Performer's life movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant performer's life movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious, serious, touching and sentimental films and TV shows about / with performer's life, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, love and romance, ambition, showbiz, couples, family relations, friends and dancing plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Music genres shot in USA, France, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as performer's life: Water for Elephants (2011), Burlesque (2010), Tipping the Velvet (2002), The King Is Dancing (2000), On Tour (2010), Dreamgirls (2006), Hannah Montana: The Movie (2009), You Instead (2011), The Mambo Kings (1992), Louie (2010).

List of performer's life movies

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Water for Elephants (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: In this captivating Depression-era melodrama, impetuous veterinary student Jacob Jankowski joins a celebrated circus as an animal caretaker but faces a wrenching dilemma when he's transfixed by angelic married performer Marlena.
Style: romantic, emotional, sexy, touching, stylized ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot: circus, forbidden love, love story, love and romance, older woman younger man relationship, couple relations, lovers, performer's life, couples, abusive husband, artists and showbiz, older woman younger man ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 50s, 20th century, 1920s ...
Place: usa
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 6.4
 93K
Burlesque (2010)
Genre: Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: The Burlesque Lounge has its best days behind it. Tess, a retired dancer and owner of the venue, struggles to keep the aging theater alive, facing all kinds of financial and artistic challenges. With the Lounge's troupe members becoming ...
Style: sexy, romantic, light, teen, entertaining ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot: dancing, performer's life, desire for fame, cabaret, ambition, burlesque, love and romance, happy ending, dancer, nightlife, sexy woman, nightclub ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, iowa, usa
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Tipping the Velvet (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 177 min.
TV show
Story: Set in the 1890s, Tipping the Velvet tells the lesbian love affair between male impersonator music hall star Kitty Butler and Nan Astley.
Style: costume drama, touching, realistic, serious, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: lesbian, lesbian love, lesbian relationship, gender, lesbian romance, performer's life, sexual relations, couples, cross dressing, lgbt, gays and lesbians, sex ...
Time: 19th century, 1890s, victorian era
Place: england, britain, europe, london
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The King Is Dancing (2000)
Genre: Drama, History, Music
Country: France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Louis XIV, the French sun-king has two passions, establishing absolute rule over the realm -after decades of religious/civil wars- by divine right and artistic brilliancy as a dancer
Style: atmospheric, stylized, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Plot: french history, king of france, performer's life, royal family, royalty, composer, ballet, dancing, playwright, intrigue, dishonesty, rise and fall ...
Time: 17th century
Place: france, versailles, europe
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 6.5
 3K
On Tour (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Formerly successful television producer Joachim Zand returns from America to his native France, where he previously has left everything behind, including friends, enemies and his own children. In his company is a burlesque striptease troupe whom he ...
Style: semi serious, sentimental, realistic, humorous, witty ...
Plot: performer's life, burlesque, estrangement, family relations, family life, lifestyle, nothing goes right, comeback, showbiz, on the road, father son relationship, courage ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: france, europe, paris france
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 6.6
 77K
Dreamgirls (2006)
Genre: Drama, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Three young women – Deena Jones, Effie White and Lorrell Robinson – dream of becoming pop stars and they get their wish when they're chosen to be backup singers for the legendary James 'Thunder' Early.
Style: stylized, emotional, lyrical, melancholic, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: african american, performer's life, showbiz, music, fame, dancing, broadway, jazz, manager, black, unlikely friendships, dance ...
Time: 60s, 70s, year 2006, 2000s, 20th century
Place: michigan, los angeles, detroit, usa, new york ...
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Hannah Montana: The Movie (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: When Miley Stewart (aka pop-star Hannah Montana) gets too caught up in the superstar celebrity lifestyle, her dad decides it's time for a total change of scenery. But sweet nibblets! Miley must trade in all the glitz and glamour of Hollywood ...
Style: feel good, teen, entertaining, melancholic, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night, pre-teens ...
Plot: teenager, double life, teenage life, parents and children, teenage girl, fall in love, celebrity, lifestyle, youth, hidden identity, love and romance, pop star ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: usa, nashville tennessee, malibu california, tennessee
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 6.5
 5K
You Instead (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Two feuding rock stars get handcuffed together for 24 hours at a music festival where they are both due to perform.
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, sentimental, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: music festival, opposites attract, performer's life, ego clash, lifestyle, initially antagonists, showbiz, disorder, music band, rock, reluctant partners, nothing goes right ...
Time: 21st century
Place: scotland, europe, england
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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 ...
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 8.5
 82K
Louie (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Louis C.K. stars as a fictionalized version of himself; a comedian and newly divorced father raising his two daughters in New York City.
Style: humorous, sitcom, sincere, dark comedy, clever ...
Plot: loneliness, performer's life, dark humor, midlife crisis, comedian, family relations, city life, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, disorder, frustration, parenthood ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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The Last Circus (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The journey of Javier, the obese Sad Clown, starts during his childhood in the midst of the Spanish civil war in 1937. His father, one of Spain’s most prominent jesters, is detained and tortured by the fascist regime.
