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The Passion of Ayn Rand (1999)
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The rather eccentric (especially in her thinking) author of "The Fountainhead" and "Atlas Shrugged" becomes involved with a much younger, and married man... to the dismay of those close to her.
Style:
emotional, serious, sexual, realistic, captivating, sentimental, touching, intellectual
Plot:
writer's life, ego clash, romance, destructive relationship, love affair, artists and showbiz, love and romance, love triangle, couples, prodigy, crumbling marriage, teachers and students, working class, friends, society, unfulfillment, lifestyle, egoist, female bully, watching television, television show, breasts, television, ego, tv set ...
Time:
50s, 1960s, 1940s, 1950s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 135 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 ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
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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.
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, Russia
Duration: 112 min.
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Place:
russia, moscow russia
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
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The Newlyn School of artists flourished at the beginning of the 20th Century and the film focuses on the wild and bohemian Lamorna Group, which included Alfred Munnings and Laura and Harold Knight. The incendiary anti-Modernist Munnings, now ...
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serious, emotional, realistic, stylized, sincere ...
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love affair, romance, love triangle, artists and showbiz, love and romance, fall in love, couple relations, infidelity, siblings relations, unfulfilled love, dishonesty, unfulfillment ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
An aging actress' husband dies of a heart attack en route to Rome, where they'd planned to holiday. There, she rents an apartment and, through the Contessa, she meets a young man, with whom she begins an affair.
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Belgium
Duration: 111 min.
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 73 min.
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 121 min.
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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 ...
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romance, friendship, artist, sexuality, obsession, relationships, love, marriage, male nudity, gay, love story, adultery ...
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1900s, 20th century, 1910s, 19th century, 20s ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
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england, europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 125 min.
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Following the banning and burning of his novel, "The Rainbow," D.H. Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, move to the United States, and then to Mexico. When Lawrence contracts tuberculosis, they return to England for a short time, then to Italy, ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
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An acclaimed stage performer, Dorothy still struggled with the challenge of her color, in a time that wouldn't let some stars in by the front door. Yet against the odds she beat out many more famous rivals for the role of "Carmen ...
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20th century, 40s, 50s, 60s, 1950s ...
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
An elderly artist thinks he has become too stale and is past his prime. His friend (and agent) persuades him to go to an offshore island to try once more. On the island he re-discovers his muse in the form of a young girl.
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Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
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england, europe, campus, london
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 161 min.
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
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girls' night
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hollywood, unlikely couple, suburbs, writer's life, crumbling marriage, infidelity, couple relations, love affair, alcohol abuse, dysfunctional family, sexual relations, midlife crisis ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 97 min.
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serious, touching, realistic, emotional, sincere
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rehabilitation, human spirit, romance, couple relations, infidelity, forbidden love, love triangle, love affair, tragic love, true love, unfulfilled love, disability ...
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australia, south australia
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Country: Ireland, UK, Italy, Germany
Duration: 106 min.
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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 ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, New Zealand
Duration: 219 min.
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Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 98 min.
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Alma Mahler's affair with the young architect Walter Gropius sets in motion a marital drama that forces her husband Gustav Mahler to seek advice from Sigmund Freud.
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Country: UK
Duration: 131 min.
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C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned writer and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets spirited poet Joy Gresham
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Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
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Country: UK, USA
Duration: 115 min.
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