2001. Filmed live on stage at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theater in New York City.
Style: captivating, psychological, sincere, humorous, disturbing
Plot: problem solving, small town, coping, society, problem, love, music, experiment, gay, based on broadway musical, stage musical, stranded ...
Time: september 11 2001
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Better Nate Than Ever (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: 13-year-old Nate Foster has big Broadway dreams but there’s only one problem — he can’t even land a part in the school play. When his parents leave town, Nate and his best friend Libby sneak off to the Big Apple for a once-in-a-lifetime ...
Style: disturbing, semi serious, feel good, captivating, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teen drama
Plot: teenager, broadway, love, teenage boy, best friend, follow your dream, coping, direction and purpose, coming of age, daydreamer, desire for fame, music ...
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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National Theatre Live: Amadeus (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 206 min.
Story: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a rowdy young prodigy, arrives in Vienna, the music capital of the world – and he’s determined to make a splash. Awestruck by his genius, court composer Antonio Salieri has the power to promote his talent or destroy his ...
Style: semi serious, captivating, thrilling, psychological
Plot: mozart, classical music, historical figure, musician's life, historical character, talented, ambition, musician, music, talent, child prodigy, live performance
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26%
Hairspray Live! (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A teenage girl living in Baltimore in the early 1960s dreams of appearing on a popular TV dance show.
Style: captivating, feel good, humorous, entertaining
Plot: theater, dance, live performance, racism, fat girl, race, dream, equality, broadway, dancing, society, rivalry ...
Time: 60s, year 1962
Place: baltimore, maryland
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26%
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The Big Leap (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
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Story: Follow a group of diverse, down-on-their-luck characters attempting to change their lives by participating in a potentially life-ruining reality dance show that builds to a live production of “Swan Lake.”
Style: humorous, captivating, disturbing
Plot: gay, dancehall girl, dancer, follow your dream, dream, ambitious man, social differences, competitor, contest, dancing, second chance, following a dream ...
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26%
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Stepping Out (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Mavis (Liza Minnelli) was a chorus line dancer on Broadway. Just as she was on the verge of getting more prominent roles, she fell in love. Her full-of-himself boyfriend moved them to Buffalo, far from the theater scene. As a musician, he plays with ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous
Audience: kids
Plot: broadway, dancing, dancer, dance class, power relations, church, human spirit, rising to stardom, dancer's life, love and romance, underdog, artists and showbiz ...
Time: year 1991, 20th century, 90s
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25%
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A Chorus Line (1985)
Genre: Drama, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A group of dancers congregate on the stage of a Broadway theatre to audition for a new musical production directed by Zach (Michael Douglas). After the initial eliminations, seventeen hopefuls remain, among them Cassie (Alyson Reed), who once had a ...
Style: stylized, lyrical, sexy, clever, emotional ...
Audience: kids, date night
Plot: broadway, showbiz, audition, dancing, music, ballet, rehearsal, ballet school, rise to the top, choreography, dance, choreographer ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1985
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Let's Dance (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Dans la famille Bellinsky : il y a Salomon le père, 80 ans, débordant de vie. Il se bat pour ne pas être enterré trop vite, entre des cours de claquettes sous le haut patronage de Fred Astaire et la recherche d'une compagne...La mère, ...
Style: sweet, feel good, captivating, inspirational
Plot: dancer's life, romancing partners, follow your dream, dancer, ambition, life philosophy, new love, art, ballet, youth, hip hop, self fulfillment ...
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Yeh Ballet (2020)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: India
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Discovered by an eccentric ballet master, two gifted but underprivileged Mumbai teens face bigotry and disapproval as they pursue their dancing dreams.
Style: motivational, inspirational, colorful, disturbing, spiritual
Plot: ballet school, dancing, ambition, ballet, self discovery, family relations, social realism, society, fight, unsupportive parent, friends, life is a bitch ...
Place: mumbai india
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Everybody's Talking About Jamie (2021)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Feature film adaptation of the musical about a teenager from Sheffield, England who wants to be a drag queen.
