Performance movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant performance movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, humorous, feel good, stylized, sincere and semi serious films and TV shows about / with artists and showbiz, music, lifestyle, musician, dancing, friendship, friends, singer, singing and ambition plots mostly in Drama, Music and Comedy genres shot in USA, Japan, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as performance: Pitch Perfect (2012), Burlesque (2010), Perfect Blue (1997), Lemonade Mouth (2011), Glee (2009), Julie and the Phantoms (2020), Step Up (2006), High Strung (2016), Control (2007), K-On! (2009).
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329K
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
College student Beca knows she does not want to be part of a clique, but that's exactly where she finds herself after arriving at her new school. Thrust in among mean gals, nice gals and just plain weird gals, Beca finds that the only thing ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, realistic, teen, funny ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, family outing, teen drama ...
Plot:
music, youth, competition, female friendship, college life, teenager, college, rivalry, female protagonist, singing competition, music band, friends ...
Time:
2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place:
usa
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93K
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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Genre: Animation, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A retired pop singer turned actress' sense of reality is shaken when she is stalked by an obsessed fan and seemingly a ghost of her past.
Style:
surreal, suspense, adult animation, anime, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
murder, serial killer, mentally unstable, stalking, obsession, actor's life, actress, twists and turns, psychopath, rape, losing-it hero, woman in danger ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1997
Place:
japan, east asia, asia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
The story follows five disparate high school students - Olivia, Mo, Charlie, Stella, and Wen who meet in detention. They realize they are destined to rock, and ultimately form a band that becomes a champion for students sidelined by the high school ...
Style:
humorous, light, realistic, semi serious, teen ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, kids, girls' night
Plot:
youth, high school, friendship, teenage life, friends, lifestyle, music band, artists and showbiz, self discovery, follow your dream, high school life, ambition ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
rhode island, usa
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155K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story:
Glee is an American teen musical comedy-drama television series that airs on the Fox network in the United States. It focuses on the reconstituted William McKinley High School glee club, New Directions, which competes on the show choir competition ...
Style:
feel good, stylized, humorous, semi serious, witty ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night, teen drama ...
Plot:
high school, gay, coach, teenage life, youth, cheerleader, friendship, contests and competitions, outcast, teenage girl, gay teenager, music band ...
Time:
2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
ohio, idaho, usa
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
Teenage Julie finds her passion for music and life while helping the Phantoms -- a trio of ghostly guys -- become the band they were never able to be.
Style:
sweet, entertaining, feel good, touching, sincere ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teen fantasy, girls' night
Plot:
pop star, schoolgirl, musician's life, love and romance, first love, teenage girl, friendship, music band, celebrity, female protagonist, teenager, teenage life ...
Place:
usa
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126K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Everyone deserves a chance to follow their dreams, but some people only get one shot. Tyler Gage is a rebel from the wrong side of Baltimore's tracks and the only thing that stands between him and an unfulfilled life are his dreams of one day ...
Style:
feel good, captivating, teen, sweet, romantic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
dancing, dance, hip hop, happy ending, music, youth, love and romance, dance school, ballet, teen romance, couples, teenage love ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
baltimore, maryland, usa
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
When a hip hop violinist busking in the New York subway encounters a classical dancer on scholarship at the Manhattan Conservatory of the Arts, sparks fly. With the help of a hip hop dance crew they must find a common ground while preparing for a ...
Style:
romantic, light, sweet, entertaining, happy
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
dancing, ballet, dancer's life, dance, violin, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, youth, unlikely couple, competition, music, breaking point, musician ...
Place:
new york
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68K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: UK, USA, Australia, Japan, France
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Control is the biography of Joy Division lead singer Ian Curtis, taking his story from schoolboy days of 1973 to his suicide on the eve of the band's first American tour in 1980.
Style:
depressing, atmospheric, black and white, stylized, sad ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
music, punk, singer, depression, suicide, musician's life, punk rock, musician, rock and roll, biopic, epilepsy, music band ...
Time:
70s, y2k, year 2007, year 1980, year 1973 ...
Place:
england, manchester, london, northern england, europe
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4K
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
Rock n' Roll may never die, but the Sakuragoaka Girl's High School Light Music Club might not be here to stay unless would-be drummer Ritsu Tainaka can find three more members to replace the graduated seniors. Determined to see that the ...
