Movies like I Shot Andy Warhol
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I Shot Andy Warhol (1996)
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of Valerie Solanas who was a 1960s radical preaching hatred toward men in her "Scum" manifesto. She wrote a screenplay for a film that she wanted Andy Warhol to produce, but he continued to ignore her. So she shot him. This is Valerie's story.
Style:
clever, disturbing, sexy, psychological, intellectual, enigmatic, melancholic, surreal, feminist film, witty ...
Plot:
art, artist, lesbian, women, feminist, writers, lgbt, feminism, true crime, gay, painter, obsession, art history, radical, drugs, prostitution, paranoia, assassination, nude, sex, catastrophe, genius, psychology, loneliness, violence ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 1960s
Place:
new york, usa
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Most similar movies to I Shot Andy Warhol
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, sexy and melancholic films with plots about mentor, runaway, pornography, storytelling, adaptation, obsession and dialogue mostly in Drama, Biography and Crime genres. Some movies like I Shot Andy Warhol: Lovelace (2013), Monster (2003), The Notorious Bettie Page (2005), Basquiat (1996), Pollock (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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, sexy, stylized, erotic, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens
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sexual abuse, porn actress, porn star, sex, porn industry, rough sex, husband wife relationship, rape, sex toy, manipulation, prostitution, female nudity ...
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70s, 80s, 20th century, year 2002, year 1970
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usa, new jersey, florida, malibu california, miami ...
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Aileen Wuornos is an emotionally scarred highway hooker who shoots a sadistic trick who rapes her and ultimately becomes America's first female serial killer.
Style:
bleak, disturbing, psychological, emotional, harsh ...
Audience:
teens, date night, chick flick
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serial killer, lesbian, prostitute, lesbian love, mental illness, rape, murder, gay, female serial killer, vengeance, destructive relationship, female killer ...
Time:
80s, 90s, 20th century, 2000s
Place:
florida, michigan, usa, ohio, miami
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67%
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, sexy ...
Plot:
loveless marriage, female nudity, poetry, prohibition, nude, women, friendship, hotel, addiction, writers, female writer, relationships ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, 1940s, victorian era, 50s ...
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa
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51%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Bettie Page grew up in a conservative religious family in Tennessee and became a photo model sensation in 1950s New York. Bettie's legendary pin-up photos made her the target of a Senate investigation into pornography, and transformed her into ...
Style:
erotic, melancholic, factual, bleak, stylized ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
rape, sexual abuse, photographer, female nudity, fetish, fetishism, female protagonist, investigation, bdsm, model, sexuality, sexual awakening ...
Time:
50s, 1940s, 70s, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
usa, tennessee, new york, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city ...
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50%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Director Julian Schnabel illustrates the portrait of his friend, the first African-American pop artist Jean-Michel Basquiat who unfortunately died at a young age and just as he was beginning to make a name for himself in the art world. Alongside the ...
Style:
stylized, factual, inspirational, atmospheric, captivating ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
artist, art, drug abuse, painter, graffiti, drug addiction, self destructing, society, rising to stardom, rise and fall, human spirit, ambition ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1981
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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49%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
In August of 1949, Life Magazine ran a banner headline that begged the question: "Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?" The film is a look back into the life of an extraordinary man, a man who has ...
Style:
emotional, inspirational, intellectual, atmospheric, breathtaking ...
Plot:
artist, painter, art, painting, addiction, alcohol abuse, genius, bohemian life, supportive spouse, rise and fall, lifestyle, self destructing ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 50s, year 1950, year 1949 ...
Place:
new york, usa, long island, greenwich village manhattan new york city
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46%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
While traveling in Paris, author Henry Miller and his wife, June, meet Anais Nin, and sexual sparks fly as Nin starts an affair with the openly bisexual June. When June is forced to return to the U.S., she gives Nin her blessing to sleep with her ...
Style:
sexy, controversial, erotic, sexual, melancholic ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
love triangle, writers, sex, open relationship, lesbian sex, sexuality, writer's life, bohemian, art, women, lesbian, seduction ...
Time:
1930s, year 1931, year 1932, 20th century
Place:
paris france, europe, france
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45%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Paul Snider is a narcissistic, small time hustler who fancies himself a ladies man. His life changes when he meets Dorothy Stratten working behind the counter of a Dairy Queen.
Style:
disturbing, stylized, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
murder, playboy, obsession, crimes of passion, fame, rise and fall, movie business, couple relations, female nudity, true crime, nude model, crumbling marriage ...
