Movies like Girl with a Pearl Earring
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Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)
85K
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 working in the house of painter Johannes Vermeer becomes his talented assistant and the model for one of his most famous works.
Style:
enigmatic, erotic, period piece, costume drama, atmospheric, thought provoking, stylized, visually stunning, historical drama, light ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
artist, painter, painting, art, master and servant, sexual tension, nymphet, teenage girl, society, couple relations, maid, portrait, artist's model, older man younger woman relationship, sensuality, jealousy, art history, age difference, fall in love, dutch history, male female relationship, biopic, obsession, writer's life, marriage proposal ...
Time:
17th century, ancient times, 19th century, year 2003, victorian era, 18th century, victorian
Place:
holland, netherlands, europe, america
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Most similar movies to Girl with a Pearl Earring
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, period drama, serious and period piece films with plots about love and romance, art, biopic, costume, female nudity, mentor and couples mostly in Drama, Romance and Biography genres. Some movies like Girl with a Pearl Earring: Carrington (1995), Tulip Fever (2017), The Duchess (2008), The Libertine (2004), Maudie (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
The story of the relationship between painter Dora Carrington and author Lytton Strachey in a World War One England of cottages and countryside. Although platonic due to Strachey's homosexuality, the relationship was nevertheless a deep and ...
Style:
costume drama, sexual, talky, emotional, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
artist, writers, painter, polyamory, art, glbt, biopic, male nudity, world war one, passion, art history, lgbt ...
Time:
1930s, year 1915, victorian era, 1910s, 1920s ...
Place:
england, wales, europe, italy, venice ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
An artist falls for a married young woman while he's commissioned to paint her portrait. The two invest in the risky tulip market in hopes to build a future together.
Style:
sexy, period piece, costume drama, sensual, touching ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
painter, love affair, doctor, sex scene, portrait, artist, nude painting, female nudity, adultery, extramarital affair, cheating wife, art history ...
Time:
17th century, year 2017
Place:
netherlands, amsterdam
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:
costume drama, romantic, sexy, emotional, period piece ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
love story, royalty, love affair, aristocracy, love triangle, duke, duchess, infidelity, adultery, destiny, life philosophy, high society ...
Time:
18th century, middle ages, 19th century, georgian era, ancient times ...
Place:
england, britain, europe, scotland, london
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, Australia, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
The story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and debauched his way to an early grave, only to earn posthumous critical acclaim for his life's work.
Style:
period piece, costume drama, atmospheric, melancholic, surreal ...
Plot:
writers, decadence, sexual attraction, poet, libertine, debauchery, oral sex, making love, infidelity, biopic, steamy romance, unfaithful husband ...
Time:
17th century, ancient times, year 2006, year 2004, 19th century ...
Place:
england, london, britain, europe
Similarity:
100%
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25K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, Ireland
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
An unlikely romance in which the reclusive Everett Lewis hires a fragile yet determined woman named Maudie to be his housekeeper. Maudie, bright-eyed but hunched with crippled hands, yearns to be independent, to live away from her protective family ...
Style:
sincere, artsy, costume drama, touching, disturbing ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
painter, disability, painting, aunt niece relationship, dog, happiness, talent, artist, marriage, housekeeper, love, biopic ...
Time:
2010s, year 2017, 20th century
Place:
nova scotia, canada, nova scotia, canada, newfoundland
Similarity:
100%
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:
romantic, costume drama, sexy, historical drama, stylized ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
queen, love triangle, royal family, british history, medieval, royal court, king, intrigue, tudors, betrayal, siblings relations, kingdom ...
Time:
16th century, middle ages, ancient times, 19th century, 20th century ...
Place:
england, britain, europe, rome italy, london ...
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Painter Francisco Goya faces a scandal involving his muse, who is labeled a heretic by a monk.
Style:
period piece, costume drama, historical drama, factual, realistic ...
Plot:
rape, artist, spanish inquisition, spanish history, art, prison, prostitute, painter, biopic, life is a bitch, lifestyle, painting ...
Time:
18th century, ancient times, regency period, 19th century, 1800s ...
Place:
spain, persia, madrid, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, Italy, Spain, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Fleeing 1930s New York and leaving behind a chequered past, the giltzy divorcee Mrs Stella Erlynne travels to Italy's sun-dappled Amalfi coast. Mrs Erlynne's appearance causes a stir amongst the visiting aristocracy. Based on the Oscar ...
Style:
witty, period piece, clever, semi serious, romantic drama ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, family friendly, girls' night
Plot:
femme fatale, infidelity, slut, high society, justice, betrayal, farce, rich man, marriage proposal, love and romance, social differences, women ...
Time:
1930s, year 2004, 20th century, 19th century
Place:
italy, europe, new york, southern italy, england ...
