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Paradise Found (2003)
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Paradise Found (2003)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, France, Germany, Australia, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Paradise Found is a biography about the painter Paul Gauguin. Focusing on his personal conflict between citizen life and his family life and the art scene in Frane. In an incredible imagery montage Gauguin manages to make a successful living in the South Pacific, while being in opposition to France.
Style: realistic, serious, scenic, contemplative
Plot: painter, survival, prodigy, ambition, lifestyle, obsessive quest, artist, obsession, destiny, love and romance, life is a bitch, tragic love, love affair, rise and fall, tragic hero, biopic, art, ancient, famous, art history, paradise, missionary, catholicism, addiction, couples ...
Time: 19th century, ancient times, 1870s, 1890s
Place: tahiti, paris france, france, europe

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and atmospheric films with plots about artists and showbiz, biopic, art, artist, performer's life, couples and love and romance mostly in Drama, Biography and Romance genres. Some movies like Paradise Found: The Wolf at the Door (1986), Modigliani (2004), My Nikifor (2004), Last Call (2002), Marie Kroyer (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Wolf at the Door (1986)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Denmark, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: This biographical film, based on the life of French artist Paul Gauguin, follows the painter as he returns to Paris after a long stay in Tahiti and must confront his wife, his children, and his former lover.
Style: sexual, serious, realistic, sincere, touching
Plot: female nudity, biopic, art history, art, artists' life, acid, famous, playwright, nudity, performer's life, society, hopes ...
Time: 19th century, 1890s
Place: paris france, europe, tahiti, france
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Modigliani (2004)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, Romania, France, Italy
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Set in Paris in 1919, biopic centers on the life of late Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, focusing on his last days as well as his rivalry with Pablo Picasso. Modigliani, a Jew, has fallen in love with Jeanne, a young and beautiful Catholic girl. ...
Style: realistic, touching, serious, sad, factual ...
Plot: painter, painting, artist, prodigy, biopic, art, art history, life is a bitch, addiction, tragic hero, tragic love, couple relations ...
Time: 20th century, 1920s, year 1919
Place: france, paris france, europe, south of france
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My Nikifor (2004)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 97 min.
Story: From his birth in 1895 through his death in 1968, the gifted Polish naïve artist Nikifor Krynicki (AKA Epifan Drowniak) lived his life and eked out a career cloaked in obscurity - a casualty of both his extreme speech impediment (his tongue was ...
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, atmospheric, gloomy
Plot: art, painter, genius, prodigy, couples, celebrity culture, tragic love, family life, love and romance, couple relations, society, lifestyle ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: poland
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34%
 6.5
 976
Last Call (2002)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Renowned writer F. Scott Fitzgerald is living the last months of his life with his youthful secretary, confidant, and protégé who later wrote a memoir of their time together.
Style: clever, emotional, realistic, serious, gloomy ...
Plot: prodigy, ambition, life is a bitch, lifestyle, terminal illness, love and romance, crumbling marriage, couples, showbiz, mental illness, family problems, split personality ...
Place: california
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Marie Kroyer (2012)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Marie Krøyer is hailed as “the most beautiful woman in Europe” and leads a happy marriage life with her husband the great Danish painter P.S. Krøyer and an adorable daughter. However, not everything in her world is as perfect as it seems, and ...
Style: captivating, stylized, emotional, costume drama, realistic ...
Plot: painter, biopic, family problems, under the surface, mentally unstable, fall in love, crumbling marriage, self discovery, art, nordic, artist, art history ...
Time: 19th century, 20th century
Place: denmark, italy, europe
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Polanski Unauthorized (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: An unauthorized chronicle of the life of Roman Polanski.
Style: serious, realistic, thought provoking, captivating, sexual ...
Plot: prodigy, ambition, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, life is a bitch, filmmaking, celebrity culture, unfulfillment, biopic
Time: 60s, 70s
Place: europe, usa
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29%
 6.5
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El Greco (2007)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Greece, Spain, Hungary
Duration: 119 min.
Story: The story of the uncompromising artist and fighter for freedom, Domenicos Theotokopoulos, known to the world as "El Greco".
Style: serious, stylized, emotional, captivating, disgusting ...
Plot: painter, art, idealism, politics, tragic hero, ambition, prodigy, self destructing, fall in love, society, destructive relationship, lifestyle ...
Time: 16th century, middle ages
Place: greece, venice, italy, europe, spain ...
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28%
 5.1
 3K
Klimt (2006)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Austria, France, Germany, UK
Duration: 131 min.
Story: A portrait of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt whose lavish, sexual paintings came to symbolize the art nouveau style of the late 19th and early 20th century.
Style: thought provoking, stylized, visual, cerebral, visually stunning ...
Plot: painter, artist, art, painting, biopic, female pubic hair, art history, obsession, prodigy, sexual relations, ambition, lifestyle ...
Time: 20th century, year 2006, 19th century, turn of the century, year 1900 ...
