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Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998)
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Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998)
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: cult classic, controversial, heartbreaking, art film, serious, realistic, contemplative, biting, independent film, transgressive ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: art, artist, painter, biopic, lgbt, subculture, older man younger man relationship, psychology, art history, sadomasochism, lgbtq, erotica, loneliness, violence, death, male nudity, blood, storytelling, drinking, drug, porn, bdsm, desire, 007, moving ...
Time: 90s, 70s, 60s, 1960s
Place: new york, paris france, east end london, london
Keyword: watching a movie, gangsters, dreams

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, queer cinema and atmospheric films with plots about biopic, artists and showbiz, art, cigarette smoking, artist, sex and kiss mostly in Drama, Biography and Romance genres. Some movies like Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon: Caravaggio (1986), The Libertine (2004), Carrington (1995), Surviving Picasso (1996), Wilde (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Caravaggio (1986)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: As influential Italian artist Caravaggio dies in exile in 1610, he recalls his short life, from his childhood to his initial artistic failures to his later triumphs as he catches the eye of a sympathetic cardinal to his destructive relationship with ...
Style: atmospheric, realistic, serious, stylized, factual ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: painter, art, biopic, gay interest, older man younger man relationship, sexual relations, lifestyle, love triangle, art history, rise and fall, male nudity, life is a bitch ...
Time: 17th century, ancient times, 16th century
Place: rome italy, italy
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Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: In 1958 New York Diane Arbus is a housewife and mother who works as an assistant to her husband, a photographer employed by her wealthy parents. Respectable though her life is, she cannot help but feel uncomfortable in her privileged world. One ...
Style: atmospheric, intellectual, intense, surreal, enigmatic ...
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Time: 20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place: new york, usa
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The Libertine (2004)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 114 min.
Story: The story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and debauched his way to an early grave, only to earn posthumous critical acclaim for his life's work.
Style: period piece, costume drama, melancholic, atmospheric, surreal ...
Plot: writers, libertine, decadence, poet, infidelity, oral sex, biopic, alcoholic, depression, dysfunctional marriage, sexual attraction, lust ...
Time: 17th century, year 2004, ancient times, year 2006, 20th century ...
Place: england, london, britain, europe
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Carrington (1995)
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: costume drama, talky, touching, sexual, emotional ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
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Time: 1930s, 1910s, 1920s, victorian era, year 1915 ...
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Surviving Picasso (1996)
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, realistic, serious, intense, romantic ...
Audience: toddlers
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Time: 1940s, year 1996, 60s, 20th century, 50s ...
Place: poland, paris france, europe, france, provence
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Wilde (1997)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Japan, Germany
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, touching, period piece, witty ...
Plot: homosexuality, gay, writers, homosexual, hypocrisy, biopic, lgbt, male homosexuality, scandal, gay lead character, glbt, poetry ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s, year 1997, edwardian era
Place: ireland, britain, england, europe
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Sylvia (2003)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Story of the relationship between the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.
Style: depressing, emotional, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Plot: suicide, drinking, writers, mental illness, biopic, poet, death, art, tragic love, writer's life, artist, couple relations ...
Time: 1950s, year 2003, 50s, 60s, 20th century
Place: england, europe, new york
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Saint Laurent (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 150 min.
Story: 1967-1976. As one of history's greatest fashion designers entered a decade of freedom, neither came out of it in one piece.
Style: captivating, stylized, serious, realistic, eros ...
Plot: fashion, gay, fashion designer, nudity, male nudity, rise to the top, interview, couple relations, lgbt, model, scandal, fashion industry ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 60s, year 1976, year 1970 ...
Place: paris france, france, europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: "Frida" chronicles the life Frida Kahlo shared unflinchingly and openly with Diego Rivera, as the young couple took the art world by storm. From her complex and enduring relationship with her mentor and husband to her illicit and ...
Style: visually appealing, stylized, colorful, emotional, serious ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
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Time: 1930s, 1940s, 1920s, 20th century, year 2002 ...
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Christopher and His Kind (2011)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In 1931 budding author Christopher Isherwood goes to Berlin at the invitation of his friend W. H. Auden for the gay sex that abounds in the city. Whilst working as an English teacher his housemates include bewigged old queen Gerald Hamilton and ...
Style: serious, sincere, realistic, sexual, crying ...
Audience: chick flick
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Time: 1930s, post world war two, 20th century, year 1931, year 1933 ...
