Movies like Frances

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Frances (1982)
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Frances (1982)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story: The true story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.
Style: depressing, disturbing, factual, compassionate, psychological, melancholic, intense, serious, touching, realistic ...
Plot: mental illness, hollywood, rich and poor, mother daughter relationship, insanity, biopic, actor's life, women, family relations, showbiz, life is a bitch, rise to the top, parents and children, ambition, introspection, psychology, mental disorder, hospital, psychiatry, mental institution, rape, strong female lead, sexual abuse, drug addiction, psychoanalysis ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 1930s, 1950s, 70s, 50s, 30s ...
Place: california, usa, new york, manhattan new york city
Keyword: oldies, doctors, dreams

Most similar movies to Frances

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, emotional and touching films with plots about biopic, mental illness, artists and showbiz, women, mother daughter relationship, couples and illness mostly in Drama, Biography and Romance genres. Some movies like Frances: Girl, Interrupted (1999), The Aviator (2004), My Week with Marilyn (2011), Prozac Nation (2001), Mommie Dearest (1981). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Girl, Interrupted (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line ...
Style: psychological, depressing, serious, crying, heartbreaking ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, chick flick, teen drama, adult
Plot: mental illness, coming of age, suicide, insanity, psychiatrist, suicide attempt, mental institution, teenage girl, borderline personality disorder, female protagonist, psychiatric ward, psychology ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1999, 60s
Place: usa
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 7.5
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The Aviator (2004)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 170 min.
Story: A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate, while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe ...
Style: realistic, epic, stylized, period piece, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: success, mental illness, aviation, biopic, filmmaking, entrepreneur, corruption, test pilot, entrepreneurship, businessman, character study, obsessive compulsive disorder ...
Time: 1930s, year 2004, 1920s, 20th century, 1940s ...
Place: los angeles, california, new york, connecticut, usa ...
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My Week with Marilyn (2011)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Sir Laurence Olivier is making a movie in London. Young Colin Clark, an eager film student, wants to be involved and he navigates himself a job on the set. When film star Marilyn Monroe arrives for the start of shooting, all of London is excited to ...
Style: sentimental, period piece, romantic, factual, melancholic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: movie star, historical figure, biopic, fame, hollywood, actress, actor's life, ambition, cultural icon, women, depression, celebrity ...
Time: 50s, 2010s, year 2011, 1900s, 1950s ...
Place: england, britain, europe, london
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Prozac Nation (2001)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Elizabeth is on the verge of losing her grip on life after she leaves her emotionally fraught home to start college. Quickly, her life takes a turn for the worse: She clashes with her roommate and decides her boyfriend, Rafe, is her sole salvation. ...
Style: psychological, depressing, emotional, melancholic, teen ...
Audience: teens
Plot: mental illness, depression, college, university, teenage girl, psychiatrist, suicide attempt, coming of age, therapy, bipolar disorder, female nudity, mental disorder ...
Time: 80s, year 2001, 2010s, 90s
Place: harvard university, austin texas
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Mommie Dearest (1981)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: In this biographical film, glamorous yet lonely star Joan Crawford takes in two orphans, and at first their unconventional family seems happy. But after Joan's attempts at romantic fulfillment go sour and she is fired from her contract with MGM ...
Style: disturbing, controversial, factual, intense, talky ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: child abuse, adoption, dysfunctional family, abusive mother, single mother, bad mother, mother daughter relationship, mansion, hollywood, borderline personality disorder, mother, storytelling ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 1930s, 60s, 1950s ...
Place: usa, new york, los angeles
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Lovelace (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Story of Linda Lovelace, who is used and abused by the porn industry at the behest of her coercive husband, before taking control of her life.
Style: sexual, stylized, erotic, sexy, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: porn actress, sexual abuse, nudity, porn star, porn industry, sex, rough sex, female nudity, orgasm, sex toy, rape, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 70s, 80s, 20th century, year 1970, year 2002
Place: usa, miami, new york, malibu california, florida
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Grey Gardens (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Based on the life stories of the eccentric aunt and first cousin of Jackie Onassis raised as Park Avenue débutantes but who withdrew from New York society, taking shelter at their Long Island summer home, "Grey Gardens." As their wealth ...
Style: touching, realistic, compassionate, depressing, melancholic ...
Plot: eccentric family, eccentricity, dysfunctional family, depression, betrayal, eviction, family life, family relations, parents and children, oldtimer, elderly, women ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 1930s
Place: new york, usa
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Permanent Midnight (1998)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Ben Stiller plays comedy writer Jerry Stahl, whose $6000-a-week heroin habit had him taking his infant daughter along on his drug runs and doing smack during TV script conferences. Departing detox, Stahl explores memories with survivor Kitty, who ...
Style: factual, intense, depressing, serious, cult classic ...
Plot: addiction, drug, writers, heroin, drug abuse, husband wife relationship, drug addict, human nature, drug addiction, lifestyle, family problems, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: los angeles, usa, pittsburgh, beverly hills
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Sybil (2007)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A true story of a young woman whose abusive childhood results in her developing a multiple personality disorder.
