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Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998)
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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, biopic, artist, painter, lgbt, naked man, subculture, gay bar, psychology, art history, sadomasochism, desire, doomed love, gay, lgbtq, erotica, loneliness, violence, death, male nudity, blood, masochism, storytelling, gay interest, drinking ...
Time:
90s, 70s, 60s, 1960s
Place:
new york, paris france, east end london, london
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, queer cinema and stylized films with plots about drinking, drinking alcohol, biopic, sex, nude, male nudity and artists and showbiz mostly in Drama, Biography and Romance genres. Some movies like Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon: Caravaggio (1986), Carrington (1995), The Libertine (2004), The Danish Girl (2015), Queer (2024). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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, gay interest, art, male nudity, biopic, sexual relations, lifestyle, homoerotic fight, love triangle, older man younger man relationship, art history, rise and fall ...
Time:
17th century, ancient times, 16th century
Place:
rome italy, italy
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100%
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, sexual, talky, emotional, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
artist, writers, painter, polyamory, art, glbt, biopic, male nudity, world war one, passion, art history, lgbt ...
Time:
1930s, year 1915, victorian era, 1910s, 1920s ...
Place:
england, wales, europe, italy, venice ...
Similarity:
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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:
sexy, atmospheric, erotic, intense, surreal ...
Plot:
photographer, photograph, couples, biopic, photography, making love, fall in love, love story, artist, art, friends, self discovery ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, 1950s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, Australia, USA
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, atmospheric, melancholic, surreal ...
Plot:
writers, decadence, sexual attraction, poet, libertine, debauchery, oral sex, making love, infidelity, biopic, steamy romance, unfaithful husband ...
Time:
17th century, ancient times, year 2006, year 2004, 19th century ...
Place:
england, london, britain, europe
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Biography, 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, inspirational, period piece, costume drama, romantic ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
transsexual, lgbt, art, transgender, couple relations, painting, love, gay, lgbtq, gays and lesbians, artist, gender ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, year 2015, 2010s, 20th century
Place:
denmark, paris france, idaho, copenhagen, europe ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
In 1950s Mexico City, William Lee, an American expat in his late forties, leads a solitary life amidst a small American community. However, the arrival in town of Eugene Allerton, a young student, stirs William into finally establishing a meaningful ...
Style:
homoerotic, period piece, romantic drama, postmodern, period drama ...
Plot:
male nudity, gay interest, gay, gay sex, older man younger man relationship, gay relationship, desire, heroin, cocaine, gay couple, gay anal sex, gay seduction ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s, 20th century, year 1945
Place:
mexico city, mexico, south america
Similarity:
100%
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:
sexual, sincere, serious, realistic, crying ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
gay, gay love, gay relationship, homosexuality, gay couple, gay interest, gender, homosexual, lgbt, lgbtq, fall in love, gays and lesbians ...
Time:
1930s, post world war two, 20th century, year 1933, year 1952 ...
Place:
germany, europe, berlin germany, hamburg germany, england ...
Similarity:
28%
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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 ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, edwardian era, 1880s, year 1997 ...
Place:
ireland, britain, england, europe, london ...
Similarity:
27%
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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:
homoerotic, captivating, stylized, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
fashion, gay, fashion designer, nudity, male nudity, rise to the top, orgy, interview, couple relations, lgbt, model, scandal ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 70s, year 1967, year 1970 ...
Place:
paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
27%
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, sexy, romantic drama ...
Audience:
toddlers
Plot:
artist, painter, art, womanizer, biopic, love triangle, infidelity, art history, character study, mistress, physical abuse, couple relations ...
Time:
1940s, year 1996, 50s, 20th century, year 1943 ...
Place:
poland, france, paris france, europe, provence ...
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27%
Genre: 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:
anthology, psychological, serious, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
artist, painter, painting, biopic, art, art history, sex, artist's model, nudity, male nudity, train conductor, model ...
Time:
19th century, year 1991, 1890s, victorian era
Place:
france, paris france, europe, provence
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
About the young life and loves of artist Salvador Dalí, filmmaker Luis Buñuel and writer Federico García Lorca.
Style:
atmospheric, serious, erotic, tense, factual ...
Plot:
poet, artist, gay, lgbt, lgbtq, painter, homosexual, gay relationship, friendship, political unrest, closeted homosexual, spanish civil war ...
Time:
year 1936, 20th century, 1920s, 1930s, year 2008
Place:
spain, andalusia, paris france, europe, manhattan new york city ...
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26%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Story of the relationship between the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.
Style:
depressing, realistic, psychological, serious, heartbreaking ...
Plot:
suicide, writers, drinking, biopic, death, bipolar disorder, poet, couple relations, mental disorder, art, tragic love, writer's life ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, year 2003, 60s, 20th century
Place:
england, europe, new york, london
Similarity:
26%
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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, independent film, sexy, emotional, sincere ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
painter, artist, art, painting, female artist, bohemian life, lgbtq, disability, feminism, female protagonist, life, relationships ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, year 2002, 1920s, 20th century ...
Place:
mexico, paris france, empire state building manhattan new york city, mexico city, america ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Spanning several decades, this powerful biopic offers a glimpse into the life of famed Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas, an artist who was vilified for his homosexuality in Fidel Castro's Cuba.
Style:
atmospheric, bleak, lyrical, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
homosexual, gay, lgbtq, aids, writers, gay latino, childhood, gays and lesbians, poet, novelist, homosexuality, artist ...
Time:
year 2000, 1950s, 2000s, 60s, 70s ...
Place:
cuba, latin america, havana cuba, south america, caribbean ...
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25%
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:
independent film, period piece, witty, dark comedy, black comedy ...
Plot:
gay, homosexuality, writers, gay cruising, male nudity, glbt, lgbt, murder, lgbtq, homosexual, gay relationship, biopic ...
