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The Big Fake (2025)
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Original name: Il falsario
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Toni Chichiarelli arrives in Rome with the dream of becoming a painter, but his talent leads him elsewhere — from art galleries to state secrets. Between art, crime, and power, his signature ends up everywhere — even in the history of Italy.
Style:
period piece, period drama
Plot:
art, bank robbery, painter, assassin, betrayal, murder, priest, hospital, organized crime, disco, stuttering, safecracking, painting, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, mysterious man, forgery, attic, art dealer, pregnant girlfriend, ransom, faked death, forger, art forgery, revenge killing, underworld ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
rome italy
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Most similar movies to The Big Fake
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out period drama, period piece, historical drama and captivating films with plots about betrayal, biopic, murder, tragedy, revenge, female nudity and art mostly in Drama, History and Biography genres. Some movies like The Big Fake: Slave Queen of Babylon (1963), Caravaggio's Shadow (2022), Devils of Monza (1987), Allegro Barbaro (1979), At Eternity's Gate (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
General Onnos returns from a successful military campaign to the Assyrian capital of Nineveh. He presents King Minurte with a number of newly-captured slaves including Kir, defeated king of the Dardanians. Kir attracts the attention of Semiramis, a ...
Style:
epic, dramatic, period drama
Audience:
adult
Plot:
peplum, ancient history, babylon, ancient world, ambition, betrayal, royalty, power struggle, historical epic, political intrigue, slave labor, captivity ...
Place:
rome italy
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The Catholic Church secretly investigates Caravaggio as the Pope weighs whether to grant him clemency for killing a rival.
Style:
dramatic, captivating, suspenseful, enigmatic, bleak
Plot:
painter, art, artists' life, artist, murder, genius, pope, rivalry, catholic church, church, donkey, snake ...
Time:
17th century, 16th century
Place:
italy, naples italy, rome italy
Similarity:
86%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The young noble Don Monza is caught and thrown out by the nun Virginia de Leva when she catches him flirting with one of her nun sisters across the stone wall between their gardens. He hears the rumor that she'd have an affair with her trustee ...
Style:
period piece, historical drama, romantic drama, erotic drama, intense ...
Plot:
nun, convent, forbidden romance, scandal, betrayal, murder, lust, seduction, adultery, sexual repression, hypocrisy, religious conflict ...
Time:
18th century, 16th century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, France, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
1849 - Ciceruacchio declares the Independent Republic of Rome, but the French and the Austrians try to bring back the Pope to Rome.
Style:
historical drama, bleak, period drama
Audience:
adult
Plot:
romantic triangle, patriotism, political conflict, betrayal, sacrifice, heroism, battles, exile, catholic, friendship, tragedy, political repression ...
Time:
19th century, 1840s
Place:
rome italy, italy
Similarity:
74%
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Hungary
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Zsadányi flees from the authorities with his goddaughter, Bankós Mari, and they escape into the forest. The film then skips ahead thirty-fold years: Zsadány and Mari are now lovers, with the sound of war in the background halting their romance. ...
Style:
historical drama, dark, period piece, intense, tense ...
Plot:
execution, class struggle, political conflict, betrayal, political repression, socialism, tragedy, landowner, forbidden love, nazi, loss, moral dilemma ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
68%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, France, Germany
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
The story of Edgardo Mortara, a young Jewish boy living in Bologna, Italy, who in 1858, after being secretly baptized, was forcibly taken from his family to be raised as a Christian. His parents’ struggle to free their son became part of a larger ...
Style:
period piece, period drama
Plot:
kidnapping, child kidnapping, jewish family, kidnapped boy, anti semitism, pope, baptism, hide and seek, catholic, justice, courtroom, large family ...
Time:
1850s, 19th century, 1800s
Place:
italy, rome italy
Similarity:
68%
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:
67%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Poland, Sweden
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
What would it be like to step inside a great work of art, have it come alive around you, and even observe the artist as he sketches the very reality you are experiencing? From Lech Majewski, one of Poland's most acclaimed filmmakers, The Mill ...
Style:
atmospheric, realistic, serious, bleak, surreal ...
Plot:
painter, breast feeding, painting, artist, medieval, punishment, art, art history, society, redemption, religions or cults, death sentence ...
Time:
16th century
Place:
flanders, europe, belgium
Similarity:
65%
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
The dreamy young Hamlet in his castle, undecided whether or not to have sexual approaches with his girls, considering that already has amorous relations with his sister Lucrezia Borgia.
Style:
historical drama, historical romance, period drama
Plot:
incest, lesbian sex, father daughter incest, lesbianism, medieval, renaissance, political intrigue, intrigue, seduction, female protagonist, betrayal, deception ...
