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Black Butterflies (2011)
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Black Butterflies (2011)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Netherlands, Germany, South Africa
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Confronted by Apartheid and a father who was Minister of Censorship, Ingrid Jonker searched for a home, searched for love. With men like Jack Cope and André Brink she found much love, but no home. Later, in his first speech to the South African Parliament Nelson Mandela read her poem "The Dead Child of Nyanga" and addressed her as one of the finest poets of South Africa.
Style: serious, emotional, realistic, captivating, sexy, edutainment, contemplative, gloomy
Plot: apartheid, writers, fighting the system, writer's life, family relations, parents and children, lifestyle, estrangement, downfall, society, bittersweet, poet, art, female writer, biopic, artists and showbiz, love, train, female nudity, alcohol abuse, abortion, police station, rainstorm, suicide by drowning, promiscuous woman ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: africa, south africa, paris france, europe
Keyword: dutch

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and emotional films with plots about biopic, artists and showbiz, writers, lifestyle, poet, writer's life and society mostly in Biography, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Black Butterflies: The End Is My Beginning (2010), Lovers of the Café Flore (2006), Last Call (2002), Enid (2009), Vysotsky: Thank God I'm Alive (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The End Is My Beginning (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Germany, Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When an extraordinary man who has lived through all is approaching his end, he decides to call his son to join him for the last time at his home in Tuscany. His intention is to share some valuable conversations about his life as a press ...
Style: touching, contemplative, realistic, talky, captivating ...
Plot: introspection, elderly, dealing with death, unfulfillment, life is a bitch, terminal illness, parents and children, family relations, biopic, writers, poet, son ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, italy
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11.25: The Day He Chose His Own Fate (2012)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story: On November 25th 1970, a man committed ritual suicide inside the Tokyo headquarters of the Japanese Ministry of Defence, leaving behind a legacy of masterpieces and a controversy that echoes to this day. The man was Yukio Mishima, one of ...
Style: realistic, emotional, serious, exciting, captivating ...
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Time: 20th century, 60s, year 1970
Place: japan
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Lovers of the Café Flore (2006)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In 1924, Simone de Beauvoir, a girl with polished appearance, prepares for her final examination in philosophy and meets Jean-Paul Sartre. He seems to know her true personality and considers her the only woman worthy of his intellect. Their chaotic ...
Style: atmospheric, emotional, factual, sexy, captivating ...
Plot: feminism, lesbian, love affair, writer's life, philosophy, couples, love triangle, fall in love, hopes, society, idealism, lifestyle ...
Time: 20th century, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s
Place: paris france, france, usa, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Last Call (2002)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Renowned writer F. Scott Fitzgerald is living the last months of his life with his youthful secretary, confidant, and protégé who later wrote a memoir of their time together.
Style: clever, emotional, realistic, serious, gloomy ...
Plot: prodigy, ambition, life is a bitch, lifestyle, terminal illness, love and romance, crumbling marriage, couples, showbiz, mental illness, family problems, split personality ...
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Enid (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Edwardian child Enid Blyton begins to tell stories to her brothers as an escape from their parents' rows before the father deserts the family...
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Plot: biopic, dysfunctional family, rise to the top, relationship vs career, nanny, novelist, writers, writer's life, couples, lifestyle, couple relations, ambition ...
Time: 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 20th century, 1940s ...
Place: britain, england, europe
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Vysotsky: Thank God I'm Alive (2011)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Russian poet, singer and actor Vladimir Vysotsky was an idol of the 1970s and '80s. In 1980, at the age of 42, he passed away during the Moscow Olympic Games. This is the story of his last great love as handed down to his son from a family ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, dramatic, suspenseful ...
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Time: 20th century, 70s, 80s, year 1979
Place: soviet union, russia
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The Golden Era (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 177 min.
Story: The story of writer Xiao Hong comes alive through memories of her great love affair, literary influence and escape from China during World War II.
Style: atmospheric, serious, psychological, captivating, romantic drama ...
Plot: writer's life, writers, love, political unrest, society, inspiration, couples, betrayal, family relations, literature, rivalry, poet ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s
Place: china, ancient china, asia
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Set Fire to the Stars (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: An aspiring poet in 1950s New York has his ordered world shaken when he embarks on a week-long retreat to save his hell raising hero, Dylan Thomas.
Style: realistic, sincere, atmospheric, sentimental, psychological ...
Plot: poet, writer's life, life turned upside down, artists and showbiz, disorder, writers, relationships, arts and culture, lifestyle, life philosophy, literature, historical character ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, 1940s, 20th century
Place: new york, britain, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Sagan (2008)
Genre: Biography
Country: France
Duration: 117 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: realistic, captivating, atmospheric, psychological, serious ...
Plot: rise and fall, writer's life, writers, artists and showbiz, couples, love affair, unfulfillment, lifestyle, car accident, society, rivalry, lgbtq ...
Time: 20th century, 21st century
Place: paris france
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Magic Beyond Words: The J.K. Rowling Story (2011)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Magic Beyond Words: The J.K. Rowling Story is a made-for-TV film starring Australian actress Poppy Montgomery. The film, which was shot in B.C. Canada locations altered to look like British locations, details the journey of struggling single mother ...
Style: serious, sentimental, realistic, touching, sincere ...
