Movies like Bix

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Bix (1991)
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Bix (1991)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Biopic of troubled jazz musician/composer Bix Beiderbecke (1903-1931), who played with the Paul Whiteman band, among others.
Plot: jazz, musician, flashback
Time: year 1991, 1920s

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, realistic, serious and touching films with plots about musician, jazz, music, biopic, musician's life, artists and showbiz and ambition mostly in Drama, Music and Biography genres. Some movies like Bix: American Blue Note (1989), The Revolving Doors (1988), Bird (1988), Scott Joplin (1977), Stony Island (1978). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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American Blue Note (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Jack, Nat, Jerry, Lee and Tommy play jazz in small clubs, but only one of them will reach success.
Style: independent film, psychedelic
Plot: jazz, price of fame, self discovery, success, struggle, music business, musician, friendship, star
Time: 60s
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The Revolving Doors (1988)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Set in a small Quebec town in the late '20s, this moving drama follows the life and exploits of Celeste Beaumont, a talented young pianist, who gains local celebrity at the town movie theater for her gifts as a silent film accompanist. As an ...
Plot: male female relationship, interracial relations, family relations, jazz, widow, self sacrifice, african american, musician, teenage girl, artist, unemployment, piano ...
Time: 1920s
Place: new york, quebec
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Bird (1988)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 161 min.
Story: Saxophone player Charlie Parker comes to New York in 1940. He is quickly noticed for his remarkable way of playing. He becomes a drug addict but his loving wife Chan tries to help him.
Style: atmospheric, psychological, factual, stylized, realistic ...
Plot: jazz, music, biopic, drug abuse, addiction, heroin, musician's life, drug addict, character study, childhood, showbiz, musician ...
Time: 1940s, year 1988, 1950s, 20th century, 50s
Place: usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
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Scott Joplin (1977)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Details the life story of Scott Joplin and how he became the greatest ragtime composer of all time.
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, period piece
Plot: composer, jazz, piano, art history, art, blaxploitation, syphilis, biopic, interracial relations, music, society, musician's life ...
Time: 20th century, 1910s, 1900s
⇓ similarity ⇓
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For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story (2000)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In the early 1970s, Cuban trumpeter Arturo Sandoval (Andy Garcia) is torn between his own musical dreams and the dreams of his wife, Marianela (Mía Maestro), a fervent supporter of the ideals of the Castro revolution. Also starring Charles S. ...
Style: emotional, realistic, touching, sincere, serious ...
Plot: jazz, human spirit, showbiz, politics, unfulfillment, couples, political unrest, musician's life, relationship vs career, revolution, family problems, society ...
Place: usa, cuba, latin america
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Stony Island (1978)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: "Stony Island gives you a priceless look back at Chicago’s South Side neighborhood, at a time when very few films were made in within the city at all — and features a legion of legendary Chicago players (Gene Barge, Phil Upchurch, Larry ...
Style: independent film
Plot: exodus, heart attack, musician, death, interracial relations, jazz, blues, scenery, inner city, band
Time: year 1978
Place: chicago
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Nina (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The story of the late jazz musician and classical pianist Nina Simone including her rise to fame and relationship with her manager Clifton Henderson.
Style: captivating, serious, touching, controversial, thought provoking ...
Plot: jazz, music, biopic, love affair, ambition, musician's life, rising to stardom, society, discrimination, artists and showbiz, racism, love and romance ...
Time: 20th century
Place: usa
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
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Duration: 115 min.
Story: The story of legendary blues performer, Bessie Smith, who rose to fame during the 1920s and '30s.
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Plot: blues, black lgbt, african american, lesbian, rise to the top, musician's life, jazz, artists and showbiz, music, ambition, life is a bitch, rising to stardom ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s, 1920s
Place: usa, indiana, southern usa, new york, tennessee ...
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Ray (2004)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 152 min.
Story: Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by a fiercely independent mom who insisted he make his own way, He found his calling and his gift behind a piano keyboard. Touring across the Southern ...
Style: inspirational, touching, sincere, emotional, captivating ...
Audience: date night
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Time: year 2004, 1930s, 20th century, 60s, 50s ...
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Duration: 144 min.
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Style: captivating, historical drama, spiritual, iconic
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Duration: 100 min.
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Jersey Boys (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
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Style: stylized, intense, sentimental, realistic, serious ...
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Cadillac Records (2008)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: The story of sex, violence, race and rock and roll in 1950s Chicago, and the exciting but turbulent lives of some of America's musical legends, including Muddy Waters, Leonard Chess, Little Walter, Howlin' Wolf, Etta James and Chuck Berry.
Style: realistic, inspirational, intense, stylized, talky ...
Plot: musician's life, music, rock and roll, blues, jazz, biopic, african american, pop music, success, music business, singer, greed ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 1950s, year 2008, 1940s ...
Place: chicago, usa, indiana, london, mississippi
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57%
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Dingo (1991)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: France, Australia
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Young John Anderson is captivated by jazz musician, Billy Cross when he performs on the remote airstrip of his Western Australian outback hometown after his plane is diverted. Years later, now a family man and making a meagre living tracking dingoes ...
Style: realistic, independent film, serious, emotional, touching
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Time: year 1991, 90s, 20th century
Place: paris france, australia, france, europe
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Sweet Love, Bitter (1967)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A loose fictitious of Charlie Parker's last years and a portrait of the jazz scene in 1960's New York.
Style: reflective, independent film
Plot: jazz, blaxploitation, music and dance, biopic, alcoholism, urban setting, melancholy, cowardice, racism, price of fame, mistress, interracial friendship ...
Time: year 1967
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57%
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Duration: 114 min.
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Time: 1950s, 50s, year 1978, 20th century
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Time: 70s, 80s, year 1967, 60s, year 1964 ...
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Low Down (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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'Round Midnight (1986)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA, France
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Inside the Blue Note nightclub one night in 1959 Paris, an aged, ailing jazzman coaxes an eloquent wail from his tenor sax. Outside, a young Parisian too broke to buy a glass of wine strains to hear those notes. Soon they will form a friendship that ...
Style: contemplative, gloomy, sentimental, touching, realistic ...
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Time: year 1986, 50s, 20th century, year 1959
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⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
A Man Called Adam (1966)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 168 min.
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Style: realistic, touching, emotional, serious, sentimental ...
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Time: 50s, 60s, 1950s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Little Richard (2000)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: The story of Little Richard Penniman, from his poor Southern upbringing to dealing with the trials and tribulations of being a Black singer in the 1950s, to his born-again phase and brief "retirement" from rock and roll.
Style: uplifting, captivating, sentimental, touching, serious ...
Plot: rock, singer, biopic, relationship vs career, musician's life, self discovery, lifestyle, rising to stardom, celebrity, couples, haunted by the past, career change ...
Time: 1940s, 50s, 1950s
Place: georgia, usa, sydney australia, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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De-Lovely (2004)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Musical
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: From Paris to Venice to Broadway to Hollywood, the lives of Cole Porter and his wife, Linda were never less than glamorous and wildly unconventional. And though Cole's thirst for life strained their marriage, Linda never stopped being his muse, ...
Style: stylized, lyrical, atmospheric, captivating, sincere ...
Audience: date night
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Finland
Duration: 105 min.
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Style: thought provoking, captivating
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Place: finland
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