Time:
80s, 70s, year 1978
Place:
california, vancouver, los angeles
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42%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Director Mario Van Peebles chronicles the complicated production of his father Melvin's classic 1971 film, "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song." Playing his father in the film, Van Peebles offers an unapologetic account of ...
Style:
thought provoking, sweet, talky, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
racism, filmmaking, african american, blaxploitation, interracial relations, suspense, eccentricity, prejudice, showbiz, hollywood, fighting the system, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
usa
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39%
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, mother daughter relationship, eccentricity, betrayal, depression, family life, eviction, family relations, parents and children, oldtimer, elderly, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 1930s
Place:
new york, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, literary editor at Scribner’s Sons is the first to sign such subsequent literary greats as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. When a sprawling, chaotic 1,000-page manuscript by an unknown writer named ...
Style:
intellectual, melancholic, talky, touching, sexy ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
writers, novelist, genius, book editor, mentor, art, creativity, obsession, eccentricity, destiny, writer's life, life philosophy ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
usa, new york, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Stephen Frears directs this biographical drama focusing on controversial British playwright Joe Orton, revealed in flashback after his murder by lover Kenneth Halliwell. Born in 1933 in Leicester, in the English Midlands, John 'Joe' Orton ...
Style:
witty, gloomy, sexy, melancholic, depressing ...
Plot:
gay, writers, lgbt, murder, male nudity, gay cruising, playwright, homosexuality, lgbtq, art, artist, death ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1967, year 1964, 50s ...
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england, london, europe, brighton, britain ...
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36%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 124 min.
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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, realistic, sexy, sexual, dark ...
Plot:
writer's life, rape, sexuality, perversion, priest, emperor, writers, eccentricity, sadism, sex, corporal punishment, lust ...
Time:
18th century, 19th century, georgian era, 1790s, regency period
Place:
france, paris france, europe
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36%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of Jim and Artie Mitchell, two brothers who entered the porn industry in the early 60's. After creating such legendary porn films as "Behind the Green Door" and "Inside Marily Chambers", they later ...
Style:
sexy, psychological, intense, cynical, tense ...
Plot:
murder, drug abuse, addiction, rags to riches, greed, lust, ambition, filmmaking, life is a bitch, rise and fall, showbiz, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 20th century
Place:
san francisco, usa
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36%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A film about the making of Citizen Kane. Orson Welles produces his greatest film, Citizen Kane, despite the opposition of the film's de facto subject, William Randolph Hearst.
Style:
talky, sexy, tricky, sad, romantic ...
Plot:
screenwriter, writers, movie business, obsession, filmmaking, hollywood, anti semitism, mentor, wilderness, brutality, war, british ...
Time:
1940s, 70s
Place:
new jersey, california, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: New Zealand, Australia, UK, 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, sexy, neurotic, erotic ...
Plot:
mental illness, writers, depression, mental institution, art, women, children, woman, feminist, child abuse, female nudity, female writer ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
new zealand, london, paris france
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35%
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, intense, romantic ...
Plot:
painter, artist, womanizer, art, love triangle, infidelity, physical abuse, character study, mistress, couple relations, love and romance, love affair ...
Time:
1940s, 60s, 50s, 20th century
Place:
poland, paris france, las vegas, new jersey, france ...
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35%
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, sexy, visually appealing, harsh ...
Plot:
writers, art, women, poet, marriage, love, insanity, nude, nobel prize winner, world war one, mental disorder, redemption ...
Time:
1930s, victorian era, 1910s, 20th century
Place:
england, london, europe, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
A true story of politics and art in the 1930s USA, centered around a leftist musical drama and attempts to stop its production.
Style:
talky, entertaining, factual, intellectual, disturbing ...
Plot:
artist, art, politics, depression, world politics, capitalism, greed, congress, manipulation, adaptation, justice, injustice ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
usa, new york, manhattan new york city
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33%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The story of acerbic 1960s comic Lenny Bruce, whose groundbreaking, no-holds-barred style and social commentary was often deemed by the Establisment as too obscene for the public.
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, serious, realistic, rough ...
Plot:
drug addiction, showbiz, judaism, fighting the system, addiction, drug abuse, stand up comedian, civil rights, rise and fall, lifestyle, ambition, family problems ...
Time:
20th century, 50s, 70s
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
J.R. is a typical Italian-American on the streets of New York. When he gets involved with a local girl, he decides to get married and settle down, but when he learns that she was once raped, he cannot handle it. More explicitly linked with Catholic ...
