Movies like Isadora
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Isadora (1968)
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
A biography of the dancer Isadora Duncan, the 1920s dancer who forever changed people's ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance projects as well as her attitudes on free love, debt, dress, and lifestyle shocked the public of her time.
Style:
sexy, sad, serious, captivating, realistic, sexual, based on true events
Plot:
ballet, dancing, female nudity, women, children, dancer, art, girl, fictional history, age-gap relationship, sex, prostitute, adultery, infidelity, extramarital affair, historical figure, feminism, love and romance, rebellion, love affair, strong female presence, lifestyle, rebelliousness, gender, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
1920s, 19th century, year 1900, 20th century, 1890s
Place:
europe, ussr, paris france, russia, london, chicago illinois, berlin germany ...
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sexy and stylized films with plots about husband wife relationship, marriage, kiss, dancing, artists and showbiz, couples and love and romance mostly in Drama, Romance and Biography genres. Some movies like Isadora: Bride of the Wind (2001), The Children of the Century (1999), Byron (2003), Carrington (1995), Mao's Last Dancer (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, Austria
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A biopic of Alma Mahler, the wife of composer Gustav Mahler (as well as Walter Gropius and Franz Werfel), and the mistress of Oskar Kokoschka.
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atmospheric, realistic, serious, captivating
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fall in love, painter, artist, family relations, infidelity, prodigy, ambition, lifestyle, love affair, couples, remarry, obsession ...
Time:
20th century, 19th century, 1890s, turn of the century
Place:
austria, vienna, new york, europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
True tale of the tumultuous love affair between two French literary icons of the 19th Century, novelist George Sand and poet Alfred de Musset. But their affair falls apart during an excursion to Venice, Italy where Musset is distracted by drugs and ...
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sexy, captivating, stylized, atmospheric, romantic ...
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sex, love affair, writers, lifestyle, love and romance, destructive relationship, sexuality, forbidden love, infidelity, poet, erotica, making love ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
Life and adventures of lord George Gordon Byron. BBC dramatization of the poet's final thirteen years
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serious, realistic, sexy, sexual
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
debauchery, obsession, womanizer, radical, writer's life, romanticism, lifestyle, writers, social misfits, society, politics, fall in love ...
Time:
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ottoman empire, yorkshire, london, turkey, india ...
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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:
talky, sexy, touching, emotional, sexual ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
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artist, art, writers, polyamory, world war one, painter, lgbt, gay, friendship, bittersweet, obsession, male nudity ...
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1930s, victorian era, 1910s, 1920s, 19th century ...
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england, london, europe, venice, wales
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he fell in love with an American woman. Two years later, he ...
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uplifting, touching, emotional, serious, captivating ...
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date night, girls' night
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dancing, ballet, interracial romance, against the odds, dancer, ambition, communism, promise, immigrants, self fulfillment, human spirit, follow your dream ...
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china, austin texas, texas, usa, asia ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, UK, Czech Republic
Duration: 140 min.
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A swirling, impressionistic portrait of an artist who regretted nothing, writer-director Olivier Dahan's La Vie en Rose stars Marion Cotillard in a blazing performance as the legendary French icon Edith Piaf. From the mean streets of the ...
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touching, disturbing, atmospheric, gloomy, melancholic ...
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music, musician's life, french, singer, death, destiny, childhood, art, artist, love story, rising to stardom, loss of child ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music, Romance
Country: USA, UK, Hungary
Duration: 130 min.
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Biography of the African-American who became a major performer in the Paris cabarets of the 1920's and 1930's. The film follows her life beginning as a struggling performer in 1917 St. Louis, her frustrations leading to her move to France, ...
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66%
Genre: Adventure, 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:
sincere, gloomy, atmospheric, realistic, serious ...
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artist, painter, art, painting, sex, mental disorder, prostitute, suicidal thoughts, art collector, male nudity, female nudity, model ...
Time:
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france, provence, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France, UK, Belgium
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Young, wild poet Arthur Rimbaud and his mentor Paul Verlaine engage in a fierce, forbidden romance while feeling the effects of a hellish artistic lifestyle.
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Time:
19th century, 1870s, victorian era
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europe, paris france, africa, france, london ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
At the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous mission to smuggle funds into Nazi Germany.
Style:
factual, captivating, realistic, atmospheric, political ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
world war two, writers, friendship, politics, childhood, jewish, nazi, fascism, culture clash, adaptation, character study, fighting the system ...
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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:
touching, sincere, emotional, serious, stylized ...
Audience:
girls' night
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love triangle, infidelity, love affair, lifestyle, couples, family relations, unfulfilled love, fall in love, dishonesty, couple relations, love and romance, artist ...
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1910s, 20th century, year 1914, year 1915, pre world war one ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
An acclaimed stage performer, Dorothy still struggled with the challenge of her color, in a time that wouldn't let some stars in by the front door. Yet against the odds she beat out many more famous rivals for the role of "Carmen ...
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance, War
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In Nazi-occupied Paris, a young accompanist named Sophie Vasseur gets a job with famed singer Irene Brice. As Irene's husband Charles, a businessman collaborating with the Nazis, wrestles with his conscience, Sophie becomes obsessed with Irene, ...
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realistic, serious, psychological, sincere
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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gay, writers, lgbt, murder, male nudity, gay cruising, playwright, homosexuality, lgbtq, art, artist, death ...
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england, london, europe, brighton, britain ...
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Antoine has what every young single man could wish: a promising career, true and loyal friends, and an apartment of his own. However, he's a lonely man, until he meets Clara, a beautiful and exciting woman, and deeply falls in love with her. ...
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realistic, emotional, touching, serious, sexy ...
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brother sister relationship, couples, self discovery, introspection, lovers reunited, parents and children, fall in love, midlife crisis, love affair, orgasm, family relations, thirtysomething life ...
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paris france, argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, UK, France
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
In 1818, high-spirited young Fanny Brawne finds herself increasingly intrigued by the handsome but aloof poet John Keats, who lives next door to her family friends the Dilkes. After reading a book of his poetry, she finds herself even more drawn to ...
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romantic, touching, sad, emotional, colourful ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
poet, writers, love, love story, art, poetry, friendship, letter, tragedy, couple relations, couples, love affair ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, regency period, 1810s, georgian era
Place:
england, europe, london, australia, rome italy
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52%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The film begins on a train journey with Gustav Mahler (Robert Powell) and his wife Alma (Georgina Hale) confronting their failing marriage. The story is then recounted in a series of flashbacks (some of which are surrealistic and nightmarish), ...
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19th century, 20th century, turn of the century, 1890s
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austria, europe
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51%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
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Following their breakout success in England, flagship punk rock band the Sex Pistols venture out on their first U.S. tour. Temperamental bassist Sid Vicious takes his troubled girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, along for the ride. Along the way, the ...
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bloody, disturbing, sexy, captivating, serious ...
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teens
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, UK, Russia
Duration: 112 min.
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russia, europe, moscow russia
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49%
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Duration: 100 min.
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Duration: 119 min.
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Country: USA
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artist, art, painter, rise to the top, couples, destructive relationship, couple relations, lifestyle, love and romance, obsession, artists and showbiz, husband wife relationship ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA, China, Hungary
Duration: 109 min.
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paris france, marseille, algeria, louisiana, france
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44%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
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A re-imagined account of the early life of Maria Anna 'Nannerl' Mozart, five years older than Wolfgang and a musical prodigy in her own right.
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Music
Country: Poland
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 240 min.
Story:
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40%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Japan, Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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