Movies like Brassed Off
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Brassed Off (1996)
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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 first mocked for being a woman, she soon becomes the only chance for the band to win.
Style:
sexy, touching, feel good, emotional, sentimental, light, romantic, political, entertaining, melancholic ...
Plot:
small town, music, mining, relationships, working class, brass band, musician, hospital, competition, nude, catastrophe, dancing, village, psychology, depression, politics, betrayal, singer, fantasy world, destiny, rock and roll, corruption, poverty, runaway, happy ending ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 70s, 18th century
Place:
england, yorkshire, london, scotland, northern england, europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, feel good and light films with plots about storytelling, dialogue, mentor, culture clash, catastrophe, destiny and runaway mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Brassed Off: Among Giants (1998), Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2011), Made in Dagenham (2010), Starter for 10 (2006), Greenfingers (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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melancholic, intense, sincere, sexy, emotional ...
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working class, friends, life, love triangle, catastrophe, society, human nature, friendship, nude, male nudity, fashion, parallel universe ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
england, yorkshire, europe, ireland, london
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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:
romantic, inspirational, feel good, sentimental, entertaining ...
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chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
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middle east, scotland, england, london, africa ...
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination.
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inspirational, touching, factual, emotional, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
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working class, revolution, gender, politics, discrimination, women, fighting the system, workplace, idealism, protest, injustice, underdog ...
Time:
60s, 70s, 20th century, year 1966, year 1970 ...
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england, london, europe, united kingdom, michigan ...
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In 1985, against the backdrop of Thatcherism, Brian Jackson enrolls in the University of Bristol, a scholarship boy from seaside Essex with a love of knowledge for its own sake and a childhood spent watching "University Challenge," a ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, witty, light, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, pre-teens
Plot:
coming of age, university, college, politics, social differences, unlikely friendships, happy ending, love triangle, buddies, youth, couple relations, love and romance ...
Time:
80s, 70s
Place:
england, europe, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Clive Owen stars as a prison inmate who goes into an experimental "open" prison where the inmates walk around freely and get job training for their impending releases. While there, he discovers he has a talent for growing flowers. His ...
Style:
feel good, touching, compassionate, witty, inspirational ...
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girls' night, date night
Plot:
prison, redemption, prison escape, friendship, solitude, happy ending, unlikely friendships, adaptation, fish out of water, going straight, starting over, hopes ...
Time:
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Place:
england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
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After the death of her father, Little Voice or LV becomes a virtual recluse, never going out and hardly ever saying a word. She just sits in her bedroom listening to her father's collection of old records of Shirley Bassey, Marilyn Monroe and ...
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Place:
england, yorkshire, northern england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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village, world war one, small town, scientific expedition, culture clash, countryside, farm, love, redemption, fantasy world, catastrophe, brutality ...
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29%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Duets is a road-trip comedy which revolves around the little known world of karaoke and the whimsical characters who inhabit it. All roads lead to Omaha, site of a national karaoke competition where this motley group of singers and stars come ...
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Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
road trip, family relations, contests and competitions, love and romance, partners, singer, ambition, musician, singing competition, on the road, father daughter relationship, police investigation ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Italy, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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80s, 20th century
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
The Fighting Temptations stars Cuba Gooding, Jr. as the film's protagonist as he attempts to revive a church choir in order to enter a gospel competition with the help of a beautiful lounge singer (Beyoncé Knowles) with whom he soon falls in ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, romantic, melancholic, absurd ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night
Plot:
church choir, small town, music, love story, disorder, music band, contests and competitions, ambition, friendship, last wish, family relations, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
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usa, cuba, georgia, new york, empire state building manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night
Plot:
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23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Place:
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21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Four women who discover untapped strength within themselves when they finally let go of what divides them
Style:
touching, sentimental, sexy, clever, visually appealing ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Israel, USA, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
musician, culture clash, small town, jewish, stranded, orchestra, ethnic conflict, fish out of water, society, disorder, music, melancholy ...
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Place:
israel, middle east, egypt, alexandria egypt
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21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, feel good, inspirational, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night
Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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realistic, sentimental, romantic, sweet, emotional ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
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Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
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Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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19%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
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Story:
A bored Japanese accountant sees a beautiful woman in the window of a ballroom dance studio. He secretly starts taking dancing lessons to be near her, and then over time discovers how much he loves ballroom dancing. His wife, meanwhile, has hired a ...
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19%
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Story:
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19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, War
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
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19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
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Style:
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chick flick, teens, girls' night
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⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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18%
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