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The Notorious Bettie Page (2005)
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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 an erotic icon who continues to enthrall fans to this day.
Style:
erotic, melancholic, factual, bleak, stylized, sexy, light, enigmatic, colourful, harsh ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
rape, sexual abuse, photographer, female nudity, fetish, fetishism, female protagonist, investigation, bdsm, model, sexuality, religion, sexual awakening, women, sex, showbiz, rise and fall, individuality, ambition, life is a bitch, journal, beach, child molestation, beauty pageant, gang rape ...
Time:
50s, 1940s, 70s, 1930s, 20th century, 1950s, 30s ...
Place:
usa, tennessee, new york, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, miami beach, coney island brooklyn new york city ...
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, visually appealing and sexy films with plots about adaptation, mentor, dialogue, pornography, catastrophe, brutality and nude mostly in Drama, Biography and Romance genres. Some movies like The Notorious Bettie Page: Pinero (2001), Lovelace (2013), Factory Girl (2006), The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996), Quills (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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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drug abuse, addiction, writers, rise and fall, rising to stardom, lifestyle, ambition, drug addiction, prison, couple relations, society, human nature ...
Time:
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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: USA
Duration: 93 min.
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Story of Linda Lovelace, who is used and abused by the porn industry at the behest of her coercive husband, before taking control of her life.
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sexual, sexy, stylized, erotic, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens
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usa, new jersey, florida, malibu california, miami ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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
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.
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intellectual, talky, witty, clever, sexy ...
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loveless marriage, female nudity, poetry, prohibition, nude, women, friendship, hotel, addiction, writers, female writer, relationships ...
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Place:
new york, new jersey, usa
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
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Larry Flynt is the hedonistically obnoxious, but indomitable, publisher of Hustler magazine. The film recounts his struggle to make an honest living publishing his girlie magazine and how it changes into a battle to protect the freedom of speech for ...
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sexual, controversial, factual, semi serious, captivating ...
Audience:
girls' night
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courtroom drama, free love, legal, lawyer, courtroom, court, drug addiction, rebellion, fighting the system, love, eroticism, lawsuit ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 124 min.
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france, paris france, europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min.
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Place:
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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 ...
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sentimental, romantic, melancholic, factual, touching ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Place:
california, vancouver, los angeles
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Hattie (Susan Sarandon), a New Orleans hooker, meets a photographer named Bellocq (Keith Carradine) at her brothel one night and, after he photographs her, he befriends her 12-year-old daughter, Violet (Brooke Shields). When Violet is brought on as ...
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controversial, disturbing, sexy, atmospheric, melancholic ...
Audience:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
In this biographical film, glamorous yet lonely star Joan Crawford takes in two orphans, and at first their unconventional family seems happy. But after Joan's attempts at romantic fulfillment go sour and she is fired from her contract with MGM ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
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Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
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Country: USA
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Duration: 158 min.
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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 ...
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new zealand, london, paris france
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
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Country: USA
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Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
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Country: USA, France
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