Movies like The Great Houdinis

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The Great Houdinis (1976)
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The Great Houdinis (1976)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A biography of the renowned escape artist Harry Houdini, examining his fascination with the occult and his promise to his wife on her deathbed that he would speak from the beyond.
Style: psychotronic
Plot: magic, magician, escape artist, magic show, biopic, illusionist, occult, drowning, misdirection, romance

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, psychotronic, realistic and serious films with plots about biopic, hollywood, actress, showbiz, magic, price of fame and ambition mostly in Drama, Biography and Romance genres. Some movies like The Great Houdinis: Houdini (1998), Goodnight, Sweet Marilyn (1989), Bud and Lou (1978), Lord Shango (1975), Haywire (1980). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Houdini (1998)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The life and times of escape artist/magician Harry Houdini.
Style: psychotronic
Plot: biopic, magic, magician, medium, escape artist, illusion, seance
Time: 1910s, 1900s, 1890s, 1920s
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Goodnight, Sweet Marilyn (1989)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The supposed story of superstar Marilyn Monroe's death...as told by a "friend" of hers. Watch flashbacks from "Goodbye Norma Jean" as it leads up to the night when Marilyn Monroe died.
Style: psychotronic, independent film
Plot: hollywood, biopic, showbiz, price of fame, euthanasia, death, flashback, mother daughter relationship, behind the scenes, star
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41%
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Bud and Lou (1978)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The professional and personal lives of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello are examined.
Plot: hollywood, biopic, showbiz, comedy team, abbott and costello
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29%
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Lord Shango (1975)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A tribal priest returns from the dead to take his revenge on non-believers.
Style: psychotronic, independent film
Plot: zombie, blaxploitation, magic, african american, occult, drowning, baptism, christianity, priest, faith, daughter, superstition ...
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28%
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Haywire (1980)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 200 min.
Story: After fleeting marriages to Henry Fonda and William Wyler, Margaret Sullavan found contentment as the wife of producer Leland Hayward (Jason Robards) and as the mother of three. Or so it seemed, until the marriage crumbled, the children rebelled and ...
Plot: hollywood, biopic, grownups, theater, actress, broadway, producer, childhood, cruelty
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27%
Coming Out of the Ice (1982)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Victor and his family moved to the USSR in the mid '30's. When he refused to sign his skydiving accomplishment as a citizen of the USSR, he was not tried but simply sent to prison. His horrific imprisonment, beating and torture culminated ...
Plot: gulag, communism, biopic, immigrant, teenager
Time: 1930s, 1940s
Place: siberia, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
The Patricia Neal Story (1981)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The actress (Glenda Jackson) recovers from a 1966 stroke with help from friends and her husband, author Roald Dahl (Dirk Bogarde).
Plot: writers, movie star, biopic, marriage, stroke, actress, filmmaking, writing
Time: 60s
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26%
Love and Betrayal: The Mia Farrow Story (1995)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 240 min.
Story: Actress Mia Farrow's personal life takes a turn for the worse when she engages in a long relationship with Woody Allen.
Plot: biopic, catholic, actress, nun, cardinal the priest, priest, female nudity, sex scene
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25%
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James Dean: Race with Destiny (1997)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Casper Van Dien of Starship Troopers stars as James Dean, whose remarkable talent and rebel attitude took Hollywood by storm. But as Dean's star begins to rise, his passionate affair with Italian ingenue Pier Angeli (Carrie Mitchum of The Bold ...
Style: independent film
Plot: hollywood, car accident, movie star, biopic, wedding, police, police officer, church, actor, motorcycle, motorcycle chase, car crash ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Jayne Mansfield Story (1980)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The gaudy rise and dizzy fall of the last great Hollywood blonde bombshell: Jayne Mansfield.
Style: uplifting, captivating, emotional, gloomy, touching ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: big breasts, hollywood, actor's life, biopic, publicity, behind the scenes, price of fame, femme fatale, fame, movie business, publicity stunt, celebrity culture ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, 60s
Place: mississippi
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Mark Twain and Me (1991)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Dorothy Quick, A young girl befriends the famous writer, Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemans during the final years of his life.
Audience: kids
Plot: biopic, coming of age, civil war, ship, aspiring writer, old man, writers, family relations, friendship, girl, father daughter relationship, 11 year old ...
Time: 1900s
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22%
The Elephant Man (1982)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A taped version of the stage play about a hideously deformed 19th-century London man and how he managed to triumph over his disease.
Style: uplifting, talky, touching, sincere, realistic ...
Plot: wrestling, misfit, biopic, circus, power relations, disability, life is a bitch, hopes, social misfits, human nature, doctors and patients, society ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, 1880s, 1800s
Place: london, england
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22%
The Magician of Lublin (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, West Germany
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Yasha is a Jewish stage magician who tours through eastern Europe while destroying his career through personal problems. He has one more chance at theatrical success, but he needs to do a brand new trick in a Warsaw theater.
Style: independent film
Plot: art, magic, israeli, female nudity, stage magician, magician, illusionist, female full frontal nudity, shaving head, haircut
Time: year 1979, 1800s, 19th century
Place: poland
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22%
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Trash (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Trash is a coming of age drama set amongst the poverty stricken trailer parks of the deep South. In a spiraling tale of hatred, love and loyalty, two teenage friends realize that the only way for each of them to escape their miserable futures is by ...
Style: independent film
Audience: teens
Plot: escape, poverty, trailer park, loyalty, hate, love, biopic, tragedy, backwoods, coming of age, autobiography, teenager ...
Time: future
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22%
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Rock Hudson (1990)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Biography of actor Rock Hudson focuses on his struggle with his homosexuality. Based on the book by his ex-wife, Phyllis Gates, and on the court records from the civil suit brought by his former lover, Marc Christian.
