Movies like The Band's Visit
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The Band's Visit (2007)
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Original name: ביקור התזמורת
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Israel, USA, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Once-not long ago-a small Egyptian police band arrived in Israel. Not many remember this... It wasn't that important. A band comprised of members of the Egyptian police force head to Israel to play at the inaugural ceremony of an Arab arts center, only to find themselves lost in the wrong town.
Style:
emotional, atmospheric, sincere, humorous, feel good, sentimental, touching, realistic, contemplative, art house ...
Plot:
culture clash, musician, israeli, orchestra, small town, ethnic conflict, fish out of water, society, disorder, loneliness, desert, melancholy, music, lost, bittersweet, conflict, small town life, segregation, self discovery, arab, male female relationship, storytelling, kindness, concert, muslim ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
israel, middle east, palestine, maghreb, alexandria egypt, egypt
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Most similar movies to The Band's Visit
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, humorous and crying films with plots about drinking, drinking alcohol, friendship, singer, dancing, love and romance and musician mostly in Drama, Comedy and Music genres. Some movies like The Band's Visit: Rock My World (2002), Late Marriage (2001), Daltry Calhoun (2005), The Thing Called Love (1993), A Prairie Home Companion (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Canada, UK, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
When a rock band at the top of their game suddenly loses their leader, their direction suddenly becomes questionable. All the band members know is that the leader's clothes were found at the edge of a waterfront and he had not been seen since. ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous, witty ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
musician, culture clash, friends, music band, society, artists and showbiz, disorder, power relations, misfit, love and romance, social differences, fish out of water ...
Time:
year 2002
Place:
england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Zaza is a 31-year old Israeli bachelor, handsome and intelligent, and his family wants to see him married. But tradition dictates that Zaza has to choose a young virgin. She must be beautiful and from a good family, preferably rich. Zaza's ...
Style:
realistic, touching, sentimental, emotional, romantic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
arranged marriage, israeli, culture clash, forbidden love, social differences, fall in love, love and romance, family problems, couples, parents and children, family life, self discovery ...
Time:
2000s, year 2001, 70s, 21st century
Place:
israel, middle east, palestine, tokyo
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In small town Tennessee, a ne'er-do-well man (Knoxville) wrestling for control over his fading golf club is reunited with his estranged daughter, a 14-year-old musical prodigy.
Style:
touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot:
parents and children, single parent, workplace situations, family relations, rise to the top, businessman, redneck, long lost daughter, volunteer, bad father, redemption, estrangement ...
Time:
year 2005
Place:
tennessee, usa, australia
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Miranda Presley moves from New York to Nashville to become a songwriter. At an unsuccessful audition she meets James Wright, a promising newcomer. After only a few days they marry but start to quickly regret it.
Style:
semi serious, sentimental, humorous, feel good, realistic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
friendship, country music, bittersweet, insomnia, love, couples, musician's life, couple relations, friends, twentysomething life, artists and showbiz, hopes ...
Time:
90s, year 1993
Place:
new york, tennessee, usa, memphis, nashville tennessee ...
Similarity:
49%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A look at what goes on backstage during the last broadcast of America's most celebrated radio show, where singing cowboys Dusty and Lefty, a country music siren, and a host of others hold court
Style:
humorous, lyrical, feel good, sentimental, touching ...
Plot:
radio, backstage, country music, musician's life, lifestyle, society, showbiz, artists and showbiz, music, singer, death, storytelling ...
Time:
year 2006, 70s, 21st century
Place:
minnesota, usa, chicago, wisconsin, texas ...
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Romania, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A man is looking for a singer he had heard on cassette. He finds much more.
Style:
sexy, humorous, sentimental, romantic, art house ...
Plot:
couple relations, female pubic hair, friendship, dialogue, beautiful scenery, self discovery, love and romance, gypsy, obsessive quest, lifestyle, impossible love, bittersweet ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s
Place:
romania, balkan, france, europe, paris france ...
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Morocco
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A fisheries expert is approached by a consultant to help realize a sheik's vision of bringing the sport of fly-fishing to the desert and embarks on an upstream journey of faith and fish to prove the impossible possible.
Style:
sentimental, inspirational, entertaining, sincere, feel good ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
desert, love and romance, fishing, fish, muslim, businessman, politics, doubts and hesitations, friendship, midlife crisis, passion, culture clash ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
middle east, scotland, london, afghanistan, england ...
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
Taking his young city girlfriend along for the trip, a man visits old musical friends in a country village for a string quartet rehearsal.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, sentimental, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
husband wife relationship, modernism, exodus, renaissance, villa, classmate, musician, funeral, small town, gay subtext, bittersweet, misfit ...