Style: psychological, touching, heartbreaking, sad, disturbing
Plot: mental illness, dissociative identity disorder, psychology, child abuse, mental disorder, child rape, children, mental health, psychiatrist, patient, mentally unstable, domineering mother ...
Place: nova scotia
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An Angel at My Table (1990)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Australia, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 158 min.
Story: Janet Frame grows up in a poor family. She is different than the other kids. She is considered abnormal and locked away in a mental institution for eight years. Everything changes when she starts writing books.
Style: psychological, touching, spiritual, neurotic, erotic ...
Plot: mental illness, writers, depression, biopic, schizophrenia, art, women, children, female writer, making love, feminist, woman ...
Time: year 1990, 20th century, 80s
Place: new zealand, paris france, london
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The Last of Robin Hood (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Errol Flynn, the swashbuckling Hollywood star and notorious ladies man, flouted convention all his life, but never more brazenly than in his last years when, swimming in vodka and unwilling to face his mortality, he undertook a liaison with an ...
Style: disturbing, touching, realistic, serious, independent film ...
Plot: hollywood, movie star, sexual abuse, womanizer, actor's life, forbidden love, love affair, love and romance, youth, life is a bitch, teenage life, showbiz ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, year 1960, year 1957, year 2010 ...
Place: cuba, los angeles, new york, usa, manhattan new york city ...
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Iris (2001)
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: depressing, touching, melancholic, sentimental, compassionate ...
Plot: alzheimer's disease, aging, writers, writer's life, biopic, mental illness, love, female pubic hair, women, life & death, terminal illness, loneliness ...
Time: year 2001, 50s, 20th century, 90s
Place: england, europe
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Sylvia (2003)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Story of the relationship between the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.
Style: depressing, emotional, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Plot: suicide, drinking, writers, mental illness, biopic, poet, death, art, tragic love, writer's life, artist, couple relations ...
Time: 1950s, year 2003, 50s, 60s, 20th century
Place: england, europe, new york
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A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 155 min.
Story: Mabel, a mother and wife, is on the brink of insanity as her blue-collar husband Nick attempts to understand her plight.
Style: independent film, art house, psychological, depressing, intense ...
Audience: date night
Plot: mental illness, marriage, dysfunctional family, love, working class, insanity, mental disorder, construction worker, mental health, illness, visceral, couples ...
Time: year 1974, 70s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, usa, california
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The Audrey Hepburn Story (2000)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 133 min.
Story: The film spans from Hepburn's early childhood to the 1950s which details her life as a Dutch ballerina, coming to grips with her parents' divorce, and enduring life in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II. She then settles in ...
Style: uplifting, serious, feel good, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot: hollywood, actor's life, world war two, showbiz, celebrity culture, performer's life, rising to stardom, childhood, filmmaking, haunted by the past, human spirit, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 1940s, 50s, 1950s
Place: usa, new york, europe, holland, manhattan new york city
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Lady Sings the Blues (1972)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story: Chronicles the rise and fall of legendary blues singer Billie Holiday. Her late childhood, stint as a prostitute, early tours, marriages and drug addiction are featured.
Style: realistic, retro, intellectual, serious, touching ...
Plot: jazz, biopic, african american, drug abuse, music, blaxploitation, drug addiction, black, racism, blues, musician, singer ...
Time: 1930s, year 1972, 1940s, 20th century, 70s
Place: america, harlem, new york city, usa, new york, baltimore ...
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Veronika Decides to Die (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: After a frantic suicide attempt, Veronika awakens inside a mysterious mental asylum. Under the supervision of an unorthodox psychiatrist who specializes in controversial treatment, Veronika learns that she has only weeks to live.
Style: psychological, touching, melancholic, emotional, intense ...
Plot: suicide, mental institution, suicidal, coma, mental illness, psychiatrist, terminal illness, suicide attempt, female protagonist, depression, starting over, hopes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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Harlow (1965)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Hollywood drama loosely based on the life of film actress Jean Harlow, with Carroll Baker in the title role. One of two feature film biographies, both released in 1965 and both with the same title, about the '30s platinum blonde movie star.
Style: sexual, serious, realistic, entertaining, crying
Plot: hollywood, actor's life, rise and fall, film industry, women, wedding, filmmaking, showbiz, couples, fashion, celebrity culture, voyeurism ...
Time: 1930s, 1920s
Place: los angeles, usa
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Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: An acclaimed stage performer, Dorothy still struggled with the challenge of her color, in a time that wouldn't let some stars in by the front door. Yet against the odds she beat out many more famous rivals for the role of "Carmen ...
Style: cult classic, contemplative, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: biopic, racism, black, hollywood, women, rape, african american, filmmaking, women of color, sexual abuse, interracial romance, post war ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 1940s, 50s, 1950s
Place: usa, miami beach, new york, miami, las vegas ...