Place: austria, france, paris france, europe, vienna
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Cezanne and I (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story: They loved each other with the ardor of thirteen-year-old boys. Rebellion and curiosity, hopes and doubts, girls and dreams of glory – they shared it all. Paul was rich, Emile poor. They went skinny-dipping, drank absinthe, starved, only to ...
Style: factual, realistic, exciting, captivating, contemplative ...
Plot: painter, friendship, art, artist, painting, nude painting, novelist, end of friendship, portrait, seaside, infidelity, art history ...
Time: 1890s, 19th century, 1870s, 1880s, victorian era ...
Place: south of france, paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
A Soul Haunted by Painting (1994)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: China, France, Taiwan
Duration: 130 min.
Story: At the beginning of the twentieth century, Yu-liang leaves a brothel in a small Chinese town, to become the second wife of Mr. Pan. While Pan is away at the revolution in Yunnan, Yu-liang learns to paint and takes art classes at the Shanghai Art ...
Style: sincere, sexual, serious, realistic
Plot: biopic, painter, artist, art, famous, ambition, rise to the top, unfulfillment, artists and showbiz, life is a bitch, couples, road not taken ...
Place: china, paris france, france, asia, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Pollock (2000)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: In August of 1949, Life Magazine ran a banner headline that begged the question: "Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?" The film is a look back into the life of an extraordinary man, a man who has ...
Style: emotional, intellectual, atmospheric, depressing, breathtaking ...
Plot: painter, artist, art, painting, biopic, genius, addiction, alcoholism, bohemian life, art history, rise and fall, supportive spouse ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 1950s, 50s, year 1950 ...
Place: new york, usa, greenwich village manhattan new york city, long island
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Surviving Picasso (1996)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: The passionate Merchant-Ivory drama tells the story of Francoise Gilot, the only lover of Pablo Picasso who was strong enough to withstand his ferocious cruelty and move on with her life.
Style: emotional, realistic, serious, intense, romantic ...
Audience: toddlers
Plot: artist, painter, womanizer, art, biopic, love triangle, infidelity, art history, character study, mistress, physical abuse, couple relations ...
Time: 1940s, year 1996, 60s, 20th century, 50s ...
Place: poland, paris france, europe, france, provence
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story (1987)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 282 min.
Story: The true story of one of the richest women in America - heiress to the Woolworth fortune. She had vast wealth and seven husbands, but never found lasting love.
Style: serious, realistic
Plot: biopic, wealth, women, hedonism, tragedy, historical figure, family problems, couples, life is a bitch, crumbling marriage, love and romance, rise to the top ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Nightwatching (2007)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Mystery
Country: UK, Poland, Canada, Netherlands
Duration: 134 min.
Story: An extravagant, exotic and moving look at Rembrandt's romantic and professional life, and the controversy he created by the identification of a murderer in the painting The Night Watch.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, disturbing, enigmatic ...
Plot: painter, art, biopic, artist, art history, artists and showbiz, uncover truth, investigation, lifestyle, love affair, ambition, painting ...
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Bride of the Wind (2001)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, Austria
Duration: 99 min.
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Vincent & Theo (1990)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France, Netherlands, UK, Germany, Italy, USA
Duration: 140 min.
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Style: touching, psychological, scenic, sexy, cult classic ...
Plot: painter, art, artist, painting, biopic, genius, obsession, brother brother relationship, poverty, art history, life is a bitch, mentally unstable ...
Time: 19th century, 20th century, 80s
Place: holland, europe, london, paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Pandemonium (2000)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Set in England during the early 19th century, Pandaemonium evokes late-1960s America in its depiction of the relationship between Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Linus Roach) and William Wordsworth (John Hannah). Instead of going to Vietnam, Wordsworth ...
Style: atmospheric, serious, realistic, captivating, costume drama ...
Plot: friendship, betrayal, politics, addiction, drug abuse, prodigy, lifestyle, rise and fall, writer's life, tragic hero, tragic love, idealism ...
Time: 18th century, georgian era, 1800s, 1790s
Place: france, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 5.8
 801
Céline (2008)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A biopic on singer Céline Dion.
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, captivating
Plot: desire for fame, rise to the top, prodigy, relationship vs career, ambition, musician's life, showbiz, couples, rising to stardom, lifestyle, fall in love, tragic love ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Alma Mahler's affair with the young architect Walter Gropius sets in motion a marital drama that forces her husband Gustav Mahler to seek advice from Sigmund Freud.
Style: captivating, psychological, realistic, serious, art house
Plot: psychoanalysis, infidelity, musician, love triangle, couples, love affair, artists and showbiz, love and romance, couple relations, composer, crumbling marriage, prodigy ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, 1900s
Place: germany, europe, amsterdam, holland, vienna
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Coco Chanel (2008)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy, France, UK
Duration: 139 min.