Style:
talky, sexy, dramatic, intellectual, light ...
Plot:
male nudity, friendship, redemption, violence, catholicism, morality, mentor, revenge, relationships, justice, multiple storylines, secrets ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
new york, new jersey, europe, italy, usa ...
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31%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
"Piñero" tells the story of the explosive life of a Latino icon, the poet-playwright-actor Miguel Piñero, whose urban poetry is recognized as a pre-cursor to rap and hip-hop. After doing time in hard-core Sing-Sing for petty thefts and ...
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disturbing, intense, factual, stylized, touching ...
Plot:
drug abuse, addiction, writers, rise and fall, rising to stardom, lifestyle, ambition, drug addiction, prison, couple relations, society, human nature ...
Time:
80s, 70s
Place:
new york, usa, empire state building manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, puerto rico ...
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31%
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, talky, intense ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens
Plot:
child abuse, adoption, mother daughter relationship, abusive mother, dysfunctional family, narcissism, bad mother, mansion, hollywood, cult, mother, family problems ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, 1940s, 60s, 50s ...
Place:
usa, new york, los angeles
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31%
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
While researching his book In Cold Blood, writer Truman Capote develops a close relationship with convicted murderers Dick Hickock and Perry Smith.
Style:
emotional, tense, serious, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
murder, writers, gay, journalism, obsession, friendship, writer's life, manipulation, justice, police investigation, human nature, gossip and rumors ...
Time:
60s, 50s, 20th century
Place:
kansas, new york, manhattan new york city, usa, california ...
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30%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, West Germany, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A gritty Brooklyn story about union corruption, violence, taboos and social norms. The stories told are of the sailors, the prostitute, the union bosses, the hooligans and the gay community set in the early 50s.
Style:
rough, bleak, disturbing, intense, gloomy ...
Plot:
prostitute, prostitution, rape, transsexual, working class, gay, labor union, gang rape, union, fight, society, depression ...
Time:
50s, 20th century
Place:
brooklyn new york city, new york, usa, berlin germany
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30%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In the mid-1960s, wealthy debutant Edie Sedgwick meets artist Andy Warhol. She joins Warhol's famous Factory and becomes his muse. Although she seems to have it all, Edie cannot have the love she craves from Andy, and she has an affair with a ...
Style:
sexy, factual, melancholic, sentimental, serious ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
art, artist, fashion, drugs, dysfunctional family, addiction, drug addiction, female nudity, mentor, rise and fall, destiny, life philosophy ...
Time:
70s, 60s, 20th century, year 1971, year 1970 ...
Place:
new york, new jersey, california, manhattan new york city, empire state building manhattan new york city ...
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30%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in Britain, Mike Newell's Dance With a Stranger (1985) concentrates on Ellis's (Richardson) short-lived relationship with motor-racing driver David Blakely (Rupert Everett).
Style:
disturbing, sexy, light, neo noir, sinister ...
Plot:
murder, obsession, women, death sentence, female criminal, single mother, true crime, nightclub, tragedy, prostitute, escort, interracial romance ...
Time:
50s, 1920s, 20th century
Place:
england, london, tokyo, california, europe
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29%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
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:
enigmatic, surreal, meditative, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
painter, art, painting, artist, eccentricity, character study, estrangement, ambition, elderly, love and romance, society, couple relations ...
Time:
19th century, 1820s, 1840s, 1830s, victorian era ...
Place:
england, london, holland
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29%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Japan, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Biography of the British painter Francis Bacon. The movie focuses on his relationship with George Dyer, his lover. Dyer was a former small time crook.
Style:
sexy, controversial, surreal, enigmatic, talky ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
art, artist, painter, lgbt, subculture, psychology, lgbtq, death, erotica, loneliness, male nudity, violence ...
Time:
90s, 60s, 70s
Place:
paris france, new york, east end london, london
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28%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA, Germany, Denmark, Belgium, Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
When Gerda Wegener asks her husband Einar to fill in as a portrait model, Einar discovers the person she's meant to be and begins living her life as Lili Elbe. Having realized her true self and with Gerda's love and support, Lili embarks ...
Style:
touching, romantic, emotional, captivating, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
transsexual, lgbt, art, lgbtq, gay, artist, couple relations, gays and lesbians, portrait, painting, gender, transvestite ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
denmark, paris france, copenhagen, europe, brussels ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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