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Camille Claudel (1988)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 175 min.
Story: The life of Camille Claudel, a french scupltor who becomes the apprentice of Auguste Rodin and later his lover. Her passion for her art and Rodin drive her further away from reason and rationality.
Style: psychological, emotional, intense, heartbreaking, touching ...
Plot: biopic, mental illness, artist, art, painter, sculptor, obsession, storytelling, art history, fall in love, love, couples ...
Time: 19th century, ancient times
Place: france, paris france
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Gable and Lombard (1976)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: A biography about the love affair between 1930s Hollywood superstars Clark Gable and Carole Lombard.
Style: semi serious, realistic, sexual, stylized
Audience: date night
Plot: hollywood, actor's life, tragic love, love, filmmaking, world war two, superstar, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, fall in love, love and romance, private detective ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, year 1976, 50s
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Will There Really Be a Morning? (1983)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story: This is the story of actress Frances Farmer, her struggles with mental illness and involuntary confinement in an insane asylum.
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, emotional, gloomy
Plot: biopic, hollywood, mental illness, insane asylum, mental patient, couples, artists and showbiz, actor's life, state affairs, prodigy, politics, performer's life ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s
Place: washington d.c., seattle
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Touched with Fire (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Carla and Marco are manic-depressive poets whose art is fueled by their emotional extremes. When they go off their meds, they end up in the same psychiatric hospital. As the chemistry between them stirs up their emotions, it intensifies their mania. ...
Style: sincere, realistic, captivating, emotional, touching ...
Plot: bipolar disorder, mental illness, love, mental health, mental disorder, illness, couples, friendship, hospital, hopes, special needs, real world ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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The Whole Wide World (1996)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Based on her acclaimed autobiographical book, THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD tells the story of Novalyne Price, an attractive feisty West Texas schoolteacher and her bittersweet, romantic and turbulent relationship with Robert E. Howard, the great pulp ...
Style: emotional, touching, sentimental, period piece, cult classic ...
Plot: writers, biopic, love story, destiny, friendship, bittersweet, couples, hospital, love, loneliness, poet, summer ...
Time: 1930s, year 1996, 20th century
Place: texas, louisiana, usa, new mexico
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Frida (2002)
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: visually appealing, stylized, colorful, emotional, serious ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: painter, artist, art, painting, disability, female artist, feminism, bohemian life, lesbian, biopic, life, female protagonist ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, 1920s, 20th century, year 2002 ...
Place: mexico, paris france, empire state building manhattan new york city, america, mexico city ...
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 7.8
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Awakenings (1990)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. Leonard is the first patient to receive the controversial treatment. His awakening, filled with awe and enthusiasm, ...
Style: inspirational, motivational, sentimental, sincere, uplifting ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: mental illness, mental institution, hospital, illness, doctors and patients, medical, psychiatry, fighting illness, hopes, medicine, disability, patient ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 1930s, 60s, year 1969
Place: america, new york, usa, bronx new york city
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 5.8
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Mr. Jones (1993)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: The story about the relationship between a manic depressive man, Mr Jones, and the female doctor who takes more than a professional interest in his treatment.
Style: compassionate, melancholic, realistic, emotional, touching ...
Plot: bipolar disorder, mental illness, love, psychiatrist, psychology, hospital, loneliness, adaptation, addiction, love affair, forbidden love, rehabilitation ...
Time: 90s, year 1993
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James Dean (2001)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: The man behind the legend and a knowing look at the 1950's Hollywood are revealed in this dynamic bioepic of the meteoric star whose troubled life echoed his gut-grabbing performances in East of Eden, Rebel Without A Cause and Giant.
Style: realistic, serious, sentimental, captivating, clever ...
Plot: hollywood, actor, filmmaking, father son relationship, actor's life, biopic, dying young, lifestyle, prodigy, ambition, rising to stardom, rise and fall ...
Time: 1950s, 20th century, 50s, 1940s, 1930s
Place: usa, malibu california, indiana, santa monica california, new york
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 7.5
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The Hours (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK, France, Canada, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: "The Hours" is the story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a ...
Style: depressing, psychological, intellectual, touching, serious ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: suicide, mental illness, depression, aids, writers, lesbian, bipolar disorder, writer's life, literature, introspection, poet, borderline personality disorder ...
Time: year 2002, 1940s, 90s, 1920s, 20th century ...
Place: new york, england, california, los angeles, europe ...
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Gia (1998)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Gia Carangi travels to New York City with dreams of becoming a fashion model. Within minutes of arriving, she meets Wilhelmina Cooper, a wise and high-powered agent who takes Gia under her wing. With Cooper's help and her own natural instincts, ...
Style: psychological, melancholic, erotic, sexy, rough ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: lesbian, fashion, addiction, aids, drug abuse, drug addiction, heroin, mental illness, model, supermodel, lesbian romance, fashion industry ...
Time: 80s, 70s, 20th century
Place: new york
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