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Onassis: The Richest Man in the World (1988)
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Biography of the life of Aristotle Onassis, a Greek who rose to become one of the world's most wealthiest men, detailing his rise to power and unhappy marriages.
Style:
serious, historical drama, reflective, period drama, vintage, nostalgic
Plot:
greek, wealth, biopic, rise and fall, billionaire, president, u.s. president, high society, ambition, rise to power, mediterranean, legacy, marriage, marital discord, tragic romance, celebrity culture, melancholy, scandal, seafaring, mythology, myth, john f. kennedy, greek history, historical figure, death ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 1960s
Place:
greece, new york, monaco, istanbul turkey
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Most similar movies to Onassis: The Richest Man in the World
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, period drama and historical drama films with plots about biopic, ambition, celebrity culture, marriage, celebrity, rise and fall and husband wife relationship mostly in Drama, Biography and Romance genres. Some movies like Onassis: The Richest Man in the World: Trump Unauthorized (2005), Hefner: Unauthorized (1999), Liz & Dick (2012), Winchell (1998), A Woman Named Jackie (1991). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of a Brazilian rubber tapper who leads his people in protest against government and developers, who want to cut down their part of the rainforest for a new road and ranch land. The rich and the powerful will stop at nothing, ...
Style:
serious, realistic, thought provoking, rough, sincere ...
Plot:
politics, biopic, environmental, union, liberation theology, international relations, social change, president, political corruption, farm, price of justice, rich and poor ...
Time:
80s, 50s, 20th century, 1950s
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A look at the life of real estate king/media mogul/reality TV star, Donald Trump.
Style:
captivating, semi autobiographical, disturbing, controversial
Plot:
wealth, politics, biopic, rise and fall, donald trump, real estate, mogul, politician, rich man, businessman, lifestyle, political leader ...
Place:
new york, america, usa, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The unauthorized biography of Hugh Hefner and the birth of the Playboy empire.
Style:
historical drama, independent film, period drama
Plot:
playboy, biopic, celebrity culture, fame, ambition, wealth, controversy, modeling, sexually liberated, entrepreneurship, glamour, nightlife ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 1950s
Place:
los angeles, chicago, new york
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Spanning years of both Harry and Leona Helmsley's cutthroat control of their eponymonous empire, this made-for-TV movie chronicles both the high and low points of the couple's life together.
Style:
cynical, realistic, serious, sincere
Plot:
fraud, manipulation, couples, cons and scams, blind ambition, ambition, rise and fall, couple relations, unfulfillment, dishonesty, biopic, hotel ...
Time:
70s, 60s, 80s, 20th century, 50s
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
53%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
On the set of Cleopatra, Hollywood's most beautiful star, Elizabeth Taylor, fell into the arms of one of the world's greatest actors, Richard Burton - and she didn't leave. Their subsequent white-hot, scandalous love affair gave rise ...
Style:
sexy, serious, realistic, stylized
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
actor's life, couples, hollywood, couple relations, renewed love, paparazzi, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, celebrity culture, infidelity, actress, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
rome italy, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
50%
653
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The true story of the influential and controversial columnist, Walter Winchell.
Style:
disturbing, clever, atmospheric, captivating, cynical ...
Plot:
journalism, biopic, radio, career, mccarthyism, media, society, politics, world war two, historical figure, rebelliousness, state affairs ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, 50s, 1950s
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 246 min.
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Story:
A film about the life of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis.
Style:
historical drama, dramatic, period piece, melancholic
Plot:
first lady, president, u.s. president, female protagonist, grief, assassination, biopic, mourning, fashion, glamour, legacy, american politics ...
Time:
60s, 1950s, 70s
Place:
washington d.c., new york, europe
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A look inside the life of John F. Kennedy Jr.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, captivating
Plot:
john f. kennedy, usa president, politics, lifestyle, family relations, ambition, parents and children, tragic hero, looking for love, love and romance, state affairs, death in the family ...
Time:
21st century
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49%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Biography of the former first lady, focusing on her years as a photojournalist and leading up to her marriage to John F. Kennedy and their moving into the White House.
Style:
historical drama, period piece, costume drama, poignant, melancholic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
john f. kennedy, biopic, first lady, u.s. president, president, white house, marriage, female protagonist, tragedy, socialite, photojournalism, character study ...
Time:
60s, 1950s, 50s
Place:
washington d.c.
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
An unauthorized chronicle of the life of Roman Polanski.
