Movies like Nijinsky

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Nijinsky (1980)
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Nijinsky (1980)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: The film suggests Nijinsky was driven into madness by both his consuming ambition and self-enforced heterosexuality, the latter prompted by his romantic involvement with Romola de Pulszky, a society girl who joins impresario Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes specifically to seduce Nijinsky. After a series of misunderstandings with Diaghilev, who is both his domineering mentor and possessive lover, Nijinsky succumbs to Romola's charms and marries her, after which his gradual decline from artistic moodiness to complete lunacy begins.
Style: psychological, artsy, independent film, sincere, serious, captivating, realistic, contemplative, stylized, period drama
Plot: gay, ballet, dancing, artist, lgbt, youth, art, jealousy, choreographer, lgbtqi, love triangle, gay relationship, gay subtext, male homosexuality, prodigy, love and romance, couples, gays and lesbians, lifestyle, gender, artists and showbiz, unfulfillment, dancer's life, performer's life, rising to stardom ...
Time: year 1980, 1910s, 20th century, year 1912
Place: greece, paris france, france, budapest, hungary, monte carlo, budapest hungary

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sincere and captivating films with plots about love and romance, couples, artists and showbiz, kiss, dancing, lifestyle and gay mostly in Drama, Romance and Music genres. Some movies like Nijinsky: Behind the Candelabra (2013), Five Dances (2013), The Company (2003), Between Love & Goodbye (2008), Wilde (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Behind the Candelabra (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Based on the autobiographical novel, the tempestuous 6-year relationship between Liberace and his (much younger) lover, Scott Thorson, is recounted.
Style: stylized, realistic, factual, cult classic, entertaining ...
Plot: gay, aids, pianist, biopic, gays and lesbians, showbiz, celebrity, couples, piano, music, lgbt, art ...
Time: 70s, 80s, year 2013, 2000s, year 1979 ...
Place: las vegas, indiana, southern california, usa
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 7.0
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Five Dances (2013)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: FIVE DANCES, written and directed by Alan Brown, is a creatively adventurous narrative feature film set in the New York 'downtown' modern dance world. The story follows the rocky emotional journey of an 18-year old dancer (the amazing ...
Style: serious, sincere, realistic, touching, heartbreaking ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, gay couple, gay teenager, gay sex, gay relationship, gays and lesbians, dancing, lgbt, gay interest, lgbtq, mother son relationship, dancer's life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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40%
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The Company (2003)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA, Germany, UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Ensemble drama centered around a group of ballet dancers, with a focus on one young dancer who's poised to become a principal performer.
Style: stylized, lyrical, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot: ballet, dancing, choreographer, dancer's life, rising to stardom, lifestyle, love and romance, fall in love, couple relations, artists and showbiz, art, female nudity ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Between Love & Goodbye (2008)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A modern gay drama about falling in and out of love, and the rocky road in between.
Style: realistic, serious, sexy, independent film, sincere ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: gay, gays and lesbians, gender, couples, prostitute, lgbt, love and romance, manipulation, fall in love, human nature, youth, lifestyle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Whirlwind (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A hot, young and charming man with ulterior motives enters the lives of a tight-knit group of gay men in New York City and at first adds excitement and intrigue to their group, but events soon spiral out of control as he deliberately attempts to ...
Style: realistic, psychological, captivating, sexy, serious ...
Plot: gay, gay club, gay relationship, friendship, infidelity, couples, lifestyle, homosexual, breakup, thirtysomething life, emotionless, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.5
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Total Eclipse (1995)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, 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.
Style: serious, costume drama, cult classic, erotic, sexual ...
Plot: gay, poet, lgbt, male nudity, writer's life, homosexuality, gay teenager, melancholy, violence, homoeroticism, homosexual, art ...
Time: 19th century, 1870s, victorian era, ancient times
Place: paris france, africa, europe, france, holland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.7
 23K
Center Stage (2000)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A group of 12 teenagers from various backgrounds enroll at the American Ballet Academy in New York to make it as ballet dancers and each one deals with the problems and stress of training and getting ahead in the world of dance.
Style: teen, serious, touching, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: dance, dancing, ballet, love triangle, music, teenager, homosexual, gay, competition, love and romance, hopes, lifestyle ...
Time: 90s, year 2000
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Bride of the Wind (2001)
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.
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, atmospheric, heartbreaking ...
Plot: painter, biopic, fall in love, artist, family relations, infidelity, prodigy, lifestyle, ambition, love affair, couples, remarry ...