Place: germany, europe, berlin germany, england, hamburg germany ...
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Little Ashes (2008)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 112 min.
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Style: atmospheric, serious, factual, tense, art film ...
Plot: poet, friendship, artist, gay, lgbt, painter, closeted homosexual, gay relationship, political unrest, friends, art, spanish civil war ...
Time: 20th century, year 2008, 1920s, year 1936, 1930s
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
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Duration: 89 min.
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Style: serious, tense, emotional, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: biopic, painter, artist, art, couples, rise to the top, destructive relationship, artists and showbiz, obsession, lifestyle, love and romance, couple relations ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
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Style: factual, sentimental, melancholic, contemplative, serious ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
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Duration: 105 min.
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Style: independent film, witty, dark comedy, black comedy, period piece ...
Plot: gay, writers, gay cruising, lgbt, murder, biopic, male nudity, glbt, playwright, homosexuality, lgbtq, art ...
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Place: england, europe, britain, brighton, australia ...
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Gods and Monsters (1998)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: It's 1957, and Whale's heyday as the director of "Frankenstein," "Bride of Frankenstein" and "The Invisible Man" is long behind him. Retired and a semi-recluse, he lives his days accompanied only by images ...
Style: enigmatic, melancholic, captivating, sentimental, cult classic ...
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Place: los angeles, usa, california, pacific ocean
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Before Night Falls (2000)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 133 min.
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Style: atmospheric, bleak, lyrical, serious, realistic ...
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Time: year 2000, 2000s, 60s, 80s, 70s ...
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Style: realistic, captivating, serious, sincere, psychological ...
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Place: france, paris france, europe, provence
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Pollock (2000)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
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Style: emotional, intellectual, atmospheric, depressing, breathtaking ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
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Duration: 84 min.
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Style: atmospheric, surreal, thought provoking, realistic, sincere ...
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Time: 1950s, 50s, 1920s, post world war two, year 1957 ...
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The Last Time I Committed Suicide (1997)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Neal Cassady is living the beat life during the 1940s, working at The Tire Yard and and philandering around town. However, he has visions of a happy life with kids and a white picket fence. When his girlfried, Joan, tries to kill herself he gets ...
Style: talky, stylized, independent film, retro, erotic ...
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Time: 1940s, year 1997, 20th century, 1950s, 60s ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
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Style: psychological, emotional, intense, heartbreaking, touching ...
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 158 min.
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Style: anthology, gloomy, sincere, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot: painter, artist, biopic, painting, art, female nudity, art history, sex, philosophy, architecture, famous, artwork ...
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Style: atmospheric, stylized, captivating, sexy, visually stunning ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, Thriller
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Duration: 104 min.
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Style: bleak, captivating, serious, intellectual, talky ...
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Madame Satã (2002)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Music, Romance
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Story: A story inspired by the life of one of the most remarkable figures in Brazilian popular culture, João Francisco dos Santos (1900-1976). In turn, bandit, transvestite, street fighter, brothel cook, convict and father to seven adopted children, dos ...
Style: serious, rough, emotional, lgbt cinema, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick
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Blue (1993)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Japan
Duration: 79 min.
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Style: realistic, serious, atmospheric, underground film, experimental ...
Plot: aids, storytelling, death, autobiography, terminal illness, gender, church, infidelity, hiv, lgbt, private detective, underground ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: england, asia
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Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima told in four parts. The first three parts relate events in three of his novels: The temple of the Golden Pavilion, Kyoko's House, and Runaway Horses. The last part depicts the ...
Style: surreal, serious, atmospheric, cerebral, anthology ...
Plot: suicide, art, rebellion, friendship, nationalism, writers, emperor, radical, political unrest, state affairs, tragic hero, writer's life ...
Time: 20th century, year 1985, 60s, post world war two
Place: japan, mount fuji, kyoto japan, tokyo
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Basquiat (1996)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
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Style: stylized, factual, inspirational, atmospheric, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
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Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1996, year 1981
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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Savage Nights (1992)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Jean is young, gay, and promiscuous. Only after he meets one or two women, including Laura does he come to realize his bisexuality. Jean has to overcome a personal crisis and a tough choice between Laura and his male lover Samy.
Style: sexy, sexual, anthology, erotic drama, steamy ...
Plot: gay, aids, lgbt, sex, lgbtq, bittersweet, gender, love, sexuality, time travel, polyamory, hiv ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: france
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