Plot: gay, aids, hollywood, celebrity, male homosexuality, biopic, gay subtext, gay interest, homosexual, illness, actor, marriage of convenience ...
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22%
Sophia Loren: Her Own Story (1980)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Dramatization of the life of Italian actress Sophia Loren who plays herself during adulthood and also that of her mother Romilda Villani.
Plot: hollywood, biopic, glory, mother daughter relationship, world war two, father daughter relationship, extramarital affair, italian woman, air raid, poverty, actress, miscarriage ...
Place: rome italy, italy
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21%
David Blaine: Frozen in Time (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Music
Country: USA
Story: On November 27, 2000, Blaine began a stunt called "Frozen in Time", which was covered on a TV special. Blaine stood encased in a massive block of ice located in Times Square, New York City. He was lightly dressed and seen to be shivering ...
Plot: magic, endurance, magician, magic show, trick, ice
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Barry (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A biopic of Barack Obama set during his time as a college student in New York City.
Style: political
Audience: girls' night
Plot: president, biopic, u.s. president, inspiration, black history, philosopher, runner, real life, black, loneliness, racism, columbia university ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york
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21%
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The King (2007)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The King is the story of Graham Kennedy, Australia's first and greatest home grown TV superstar. It traces his rise from working class Balaclava kid, through radio, TV, film, and back to TV again. It also tracks Kennedy's personal ...
Style: game show
Plot: controversy, biopic, homosexual, comedian
Place: australia
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21%
The Unheard Woman (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Farmer’s wife and mother of three Hanni worries about her youngest, Magdalena, who’s smaller and more sensitive than her siblings. She gets stomach flu and can’t see well. The doctors prescribe nothing but panaceas, and don’t take her case ...
Plot: children, portrait, biopic, hostility, court hearing, mother daughter relationship, traumatic past
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Mae West (1982)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Biography of the curvaceous and sharp-witted actress who scandalized Broadway and Hollywood in the 1920s-30s with her frank approach to sex.
Plot: hollywood, feminist, biopic, seduction, scandal, trial, filmmaking, actress, career, vaudeville, success, showbiz ...
Time: 1900s, 1930s, 1920s
Place: california, manhattan new york city, new york
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21%
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (1981)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Biography of the former first lady, focusing on her years as a photojournalist and leading up to her marriage to John F. Kennedy and their moving into the White House.
Plot: u.s. president, president, john f. kennedy, biopic, usa history, kennedy family, assassination, usa president, tragic event, miscarriage, senator, tragedy ...
Time: 60s, 1950s
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21%
The George Raft Story (1961)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Ray Danton plays the title role in director Joseph M. Newman's 1961 film biography of the nightclub dancer-turned-movie star. The cast also includes Jayne Mansfield, Barrie Chase, Julie London, Neville Brand and Frank Gorshin.
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, stylized, psychotronic ...
Plot: hollywood, biopic, al capone, actor's life, revolution, casino, gambling, gangster, movie star, couples, fashion, nightlife ...
Time: 1940s, year 1961, 1920s, 1930s, 50s ...
Place: new york, cuba, california, las vegas
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21%
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The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (1977)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: The files that escaped the shredder have become an incredible motion picture. From the Kennedys to Martin Luther King. From cab drivers to Congressmen. From housewives to hostesses. He had something on 58 million people. It was all in his files. Now ...
Style: neo noir, black and white, political, independent film, serious ...
Plot: politics, biopic, intrigue, john f. kennedy, cold war, fbi, president, gangster, society, head of state, gays and lesbians, dishonesty ...
Time: 1940s, 1920s, 60s, 1930s, 50s ...
Place: washington d.c., usa, los angeles, california, chicago
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20%
Diana: A Tribute to the People's Princess (1998)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Indeed a tribute, this movie tells the story of Princess Diana's last year, from May 1996 to her fatal accident in August 1997. It focuses on her love affairs with a Pakistani heart surgeon and with Dodi Al Fayed, on her battle with the press, ...
Plot: royalty, princess diana, biopic, portrait, royal romance, marriage proposal, prince, princess, british royal family
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20%
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Masoch (1980)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Aurora Rumelin is happy because the noble writer Leopold Sacher-Masoch has asked for her hand. Little by little the marriage goes into crisis mainly because Leopold asks his wife to beat him before sexual relations and to treat him like a slave. ...
Plot: dominatrix, masochism, biopic, bdsm, cuckold, masochist, fetishism
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20%
A Season in Hell (1971)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Biopic about the life of the French poet Arthur Rimbaud.
Plot: biopic, writers, gay subtext, poetry, death, decadence, slave trader, poet, flashback, gunrunner, bisexual, french giallo
Place: africa, paris france
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20%
The Execution of Private Slovik (1974)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: The story of Eddie Slovik, who was executed by the Army in 1945, the only American soldier to be executed for desertion since the Civil War.
Plot: firing squad, world war two, world war, execution, fictional history, death row, nazi, holocaust, death penalty, desertion, biopic, social commentary ...
Time: 1940s
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20%
Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story (1981)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The life and death of the "Playboy" centerfold model/actress Dorothy Stratten.
Plot: serial killer, nude model, biopic, playboy, price of fame, hollywood, self destructing, dying young, rise and fall, true crime, modeling, ambition ...
Time: 70s
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20%
Rebellious Flower (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 109 min.
Story: The film on the life of guru Osho Rajneesh and his spiritual journey to enlightenment.
Plot: hinduism, biopic, soul, outer space, meditation, enlightenment, guru, lake, time, master, space, flute
Place: india
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19%
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