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Plot Summary:
Three girls divided by personalities, cultural backgrounds and principles have one thing in common, their love for music.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Philippines
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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From Zero to Ten (2002)
Plot Summary:
Four middle-aged friends plan to re-experience an old weekend in Rimini.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 899
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags:
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A Secret Affair (2012)
Plot Summary:
Rafi (Anne Curtis) is happily committed to her lovely partner in life, Mark (Derek Ramsay). She's a bachelorette from a rich family, who belongs to the "Friday Club", the regular get-together of her college friends. Rafi is an attention-getter because of her in and out beauty and impressive credentials. But one day, a major life decision shifts everyone's impression of her. Sam (Andi Eigenmann), a rebellious, carefree and happy-go-lucky woman, who thinks that she can get away with her every dilemma. However, her perspectives turn 180 degrees when she meets the man who unexpectedly changes her life.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 333
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, realistic, semi serious
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My Best Pals (1989)
Plot Summary:
They are the best friends of the world. Five friends who shared everything: may 68, hippies years, the rock and their love for Bernadette. This Bernadette has left them to become a rock-star, and is back 15 years later for a weekend. Jean-Marie Poire describes with this movie the portrait of a generation with lots of humor served by excelent actors.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, contemplative, talky, semi serious, cult film
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I Used to Be Famous (2022)
Plot Summary:
A former boy band star unexpectedly gets a second shot at success when he forms a bond with a gifted young drummer.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: buddy comedy
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Of All the Things (2012)
Plot Summary:
Muhlach plays the role of Umboy, a notary public attorney who earns a living by notarizing important documents and other papers, while Velasquez on the other hand plays the role of Berns, a professional documents fixer. Every time Berns needs the help of a notary public, she goes to Umboy to "legalized" everything. This "legalization" process of documents was somehow Umboy does not agree with Berns. Their different ideology and principles in life have created a cat-and-dog fight situation between the two. But what's supposed to be a misunderstanding between the two of them will likely to create a blossoming relationship. Bound with their principles in life, how do you think the two will end up together — to the dark side where both of them will be living a dishonest life where they fix documents illegally or to the light side where everything else is in correct and honest manner?.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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The Heavenly Kings (2006)
Plot Summary:
Mockumentary about Hong Kong boy band Alive.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, captivating, semi serious, mockumentary, independent film, fake documentary
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Zombie and the Ghost Train (1991)
Plot Summary:
Antti "Zombie" Autiomaa does two things well: play the bass guitar and drink. After several months' sleeping on the streets of Istanbul, he returns to Helsinki where he's called into the army but discharged on mental health grounds after adding turpentine to the officers' soup. Zombie lives bleary-eyed in an apartment off his parents' house where his lonely, unemployed father suffers from heart disease. His girl-friend Marjo has taken up with a hairdresser but comes back to Zombie. His friend Harri hires him as a roadie for his band "Harry and the Mulefukkers" then gives him a chance as a bass player. He has his girl and he has a gig, but can Zombie put the bottle down?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Finland
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: offbeat, realistic, humorous, gloomy, semi serious
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Your Only Mother: This Is The Last! (2010)
Plot Summary:
A few months after Ina left the position as the President of the Philippines, she is back in the media limelight as she releases a book of her life in her journey as a mother to her children and as a mother to the people of the Philippines. Ina now lives a simple life with her beloved children, together with her long-time best friend, Rowena.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 116
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, parody, independent film, queer cinema
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The Red Dwarf (1998)
Plot Summary:
Lucien is a dwarf, who works hard in a large legal office. His only friend is trapeze circus artist Isis. One day he gets the attention of singer Paola Bendoni and falls in love with her.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 233
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, cynical, semi serious, dark comedy, sexy, thought provoking, bloody, emotional, melancholic
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FM (1978)
Plot Summary:
Q-SKY is the #1 radio station in Los Angeles mainly because of the music they play; running the station the way they want to, it has made them a ratings success.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: political, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, biting, suspense, campy
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Hear My Song (1991)
Plot Summary:
Singer Josef Locke fled to Ireland 25 years ago to escape the clutches of the tax man and police Chief Jim Abbott. What he also left behind was the love of his life Cathleen Doyle. Now, Micky O’Neill is desperate to save both his ailing Liverpool nightclub ‘Heartly’s’ and his failing relationship with the beautiful Nancy, Cathleen’s daughter. The solution? Book the infamous Josef Locke.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: touching, road movie, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, fairy tale, sentimental, funny
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Schultze Gets the Blues (2003)
Plot Summary:
Schultze is an accordion player and newly without work. When the local music club celebrates its 50th anniversary, his taste of music changes unexpectedly.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Germany
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, road movie, melancholic, realistic, lyrical, semi serious, crying, sentimental, light
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The Last of the Blonde Bombshells (2000)
Plot Summary:
After Elizabeth's husband dies, she begins to play her tenor saxophone again, and remembers when she was 15 and a member of the Blonde Bombshells, an all-girl (with one exception) swing band. Accompanied by the exception and urged on by her grand-daughter, Elizabeth hunts up all the old members of the band and urges them to perform, and in doing so, learns more than she knew about the band, its members, the roses on the drum set, and herself--the last of the Blonde Bombshells.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, touching, semi serious, fairy tale
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Catch Me... I'm in Love (2011)
Plot Summary:
Directed by Mae Czarina Cruz, Catch Me...I'm in Love is a light, rom-com film that centers on the lives of two young adults searching for that something that could complete their existence. For Roan Sanchez (Sarah Geronimo), it's finding that one, true love. For Eric Rodriguez (Gerald Anderson), it's learning how to appreciate his life and those of other people around him. The two would fall in love but conflict would arise to try to break their special bond. It was up to them to fight for their love despite the odds, or not.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, inspirational, cute
