Movies like Priest of Love

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Priest of Love (1981)
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Priest of Love (1981)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Mexico, Italy
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Following the banning and burning of his novel, "The Rainbow," D.H. Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, move to the United States, and then to Mexico. When Lawrence contracts tuberculosis, they return to England for a short time, then to Italy, where Lawrence writes "Lady Chatterley's Lover."
Style: intellectual, independent film, sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, contemplative, talky, romantic drama, historical drama ...
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, skinny dipping, writers, nudity, art, poet, playwright, age-gap relationship, male nudity, womanizer, love and romance, rebellion, couples, love affair, society, rise and fall, writer's life, artists and showbiz, unfulfillment, against the rules, couple relations, biopic, love, sex, native american ...
Time: year 1981, 1920s, 20th century, 1910s, 20s
Place: italy, mexico, england, usa, latin america, europe, new mexico ...

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sentimental films with plots about couples, love and romance, writers, biopic, poet, couple relations and writer's life mostly in Drama, Romance and Biography genres. Some movies like Priest of Love: The Color of Time (2012), Iris (2001), Carrington (1995), Nora (2000), Summer in February (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Color of Time (2012)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: A poetic road trip through Pulitzer prize-winning CK Williams' life over the course of 40 years.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, melancholic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: poet, poetry, parent child relationship, artists and showbiz, couple relations, writer's life, haunted by the past, husband wife relationship, writers, biopic, professional, art ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 50s, 80s, 60s ...
Place: usa, detroit, new york
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95%
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Iris (2001)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer's disease.
Style: depressing, touching, melancholic, sentimental, compassionate ...
Plot: alzheimer's disease, aging, writers, writer's life, biopic, mental illness, love, female pubic hair, women, life & death, terminal illness, loneliness ...
Time: year 2001, 50s, 20th century, 90s
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
F. Scott Fitzgerald and 'The Last of the Belles' (1974)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A semi-fictional account of how writer F. Scott Fitzgerald met his wife while he was in the army and stationed in Alabama in 1919.
Style: contemplative, sincere, touching, serious, realistic
Audience: girls' night
Plot: writers, art, poet, swing, biopic, couples, love affair, small town, writer's life, artists and showbiz, human nature, couple relations ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: alabama
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
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Carrington (1995)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 121 min.
Story: The story of the relationship between painter Dora Carrington and author Lytton Strachey in a World War One England of cottages and countryside. Although platonic due to Strachey's homosexuality, the relationship was nevertheless a deep and ...
Style: costume drama, talky, touching, sexual, emotional ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: artist, painter, writers, art, polyamory, lgbt, biopic, art history, glbt, world war one, painting, gay ...
Time: 1930s, 1910s, 1920s, victorian era, year 1915 ...
Place: england, europe, italy, wales, venice ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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Nora (2000)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK, Italy, Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In 1904, in Dublin, James Joyce chats up Nora Barnacle, a hotel maid recently come from Galway. She enchants him with her frank, direct and uninhibited manner, and before long, he's convinced her to come with him to Trieste, where he has a job ...
Style: realistic, touching, sentimental, sincere, serious ...
Plot: novelist, love affair, writers, writer's life, lifestyle, couple relations, society, family problems, love triangle, artists and showbiz, sexual relations, male female relationship ...
Time: edwardian era, victorian era, 1900s, 1910s, 20th century
Place: ireland, italy, dublin ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
Summer in February (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The Newlyn School of artists flourished at the beginning of the 20th Century and the film focuses on the wild and bohemian Lamorna Group, which included Alfred Munnings and Laura and Harold Knight. The incendiary anti-Modernist Munnings, now ...
Style: touching, sincere, emotional, serious, retro ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: painter, love triangle, infidelity, biopic, love affair, lifestyle, couples, family relations, unfulfilled love, love and romance, fall in love, couple relations ...
Time: 1910s, 1900s, 20th century, year 1915, pre world war one ...
Place: cornwall, england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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Tom & Viv (1994)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 125 min.
Story: The story of the marriage of the poet TS Eliot to socialite Vivienne Haigh-Wood, which had to cope with her gynaeological and emotional problems and his growing fame.
Style: romantic, psychological, romantic drama, emotional, sincere ...
Plot: writers, women, art, poet, biopic, artist, love, marriage, insanity, mental disorder, nobel prize winner, world war one ...
Time: 1930s, year 1994, victorian era, 1910s, 20th century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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Shadowlands (1986)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A play based on the friendship between CS Lewis and Joy Gresham.
Style: christian film, serious, realistic, talky, uplifting ...
Plot: writers, death, christianity, cancer, marriage, faith, poet, jesus, art, family relations, couples, disability ...
Time: year 1985
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 155 min.
Story: Writer Ernest Hemingway begins a romance with fellow scribe Martha Gellhorn.
Style: serious, stylized, psychological, captivating, heartbreaking ...