Time: edwardian era, year 2001, 1900s, 19th century, 20th century ...
Place: austria, vienna, new york, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Turning Point (1977)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: When her daughter joins a ballet company, a former dancer is forced to confront her long-ago decision to give up the stage to have a family.
Style: sentimental, touching, emotional, realistic, serious ...
Plot: ballet, dancing, ballerina, regret, choreography, dance, bittersweet, midlife crisis, mother daughter relationship, jealousy, rivalry, friendship ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: new york, usa, oklahoma
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 6.1
 2K
Food of Love (2002)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Spain, Germany
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Young aspiring pianist attracts attention of famous musicians. Chance encounters bring them together but expectations must be managed by all.
Style: serious, emotional, sentimental, touching, realistic ...
Plot: gay, gay teenager, lgbt, family relations, love affair, gay relationship, youth, lifestyle, musician's life, passionate interest, spouse leaving, lgbtq ...
Place: new york, barcelona, usa, san francisco, spain ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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 3K
Burning Blue (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Following two fatal aircraft accidents aboard an Aircraft Carrier, a government agent is placed aboard the ship. His mission is to determine what may be at the root of these mishaps and prevent the inevitable third chain breaking accident which ...
Style: emotional, captivating, serious, realistic, lgbt cinema ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, forbidden love, gay interest, lgbt, fighter pilot, couple relations, friendship, military life, against the rules, life turned upside down, lgbtq, dishonesty ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: empire state building manhattan new york city, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
One Last Dance (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story: In the wake of tragedy, a renowed New York dance company is on the brink of collapse. After leaving the dance world for good, Travis, Chrissa, and Max are pulled in to resurrect the dance that shattered their careers. They have one last chance to ...
Style: serious, realistic, sexy, romantic, independent film
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: dancing, dance school, lifestyle, follow your dream, performer's life, dancer's life, love and romance, showbiz, teenage love, redemption, ambition, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 2000s
Place: new york, usa
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Quartet (1981)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 101 min.
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Style: romantic drama, costume drama, independent film, realistic, serious ...
Plot: couples, dancing, prison, male pubic hair, coffee, hotel, theft, performer's life, womanizer, destructive relationship, couple relations, dishonesty ...
Time: 1920s, year 1981
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Staying Alive (1983)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: It's five years later and Tony Manero's Saturday Night Fever is still burning. Now he's strutting toward his biggest challenger yet - making it as a dancer on the Broadway stage.
Style: cult classic, serious, realistic, stylized, freeze frame ...
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Time: 80s, year 1983, 20th century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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Before Night Falls (2000)
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: gay, aids, homosexual, writers, poet, childhood, artist, gays and lesbians, gay latino, idealism, writer's life, freedom ...
Time: year 2000, 2000s, 60s, 80s, 70s ...
Place: cuba, latin america, havana cuba, caribbean, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 6.8
 6K
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
Plot: artist, painter, writers, art, polyamory, lgbt, biopic, art history, glbt, world war one, painting, gay ...
Time: 1930s, 1910s, 1920s, victorian era, year 1915 ...
Place: england, europe, italy, wales, venice ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 6.3
 294
Margot (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: At the age of forty Dame Margot Fonteyn is considered to be past her best as a prima ballerina and Ninette de Valois is reducing her roles at the Royal Ballet. Then the exciting young Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev, a recent defector to the West, ...
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, stylized
Plot: love and romance, dancer's life, disability, couples, ambition, artists and showbiz, ballet, biopic, older woman younger man relationship, older woman younger man, music, ballerina ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Movie in collections
 6.9
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The Rose (1979)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Midler is the rock-and-roll singer Mary Rose Foster (known as the Rose to her legions of fans), whose romantic relationships and mental health are continuously imperiled by the demands of life on the road.
Style: retro, realistic, serious, captivating, sincere ...
Plot: addiction, rock and roll, rock band, love, musician, singer, women, drug abuse, rock, music, bittersweet, biopic ...
Time: year 1979, 20th century, 60s, year 1969
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Nine Lives (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Lust and dysfuntion come full circle in this collection of nine steamy scenes exploring gay life, sex, addition, drugs and HIV/AIDS as revealed by a latino pool boy, a television writer, a meth dealer and others. As one affair leads into another, ...
Style: emotional, realistic, serious, captivating, sexual ...
