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Munch (2023)
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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 loneliness most people probably know, even if they have no idea who created it.
Style:
psychological, captivating, semi autobiographical, thrilling, bleak, emotional, melancholic, dramatic, intense, art house ...
Plot:
painter, artist, grief, biopic, mental illness, life is a bitch, outcast, social problems, problem, loneliness, addiction, loss, creative process, character study, obsession, isolation, symbolism, nordic, slow burn, genius, sex scene, mental institution, rave, male nudity, artistic ...
Time:
19th century, turn of the century, 20th century
Place:
oslo norway, berlin germany, copenhagen, copenhagen denmark
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Most similar movies to Munch
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, captivating, psychological and period drama films with plots about biopic, character study, isolation, obsession, psychological drama, lifestyle and painter mostly in Drama, Biography and Crime genres. Some movies like Munch: August (2007), Hidden Away (2020), Frida, naturaleza viva (1983), Oscar: The Color of Destiny (2008), The Mountain (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
196
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 175 min.
Story:
A portrait of Swedish writer August Strindberg.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, suspenseful, psychological, emotional ...
Plot:
playwright, poet, character study, biopic, life is a bitch, relationship problems, money problems, dream, poverty, creative process, ambition, literary ...
Time:
19th century, 1870s
Place:
stockholm sweden
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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 ...
Style:
captivating, sincere, semi autobiographical, suspense, psychotronic ...
Plot:
poverty, painter, isolation, autobiography, world war two, biopic, hiding place, alienation, painting, loneliness, character study, identity ...
Time:
1950s
Place:
switzerland
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79%
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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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
Similarity:
73%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
1950s America. Since his mother‘s confinement to an institution, Andy has lived in the shadow of his stoic father. A family acquaintance, Dr. Wallace Fiennes, employs the introverted young man as a photographer to document an asylum tour ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, melancholic, art house ...
Plot:
mental institution, cult leader, mental illness, illness, psychiatry, character study, ethical dilemma, doctor, social problems, unconventional method, moral ambiguity, alienation ...
Time:
1950s
Similarity:
72%
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, emotional, stylized, costume drama, serious ...
Plot:
painter, biopic, family problems, under the surface, mentally unstable, crumbling marriage, self discovery, fall in love, art, nordic, artist, art history ...
Time:
19th century, 20th century
Place:
denmark, italy, europe
Similarity:
69%
107
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
Place:
paris france, japan
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Norway
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A young woman, and her last memories of the five people who loved her most, recalled while experiencing a catastrophic event.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, emotional, art house ...
Plot:
memories, female protagonist, death, memory, relationships, love story, male female relationship, love affair, lifestyle, trauma, loss, grief ...
Similarity:
59%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
The profound depths of Ernõ Szép's life and poetry are revived in a new film adaptation of the poet's novel, 'The Smell of Humans'. This stoic and lyrical narrative of twenty fateful days offers an authentic account of an ...
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
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, Romania, France, Italy, USA
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:
touching, realistic, serious, sad, factual ...
Plot:
painter, painting, artist, prodigy, biopic, art, art history, life is a bitch, addiction, tragic love, couple relations, tragic hero ...
Time:
20th century, year 1919, 1920s
Place:
europe, france, paris france, south of france
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Sport, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
The Pantani case, a film directed by Domenico Ciolfi, tells the story of the last five years in the life of the cyclist from Romagna, in particular from 5 June 1999, when he was suspended from racing, to 14 February 2004, the day of his death. His ...
Style:
suspenseful, thrilling, captivating, psychological, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
true crime, professional athlete, sports hero, biopic, cycling, life is a bitch, lifestyle, life, social problems, controversy, mourning, investigation ...
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Rome in 65 AD, Emperor Nero's tyrannical regime has reached its zenith, Nero's self-indulgence and excessiveness brings up the opposition against him, conspiracies threaten his power. By all means Nero tries to defend his despotic claim of ...
Style:
historical drama, thrilling, captivating, psychological, bleak ...
