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:
sexual, sentimental, touching, sexy, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, intellectual
Plot:
love triangle, couples, writers, psychologist, philosopher, infidelity, russian woman, older woman younger man relationship, writer's life, friends, romance, teachers and students, prodigy, love and romance, destructive relationship, love affair, artists and showbiz, society, working class, lifestyle, crumbling marriage, ego clash, unfulfillment, immigrants, surprise party ...
Time:
50s, 60s, 80s, 70s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s
Place:
california, new york, los angeles, manhattan new york city
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sexy and touching films with plots about couples, infidelity, love and romance, couple relations, husband wife relationship, romance and artists and showbiz mostly in Drama, Romance and Biography genres. Some movies like The Passion of Ayn Rand: Surviving Picasso (1996), Sylvia (2003), Hitchcock (2012), The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (2003), The Children of the Century (1999). 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.
Style:
sexy, serious, realistic, emotional, intense ...
Plot:
womanizer, love triangle, older man younger woman relationship, painter, infidelity, physical abuse, mistress, couple relations, artist, love affair, love and romance, world war two ...
Time:
60s, 50s, 1940s, 40s, 20th century ...
Place:
paris france, poland, france, europe, provence ...
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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:
emotional, realistic, psychological, serious, depressing ...
Plot:
infidelity, drinking, drinking alcohol, tragic love, writer's life, couple relations, romance, family problems, couples, crumbling marriage, love, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
60s, 50s, 1950s, 20th century, 1960s
Place:
england, europe, new york, london
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87%
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Genre: Biography, 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.
Style:
serious, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, twists and turns ...
Plot:
obsession, showbiz, director, filmmaking, talented, couple relations, love and romance, artists and showbiz, dreams, censorship, husband wife relationship, hollywood ...
Time:
60s, 50s, 20th century, 1960s, year 1944 ...
Place:
usa, los angeles, california
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77%
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.
Style:
sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, atmospheric ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, love triangle, looking for love, infidelity, forbidden love, unfulfilled love, dishonesty, love and romance, couples, family problems, couple relations, midlife crisis ...
Place:
italy, rome italy, europe, usa, tennessee ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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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 ...
Style:
sexy, captivating, stylized, atmospheric, emotional ...
Plot:
love affair, lifestyle, love and romance, destructive relationship, feminism, forbidden love, infidelity, sex, sexuality, couples, romance, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
19th century, 1820s, 1830s
Place:
venice, italy, paris france, europe, france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, Russia
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
sentimental, emotional, serious, factual, touching ...
Plot:
russian, family relations, love and romance, golden years, lifestyle, writer's life, parents and children, adultery, betrayal, husband wife relationship, philosophy, secretary ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, 19th century
Place:
russia, moscow russia
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66%
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 ...
Style:
touching, sincere, emotional, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
posing nude, love triangle, love affair, lifestyle, romance, love and romance, dishonesty, family relations, couples, infidelity, fall in love, unfulfilled love ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, 1900s, edwardian era, twentieth century
Place:
cornwall, england, london
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63%
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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, intellectual, emotional, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
aging, alzheimer's disease, understanding, writer's life, love, couple relations, love of one's life, virginity, life & death, character study, loneliness, terminal illness ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 50s, 1950s
Place:
england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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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:
realistic, touching, intellectual, talky, serious ...
Plot:
older man younger woman relationship, aging, starting over, writer's life, love and romance, couples, graduation, friendship, hopes, artists and showbiz, human nature, writing ...
Time:
contemporary, 70s
Place:
new york, usa, lower east side manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, new jersey ...
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59%
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:
sexy, sexual, emotional, touching, talky ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
painter, soldier, conscientious objector, polyamory, romance, friendship, bittersweet, unfulfillment, artists and showbiz, gender, couples, friends ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, 1910s, victorian era, 30s ...
Place:
england, europe, london, venice, wales
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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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, captivating, realistic, emotional ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
politics, opposites attract, love and romance, couples, mccarthyism, romance, naval officer, radical, young lovers, couple relations, communist, adultery ...
Time:
50s, 1940s, 1950s, 1930s, 40s ...
Place:
new york, usa, california, manhattan new york city, washington d.c. ...
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54%
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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 ...
Style:
touching, realistic, sincere, sentimental, atmospheric ...
Plot:
love affair, lifestyle, writer's life, novelist, family problems, society, romance, couple relations, love triangle, sexual relations, artists and showbiz, male female relationship ...
Time:
1900s, 20th century, 1910s
Place:
italy, ireland, europe, dublin ireland
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50%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 161 min.
Story:
Out of Africa tells the story of the life of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved to Africa to build a new life for herself. The film is based on the autobiographical novel by Karen Blixen from 1937.
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touching, emotional, serious, atmospheric, captivating ...
Plot:
romance, infidelity, british colonial, farm, love affair, fall in love, destructive relationship, dishonesty, love and romance, syphilis, culture clash, lion ...
Time:
1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 20th century, 30s ...
Place:
africa, kenya, denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Biopic of American artist Georgia O'Keeffe and her husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz.
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, emotional, captivating ...
Plot:
couples, destructive relationship, rise to the top, couple relations, obsession, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, love and romance, husband wife relationship, mortality, friendship, brother brother relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 1920s, 1930s, 30s, 20s ...
Place:
usa, new york, new mexico, manhattan new york city, wisconsin
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45%
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. ...
Style:
touching, psychological, contemplative, sincere, emotional ...
