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The Band's Visit (2007)
 7.5
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The Band's Visit (2007)
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, small town, orchestra, ethnic conflict, fish out of water, society, disorder, music, loneliness, melancholy, bittersweet, lost, conflict, segregation, self discovery, small town life, desert, arab, storytelling, muslim, moving, older woman younger man relationship, judaism ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century, contemporary
Place: israel, middle east, egypt, palestine, maghreb, alexandria egypt
Keyword: palestinian, jewish, arabic, egyptian, dreams

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, humorous and crying films with plots about dancing, drinking, love and romance, singer, musician, friendship and family relations mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like The Band's Visit: Late Marriage (2001), Brassed Off (1996), The Thing Called Love (1993), Daltry Calhoun (2005), The Crazy Stranger (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Late Marriage (2001)
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: culture clash, social differences, love and romance, fall in love, couples, family problems, family life, parents and children, self discovery, society, couple relations, israeli ...
Time: 2000s, year 2001, 21st century
Place: israel, middle east, palestine
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 7.2
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Brassed Off (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A small Yorkshire mining town is threatened with being shut down and the only hope is for the men to enter their Grimley Colliery Brass Band into a national competition. They believe they have no hope until Gloria appears carrying her Flugelhorn. At ...
Style: feel good, emotional, touching, sexy, indie film ...
Plot: small town, brass band, music, competition, mining, relationships, working class, drinking, hospital, singer, psychology, village ...
Time: year 1996, 90s, 20th century
Place: england, yorkshire, northern england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
The Thing Called Love (1993)
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, feel good, sentimental, humorous, realistic ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: friendship, country music, bittersweet, love, couples, musician's life, couple relations, friends, twentysomething life, love and romance, artists and showbiz, hopes ...
Time: 90s, year 1993
Place: new york, tennessee, usa, connecticut, austin texas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
Daltry Calhoun (2005)
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: humorous, touching, feel good, 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 ⇓
79%
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The Crazy Stranger (1997)
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: atmospheric, sexy, sentimental, humorous, art house ...
Plot: gypsy, friendship, beautiful scenery, village, self discovery, love and romance, couple relations, obsessive quest, lifestyle, bittersweet, ethnic conflict, dance ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: romania, balkan, france, europe, bucharest ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
Intimate Lighting (1965)
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: semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous, sincere ...
Plot: modernism, renaissance, exodus, villa, classmate, musician, funeral, small town, gay subtext, bittersweet, musician's life, music ...
Time: year 1965, 20th century, 60s
Place: czechoslovakia, eastern europe, balkan, europe, czech republic
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
Or (My Treasure) (2004)
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, realistic, psychological, sincere ...
Plot: prostitution, escort, prostitute, down on your luck, family relations, coming of age, parents and children, life is a bitch, lifestyle, dysfunctional family, family problems, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: middle east, indiana, palestine, persia, israel ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
 7.8
 121K
Once (2007)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A vacuum repairman moonlights as a street musician and hopes for his big break. One day a Czech immigrant, who earns a living selling flowers, approaches him with the news that she is also an aspiring singer-songwriter. The pair decide to ...
Style: sentimental, touching, emotional, inspirational, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: music, musician's life, pianist, street musician, friendship, love, singer, love and romance, musician, recording studio, immigrant, rock and roll ...
Time: year 2007, year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, london, europe, czech republic
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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The Bubble (2006)
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, touching, emotional, serious, controversial ...
Plot: gay, gay relationship, gay sex, israeli, lgbt, friendship, lgbtq, forbidden love, occupation, love affair, civil rights, understanding ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: israel, middle east, tel aviv israel, palestine, idaho ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
 7.9
 100K
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
 5.2
 616
Sueño (2005)
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, humorous, touching, freeze frame ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love triangle, family relations, love and romance, couples, relationship vs career, lifestyle, fall in love, single parent, musician's life, family business, unfulfilled love, father son relationship ...
Place: usa, los angeles, latin america, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Cape of Good Hope (2004)
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, sincere, touching, contemplative ...
