Movies like Nora 2000
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Nora (2000)
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK, Italy, Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In 1904, in Dublin, James Joyce chats up Nora Barnacle, a hotel maid recently come from Galway. She enchants him with her frank, direct and uninhibited manner, and before long, he's convinced her to come with him to Trieste, where he has a job with Berlitz. Over time, Nora pulls him through phobias, tolerates his drinking, takes in his brother Stan, and bests Joyce at 'the writin' game' to bring him back to Italy from Dublin where he's gone to open a cinema. But his sexual jealousy threatens the relationship and sends her back to Galway with the children. Is there any way to tame Jim's green-eyed monster? And, will the lad ever get his stories published?
Style:
touching, realistic, sentimental, sincere, sexual, atmospheric, serious, sexy, period drama
Plot:
love affair, novelist, sex scene, love, jealousy, poverty, muse, male female relationship, writers, lifestyle, writer's life, literary, love triangle, society, family problems, couple relations, sexual relations, artists and showbiz, art, pregnancy, female nudity, singing, cinema, baby, feminist ...
Time:
edwardian era, victorian era, 1910s, 1900s, 20th century
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland, italy, europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, sexual, serious, realistic
Plot:
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Time:
1910s, 20th century
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 88 min.
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touching, sentimental, period piece, costume drama, serious ...
Audience:
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Plot:
writers, writer's life, biopic, female artist, book, family relations, snobbism, painting, fall in love, art, happy ending, artist ...
Time:
1900s, victorian era, edwardian era, 19th century, 1910s ...
Place:
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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:
costume drama, sexual, talky, emotional, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
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artist, writers, painter, polyamory, art, glbt, biopic, male nudity, world war one, passion, art history, lgbt ...
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england, wales, europe, italy, venice ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 168 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, erotic, romantic, touching, sincere ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
infidelity, lady, sex, husband wife relationship, extramarital affair, passion, female pubic hair, forbidden love, affair, sensuality, unhappy marriage, male nudity ...
Time:
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Place:
mediterranean sea, riviera, europe, france
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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serious, captivating, realistic, costume drama, cult classic ...
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Time:
1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 20th century, 1950s ...
Place:
britain, england, europe
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31%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
An aspiring poet in 1950s New York has his ordered world shaken when he embarks on a week-long retreat to save his hell raising hero, Dylan Thomas.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, sincere, atmospheric, captivating ...
Plot:
poet, writer's life, life turned upside down, artists and showbiz, disorder, writers, novelist, life philosophy, relationships, historical character, lifestyle, historical figure ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, captivating, sexual, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot:
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Time:
20th century, 1950s, 21st century
Place:
paris france
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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 ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, controversial, sensual, sexual ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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26%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
atmospheric, emotional, factual, captivating, sexy ...
Plot:
feminism, open relationship, lesbian, love affair, writer's life, philosophy, couples, love triangle, gender, fall in love, society, lifestyle ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
24%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Mexico, Italy
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
1910s, year 1981, 1920s, 20th century
Place:
italy, mexico, usa, new mexico, england ...
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24%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
depressing, sentimental, touching, melancholic, intellectual ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Country: UK, Germany, Japan
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
ireland, britain, england, europe, london ...
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Duration: 180 min.
Story:
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Style:
contemplative, serious, realistic, clever, stylized ...
Plot:
writers, art, literary, poet, age-gap relationship, family relations, biopic, love and romance, fall in love, betrayal, innocence lost, master and servant ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
france, switzerland, europe, paris france, black sea
Similarity:
22%
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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:
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1950s, 50s, year 2003, 60s, 20th century
Place:
england, europe, new york, london
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22%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, UK, France
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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serious, touching, sincere, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
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Time:
20th century, year 2007, 60s
Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
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Style:
intellectual, talky, clever, witty, heartbreaking ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Australia, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
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Place:
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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:
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Audience:
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writers, novelist, genius, book editor, book, mentor, brutality, relationships, biopic, literary, jazz, creativity ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, new york, new jersey
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Authors Lord Byron, Mary Shelley (née Godwin) and Percy Shelley get together for some philosophical discussions, but the situation soon deteriorates into mind games, drugs, and sex. It is a fictionalization of the summer that Lord Byron and the ...
Style:
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Plot:
writers, art, poet, drug use, napoleonic era, literary, women, acid, strength, couples, artists and showbiz, mad scientist ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s, 1810s
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A tragic story of love and loneliness - this is the unknown life of the great Russian writer Ivan Bunin. The confused love story that involved Bunin, his wife Vera, the young poet Galina Plotnikova, opera singer Marga Kovtun and literary man Leonid ...
Style:
psychological, sincere, lyrical, touching, sentimental
Plot:
love and romance, passion, writers, love triangle, couple relations, guest, suffering, infatuation, tragic love, poet, obsession, friend ...
Place:
soviet union, russia
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
romantic, period piece, melancholic, sweet, captivating ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
marriage, love triangle, pregnancy, couple relations, jealousy, writers, husband wife relationship, love, infidelity, making love, unfulfillment, dishonesty ...
Time:
1940s, year 2008, post world war two, 18th century
Place:
wales, europe, england, london
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20%
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 ...
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sexuality, sex, forbidden love, obsessive love, insomnia, love affair, writers, lifestyle, love and romance, destructive relationship, poet, female writer ...
Time:
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Place:
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Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A profile of John Lennon in the late 1960s as the Beatles are set to fall apart.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
england, europe, london
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A semi-fictional account of how writer F. Scott Fitzgerald met his wife while he was in the army and stationed in Alabama in 1919.
Style:
contemplative, realistic, serious, sincere, touching
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
writers, art, poet, swing, biopic, couples, love affair, small town, artists and showbiz, writer's life, couple relations, love and romance ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
alabama
Similarity:
20%
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