Movies like Dangerous Beauty
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Dangerous Beauty (1998)
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Veronica is brilliant, gifted and beautiful, but the handsome aristocrat she loves, Marco Venier, cannot marry her because she is penniless and of questionable family. So Veronica's mother, Paola, teaches her to become a courtesan, one of the exotic companions favored by the richest and most powerful Venetian men. Veronica courageously uses her charms to change destiny -- and to give herself a chance at true love.
Style:
romantic, sexual, sexy, witty, light, clever, emotional, erotic, dramatic, compassionate ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
beauty, medieval, forbidden love, courtesan, prostitute, prostitution, rich and poor, love and romance, couple relations, social differences, fall in love, society, seduction, fighting the system, love story, sex, betrayal, rebellion, love, nude girl, inquisition, renaissance, women, runaway, lifestyle ...
Time:
16th century
Place:
italy, venice, poland, europe, turkey, cyprus, malta
Most similar movies to Dangerous Beauty
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out sexy, realistic, romantic and serious films with plots about love and romance, love story, relationships, catastrophe, culture clash, love and mentor mostly in Drama, Romance and Biography genres. Some movies like Dangerous Beauty: The Lover (1992), Pride & Prejudice (2005), Casanova (2005), The Duchess (2008), The Other Boleyn Girl (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France, UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A poor French teenage girl engages in an illicit affair with a wealthy Chinese heir in 1920s Saigon. For the first time in her young life she has control, and she wields it deftly over her besotted lover throughout a series of clandestine meetings ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, sexual, psychological, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot:
forbidden love, older man younger woman relationship, age difference, lust, lolita, sex with a minor, love affair, interracial relations, loss of virginity, fall in love, true love, tragic love ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1929
Place:
vietnam, indochina, france, paris france, asia
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100%

Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, UK, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Pride & Prejudice is a humorous story of love and life among English gentility during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is an English gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters. If Mr. Bennet dies their house will ...
Style:
romantic, dramatic, captivating, sweet, witty ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, family outing ...
Plot:
prejudice, love, happy ending, fall in love, love and romance, opposites attract, aristocracy, initially antagonists, unlikely couple, wooing, gentleman, social differences ...
Time:
19th century, 18th century, victorian era, 1790s, georgian era ...
Place:
england, britain, london, europe, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
With a reputation for seducing members of the opposite sex, regardless of their marital status, a notorious womanizer discovers a beauty who seems impervious to his charms. However, as he continues to pursue the indifferent lady, he finds himself ...
Style:
romantic, light, factual, fairy tale, feel good ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night
Plot:
casanova, womanizer, unlikely couple, love, beefcake, happy ending, runaway, farce, inquisition, duchess, love story, sex ...
Time:
18th century, georgian era, 19th century, 50s
Place:
venice, italy, rome italy, europe, vatican
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%

Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy, France, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life.
Style:
romantic, sexy, emotional, dramatic, stylized ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
love triangle, duchess, love affair, aristocracy, love story, infidelity, duke, adultery, marriage, royalty, high society, marital rape ...
Time:
18th century, georgian era, 19th century, victorian era, middle ages ...
Place:
england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A sumptuous and sensual tale of intrigue, romance and betrayal set against the backdrop of a defining moment in European history: two beautiful sisters, Anne and Mary Boleyn, driven by their family's blind ambition, compete for the love of the ...
Style:
sexy, romantic, stylized, atmospheric, factual ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
love triangle, intrigue, royal family, medieval, royal court, king, queen, politics, family relations, ambition, british history, marriage ...
Time:
16th century, 19th century, 18th century
Place:
england, rome italy, london, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Kate is secretly betrothed to a struggling journalist, Merton Densher. But she knows her Aunt Maude will never approve of the match, since Kate's deceased mother has lost all her money in a marriage to a degenerate opium addict. When Kate meets ...
Style:
atmospheric, sexy, serious, romantic, stylized ...
Plot:
love, love triangle, relationships, nude, greed, death, betrayal, fall in love, power relations, rich and poor, couple relations, melancholy ...
Time:
1910s, edwardian era, 19th century, victorian era, 1920s ...
Place:
england, london, europe, italy, venice
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%

Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
The story of the romance between the King of Siam (now Thailand) and the widowed British school teacher Anna Leonowens during the 1860s. Anna teaches the children and becomes romanced by the King. She convinces him that a man can be loved by just ...
Style:
romantic, serious, epic, emotional, captivating ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
royal family, love story, culture clash, social differences, interracial relations, unlikely friendships, forbidden love, teacher, fall in love, opposites attract, love and romance, palace ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1860s
Place:
asia, southeast asia, thailand, england, burma
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The life of a respected British politician at the height of his career crumbles when he becomes obsessed with his son's lover.
Style:
sexy, sexual, erotic, non-linear, melancholic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
love affair, forbidden love, adultery, infidelity, femme fatale, dangerous attraction, obsession, passion, sexuality, fondling, love triangle, incest ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
london, europe, paris france, palm springs california, brussels
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
In 17th-century France, beautiful country maiden Angélique (Michèle Mercier) marries wealthy neighbor Jeoffray de Peyrac (Robert Hossein) out of convenience, but eventually, she falls in love with him. So when Jeoffray is arrested and then ...
Style:
romantic, stylized, sentimental, sexy, realistic ...
Plot:
love and romance, fall in love, wedding night, noblewoman, rich and poor, nobility, forced marriage, marriage of convenience, woman in danger, couples, tragic love, gold ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%

Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Luxembourg, France, Belgium, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
This film, adapted from a work of fiction by author Tracy Chevalier, tells a story about the events surrounding the creation of the painting "Girl With A Pearl Earring" by 17th century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer. A young peasant maid ...
Style:
enigmatic, sincere, thought provoking, stylized, atmospheric ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
artist, art, painter, painting, maid, master and servant, jealousy, sexual tension, society, older man younger woman relationship, portrait, fall in love ...
Time:
17th century, 19th century, 18th century
Place:
holland, netherlands, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
Tale of 19th century New York high society in which a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin.
Style:
touching, sexy, stylized, atmospheric, thought provoking ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
high society, love triangle, countess, marriage, infidelity, forbidden love, aristocracy, lawyer, love, destiny, love and romance, lovers ...
Time:
19th century, 18th century, victorian era, 1870s, 1890s
Place:
new york, philadelphia, usa, paris france, washington d.c. ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%

Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Director Franco Zeffirelli's beloved version of one of the most well-known love stories in the English language. Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet fall in love against the wishes of their feuding families. Driven by their passion, the young ...
Style:
romantic, sweet, colourful, emotional, atmospheric ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
forbidden love, shakespeare, shakespeare's romeo and juliet, tragic love, family feud, fall in love, love story, unfulfillment, love, young love, parents and children, true love ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
italy, paris france, new york, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%

Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Japan, USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
A sweeping romantic epic set in Japan in the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.
Style:
emotional, stylized, captivating, romantic, dramatic ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
love story, women, geisha, age difference, older man younger woman relationship, japanese culture, rivalry, brothel, slavery, destiny, love and romance, orphan ...
Time:
1920s, 1940s, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo, kyoto japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%

Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A young Southern débutante temporarily abandons her posh lifestyle and upcoming, semi-arranged marriage to have a lustful and erotic fling with a rugged drifter who works at a local carnival.
Style:
erotic, sexy, sexual, melancholic, sensual ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, adult
Plot:
dangerous attraction, young lovers, sex, sexual relations, fall in love, sexual obsession, erotica, social differences, love, couple relations, love story, obsession ...
Time:
80s
Place:
alabama, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%

Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Robert Redford stars as billionaire John Gage, who offers a down-on-his-luck yuppie husband (Woody Harrelson) $1 million for the opportunity to spend the night with the man's wife (Demi Moore).
Style:
sexy, sexual, emotional, psychological, thought provoking ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
gambling, adultery, husband wife relationship, millionaire, infidelity, love triangle, love, love story, marriage, sexual relations, cuckold, moral dilemma ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
las vegas, california, usa, nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Movies like Pride & Prejudice

Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Young Shakespeare is forced to stage his latest comedy, "Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter," before it's even written. When a lovely noblewoman auditions for a role, they fall into forbidden love -- and his play finds a new ...
Style:
romantic, inspirational, sweet, sexy, feel good ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
forbidden love, cross dressing, shakespeare, love, writer's life, love and romance, theater, love story, playwright, couples, disguise, fall in love ...
Time:
16th century, 50s, 19th century, 1930s
Place:
england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Trapped in a loveless marriage, aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the affluent Count Vronsky.
Style:
sentimental, stylized, emotional, colourful, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
forbidden love, high society, imperial russia, infidelity, tragic love, aristocracy, suicide, adaptation, love triangle, depression, love, adultery ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1930s, 1870s, 18th century ...
Place:
russia, st. petersburg russia, moscow russia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%

Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
From Academy Award® winners Graham King and Martin Scorsese, along with the makers of Gosford Park and The Departed, comes the story of Queen Victoria’s early rise to power. From an object of a royal power-struggle to her romantic courtship and ...
Style:
romantic, touching, emotional, dramatic, factual ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
royal family, royalty, aristocracy, queen victoria, queen of england, royal court, marriage, politics, queen, love and romance, love, love story ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, edwardian era, middle ages, 1820s ...
Place:
england, london, europe, buckingham palace, belgium
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Dangerous Liaisons is the film based on the novel of the same name by Choderlos de Laclos set in 18th century France. Marquise de Merteuil’s asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the future wife of another ex-lover of hers in return for ...
Style:
sexy, sexual, erotic, romantic, atmospheric ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
aristocracy, seduction, sexuality, sex, fatal attraction, female nudity, love, love letter, adultery, casanova, emotional abuse, sexual relations ...
Time:
18th century, georgian era, 19th century, victorian era
Place:
france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%

Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, UK, France
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
In 1818, high-spirited young Fanny Brawne finds herself increasingly intrigued by the handsome but aloof poet John Keats, who lives next door to her family friends the Dilkes. After reading a book of his poetry, she finds herself even more drawn to ...
Style:
romantic, touching, sad, emotional, colourful ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
poet, writers, love, love story, art, poetry, friendship, letter, tragedy, couple relations, couples, love affair ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, regency period, 1810s, georgian era
Place:
england, europe, london, australia, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer's disease.
Style:
touching, emotional, melancholic, sentimental, depressing ...
Plot:
alzheimer's disease, aging, writers, writer's life, mental illness, love, life & death, women, loneliness, terminal illness, understanding, senior citizen ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 50s
Place:
england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%

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, sweet, emotional, intellectual ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens
Plot:
writer's life, love and romance, unfulfilled love, love, prejudice, fall in love, women, love story, couples, beautiful scenery, social differences, society ...
Time:
18th century, 19th century, victorian era, regency period, 50s ...
Place:
england, ireland, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
11%

Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Italy, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
In 16th century Venice, when a merchant must default on a large loan from an abused Jewish moneylender for a friend with romantic ambitions, the bitterly vengeful creditor demands a gruesome payment instead.
Style:
sexy, talky, melancholic, stylized, tense ...
Plot:
shakespeare, renaissance, women, friends, love and romance, jewish, prejudice, segregation, culture clash, farce, social decay, life is a bitch ...
Time:
16th century, 1930s, 18th century
Place:
venice, italy, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A sumptuous dramatic comedy set in late 19th Century France, during the Belle Epoque, a period of social and cultural excess in European upper classes which ended only as the First World War erupted.
Style:
sexy, sexual, romantic, sincere, captivating ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, older woman younger man sex, age difference, mature woman, prostitute, society, love story, power relations, love affair, fall in love, teaching the ways of the world, family relations ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1920s, 20th century, pre world war one
Place:
paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%

Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
After she discovers that her boyfriend has betrayed her, Hilary O'Neil is looking for a new start and a new job. She begins to work as a private nurse for a young man suffering from blood cancer. Slowly, they fall in love, but they always know ...
Style:
romantic, sentimental, sad, touching, inspirational ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
love story, cancer, life & death, doctors, leukemia, love, beautiful scenery, parents and children, social differences, human nature, unfulfillment, death ...
Time:
90s
Place:
oakland california
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to a woman with Alzheimer's. From a faded notebook, the old man's words bring to life the story about a couple who is separated by World War II, and is then passionately ...
Style:
touching, romantic, emotional, sentimental, sweet ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
love story, love and romance, fall in love, love, true love, power of love, youth, love triangle, love of one's life, young lovers, love affair, lovers reunited ...
Time:
1940s, 50s, post world war two, 20th century, 90s
Place:
south carolina, canada, north carolina, usa, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%

Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Though a childhood bout with polio left him dependent on an iron lung, Mark O'Brien (John Hawkes) maintains a career as a journalist and poet. A writing assignment dealing with sex and the disabled piques Mark's curiosity, and he decides ...
Style:
touching, sexy, compassionate, erotic, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
disability, first sexual experience, near death experience, sexual activity, sexuality, loss of virginity, doctors, virginity, sexual awakening, erotica, oral sex, nude ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1988, 70s
Place:
california, boston, san francisco, usa
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19%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Liz Gilbert had everything a modern woman is supposed to dream of having – a husband, a house and a successful career – yet like so many others, she found herself lost, confused and searching for what she really wanted in life. Newly divorced ...
Style:
inspirational, romantic, touching, road movie, sweet ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, date night, chick flick
Plot:
travel, self discovery, love, life, midlife crisis, lifestyle change, female protagonist, fall in love, starting over, introspection, journey, changing lives ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, india, bali, rome italy, indonesia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
"Frida" chronicles the life Frida Kahlo shared unflinchingly and openly with Diego Rivera, as the young couple took the art world by storm. From her complex and enduring relationship with her mentor and husband to her illicit and ...
Style:
colourful, stylized, emotional, sexy, serious ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
artist, painter, art, disability, painting, bohemian life, female artist, lesbian, life, female protagonist, loneliness, adultery ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, 1920s, 20th century
Place:
mexico, paris france, empire state building manhattan new york city, canada, mexico city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%

Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Loosely based on the Charles Dickens' classic novel, "Great Expectations" is a sensual tale of a young man's unforgettable passage into manhood, and the three individuals who will undeniably change his life forever. Through the ...
Style:
romantic, emotional, sexy, touching, melancholic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot:
childhood, art, destiny, artist, love, love story, fall in love, understanding, painting, stranger, social differences, inheritance ...
Time:
20th century, 19th century, 80s, 18th century, 90s ...
Place:
new york, usa, london, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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