Movies like Total Eclipse 1995

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Total Eclipse (1995)
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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, erotic, costume drama, cult classic, psychological, sexual, thought provoking, lgbt cinema, artsy, historical drama ...
Plot: gay, poet, lgbt, male nudity, writer's life, homosexuality, gay teenager, melancholy, violence, homosexual, homoeroticism, art, teenage boy, lgbt teen, age difference, infidelity, biopic, writers, unrequited love, obsession, mentor, brutality, insanity, poetry, sodomy ...
Time: 19th century, 1870s, victorian era, ancient times, victorian age
Place: paris france, africa, europe, france, holland, london, brussels ...
Keyword: oldies, reading, french

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, queer cinema and crying films with plots about biopic, kiss, couples, love and romance, lgbt, husband wife relationship and art mostly in Drama, Romance and Biography genres. Some movies like Total Eclipse: Kill Your Darlings (2013), Wilde (1997), Little Ashes (2008), Savage Nights (1992), The Libertine (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Kill Your Darlings (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.
Style: bleak, captivating, serious, intellectual, talky ...
Audience: teens
Plot: poet, writers, gay, obsession, youth, friendship, coming of age, sexual tension, mental illness, murder, friends, lifestyle ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1944, 2000s, post world war two ...
Place: usa, greenwich village manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, harlem, chicago ...
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89%
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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 ⇓
100%
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Little Ashes (2008)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story: About the young life and loves of artist Salvador Dalí, filmmaker Luis Buñuel and writer Federico García Lorca.
Style: atmospheric, serious, factual, tense, art film ...
Plot: poet, friendship, artist, gay, lgbt, painter, closeted homosexual, gay relationship, political unrest, friends, art, spanish civil war ...
Time: 20th century, year 2008, 1920s, year 1936, 1930s
Place: spain, andalusia, europe, italy, paris france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Savage Nights (1992)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Jean is young, gay, and promiscuous. Only after he meets one or two women, including Laura does he come to realize his bisexuality. Jean has to overcome a personal crisis and a tough choice between Laura and his male lover Samy.
Style: sexy, sexual, anthology, erotic drama, steamy ...
Plot: gay, aids, lgbt, sex, lgbtq, bittersweet, gender, love, sexuality, time travel, polyamory, hiv ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Libertine (2004)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 114 min.
Story: The story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and debauched his way to an early grave, only to earn posthumous critical acclaim for his life's work.
Style: period piece, costume drama, melancholic, atmospheric, surreal ...
Plot: writers, libertine, decadence, poet, infidelity, oral sex, biopic, alcoholic, depression, dysfunctional marriage, sexual attraction, lust ...
Time: 17th century, year 2004, ancient times, year 2006, 20th century ...
Place: england, london, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Caravaggio (1986)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: As influential Italian artist Caravaggio dies in exile in 1610, he recalls his short life, from his childhood to his initial artistic failures to his later triumphs as he catches the eye of a sympathetic cardinal to his destructive relationship with ...
Style: atmospheric, realistic, serious, stylized, factual ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: painter, art, biopic, gay interest, older man younger man relationship, sexual relations, lifestyle, love triangle, art history, rise and fall, male nudity, life is a bitch ...
Time: 17th century, ancient times, 16th century
Place: rome italy, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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J. Edgar (2011)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story: As the face of law enforcement in America for almost 50 years, J. Edgar Hoover was feared and admired, reviled and revered. But behind closed doors, he held secrets that would have destroyed his image, his career and his life.
Style: political, factual, melancholic, compassionate, realistic ...
Plot: gay, fbi, biopic, surveillance, corruption, politics, investigation, homosexual, closeted homosexual, ambition, notoriety, american history ...
Time: 1920s, 60s, 1940s, 1930s, year 2011 ...
Place: usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.9
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Boy Erased (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Australia, USA, China
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The son of a Baptist preacher is forced to participate in a church supported gay conversion program.
Style: thought provoking, psychological, sentimental, captivating, teen ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: lgbt, gay, religion, lgbtq, conversion therapy, gay teenager, gay interest, father son relationship, homosexual, coming of age, church, lgbt teen ...
Time: 90s, 2000s, 2010s
Place: new york, southern usa, arkansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Edvard Munch (1974)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Mystery, Romance
Country: Sweden, Norway
Duration: 210 min.
Story: A biographical film about the Norwegian Expressionist painter Edvard Munch. It was originally created as a three-part miniseries co-produced by the Norwegian and Swedish state television networks, but subsequently gained an American theatrical ...