Audience: kids
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Time: 20th century, 90s, 80s, 21st century
Place: england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
The Silence of Joan (2011)
Genre: Biography
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In 1430, Joan of Arc, the prisoner of a powerful lord of the north of France is sold to the English. As a captive awaiting her death, she is approached by different men for whom she is believed to be the embodiment of the infinite.
Style: serious, realistic, rough, emotional, contemplative ...
Plot: hopes, life is a bitch, introspection, downfall, captivity, tragic hero, society, medieval, religions or cults, strong female presence, heroes, folk hero ...
Time: middle ages, 15th century
Place: europe, france, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Amália (2008)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Portugal
Duration: 127 min.
Story: You already know the legendary singer. For the first time, you'll get to know the woman behind the myth.
Style: emotional, realistic, serious, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: rise and fall, love and romance, musician's life, rising to stardom, human nature, family relations, lifestyle, unfulfillment, music, artists and showbiz, haunted by the past, love affair ...
Time: 20th century, 50s, 60s, 80s, 70s ...
Place: europe, portugal
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52%
Anton Chekhov 1890 (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Summer 1890. In order to make some money to feed his family, Anton Chekhov, modest physician, wrote short stories for newspapers to sign Antosha Tchékhonté. Important characters, writer and editor, just make him aware of his talent. His situation ...
Style: serious, realistic, psychological, captivating, gloomy ...
Plot: literature, writers, writer's life, biopic, tuberculosis, family relations, couple relations, obsession, life is a bitch, siblings relations, artists and showbiz, convict ...
Time: 19th century
Place: russia
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Tom & Viv (1994)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 125 min.
Story: The story of the marriage of the poet TS Eliot to socialite Vivienne Haigh-Wood, which had to cope with her gynaeological and emotional problems and his growing fame.
Style: romantic, psychological, romantic drama, emotional, sincere ...
Plot: writers, women, art, poet, biopic, artist, love, marriage, insanity, mental disorder, nobel prize winner, world war one ...
Time: 1930s, year 1994, victorian era, 1910s, 20th century
Place: england, europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story: In the early 60s, Bernward Vesper and fellow university student Gudrun Ensslin begin a passionate love in the stifling atmosphere of provincial West Germany. Dedicated to the power of the written word, Bernward and Gudrun found a publishing house ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Biography, Drama
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Style: captivating, realistic, serious, atmospheric, gloomy
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⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
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Story: The story of Francisco, a very simple and poor man whose dream was to see his children become country music stars, and who made all the efforts to make it happen.
Style: touching, emotional, serious, captivating, stylized ...
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Place: brazil, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Paulo Coelho's Best Story (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Brazil, Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Paulo Coelho is the world’s most translated living author, his books having sold over 165 million copies. But he was not always the inspirational global phenomenon he is today. Like the heroes in his spiritual classics THE ALCHEMIST and THE ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, thought provoking, disturbing
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⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Duration: 88 min.
Story: Prince William is the elder son of Britain's Prince Charles and if the late Diana, Princess of Wales. After his father, he is next in line to the British throne. A biography of his journey so far....
Style: serious, emotional, touching, controversial, realistic
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46%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK, Italy, Germany
Duration: 106 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Aleksis Kivi (1834-1872) was a Finnish author who wrote the first significant novel in the Finnish language, "Seven Brothers/Seitsemän veljestä". Although Kivi was among the very earliest authors of prose and lyrics in Finnish language, ...
Style: sincere, realistic, captivating, serious
Plot: art, love interest, mental breakdown, class society, friendship, student, creativity, writers, money problems, university, politics, writer's life ...
Time: 19th century, 1850s, 1870s, 1800s, 1860s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
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Style: tense, thought provoking, uplifting, captivating, realistic ...
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Style: non-linear, realistic, serious, atmospheric, contemplative ...
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41%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
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Duration: 92 min.
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Plot: writers, death, christianity, cancer, marriage, faith, poet, jesus, art, family relations, couples, disability ...
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39%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When Norwegian scientist Marie attends a seminar in Paris on the actual weight of a kilo, it is her own measurement of disappointment, grief and, not least, love, that ends up on the scale. Finally Marie is forced to come to terms with how much a ...
Style: contemplative, realistic, serious, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: self discovery, unfulfillment, dull life, frustration, scientist, estrangement, love, women, father daughter relationship, love and romance, love affair, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted with despair.
Style: intellectual, talky, witty, clever, heartbreaking ...
Plot: biopic, addiction, female nudity, loveless marriage, flapper, poetry, prohibition, women, female writer, friendship, hotel, writers ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, year 1994, victorian era ...
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38%
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Leonie (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France, UK, Australia, Germany, Belgium, USA, Japan, Netherlands
Duration: 102 min.
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Style: uplifting, stylized, realistic, serious, retro ...
Audience: girls' night
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Sister Smile (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A biography of the Belgian nun Jeannine Deckers, who became a popular singer in the early 1960s and struggled with the contradiction between the church and her true self.
Style: sincere, realistic, serious, emotional, captivating ...
Plot: nun, convent, ambition, musician's life, follow your dream, showbiz, mother superior, society, against the rules, rising to stardom, life is a bitch, rise and fall ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: belgium, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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