Movies like The Last Road

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The Last Road (1986)
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The Last Road (1986)
Original name: Последняя дорога
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 101 min.
Story: About the death and the 'last road' of Aleksandr Pushkin, the leading poet and writer of Russia, who was shot on a duel at age 37. Pushkin was defending the reputation of his wife and mother of his four children - Nataly. She was a center of public attention because of her stunning beauty, and she was accused of infidelity. Pushkin reacted by calling the accuser baron Dantes to fight a duel with guns. A deadly gunshot caused Pushkin's death after the duel. Around the dead poet gathered all the leading intellectuals and writers of St. Petersburg. They were helpless to undo the tragedy. Pushkin's home in St. Petersburg was the site where thousands came to see Pushkin on his 'last road'.
Plot: writers, poet, love, revenge, children, death, jealousy, duel, widow, husband wife relationship
Time: 19th century
Place: russia

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, period piece and captivating films with plots about writers, poet, love, biopic, writing, husband wife relationship and writer's life mostly in Drama, Biography and Romance genres. Some movies like The Last Road: Journey to Another Town (1980), Land Legs (1975), Lyubov Yarovaya (1970), Young Andersen (2005), Dreams of Love - Liszt (1970). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Journey to Another Town (1980)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 93 min.
Story: By chance, two middle-aged people met - the telephone operator of the hotel Lina and the chief engineer of the construction department Kirillov, who had arrived on official business from Leningrad in one of the provincial cities of the country. ...
Plot: love, jealousy, passion, male female relationship
Place: russia
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Land Legs (1975)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 167 min.
Story: In December 1825, distinguished members of the Russian military, most of whom were quite affluent and of noble lineage, took it upon themselves to stir revolution against the autocratic and tyrannical Czar Nikolai I in the wake of his not honoring ...
Plot: success, revolt, reform, imperial russia, protest, revolution, napoleonic wars, russian empire, nobility, love, husband wife relationship, conspiracy ...
Time: 19th century
Place: russia, siberia
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Lyubov Yarovaya (1970)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 105 min.
Story: This film is set in the time of the Russian Civil War, after the October revolution of 1917. The communist forces are losing a battle over town. They must blow up the strategic bridge, but the explosion is prevented by one anticommunist man, who is ...
Plot: spy, husband wife relationship, revolution, revenge, politics, love, double agent
Place: soviet union, russia
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Young Andersen (2005)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Denmark, Norway, Sweden
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A powerful modern film narrative, set in a historical framework, about the crucial encounter between vulnerable eighteen-year-old Hans Christian Andersen, who rates himself so highly, and Mr. Meisling, the cynical school principal. An encounter that ...
Style: period piece
Plot: writers, poet, inspiration, biopic, teen rebel, memories, school, storytelling, friendship, coming of age, loss of friend, hans christian andersen
Time: 19th century
Place: denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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Dreams of Love - Liszt (1970)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music, Romance
Country: Hungary, Soviet Union
Duration: 171 min.
Story: This is a romantic biographical film about Franz Liszt. In a distinguished saloon of Paris, the unknown composer, Liszt, defeats the renown Thalberg at a piano competition. Through his playing, he wins the favours and later the hand of the countess ...
Style: period piece
Plot: composer, musician, biopic, male female relationship, jealousy, adultery, love, concert, piano, passion, pianist
Time: 19th century
Place: soviet union, paris france, russia, hungary
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74%
F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood (1975)
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.
Plot: writers, poet, art, unfaithfulness, psychiatric hospital, hollywood, adultery, extramarital affair, mental institution, husband wife relationship, drinking, infidelity ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s
Place: north carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
The Demons of St. Petersburg (2008)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 118 min.
Story: St. Petersburg, 1860. A member of the imperial family is assassinated. A few days later, the writer Fëdor Michajlovic Dostoevskij meets with Gusiev, a young man committed to a psychiatric hospital. Gusiev confesses that he took part in the ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, psychological, suspense, historical drama
Plot: writers, writer's life, murderer, private investigation, historical figure, terrorist, terrorist plot, murder, murder investigation, revolutionary, historical character, poet ...
Time: 19th century
Place: russia, st. petersburg russia
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Say a Word for the Poor Hussar (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, Musical, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 167 min.
Story: The small town agog Hussars entry. Love between cornet and the young actress suddenly faces intrigue made by a St. Petersburg bureaucrat. The actress father dies after being involved in this game and perspectives look dark... But evil will ...
Style: sincere, melancholic, period piece
Plot: actor, investigation, love, jealousy, secret police, actress, theater, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love affair, social relations, illicit affair, entrapment ...
Time: 19th century
Place: russia
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Anton Chekhov 1890 (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Summer 1890. In order to make some money to feed his family, Anton Chekhov, modest physician, wrote short stories for newspapers to sign Antosha Tchékhonté. Important characters, writer and editor, just make him aware of his talent. His situation ...