Time:
15th century
Place:
italy, rome italy
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In 1867, with Garibaldi's forces close to bringing Rome into the Italian kingdom, Monsignor Colombo da Priverno, a world-weary judge on the papal court, wants to resign, disgusted by the violence to which the papacy resorts to hold secular ...
Plot:
pope, vatican, young man, historical event, illicit affair, rebellious youth, revolutionary, tolerance, italian soldier, biological father, generation gap, decapitation ...
Time:
19th century, 1860s
Place:
rome italy, italy
Similarity:
58%
11K
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
3 trailblazers: a young nurse, a visionary scientist and an innovative surgeon face opposition from the church, state, media and medical establishment, in their pursuit of the world's first 'test tube baby', Louise Joy Brown.
Style:
inspirational, medical drama, dramatic, emotional, period piece ...
Plot:
hospital, controversy, parenthood, perseverance, ethics, women's rights, legacy, biopic, hopes, social change, sacrifice, social issues ...
Time:
70s, 60s, 20th century, year 1978
Place:
united kingdom
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: East Germany, Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
As a painter in the court of King Carlos IV, Goya has attained wealth and reputation. He believes in King and Church, yet he is also a Spaniard who dearly loves his people. This contradiction presents him with a dilemma.
Style:
heartbreaking, independent film, 70mm film
Plot:
inquisition, painter, art, art history, french revolution, painting, religious, artist, female nudity, nude painting, forced confession, napoleonic wars ...
Time:
18th century, 1800s, 19th century
Place:
east germany, ukraine, germany, soviet union, spain ...
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a British prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against the treatment of IRA prisoners as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. The film focuses on the mothers of two of the ...
Style:
political, bleak, serious, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
prison, terrorist, prison violence, lawyer, british, working class, women, betrayal, politics, ira, struggle, prison life ...
Time:
70s, 80s, year 1996, 20th century
Place:
ireland, northern ireland, europe, england
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Algeria, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
During the first euphoric years following independence, two friends, Djaffar and Hamid, are promised a bright future in a free Algeria until one day when betrayal separates them.
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, captivating, bleak ...
Plot:
betrayal, life turned upside down, rebellion, dishonesty, rebelliousness, political unrest, social decay, friendship, life is a bitch, society, state affairs, friends ...
Time:
60s, 70s, 80s, 20th century
Place:
algeria, africa
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 178 min.
Story:
Caligula: The Ultimate Cut (2023) reimagines the controversial 1979 film with a focus on historical accuracy and narrative coherence, stripping away much of the original's graphic content to highlight the dramatic essence of Rome's ...
Style:
erotic drama, epic, costume drama, deviant, motion capture ...
Plot:
incest, sex with sister, threesome, strong sexual content, wedding, male rape, brother sister relationship, forbidden love, rape, sex orgy, sexual pleasure, caligula ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
rome italy
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
BBC rendition of Shakespeare's Coriolanus
Style:
serious, dark, period piece, intense, epic
Plot:
shakespeare, ancient rome, tragic hero, power struggle, political conflict, literary, revenge, moral ambiguity, adaptation, pride, honor, exile ...
Place:
rome italy
Similarity:
45%
29K
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 317 min.
Story:
Set in Bertolucci's ancestral region of Emilia, the film chronicles the lives of two men during the political turmoils that took place in Italy in the first half on the 20th century.
Style:
epic, controversial, compassionate, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
fascism, politics, world war two, italian history, friendship, revolution, class struggle, communism, peasant, socialist, sex, brutality ...
Time:
1900s, 1940s, 1920s, 1930s, 1910s ...
Place:
italy, paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: West Germany
Duration: 55 min.
Story:
Not Reconciled, the title of the Straubs’ first feature-length film, is engraved on their work like an inscription. It is a story about the continuity and collapse of history, the power of suppression, and the terror of reconciliation; loyalty, ...
Style:
historical drama, family saga, serious, period piece, bleak ...
Plot:
guilt, reconciliation, german history, betrayal, memory, suppression, family secret, post war germany, moral ambiguity, revenge, symbolism, loyalty ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 1950s, 50s
Place:
germany
Similarity:
41%
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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
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Norway, Sweden, Finland
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
During summer 1979, Ester moves to Alta in Northern Norway to begin teaching at an elementary school. Like many Sámi at the time, she is ashamed of her heritage and conceals her ethnicity. Ester goes to great lengths to fit in, even joining in with ...
Style:
suspenseful, thrilling, psychological, captivating, historical drama ...
Plot:
racism, activism, protest, discrimination, hunger, problem, social problems, activist, assimilation, social justice, human rights, inheritance ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 181 min.
Story:
A Javanese royal and half-Dutch woman fall in love as Indonesia rises to independence from colonial rule.