Plot:
infidelity, unfaithful wife, cheating wife, marriage, friendship, betrayal, adultery, forbidden love, love affair, family problems, society, dishonesty ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
england, europe, oregon, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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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, serious, realistic, melancholic, sexual ...
Plot:
unfaithful wife, strong sexual content, love triangle, romance, love affair, couple relations, writer's life, sexual relations, couples, womanizer, love and romance, lifestyle ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, 30s, year 1932
Place:
paris france, europe
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44%
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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captivating, thought provoking, emotional, sentimental, sincere ...
Plot:
racism, showbiz, overdose, hollywood, performer's life, music, actor's life, rising to stardom, unfulfillment, profanity, show tunes, sexual content ...
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60s, 20th century, 50s, 1940s, 40s ...
Place:
usa, new york, miami, las vegas, los angeles ...
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41%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Ben Stiller plays comedy writer Jerry Stahl, whose $6000-a-week heroin habit had him taking his infant daughter along on his drug runs and doing smack during TV script conferences. Departing detox, Stahl explores memories with survivor Kitty, who ...
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serious, intense, depressing, factual, disturbing ...
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addiction, drug abuse, rehabilitation, human nature, lifestyle, life is a bitch, rise and fall, family problems, ambition, husband wife relationship, heroin, writers ...
Time:
90s, 80s, 70s
Place:
los angeles, usa, pittsburgh, beverly hills, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Drama set in 1930s London with two sisters, Madeleine married to Rickie, and Dinah, who falls in love with him. Rickie and Dinah begin an affair which is to have repercussions throughout all their lives.
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sentimental, touching, emotional, serious, clever ...
Plot:
family relations, infidelity, love triangle, couples, pregnancy, love affair, fall in love, society, betrayal, parents and children, haunted by the past, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 30s, 20th century, 40s
Place:
london, england, europe
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40%
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Story of a couple that starts the first legal brothel in Nevada and a boxer they own a piece of.
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realistic, serious, captivating, sexual, sexy ...
Plot:
brothel, prostitute, lifestyle, family problems, dishonesty, unfulfillment, crumbling marriage, workplace, pimp, couples, infidelity, love affair ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1976
Place:
nevada, las vegas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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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:
sincere, touching, serious, realistic, contemplative ...
Audience:
girls' night
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friendship, platonic, bookstore, correspondence, romance, bittersweet, friends, couples, human nature, couple relations, fall in love, writer's life ...
Time:
50s, 60s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s ...
Place:
london, new york, england, usa, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, UK
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Edwardian England. A precocious girl from a poor background with aspirations to being a novelist finds herself swept to fame and fortune when her tasteless romances hit the best seller lists. Her life changes in unexpected ways when she encounters ...
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realistic, serious, clever, witty, talky ...
Plot:
infidelity, family relations, writer's life, estate, social differences, rise to the top, ambition, unfulfillment, couple relations, love, society, rise and fall ...
Time:
20th century, 1900s, edwardian era
Place:
england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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.
Style:
sexy, sexual, psychological, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot:
poet, lgbt, gay, gay teenager, mentor, writer's life, gays and lesbians, infidelity, pregnancy, romance, sodomy, breast feeding ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1870s
Place:
paris france, france, europe, holland, london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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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:
stylized, serious, realistic, sexy
Plot:
hollywood, paparazzi, lifestyle, actor's life, couple relations, celebrity culture, couples, renewed love, artists and showbiz, breaking the fourth wall, adultery, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 70s, 1960s
Place:
los angeles, usa, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The late 1940s. Richard Langley, a bachelor playboy, narrates a story that starts when his best friend, Harry Allen, invites him to lunch to tell Richard he's in love. Trouble is, Harry's already married to Pat; he worries Pat would be ...
Style:
realistic, serious, neo noir, stylized, melancholic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love triangle, infidelity, romance, jealousy, love and romance, crumbling marriage, friendship, husband wife relationship, couple relations, murder, restaurant, mistress ...
Time:
40s, 1940s, year 1949, year 1947, 70s
Place:
california
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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:
sincere, suspenseful, sexy, serious, erotic ...
Plot:
older man younger woman relationship, age difference, teacher student sex, older man younger woman sex, obsession, teachers and students, infidelity, love and romance, couples, danger, critic, possessiveness ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york
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37%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
realistic, captivating, psychological, serious
Plot:
infidelity, love triangle, couple relations, love affair, couples, artists and showbiz, love and romance, psychoanalysis, prodigy, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment, doctors and patients ...
Time:
20th century, 1910s, 1900s
Place:
germany, europe, holland, amsterdam, vienna
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37%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A failed novelist's inability to pay the bills strains relations with his wife and leads him to work at an escort service where he becomes entwined with a wealthy woman whose husband is a successful writer.
Style:
witty, melancholic, sexy, entertaining, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
infidelity, pimp, prostitution, love affair, family problems, seduction, sex, rejection, vandalism, money problems, women, older woman younger man relationship ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
los angeles, santa monica california, pasadena california, california
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37%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Mexico, Italy
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
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, ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, realistic, serious, talky ...
Plot:
nudity (full frontal - brief), couple relations, love affair, against the rules, rebellion, society, couples, rise and fall, womanizer, love and romance, writer's life, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
1920s, 20s, 20th century
Place:
italy, mexico, england, new mexico, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
An ensemble drama about a married actress, her sister and their myriad sexual and creative temptations.
Style:
sincere, touching, serious, realistic, sexual ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
family problems, love and romance, love triangle, human nature, lifestyle, actor's life, artists and showbiz, crumbling marriage, couple relations, love affair, siblings relations, couples ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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