Movies like The Passion of Ayn Rand
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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:
serious, emotional, sexual, realistic, captivating, sentimental, touching, intellectual
Plot:
love triangle, writer's life, ego clash, romance, destructive relationship, love affair, artists and showbiz, love and romance, couples, prodigy, crumbling marriage, teachers and students, working class, friends, society, unfulfillment, lifestyle, dancing, fascist, genius, painter, musician, student, party, teacher ...
Time:
50s, 1950s, 1940s, 1960s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, emotional and touching films with plots about love and romance, couples, husband wife relationship, couple relations, drinking, romance and infidelity mostly in Drama, Romance and Biography genres. Some movies like The Passion of Ayn Rand: Surviving Picasso (1996), The Last Station (2009), The Children of the Century (1999), Sylvia (2003), Iris (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
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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serious, sexy, realistic, emotional, intense ...
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love triangle, womanizer, infidelity, older man younger woman relationship, painter, physical abuse, mistress, couple relations, artist, love affair, love and romance, father daughter relationship ...
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20th century, 40s, 50s, 60s, 1960s ...
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poland, europe, france, paris france, las vegas ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, Russia
Duration: 112 min.
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A historical drama that illustrates Russian author Leo Tolstoy's struggle to balance fame and wealth with his commitment to a life devoid of material things. The Countess Sofya, wife and muse to Leo Tolstoy, uses every trick of seduction on her ...
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russian, golden years, writer's life, family relations, love and romance, parents and children, adultery, lifestyle, betrayal, husband wife relationship, philosophy, seduction ...
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Place:
russia, moscow russia
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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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serious, emotional, realistic, sexual
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infidelity, feminism, fall in love, romance, writer's life, couple relations, destructive relationship, forbidden love, love affair, tragic love, artists and showbiz, love and romance ...
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19th century, 1820s, 1830s
Place:
italy, europe, france, venice, geneva switzerland ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Story of the relationship between the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.
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emotional, psychological, serious, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot:
infidelity, drinking, writing, beach, love, snow, poet, boat, writer's life, romance, crumbling marriage, college ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 1950s, 1960s
Place:
england, europe, campus, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer's disease.
Style:
touching, emotional, serious, captivating, intellectual ...
Plot:
aging, love, alzheimer's disease, writer's life, couple relations, understanding, love of one's life, life & death, character study, loneliness, terminal illness, virginity ...
Time:
20th century, 50s, 90s, 1950s
Place:
england, europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Leonard Schiller once counted among New York's Literary lions, but illness and ten years of writers block have lowered his profile, almost to the point of obscurity. When Heather Wolfe, an ambitious literature major, asks to interview him for ...
Style:
talky, realistic, touching, serious, intellectual ...
Plot:
aging, writer's life, starting over, friendship, artists and showbiz, friends, couples, golden years, human nature, sexual relations, hopes, love and romance ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, lower east side manhattan new york city, new jersey ...
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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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serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, atmospheric ...
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girls' night
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aging, fall in love, couple relations, romance, destructive relationship, forbidden love, impossible love, infidelity, looking for love, love affair, love triangle, unfulfilled love ...
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italy, europe, tennessee, usa, rome italy
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56%
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.
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sexual, serious, realistic, psychological, intellectual ...
Plot:
gay, mentor, poet, infidelity, pregnancy, gays and lesbians, romance, writer's life, crumbling marriage, lgbt, couple relations, destructive relationship ...
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19th century, 1870s
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europe, france, holland, paris france, africa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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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:
emotional, sexual, talky, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
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painter, soldier, conscientious objector, romance, friendship, unlikely couple, polyamory, writer's life, couple relations, unfulfilled love, artists and showbiz, gender ...
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1910s, 1900s, 20th century, 19th century, 20s ...
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england, europe, wales, london
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56%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Two desperate people have a wonderful romance, but their political views and convictions drive them apart.
Style:
serious, sentimental, realistic, emotional, captivating ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
politics, hollywood, communist, mccarthyism, opposites attract, romance, radical, unlikely couple, young lovers, crumbling marriage, couple relations, love and romance ...
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1950s, 1940s, 20th century, 30s, 40s ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Married couple Jack and Terry Linden are experiencing a difficult period in their relationship. When Jack decides to step outside the marriage, he becomes involved with Edith, who happens to be the wife of his best friend and colleague, Hank Evans. ...
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realistic, serious, clever, gloomy, psychological ...
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infidelity, adultery, marriage, college, friendship, unfaithful wife, writer's life, betrayal, loyalty, forbidden love, dishonesty, suburbs ...
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50%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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, stylized, realistic, sincere ...
Audience:
girls' night
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1910s, 20th century, 1900s, twentieth century, edwardian era
Place:
england, cornwall
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49%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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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Time:
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Place:
usa, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his life -- which he indicates is a state of "emancipated manhood" -- thrown into tragic disarray by Consuela Castillo, a well-mannered student who awakens a sense of sexual possessiveness in her teacher.
Style:
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Plot:
teachers and students, obsession, love and romance, age difference, infidelity, sexual attraction, hedonism, cuban, possessiveness, critic, danger, couples ...
Time:
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Place:
manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Hitchcock follows the relationship between director Alfred Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville during the making of his most famous film "Psycho" - and the trials and tribulations the director faced from Hollywood censors.
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serious, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, psychological ...
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obsession, showbiz, filmmaking, couple relations, director, wife husband relationship, love and romance, artists and showbiz, talented, censorship, dreams, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 50s, 60s, year 1959, 1950s ...
Place:
usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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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.
Style:
serious, sexual, sentimental, realistic, captivating
Plot:
lolita, island, painter, artists and showbiz, romance, australian, exotic island, lovers, vacation, old man, love and romance, starting over ...
Time:
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Place:
australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A look at the mysterious relationship between Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his teenage bride Effie Gray.
Style:
emotional, stylized, captivating, serious, realistic
Plot:
love triangle, romance, love, love and romance, art critic, fall in love, crumbling marriage, self discovery, unfulfillment, couples, wife, artists and showbiz ...
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Place:
england, europe
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44%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada, Mexico
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
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43%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China, USA, Canada
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
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Country: UK, Canada, Ireland, Belgium
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Story:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Australia
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Story:
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Country: UK, Belgium, France
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38%
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Country: USA, France
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Country: UK
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Story:
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Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Kinsey is a portrait of researcher Alfred Kinsey, driven to uncover the most private secrets of a nation. What begins for Kinsey as a scientific endeavor soon takes on an intensely personal relevance, ultimately becoming an unexpected journey into ...
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Plot:
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