Plot: writers, love affair, war correspondent, divorce, biopic, media, journalism, spanish civil war, journalist, fame, world war two, couples ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s, 1940s
Place: europe, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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Miss Potter (2006)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The story of Beatrix Potter, the author of the beloved and best-selling children's book, "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", and her struggle for love, happiness and success.
Style: sentimental, touching, period piece, costume drama, serious ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: writers, artist, writer's life, biopic, female artist, family relations, snobbism, painting, art, friendship, first love, rabbit ...
Time: 1900s, victorian era, edwardian era, 19th century, 1910s ...
Place: england, london, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
84 Charing Cross Road (1987)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When a humorous script-reader in her New York apartment sees an ad in the Saturday Review of Literature for a bookstore in London that does mail order, she begins a very special correspondence and friendship with Frank Doel, the bookseller who works ...
Style: sweet, romantic, touching, sincere, feel good ...
Plot: bookstore, book, correspondence, friendship, writers, post war, marriage, pen pal, dentist, longing, voice over narration, love ...
Time: 1940s, 60s, 1950s, year 1987, 20th century ...
Place: new york, london, england, europe, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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Shadowlands (1993)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 131 min.
Story: C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned writer and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets spirited poet Joy Gresham
Style: sentimental, heartbreaking, touching, melancholic, factual ...
Audience: kids, teens, girls' night
Plot: poet, writers, biopic, marriage, honest, college, death, writer's life, couple relations, terminal illness, melancholy, literature ...
Time: 1950s, year 1993, 60s, 20th century, 50s
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Wilde (1997)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Japan, Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story: The story of Oscar Wilde, genius, poet, playwright and the First Modern Man. The self-realisation of his homosexuality caused Wilde enormous torment as he juggled marriage, fatherhood and responsibility with his obsessive love for Lord Alfred ...
Style: homoerotic, costume drama, touching, period piece, witty ...
Plot: homosexuality, gay, writers, homosexual, hypocrisy, biopic, lgbt, male homosexuality, scandal, gay lead character, glbt, poetry ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s, year 1997, edwardian era
Place: ireland, britain, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Becoming Jane (2007)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A biographical portrait of a pre-fame Jane Austen and her romance with a young Irishman.
Style: romantic, touching, costume drama, period piece, sweet ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, adult
Plot: unfulfilled love, writer's life, love, prejudice, love and romance, love story, couples, fall in love, women, biopic, social differences, society ...
Time: 18th century, 19th century, victorian era, 50s, year 2007 ...
Place: england, ireland, britain, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
The Virgin and the Gypsy (1970)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Film adaptation from the novel by D.H. Lawrence, discovered after the celebrated author's death in 1930, a romantic love story tells of a prim young English girl who is sexually attracted to a seductively virile gypsy. The climatic dam burst is ...
Style: historical romance, independent film, erotic, emotional, touching ...
Plot: gypsy, virgin, sensuality, family relations, looking for love, tragic love, small town, adolescence vs adulthood, village, unfulfilled love, social differences, village life ...
Time: 1920s
Place: england, europe, northern england
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Haunted Summer (1988)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Authors Lord Byron, Mary Shelley (née Godwin) and Percy Shelley get together for some philosophical discussions, but the situation soon deteriorates into mind games, drugs, and sex. It is a fictionalization of the summer that Lord Byron and the ...
Style: grindhouse, independent film, gothic, realistic, serious ...
Plot: writers, art, poet, napoleonic era, strength, acid, literary, women, drug use, couples, mutant, gays and lesbians ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Lady Chatterley's Lover (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: An early-20th-century tale of love across class boundaries which tells the legendary and romantic story of Lady Chatterley’s affair with her gamekeeper. Jed Mercurio’s adaptation of DH Lawrence’s classic.
Style: serious, realistic, erotic, costume drama, disturbing ...
Plot: social differences, infidelity, cheating on husband, master and servant, love affair, obsession, society, couples, love and romance, couple relations, power relations, fall in love ...
Time: 20th century, 1910s, 1920s, edwardian era
Place: england, europe, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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Sylvia (2003)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Story of the relationship between the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.
Style: depressing, emotional, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Plot: suicide, drinking, writers, mental illness, biopic, poet, death, art, tragic love, writer's life, artist, couple relations ...
Time: 1950s, year 2003, 50s, 60s, 20th century
Place: england, europe, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Bright Star (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, UK, France
Duration: 119 min.
Story: In 1818, high-spirited young Fanny Brawne finds herself increasingly intrigued by the handsome but aloof poet John Keats, who lives next door to her family friends the Dilkes. After reading a book of his poetry, she finds herself even more drawn to ...
Style: heartbreaking, period piece, romantic, touching, sad ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: poet, poetry, writers, biopic, love story, love, art, friendship, letter, tragedy, passion, couple relations ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, regency period, ancient times, year 2009 ...