Style: lgbt cinema, emotional, psychological, touching, social ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot: lgbt, female impersonator, cross dressing, drag queen, lgbtq, gay student, transsexual, gay, gay slur, gay interest, life is a bitch, friendship ...
Time: 2020s
Place: britain, united kingdom, england, yorkshire
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24%
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The Prom (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: After the PTA of a conservative high school in Indiana bans same-sex couples from attending the annual prom, a gang of flamboyant Broadway stars try to boost their image by showing up to support two lesbian students.
Style: inspirational, captivating, sentimental, thought provoking, sincere ...
Audience: chick flick, kids, teens
Plot: lesbian, gay, lgbt teen, prom, lgbtq, high school, lesbian interest, lesbian love, civil rights, lgbtqi, sapphic, discrimination ...
Time: 2000s, 2020s
Place: indiana, ohio, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Hairspray (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Pleasantly plump teenager, Tracy Turnblad and her best friend, Penny Pingleton audition to be on The Corny Collins Show – and Tracy wins. But when scheming Amber Von Tussle and her mother plot to destroy Tracy, it turns to chaos.
Style: feel good, romantic, lyrical, entertaining, humorous ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, family outing, kids ...
Plot: dancing, dance, dream come true, artists and showbiz, teenage love, interracial romance, teenage girl, racism, fat girl, broadway, teenager, follow your dream ...
Time: year 2007, 60s, 20th century, year 1962, 2000s
Place: baltimore, usa, maryland
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Brittany Runs a Marathon (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A young woman decides to make positive changes in her life by training for the New York City Marathon.
Style: sincere, psychological, disturbing, thought provoking, feel good ...
Plot: weight loss, running, marathon, friends, dream, transformation, female protagonist, escapades, society, direction and purpose, runner, ambitious woman ...
Place: new york
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Go for It! (2011)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Carmen is a good student with a bad attitude who lives for dancing in the underground clubs of Chicago. She yearns to be 'somebody' but is afraid to believe in herself. Her immigrant Mexican, working-class parents want her to stay in ...
Style: realistic, touching, captivating, serious, emotional ...
Plot: hip hop, dancing, dance, ambition, self discovery, follow your dream, hopes, dancer's life, dance school, desire for fame, parents and children, teachers and students ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, chicago, california, illinois
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22%
Battlefield America (2012)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A young businessman hires an instructor to turn a group of misfit kids into a team on the underground dance competition circuit.
Style: realistic, inspirational, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: street dance, dancing, music, ambition, rivalry, youth, misfit, social misfits, hip hop, dance, mentor, training ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, california
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22%
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Diana (2021)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A princess is thrust onto the world stage. The tabloid media is captivated by her beauty and vulnerability. The globe's most celebrated monarchy is disrupted. This is the story of the most princess woman of the modern age as she struggles to ...
Style: thought provoking, captivating, disturbing
Plot: princess diana, broadway, princess, historical character, historical figure, music, dancing, celebrity, life, queen, theater, historical event ...
Place: new york
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21%
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Waitress: The Musical (2023)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story: A waitress and expert pie-maker dreams of a way out of her small town and rocky marriage.
Style: funny, captivating, exciting, humorous, entertaining
Plot: waitress, store, broadway, baker, food, cooking and food, dreaming, dream, based on broadway musical, bakery, baking, following a dream ...
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21%
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Rock of Ages (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A small town girl and a city boy meet on the Sunset Strip, while pursuing their Hollywood dreams.
Style: entertaining, feel good, sexy, visually appealing, romantic ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot: rock, broadway, rock and roll, music, dancing, gay, nightclub, dance, teenager, striptease, music business, nostalgia ...
Time: 80s, year 2012, 20th century, year 1987
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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Holy Mess (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A comedy about the new alternative family and how different family situations and relationships come to a head during the premier family weekend.
Style: sincere, semi serious, humorous, captivating, lgbt cinema ...