Plot: gay, hiv, gay sex, infidelity, support group, lifestyle, lgbt, social relations, couples, youth, love and romance, breakup ...
Time: september 11 2001, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (2009)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, Japan, Switzerland
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Paris 1913. Coco Chanel is infatuated with the rich and handsome Boy Capel, but she is also compelled by her work. Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring is about to be performed. The revolutionary dissonances of Igor's work parallel ...
Style: realistic, sexy, talky, intense, period piece ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: fashion, art, classical music, art history, composer, follow your dream, ambition, lifestyle, refugee, couples, blind ambition, life turned upside down ...
Time: 1920s, 1910s, edwardian era, year 2009, 20th century
Place: paris france, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 5.8
 801
Céline (2008)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A biopic on singer Céline Dion.
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, captivating
Plot: desire for fame, rise to the top, prodigy, relationship vs career, ambition, musician's life, showbiz, couples, rising to stardom, lifestyle, fall in love, tragic love ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Callas Forever (2002)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Italy, France, Spain, UK, Romania
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A fictionalized account of the last days of opera singer Maria Callas (Ardant).
Style: realistic, sincere, sentimental, touching, serious ...
Plot: ambition, musician's life, starting over, opera singer, aging, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, showbiz, friendship, celebrity culture, classical music, hopes ...
Time: year 2002, year 1977, 70s
Place: greece, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Movie in collections
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De-Lovely (2004)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Musical
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: From Paris to Venice to Broadway to Hollywood, the lives of Cole Porter and his wife, Linda were never less than glamorous and wildly unconventional. And though Cole's thirst for life strained their marriage, Linda never stopped being his muse, ...
Style: stylized, lyrical, atmospheric, captivating, sincere ...
Audience: date night
Plot: biopic, gay, jazz, showbiz, musician's life, music, disability, infidelity, rehearsal, terminal illness, lifestyle, ambition ...
Time: 1930s, year 2004, 1940s, 1920s, 20th century ...
Place: venice, new york, usa, italy, paris france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Bad Boy Street (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Two men embark on an unconventional romance in Todd Verow's sexy Parisian-set drama. Claude finds a young man passed out in the street and, taking pity on him, decides to take him to his apartment to safely sleep. Awakening the next morning, ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, sincere, lgbt cinema ...
Plot: closeted gay, gay, gay relationship, older man younger man relationship, couples, lgbt, true love, gays and lesbians, unlikely couple, haunted by the past, love and romance, destructive relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 6.9
 3K
Isadora (1968)
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 ...
Style: historical drama, sad, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: ballet, female nudity, women, dancing, children, dancer, biopic, art, girl, fictional history, age-gap relationship, philosophy ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century, 19th century, 1890s, year 1900
Place: europe, chicago, russia, nice france, san francisco ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Broken Tower (2011)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Docudrama about American poet Hart Crane, who committed suicide in April 1932 at the age of 32 by jumping off the steamship SS Orizaba.
Style: realistic, atmospheric, serious, sincere, stylized ...
Plot: writers, gays and lesbians, introspection, gender, love and romance, writer's life, gay, poet, lgbt, suicide, biopic, visionary ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s, 1920s
Place: new york, ohio, usa, paris france, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 3.7
 524
Wrecked (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: An edgy drama about a gay teen's tumultuous decent into drugs and anonymous sex, Wrecked smashes cinematic taboos while it spins its cautionary tale. Ryan is an earnest 18-year-old trying to develop a career as an actor and getting his life on ...
Style: serious, touching, art house, suspense, independent film ...
Plot: gay, group sex, lgbt, love triangle, impossible love, gay teenager, youth, love and romance, male pubic hair, teenage boy, unfulfillment, gay sex ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Parting Glances (1986)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Michael and Robert, two gay men living in Brooklyn, spend their last day together before Robert leaves for Africa on work assignment. Michael still has feelings for his friend Nick, who has AIDS.
Style: independent film, sad, semi serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot: aids, gay, lgbt, hiv, lgbtq, gay interest, gays and lesbians, paranoia, infection, hopeless romantic, glbt, advocate ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, africa, manhattan new york city, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Mao's Last Dancer (2009)
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 ...
Style: uplifting, serious, emotional, touching, powerful ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: communism, ballet, interracial romance, against the odds, dancer, dancing, ambition, promise, immigrant, human spirit, follow your dream, self fulfillment ...
Time: year 2009, 60s, 70s, 20th century, year 1986 ...
Place: china, austin texas, texas, usa, asia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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