Style:
anime, humorous, feel good, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
music band, high school, friendship, friends, music, youth, student life, teachers and students, teenage life, shyness, social relations, lifestyle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia
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318K
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The setting is Detroit in 1995. The city is divided by 8 Mile, a road that splits the town in half along racial lines. A young white rapper, Jimmy "B-Rabbit" Smith Jr. summons strength within himself to cross over these arbitrary ...
Style:
inspirational, serious, realistic, harsh, hood ...
Audience:
girls' night, boys' night
Plot:
hip hop, underdog, music, follow your dream, rap, urban ghetto life, success, urban ghetto, musician, rapper, poverty, street gang ...
Time:
90s, year 2002, y2k, 2000s, year 1995 ...
Place:
detroit, michigan, america, los angeles, usa
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5K
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Vitus tells the story of a highly-gifted boy (played by real-life piano prodigy Teo Gheorghiu) whose parents have demanding and ambitious plans for him.
Style:
sincere, semi serious, realistic, feel good, touching ...
Plot:
child prodigy, prodigy, boy, youth, music, coming of age, childhood, family relations, pianist, parents and children, overbearing parent, friendship ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
switzerland, europe, zurich switzerland
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Germany, UK, Hungary
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A fictionalised exploration of Beethoven's life in his final days working on his Ninth Symphony. It is 1824. Beethoven is racing to finish his new symphony. However, it has been years since his last success and he is plagued by deafness, ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, touching, serious, stylized ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
composer, classical music, musician, horse, artist, mute or deaf, biopic, music, pianist, musician's life, contests and competitions, love and romance ...
Time:
19th century, 1820s, 1800s, ancient times, year 2006 ...
Place:
germany, europe, austria, vienna
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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
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
An uninterrupted rehersal of Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" played out by a company of actors. The setting is their run down theater with an unusable stage and crumbling ceiling. The play is shown act by act with the briefest of breaks to ...
Style:
melancholic, sincere, cerebral, talky, stylized ...
Plot:
theater, loneliness, relationships, character study, artists and showbiz, family problems, human nature, art, existentialism, family gatherings, anton chekhov, drinking ...
Time:
year 1994, 20th century, 90s, 1890s, turn of the century
Place:
new york, russia, usa, manhattan new york city, st. petersburg russia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France, Italy, Romania, Belgium
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A former world-famous conductor of the Bolshoï orchestra, known as "The Maëstro", Andreï Filipov had seen his career publicly broken by Leonid Brezhnev for hiring Jewish musicians and now works cleaning the concert hall where he once ...
Style:
touching, melancholic, captivating, sentimental, feel good ...
Plot:
classical music, music, redemption, orchestra, violinist, prodigy, music band, concert, twists and turns, haunted by the past, hopes, musician's life ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france, russia, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Music
Country: Sweden, France, Denmark
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A tone-deaf cop works to track down a group of guerilla percussionists whose anarchic public performances are terrorizing the city.
Style:
humorous, witty, not serious, captivating, dark comedy ...
Plot:
gang, music, rebelliousness, police detective, law enforcement, rebellion, music band, police investigation, brother brother relationship, musician, drummer, drums ...
Time:
year 2010
Place:
scandinavia, europe, eastern europe
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Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story:
A late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. ...
Style:
sketch comedy, humorous, not serious, talky, witty ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
sketch, comedian, satire, musician, singer, cross dressing, actor, politics, stand up comedian, comedy team, celebrity culture, friends ...
Time:
20th century, y2k, 70s, 90s, 80s ...
Place:
usa, new york, america
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 58 min.
Story:
Filmed at the Celebrity Theatre in Phoenix, AZ on February 15th and 16th, 2013, Oh My God is Louis C.K.'s fifth stand-up special, his first for HBO since 2007's Shameless, and his first since winning a Emmy Award for writing on his ...
Style:
humorous, atmospheric, cynical, clever, witty ...
Plot:
dark humor, honest, lifestyle, culture clash, stand up comedy, social problems, society, politically correct, artists and showbiz, couple relations, parents and children, aging ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
arizona, usa
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Genre: Documentary, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 61 min.
Story:
Profane, vulgar and obscenely funny, Louis C.K. insists on telling the truth, whether you like it or not! Join the Emmy Award-winning stand-up comic and TV star (Lucky Louie) as he shares his thoughts on the stuff everyone thinks about -- male ...
