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Plot Summary:
Beautiful aspiring rock star Jude is stuck in a rut - relegated to recording commercial jingles and lost in a series of one night stands. When she is evicted from her Brooklyn apartment, she is forced to move into the Hamptons home of her wealthy - and selfish - father Paul Lombard, an over-the-hill, Sinatra-esque crooner angling for a musical comeback.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: captivating, light, sincere, humorous, grindhouse, independent film
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Cook & Banks (2015)
Plot Summary:
Cocky natural Jack Cook and nervous savant Oliver Banks write and record a demo that sends them down the road to becoming the most successful duo of the 1980s. With help and hindrance from their producer, their manager, Cook's girlfriend, Banks' sister, and a rival band's lead singer - Cook and Banks try everything to stay on the same page and stay together.
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Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
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(Untitled) (2009)
Plot Summary:
A fashionable contemporary art gallerist in Chelsea, New York falls for a brooding new music composer in this comic satire of the state of contemporary art.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, witty, avant garde, offbeat, realistic, semi serious, black comedy
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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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Swim Little Fish Swim (2013)
Plot Summary:
Between surrealism, unusual characters, art and magic tricks, "Swim Little Fish Swim" is a dreamlike journey from childhood to adulthood.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 839
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, touching, realistic, semi serious, mumblecore, independent film
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Wunderlich's World (2016)
Plot Summary:
Mimi has her hands full. Her son Felix is hyperactive, her ex-husband Johnny is a mess, her father is a chronic gambler. Then Felix signs her up for a Swiss casting show, because Mimi wanted to be a musician originally. So Mimi decides to head for Switzerland, since it could pay all their debts. But then the whole family wants to come.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, serious, captivating
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Gods Behaving Badly (2013)
Plot Summary:
Greek gods living in modern-day New York intervene in the lives of a young couple.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: semi serious, clever, humorous, light, sincere, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, parody
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Ricki and the Flash (2015)
Plot Summary:
Meryl Streep stars as Ricki Rendazzo, a guitar heroine who made a world of mistakes as she followed her dreams of rock-and-roll stardom. Returning home, Ricki gets a shot at redemption and a chance to make things right as she faces the music with her family.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: romantic, sweet, touching, serious, realistic, funny, therapeutic, road movie, rough, sexy
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Ordinary World (2016)
Plot Summary:
Perry is a happily married father of two living a comfortable but sedate life in the suburbs. On the occasion of his 40th birthday, he seeks to revisit his former life as the lead singer in a popular punk band though his middle-aged reality quickly (and hilariously) clashes with the indulgences of his youth.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: sentimental, light, feel good, humorous, suspenseful, interesting
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Carnival (1982)
Plot Summary:
A young Russian girl is in love with show business and wants to leave her small town for Moscow and make it big in the big city. She encounters her long missing, remarried father and gets a boy friend who uses her and then leaves her.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 151 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, captivating, touching
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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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Detours (2016)
Plot Summary:
A newly single New Yorker must re-locate to Florida for her dream job. She drives south with her widowed dad, her mom's ashes in a coffee can, and a GPS with a mind of its own.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: road movie, feel good, light, humorous, captivating, independent film
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The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989)
Plot Summary:
Frank and Jack Baker are professional musicians who play small clubs. They play smaltzy music and have never needed a day job.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA, West Germany
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: sexy, offbeat, sex comedy, sensual, sincere, clever, touching, serious, realistic, light
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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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Sweet and Lowdown (1999)
Plot Summary:
A comedic biopic focused on the life of fictional jazz guitarist Emmett Ray. Ray was an irresponsible, free-spending, arrogant, obnoxious, alcohol-abusing, miserable human being, who was also arguably the best guitarist in the world.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, talky, sentimental, humorous, tragicomedy, realistic, semi serious, clever, witty, independent film
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Hearts Beat Loud (2018)
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In the hip Brooklyn neighborhood of Red Hook, single dad and record store owner Frank is preparing to send his hard-working daughter Sam off to college while being forced to close his vintage shop. Hoping to stay connected through their shared musical passions, Frank urges Sam to turn their weekly jam sessions into a father-daughter live act. After their first song becomes an internet breakout, the two embark on a journey of love, growing up and musical discovery.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: feel good, light, sincere, touching, indie film, queer cinema, weird