Plot: gay, dysfunctional family, christmas, gay couple, family secret, father son relationship, family dinner, gay slur, lgbtq, mother son relationship, glbt, lgbtqi ...
Place: eastern europe
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20%
Turn the Beat Around (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: An idealist young dancer named Zoe tackles the difficult issue of resurrecting disco dancing in today’s music business. She meets hostility beyond resistance on every dance floor where she spins and twirls. Fortunately, she has at least one ally, ...
Style: humorous, captivating, entertaining, light, realistic ...
Plot: rivalry, artists and showbiz, dancer's life, dancehall girl, nightclub, couples, ambition, uninhibited rivalry, dancing, society, dance
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles
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20%
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Stuck (2017)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A musical about six strangers who find themselves stuck on the New York City subway.
Style: thought provoking, captivating, disturbing, psychological
Plot: subway, compassion, social problems, changing lives, unlikely friendships, music, public, social issues, lifestyle change, society, trapped, song ...
Place: new york
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20%
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The Full Monty (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Italy, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Sheffield, England. Gaz, a jobless steelworker in need of quick cash persuades his mates to bare it all in a one-night-only strip show.
Style: feel good, funny, humorous, black comedy, hilarious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: working class, unemployment, stripper, striptease, male stripper, gay, friendship, lgbtq, dance, loser, father, small town ...
Time: 80s, 90s, year 1997, 20th century
Place: northern england, england, britain, united kingdom, yorkshire
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20%
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Company (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story: Following five couples and their friend Robert (Neil Patrick Harris), the perpetual bachelor, Company explores the true meaning of being in a relationship through a series of vignettes. Winner of the 1971 Tony Award for Best Musical, Neil Patrick ...
Style: semi serious, stylized, realistic, humorous, feel good
Plot: theater, friends, friendship, concert, bachelor, live performance, couple relations, redheaded woman, artists and showbiz, love and romance, broadway, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york, manhattan new york city
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20%
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Camp (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Misfits in their lives back home, a group of young people live it up at musical-theater camp. While the sports counselor is completely ignored, the kids' spend all their time in rehearsal for a grueling schedule that involves a new show every ...
Style: talky, humorous, feel good, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: summer camp, gay, coming of age, dancing, lgbt, love and romance, teenage love, friendship, artists and showbiz, rock, love triangle, honest ...
Time: 2000s, year 2003, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert (2018)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The award-winning show is re-imagined as a live concert event, featuring an all-star cast of recording artists, set during the last week of Jesus' life as he deals with betrayal, love and jealousy, and told from the perspective of Judas.
Style: captivating, sincere, serious
Plot: christianity, live performance, betrayal, concert, dancing, singing, jesus, rock opera, spectacle, stage musical, theater, roman empire ...
Place: jerusalem
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Rodney King (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 52 min.
Story: 25 years ago, four LAPD officers were acquitted in a state court for beating King, sparking three days of rioting that left 53 people dead. Now, around the anniversary, this Spike Lee-produced one-man show (Roger Guenver Smith) will be streaming on ...
Style: sincere, captivating, psychological, disturbing, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: live performance, black lives matter, black history, disorder, society, adult humor, young man, life philosophy, true crime, stand up comedy, poetry, racism ...
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Bollywood Diaries (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 123 min.
Story: The passionate journey of three Bollywood fanatics who wish to make it big in the industry.
Style: psychological, captivating, sincere, disturbing, avant garde
Plot: aspiring actor, desire for fame, ambitious, direction and purpose, ambition, multiple storylines, actor, aspiration, passion, tribute, dream, bollywood
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Leave It on the Floor (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Our African-American hero , Brad is bullied by his dysfunctional mom; he flees his home and by chance tumbles down the rabbit-hole into the LA ball scene where he finds a ragtag new famiiy. With music by Beyonce music director, Kim Burse, screenplay ...
Style: realistic, humorous, emotional, independent film, captivating ...
Plot: gay, friendship, gay relationship, lgbtq, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, lgbt, society, rivalry, nightclub, ambition, gender ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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