Time:
year 1965, 20th century, 60s
Place:
balkan, czechoslovakia, eastern europe, europe, czech republic
Similarity:
48%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A Mexican immigrant new to Los Angeles enters into a love triangle with two very different women.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous, freeze frame ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love triangle, family relations, love and romance, couples, relationship vs career, single parent, lifestyle, musician's life, unfulfilled love, family business, fall in love, father son relationship ...
Place:
usa, los angeles, latin america, mexico
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
The movie follows a group of young friends in the city of Tel Aviv and is as much a love song to the city as it is an exploration of the claim that people in Tel Aviv are isolated from the rest of the country and the turmoil it's going through. ...
Style:
sincere, emotional, touching, serious, lgbt cinema ...
Plot:
gay relationship, gay sex, sex, male nudity, gay love, gay, lgbtq, forbidden love, israeli, gay interest, lgbt, gay soldier ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
israel, middle east, tel aviv israel, palestine, idaho ...
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Sweden, Germany, Denmark
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Martin, conductor of a symphonic orchestra, meet Barbara, violine player and they start a relationship. Five years later Martin starts to develop loss of memory and becomes more and more confused. Finally he is diagnosed with Alzheimer's ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, emotional, sentimental ...
Plot:
alzheimer's disease, violin, family relations, infidelity, couple relations, couples, love affair, lifestyle, musician's life, crumbling marriage, fall in love, love and romance ...
Time:
year 2001
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A young woman becomes obsessed with a small-time North Carolina rock singer.
Style:
feel good, touching, sincere, captivating, romantic drama ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
groupie, artists and showbiz, love and romance, love affair, lifestyle, rock, musician's life, opposites attract, singer, infatuation, art, obsession ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s
Place:
north carolina, usa, charleston south carolina
Similarity:
47%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Czech Republic, UK, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The Czech Republic Director Jan Sverák tells in this Oscar winning film the story of the disillusioned Prague man named Cellisten Louka, who after a fictitious marriage with a Russian emigrant must suddenly take responsibility for her son. However ...
Style:
emotional, sincere, touching, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
adoption, communism, coming of age, nudity, friendship, musician, cellist, renaissance, lovers, single father, revolution, boy ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1989, year 1996
Place:
czech republic, eastern europe, prague, balkan, europe ...
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Mark Bamford's thought-provoking comedy explores the ever-present friction between class, race and faith in modern-day South Africa, tracing the intersection of multiple lives. A Drama revolving around 3 women's lives and how they are ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, touching, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot:
interracial relations, pregnancy, love triangle, love affair, love and romance, society, couple relations, hopes, single parent, workplace, dishonesty, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south africa, cape town south africa
Similarity:
47%
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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, teen, touching, lyrical, sentimental ...
Audience:
family friendly, date night, teens, girls' night, kids ...
Plot:
friendship, youth, coming of age, music band, musician's life, rock and roll, teenager, singing, bullying, dream girl, adolescence, teenage boy ...
Time:
80s, year 2016, 2010s, year 1985, future ...
Place:
dublin ireland, ireland, london, nebraska, england
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Turkey
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
It is 80's Turkey, local musicians of Adiyaman are hired by the military and trained to welcome one of the forceful generals of coup regime.
Style:
sentimental, humorous, emotional, feel good, realistic ...
Plot:
military, musician, music band, musician's life, rebellion, political unrest, rebelliousness, small town, small town life, artists and showbiz, politics, state affairs ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
middle east, istanbul turkey, turkey
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
When reporter Jean Craddock interviews Bad Blake -- an alcoholic, seen-better-days country music legend -- they connect, and the hard-living crooner sees a possible saving grace in a life with Jean and her young son. But can he leave behind an ...
Style:
touching, emotional, sincere, romantic, depressing ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
musician, country music, loneliness, character study, music, happy ending, addiction, redemption, country singer, love and romance, alcoholism, alcohol abuse ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new mexico, texas, austin texas, usa, nashville tennessee ...
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Andrea, a gifted young Polish violinist from Krakow, is bound for America when he is swept overboard by a storm. When the Widdington sisters discover the handsome stranger on the beach below their house, they nurse him back to health. However, the ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, witty, emotional, period piece ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
friendship, violinist, polish, village life, sister sister relationship, sisters, human nature, musician, aging, foreigner, suspicion, bittersweet ...
Time:
1930s, year 2004, 2000s, 20th century
Place:
england, cornwall, europe, london, new jersey ...
Similarity:
47%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, United Arab Emirates, USA, India
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
British retirees travel to India to take up residence in what they believe is a newly restored hotel. Less luxurious than its advertisements, the Marigold Hotel nevertheless slowly begins to charm in unexpected ways as the residents find new purpose ...
Style:
feel good, touching, sentimental, uplifting, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
elderly, hotel, loneliness, self discovery, aging, goodhearted, old age, marital problem, life changing experience, choice, retirement home, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, asia, delhi, mumbai india, seattle ...
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
This is the story of human beings who know exactly what they'd do if they were somebody else, but can't handle being themselves very well, who are very simply struggling to find out who they are.