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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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Grace of My Heart (1996)
Plot Summary:
An aspiring singer, Denise Waverly/Edna Buxton, sacrifices her own singing career to write hit songs that launch the careers of other singers. The film follows her life from her first break, through the pain of rejection from the recording industry and a bad marriage, to her final triumph in realizing her dream to record her own hit album.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: touching, inspirational, lyrical, sentimental, cult classic, period piece, sincere, realistic, semi serious, romantic
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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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Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
Plot Summary:
Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 75000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: ironic, humorous, talky, witty, sentimental, captivating, clever, intellectual, realistic, funny
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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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School Dance (2014)
Plot Summary:
High schooler Jason has found his dream girl—the gorgeous Anastacia. There’s just one problem: she doesn’t know he exists. If he can win a spot on the school’s hottest dance crew, Jason might have a shot. But before he does, he’ll have to overcome his battle-ax of a mother, survive Anastacia’s gangsta brother, and pass the crew’s initiation—in this fresh, sexy, and outrageously funny comedy.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, touching, captivating, independent film, black comedy, realistic
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The Space Between (2021)
Plot Summary:
Micky Adams, an eccentric has-been rock musician, loses his grip on reality as his record label looks to drop him and his new "unique" albums. In hopes of breaking out of the mailroom, young Charlie Porter is tasked with traveling to the musician's bizarre home and forcing Micky out of his contract. Micky realizes Charlie could be the key to an artistic breakthrough and the pair's unlikely friendship grows. The odd but powerful bond helps both gain perspective on the music industry, life, love... and the space between.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 887
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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The Quitter (2014)
Plot Summary:
When a failed baseball player's ex-girlfriend moves back to the neighborhood with her seven-year-old daughter, he realizes he carries more regrets than how he handled his baseball career.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, touching, realistic, independent film
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Like Father (2018)
Plot Summary:
When a workaholic young executive, is left at the altar, she ends up on her Caribbean honeymoon cruise with the last person she ever expected: her estranged and equally workaholic father. The two depart as strangers, but over the course of a few hilarious adventures, a couple of umbrella-clad cocktails and a whole lot of soul-searching, they return with a renewed appreciation for family and life.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, sweet, touching, humorous, captivating, entertaining, psychological, funny, happy
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Newlyweds (2011)
Plot Summary:
A newlywed couple's honeymoon is upended by the arrivals of their respective sisters.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, sincere, realistic, witty, semi serious, independent film
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Mind the Gap (2004)
Plot Summary:
Five seemingly unrelated people decide to take huge risks in their personal lives in an effort to find happiness.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 997
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: humorous, talky, semi serious, captivating, sincere, sentimental, clever, touching, offbeat, realistic
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A Late Quartet (2012)
Plot Summary:
When the beloved cellist of a world-renowned string quartet is diagnosed with a life threatening illness, the group’s future suddenly hangs in the balance as suppressed emotions, competing egos and uncontrollable passions threaten to derail years of friendship and collaboration. As they are about to play their 25th anniversary concert — quite possibly their last — only their intimate bond and the power of music can preserve their legacy.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: realistic, intense, sentimental, sincere, touching, thought provoking, art house, serious, contemplative, gloomy
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Wayne's World 2 (1993)
Plot Summary:
A message from Jim Morrison in a dream prompts cable access TV stars Wayne and Garth to put on a rock concert, "Waynestock," with Aerosmith as headliners. But amid the preparations, Wayne frets that a record producer is putting the moves on his girlfriend, Cassandra, while Garth handles the advances of mega-babe Honey Hornee.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 87000
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: funny, spoof, absurd, buddy comedy, skit, romantic comedy, cult classic, feel good, humorous, realistic
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Begin Again (2013)
Plot Summary:
A long lost music producer finds a singer-songwriter right about the moment he has given up all hope on life.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 165000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: touching, romantic, inspirational, independent film, sentimental, sincere, feel good, lyrical, sweet, dramatic