Movies like Blame It on the Night

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Blame It on the Night (1984)
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Blame It on the Night (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When his unmarried mother dies, custody of 13-year-old Job is assumed by his alleged father, Chris, whom he has never seen. Job is an enthusiastic cadet at a military academy, and Chris turns out to be a top-grossing rock star who removes Job from his beloved school to keep him company on tour. Getting acquainted is fraught with culture shock for both father and son. Written by Paul Emmons
Style: independent film, serious, emotional, realistic, sexual, sexy
Plot: dancing, rock star, music, youth, rock, friends, family relations, parents and children, family life, isolation, showbiz, ambition, family problems, family in crisis, coming of age, military life, musician's life, artists and showbiz, unfulfillment, rising to stardom, officers and cadets, teenager, musician, rock band, boy ...
Time: 80s

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Most similar movies to Blame It on the Night

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, ambition, artists and showbiz, rock, friends and musician mostly in Drama, Music and Comedy genres. Some movies like Blame It on the Night: Light of Day (1987), My Dinner with Jimi (2003), Broken Bridges (2006), Ricki and the Flash (2015), Stardust (1974). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Light of Day (1987)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Fox and Jett play a brother and sister who are lead performers in a rock band, The Barbusters, in Cleveland, Ohio. The sister, Patti Rasnick, is an unmarried mother and has a troubled relationship with her own mother, who is deeply religious. ...
Style: touching, independent film, captivating, serious, realistic ...
Plot: rock and roll, rock, rock band, cancer, music, working class, hospital, death, club, siblings, brother sister relationship, ambition ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
Place: ohio, cleveland ohio
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95%
My Dinner with Jimi (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:  The story of the night The Turtles met The Beatles and Howard Kaylan had dinner with Jimi Hendrix.
Style: realistic, sentimental, captivating, semi serious, contemplative ...
Plot: music band, music, rise and fall, desire for fame, celebrity culture, performer's life, ambition, rise to the top, showbiz, artists and showbiz, rock, lifestyle ...
Time: 60s
Place: london, england
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68%
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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68%
Ricki and the Flash (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Meryl Streep stars as Ricki Rendazzo, a guitar heroine who made a world of mistakes as she followed her dreams of rock-and-roll stardom. Returning home, Ricki gets a shot at redemption and a chance to make things right as she faces the music with ...
Style: romantic, sweet, realistic, serious, touching ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: divorce, father daughter relationship, female protagonist, ex husband ex wife relationship, female musician, family relations, singer, rock star, mother daughter relationship, kids and family, aging, character study ...
Time: 21st century
Place: illinois, usa, chicago, indianapolis indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Stardust (1974)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Sequel to 1973's That'll Be The Day. Jim McLain is now enjoying the nomadic 'gigs and groupies' life on tour with his band. When he achieves all his wildest dreams of international stardom, the sweet taste of success begins to ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, stylized
Plot: rock and roll, music, musician, dancing, swing, post war, rock star, nudity, music band, rise and fall, lifestyle, life is a bitch ...
Time: 60s
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67%
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
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65%
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Roadie (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After 20 years of touring, a roadie for a defunct 80s hair band returns home to live with his mother.
Style: realistic, serious, sentimental, emotional, romantic drama ...
Plot: heavy metal, unfulfillment, hopes, adolescence vs adulthood, rock, homecoming, parents and children, introspection, family relations, midlife crisis, mental illness, daydreamer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york state, new york
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64%
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Corrine Burns retreats far into plans for her band, The Fabulous Stains, after her mother's death.
Style: psychotronic, retro, thinking, cult classic, independent film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: punk, punk rock, rock and roll, rock, feminist, satire, coming of age, rock music, girl gang, feminism, counterculture, strong female character ...
Time: year 1982, 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Elvis (1979)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 168 min.
Story: Biographical movie about the famous rock singer Elvis Presley.
Style: realistic, touching, emotional, serious, sentimental ...
Plot: elvis presley, music, rock music, biopic, musician's life, price of fame, celebrity culture, rags to riches, rock and roll, desire for fame, music band, showbiz ...
Time: 50s, 60s, 1950s
Place: las vegas, mississippi
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63%
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Wild Guitar (1962)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A young rock & roll hopeful is given a shot at the big time by the unscrupulous owner of a small record company.