Plot:
roman empire, ancient rome, roman emperor, roman, philosopher, palace intrigue, political intrigue, tyranny, betrayal, power struggle, intrigue, historical figure ...
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52%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Sweden, Austria, West Germany, Denmark
Duration: 383 min.
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Story:
A mini-series about the life of Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter, August Strindberg. He is portrayed as a misogynous, selfish and racial. And he loses everything, for the sake of the art.
Style:
psychological, intellectual, melancholic, realistic, intense ...
Plot:
biopic, painter, playwright, novelist, literary, character study, poet, ambition, obsession, isolation, misogyny, controversy ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
stockholm sweden
Similarity:
52%
61
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Tom (Tennessee) Williams, an aspiring writer in his 20s, lives with and negligent father. Tom attempts to maintain peace in the family while also dealing with his depressed and anti-social sister. Struggling against the societal pressures and ...
Style:
melancholic, independent film, art house, southern gothic, period drama ...
Plot:
self discovery, aspiring writer, coming of age, identity crisis, biopic, lgbtq, creative process, sexual identity, dysfunctional family, family conflict, character study, isolation ...
Time:
1930s
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
What led Arthur Conan Doyle to create, and then destroy the world famous detective, Sherlock Holmes? This compelling drama explores the dark secrets that surround the author and his creation.
Style:
captivating, psychological, detective, semi autobiographical, dramatic ...
Plot:
sherlock holmes, writers, biopic, writer's life, investigation, lifestyle, private investigation, murder investigation, private detective, forensics, homicide detective, creative process ...
Time:
victorian era
Place:
edinburgh scotland
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Denmark, Belgium, Norway, Finland
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Aged 63, Karen Blixen is at the pinnacle of her fame and next in line to win the Nobel Prize for literature. It has been 17 years since she gave up her famous farm in Africa, only to return to Denmark with her life in ruins. Devastated by syphilis ...
Style:
serious, psychological, thrilling, dramatic, captivating ...
Plot:
writers, literary, character study, biopic, relationships, male female relationship, relationship problems, love affair, poet, love and romance, writer's life, life is a bitch ...
Place:
denmark
Similarity:
48%
140
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Zina, the daughter of Leon Trotsky by his first wife, is undergoing freudian analysis in Berlin in the 'thirties. Meanwhile Trotsky is in exile in Prinkipo having been driven from power by Stalin. The Nazis rise to power in Germany and Austria ...
Style:
bleak, historical drama, thought provoking, melancholic, period piece ...
Plot:
suicide, exile, mental illness, character study, biopic, tragedy, obsession, female protagonist, identity crisis, alienation, political repression, claustrophobia ...
Time:
1930s, year 1985
Place:
berlin germany, soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: Estonia
Duration: 165 min.
Story:
Estonia, 1872. The uncompromising new owner of Robber's Rise must battle with hard work, his spiteful neighbor and with his own family and beliefs to transform the poor land into a flourishing farm of his dreams.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, art house, grim ...
Plot:
problem, life is a bitch, character study, struggle, pursuit, countryside, conflict, crisis of faith, village life, family drama, hardship, obsession ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
estonia
Similarity:
44%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Ireland, Switzerland, UK, France, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Famed but tormented artist Vincent van Gogh spends his final years in Arles, France, painting masterworks of the natural world that surrounds him.
Style:
independent film, melancholic, art film, touching, rough ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
painter, loneliness, artist, art, priest, painting, doctor, insanity, obsession, art gallery, mission, genius ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1890s, 1880s
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Norway
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The life and times of the Scandinavian artists' colony who lived in Skagen on the Danish coast during the 1890s. Not so much a biographical account, rather a portrait of a way of life. The painters became famous for the way they used the light ...
Style:
contemplative, sensitive, melancholic, pastoral, period drama
Plot:
painting, creative process, art history, impressionism, biopic, female nudity, painter, artist, affair, sunlight, female full frontal nudity
Time:
1890s, 19th century
Place:
scandinavia, denmark, eastern europe
Similarity:
43%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Pakistan
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
The controversial and troubled Indo-Pakistani writer Saadat Hasan Manto finds his artistic choices challenged by censors.
