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Plot Summary:
A young musician from a small town in China tries to save his town's treasured Rock Park by organizing a charity rock concert.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 681
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: China
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: sentimental, light, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Adventures of Power (2008)
Plot Summary:
In his quest to become the world's greatest air-drummer, a small-town dreamer must overcome obstacles and ridicule to save the day.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, realistic, captivating, funny, cult classic, independent film, offbeat, cult film
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Loins of Punjab Presents (2007)
Plot Summary:
A ruthless philantrophist. A bhangra rapper. An over-protected prodigy. A reckless actress. A lovelorn businessman. An entrepreneurial yogi. And a Loin King. Enter a roller-coaster world of seven strangers whose lives collide during a singing contest in a small New Jersey town.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 800
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: India, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating, offbeat, mockumentary
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Get Ready to Be Boyzvoiced (2000)
Plot Summary:
Mockumentary which follows an up-and-coming three-man boyband which suffers a Milli Vanilli inspired media storm just before the release of their first album. Their only hope is to get their act together before the HitAwards Norwegian music awards show.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: Norway
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious, captivating, cult classic, mockumentary, spoof, parody, fake documentary, queer cinema
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The Naked Brothers Band: The Movie (2005)
Plot Summary:
When a famous band called the Silver Boulders break up, Nat and Alex Wolff go into depression.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, exciting, sentimental, captivating, melancholic, mockumentary
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Cupcakes (2013)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends in a Tel Aviv suburb get together to watch Universong, a Eurovision-like television song contest. They gather to watch and are depressed by the lifelessness of the Israeli entry, a parody of many recent offerings, a flashy, grating song about "amour." Realizing that Anat is distraught over the crisis in her marriage, they decide to compose a song to cheer her up. As a lark, they enters their cellphone video of it in next year's contest, and it becomes Israel's entry.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 654
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: parody, funny, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, romantic comedy, queer cinema
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Show Stoppers (2008)
Plot Summary:
"Show Stoppers" is a comedy-drama set in the world of Greek stepping on a historically black university in Virginia "where Greek steppers get as much attention as star athletes.".
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, emotional, semi serious, hood, independent film, realistic
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Eternity: The Movie (2014)
Plot Summary:
Big Hair. Guyliner. Someone lamenting by crashing waves on a beach or to their reflection in a fountain. Yes, we're talking about the 80s! Todd and BJ, two lonely wannabe artists, find one another and create the not-so-dynamic R&B duo "Eternity.".
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Comedy, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious, captivating, independent film
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Tapeheads (1988)
Plot Summary:
The story of Ivan and Josh, two dim witted ex-security guards who love music videos. Out of work, with no job prospects, they form a music video production company. They soon learn the in's and out's of the business in LA and with some help from Mo Fuzz, they soon become hot property. But not all goes smoothly when they try to resurrect the career of their favorite R&B duo, the Swanky Modes.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, satirical, semi serious, cult classic, intense, offbeat, realistic, witty, independent film
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Jian Bing Man (2015)
Plot Summary:
Beijing, the present day. Popular TV personality Da Peng is invited by gangster businessman Wang Hai to make a film in which he will invest. Wang insists that Da Peng's co-star is TV drama actress Du Xiaoxiao. However, after a nightclub scandal involving Da Peng goes viral, he's blackballed by a powerful internet executive and finds himself unable to attract any male co-star. Wang also wants his investment back. Da Peng decides to make his own movie on the cheap, using a script he has about an alien, A Li, who arrives on Earth and has various adventures as a superhero.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: China
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Steppin : The Movie (2009)
Plot Summary:
Every college campus has its rivalries and UTS is no different. At this university, the Geeks run the campus and the greatest Steppers are king of the hill. When a local radio station announces the beginning of the step competition season, the campus fraternities and sororities fight to recruit the best talent that will help them win the big-money prize.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 390
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious, hood, captivating, independent film
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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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Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll (2015)
Plot Summary:
Johnny Rock is the aging lead singer of NYC's legendary early-'90s band The Heathens, who is trying to get both his band and his life back together. The aging and broke bad-boy rocker gets another shot at fame as a songwriter for a brash and talented young singer who's a big fan of his early work.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 21 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, sitcom, light, sentimental, feel good, entertaining
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Svengali (2013)
Plot Summary:
Svengali tells the story of Dixie, a postman from South Wales, and a music fanatic. All his life he’s dreamed of discovering a great band and then one day, trawling through YouTube, he finds them… ‘The Premature Congratulations’. He hunts them down and offers them his management services. They are young, arrogant, sexy and utterly magnificent. Putting their demo on a cassette tape, Dixie heads out onto the streets of London….