Style: grindhouse, independent film, serious, realistic, art house ...
Plot: rock and roll, bad girl, hippie, underground, promoter, contract, motorcycle, teenage boy, teenage girl, musician, manipulation, music ...
Time: 60s
Place: south dakota, california
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62%
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Killing Bono (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Neil and Ivan McCormick, two Irish brothers who attempt to become rock stars but can only look on as their high school friends U2 become the biggest band in the world.
Style: feel good, semi serious, humorous, realistic, witty ...
Plot: desire for fame, follow your dream, friends, ambition, teenage life, teenage boy, brother brother relationship, rivalry, rock and roll, family relations, youth, hopes ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1976, 70s
Place: europe, dublin ireland, ireland
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62%
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Spike Island (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Teenage musicians travel to England's Spike Island in the hope of attending an outdoor performance by their favorite band, the Stone Roses.
Style: captivating, serious, realistic, touching, sad
Audience: teens
Plot: music band, ambition, follow your dream, teenage life, teenage love, friendship, music business, coming of age, love and romance, hopes, youth, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: manchester, england
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59%
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One-Trick Pony (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Jonah (Paul Simon) is an aging rock star trying to put together a new album in the face of an indifferent record label and a talentless producer. At the same time, he's struggling to save his failing marriage.
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, touching, emotional ...
Plot: rock music, failed marriage, talk show host, rock and roll, music business, artists and showbiz, hopes, aging, life is a bitch, introspection, music, ambition ...
Time: year 1980, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
That Thing You Do! (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A Pennsylvania band scores a hit in 1964 and rides the star-making machinery as long as it can, with lots of help from its manager.
Style: humorous, sentimental, feel good, light, sincere ...
Audience: kids, family outing, date night, teen drama
Plot: music, drummer, recording studio, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, rock and roll, fictional band, showbiz, small town, music band, jazz, friendship, rising to stardom ...
Time: 60s, 50s, 90s, year 1996, 20th century
Place: pennsylvania, columbus ohio, ohio, usa, las vegas ...
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55%
Eddie and the Cruisers (1983)
Genre: Drama, Music, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Michael Paré stars as Eddie Wilson of the rock band Eddie and Cruisers. The band is at the height of their career in the 1960s when front man Eddie drives his car off a bridge in an apparent suicide -- but the body was never found.
Style: cult classic, realistic, serious, captivating, sentimental ...
Audience: teens
Plot: music, rock and roll, rock music, reporter, musician, dancing, teenager, singer, past, missing person, friends, unfulfillment ...
Time: 80s, 60s, 20th century
Place: new jersey
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55%
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The Rocker (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Rob "Fish" Fishman is the drummer in '80s hair metal band Vesuvius. He's unceremoniously booted as the group signs a big record deal, is out of the music world for 20 years - and then receives a second chance with his ...
Style: feel good, humorous, funny, teen, light ...
Audience: teens
Plot: music, heavy metal, music band, youth, rock, rock and roll, musician's life, teenage life, mentor, high school, drums, desire for fame ...
Time: year 2008, 70s, 80s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: ohio, usa, cleveland ohio
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53%
Eddie and the Cruisers II: Eddie Lives! (1989)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In the sixties, Eddie and the cruisers was the hottest band around. But the tragic death of its lead singer broke the band up. Only Eddie is not dead. He works as a carpenter in Montreal. His love of music forces him to create a new band which will ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, emotional, sentimental
Plot: music, redemption, rising to stardom, artists and showbiz, human nature, hidden identity, music band, starting over, desire for fame, dishonesty, ambition, performer's life ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
Place: new jersey, usa, montreal, las vegas
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53%
That'll Be the Day (1973)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Britain, 1958. Restless at school and bored with his life, Jim leaves home to take a series of low-level jobs at a seaside amusement park, where he discovers a world of cheap sex and petty crime. But when that world comes to a shockingly brutal end, ...
Style: offbeat, serious, realistic, gloomy, sincere ...
Plot: rock, rock and roll, singer, freakshow, the beatles, kitchen sink realism, circus, swing, working class, coming of age, showbiz, celebrity culture ...
