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Impromptu (1991)
6K
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
In 1830s France, pianist/composer Frédéric Chopin is pursued romantically by the determined, individualistic woman who uses the name George Sand.
Style:
period piece, costume drama, cult classic, humorous, witty, historical drama, offbeat, spiritual, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot:
classical music, writers, female artist, piano, music, women, older woman younger man relationship, renaissance, duchess, novelist, musician, art, jealousy, gender roles, based on real people, artist, lgbt, house, spirituality, duel, male female relationship, impostor, poetry, cigar, classical composer ...
Time:
19th century, regency period, year 1991, victorian era, 1830s, georgian era
Place:
france, europe, england, london, seattle
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, period drama, period piece and historical drama films with plots about love and romance, couples, biopic, art, piano, love and writers mostly in Romance, Biography and Drama genres. Some movies like Impromptu: Hysteria (2011), Florence Foster Jenkins (2016), Victor/Victoria (1982), Molière (2007), Immortal Beloved (1994). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, France, Germany, Switzerland, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, period piece, romantic, costume drama, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress, who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice.
Style:
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Plot:
bad singing, opera singer, concert, heiress, biopic, music, musician, recording studio, transformation, singing, passion, bald woman ...
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Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, new jersey
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Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, witty, sexual, touching, clever ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
gay, lgbtq, cross dressing, closeted homosexual, nightclub, gender bending, gender disguise, music, female impersonator, farce, dancing, woman dressed as man ...
Time:
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Place:
paris france, france, europe, chicago
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Molière, a down-and-out actor-cum-playwright up to his ears in debt. When the wealthy Jourdain offers to cover that debt (so that Molière's theatrical talents might help Jourdain win the heart of a certain widowed marquise), hilarity ensues.
Style:
sexy, witty, period piece, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love and romance, couples, lifestyle, secret identity, love triangle, biopic, dishonesty, fall in love, actor's life, farce, mistaken identity, infidelity ...
Time:
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Place:
paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
54%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
The life and death of the legendary Ludwig van Beethoven. Beside all the work he is known for, the composer once wrote a famous love letter to a nameless beloved and the movie tries to find out who this beloved was. Not easy as Beethoven has had ...
Style:
emotional, visually stunning, visual, dramatic, touching ...
Plot:
composer, biopic, classical music, music, musician, classical composer, artist, art, deafness, true love, beethoven, piano ...
Time:
19th century, 18th century, regency period, 1820s, ancient times ...
Place:
austria, europe, hungary
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51%
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Composer, conductor and teacher Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky struggles against his homosexual tendencies by marrying, but unfortunately he chooses a wonky, nymphomaniac girl whom he cannot satisfy.
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sexual, historical drama, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
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Duration: 119 min.
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Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
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poet, writers, poetry, love story, love, biopic, tuberculosis, passion, art, friendship, literary, longing ...
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victorian era, 19th century, regency period, ancient times, 1810s ...
Place:
england, europe, britain, rome italy, london ...
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49%
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Music, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A send-up of the bawdy life of Romantic composer/piano virtuoso Franz Liszt, with ubiquitous phallic imagery and a good portion of the film devoted to Liszt's "friendship" with fellow composer Richard Wagner. The film begins during ...
Style:
erotic, cult classic, surreal, art house, disturbing ...
Plot:
composer, classical music, nobility, piano, surrealism, musician, bondage, biopic, music, rock, the beatles, rock and roll ...
Time:
19th century, year 1975, 1840s, 1800s
Place:
europe, st. petersburg russia, berlin germany, russia
Similarity:
48%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful Government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed. Sir Robert turns for help to his friend Lord Goring, an ...
Style:
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Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
love and romance, couples, politics, husband wife relationship, high society, marriage proposal, love story, morality, father son relationship, unlikely friendships, dishonesty, blackmail ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1890s, year 1999, 1800s ...
Place:
england, britain, london
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47%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: UK, Germany, Hungary
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A fictionalised exploration of Beethoven's life in his final days working on his Ninth Symphony. It is 1824. Beethoven is racing to finish his new symphony. However, it has been years since his last success and he is plagued by deafness, ...
Style:
period piece, captivating, realistic, touching, serious ...
Audience:
date night
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composer, classical music, musician, horse, mute or deaf, artist, music, biopic, musician's life, contests and competitions, love and romance, obsession ...
Time:
19th century, 1820s, ancient times, 1800s, year 2006 ...
Place:
germany, austria, europe, vienna
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47%
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:
45%
Genre: Biography, Music
Country: West Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, stylized, sentimental ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
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Place:
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Country: France, Japan, Switzerland
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
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Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
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Place:
paris france, europe, france, california
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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touching, sentimental, period piece, costume drama, serious ...
Audience:
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writers, writer's life, biopic, female artist, book, family relations, snobbism, painting, fall in love, art, happy ending, artist ...
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1900s, victorian era, edwardian era, 19th century, 1910s ...
Place:
england, london, britain, europe, san francisco
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music, Romance
Country: Hungary, Soviet Union
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
This is a romantic biographical film about Franz Liszt. In a distinguished saloon of Paris, the unknown composer, Liszt, defeats the renown Thalberg at a piano competition. Through his playing, he wins the favours and later the hand of the countess ...
