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Plot Summary:
When a rock band at the top of their game suddenly loses their leader, their direction suddenly becomes questionable. All the band members know is that the leader's clothes were found at the edge of a waterfront and he had not been seen since. To compensate, they hire a new band member that shakes up their thoughts of the band. But the biggest changes come when the band decides to go into seclusion to develop new songs and a new sound. They rent a mansion from an aristocratic couple, who are hard up for money. When the staff hired to be on hand when the band arrives do not show, the couple decides to act as the butler, Benson, and the cook, Margaret. The obvious conflicts between the two cultures occur, but a respect for each other gradually follows. Meanwhile, the band's recording company is trying to trick them into signing a contract that obligates the music to be as the company requires.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Canada, UK, USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, independent film
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Plot Summary:
Two brothers go to France to claim the chateau they have inherited.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 857
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, independent film, crying
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Plot Summary:
This brutally honest comedy depicts the Jewish-Italian wedding reception of Lisa Weinstein (Deborah Gibson), as guests can't help but notice the romantic sparks among Lisa, the groom (Joey Scherr), the maid of honor (Mo Gaffney) and the bride's ex-boyfriend, the reception band leader (Martin Guigui). Meanwhile, various guests on both sides of the aisle pursue their own love interests at the event. Dom DeLuise co-stars.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film, clever, feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious
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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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Plot Summary:
Two feuding rock stars get handcuffed together for 24 hours at a music festival where they are both due to perform.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, sentimental, semi serious, romantic, romantic comedy, cute, indie film, exciting, realistic
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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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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 Band's Visit (2007)
Plot Summary:
Once-not long ago-a small Egyptian police band arrived in Israel. Not many remember this... It wasn't that important. A band comprised of members of the Egyptian police force head to Israel to play at the inaugural ceremony of an Arab arts center, only to find themselves lost in the wrong town.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Israel, USA, France
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, emotional, atmospheric, sincere, humorous, feel good, sentimental, touching, realistic, contemplative
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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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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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Marci X (2003)
Plot Summary:
A Jewish-American Princess is forced to take control of a hard-core hip-hop record label and tries to rein the one of the label's most controversial rappers.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, witty, spooky, satirical, controversial
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It's All Gone Pete Tong (2004)
Plot Summary:
Its All Gone Pete Tong is a comedy following the tragic life of legendary Frankie Wilde. The story takes us through Frankie's life from one of the best DJ's alive, through subsequent battle with a hearing disorder, culminating in his mysterious disappearance from the scene.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, dark comedy, touching, mockumentary, feel good, semi serious, stylized, inspirational, psychedelic, spiritual
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Fubar (2002)
Plot Summary:
Terry and Dean are lifelong friends who have grown-up together: shotgunning their first beers, forming their first garage band, and growing the great Canadian mullet known as "hockey hair". Now the lives of these Alberta everymen are brought to the big screen by documentarian Ferral Mitchener in an exploration of the depths of friendship, the fragility of life, growing up gracefully and the art and science of drinking beer like a man.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: Canada
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, humorous, ironic, funny, witty, cult classic, independent film, controversial, offbeat, realistic
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Plot Summary:
The true story of a man who posed as director Stanley Kubrick during the production of Kubrick's last film, Eyes Wide Shut, despite knowing very little about his work and looking nothing like him.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, France, Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: satirical, entertaining, stylized, humorous, light, hilarious, realistic, semi serious, biting, witty
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The Duke (1999)
Plot Summary:
When his nephew tries to wrest control of his estate from him,the Duke of Dingwall removes the boy from his will and leaves everything to his dog.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 570
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: offbeat, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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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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Plot Summary:
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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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Plot Summary:
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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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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sentimental, romantic, touching, realistic, romantic comedy, twisted, humorous, semi serious, psychological, sexy
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
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IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
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Plot Summary:
In the 1970s a music promoter plucks Siamese twins from obscurity and grooms them into a freakish rock'n'roll act. A dark tale of sex, strangeness and rock music.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: touching, semi serious, humorous, realistic, witty, period piece, clever, offbeat, mockumentary, gothic
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Killer Diller (2004)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 425
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching, captivating, feel good
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Plot Summary:
An ageing rock star decides to change his life when he discovers a 40-year-old letter written to him by John Lennon.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, inspirational, emotional, realistic, semi serious, social, novela, cult classic, powerful
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Plot Summary:
Corrine Burns retreats far into plans for her band, The Fabulous Stains, after her mother's death.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: retro, psychotronic, thinking, cult classic, independent film, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 115000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, sentimental, light, colorful, realistic, semi serious, melancholic, hilarious, indie film
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Fisherman's Friends (2019)
Plot Summary:
Ten fisherman from Cornwall are signed by Universal Records and achieve a top ten hit with their debut album of Sea Shanties. Based on the true-life story of Cornish folk band, Fisherman's Friends.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, realistic, disturbing, semi serious, slang
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24 Hour Party People (2002)
Plot Summary:
In 1976, Tony Wilson sets up Factory Records and brings Manchester's music to the world.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 117 min
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Plot Summary:
In 1973, 15-year-old William Miller's unabashed love of music and aspiration to become a rock journalist lands him an assignment from Rolling Stone magazine to interview and tour with the up-and-coming band Stillwater – fronted by lead guitar Russell Hammond and lead singer Jeff Bebe William.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 289000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: sentimental, road movie, feel good, realistic, semi autobiographical, teen, emotional, independent film, cult classic, sweet
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Plot Summary:
In New York City in 1980, Dexter Mitchell plays half-willing big brother to his neighbors, a trio of exchange students from the People's Republic of China.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, offbeat, non-linear, independent film
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Plot Summary:
The film deals with an Indian American student who wanted to pursue his love of music over the more 'typical' academic endeavors of Indian Americans (e.g., medicine, engineering, law, and business).
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 327
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, witty, semi serious, realistic