Similarity:
75%
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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:
visually appealing, independent film, sexy, emotional, sincere ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
painter, artist, art, painting, female artist, bohemian life, lgbtq, disability, feminism, female protagonist, life, relationships ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, year 2002, 1920s, 20th century ...
Place:
mexico, paris france, empire state building manhattan new york city, mexico city, america ...
Similarity:
50%
25K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France, UK, Vietnam
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, sex, lolita, lovers, lust, interracial romance, love affair, sex with a minor, nymphet, asian man white woman relationship ...
Time:
1920s, ancient times, 20th century, year 1929, year 1992 ...
Place:
vietnam, indochina, southeast asia, china, saigon ...
Similarity:
88%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Ireland, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A biographical portrait of a pre-fame Jane Austen and her romance with a young Irishman.
Style:
romantic, sweet, touching, costume drama, period piece ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night, adult
Plot:
unfulfilled love, love story, couples, writer's life, love and romance, love, prejudice, fall in love, biopic, women, passion, destiny ...
Time:
18th century, 19th century, victorian era, ancient times, 50s ...
Place:
england, ireland, britain, europe, london
Similarity:
100%
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 ...
Style:
romantic, sexy, sexual, period piece, witty ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot:
beauty, courtesan, forbidden love, prostitute, medieval, prostitution, love and romance, couple relations, sex, love story, social differences, rich and poor ...
Time:
16th century, ancient times, victorian era, year 1998
Place:
venice, italy, europe, turkey, cyprus ...
Similarity:
78%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
The passionate Merchant-Ivory drama tells the story of Francoise Gilot, the only lover of Pablo Picasso who was strong enough to withstand his ferocious cruelty and move on with her life.
Style:
emotional, serious, realistic, sexy, romantic drama ...
Audience:
toddlers
Plot:
artist, painter, art, womanizer, biopic, love triangle, infidelity, art history, character study, mistress, physical abuse, couple relations ...
Time:
1940s, year 1996, 50s, 20th century, year 1943 ...
Place:
poland, france, paris france, europe, provence ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The story of Beatrix Potter, the author of the beloved and best-selling children's book, "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", and her struggle for love, happiness and success.
Style:
touching, sentimental, period piece, costume drama, serious ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
writers, writer's life, biopic, female artist, book, family relations, snobbism, painting, fall in love, art, happy ending, artist ...
Time:
1900s, victorian era, edwardian era, 19th century, 1910s ...
Place:
england, london, britain, europe, san francisco
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The Newlyn School of artists flourished at the beginning of the 20th Century and the film focuses on the wild and bohemian Lamorna Group, which included Alfred Munnings and Laura and Harold Knight. The incendiary anti-Modernist Munnings, now ...
Style:
sincere, touching, emotional, serious, retro ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
painter, biopic, couples, love triangle, nudity, infidelity, love affair, lifestyle, family relations, unfulfilled love, fall in love, dishonesty ...
Time:
1910s, 1900s, year 1915, 20th century, year 1914 ...
Place:
cornwall, england, london
Similarity:
100%
9K
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: France, UK, Belgium
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In 1671, with war brewing with Holland, a penniless prince invites Louis XIV to three days of festivities at a chateau in Chantilly. The prince wants a commission as a general, so the extravagances are to impress the king. In charge of all is the ...
Style:
costume drama, period piece, melancholic, tricky, captivating ...
Plot:
king of france, nobility, food, betrayal, royal court, tragic love, french history, ancient, power relations, fall in love, storytelling, wine ...
Time:
17th century, ancient times, victorian era, 70s
Place:
france, europe, holland, netherlands, paris france ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
In 1958 New York Diane Arbus is a housewife and mother who works as an assistant to her husband, a photographer employed by her wealthy parents. Respectable though her life is, she cannot help but feel uncomfortable in her privileged world. One ...
Style:
sexy, atmospheric, erotic, intense, surreal ...
Plot:
photographer, photograph, couples, biopic, photography, making love, fall in love, love story, artist, art, friends, self discovery ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, 1950s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
59K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A nobleman with a literary flair, the Marquis de Sade lives in a madhouse where a beautiful laundry maid smuggles his erotic stories to a printer, defying orders from the asylum's resident priest. The titillating passages whip all of France ...
Style:
erotic, period piece, sexy, gothic, sexual ...
Plot:
sexuality, writer's life, rape, priest, sex, perversion, steamy romance, aristocracy, eccentricity, fetish, sexual tension, writers ...
Time:
18th century, 19th century, ancient times, year 2000, georgian era ...
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 238 min.
Story:
The former famous painter Frenhofer lives quietly with his wife on his countryside residence in the French Provence. When the young artist Nicolas visits him with his girlfriend Marianne, Frenhofer decides to start again the work on a painting he ...