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, serious, captivating, intense ...
Plot:
celebrity culture, prodigy, ambition, artists and showbiz, life is a bitch, lifestyle, filmmaking, biopic, scandal, controversy, celebrity, fame ...
Time:
70s, 60s
Place:
usa, europe
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Τwo sisters from the island of Andros, dubbed Little England because of its affluence, are both in love with the same man. Set in the Greek Civil War period and ending in the 1950s, the movie is based on the homonymous novel by Ioanna Karystiani.
Style:
touching, serious, stylized, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
love and romance, lovers apart, love triangle, sister sister relationship, infidelity, love, marriage, love story, skinny dipping, greek history, third world, adolescence ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
greece
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The story of author F. Scott Fitzgerald's two stays in Hollywood to write for films, once in 1927 at the height of his acclaim, and again in 1937 when he arrived with little money, enormous expenses and an ill wife.
Style:
melancholic, reflective, emotional, period drama, tragic ...
Plot:
hollywood, writers, film industry, biopic, financial difficulty, screenwriter, ambition, alcoholism, celebrity culture, urban, nostalgia, poet ...
Time:
1930s, 1920s
Place:
los angeles, north carolina
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A look at Brittany Murphy's rise to Hollywood fame in the 1990s, her struggles with celebrity and self-esteem, and her mysterious death in 2009 at the age of 32.
Style:
realistic, captivating, sentimental, serious
Plot:
rising to stardom, desire for fame, actor's life, rise and fall, ambition, celebrity culture, artists and showbiz, parents and children, heart attack, death of wife, death of daughter, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
year 1990, year 2009, year 2004, year 2005, year 2003 ...
Place:
puerto rico, new jersey, usa
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 215 min.
Story:
The Amazing Howard Hughes is a 1977 television movie about American aviation pioneer and filmmaker Howard Hughes, based on the book by Hughes' business partner Noah Dietrich. The film starred Tommy Lee Jones, Ed Flanders, and Tovah Feldshuh.
Style:
serious, realistic, sentimental
Plot:
aviation, hollywood, biopic, howard hughes, aviator, rise to the top, mentally unstable, lifestyle, unfulfillment, misfit, obsession, ambition ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 210 min.
Story:
The story of the life of the actress Elizabeth Taylor.
Style:
period piece, costume drama, romantic drama, period drama
Plot:
hollywood, divorce, mother daughter relationship, biopic, fame, celebrity culture, ambition, glamour, showbiz, legacy, identity crisis, actress ...
Time:
1940s, 60s, 1950s, 50s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
46%
566
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The life and times of escape artist/magician Harry Houdini.
Style:
period piece, suspense, educational, psychotronic
Plot:
biopic, escape artist, magic, illusion, seance, spectacle, spiritualism, fame, husband wife relationship, death, ambition, obsession ...
Time:
turn of the century, victorian era, 1900s, 1890s, 1910s ...
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
A poetic road trip through Pulitzer prize-winning CK Williams' life over the course of 40 years.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
poetry, parent child relationship, artists and showbiz, couple relations, writer's life, haunted by the past, husband wife relationship, writers, biopic, flashback, professional, art ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 50s, 60s, 80s ...
Place:
usa, new york, detroit
Similarity:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
The very sad tale of socialite & Warhol muse Edie Sedgwick (1943-1971) who effectively plays herself in a film that follows her life in a large part from the time she left Warhol's 'factory' and what the life of excess drugs did ...
Style:
mondo, independent film, experimental, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
electroshock therapy, counterculture, fashion, art, biopic, drug abuse, female nudity, free spirited, sexploitation, hippie, drug overdose, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
year 1972, 60s, 70s, 20th century
Place:
new york, california, usa
Similarity:
46%
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283
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Loosely based biography of 1930s star Jean Harlow as she begins her climb to stardom. One of two "Harlow" film biographies that appeared in 1965, this one stars Carol Lynley in the title role that begins as Jean Harlow, a bit player in ...
Style:
costume drama, dramatic, independent film, period drama
Audience:
adult
Plot:
hollywood, biopic, glamour, glory, film industry, showbiz, ambition, celebrity culture, sexual attraction, golden age, behind the scenes, howard hughes ...
Time:
1930s
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 203 min.
TV show
Story:
The story of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, from early youth to his election as President of the United States, as told from Eleanor's point of view.
Style:
historical drama, captivating, serious, realistic, stylized ...