Style: expressionism, art film, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Plot: painter, painting, biopic, artist, art, art history, philosophy, disease, artists' life, depression, famous, based on real people ...
Time: year 1974, 19th century, 1890s, 1900s, 1870s ...
Place: germany, copenhagen, berlin germany, paris france, oslo norway
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Mad Love (2001)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Spain, Italy, Portugal, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The love story who transformed Juana I de Castilla, Queen of Spain, into Juana "The mad". The tragic fate of a Queen madly in love to an unfaithful husband, Felipe el Hermoso, Archduke of Austria.
Style: melancholic, costume drama, stylized, captivating, serious ...
Plot: betrayal, obsession, royal family, intrigue, infidelity, love and romance, politics, tragic hero, royalty, state affairs, society, rivalry ...
Time: 16th century, middle ages, ancient times, 15th century
Place: spain, austria, europe, flanders, portugal
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 ⇓
50%
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Byron (2003)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 147 min.
Story: Life and adventures of lord George Gordon Byron. BBC dramatization of the poet's final thirteen years
Style: realistic, serious, costume drama, crying, romantic drama ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: womanizer, obsession, debauchery, radical, writer's life, romanticism, lifestyle, writers, society, social misfits, politics, incestuous desire ...
Time: 19th century, 1810s, regency period
Place: albania, ottoman empire, yorkshire, london, turkey ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Violette (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 139 min.
Story: Born out of wedlock early in the last century, Violette Leduc meets Simone de Beauvoir in postwar Saint-Germain-des-Près. An intense lifelong relationship develops between the two women authors, based on Violette's quest for freedom through ...
Style: realistic, captivating, serious, sincere, psychological ...
Plot: lesbian, gender, writers, lesbian relationship, friendship, writer's life, friends, society, lgbt, women, couples, erotica ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 60s, 70s, year 1972 ...
Place: france, paris france, europe, provence
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The Witnesses (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Manu arrives in Paris, in the early days of AIDS, at the beginning of the 1980s. He strikes up a friendship with Adrien, a wealthy doctor in his early fifties, who introduces him to Sarah and Mehdi, a young couple.
Style: serious, sincere, touching, sentimental, erotic ...
Plot: gay, aids, gay sex, friendship, opera singer, moral dilemma, sexual promiscuity, love and romance, siblings relations, hiv, gender, erection ...
Time: year 2007, year 1984, year 1985, 80s
Place: paris france, munich germany, lyon, marseille, france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 7.1
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Kinsey (2004)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Kinsey is a portrait of researcher Alfred Kinsey, driven to uncover the most private secrets of a nation. What begins for Kinsey as a scientific endeavor soon takes on an intensely personal relevance, ultimately becoming an unexpected journey into ...
Style: sexual, controversial, talky, erotic, factual ...
Plot: gay, sexuality, professor, lgbt, scientist, male nudity, homosexual, psychology, research, nudity, gay interest, homosexuality ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 1950s, 2000s, year 2004 ...
Place: indiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 6.0
 7K
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 ⇓
26%
 6.2
 878
Full Speed (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A brief extract of four kids' lives somewhere in France. Quentin, who won a writers contest and now pays more attention to his career as an author than to his friends, beautiful Julie, his girl-friend, much more mature than she looks, falling ...
Style: erotic, contemplative, serious, realistic, sexual ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, gay interest, lgbtq, glbt, best friend, betrayal, youth, friendship, love triangle, racism, homosexuality ...
Time: 90s
Place: lyon, france, europe, new york, algeria ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Just a Question of Love (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After his gay cousin dies from hepatitis, young Laurent, who lives with his best friend Carole, falls in love with Cedric, a plant scientist. He's afraid to inform his conservative parents that he is gay.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, emotional, lgbt cinema ...
Audience: teens
Plot: gay, lgbt, gay slur, homosexuality, gays and lesbians, couples, gay relationship, gay love, gender, male homosexuality, gay teenager, gay sex ...
Time: 2000s, 90s
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Head On (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Nineteen-year-old Ari confronts both his sexuality and his Greek family. Ari despises his once-beloved parents, former radical activists, for having entombed themselves in insular tradition. Ari is obsessed with gay sex, although he does make an ...
Style: independent film, lgbt cinema, terrifying, serious, realistic ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, transgender, lgbtq, glbt, drug abuse, violence, homosexuality, lgbtqi, greek, drug addiction, brutality ...
