Movies like Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
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Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994)
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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, clever, witty, talky, sexy, atmospheric, thought provoking, enigmatic, depressing, melancholic ...
Plot:
female nudity, loveless marriage, poetry, prohibition, nude, women, friendship, addiction, hotel, writers, female writer, love, catastrophe, gangsters, drugs, distopia, artist, relationships, loneliness, life, depression, obsession, art, male nudity, lone hero ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, 1940s, victorian era, 50s, 20th century, 30s ...
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, realistic, serious and visually appealing films with plots about mentor, adaptation, storytelling, runaway, life philosophy, writers and dialogue mostly in Drama, Biography and Romance genres. Some movies like Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle: Prozac Nation (2001), Infinity (1996), The Notorious Bettie Page (2005), Gia (1998), Pollock (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Elizabeth is on the verge of losing her grip on life after she leaves her emotionally fraught home to start college. Quickly, her life takes a turn for the worse: She clashes with her roommate and decides her boyfriend, Rafe, is her sole salvation. ...
Style:
psychological, emotional, melancholic, intense, depressing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
mental illness, depression, university, introspection, college, suicide attempt, psychiatrist, coming of age, teenage girl, dysfunctional family, drugs, therapy ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
harvard university, austin texas
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Story of the early life of genius and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman.
Style:
enigmatic, touching, sincere, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
world war two, mathematics, love, scientist, life philosophy, science, couples, love and romance, death, catastrophe, life is a bitch, marriage ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 1930s, 1920s
Place:
new mexico, new york, new orleans, usa, albuquerque new mexico
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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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100%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Gia Carangi travels to New York City with dreams of becoming a fashion model. Within minutes of arriving, she meets Wilhelmina Cooper, a wise and high-powered agent who takes Gia under her wing. With Cooper's help and her own natural instincts, ...
Style:
psychological, rough, melancholic, sexy, erotic ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
lesbian, fashion, addiction, drug abuse, mental illness, heroin, drug addiction, aids, supermodel, model, lesbian romance, lesbianism ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 20th century
Place:
new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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 ...
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1940s, 20th century, 50s, year 1950, year 1949 ...
Place:
new york, usa, long island, greenwich village manhattan new york city
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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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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32%
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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32%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 161 min.
Story:
Saxophone player Charlie Parker comes to New York in 1940. He is quickly noticed for his remarkable way of playing. He becomes a drug addict but his loving wife Chan tries to help him.
Style:
atmospheric, psychological, gloomy, sexy, factual ...
Plot:
jazz, music, heroin, addiction, childhood, drug abuse, showbiz, musician, tragedy, rock and roll, character study, african american ...
Time:
1940s, 50s, 20th century
Place:
africa, usa, brooklyn new york city
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31%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
While celebrating their reconciliation and six years of marriage, the American actress Sally Nash (Jennifer Jason Leigh) and the British novelist Joe Therrian (Alan Cumming) receive their close friends, some colleagues and their next door neighbors ...
Style:
satirical, melancholic, cynical, humorous, talky ...
Plot:
infidelity, crumbling marriage, marital crisis, character study, dysfunctional relationship, lifestyle, love and romance, family problems, party, couple relations, dishonesty, couples ...
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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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
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30%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Ben Stiller plays comedy writer Jerry Stahl, whose $6000-a-week heroin habit had him taking his infant daughter along on his drug runs and doing smack during TV script conferences. Departing detox, Stahl explores memories with survivor Kitty, who ...
Style:
depressing, intense, factual, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
drugs, addiction, writers, heroin, drug abuse, husband wife relationship, human nature, drug addiction, lifestyle, life is a bitch, rise and fall, family problems ...
Time:
90s, 80s, 70s
Place:
los angeles, new jersey, usa, beverly hills, pittsburgh
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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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.
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emotional, depressing, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
suicide, depression, writers, mental illness, adultery, death, poet, art, tragic love, writer's life, artist, couple relations ...
Time:
50s, 60s, 20th century
Place:
england, london, europe, new york
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30%
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 ...
Style:
clever, disturbing, sexy, surreal, art film ...
Plot:
art, artist, lesbian, women, feminist, writers, lgbt, true crime, feminism, gay, painter, obsession ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa
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29%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
At the beginning of a nightly Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, Jim seems particularly troubled. His sponsor encourages him to talk that night, the first time in seven months, so he does - and leaves the meeting right after. As Jim wanders the night, ...
Style:
realistic, talky, splatter, disturbing, stylized ...
Plot:
alcoholic, alcohol abuse, drug addiction, drugs, self discovery, redemption, drug abuse, addiction, support group, heroin, drug addict, death ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new jersey, new york, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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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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28%
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
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27%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: France, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Sadie looks up to her older sister Georgia, a successful folk singer who's happily married with children, but can't break out of the bar-band circuit and hit the big time she desperately covets. It's in part due to her attraction to ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, serious, sincere, realistic ...
Plot:
music, addiction, dysfunctional family, drugs, musician's life, redemption, eccentricity, life is a bitch, artists and showbiz, human nature, estrangement, sisters ...
Time:
90s
Place:
seattle, usa
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27%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
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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100%
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
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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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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 ...
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1930s, victorian era, 1910s, 20th century
Place:
england, london, europe, california
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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 ...
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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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25%
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
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murder, playboy, obsession, crimes of passion, fame, rise and fall, movie business, couple relations, female nudity, true crime, nude model, crumbling marriage ...
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80s, 70s, year 1978
Place:
california, vancouver, los angeles
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25%
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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
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25%
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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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Sir Laurence Olivier is making a movie in London. Young Colin Clark, an eager film student, wants to be involved and he navigates himself a job on the set. When film star Marilyn Monroe arrives for the start of shooting, all of London is excited to ...
Style:
sentimental, romantic, melancholic, factual, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
historical figure, fame, love, hollywood, actress, actor's life, movie star, ambition, cultural icon, women, depression, celebrity ...
Time:
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Place:
england, london, california, europe
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23%
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.
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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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23%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
This movie tells five stories set in a single day at the famed Chelsea Hotel in New York City, involving an ensemble cast of some 30-35 characters.
Style:
meditative, intense, serious, touching, talky ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
eccentricity, lifestyle, writer's life, looking for love, drug abuse, addiction, couple relations, rising to stardom, human nature, down on your luck, nightlife, hotel ...
Place:
new york, usa, empire state building manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, minneapolis minnesota ...
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22%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer's disease.
Style:
touching, emotional, melancholic, sentimental, depressing ...
Plot:
alzheimer's disease, aging, writers, writer's life, mental illness, love, life & death, women, loneliness, terminal illness, understanding, senior citizen ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 50s
Place:
england, europe
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22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Around 1940, New Yorker staff writer Joe Mitchell meets Joe Gould, a Greenwich Village character who cadges meals, drinks, and contributions to the Joe Gould Fund and who is writing a voluminous Oral History of the World, a record of 20,000 ...
Style:
melancholic, sentimental, realistic, gloomy, enigmatic ...
Plot:
friendship, writers, eccentricity, alone in the world, character study, mysterious character, human nature, buddies, writer's life, secret, reporter, philosophy ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 50s, 20th century
Place:
new york, new jersey, greenwich village manhattan new york city, usa, harvard university ...
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22%
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