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good, sincere
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Nodame Cantabile: The Movie I (2009)
Plot Summary:
Following the success of the popular Japanese romantic comedy drama, NODAME CANTABILE: THE MOVIE hits the big screen! Hiroshi Tamaki and Juri Ueno reprise in their roles and continue their love for music and their pursuit for their ambitions. Chiaki (Hiroshi Tamaki) is an aspiring conductor who faces the challenge of leading an orchestra which is made up of substitutes. Nodame (Juri Ueno) gives her support to her beloved as she works hard towards achieving her dream to pass a promotion exam at their music conservatory. Will Chiaki be able to revive a broken down orchestra and launch his musical career? What will become of Nodame and Chiaki's relationship?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, feel good, dorama, manga, anime, slapstick
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Drumline: A New Beat (2014)
Plot Summary:
A girl from New York attends a college in Atlanta to join their once-famous marching band.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: exciting, realistic
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Killing Bono (2011)
Plot Summary:
Neil and Ivan McCormick, two Irish brothers who attempt to become rock stars but can only look on as their high school friends U2 become the biggest band in the world.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: feel good, semi serious, humorous, realistic, witty, freeze frame
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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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Down and Out with the Dolls (2001)
Plot Summary:
The raunchy, spunky tale of the rise and fall of an all-girl rock band from Portland, Oregon.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, suspense, erotic, offbeat, independent film, biting, campy
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Habana Blues (2005)
Plot Summary:
When Spanish record producers express interest in Cuban musicians Ruy and Tito, the longtime friends are faced with the prospect of leaving their loved ones behind. After years of hoping and dreaming, they've finally earned the opportunity to bring their music to the rest of the world. But are the emotional trade-offs worth it in the end?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: Spain, Cuba, France
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, emotional, realistic, humorous, semi serious
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Electric Apricot (2007)
Plot Summary:
Electric Apricot is a spoof of jam bands centered around the band, Electric Apricot, in the style of "This Is Spinal Tap".
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 673
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, cynical, mockumentary, offbeat, semi serious, fake documentary
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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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The Breakdance Kid (2004)
Plot Summary:
In 1984, loser pizza guy Whitey Johnson is run over by a semi truck on live television, making him a local hero. The world watches as Whitey vows to not only walk again but to win his town's breakdance competition. Whitey struggles to conquer bully breakdancers, to win the heart of a disinterested girl, and live up to the name, "The Breakdance Kid".
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, mockumentary
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Joyful Noise (2012)
Plot Summary:
G.G. Sparrow faces off with her choir's newly appointed director, Vi Rose Hill, over the group's direction as they head into a national competition.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, funny, black comedy
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Spectacular! (2009)
Plot Summary:
A high school choir is fading in popularity, as it continues to lose most of its' members one by one. A wannabe rock singer is convinced to join the choir, in hopes of winning the upcoming competition and cash prize.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, light, feel good, funny, teen, sentimental, realistic, semi serious
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Pitch Perfect 2 (2015)
Plot Summary:
The Bellas are back, and they are better than ever. After being humiliated in front of none other than the President of the United States of America, the Bellas are taken out of the Aca-Circuit. In order to clear their name, and regain their status, the Bellas take on a seemingly impossible task: winning an international competition no American team has ever won. In order to accomplish this monumental task, they need to strengthen the bonds of friendship and sisterhood and blow away the competition with their amazing aca-magic! With all new friends and old rivals tagging along for the trip, the Bellas can hopefully accomplish their dreams.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 168000
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: feel good, funny, romantic, humorous, teen, melancholic, absurd, tricky, realistic, semi serious
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Taking 5 (2007)
Plot Summary:
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 it's limos, hot jams and a shot at love with 5 Leo Rise (played by pop smash, The Click Five). But when the girls discover a secret about the band things hit a sour note. Will 5 Leo Rise to the occasion and play at their homecoming or will Gabby and Devon be stuck in social Siberia forever?.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 972
Genere: Comedy, Family, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, light, romantic, realistic
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Lemonade Mouth (2011)
Plot Summary:
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 elite.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, realistic, semi serious, teen, entertaining, thrilling, teen comedy
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Detroit Metal City (2008)
Plot Summary:
Soichi Negishi moved to Tokyo to chase his dream of becoming a musician playing stylish, Swedish-style pop. Instead, he finds himself leading the death metal band Detroit Metal City, or DMC, as the costumed and grotesquely made-up "demon emperor" Johannes Krauser II. Although he hates the role and the things he has to do as a member of the band, he has a definite talent for it.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, anime, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Pitch Perfect (2012)
Plot Summary:
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 they have in common is how well they sing together. She takes the women of the group out of their comfort zone of traditional arrangements and into a world of amazing harmonic combinations in a fight to the top of college music competitions.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 326000
Genere: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, teen, funny, light, romantic, entertaining, semi serious, sweet
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Student of the Year (2012)
Plot Summary:
Several alumni reminisce about their final year at St. Theresa's College and the events that shaped their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance, Sport
Country: India
Duration: 146 min
Plot tags: sentimental, realistic, semi serious, humorous, funny, romantic