Time:
60s, year 1987, 20th century, 1950s, year 1953 ...
Place:
england, europe, australia, morocco, london ...
Similarity:
25%
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:
cult classic, enigmatic, melancholic, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot:
homosexuality, lgbtq, gay interest, homosexual, life & death, gay, filmmaking, friendship, biopic, gay lead character, gardener, depression ...
Time:
year 1998, 1950s, 20th century, 50s, 1930s
Place:
pacific ocean, los angeles, california, usa
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
Born out of wedlock early in the last century, Violette Leduc meets Simone de Beauvoir in postwar Saint-Germain-des-Près. An intense lifelong relationship develops between the two women authors, based on Violette's quest for freedom through ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, serious, sincere, psychological ...
Plot:
lesbian, gender, lesbian relationship, writers, friendship, writer's life, friends, society, lgbt, women, couples, erotica ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 60s, 70s, post world war two ...
Place:
france, paris france, europe, provence
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
It's San Francisco in 1957, and an American masterpiece is put on trial. Howl, the film, recounts this dark moment using three interwoven threads: the tumultuous life events that led a young Allen Ginsberg to find his true voice as an artist, ...
Style:
sexy, thought provoking, sexual, atmospheric, surreal ...
Plot:
poet, gay, poetry, writers, homosexuality, beat generation, literature, freedom, biopic, lgbt, gay interest, art ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 1920s, post world war two, year 1957 ...
Place:
california, san francisco, kansas, bronx new york city, arkansas ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Biopic of American artist Georgia O'Keeffe and her husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz.
Style:
serious, tense, emotional, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
biopic, painter, artist, art, couples, rise to the top, destructive relationship, love and romance, artists and showbiz, obsession, lifestyle, couple relations ...
Time:
20th century, 1920s, 1930s, year 1929, year 1932 ...
Place:
usa, new mexico, new york, manhattan new york city, wisconsin
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Antoine, a handsome boy in his 20s, falls for a straight best friend who does not reciprocate, and being a junkie exits the film quite early. Enter a girl, who seems to make him happy again, after he has tried living as a rent boy with men, having ...
Style:
sexy, realistic, serious, touching, sexual ...
Plot:
male nudity, gay, unrequited love, gay anal sex, prostitute, lgbt, nightlife, love triangle, lifestyle, self discovery, couples, looking for love ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1999
Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.
Style:
intellectual, bleak, captivating, serious, sexual ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
poet, gay, obsession, friendship, youth, gay interest, lgbtq, writers, coming of age, sexual tension, lgbtqi, friends ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944, 20th century, 2000s, post world war two ...
Place:
usa, harlem, manhattan new york city, greenwich village manhattan new york city, chicago ...
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24%
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:
erotic, talky, stylized, independent film, retro ...
Plot:
writers, beat generation, friendship, making love, suicide, writer's life, male nudity, depression, older man teenage girl relationship, suicide attempt, art, poet ...
Time:
1940s, year 1997, 20th century, 60s, post world war two ...
Place:
colorado, usa, denver colorado, new mexico, mexico ...
Similarity:
24%
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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, sentimental, melancholic, erotic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
art, fashion, artist, biopic, bare butt, addiction, destiny, drug addiction, couple relations, painter, cowboy, mentor ...
Time:
y2k, year 2006, 60s, 70s, 20th century ...
Place:
empire state building manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, usa, paris france, london ...
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24%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Set in the 1930s, Guy Bennett and Tommy Judd are friends because they are both outsiders in their own ways. Bennett is openly gay, Judd is a Marxist. It explores his homosexuality and exposure to Marxism, while examining the hypocrisy and snobbery ...
Style:
serious, realistic, lgbt cinema, rough, captivating ...
Plot:
gay, lgbt, boys' school, gays and lesbians, gender, gay lead character, youth, homosexuality, boarding school, homosexual, homosexual love, lgbtq ...
Time:
1930s, 80s, year 1983, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
england, moscow russia, ussr, russia, britain ...
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Japan, USA
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, psychedelic, mind bending ...
Plot:
suicide, homoeroticism, art, rebellion, friendship, nationalism, writers, emperor, radical, writer's life, state affairs, tragic hero ...
Time:
20th century, year 1985, 60s, post world war two
Place:
japan, kyoto japan, mount fuji, tokyo
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Nineteen-year-old Ari confronts both his sexuality and his Greek family. Ari despises his once-beloved parents, former radical activists, for having entombed themselves in insular tradition. Ari is obsessed with gay sex, although he does make an ...
Style:
independent film, terrifying, serious, realistic, sincere ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
homosexuality, gay, gay slur, sex, lgbt, sexual attraction, horniness, gay bar, nudity, male pubic hair, bare chested male, masturbation ...
Time:
90s
Place:
australia, melbourne, oceania, tokyo
Similarity:
23%
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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:
inspirational, stylized, sexy, factual, atmospheric ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
artist, art, graffiti, painter, biopic, drug abuse, painting, drug addiction, friendship, art history, drug, self destructing ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1996, year 1981
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 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 ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, captivating, stylized, atmospheric ...
Plot:
sexuality, sex, forbidden love, obsessive love, insomnia, love affair, writers, lifestyle, love and romance, destructive relationship, poet, female writer ...
Time:
19th century, 1820s, 1830s
Place:
venice, rome italy, paris france, italy, france ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Brazil, France
Duration: 105 min.
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:
rough, emotional, serious, lgbt cinema, bleak ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
lgbt, gender bending, gay, female warrior, nightclub, transvestism, artists and showbiz, rise and fall, social misfits, life is a bitch, nightlife, unlikely criminals ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 1930s
Place:
brazil, china, arabia, rio de janeiro
Similarity:
23%
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