Style:
captivating, psychological, romantic, disturbing, period piece ...
Plot:
colonialism, culture, love story, love affair, male female relationship, relationships, love and romance, romantic relationship, couple relations, lifestyle, colonization, courtroom ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1945
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
This film depicts three episodes in the life of the highly eccentric, unabashedly homosexual Italian filmmaker Per Paolo Pasolini. Pasolini was best known to Americans for his film The Gospel According to St. Matthew. However, in his native Italy, ...
Style:
art house, independent film, intense, psychological, controversial ...
Plot:
gay, lgbtq, character study, biopic, homosexuality, murder, tragedy, seduction, sexual tension, poetry, social commentary, sexploitation ...
Time:
70s, 60s
Place:
rome italy, sicily
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Love, passion, and murder haunt a passionate romance in this drama. When the young soldier meets Helene, a torrid affair begins. 15 years after the war has ended, Max finds out that the love of his life was murdered in a concentration camp, setting ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, romantic drama, dramatic ...
Plot:
forbidden love, investigation, nazi, social problems, love story, love and romance, love interest, romantic relationship, male female relationship, relationships, family relations, couple relations ...
Time:
1950s, 1940s
Similarity:
37%
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Brazil
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In São Paulo, in the late 1960s, the convent of the Dominican friars became a trench of resistance to the military dictatorship that governs Brazil. Moved by Christian ideals, frets Betto, Oswaldo, Fernando, Ivo and Tito came to support the ...
Style:
historical drama, intense, bleak, period piece, political drama ...
Plot:
dictatorship, liberation theology, interrogation, police brutality, political repression, dictator, prison, betrayal, religion, arrest, suicide, resistance ...
Time:
60s, 70s
Place:
brazil
Similarity:
36%
41K
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
The perversion behind imperial Rome, the epic story of Rome's mad Emporer. All the details of his cruel, bizarre reign are revealed right here: His unholy sexual passion for his sister, his marriage to Rome's most infamous prostitute, his ...
Style:
erotic, disturbing, sexual, cult classic, sexy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
ancient rome, incest, sex, sexual perversion, sexploitation, explicit sex, brutality, ancient world, brother sister sex, sex scene, unsimulated sex, roman empire ...
Time:
ancient times, 1st century, year 1979, 1930s, 1940s
Place:
rome italy, italy, greece
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Italy, France, Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
The story of Benvenuto Cellinin (1500 - 1571), a soldier and one of the most important craftsmen and artists of Renaissance Italy whose life was marked by many achievements and adventures, but also crimes.
Style:
historical drama, period piece, intense, educational, epic ...
Plot:
renaissance, biopic, pope, painter, sculpture, ambition, artist, politics, rivalry, betrayal, palace intrigue, passion ...
Time:
16th century
Place:
rome italy, italy, florence
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, France
Story:
The love story of 2 youths during the '700s. Fabrizio, a boy who was supposed to be a noble and part of Napoleons army, and Clelia a beautiful girl of a important Noble of the high society of Parma in that era. Their love became impossible ...
Style:
period piece, historical drama, romantic drama, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
forbidden love, napoleonic wars, love triangle, relationship problems, love and romance, love affair, couple relations, family life, relationships, male female relationship, social problems, love story ...
Time:
19th century, 18th century
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Solar Eclipse is a conspiracy theory period movie based on true events, that led to the eventual assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. The movie demonstrates a violent India, at the backdrop of a non-violent Gandhi, and hard-line fanatic mindsets ...
Style:
tense, thrilling, captivating, realistic, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
assassination, conspiracy theory, political unrest, conspiracy, politics, murder, religious conflict, extremism, fanaticism, non violence, police procedural, betrayal ...
Time:
1940s, year 1947
Place:
india, usa
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
During the 1972 Munich Olympics, an American sports broadcasting crew finds itself thrust into covering the hostage crisis involving Israeli athletes.
Style:
period piece, period drama
Plot:
terrorism, hostage, media, hostage situation, unhappy ending, translator, violence, based on real people, terrorist, television, olympics, palestinian-israeli conflict ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1972
Place:
munich germany, germany
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France, Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Master filmmaker Alexander Sokurov (Russian Ark) transforms a portrait of the world-renowned museum into a magisterial, centuries-spanning reflection on the relation between art, culture and power.
Style:
exciting, suspense, enigmatic, suspenseful, surreal ...
Plot:
world war two, painting, nazi occupation, nazism, art, painter, museum, art history, shipwreck, fear, evacuation, war ...
Time:
1940s, year 1929, year 1972, year 1914, year 1944 ...
Place:
paris france, st. petersburg russia, france, russia, germany ...
Similarity:
32%
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