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The Carpetbaggers (1964)
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
The Carpetbaggers is a 1964 American film starring George Peppard as a character based largely on Howard Hughes and Alan Ladd as a former western gunslinger turned actor with the pseudonym Nevada Smith, played the following year in a prequel starring Steve McQueen in the part. Carroll Baker portrayed an actress inspired by Jean Harlow, who appeared in Hughes' film epic Hell's Angels. The Carpetbaggers was directed by Edward Dmytryk, filmed in 70mm, and was Alan Ladd's final film; Ladd died some months before its release.In the movie, George Peppard plays a hard-driven industrialist more than a little reminiscent of Howard Hughes. While he builds airplanes, directs movies and breaks hearts, his friends and lovers try to reach his human side, and find that it's an uphill battle. The film's title is a metaphor for self-promoting tycoons who perform quick financial takeovers, impose dictatorial controls for short-term profits, then move on to greener pastures.
Style:
retro, clever, serious, realistic, cynical, stylized
Plot:
hollywood, showbiz, aviation, stepmother, sex, love story, friendship, filmmaking, friends, alcohol abuse, rise to the top, couples, love affair, infidelity, ambition, family problems, rise and fall, lifestyle, megalomaniac, crumbling marriage, workplace, dishonesty, artists and showbiz, blind ambition, rising to stardom ...
Time:
1930s, 1920s, 20th century, 30s, 20s
Place:
usa, california
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sexy and talky films with plots about couples, love and romance, couple relations, infidelity, lifestyle, love and unfulfillment mostly in Drama, Romance and Biography genres. Some movies like The Carpetbaggers: The Last Tycoon (1976), Harlow (1965), California Suite (1978), Liz & Dick (2012), A Perfect Stranger (1994). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
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Style:
stylized, realistic, captivating, sentimental, retro ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, california, los angeles
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
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Duration: 125 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
los angeles, usa
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Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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funny, humorous, witty, clever, talky ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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sexy, serious, realistic, stylized
Audience:
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Time:
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Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, emotional, light, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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52%
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Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
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Style:
mumblecore, serious, sincere, touching, realistic ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
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837
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Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Story:
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