Time: 1950s, 50s
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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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
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52%
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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
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52%
Len and Company (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A successful music producer quits the industry and exiles himself in upstate New York, but the solitude he seeks is shattered when his estranged son and the pop star he's created come looking for answers.
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological
Plot: music, record producer, father son relationship, musician, music band, social problems, estranged father, musician's life, father son estrangement, father and son, parents and children, family relations ...
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50%
Desperate Teenage Lovedolls (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
Story: Two girls rediscover their love for playing rock, find a drummer and begin practicing. When one of their mothers intervenes, they run away from home and are forced to fend for themselves on the streets against gangs and rival bands. Soon they are ...
Style: independent film, not serious, realistic, offbeat, humorous
Plot: punk, punk rock, rock, erotica, girl gang, alienation, satire, hardcore, rivalry, rise and fall, fictional band, strong female presence ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, usa, california
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48%
Give My Regards to Broad Street (1984)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Having written the music and screenplay for this film, Paul McCartney also plays himself in the leading role. When the mastertape of McCartney's latest album is misplaced, he must discover its whereabouts in less than 24 hours or else risk ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, captivating, humorous
Plot: the beatles, rock, music, rock and roll, gangster, friends, showbiz, heist, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, musician's life, ambition ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Legends (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Three estranged friends are going to be forced to gather very much to their regret ... Axel (Santiago Segura), a very particular Spaniard, decides to undertake the search of his former companions in Buenos Aires. 25 years ago they formed a musical ...
Style: semi serious, entertaining, captivating
Plot: rock band, rock music, rock concert, father son relationship, nostalgia, desire for fame, group of friends, musician, music band, reunited friends, parents and children, aspiration ...
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44%
Scenes from the Goldmine (1987)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A girl trying to make it in the 1980's New Wave rock and roll scene in L.A.
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, captivating, touching ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teenager, club, rock and roll, betrayal, ambition, couples, friends, dishonesty, fall in love, unfulfillment, love and romance, musician's life ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: seattle
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43%
What We Do Is Secret (2007)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A biopic of punk legend Darby Crash and his band, the Germs.
Style: serious, realistic, tense, suspense, informative ...
Plot: punk rock, punk, music, rock, biopic, musician's life, lifestyle, rising to stardom, drug abuse, celebrity culture, nightlife, ambition ...
Time: 70s
Place: los angeles, usa, california
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42%
In His Life: The John Lennon Story (2000)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A film about the early life of the rock musician and his burgeoning career as a member of the Beatles.
Style: captivating, sincere, serious, realistic, rockumentary
Plot: musician, the beatles, prodigy, musician's life, rise to the top, ambition, against the odds, rock music, rising to stardom, lifestyle, youth, working class ...
Time: 60s, 50s, 1950s
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The Mambo Kings (1992)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: France, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The Mambo Kings tells the story of César and Nestor Castillo, brothers and aspiring musicians who flee from Cuba to America in search of the American Dream.
Style: sentimental, melancholic, emotional, serious, realistic ...
Plot: music, musician's life, rags to riches, true love, performer's life, family relations, immigrant, love story, brother brother relationship, sibling rivalry, fame, love ...
Time: 50s, 1950s, year 1992, 20th century
Place: cuba, new york, america, havana cuba, latin america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Two Bits (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: It's a hot summer day in 1933 in South Philly, where 12-year old Gennaro lives with his widowed mom and his ailing grandpa, who sits outside holding tight to his last quarter, which he's promised to Gennaro and which Gennaro would like to ...
Style: touching, sentimental, emotional, independent film, anamorphic ...
Plot: coming of age, youth, rich and poor, world war one, family relations, friends, hopes, self discovery, friendship, parents and children, family life, haunted by the past ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: philadelphia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Time Stands Still (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A Budapest high school in the beginning of the 1960s. Dinis suffers the torments of adolescence. His father had to leave Hungary after the uprise in 1956, and since then Dini's mother has had to take care of her two sons on her own. A friend of ...
Style: realistic, emotional, touching, rough, serious
Plot: family problems, family relations, rebellion, teenage life, high school, youth, coming of age, family life, high school life, teenager, socialism, boy ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: hungary
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37%
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