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Plot Summary:
Merel is a young girl with a lot of talent. She excels at school, is good on the springboard and is careful too. Her severely handicapped brother Kasper gets a lot of attention. Merel also has talent for singing. It is no surprise that she is asked for the school musical. But maybe Merel is a bit too convinced of herself. When people perform solos, she likes to sing along loudly. This doesn't fall on good ground though. People start ignoring her and she is getting bullied. All of the sudden Merel's life isn't that easy anymore, it will be hard to keep herself together.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 589
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 77 min
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The Camera Obscura (2008)
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At the end of the 19th century, a woman whom everyone considers ugly is ignored by all. Eventually, she meets a French photographer, and he will be the only person capable of seeing the beauty and the richness of her intense inner world.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 167
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: Argentina, France
Duration: 85 min
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The Right Approach (1961)
Plot Summary:
An opportunistic young Hollywood singer, loyal only to himself, steps on everyone he meets in order to achieve success and fame.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slang
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Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)
Plot Summary:
The second film in Terence Davies's autobiographical series (along with "Trilogy" and "The Long Day Closes") is an impressionistic view of a working-class family in 1940s and 1950s Liverpool, based on Davies's own family. Through a series of exquisite tableaux Davies creates a deeply affecting photo album of a troubled family wrestling with the complexity of love.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: anthology, historical drama, independent film, bleak, serious, realistic, gloomy, crying, complex, eighties
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Lace (1998)
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Directed by Inas Al Degheidy.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Egypt
Duration:
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How Do I Love You? (1966)
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Gigliola is a young and humble Neapolitan swimmer who will compete in a competition in Spain and finds herself falling for the fiance of her best friend. But when they come to visit her in Italy, she pretends to be rich, with the complicity of their parents.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 107 min
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Mods (2002)
Plot Summary:
A quasi-musical by Serge Bozon.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 59 min
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Tango Argentino (1992)
Plot Summary:
A boy who is helping lonely, elderly people revives their urge to live and receives in return their love and understanding, which have been denied to him by his parents.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 849
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: pre war
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Voices (1979)
Plot Summary:
Oscar-nominee Amy Irving ("Crossing Delancy," "Carrie") stars as a deaf woman who falls in love with an aspiring rock singer, even though she is unable to hear him sing.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 334
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
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Piaf: The Early Years (1974)
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Édith Giovanna Gassion is born in 1915. As a young girl she sings on the streets of Paris until a nightclub owner, Louis Leplée, discovers her. When he is murdered the composer Raymond Asso takes care of her and lets her perform at the ABC theatre, which leads to her breakthrough.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
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Dance of the Wind (1997)
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The mother of the Indian female singer Pallavi (Kitu Gidwani) is at the end of her life. She was master and teacher for her daughter for the art of Indian singing. But she will not be able to complete her lessons. So Pallavi experiences the lack of the guru of her mother. Finally she finds him in a very young street-girl who is able to sing marvelously. But this girl keeps disappearing again and again.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: India
Duration: 85 min
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Birth of a Nation (1983)
Plot Summary:
A new teacher at a highly problematic comprehensive school feels that corporal punishment may just be inflaming the problems, and so begins to campaign against it.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 79 min
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Once Upon an Angel (2002)
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A grief-stricken man who just lost his mother has a one night stand with a maid. What he doesn't know is that she's a virgin. He returns to his sad world of perfume business while she, unable to forget her first lover, follows him.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 227
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, serious, realistic, touching, light
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I Could Go on Singing (1963)
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Jenny Bowman is a successful singer who, while on an engagement at the London Palladium, visits David Donne to see her son Matt again, spending a few glorious days with him while his father is away in Rome in an attempt to attain the family that she never had. When David returns, Matt is torn between his loyalty to his father and his affection for Jenny.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, emotional, realistic
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Just Like Before (2006)
Plot Summary:
A movie about the Filipino rock Band The Dawn.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 24
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: Philippines
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: captivating, semi autobiographical, independent film, entertaining
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Pleasure Campus: Secret Games (1980)
Plot Summary:
This is a combination of stories dealing with the ecstatic adventures of high school student Sachiko.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 67 min
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A Beautiful Life (2023)
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When a young fisherman with a hidden talent gets discovered by a music producer, he must decide if he's ready to open himself up to stardom — and love.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 98 min
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Cat's Play (1974)
Plot Summary:
Karoly Makk's heartbreaking story of two unmarried sisters who cast wistful glances back at their lives, but still believe in hope and love, earned an Academy Award Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film in 1974. In this follow-up to the director's internationally acclaimed Love, Makk once again exhibits his extraordinary skills at drawing emotionally compelling performances from his talented female leads. Makk's film opposes the bleakness of the outside world with passion, love, and loyalty.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 230
