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Plot Summary:
Two feuding brothers and their respective Ceilidh bands compete at a music festival. Set in 1960's Ireland.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK, Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, crying, independent film
Best tv shows and movies like The Boys from County Clare (2003):
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Made in Hungaria (2009)
Plot Summary:
Miklós Fenyö's parents returned to Communist Hungary in the mid sixties - when everyone else was fleeing to the West. Miki's old friends don't know what to make of his outrageous clothes, flawless American accent and collection of original Buddy Holly 45s. His childhood sweetheart is cold and distant while local tough guy Röné is unmoved by the challenger to his rock 'n' roll crown. But that's not all. When the authorities see the effect Miki's gyrating hips and lewd music have on teenage girls, they won't stand for it. His father's job is on the line, and, for the first time, Miki must play by the rules. He has no choice but to enter the local talent show.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Comedy, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: Hungary
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious, motivational
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Goddess (2013)
Plot Summary:
Elspeth Dickens dreams of finding her "voice" despite being stuck in an isolated farmhouse with her twin toddlers. A web-cam becomes her pathway to fame and fortune, but at a price.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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Swing (2003)
Plot Summary:
Anthony is caught between dreams of being a musician and pleasing his father and fiance. Encouraged by his great uncle, Anthony finds inspiration from a mysterious older woman in an other worldly night club, who teaches him to find happiness through swing dancing.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 205
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, emotional, stylized, sexy, offbeat, feel good, humorous, captivating, realistic
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You Instead (2011)
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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Playing Mona Lisa (2000)
Plot Summary:
A young pianist is looking for love in all the wrong places once her fiancee drops her. Maybe her flame will be rekindled both for the piano and a new love?.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 888
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, sentimental, semi serious, independent film
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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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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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The American Mall (2008)
Plot Summary:
The executive producers of High School Musical keep the good times rolling with this upbeat musical comedy set in the one place every American teenager's home away from home - the local shopping mall. Ally (Nina Dobrev) is an optimistic adolescent singer/songwriter whose hard working mother owns the mall music shop frequented by every teen in town. When Ally shares her music with Joey (Rob Mayes), a janitor in the mall who harbors rock star ambitions, she is thrilled to find someone who can truly relate to her songs as well as her heart. Trouble looms on the horizon, however, in the form of the mall owner's spoiled rotten daughter Madison (Autumn Reeser). Madison is the kind of girl who's used to getting whatever she wants, and what she wants now could prove disastrous for both Ally's ambitions, and her mother's popular music store.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, captivating, witty, semi serious, teen
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30 Days Until I'm Famous (2004)
Plot Summary:
A Latina working in Los Angeles as a messenger is randomly discovered and fashioned into a pop music star.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 420
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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Blow Dry (2001)
Plot Summary:
The annual British Hairdressing Championship comes to Keighley, a town where Phil and son Brian run a barbershop and Phil's ex-wife Shelly and her lover Sandra run a beauty salon.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK, Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: witty, touching, feel good, humorous, offbeat, realistic, semi serious, crying, independent film, slapstick comedy
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Duets (2000)
Plot Summary:
Duets is a road-trip comedy which revolves around the little known world of karaoke and the whimsical characters who inhabit it. All roads lead to Omaha, site of a national karaoke competition where this motley group of singers and stars come together for a blow-out sing-off.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, entertaining, humorous, road movie, clever, comedy drama, realistic, talky, semi serious
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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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A Business Affair (1994)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of the lovely Kate Swallow and the loves of her life. At the start she is with Alec Bolton, a noted author, who discourages her when she wants to write a novel. Later she is swept off her feet by Alecs publisher, Vanni Corso, and leaves Alec for Vanni. She writes another novel and Vanni tells her he doesn't think the book will sell. Both of their actions are an indication of their vanity and fear of losing her.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 488
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, France, Germany, Spain, USA, Romania
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: humorous, sentimental, thought provoking, captivating, entertaining, realistic, witty, semi serious, independent film
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Four Last Songs (2007)
Plot Summary:
A comic drama set on a Mediterranean island, where a motley collection of characters is seeking musical redemption.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 712
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Spain, UK
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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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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Sueño (2005)
Plot Summary:
A Mexican immigrant new to Los Angeles enters into a love triangle with two very different women.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 615
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: realistic, touching, humorous, semi serious, crying, freeze frame
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Chasing Destiny (2001)
Plot Summary:
A repossession agent falls in love with a woman whose father is high on his list of priority accounts in this romantic drama.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 288
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Music, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, humorous, semi serious, sex comedy, independent film, 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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City of Rock (2017)
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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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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My Dinner with Jimi (2003)
Plot Summary:
The story of the night The Turtles met The Beatles and Howard Kaylan had dinner with Jimi Hendrix.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sentimental, realistic, captivating, semi serious, sincere, touching, serious, contemplative, cult film
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Hearts of Fire (1987)
Plot Summary:
A reclusive musician, once a huge rock star, takes a young female protegee. While on a tour she meets a younger, more popular rocker and switches her loyalties.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 519
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, realistic, stylized, semi serious
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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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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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Cape No. 7 (2008)
Plot Summary:
Aga, a band singer, returns to Hengchun with frustration. Tomoko is a Japanese model assigned to organize a local warm-up band for the Japanese super star beach concert. Together with other five ordinary Hengchun residents who were not expected to be great or anything, they formed an impossible band.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Taiwan, USA
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Just Desserts (2004)
Plot Summary:
Marco Poloni's family owns a bakery in the Bronx and it seems that they have fallen on hard times and his family is considering selling the bakery. Marco then decides to enter a baking competition hoping that the money and publicity will help them. But he needs a partner, so her asks Grace Carpenter, the baker of restaurant, but unfortunately they started off on the wrong foot, but she agrees. So they go to the competition and things seem to be looking good except for a few complications. One of the other contestant Jacques du Jacques is Marco's former classmate at the Academy, whom he says betrayed him. Emil, one of the judges, is Marco's former instructor at the Academy whom he did not leave a good impression on. And Marco's temper. So will they be able to pull it off. And at the same time Marco finds himself attracted to her but she already has a boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sex comedy
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Once (2007)
Plot Summary:
A vacuum repairman moonlights as a street musician and hopes for his big break. One day a Czech immigrant, who earns a living selling flowers, approaches him with the news that she is also an aspiring singer-songwriter. The pair decide to collaborate, and the songs that they compose reflect the story of their blossoming love.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 120000
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, emotional, inspirational, independent film, romantic, heartbreaking, light, melancholic, talky
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Music and Lyrics (2007)
Plot Summary:
A washed up singer is given a couple days to compose a chart-topping hit for an aspiring teen sensation. Though he's never written a decent lyric in his life, he sparks with an offbeat younger woman with a flair for words.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 106000
Genere: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: feel good, light, romantic comedy, romantic, sweet, cute, lyrical, semi serious, teen, sentimental