Plot: interracial relations, pregnancy, love affair, love triangle, couples, family problems, hopes, single parent, society, couple relations, dishonesty, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south africa, cape town south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
The International (2006)
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, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: military, music band, rebellion, political unrest, musician's life, rebelliousness, small town, politics, small town life, artists and showbiz, state affairs, revolution ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: middle east, istanbul turkey, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
A Slipping-Down Life (1999)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A young woman becomes obsessed with a small-time North Carolina rock singer.
Style: touching, feel good, captivating, sincere, romantic drama ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: groupie, love and romance, artists and showbiz, love affair, lifestyle, rock, opposites attract, musician's life, singer, infatuation, art, obsession ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: north carolina, usa, charleston south carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
A Prairie Home Companion (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Musical, 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, cowboy, lifestyle, showbiz, society, artists and showbiz, singer, music, storytelling ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: minnesota, usa, chicago, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 7.7
 16K
Kolya (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Czech Republic, UK, France
Duration: 105 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, sentimental, touching, sincere, realistic ...
Plot: adoption, communism, coming of age, friendship, musician, single father, revolution, cellist, child, boy, culture clash, storytelling ...
Time: 80s, year 1996, 20th century, year 1989
Place: czech republic, prague, eastern europe, balkan, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
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: inspirational, romantic, sentimental, entertaining, feel good ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: desert, fishing, fish, muslim, love and romance, doubts and hesitations, midlife crisis, friendship, businessman, culture clash, greed, love story ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: middle east, scotland, london, afghanistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 6.8
 5K
Look at Me (2004)
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, family relations, music, parents and children, writer's life, couples, family problems, teenage girl, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, coming of age ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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A Song for Martin (2001)
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: realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, emotional ...
Plot: family relations, infidelity, couple relations, couples, love affair, violin, lifestyle, love and romance, musician's life, crumbling marriage, fall in love, family problems ...
Time: year 2001
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Rock My World (2002)
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, humorous, feel good, witty ...
Audience: teens
Plot: culture clash, musician, society, music band, artists and showbiz, friends, love and romance, misfit, disorder, power relations, fish out of water, social differences ...
Time: year 2002
Place: england
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Ladies in Lavender (2004)
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, atmospheric, emotional, period piece ...
Plot: friendship, violinist, polish, sisters, sister sister relationship, human nature, village life, aging, foreigner, bittersweet, rivalry, painter ...
Time: 1930s, year 2004, 2000s, 20th century
Place: england, cornwall, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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The Terminal (2004)
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, sweet, sincere, feel good, motivational ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, family friendly
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Time: year 2004, 1900s, 2000s, 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Song for Marion (2012)
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: sentimental, touching, uplifting, feel good, crying ...
Plot: elderly lovers, elderly, cancer, self discovery, death of wife, music band, life is a bitch, fish out of water, parents and children, choir, father son relationship, senior citizen ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Footloose (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
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Style: feel good, romantic, teen, sincere, serious ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night
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Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: georgia, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Schultze Gets the Blues (2003)
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: touching, humorous, road movie, melancholic, realistic ...
Plot: friendship, small town, music, obsession, loneliness, 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 ⇓
73%
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 ⇓
73%
Twist and Shout (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Denmark
Duration: 108 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, sentimental ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, female nudity, traumatic childhood, age difference, adolescence, older woman younger man, family relations, pregnancy, friendship, dating, hide and seek, friends ...
Time: 80s, 60s, year 1963
Place: antwerp, denmark, copenhagen, scandinavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
 4.5
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Satin (2011)
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, humorous, touching, sentimental, 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 ⇓
73%
 6.7
 32K
Singles (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Romantic comedy about six of Seattle's young people, most of whom live in the same apartment building and whose lives revolve around the city's ever-expanding music scene. The interrelated stories about each character's progress ...
Style: feel good, sweet, humorous, touching, realistic ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: music, music band, clubbing, city life, friendship, rock, love and romance, looking for love, couple relations, musician's life, roommate, young lovers ...
Time: 90s, year 1992, 20th century
Place: seattle, usa, washington state
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
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, uplifting, inspirational, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: hotel, elderly, aging, self discovery, goodhearted, old age, introspection, loneliness, marital problem, choice, life changing experience, retirement home ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia, delhi, mumbai india
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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