Style: disturbing, dark comedy, bleak, rough, psychological ...
Plot: clown, circus, rivalry, performer's life, uninhibited rivalry, life is a bitch, evil clown, killer clown, dark humor, sadism, graphic violence, violent content ...
Time: 2010s, year 2010, 70s, 20th century, 1930s ...
Place: europe, spain, madrid
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 7.6
 298K
Moulin Rouge! (2001)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Parisian nightclub, at the cusp of the 20th century. A young poet, who is plunged into the heady world of Moulin Rouge, begins a passionate affair with ...
Style: sentimental, sexy, visually stunning, romantic, colorful ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot: cabaret, love story, showbiz, tragic love, nightclub, jealousy, music, performer's life, love and romance, seduction, tango, terminal illness ...
Time: 19th century, 1890s, year 2001, victorian era, 1800s ...
Place: paris france, europe, detroit, montmartre paris, france ...
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Taking 5 (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Just when BFFs Gabby and Devon have a chance to get the hottest band to perform a free concert at Highland High, their plan goes up in smoke... literally. Desperate not to be labeled losers for life they resort to plan B: kidnap the band! Now ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, romantic, light, realistic
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: teenage love, musician's life, youth, music band, teenage life, lifestyle, performer's life, concert, best friend, love and romance, teenager, high school ...
Time: 21st century
Place: russia
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Aziz Ansari: Buried Alive (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Standup comedian Aziz Ansari ("Parks and Recreation") headlines his third standup special, where he shares his uniquely hilarious perspective on fears of adulthood, babies, marriage, and more. Ansari's look at life on the cusp of 30 ...
Style: funny, melancholic, talky, hilarious, realistic ...
Plot: love, marriage, sarcasm, violent, performer's life, character study, artists and showbiz, adulthood, stand up comedy, talk show, religions or cults, ethnic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: indiana, usa
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The Fluffy Movie (2014)
Genre: Documentary, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Stand-up comic Gabriel Iglesias delights audiences during his sold-out "Unity Through Laughter" tour, which spans more than 400 cities in 23 countries. During his set, Iglesias -- nicknamed "Fluffy" -- pounces on topics like ...
Style: humorous, witty, realistic, not serious, skit ...
Plot: performer's life, society, friends, artists and showbiz, on the road, stand up comedy, talk show, comedian, profanity, cross country, theater, stand up
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
Is relevant ?
 6.9
 792
Paper Birds (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Spain
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Jorge and Enrique are two artist in the post Spanish Civil War times that adopt an orphan child called Miguel. With a varieté company that travel around the country, Jorge and Enrique see the horrors left by the war meanwhile the Republic Army ...
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, atmospheric, captivating ...
Plot: spanish civil war, performer's life, artists and showbiz, family relations, life is a bitch, society, orphan, friendship, rivalry, spanish history, world war two, franco regime (francoism) ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s
Place: spain, europe
Is relevant ?
 6.4
 4K
Let It Shine (2012)
Genre: Drama, Family, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The film follows a shy, talented musician who pens romantic hip-hop verses only to stand idly by as they're delivered to the girl of his dreams by a proxy, his best friend. Made for Disney Channel movie/
Style: feel good, realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, girls' night, pre-teens
Plot: hip hop, teenage life, teenage love, hip hop culture, ambition, follow your dream, lifestyle, performer's life, fall in love, musician's life, dream come true, best friend ...
Time: 21st century
Place: georgia, usa
Is relevant ?
 3.7
 38K
Spice World (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The film follows the Spice Girls and their entourage (mostly fictional characters) - manager Clifford, his assistant Deborah, filmmaker Piers (who is trying to shoot a documentary on "the real Spice Girls") and others in their everyday ...
Style: feel good, humorous, entertaining, light, satirical ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, kids
Plot: desire for fame, music, friendship, music band, stereotypes, childhood, performer's life, media, on the road, celebrity culture, paparazzi, disorder ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: england, europe, london, tower bridge london
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The Audrey Hepburn Story (2000)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 133 min.
Story: The film spans from Hepburn's early childhood to the 1950s which details her life as a Dutch ballerina, coming to grips with her parents' divorce, and enduring life in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II. She then settles in ...
Style: uplifting, serious, feel good, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot: hollywood, actor's life, world war two, showbiz, celebrity culture, performer's life, rising to stardom, childhood, filmmaking, haunted by the past, human spirit, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 1940s, 50s, 1950s
Place: usa, new york, europe, holland, manhattan new york city
Is relevant ?
 6.5
 24K
Purple Rain (1984)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A young man with a talent for music meets an aspiring singer, Apollonia, and finds that talent alone isn't all that he needs.
Style: exciting, captivating, realistic, sentimental, cult classic ...
