20 best movies like Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling (1986)

List of the best movies like Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling (1986): The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling, I, Tonya, Fighting with My Family, Stockholm, Encounters, Bernie, Red Dog: True Blue, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, The Polka King, Green Book.

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Markimdb: 8.4
Genrecomedy, drama, documentary, biography
CountryUSA

The story of legendary comedian Garry Shandling, featuring interviews from nearly four dozen friends, family and colleagues; four decades’ worth of television appearances; and a lifetime of personal journals, private letters and home audio and video footage.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrecomedy, drama, biography, sport
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Qatar
Duration02:00

Competitive ice skater Tonya Harding rises amongst the ranks at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, but her future in the sport is thrown into doubt when her ex-husband intervenes.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrecomedy, drama, biography, sport
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Mexico
Duration02:28

Born into a tight-knit wrestling family, Paige and her brother Zak are ecstatic when they get the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to try out for the WWE. But when only Paige earns a spot in the competitive training program, she must leave her loved ones behind and face this new cutthroat world alone. Paige's journey pushes her to dig deep and ultimately prove to the world that what makes her different is the very thing that can make her a star.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrecomedy, drama, crime, biography, history
CountryCanada, USA

Based on the extraordinary true story of the European city’s 1973 bank heist and hostage crisis that was documented in the 1974 New Yorker article “The Bank Drama” by Daniel Lang. The events grasped the world’s attention when the hostages bonded with their captors and turned against the authorities, giving rise to the psychological phenomenon known as “Stockholm Syndrome.”

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrecomedy, drama, adventure, documentary, music, biography
CountryUSA

November 18th 2011 a small Danish film crew disappeared in the woods of northern Sweden without a trace. One year later, their footage was leaked by a hacker group now known as Pandoras. This is the crew's unsettling and disturbing footage.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrecomedy, drama, crime, biography
CountryUSA
Duration01:40

In small-town Texas, affable and popular mortician Bernie Tiede strikes up a friendship with Marjorie Nugent, a wealthy widow well known for her sour attitude. When she becomes controlling and abusive, Bernie goes to great lengths to remove himself from her grasp.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, family, biography
CountryAustralia, USA

Explores the early events leading up to Red Dog's discovery on the road to Dampier, and his ultimate rise from ordinary dog to Australian legend.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrecomedy, drama, crime, biography
CountryUSA
Duration01:42

When a bestselling celebrity biographer is no longer able to get published because she has fallen out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrecomedy, drama, music, biography
CountryUSA
Duration02:22

Local Pennsylvania polka legend Jan Lewan develops a plan to get rich that shocks his fans and lands him in jail.

Markimdb: 8.2
Genrecomedy, drama, biography
CountryUSA, China
Duration02:10

Tony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South in the days when African Americans, forced to find alternate accommodations and services due to segregation laws below the Mason-Dixon Line, relied on a guide called The Negro Motorist Green Book.

Markimdb: 8.2
Genrecomedy, drama, crime, biography
CountryUSA
Duration03:00

    A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama, biography
    CountryJapan, USA
    Duration01:55

    When a devastating attack shatters Mark Hogancamp and wipes away all memories, no one expected recovery. Putting together pieces from his old and new life, Mark meticulously creates a wondrous town named Marwen where he can heal and be heroic. As he builds an astonishing art installation — a testament to the most powerful women he knows — through his fantasy world, he draws strength to triumph in the real one.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:45

    An eighteen year old high school drop out and his twenty-seven year old friend start trafficking marijuana across the border of Canada in order to make money and their lives are changed forever.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrecomedy, drama, biography, history, sport
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:59

    The true story of the 1973 tennis match between World number one Billie Jean King and ex-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrecomedy, drama, biography, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, USA
    Duration01:55

    England, early 18th century. The close relationship between Queen Anne and Sarah Churchill is threatened by the arrival of Sarah's cousin, Abigail Hill, resulting in a bitter rivalry between the two cousins to be the Queen's favourite.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime, biography
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration02:33

    The true story of Forrest Tucker, from his audacious escape from San Quentin at the age of 70 to an unprecedented string of heists that confounded authorities and enchanted the public. Wrapped up in the pursuit are a detective, who becomes captivated with Forrest’s commitment to his craft, and a woman, who loves him in spite of his chosen profession.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:38