Style: serious, realistic, psychological, captivating, gloomy ...
Plot: literature, writers, writer's life, biopic, tuberculosis, family relations, couple relations, obsession, life is a bitch, siblings relations, artists and showbiz, convict ...
Time: 19th century
Place: russia
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62%
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Lev Tolstoy (1984)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia
Duration: 168 min.
Story: The film consists of two parts: “Insomnia” and “Departure”. We shall meet Lev Tolstoy in the final years of his life at Yasnaya Polyana. We shall see him surrounded by his family, friends, acquaintances and absolute strangers who were ...
Plot: writers, liberation theology, poet, russian empire, old age, dementia, doctor, anger, elderly, escape, death, train ...
Place: soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Miss Austen Regrets (2007)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An outwardly confident but unmarried woman on the verge of her fortieth birthday reflects on her past suitors and the choices she once made while attempting to help her marriage minded niece choose between a number of potential suitors in this tale ...
Style: realistic, stylized, period piece, captivating, melancholic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: writers, introspection, love and romance, regret, looking for love, society, maid, countryside, sister sister relationship, women, love, world war one ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, regency period
Place: england, london, europe, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Mary Shelley (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, Luxembourg, USA, Ireland, Australia
Duration: 120 min.
Story: The love affair between poet Percy Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin resulted in the creation of an immortal novel, “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.”
Style: stylized, serious, atmospheric, costume drama, period piece ...
Audience: date night
Plot: poet, forbidden love, literature, young lovers, relationship problems, tragedy, female writer, love and romance, renegade, frustration, social misfits, writers ...
Time: 19th century, regency period, 1810s
Place: london, scotland, switzerland
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53%
Sentimental Romance (1976)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Near the close of the Russian Civil War, in 1923, a young man begins studying journalism at a worker newspaper and has a series of romantic adventures which cause him to mature swiftly. He rescues a beautiful girl from an abusive family situation, ...
Plot: journalist, death of father, widow, innocence, love triangle, teenage boy, newspaper, irony, love, death, teenage girl, friendship ...
Time: 1920s
Place: russia
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53%
With Beauty and Sorrow (1965)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story: When the man who seduced the famous painter Otoko as a teenager--and then wrote a bestselling novel about it--reappears in her life, her pupil--and lesbian lover--hatches a plot to destroy the man and his family.
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, writers, murder, revenge, jealousy, love, accident, miscarriage, japanese woman, japanese new wave, rowing
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The Butterfly's Dream (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 138 min.
Story: In a small Turkish town, two young tuberculous poets try to survive while publishing their poems. As they both fall in love, their life would never be the same.
Style: serious, sincere, captivating, realistic, touching ...
Plot: poet, world war two, poetry, love and romance, friendship, hopes, bet, poverty, lifestyle, follow your dream, teachers and students, competition ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: turkey, istanbul turkey
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Haunted Summer (1988)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Authors Lord Byron, Mary Shelley (née Godwin) and Percy Shelley get together for some philosophical discussions, but the situation soon deteriorates into mind games, drugs, and sex. It is a fictionalization of the summer that Lord Byron and the ...
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Place: italy, europe
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Karl May (1974)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: West Germany
Duration: 187 min.
Story: This ethereal, three-hour biopic is the middle film in Hans-Jürgen Syberberg’s “German Trilogy” on the mythological foundations of the Third Reich. By fusing theater, music, and cinema, Syberberg conjures up Karl May (1842-1912), the ...
Style: visual, surreal, avant garde
Plot: writers, poet, divorce, flashback, journalist, death, past, male protagonist, breaking the fourth wall, symbolism, novelist, dictator ...
Place: germany
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Oscar (1985)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
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Story: In the summer of 1891, Oscar Wilde first met Lord Alfred Douglas — an encounter that will dramatically and tragically change both of their lives.
Plot: male prostitution, writers, poet, historical event, hustler, male prostitute, prison, sodomy, older man younger man relationship, gay interest
Time: 19th century
Place: ireland
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Dickens of London (1976)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: Dickens of London is a 1976 television miniseries from Yorkshire Television based on the life of English novelist Charles Dickens. Both Dickens and his father John were played by British actor Roy Dotrice. The series was written by Wolf Mankowitz ...
Style: costume drama, period drama
Plot: writers, youth, poet, costume
Time: 19th century, 1800s
Place: london, england
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47%
Balzac: A Passionate Life (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 240 min.
Story: He burned with ambition. He lusted for life. He lived for passion. This is the sprawling saga of Honoré de Balzac (Gérard Depardieu), a man who created a great literary oeuvre from the dramas and adventures of his own life - a life that he shaped ...
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, stylized, clever ...