Story: Italian-French-British TV film targeting the US audience, about the fashion icon Coco Chanel. The film begins with the fashion goddess (deftly played by Shirley MacLaine) in her twilight years, steeped in wealth and fame, still issuing game-changing ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, inspirational
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: fashion, fashion designer, tragic love, rise to the top, relationship vs career, lifestyle, ambition, designer, biopic, eccentricity, rags to riches, couples ...
Time: 19th century, 20th century, 1900s, 1890s, turn of the century
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Basquiat (1996)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Director Julian Schnabel illustrates the portrait of his friend, the first African-American pop artist Jean-Michel Basquiat who unfortunately died at a young age and just as he was beginning to make a name for himself in the art world. Alongside the ...
Style: stylized, factual, inspirational, atmospheric, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: art, artist, graffiti, painter, drug abuse, biopic, painting, drug addiction, art history, drug, self destructing, rising to stardom ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1996, year 1981
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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The Still Life (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Fueled by original music by members of Guns N' Roses, Bad Religion, No Doubt, Skid Row, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Hootie & The Blowfish and more... The Still Life tells the story of artist Julian Lamont who struggles to pick up the pieces of ...
Style: realistic, psychological, emotional, captivating, erotic ...
Plot: painter, recluse, rise and fall, unfulfillment, alcohol abuse, life is a bitch, ambition, addiction, destruction, art, breakup, artists' life ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Camille Claudel (1988)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 175 min.
Story: The life of Camille Claudel, a french scupltor who becomes the apprentice of Auguste Rodin and later his lover. Her passion for her art and Rodin drive her further away from reason and rationality.
Style: psychological, emotional, intense, heartbreaking, touching ...
Plot: biopic, mental illness, artist, art, painter, sculptor, obsession, storytelling, art history, fall in love, love, couples ...
Time: 19th century, ancient times
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted with despair.
Style: intellectual, talky, witty, clever, heartbreaking ...
Plot: biopic, addiction, female nudity, loveless marriage, flapper, poetry, prohibition, women, female writer, friendship, hotel, writers ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, year 1994, victorian era ...
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
King of Salsa (2006)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The rise and fall of salsa singer, Héctor Lavoe (1946-1993), as told from the perspective of his wife Puchi, who looks back from 2002.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, disturbing, informative ...
Plot: music, ambition, musician's life, artists and showbiz, showbiz, dancing, biopic, lifestyle, life is a bitch, rise and fall, drug abuse, salsa ...
Time: 70s, year 2006, 60s
Place: usa, new york, puerto rico
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 6.8
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Mr. Turner (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA, Belgium
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes involved with a seaside landlady, while his faithful housekeeper bears an unrequited love for him.
Style: surreal, meditative, sincere, captivating, visual ...
Plot: painter, painting, art, biopic, artist, eccentricity, art history, character study, estrangement, couple relations, society, elderly ...
Time: 19th century, 1820s, year 2014, 1800s, ancient times ...
Place: england, britain, london, holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 7.1
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Van Gogh (1991)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 158 min.
Story: In late spring, 1890, Vincent moves to Auvers-sur-Oise, near Paris, under the care of Dr. Gachet, living in a humble inn. Fewer than 70 days later, Vincent dies from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. We see Vincent at work, painting landscapes and ...
Style: anthology, gloomy, sincere, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot: painter, artist, biopic, painting, art, female nudity, art history, sex, philosophy, architecture, famous, artwork ...
Time: 19th century, year 1991, victorian era, 1890s
Place: france, paris france, europe, provence
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Camille Claudel 1915 (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Winter, 1915. Confined by her family to an asylum in the South of France - where she will never sculpt again - the chronicle of Camille Claudel's reclusive life, as she waits for a visit from her brother, Paul Claudel.
Style: realistic, sincere, factual, aesthetic, costume drama ...
Plot: art, mental illness, biopic, painter, separation from family, mental institution, unfulfillment, artist, art history, faith, paranoia, sculpture ...
Time: 20th century, year 1915, 1910s
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Lovers of the Café Flore (2006)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In 1924, Simone de Beauvoir, a girl with polished appearance, prepares for her final examination in philosophy and meets Jean-Paul Sartre. He seems to know her true personality and considers her the only woman worthy of his intellect. Their chaotic ...
Style: atmospheric, emotional, factual, sexy, captivating ...
Plot: feminism, lesbian, love affair, writer's life, philosophy, couples, love triangle, fall in love, hopes, society, idealism, lifestyle ...
Time: 20th century, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s
Place: paris france, france, usa, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.4
 22K
Factory Girl (2006)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In the mid-1960s, wealthy debutant Edie Sedgwick meets artist Andy Warhol. She joins Warhol's famous Factory and becomes his muse. Although she seems to have it all, Edie cannot have the love she craves from Andy, and she has an affair with a ...
Style: factual, sentimental, melancholic, contemplative, serious ...
Plot: art, artist, fashion, biopic, addiction, drug addiction, painter, bare butt, drug, mentor, rise and fall, love ...
Time: y2k, year 2006, 70s, 60s, 20th century ...
Place: new york, empire state building manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, usa, paris france ...
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22%
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