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Once in a Lifetime (2000)
Plot Summary:
Mona Bergström is a sweet eurovision-obsessed woman in her 30's. She is married to a lazy husband and have 4 children, all named after her favorite Swedish eurovision popstars. Her brother is a crossdressing guy selftitled "Candy Darling". Mona works on a retirement home for disabled people, where she is responsible for taking care of a young man named David who suffers a movement restricting disease forcing him into a wheelchair. Davids parents has abandoned him as they wanted a normal child. Mona holds a big place in Davids heart, and vica versa. Davids goal is to get his parents to come and visit him, and he wants to show them that he is a great person, despite his handicap. Therefore he works with music on his computer, and his goal is to create a song, send it to "The Cardigans", a famous Swedish band and have them play the song and credit him, hoping his parents would spot it and want to visit him.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: feel good, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, captivating, realistic, witty, stylized
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Chateau Christmas (2020)
Plot Summary:
Margot, a world-renowned pianist, returns to Chateau Newhaus to spend the holidays with her family and is reunited with an ex who helps her rediscover her passion for music.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, captivating, realistic, emotional, romantic comedy, christmas comedy, gay cinema
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Soul Men (2008)
Plot Summary:
Two former backup soul singers, Louis and Floyd, have not spoken to each other in 20 years, and reluctantly agree to travel across the country together to a reunion concert to honor their recently-deceased lead singer. Cleo, a beautiful young woman who is believed to be Floyd's daughter, accompanies them as a new singer.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sentimental, realistic, touching, humorous, semi serious, black comedy, dark comedy, cult classic, hilarious, entertaining
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Guy (2018)
Plot Summary:
Gauthier, a young journalist, learns from his mother that he is the illegitimate son of Guy Jamet, a popular French singer whose heyday stretched unevenly from the 1960’s to the nineties. Guy is currently promoting a new album of old material and heads on tour. Armed with a camera, Gauthier decides to follow Guy, recording his daily routine and his concerts to create a documentary portrait.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 908
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, humorous, touching, captivating, fake documentary
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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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Out of Sync (2000)
Plot Summary:
Roger Deacon, a down-and-out record producer, is given the job of making a singing star out of an industry mogul's girlfriend, an attractive but talentless starlet. He discovers a housewife with a powerful singing voice and decides to secretly use her to lip sync the other woman's voice for record recordings as a path to fame for her and him.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 432
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, entertaining, realistic, gloomy
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Happily Ever After (2004)
Plot Summary:
Is love compatible with coupledom? And what of freedom and fidelity? These are some of the questions facing two married men.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: witty, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, sex comedy, cult classic, sexy, clever, realistic, talky
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Hard Core Logo (1996)
Plot Summary:
Bruce Macdonald follows punk bank Hard Core Logo on a harrowing last-gasp reunion tour throughout Western Canada. As magnetic lead-singer Joe Dick holds the whole magilla together through sheer force of will, all the tensions and pitfalls of life on the road come bubbling to the surface.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, humorous, talky, intense, captivating, clever, realistic, biting, independent film, black comedy
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The Commitments (1991)
Plot Summary:
Jimmy Rabbitte, just a tick out of school, gets a brilliant idea: to put a soul band together in Barrytown, his slum home in north Dublin. First he needs musicians and singers: things slowly start to click when he finds three fine-voiced females virtually in his back yard, a lead singer (Deco) at a wedding, and, responding to his ad, an aging trumpet player, Joey "The Lips" Fagan.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: cult classic, independent film, feel good, humorous, realistic, offbeat, sincere, captivating, contemplative, semi serious
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The Thing Called Love (1993)
Plot Summary:
Miranda Presley moves from New York to Nashville to become a songwriter. At an unsuccessful audition she meets James Wright, a promising newcomer. After only a few days they marry but start to quickly regret it.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, humorous, semi serious, touching, realistic, entertaining, talky, crying, light
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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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CODA (2021)
Plot Summary:
As a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults), Ruby is the only hearing person in her deaf family. When the family's fishing business is threatened, Ruby finds herself torn between pursuing her love of music and her fear of abandoning her parents.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 157000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France, Canada, USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, motivational, sad, teen, sincere, captivating, funny, romantic, sexy
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Beaches (1988)
Plot Summary:
A privileged rich debutante and a cynical struggling entertainer share a turbulent, but strong childhood friendship over the years.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: emotional, heartbreaking, tear jerker, sad, sentimental, melancholic, sweet, realistic, talky, inspirational
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The Over the Hill Band (2009)
Plot Summary:
Upon the death of her husband, Claire (70) decides to reconnect with her estranged son, down and out R&B musician Sid. She asks him to help her restart the old girl group she used to sing in with two of her friends from the old days. The rebel son is hesitant at first but eventually agrees under one condition: the band has to play HIS music.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 348
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: feel good, sentimental, touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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Military Wives (2019)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by global phenomenon of military wives choirs, the story celebrates a band of misfit women who form a choir on a military base. As unexpected bonds of friendship flourish, music and laughter transform their lives, helping each other to overcome their fears for loved ones in combat.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, semi serious, feel good, comedy drama, dread
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Brad's Status (2017)
Plot Summary:
Although Brad has a satisfying career, a sweet wife and a comfortable life in suburban Sacramento, things aren't quite what he imagined during his college glory days. When he accompanies his musical prodigy son on a university tour, he can't help comparing his life with those of his four best college friends who seemingly have more wealthy and glamorous lives. But when circumstances force him to reconnect with his former friends, Brad begins to question whether he has really failed or if their lives are actually more flawed than they appear.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: light, thought provoking, humorous, captivating, cult classic, dark comedy, interesting