Style:
cynical, witty, talky, political, stylized ...
Plot:
stand up comedian, stand up comedy, artists and showbiz, society, disorder, politically correct, social problems, physical appearance, lifestyle, couples, gender, sexual relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 63 min.
Story:
Recorded November 10th, 2011 as part of the New York Comedy Festival, and only available for purchase online, Louis C.K. follows up his 2010 concert film Hilarious with a new hour’s worth of shrewdly observed and periodically profane material. He ...
Style:
humorous, cynical, witty, talky, independent film ...
Plot:
stand up comedy, dark humor, lifestyle, social problems, artists and showbiz, death, talk show, stand up comedian, concert, comedian, one-man show, politically correct ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Four friends spend their free time performing in a wedding band.
Style:
not serious, humorous, realistic
Plot:
buddies, music band, friends, couples, disorder, lifestyle, singleness, friend
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A tale of delinquent and lazy school girls. In their efforts to cut remedial summer math class, they end up poisoning and replacing the schools brass band.
Style:
feel good, semi serious, humorous, teen, uplifting ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
jazz, high school, hardcase students, japanese schoolgirl, summer school, friendship, against the odds, ambition, mischievous children, music band, youth, lifestyle ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
japan, asia
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family, Musical, Mystery
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
While on a grand world tour, The Muppets find themselves wrapped into an European jewel-heist caper headed by a Kermit the Frog look-alike and his dastardly sidekick.
Style:
exciting, humorous, entertaining, light, colorful ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
muppets, puppet, prison, mistaken identity, master criminal, interpol, treasure hunt, good versus evil, frog, friendship, gem, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, london
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
In 1921 New York. an immigrant woman is tricked into a life of burlesque and vaudeville until a dazzling magician tries to save her and reunite her with her sister who is being held in the confines of Ellis Island.
Style:
atmospheric, harsh, emotional, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
prostitution, immigrant, immigration, corruption, family relations, confession, american dream, love affair, exploitation, society, forceful separation, sisters ...
Time:
1920s, year 2013, 20th century
Place:
poland, israel, america, usa, new york ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
After breaking up with his longtime stage partner, a famous but jaded Vegas magician fights for relevance when a new, "hip" street magician appears on the scene.
Style:
humorous, hilarious, entertaining, funny, intense ...
Plot:
magic, friendship, creativity, showbiz, comeback, artists and showbiz, partner, disorder, ambition, uninhibited rivalry, performer's life, rivalry ...
Time:
year 2013, year 1982, 21st century
Place:
las vegas, usa, nevada
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21K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The directorial debut of Dustin Hoffman, Quartet is a high-drama comedy about temperamental divas and old grudges, passion and pride, romance and Rigoletto. At a home for retired musicians, the annual concert to celebrate Verdi's birthday is ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, sincere, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
elderly, opera, aging, retirement home, retired, reconciliation, concert, old age, musician, friendship, music, human spirit ...
Time:
year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
england
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Genre: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
An original story featuring performances by Cirque du Soleil. A young woman is entranced by an Aerialist. When they fall into the dreamlike world of Cirque du Soleil and are separated, they travel through the different tent worlds trying to find ...
Style:
exciting, serious, surreal, stylized, visually stunning ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
circus, disorder, dancer, fall in love, imaginary, young lovers, artists and showbiz, fish out of water, dancing, dance, cirque du soleil, art ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
In the tradition of Anthony Bourdain's "Kitchen Confidential" and Gelsey Kirkland's "Dancing on my Grave" comes an insider’s look into the secret world of classical musicians.
From her debut recital at Carnegie ...
Style:
humorous, realistic, captivating, sincere, romantic ...
Plot:
classical music, musician's life, orchestra, hotshot, prodigy, artists and showbiz, teacher, rehearsal, ego clash, rivalry, career, musician ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Is relevant ?
16K
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story:
Tremé takes its name from a neighborhood of New Orleans and portrays life in the aftermath of the 2005 hurricane. Beginning three months after Hurricane Katrina, the residents of New Orleans, including musicians, chefs, Mardi Gras Indians, and ...
Style:
sincere, touching, serious, sentimental, social ...
Plot:
musician, jazz, social problems, hurricane katrina, musician's life, starting over, survival, lifestyle, tragic event, life turned upside down, human nature, life is a bitch ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
new orleans, louisiana, usa
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