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: Hungary
Duration: 115 min
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6A (2016)
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As if immersed in the situation, the viewer witnesses a distressing encounter between angry parents, a helpless teacher and three schoolgirls. It soon becomes clear that certain things are going wrong in their class. There have been complaints of bullying. The parents are mainly concerned with defending their own children. They throw around neurotic accusations and make untenable demands. Using a camera which itself seems to participate in the discussion, scene after scene is dissected with refreshing malice and a sense for the dark side of human nature. Desperate attempts to resolve things unleash an avalanche of other problems. It takes a long time before Denise, Bella and Mina can have their say.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 61 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspenseful, contemplative, juvenile
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Boy's Choir (2000)
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A young teen's father dies, and he is sent to an orphanage. He's teased because he stutters almost runs away, until a beautiful, androgynous boy, Yasuo (Sora Toma), convinces him to join the choir.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Secret Superstar (2017)
Plot Summary:
Insia Malik is a talented 15-year-old school girl from Baroda whose spirit is ripped because her mother is in a troubled and violent marriage. Of course she still dares to pursue her dream of becoming a singer and she also valiantly attempts to free her mother from her conservative, cold father.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: India
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, captivating, feel good, extraordinary
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Teen Spirit (2018)
Plot Summary:
Violet, a shy teenager living on the Isle of Wight off the south coast of England dreams of pop stardom and with the help of an unlikely mentor, she enters a singing competition that will test her integrity, talent and ambition.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, light, exciting
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Falling from Grace (1992)
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Rock singer John Mellencamp makes his screen and directorial debut in this story by "Lonesome Dove" author, Larry McMurtry. The story, not too separated from Mellencamp's real life, finds him as a country music star whose meanderings and philandering has thrown his life into turmoil. Returning to his native Indiana to try to reestablish a normal life. Instead he takes up with an old lover (Lenz), ignoring his loving wife (Hemingway), and duplicating the lifestyle of his womanizing father (Akins).
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 695
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, contemplative
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Beyond Silence (1996)
Plot Summary:
Beyond Silence is about a family and a young girl’s coming of age story. This German film looks into the lives of the deaf and at a story about the love for music. A girl who has always had to translate speech into sign language for her deaf parents yet when her love for playing music grows strong she must decide to continue doing something she cannot share with her parents.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: Germany
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, spiritual, sad, crying, sentimental, sincere, serious, emotional, sexy
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Permanent Record (1988)
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David Sinclair seems to have everything going for him: he's smart, musically talented, and very successful. To top off his senior year in high school, his band is trying to get a recording session. Therefore, David's suicide leaves everyone, especially his best friend and band-mate, Chris, with a lot of questions.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: cult classic, touching, emotional, realistic, retro, sincere, serious, gloomy, crying, sentimental
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Regret! (2013)
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Jochem is the target of bullying. David does not participate, but he dares intervene. The class teacher also does not engage., Jochem seems to attract the harassment, which gets worse every day. One morning David feels guilty. Why did he never opened his mouth?.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Family, Music
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, psychological, sad, captivating, crying
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The Bélier Family (2014)
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The whole Bélier family is deaf, except for sixteen year old Paula who is the important translator in her parents' day to day life especially when it comes to matters concerning the family farm. When her music teacher discovers she has a fantastic singing voice and she gets an opportunity to enter a big Radio France contest the whole family's future is set up for big changes.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: touching, suspenseful, emotional, semi serious, humorous, sincere, sexy, feel good, sad, tear jerker
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A Child Is Waiting (1963)
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Dr. Matthew Clark is the head of a state institution for mentally retarded children. Jean Hansen, a former music teacher anxious to give her life some meaning, joins the staff of the hospital. Jean, who tries to shelter the children with her love, suspiciously regards Clark's stern training methods. She becomes emotionally involved with 12-year-old Reuben Widdicombe, who has been abandoned by his divorced parents.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sincere, uplifting, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, intellectual, social, sad, sentimental
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Mr. Holland's Opus (1995)
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In 1965, passionate musician Glenn Holland takes a day job as a high school music teacher, convinced it's just a small obstacle on the road to his true calling: writing a historic opus. As the decades roll by with the composition unwritten but generations of students inspired through his teaching, Holland must redefine his life's purpose.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: inspirational, emotional, touching, sentimental, sincere, serious, realistic, dramatic, sad, motivational
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Take the Lead (2006)
Plot Summary:
A former professional dancer volunteers to teach dance in the New York public school system and, while his background first clashes with his students' tastes, together they create a completely new style of dance. Based on the story of ballroom dancer, Pierre Dulane.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: inspirational, sexy, entertaining, captivating, feel good, teen, spiritual, epic, educational, sincere
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The Chorus (2004)
Plot Summary:
Set in 1940's France, a new teacher at a school for disruptive boys gives hope and inspiration.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 66000
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: France, Switzerland, Germany
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: touching, inspirational, uplifting, emotional, sentimental, feel good, educational, realistic, epic, art house