Most Similar Movies to Torch Song Trilogy (1988)
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Kinky Boots (2005), The Saddest Music in the World (2003), School Daze (1988), Me, Myself and Mum (2013), Easter Parade (1948), Someone Else's America (1995), The Sapphires (2012) ... Let's take a look at the following list...
Kinky Boots (2005)
A drag queen comes to the rescue of a man who, after inheriting his father's shoe factory, needs to diversify his product if he wants to keep the business afloat.
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The Saddest Music in the World (2003)
A young Englishman is sent to Malaysian Borneo in the 1930s to stay with a tribe as UK's colonial representative. A local woman (J.Alba) helps him understand local tradition and language. He falls in love with her etc. despite the taboo.
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School Daze (1988)
Musical numbers underscore Spike Lee's account of tensions erupting among the student body at an all-black university.
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Me, Myself and Mum (2013)
While a boy is growing up, everyone assumes he is a girl.
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Easter Parade (1948)
A nightclub performer hires a naive chorus girl to become his new dance partner to make his former partner jealous and to prove he can make any partner a star.
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Someone Else's America (1995)
This tale take place in a bar. The Spanish Alonso and his blind mother run this place. Bay, who is Alonso's friend live here too. This story tells something about Alonso and Bay and the "American Dream".
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The Sapphires (2012)
It's 1968, and four young, talented Australian Aboriginal girls learn about love, friendship and war when their all-girl group The Sapphires entertain the US troops in Vietnam.
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Reuben, Reuben (1983)
A drunken Scottish poet, who has not written a word in years, feels compelled to regain control of his life and work after meeting a beautiful young woman.
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Brighton Beach Memoirs (1986)
Eugene, a young teenage Jewish boy, recalls his memoirs of his time as an adolescent youth. He goes through the hardships of puberty, sexual fantasy, and living the life of a poor boy in a crowded house.
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I've Heard the Mermaids Singing (1987)
Absent-minded photographer Polly (Sheila McCarthy) lands a job at an art gallery in Toronto operated by a woman named Gabrielle (Paule Baillargeon). Gabrielle tells Polly she regrets she never became a great painter. Polly is impressed with Gabrielle's paintings, however, and after she smuggles one into a gallery show, a critic praises it as a masterpiece. But when it turns out to be the work of Gabrielle's lover (Ann-Marie MacDonald), Polly begins to understand how the art world works.
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The Fruit Machine (1988)
Two gay teens (Emile Charles, Tony Forsyth) flee Liverpool with an old opera singer (Robert Stephens) after witnessing a machete murder.
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Flirting (1990)
A white preppie (Noah Taylor) loves a Ugandan girl (Thandie Newton) in 1965 Australia in this sequel to "The Year My Voice Broke."
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The Night They Raided Minsky's (1968)
A naive Amish young woman runs away from her home in Pennsylvania to New York City where she hopes to act in religious stage plays but ends up performing in Burlesque theatre.
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Top of the Town (1937)
Diana Borden (Doris Nolan, a bleeding-heart rich-girl, returns from a trip to Russia filled with sympathy for the "little" people of the slums and wants to do "something" artistic and socially significant for them...so she opens up a nightclub atop a 100-story skyscraper. For her, that means acts such as opera singers, extracts from "Hamlet" and three sailors imitatin...Read all
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Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer (2016)
Norman Oppenheimer is a small time operator who befriends a young politician at a low point in his life. Three years later, when the politician becomes an influential world leader, Norman's life dramatically changes for better and worse.
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It's Always Fair Weather (1955)
A talk-show staffer (Cyd Charisse) puts a fight manager (Gene Kelly), adman (Dan Dailey) and cook on TV 10 years after they parted as GIs.
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Other People (2016)
After breaking up with his boyfriend, a struggling New York writer (Jesse Plemons) returns to Sacramento, Calif., to take care of his terminally ill mother (Molly Shannon).
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A Matter of Size (2009)
Tired of losing the struggle to control their weight, four pudgy pals enlist the aid of a Japanese restaurateur to train them as sumo wrestlers.
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