Time: 90s
Place: australia, melbourne, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 6.6
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Restoration (1995)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story: An aspiring young physician, Robert Merivel found himself in the service of King Charles II and saves the life of someone close to the King. Merivel joins the King's court and lives the high life provided to someone of his position. Merivel is ...
Style: factual, costume drama, intense, serious, emotional ...
Audience: adult
Plot: plague, medicine, redemption, royal family, science, betrayal, fall in love, rise and fall, jealousy, justice, doctor, royalty ...
Time: 17th century, ancient times
Place: england, london, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 7.1
 198K
The Danish Girl (2015)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA, Germany, Denmark, Belgium, Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story: When Gerda Wegener asks her husband Einar to fill in as a portrait model, Einar discovers the person she's meant to be and begins living her life as Lili Elbe. Having realized her true self and with Gerda's love and support, Lili embarks ...
Style: touching, emotional, romantic, captivating, serious ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: transsexual, lgbt, art, transgender, lgbtq, couple relations, gender, painting, gay, artist, gays and lesbians, painter ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s, year 2015, 2010s, 20th century
Place: denmark, paris france, idaho, copenhagen, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Two modern-day cowboys meet on a shepherding job in the summer of '63, the two share a raw and powerful summer together that turns into a lifelong relationship conflicting with the lives they are supposed to live.
Style: emotional, touching, sexy, sad, melancholic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: gay, homosexuality, homosexual, gay romance, gay relationship, forbidden love, lgbt, love story, gays and lesbians, gay slur, gay interest, first gay sexual experience ...
Time: 60s, year 1963, year 2005, 80s, 20th century ...
Place: wyoming, usa, texas, idaho, indiana ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
I Killed My Mother (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Hubert, a brash 17-year-old, is confused and torn by a love-hate relationship with his mother that consumes him more and more each day. After distressing ordeals and tragic episodes, Hubert will find his mother on the banks of Saint Lawrence river, ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, touching, sincere ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: youth, gay, lgbt, homosexuality, gay son, gay relationship, gay teenager, gay sex, coming of age, family relations, single mother, lgbt teen ...
Time: 2000s, year 2009
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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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 ⇓
25%
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 ⇓
25%
 7.0
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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 ⇓
25%
Reaching for the Moon (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 118 min.
Story: In 1951 New York poet Elizabeth Bishop travels to Rio de Janeiro to visit Mary, a college friend. The shy Elizabeth is overwhelmed by Brazilian sensuality. She is the antithesis to Mary’s dashing partner, architect Lota de Macedo Soares. Although ...
Style: touching, serious, realistic, captivating, historical drama ...
Plot: lesbian, lesbian couple, lesbian love, writer's life, love and romance, love, lgbt, poet, american abroad, writers, lgbtq, couples ...
Time: 60s, 50s, 20th century, year 1951, 1950s
Place: rio de janeiro, brazil, latin america, nebraska, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Eisenstein in Guanajuato (2015)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands, Belgium, Finland, Mexico, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In 1931, following the success of the film Battleship Potemkin, Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein travels to the city of Guanajuato, Mexico, to shoot a new film. Freshly rejected by Hollywood, Eisenstein soon falls under Mexico’s spell. ...
Style: atmospheric, stylized, realistic, serious, visual ...
Plot: gay, erection, male nudity, filmmaking, gay sex, movie business, love and romance, fall in love, artists and showbiz, homosexuality, thunderstorm, rain ...
Time: 2010s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1931, year 1948 ...
Place: mexico, soviet union, latin america, moscow russia, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
This Boy's Life (1993)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: In 1957, a son and mother flee the East and an abusive boyfriend to find a new life, and end up in Seattle, where the mother meets a polite garage mechanic. The boy continually gets into trouble by hanging out with the wrong crowd. The mom marries ...
Style: depressing, realistic, emotional, touching, epic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, child abuse, small town, single parent, domestic violence, dysfunctional family, biopic, childhood, husband wife relationship, teenager, abusive stepfather, friendship ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, year 1993, 90s, 20th century ...
Place: seattle, washington state, salt lake city utah, washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Nijinsky (1980)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: The film suggests Nijinsky was driven into madness by both his consuming ambition and self-enforced heterosexuality, the latter prompted by his romantic involvement with Romola de Pulszky, a society girl who joins impresario Sergei Diaghilev's ...
Style: psychological, artsy, independent film, captivating, serious ...
Plot: gay, ballet, dancing, art, youth, artist, lgbt, lgbtqi, choreographer, jealousy, love triangle, gay relationship ...
Time: year 1980, 1910s, 20th century, year 1912
Place: budapest, france, greece, paris france, monte carlo ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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