Plot:
president, usa president, u.s. president, biopic, usa history, incest, politics, family relations, state affairs, head of state, couple relations, parents and children ...
Time:
victorian era, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 20th century ...
Place:
boston, new york, usa, harvard university
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When a humorous script-reader in her New York apartment sees an ad in the Saturday Review of Literature for a bookstore in London that does mail order, she begins a very special correspondence and friendship with Frank Doel, the bookseller who works ...
Style:
sweet, romantic, touching, sincere, feel good ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
book, bookstore, correspondence, friendship, writers, love, post war, pen pal, bittersweet, death, longing, kindness ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s, year 1987, 20th century, 50s ...
Place:
london, new york, england, europe, usa
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
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Story:
An anthology of sweeping true love stories that captured the world’s attention.
Style:
sentimental, melancholic, anthology, period drama
Audience:
adult
Plot:
biopic, marriage, celebrity, wooing, celebrity culture, media frenzy, wedding, high society, glamour, journalism
Place:
new york, new england, upper east side
Similarity:
46%
270
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The King is the story of Graham Kennedy, Australia's first and greatest home grown TV superstar. It traces his rise from working class Balaclava kid, through radio, TV, film, and back to TV again. It also tracks Kennedy's personal ...
Style:
thrilling, psychological, captivating, game show, period drama
Plot:
biopic, controversy, glory, media industry, showbiz, celebrity culture, lifestyle, celebrity, life, pop culture, loneliness, ambition ...
Time:
60s, 1950s
Place:
australia, melbourne
Similarity:
45%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Voluptuous beauty Anna Nicole Smith marries an elderly millionaire and poses for Playboy, but after her husband's death, her excessive drinking, pill-popping and weight fluctuations take their toll.
Style:
sexy, realistic, serious, captivating, thought provoking
Plot:
playboy, celebrity, rise and fall, rising to stardom, ambition, desire for fame, starlet, celebrity culture, drug addiction, female protagonist, pole dancing, economist ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
"Entertaining Angels" is an interesting title for this movie about the 1920's and 30's social activist, Dorothy Day, for it can be regarded that what this woman did, sometimes single-handedly, always controversially, in her fight ...
Style:
political, independent film, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot:
catholic, christian, political activism, biopic, liberation theology, journalist, social activism, social activist, newspaper, teaching, women's suffrage, injustice ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s, 20th century, 1920s, 1930s
Place:
new york, usa, america
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 183 min.
TV show
Story:
Looks at the early years of America's most dashing president from his early childhood through his nomination for Congress.
Style:
historical drama, serious, dramatic, inspirational
Plot:
president, u.s. president, biopic, coming of age, ambition, character study, social climbing, john f. kennedy, intrigue, kennedy family, usa president, childhood ...
Time:
1950s
Place:
boston, new england, harvard university
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Struggling actress Hedda Hopper can't get a break in Hollywood, even though an acquaintence of hers is the extremely powerful gossip monger Louella Parsons - maker and breaker of careers (and lives) through her daily syndicated newspaper ...
Style:
historical drama, period piece, dark comedy
Plot:
hollywood, gossip, rivalry, film industry, ambition, entertainment industry, showbiz, biopic, female rivalry, tabloid journalism, celebrity culture, character study ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 1920s, year 1937, year 1942 ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Short, Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 59 min.
Story:
A biography of President Harry S. Truman.
Style:
political, informative, historical drama, serious, educational ...
Plot:
president, biopic, politics, leadership, government, white house, character study, cold war, campaigning, korean war, one-man show, democratic party ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s
Place:
washington d.c.
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 181 min.
Story:
Television film telling the story of Diana, Princess of Wales, based on the publication of the same name by Andrew Morton.
Style:
historical drama, serious, melancholic, period piece
Plot:
royalty, royal family, princess, biopic, scandal, british monarchy, divorce, adaptation, family conflict, celebrity culture, media frenzy, empathy ...
Time:
90s
Place:
britain, house of windsor
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Hollywood drama loosely based on the life of film actress Jean Harlow, with Carroll Baker in the title role. One of two feature film biographies, both released in 1965 and both with the same title, about the '30s platinum blonde movie star.
Style:
sexual, serious, realistic, entertaining, crying ...
Plot:
hollywood, actor's life, rise and fall, film industry, women, wedding, showbiz, filmmaking, fashion, couples, celebrity culture, relationship vs career ...
Time:
1930s, 1920s
Place:
los angeles, usa
Similarity:
43%
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