Plot: writers, art, age-gap relationship, poet, literary, family relations, biopic, writer's life, society, couple relations, innocence lost, lifestyle ...
Time: 19th century
Place: france, switzerland, europe, paris france, black sea
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A Half of Life (1985)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: East Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story: This tragic love story relates ten decisive years in the life of the great Romantic poet Friedrich Hölderlin, played by a young Ulrich Mühe.
Plot: french revolution, napoleonic wars, biopic, friendship, mental illness, poem, teacher, love, infidelity, fired from the job, adultery, husband wife relationship ...
Place: east germany, frankfurt germany, german democratic republic, switzerland, germany
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To Walk Invisible (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story: To Walk Invisible takes a new look at the extraordinary Brontë family, telling the story of these remarkable women who, despite the obstacles they faced, came from obscurity to produce some of the greatest novels in the English language.
Style: captivating, cult classic, historical drama, dark, gothic ...
Plot: writers, sisters, female writer, novelist, publisher, women, family relations, historical figure, social relations, writer's life, sister, life ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1840s
Place: yorkshire
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43%
Anna Karenina (1967)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 145 min.
Story: The film is based on the novel of the same name by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy. “All happy families resemble each other, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, ” goes the novel’s opening sentence. The melodrama centers around a ...
Style: spiritual
Plot: cheating wife, unfaithful wife, love triangle, high society, adultery, jealousy, suicide attempt, russian woman, spirituality, loveless marriage, love affair, aristocracy ...
Time: 19th century
Place: soviet union, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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A Few People, a Little Time (2005)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The unusual bond between a blind female writer and an acclaimed poet changes their lives and forms an exceptional creative cooperation, free of politics and the complexities of mundane life.
Plot: poet, writers, disability, odd couple, poetry, blindness, friend, blind woman, homosexual, friendship, inspiration, journal ...
Time: 70s
Place: poland
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41%
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The Gambler (1997)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands, Hungary, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Under pressure from his publisher, Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky gets work on his latest piece, 'Rouletenberg'. In the 27 days it takes for him to complete the novel reality and fiction become blurred; in this feverish atmosphere of ...
Style: stylized, romantic drama, realistic, serious, independent film
Plot: gambling, writers, older man younger woman relationship, addiction, gambler, biopic, obsession, redemption, poet, nudity, novelist, gambling addiction ...
Time: year 1997, 1860s, 19th century, 1870s
Place: germany, st. petersburg russia, russia
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41%
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Zelda (1993)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Story: Biopic about Zelda Fitzgerald, as played by Natasha Richardson
Plot: writers, art, girl, poet, alcoholism, eccentricity, mental illness, husband wife relationship, marriage, schizophrenia, modernism, mental patient ...
Time: 1920s
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41%
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Leopardi (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 143 min.
Story: A luminously beautiful biopic of the celebrated eighteenth-century Italian poet, essayist and philosopher Giacomo Leopardi, who created immortal verse whilst struggling with a debilitating illness.
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, captivating, historical drama
Plot: poet, enlightenment, poetry, prodigy, biopic, writer's life, unrequited love, romanticism, society, family problems, writers, father son relationship ...
Time: 19th century
Place: italy, europe, naples italy, rome italy, southern italy ...
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41%
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Onegin (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In the opulent St. Petersburg of the Empire period, Eugene Onegin is a jaded but dashing aristocrat - a man often lacking in empathy, who suffers from restlessness, melancholy and, finally, regret. Through his best friend Lensky, Onegin is ...
Style: atmospheric, period piece, romantic, costume drama, romantic drama ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: unfulfilled love, forbidden love, tragic love, marriage, unrequited love, book, obsession, unfulfillment, love and romance, couple relations, poetry, inheritance ...
Time: 19th century, 1820s, 1800s, year 1999, victorian era
Place: russia, st. petersburg russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Bronte Sisters (1979)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In a small presbytery in Yorkshire, England, living under the watchful eyes of their aunt and father, a strict Anglican pastor, the Bronte sisters write their first works and quickly become literary sensations.
Style: realistic, serious, gloomy, contemplative, period drama ...
Plot: writers, art, women, biopic, writer's life, winter, disease, tuberculosis, fire, historical event, painting, poet ...
Time: 19th century, year 1979, victorian era, georgian era, 1840s ...
Place: yorkshire, france, europe, england, united kingdom ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 6.5
 458
Edo Porn (1981)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story: The world-famous woodblock artist Hokusai, a widower in need of a steady income, lives with his daughter Oei in the house of his friend Bakin.
Style: manga, jidai geki, erotic
Plot: nude model, female nudity, painter, art, single father, master apprentice relationship, suicide by hanging, obsession, father daughter relationship, biopic, fetish, samurai ...
Time: 19th century, 1840s
Place: japan, mount fuji
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