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Plot Summary:
Lucas, Manu, Philippe, Jacob et Mario s'aiment depuis l'enfance. Ils ont du talent et de l'espoir. Ils rêvent de musique et de gloire. Leur groupe de rock, Lust, connaît un succès grandissant, mais les aspirations de chacun rendent incertain leur avenir commun. L'arrivée de Laura dans leur vie va bousculer un peu plus ce fragile équilibre.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 366
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, atmospheric, sexy, serious, realistic, stylized, sexual, eighties
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Beauty and the Bastard (2005)
Plot Summary:
Modern finnish movie about two very different young adults that after a chance meeting end up making music together and fall in love. While Nellis parents have the perfect career and man planned, she dreams of becoming a singer. Through a chance meeting at the studio, she meets the young and grungy Hip Hop music artist Sunen and asks him to help her make a demo tape. Not only is the ensuing story about differences growing closer and the difficulties that have to be overcome, well told. Also the music is exceptionally well made. It is quite unbelievable that this is the first feature of the director.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: semi serious, captivating, entertaining, melancholic, humorous, realistic, sexual, sexy
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Band Aid (2017)
Plot Summary:
A couple who can't stop fighting embark on a last-ditch effort to save their marriage: turning their fights into songs and starting a band.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, sentimental, light, captivating, funny, feel good, crying, independent film
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Love Songs (1984)
Plot Summary:
When Peter, Margaux's American writer husband, leaves Paris in a funk and heads home, she finds herself the single parent of two near teens. She also gets a new assignment at work: to find, sign, and promote new rock singers. She discovers a duo, Michel and Jeremy, and jump-starts their career. Jeremy is attracted to the older Margaux, asserts himself with her, befriends her children, and neglects Michel and the music. The kids go to New York to be with their father, freeing Margaux to respond to Jeremy. Does that relationship have any future? And what of the musical duo?.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 444
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: sexy, serious, captivating, realistic, sexual
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God Save the King (2005)
Plot Summary:
A story about a young girl who leaves her hometown to pursue her dream of becoming a famous punk artist.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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Degrassi Goes Hollywood (2009)
Plot Summary:
The gang travels to Los Angeles, California as they attempt to live out their dreams.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 975
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, captivating, atmospheric, feel good, semi serious, corny
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Fleisch ist mein Gem?se (2008)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 881
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, romantic, offbeat, tragicomedy
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Still Crazy (1998)
Plot Summary:
In the seventies Strange Fruit were it. They lived the rock lifestyle to the max, groupies, drugs, internal tension and an ex front man dead from an overdose. Even their demise was glamorous; when lightning struck the stage during an outdoor festival. 20 years on and these former rock gods they have now sunk deep into obscurity when the idea of a reunion tour is lodged in the head of Tony, former keyboard player of the Fruits. Tony sets out to find his former bandmates with the help of former manager Karen to see if they can recapture the magic and give themselves a second chance.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, neurotic, sentimental, sincere, touching, feel good, realistic, witty, contemplative
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Manhattan Minutiae (2016)
Plot Summary:
A rock & roll romantic comedy centered on an eclectic group of Greenwich Village East residents, led by the intellectual slacker Dex and the passionate Bohemian rock-star-in-the-making, Max. Their grunge chic New York group's divergent backgrounds and views serve to highlight how the pursuit of love, in all its forms and manifestations remains the driving force behind our lives, regardless of age, race, culture, religion or sexual orientation. The journey is punctuated by an original, pulsating soundtrack and live band performances by the all girl group MaxiTit and its faithful lesbian following.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: captivating, psychological, light, sexy, unusual plot structure, lgbt cinema, contemplative
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Swing (2002)
Plot Summary:
In a suburb of Strasbourg, Alsace, France, ten year old boy, Max, spends his summer vacation with his grandmother. He hears Manouche gypsy Romani music being played in a local bar, and loves it. He goes to visit the gypsies in search of a guitar, where he meets a young Romani tomboy, 'Swing'. She introduces Max to her gypsy community who live in caravans and down-at-heel public housing. Over several days, Max is taken into the community to witness Romani lifestyle, traditions, knowledge of plants, and particularly their Manouche music. Max is particularly fascinated by Miraldo, the Romani guitarist he first heard in the bar, and asks to take guitar lessons with him (Miraldo is played by one of the greatest guitarists of gypsy jazz, Tchavolo Schmitt).