    Though a childhood bout with polio left him dependent on an iron lung, Mark O'Brien (John Hawkes) maintains a career as a journalist and poet. A writing assignment dealing with sex and the disabled piques Mark's curiosity, and he decides to investigate the possibility of experiencing sex himself. When his overtures toward a caregiver scare her away, he books an appointment with sex surrogate Cheryl Green (Helen Hunt) to lose his virginity.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrecomedy, drama, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:26

    An aspiring actor in Hollywood meets an enigmatic stranger by the name of Tommy Wiseau, the meeting leads the actor down a path nobody could have predicted; creating the worst movie ever made.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime, biography
    CountryUSA

    A superintendent of a school district works for the betterment of the student’s education when an embezzlement scheme is discovered, threatening to destroy everything.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, military, music, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:34

    After a confrontation with one of his idols dashes his dreams of studying public speaking in college, Richard Pimentel joins the Army and ships off to Vietnam. During his service, Richard loses nearly all of his hearing. Joining a new circle of friends, including a man with cerebral palsy and an alcoholic war veteran, Richard discovers his gift for motivational speaking and becomes an advocate for people with disabilities.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:24

    Colorado Springs, late 1970s. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer, and Flip Zimmerman, his Jewish colleague, run an undercover operation to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genreaction, comedy, drama, crime, biography
    CountryArgentina, USA

    In 2006, a group of thieves performed what is considered one of the most famous and smart bank heists in the history of Argentina. How they robbed the Rio bank is as surprising as what happened afterwards. This is their story.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrecomedy, drama, music, biography
    CountryAustralia, USA
    Duration01:37

    Based on the true events surrounding Frank Sinatra's tour of Australia. When Sinatra calls a local reporter a "two-bit hooker", every union in the country black-bans the star until he issues an apology.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, crime, biography
    CountryFrance, USA
    Duration01:38

      Steve Russell is a small-town cop. Bored with his bland lifestyle, Russell turns to fraud as a means of shaking things up. Before long, Russell's criminal antics have landed him behind bars, where he encounters the charismatic Phillip Morris. Smitten, Russell devotes his entire life to being with Morris regardless of the consequences.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrecomedy, drama, crime, biography
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Puerto Rico

      FBI informant Jim Hoffman lures troubled automobile magnate John DeLorean to an undercover sting for cocaine trafficking.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrecomedy, drama, crime, military, biography
      CountryUSA, Cambodia, Romania
      Duration02:11

        Based on the true story of two young men, David Packouz and Efraim Diveroli, who won a $300 million contract from the Pentagon to arm America's allies in Afghanistan.

        Markimdb: 7.8
        Genrecomedy, drama, biography, history
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:24

          The men who made millions from a global economic meltdown.

          Markimdb: 6.9
          Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, biography
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
          Duration02:02

          The turbulent personal and professional life of actor Peter Sellers (1925-1980), from his beginnings as a comic performer on BBC Radio to his huge success as one of the greatest film comedians of all time; an obsessive artist so dedicated to his work that neglected his loved ones and sacrificed part of his own personality to convincingly create that of his many memorable characters.

          Markimdb: 6.5
          Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, biography
          CountryUSA, United Kingdom

          Sympathetic look loosely based on the relationship between tobacco heiress, Doris Duke and her shy butler, Bernard Lafferty. The icy and mercurial Duke fires her butler for serving a chilled cantaloupe; the agency sends Lafferty, formerly household staff to Liz Taylor and to Peggy Lee. He's an alcoholic, fresh out of rehab. With a wine cellar to die for, Bernard falls off the wagon. Can he pull himself together when Doris needs him?

          Markimdb: 5.8
          Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, comedy, drama, detective, biography
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:29

          A documentary filmmaker turns his lens on an enigmatic conspiracy theorist who claims he's found the entrance to a vast underground city populated entirely by monsters.

          Markimdb: 6.3
          Genrecomedy, drama, biography, history
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:47

          When her idyllic vacation takes an unthinkable turn, Ellen Martin begins investigating a fake insurance policy, only to find herself down a rabbit hole of questionable dealings that can be linked to a Panama City law firm and its vested interest in helping the world's wealthiest citizens amass larger fortunes.




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