Style:
erotic, sincere, atmospheric, sexy, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
painting, painter, artist, art, eroticism, husband wife relationship, couples, couple relations, creative process, taxidermy, drawing, female nudity ...
Time:
year 1991
Place:
provence, france, usa, los angeles, south of france
Similarity:
100%
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:
sexy, atmospheric, period piece, costume drama, serious ...
Plot:
love, nobility, love triangle, literary, death, greed, betrayal, relationships, nudity, forbidden love, fall in love, power relations ...
Time:
1910s, year 1997, victorian era, 20th century, edwardian era ...
Place:
england, london, venice, britain, europe ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A look at the mysterious relationship between Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his teenage bride Effie Gray.
Style:
period piece, costume drama, stylized, emotional, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
love, biopic, couples, unfulfillment, self discovery, crumbling marriage, love and romance, fall in love, painter, art, writers, love triangle ...
Time:
19th century, ancient times, victorian era
Place:
england, britain, europe, london, scotland
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653) was one of the first well-known female painters. The movie tells the story of her youth, when she was guided and protected by her father, the painter Orazio Gentileschi. Her professional curiosity about the male ...
Style:
factual, sexual, historical drama, art film, spiritual ...
Plot:
virginity, art, female artist, artist, painter, biopic, renaissance, women, rape, art history, female nudity, painting ...
Time:
16th century, ancient times, 17th century, year 1997, 70s
Place:
rome italy, italy, europe
Similarity:
32%
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:
emotional, psychological, intense, touching, heartbreaking ...
Plot:
art, biopic, mental illness, artist, fall in love, obsession, painter, sculptor, storytelling, art history, love, couples ...
Time:
19th century, ancient times, turn of the century
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
31%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA, Belgium
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes involved with a seaside landlady, while his faithful housekeeper bears an unrequited love for him.
Style:
sincere, costume drama, clever, surreal, meditative ...
Plot:
painter, painting, artist, biopic, art, eccentricity, art history, character study, estrangement, couple relations, elderly, love and romance ...
Time:
19th century, 1820s, 1830s, 1840s, ancient times ...
Place:
london, england, britain, holland
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
As influential Italian artist Caravaggio dies in exile in 1610, he recalls his short life, from his childhood to his initial artistic failures to his later triumphs as he catches the eye of a sympathetic cardinal to his destructive relationship with ...
Style:
atmospheric, realistic, serious, stylized, factual ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
painter, gay interest, art, male nudity, biopic, sexual relations, lifestyle, homoerotic fight, love triangle, older man younger man relationship, art history, rise and fall ...
Time:
17th century, ancient times, 16th century
Place:
rome italy, italy
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA, France, Japan
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
The retelling of France's iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette. From her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at 15 to her reign as queen at 19 and ultimately the fall of Versailles.
Style:
visually stunning, period piece, visual, costume drama, factual ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
queen, french revolution, historical character, french history, royal court, royal family, decadence, royalty, aristocracy, teenage girl, monarchy, princess ...
Time:
18th century, ancient times, year 2006, victorian era, georgian era ...
Place:
france, versailles, europe, austria, vienna ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Ireland, UK, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Albert Nobbs struggles to survive in late 19th century Ireland, where women aren't encouraged to be independent. Posing as a man, so she can work as a butler in Dublin's most posh hotel, Albert meets a handsome painter and looks to escape ...
Style:
touching, sad, costume drama, period piece, stylized ...
Plot:
gender, loneliness, cross dressing, lesbian, lgbtq, master and servant, woman dressed as man, relationships, society, death, maid, gender disguise ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s, 1800s, victorian era, turn of the century ...
Place:
ireland, england, britain, dublin ireland, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
In late spring, 1890, Vincent moves to Auvers-sur-Oise, near Paris, under the care of Dr. Gachet, living in a humble inn. Fewer than 70 days later, Vincent dies from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. We see Vincent at work, painting landscapes and ...
Style:
anthology, psychological, serious, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
artist, painter, painting, biopic, art, art history, sex, artist's model, nudity, male nudity, train conductor, model ...
Time:
19th century, year 1991, 1890s, victorian era
Place:
france, paris france, europe, provence
Similarity:
30%
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:
30%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Rich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. Two daughters are the titular opposites.
Style:
romantic, costume drama, feel good, sincere, sentimental ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick, kids, adult
Plot:
love story, love, happy ending, love triangle, love and romance, sisters, fall in love, love affair, social differences, rich and poor, true love, village life ...
Time:
19th century, 18th century, 90s, regency period, 1810s ...
Place:
england, britain, europe, london, seattle
Similarity:
30%
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