Style:
stylized, lyrical, semi serious, sincere, humorous ...
Plot:
friendship, dysfunctional family, father daughter relationship, music, parents and children, writer's life, family problems, couples, chess, teenage girl, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, overweight woman ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france, tokyo
Similarity:
46%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Viktor Navorski is a man without a country; his plane took off just as a coup d'etat exploded in his homeland, leaving it in shambles, and now he's stranded at Kennedy Airport, where he's holding a passport that nobody recognizes. ...
Style:
touching, sincere, sentimental, sweet, emotional ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, date night, family friendly
Plot:
airport, stranded, loneliness, culture clash, nothing goes right, happy ending, destiny, fish out of water, aviation, passenger, life philosophy, fictional country ...
Time:
year 2004, 1900s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, america, canada, romania ...
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Germany
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Schultze is an accordion player and newly without work. When the local music club celebrates its 50th anniversary, his taste of music changes unexpectedly.
Style:
humorous, touching, melancholic, road movie, realistic ...
Plot:
small town, friendship, music, drinking, obsession, retirement, life philosophy, self discovery, musician's life, boat, artists and showbiz, lifestyle ...
Time:
year 2003
Place:
louisiana, germany, texas, east germany, austin texas ...
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Israel
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Or shoulders a lot: she's 17 or 18, a student, works evenings at a restaurant, recycles cans and bottles for cash, and tries to keep her mother Ruthie from returning to streetwalking in Tel Aviv. Ruthie calls Or "my treasure," but ...
Style:
serious, thought provoking, psychological, realistic, bleak ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
prostitution, down on your luck, escort, family relations, coming of age, parents and children, life is a bitch, lifestyle, dysfunctional family, family problems, single parent, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, palestine, indiana, persia, israel ...
Similarity:
46%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Music, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Gary, a musician, is trapped in an unhappy relationship with his live-in lover, Dora. He becomes enthralled with a beautiful seductress who enters his dreams, and tries to control his dream-state so he can spend more and more time with her. When ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, humorous, sincere, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
midlife crisis, dream, friendship, advertising, unlikely friendships, thirtysomething life, couple relations, love and romance, fall in love, couples, lifestyle, musician's life ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
europe, london, new york, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Denmark
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Danish teens come of age in 1963. Bjorn and Erik are close friends. Bjorn is pursued by Kirsten, a future Stepford wife, but he falls for Anna, who initiates him into love and sex. Erik is somber, caring for his home-bound mentally-ill mother while ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, sincere, emotional ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, female nudity, dating, hide and seek, adolescence, age difference, nude girl, traumatic childhood, family relations, friendship, pregnancy, older woman younger man ...
Time:
80s, 60s, year 1963
Place:
antwerp, denmark, copenhagen, scandinavia
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A feel-good, heart-warming story about how music can inspire you. Song for Marion stars Terence Stamp as Arthur, a grumpy pensioner who can't understand why his wife Marion (Vanessa Redgrave) would want to embarrass herself singing silly songs ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, uplifting, feel good, crying ...
Plot:
elderly lovers, elderly, cancer, choir, self discovery, music band, life is a bitch, parents and children, fish out of water, father son relationship, old age, senior citizen ...
Place:
london, england
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
An ageing rock star decides to change his life when he discovers a 40-year-old letter written to him by John Lennon.
Style:
sentimental, emotional, touching, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot:
musician, rock star, aging, musician's life, elderly, midlife crisis, transformation, family relations, starting over, introspection, cancer, love and romance ...
Time:
70s, year 2014, year 1971, 21st century
Place:
new jersey, los angeles, usa, new york
Similarity:
46%
285
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A washed up Vegas lounge singer, Jack Satin (Hamilton von Watts), has no money, no job, and delusional aspirations of fame. When Jack is forced to leave Vegas, he packs up his old Cadillac and hits the road for Atlantic City. But his car dies in the ...
Style:
semi serious, sentimental, humorous, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
redemption, haunted by the past, jazz, small town, love and romance, social relations, hopes, down on your luck, male female relationship, fish out of water, free spirit, love triangle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, las vegas
Similarity:
46%
55K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Ren MacCormack is transplanted from Boston to the small southern town of Bomont where loud music and dancing are prohibited. Not one to bow to the status quo, Ren challenges the ban, revitalizing the town and falling in love with the minister’s ...
Style:
teen, feel good, romantic, sincere, serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night
Plot:
dancing, dance, small town, teenage love, love and romance, dancer's life, teenage girl, dancer, music, youth, young lovers, culture clash ...
Time:
year 2011, 80s, 21st century
Place:
georgia, usa, southern usa, boston
Similarity:
46%
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, touching, sincere
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
small town, culture clash, family life, musician's life, dull life, supportive spouse, performer's life, family relations, music, music conductor, choir, orchestra ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
46%
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