Plot: rivalry, musician, music, african american, motorcycle, dysfunctional family, singer, redemption, dancing, human spirit, rock and roll, aspiring singer ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: minnesota, minneapolis minnesota, usa
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Dance of a Dream (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Namson Lau is a ballroom dancing instructor. On stage, he is a refined and suave gentleman, but in reality, he is cunning and greedy, and dancing has become a mean to strike fortune for him, without any other levels of significance.
Style: captivating, humorous, semi serious, touching, stylized ...
Plot: rivalry, performer's life, follow your dream, cinderella story, society, hopes, social differences, hotshot hero, contests and competitions, love and romance, artists and showbiz, dancing ...
Time: 21st century
Is relevant ?
 6.1
 368
Watching Ellie (2002)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: A single woman, Ellie Riggs, tries to navigate her way through the Los Angeles music scene and her own messy personal life.
Style: sitcom, semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot: performer's life, workplace, artists and showbiz, aspiring singer, media satire, media
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
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Gabriel Iglesias: Hot and Fluffy (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
Story: Gabriel Iglesias is one of the fastest-rising comics today! With his unique brand of humor, lovable stage presence and wide range of voices and impressions, it's no wonder that he already has a huge fan following. Now you can see Comedy ...
Style: witty, humorous, talky, not serious, skit ...
Plot: performer's life, society, buddies, artists and showbiz, physical appearance, lifestyle, theater, stand up comedy, comedian, talk show, cabaret, latinos ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa
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So NoTORIous (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: So Notorious, sometimes stylized So NoTORIous, is an American sitcom on VH1, loosely based on the life of actress Tori Spelling. The series debuted on April 2, 2006 and despite lasting only ten episodes, received substantial acclaim from critics.
Style: witty, semi serious, realistic, humorous, sitcom ...
Plot: celebrity culture, performer's life, hollywood, filmmaking, love and romance, media satire, artists and showbiz, social relations, down on your luck, friends, famous, roommate ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
Is relevant ?
 6.7
 397
Aglaya (2012)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Hungary, Romania, Poland
Duration: 116 min.
Story: This film is about the relationship of a mother and her daughter, the split-up of their family, the blessing and curse of belonging together and about coming of age - all this from the perspective of the young girl Aglaja. The story is based on ...
Style: atmospheric, touching, sentimental, emotional, serious ...
Plot: circus, ambition, performer's life, self discovery, dysfunctional family, desire for fame, family relations, artists and showbiz, parents and children, eccentric family, youth, family problems ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s
Place: hungary
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Mind of Mencia (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Mind of Mencia was an American television comedy series on the cable channel Comedy Central. Hosted by Carlos Mencia, it aired from 2005 to 2008.
Style: sketch comedy, realistic, not serious, witty, parody ...
Plot: stand up comedian, performer's life, disorder, society, social relations, couples, celebrity culture, stereotypes, interracial relations, satire, vulgar, racial stereotype ...
Time: y2k, 21st century
Place: usa, mexico
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Eddie Izzard: Circle (2002)
Genre: Documentary, Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Town Hall, New York City, 26 June 2000. An evening with Eddie Izzard in which he moves back and forth in time, with religion as the loose but constant theme.
Style: not serious, realistic, talky, witty, biting ...
Plot: transvestism, performer's life, artists and showbiz, society, physical appearance, gender bending, theater, stand up comedy, space travel, renaissance, lgbtq, comedian ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, britain, spain, greece, amsterdam ...
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The Misplaced World (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 101 min.
Story: By chance Paul Kromberger discovers on the internet a photograph of the US opera diva Caterina Fabiani who is the spitting image of Evelyn, his dead wife. His unease and growing sense of alarm are transferred to his daughter, Sophie. Filled with ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, emotional
Plot: introspection, performer's life, uncover truth, life turned upside down, family relations, opera singer, artists and showbiz, parents and children, father daughter relationship, half sister half sister relationship, ballet teacher, brother brother relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, new york, usa
Is relevant ?
 5.5
 597
Jackpot (2001)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Sunny Holiday, an aspiring singing star, abandons his wife and young baby to set off on a nine-month tour of bleak western towns. He takes off with his road manager in a pink Chrysler in search of their own version of the American Dream: a country ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, independent film, offbeat ...
Plot: relationship vs career, ambition, obsessive quest, performer's life, lifestyle, musician's life, showbiz, on the road, family problems, crumbling marriage, artists and showbiz, road trip ...
Time: year 2001
Place: idaho, usa
Is relevant ?
 6.4
 4K
Podium (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Bernand Fréderic is a mediocre bank executive. He's married and have a son. He used to have antother profession: to be French star Claude Francois. Now, with the Imitators Gala Night coming up, he must choose between his wife or the only thing ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, surprise ending
Plot: performer's life, desire for fame, ambition, showbiz, dull life, lifestyle, obsessive quest, rivalry, artists and showbiz, crumbling marriage, celebrity culture, lookalikes ...
Time: 2000s, 70s, 60s, 20th century
Place: france, europe
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