Style:
historical drama, melancholic, art house, intellectual, bleak ...
Plot:
biopic, controversy, social criticism, loneliness, realism, moral ambiguity, courtroom drama, bittersweet, alcoholism, journalism, censorship
Time:
20th century
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
An underprivileged, gifted young black man from Newark reaches Yale University, only for shadows and injustices from his past to threaten his future.
Style:
realistic, psychological, captivating, thrilling, emotional ...
Plot:
biopic, character study, family drama, father son relationship, social commentary, poverty, life is a bitch, social problems, past, confronting the past, social issues, class conflict ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s, 90s, 80s
Place:
yale university
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
A biopic based on the life story of J.C. Daniel, the pioneer of Malayalam cinema. It is a detailed account on Daniel's life, making of his film Vigathakumaran and the tragic story of Vigathakumaran's heroine P. K. Rosie. The film is ...
Style:
historical drama, captivating, psychological, thrilling, serious ...
Plot:
biopic, director, filmmaking, film history, film industry, social issues, filmmaker, problem, social problems, loss, legacy, pioneer ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
india
Similarity:
39%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The life and loves of poet Sibilla Aleramo (Laura Morante), focusing on her relationship with Dino Campana (Stefano Accorsi).
Style:
psychological, sincere, disturbing, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
poet, love affair, relationships, biopic, female protagonist, couple relations, writer's life, writers, lifestyle, love interest, female writer, historical figure ...
Time:
turn of the century, 1910s
Place:
italy
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Based on true events, Paul is forced to recall his harrowing childhood growing up in a children’s home, when a police investigation into his boyhood friend’s suicide opens old wounds. As Paul struggles to shake off his past and build a ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
abuse, neglect, child abuse, childhood trauma, troubled past, tragic past, social problems, investigation, secret past, life is a bitch, confronting the past, grief ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
BLIND SPOT is a story about the grey zones in mental illness; the blind spots hard to discover, as experienced by a mother realizing her daughter struggling with far worse issues than she realized.
Style:
captivating, psychological, disturbing, tense
Plot:
childhood trauma, mental illness, depression, psychological trauma, mother daughter relationship, psychotic, psychology, mother and daughter, relationship problems, family problems, parents and children, social problems ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A poignant drama set in 1970s Australia about a newly-single father’s efforts to weather the turbulence of change – in his life and in the world around him – while a new immigrant endeavours to find her place in a foreign land.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
father, immigration, connection, immigrant, problem, relationships, life is a bitch, bereavement, social problems, single father, identity, humanism ...
Time:
70s
Place:
australia
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Biopoic of actor Győző Szabó's younger years struggling with his drug addiction.
Style:
intense, tense, dark, therapeutic, heavy ...
Plot:
drug addiction, rehabilitation, biopic, psychiatrist, character study, male protagonist, conflict, substance abuse, actor's life, mental health, isolation, obsession ...
Place:
hungary, budapest
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Can scandalous art still serve God? Does suffering precede all greatness? Can illness be a blessing? In 1950, writer Flannery O'Connor visits her mother Regina in Georgia when she is diagnosed with lupus at twenty-four years old. Struggling ...
Style:
southern gothic, thrilling, psychological, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
writers, biopic, female protagonist, literary, illness, mother daughter relationship, writer's life, aspiration, direction and purpose, lifestyle, character study, ambition ...
Time:
1950s
Place:
georgia
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Ong-nye had a world of men wrapped around her finger, until, one day, a horrific injury leaves her handicapped, and she retreats to the mountains. But one man may break her loneliness.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, erotic, dramatic ...
Plot:
female protagonist, loneliness, eroticism, character study, relationship problems, loner, lifestyle, seductress, social problems, male female relationship, relationships, couple relations ...
Similarity:
34%
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