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Hidden Away (2020)
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Hidden Away (2020)
Original name: Volevo Nascondermi
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story: The film tackles the life journey of Toni Ligabue, visionary naïf painter who used to draw tigers, lions and jaguars while living among the poplar trees of the boundless Po valley. A harsh life that is a fairy tale too, as a lonely and marginalized kid finds redemption in his art, and a way to express himself and be admired by the world.
Style: sincere, captivating, suspense, psychotronic, semi autobiographical, emotional, melancholic, period piece, breathtaking
Plot: poverty, painter, isolation, autobiography, world war two, biopic, hiding place, loneliness, painting, alienation, character study, redemption, resilience, identity, portrait, social realism, survival, small town life, haunting, memory, art, artist, childhood, madness, mental illness ...
Time: 1950s
Place: switzerland

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out emotional, melancholic, period drama and period piece films with plots about biopic, isolation, poverty, character study, identity, survival and redemption mostly in Drama, Biography and History genres. Some movies like Hidden Away: Oscar: The Color of Destiny (2008), Munch (2023), Pirosmani (1969), Foujita (2015), Naked Rose (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Oscar: The Color of Destiny (2008)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 108 min.
Story: "Óscar. The Color of Destiny" is a revealing portrayal of a forgotten icon of French Surrealism: Spanish painter Óscar Domínguez, contemporary of Picasso. The film rediscovers the life of a talented artist who was ignored after he ...
Style: avant garde, melancholic, tragic, period drama, grotesque
Plot: artist, biopic, art, nazi occupation, painter, surrealism, loneliness, bohemian, lesbian sex, identity, alienation, isolation ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 1930s
Place: paris france, france
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Munch (2023)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Edvard Munch was one of the most important artists in the period between the 19th and 20th centuries. His motif Skrik (The Scream), repeated in several techniques, became part of the 20th-century world subconsciousness – an image of fear and ...
Style: psychological, captivating, semi autobiographical, thrilling, emotional ...
Plot: painter, artist, biopic, grief, mental illness, social problems, life is a bitch, problem, outcast, character study, loss, addiction ...
Time: 19th century, turn of the century, 20th century
Place: oslo norway, berlin germany, copenhagen
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Pirosmani (1969)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A dedicated artist from Russian Georgia struggles to get recognition.
Style: melancholic, emotional, meditative, lyrical, heartbreaking ...
Plot: painter, art, painting, artist, art history, biopic, poverty, tragedy, starvation, loneliness, tragic hero, sacrifice ...
Time: 19th century
Place: soviet union, russia
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Foujita (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Japan, France
Duration: 126 min.
Story: A biopic of seminal 20th century artist Leonard Foujita, a contemporary of Picasso and Modigliani, who was famous for mixing up European and Japanese styles.
Style: psychological, thrilling, captivating, intercultural, avant garde ...
Plot: artist, biopic, painter, art, painting, relationship problems, artists' life, family problems, social problems, world war two, modernism, identity ...
Time: 20th century
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Naked Rose (2013)
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Country: Italy
Duration: 70 min.
Story: Among the millions of victims of the Nazi madness during the Second World War, Pierre Seel was charged with homosexuality and imprisoned in the Schirmeck concentration camp. He survived this terrifying experience of torture and humiliation, and ...
Style: historical drama, bleak, emotional, period piece, political ...
Plot: holocaust, gay slur, biopic, world war two, survival, trauma, persecution, concentration camp, lgbtq, torture, social commentary, repression ...
Time: 1940s, 80s
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Frida, naturaleza viva (1983)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 108 min.
Story: This film is a chronicle of painter Frida Kahlo, and her encounter with the personalities of her time. Despite being confied to a wheelchair as a result of polio, operations and amputations, she faces and traces some of the most colorful and ...
Style: emotional, melancholic, visual, period drama
Plot: biopic, painter, art, artist, female artist, cultural icon, polio, defiant, miscarriage, female empowerment, creative process, autobiography ...
Time: 20th century, year 1983
Place: mexico
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Country: Hungary
Duration: 60 min.
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Style: reflective, lyrical, melancholic, bleak, emotional ...
Plot: humanity, poetry, poet, memory, biopic, literary, haunting, survival, loss, resilience, oppression, anti semitism ...
Time: 1940s
Place: hungary, eastern europe
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Doing Life (1986)
Genre: Biography, Drama
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Duration: 100 min.
Story: Tony Danza stars in this prison drama about Jerome "Jerry" Rosenburg, a self-professed "jailhouse lawyer" who defends himself against the homicide charge that has put him on death row. This tense movie, made in Canada, has the ...
Style: intense, tense, dramatic, thought provoking, emotional ...
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The Mongrel (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The story of a drug dealer from Romania and his son in Rome's suburbs.Roman is an immigrant from Romania arrived in Italy 30 years ago. He sells drugs and lives in criminal contexts. His dream is to see his child, Nicu, whom he raised without a ...
Style: crime drama, emotional, intense, tense, bleak ...
Plot: fatherhood, drug dealing, immigration, father son relationship, social realism, street life, illegal drugs, moral ambiguity, poverty, urban decay, violence, survival ...
Time: 2010s
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August (2007)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 175 min.
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Duration: 145 min.
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Style: inspirational, emotional, dramatic, historical drama, intense ...
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Style: melancholic
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El Lute II: Tomorrow I'll Be Free (1988)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 120 min.
Story: This is the story of a man fighting with all his might for his life and his freedom. Eleuterio (”El Lute”) embarks upon an action-packed future, fuelled by the notions of freedom and dreams of living just as his countrymen, ever-growing in his ...
Style: crime drama, suspenseful, emotional, tense, realistic ...
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Style: realistic, emotional, melancholic
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El Greco (1966)
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Style: historical drama, period piece, atmospheric, intense
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Hokusai (2020)
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, War
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Audience: teens, teen drama
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