Place: england, europe, britain, rome italy, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
The Invisible Woman (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: In 1857, at the height of his fame and fortune, novelist and social critic Charles Dickens meets and falls in love with teenage stage actress Nelly Ternan. As she becomes the focus of his heart and mind, as well as his muse, painful secrecy is the ...
Style: costume drama, sentimental, captivating, serious, realistic ...
Plot: love affair, writer's life, biopic, older man younger woman relationship, charles dickens, writers, forbidden love, marital discord, celebrity, scandal, secret, introspection ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, 1870s, 1860s, ancient times ...
Place: england, britain, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Balzac: A Passionate Life (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 240 min.
Story: He burned with ambition. He lusted for life. He lived for passion. This is the sprawling saga of Honoré de Balzac (Gérard Depardieu), a man who created a great literary oeuvre from the dramas and adventures of his own life - a life that he shaped ...
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, stylized, clever ...
Plot: writers, art, age-gap relationship, poet, literary, family relations, biopic, writer's life, society, couple relations, innocence lost, lifestyle ...
Time: 19th century
Place: france, switzerland, europe, paris france, black sea
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
The Last Station (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, UK, Russia
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A historical drama that illustrates Russian author Leo Tolstoy's struggle to balance fame and wealth with his commitment to a life devoid of material things. The Countess Sofya, wife and muse to Leo Tolstoy, uses every trick of seduction on her ...
Style: sentimental, factual, period piece, touching, melancholic ...
Plot: biopic, adultery, betrayal, love and romance, family relations, loss of virginity, lifestyle, writer's life, parents and children, art, poet, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 1910s, edwardian era, year 2009, 20th century
Place: russia, europe, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
The Whole Wide World (1996)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Based on her acclaimed autobiographical book, THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD tells the story of Novalyne Price, an attractive feisty West Texas schoolteacher and her bittersweet, romantic and turbulent relationship with Robert E. Howard, the great pulp ...
Style: emotional, touching, sentimental, period piece, cult classic ...
Plot: writers, biopic, love story, destiny, friendship, bittersweet, couples, hospital, love, loneliness, poet, summer ...
Time: 1930s, year 1996, 20th century
Place: texas, louisiana, usa, new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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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 ⇓
54%
In Love and War (1996)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: After teenage ambulance driver Ernest Hemingway (Chris O'Donnell) takes shrapnel in the leg during World War I, he falls in love with Agnes von Kurowsky (Sandra Bullock), a beautiful older nurse at the hospital where he's sent to recover. ...
Style: romantic, sentimental, romantic drama, sincere, sex comedy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: world war one, writers, war, great war, love, bittersweet, world war, soldier, couple relations, italian history, past, poet ...
Time: year 1996, 20th century
Place: europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Effie Gray (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A look at the mysterious relationship between Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his teenage bride Effie Gray.
Style: emotional, captivating, stylized, realistic, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: biopic, love, art critic, unfulfillment, self discovery, crumbling marriage, couples, love and romance, fall in love, painter, love triangle, art ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, ancient times
Place: england, britain, europe, scotland, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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The Gambler (1997)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands, Hungary, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Under pressure from his publisher, Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky gets work on his latest piece, 'Rouletenberg'. In the 27 days it takes for him to complete the novel reality and fiction become blurred; in this feverish atmosphere of ...
Style: stylized, romantic drama, realistic, serious, independent film
Plot: gambling, writers, older man younger woman relationship, addiction, gambler, biopic, obsession, redemption, poet, nudity, novelist, gambling addiction ...
Time: year 1997, 1860s, 19th century, 1870s
Place: germany, st. petersburg russia, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Before Night Falls (2000)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Spanning several decades, this powerful biopic offers a glimpse into the life of famed Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas, an artist who was vilified for his homosexuality in Fidel Castro's Cuba.
Style: atmospheric, bleak, lyrical, serious, realistic ...
Plot: gay, aids, homosexual, writers, poet, childhood, artist, gays and lesbians, gay latino, idealism, writer's life, freedom ...
Time: year 2000, 2000s, 60s, 80s, 70s ...
Place: cuba, latin america, havana cuba, caribbean, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Cross Creek (1983)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: The portrait of a woman who, at the edge of survival, found a world of meaning.
Style: touching, realistic, atmospheric, serious, captivating ...
Plot: writers, swamp, biopic, friendship, suburbs, deep south, art, romantic relationship, past, poet, rural setting, backwoods ...
Time: year 1983, 80s, 1930s
Place: florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Total Eclipse (1995)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Belgium
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Young, wild poet Arthur Rimbaud and his mentor Paul Verlaine engage in a fierce, forbidden romance while feeling the effects of a hellish artistic lifestyle.
Style: serious, costume drama, cult classic, erotic, sexual ...
Plot: gay, poet, lgbt, male nudity, writer's life, homosexuality, gay teenager, melancholy, violence, homoeroticism, homosexual, art ...
Time: 19th century, 1870s, victorian era, ancient times
Place: paris france, africa, europe, france, holland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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