Style:
romantic, emotional, period piece, period drama
Plot:
composer, passion, biopic, piano, classical music, musician, aristocracy, wooing, melancholy, infidelity, royalty, family drama ...
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19th century, victorian era
Place:
russia, hungary, soviet union, paris france, ussr
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
period piece, independent film, historical drama, romantic, uplifting ...
Plot:
ranch, writers, feminist, farm, coming of age, biopic, women, woman, female writer, child, feminism, female protagonist ...
Time:
year 1979, victorian era, 1900s, 1890s, 20th century ...
Place:
australia, new south wales, jerusalem, new zealand
Similarity:
41%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, Japan
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
The story of Oscar Wilde, genius, poet, playwright and the First Modern Man. The self-realisation of his homosexuality caused Wilde enormous torment as he juggled marriage, fatherhood and responsibility with his obsessive love for Lord Alfred ...
Style:
homoerotic, costume drama, period piece, touching, historical drama ...
Plot:
homosexuality, gay, lgbt, glbt, writers, lgbtq, hypocrisy, male homosexuality, biopic, gay sex, scandal, gay lead character ...
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Place:
ireland, britain, england, europe, london ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, UK, Czech Republic
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
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touching, inspirational, disturbing, gloomy, period piece ...
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20th century, year 2007, 1940s, 90s, 1950s ...
Place:
france, europe, paris france, new york, montmartre paris ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, Austria
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, atmospheric, heartbreaking ...
Plot:
painter, biopic, fall in love, artist, family relations, infidelity, passion, prodigy, lifestyle, ambition, love affair, couples ...
Time:
edwardian era, year 2001, 1900s, 20th century, 19th century ...
Place:
austria, new york, vienna, europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An outwardly confident but unmarried woman on the verge of her fortieth birthday reflects on her past suitors and the choices she once made while attempting to help her marriage minded niece choose between a number of potential suitors in this tale ...
Style:
period piece, realistic, stylized, captivating, melancholic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
introspection, love and romance, regret, looking for love, society, maid, countryside, sister sister relationship, marriage proposal, women, love, cottage ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, regency period, georgian era
Place:
england, london, europe, britain
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Genre: Biography, Music, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Bio-pic about Czech composer Antonin Dvoraák at the height of his career. Dvorák learns that his love and lifelong muse is ill and must return to her side.
Style:
melancholic, dramatic, emotional, historical romance, period drama
Plot:
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Place:
central europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Emma Woodhouse is a congenial young lady who delights in meddling in other people’s affairs. She is perpetually trying to unite men and women who are utterly wrong for each other. Despite her interest in romance, Emma is clueless about her own ...
Style:
romantic, costume drama, affectionate, period piece, witty ...
Audience:
date night, teens, family outing, girls' night, chick flick ...
Plot:
friendship, matchmaker, love and romance, couples, fall in love, looking for love, countryside, wooing, social differences, love, male female friendship, estate ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s, victorian era, 1810s, year 1996 ...
Place:
england, britain, seattle, london
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Style:
visually stunning, stylized, emotional, crying, mesmerizing ...
Plot:
classical music, musician, music, cello, art, artist, composer, food, shoemaker, skinny dipping, death, suffering ...
Time:
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Place:
france, europe, versailles, paris france
Similarity:
39%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
In 1857, at the height of his fame and fortune, novelist and social critic Charles Dickens meets and falls in love with teenage stage actress Nelly Ternan. As she becomes the focus of his heart and mind, as well as his muse, painful secrecy is the ...
Style:
costume drama, period piece, sentimental, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
love affair, actress, writers, writer's life, forbidden love, biopic, older man younger woman relationship, secret relationship, affair, scandal, secret, marital discord ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, ancient times, 1860s, 1850s ...
Place:
london, england, britain, europe, manchester
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Italy, France, Spain, UK, Romania
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A fictionalized account of the last days of opera singer Maria Callas (Ardant).
Style:
sincere, realistic, sentimental, touching, serious ...
Plot:
opera singer, starting over, musician's life, classical music, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, aging, showbiz, friendship, celebrity culture, hopes, opera ...
Time:
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Place:
greece, paris france
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39%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Place:
england, europe, britain
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, France, Germany, Spain, USA, Romania
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
humorous, sentimental, entertaining, thought provoking, captivating ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love triangle, writer's life, infidelity, couples, fall in love, crumbling marriage, midlife crisis, relationship vs career, extramarital affair, love of one's life, strong female presence, lifestyle ...
Place:
england, europe, london
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Ireland, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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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:
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Place:
england, ireland, britain, europe, london
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
romantic, period piece, feel good, humorous, cute ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, adult
Plot:
role playing, couples, looking for love, social misfits, happy ending, destiny, rivalry, love triangle, storytelling, love story, prejudice, passionate love ...
Time:
victorian era, 2010s, regency period, 18th century, 19th century ...
Place:
england, london, seattle
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Music
Country: Poland
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, sentimental, emotional ...
Plot:
composer, chess, biopic, prodigy, lifestyle, musician's life, love affair, couples, destructive relationship, society, fall in love, friendship ...
Time:
19th century, ancient times, 1830s
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