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France, Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious
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My Best Friend's Girl (1983)
Plot Summary:
Isabelle Huppert plays an attractive Parisienne out looking for some fun during her vacation on the ski slopes of Courchevel in the Alps when she starts up a relationship with a great-looking sportswear salesman, but at the same time she is entranced by a little chubby disk jockey in a night club.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, sexy, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious, biting, sexual
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The Wedding Weekend (2006)
Plot Summary:
A group of guys who sang together in a college a cappella group reunite 15 years later to perform at a friend's wedding and discover how their lives have progressed -- and in some cases regressed -- since their college heyday.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 689
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, feel good, touching, realistic, semi serious
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Eddie and the Cruisers II: Eddie Lives! (1989)
Plot Summary:
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 have to struggle with its anonymity.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: independent film, sentimental, serious, emotional, realistic, romantic, road movie, sexy, thought provoking, feel good
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Bandage (2010)
Plot Summary:
Set in Japan in the early 1990s, there's one rising band called LANDS, that is starting to find success amidst a flood of other bands. Asako and Miharu are two Tokyo high school students. When Miharu gives Asako her favorite indie rock band; a LANDS CD, she becomes an overnight fan and sets her heart on the talented guitarist Yukiya. LANDS was formed among friends, but as the band begins to climb the ladder towards major stardom, they get in touch with the dark side of the music industry, discord surfaces, inevitable frictions emerge, and unrequited love strains their friendship, threatening to pull their bonds apart.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 467
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: realistic, touching, serious, emotional, romantic, independent film
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Garage Days (2002)
Plot Summary:
A young garage band in Sydney, is trying to make it big in Australia.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Australia
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, entertaining, absurd, feel good, semi serious, exciting, realistic, freeze frame, funny, light
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1234 (2008)
Plot Summary:
Ian Bonar is Stevie, a wannabe musician whose look is a hybrid of Jarvis Cocker and early Elvis Costello. Working with his drummer pal Neil (Matthew Baynton) in a call centre, they dream of breaking into the indie music scene. To do this they require additional band members. Step forward the driven (and drinking) guitarist Billy (Kieran Bew) and slightly scatty bassist Emily (Lyndsey Marshal), who has a sideline in making sculpture from hair.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: sentimental, uplifting, touching, feel good, realistic, humorous, witty, semi serious
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Scenes from the Goldmine (1987)
Plot Summary:
A girl trying to make it in the 1980's New Wave rock and roll scene in L.A.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 153
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic
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That Thing You Do! (1996)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 73000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: humorous, sentimental, feel good, light, sincere, period piece, touching, sexy, retro, emotional
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Tiny Times 2.0 (2013)
Plot Summary:
Set four years after the first movie, Lin Xiao, Lily, Nan Xiang, and Ruby, confront opportunities and challenges as their school days come to an end.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: sexy, captivating, realistic, stylized, semi serious
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Undiscovered (2005)
Plot Summary:
A group of aspiring entertainers try to establish careers for themselves in the city of Los Angeles.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating
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Satisfaction (1988)
Plot Summary:
When a young rock group called The Mystery gets its first gig at a club, it's an opportunity to see what life is all about! Fresh out of high school, the rockers are hired by an exclusive beach resort thanks to a faded '60s songwriter. There, they meet with romance and adventure. But street-smart lead singer Jennie Lee faces a dilemma: pursue her budding career or finish high school.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, light, romantic, sexy, unusual plot structure
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No Small Affair (1984)
Plot Summary:
The 16 years old amateur photographer Charles accidentally takes a photo of Laura - and falls in love with her, when he develops the picture. He finds out that she works as singer in a bar, but is about to be thrown out. Although rejected at first by the 23 years old, he wants to help her and starts an ad campaign behind her back... with unexpected results.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: melancholic, sweet, humorous, realistic, sentimental, semi serious, independent film, offbeat, sexual, romantic
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A Good Marriage (1982)
Plot Summary:
Sabine vows to give up married lovers, and is determined to find a good husband. Her best friend Clarisse introduces her to her cousin Edmond, a busy lawyer from Paris. Sabine pursues Edmond, with the encouragement of Clarisse, but Edmond does not seem very interested.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, captivating, realistic, contemplative, talky, semi serious, eighties
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Do Not Disturb (2012)
Plot Summary:
In this lively French remake of Humpday, best buds reunite and revive their friendship on a questionable dare. Can two straight guys really make a gay sex film, together?.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 765
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, light, sexy, sex comedy, sexual
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You and Me (2006)
Plot Summary:
In Paris, Ariane and Lena are sisters. Ariane writes photo novellas for the magazine "Toi et Moi." She's emotional and her long-time boyfriend, Farid, has her in a state because he won't propose, won't ask her to live with him, and often is unavailable. Lena is a cellist, quiet and circumspect in life and in her playing. She lives without passion with her boyfriend François; they're talking about having a baby.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 659
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, sexy, captivating, light, emotional, realistic, semi serious, sexual, hot
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Bandslam (2009)
Plot Summary:
A high school social outcast and the popular girl bond through a shared love of music.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: romantic, teen, humorous, semi serious, light, realistic, erotic, surprise ending, sexy, clever
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SoulBoy (2010)
Plot Summary:
1974. Amidst power cuts, strikes and boot-boy aggro on the football terraces, Joe McCain is bored of a life that's going nowhere. Enter hair-dresser Jane: blonde, beautiful, and moving to the beat of a whole new world of sound, movement and all-nighter dancing at The Wigan Casino - the home of Northern Soul. Swept along on this tide of pulsating dance and lust, Joe becomes embroiled in the darker side of soul scene that will put his friendship to the test.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: humorous, psychological, captivating, contemplative, sentimental, touching, realistic, semi serious
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Seoul Searching (2015)
Plot Summary:
In the 1980s a group of foreign-born Korean teenagers who meet at a Seoul summer camp to learn what it means to be Korean. The three boys, from the U.S., Mexico, and Germany, then meet three girls who rock their world.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: South Korea, China, USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, sincere, touching, captivating, feel good, offbeat, realistic, independent film
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Fisherman's Friends: One and All (2022)
Plot Summary:
Following the unexpected success of the band’s debut album “No Hopers, Jokers and Rogues”, we re-join them almost a year later, struggling with the pressures, pitfalls and temptations of their newfound fame, second album syndrome, and performing on the pyramid stage at Glastonbury.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, entertaining, funny, sincere, captivating
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Teen's Confessions (2013)
Plot Summary:
Four sisters work together to raise rent money after learning they have to move to another neighborhood in this coming-of-age drama based on the series.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 691
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, captivating, light, sentimental, sexy, realistic, semi serious
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Rebelde Way (2002)
Plot Summary:
Rebelde Way is a Martín Fierro Award—nominated Argentine soap opera created and produced by Cris Morena. It originally aired from 26 May 2002 to 18 December 2003. The series was broadcast in many countries worldwide, including Peru, Germany, Israel, Spain and Uruguay, achieving widespread success. In addition, numerous remakes of Rebelde Way have been made, most notably Rebelde by Mexican Televisa. In 2009, Jennifer Lopez bought the rights for an U.S. adaptation. Rebelde Way is set in the Elite Way School, a prestigious private boarding high school near Buenos Aires. The students of the school are the members of Argentine wealthiest families, as well as gifted students with scholarships. The series follows the lives of Elite Way students, their parents and their professors, and it also features the regular use of English language and phrases by the upper class. Its central characters are Marizza Pía Spirito, Mía Colucci, Pablo Bustamante and Manuel Aguirre, portrayed by, respectively, Camila Bordonaba, Luisana Lopilato, Benjamín Rojas and Felipe Colombo. The four form a band named Erreway, in order to pursue their dreams. The band enjoyed a great success throughout Latin America, Europe and Israel, selling over 3 million records and achieving several Platinum records. Along with spawning a series of merchandising, Cris Morena Group also released a spin–off movie Erreway: 4 Caminos in 2004.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Argentina
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: soap opera, semi serious, humorous, novela, realistic, sentimental, romantic, feel good, entertaining, telenovela