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The Soul Keeper (2002)
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Original name: Prendimi l'anima
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy, France, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In the present days, Maria Spielrein and Fraser are in Russia making a research about the life of Sabina Spielrein. In the beginning of the Twentieth Century, this Russian girl was a patient treated by Dr. Jung and later they fall in love for each other and Sabina became his lover. While the researchers read the documents, the romance between Sabina and Dr. Jung is disclosed, in a time of revolution and war.
Style:
psychological, sexual, touching, serious, captivating, erotic, neurotic, spiritual, art house, psychiatric ...
Plot:
love affair, mental institution, mental illness, psychology, nazi occupation, tragic hero, society, doctors and patients, mentally unstable, power relations, experimenting, sex scene, art history, psychiatrist, psychoanalysis, male female relationship, mental health, biopic, world war two, female nudity, guardian angel, relationships, mental disorder, art, hospital ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 1920s, 20th century, 1900s, 30s, 20s ...
Place:
switzerland, russia, europe, moscow russia, zurich switzerland, geneva switzerland, russian
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Most similar movies to The Soul Keeper
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, emotional and captivating films with plots about biopic, love and romance, female nudity, marriage, husband wife relationship, friendship and infidelity mostly in Drama, Biography and Romance genres. Some movies like The Soul Keeper: A Dangerous Method (2011), Vincere (2009), Masters of Sex (2013), Girl, Interrupted (1999), The Children of the Century (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Seduced by the challenge of an impossible case, the driven Dr. Carl Jung takes the unbalanced yet beautiful Sabina Spielrein as his patient. Jung’s weapon is the method of his master, the renowned Sigmund Freud. Both men fall under Sabina’s ...
Style:
psychological, sexy, philosophical, period piece, intellectual ...
Plot:
psychoanalysis, psychology, psychiatrist, mental illness, historical character, sexual perversion, psychologist, adultery, sex, biopic, introspection, psychiatry ...
Time:
1900s, year 1912, 2010s, victorian era, 19th century ...
Place:
switzerland, europe, central europe, vienna, austria ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
The story of the descent into madness of Mussolini's secret first wife, Ida Dasler, who was seduced by his passion and vigour but blind to the fascist dictator's many flaws. A historical drama with the passion, lyricism and tragedy of a ...
Style:
period piece, emotional, sincere, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
dictatorship, fascism, politics, world war one, dictator, male star appears nude, couples, hopes, world war two, cinema, coitus, resistance ...
Time:
1920s, 1940s, 1930s, 1910s, year 2009 ...
Place:
italy, europe, rome italy, milan italy
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
William Masters and Virginia Johnson are real-life pioneers of the science of human sexuality. Their research touched off the sexual revolution and took them from a midwestern teaching hospital to the cover of Time magazine and multiple appearances ...
Style:
sexual, sexy, erotic, captivating, realistic ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
sex, sexuality, strong sexual content, sexual exploration, sexual relations, couple relations, sexual tension, nudity, watching sex, female nudity, sexual dysfunction, sex scene ...
Time:
1950s, 60s, 20th century, 70s, year 1956 ...
Place:
usa, missouri
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line ...
Style:
psychological, crying, gothic, serious, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
mental illness, suicide, coming of age, psychiatric ward, suicide attempt, mental institution, teenage girl, psychiatrist, borderline personality disorder, insanity, female protagonist, mentally unstable ...
Time:
20th century, year 1999, 90s, year 1967, 60s
Place:
usa
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100%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 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, erotic, captivating, stylized, atmospheric ...
Plot:
sexuality, sex, forbidden love, obsessive love, insomnia, love affair, writers, lifestyle, love and romance, destructive relationship, poet, female writer ...
Time:
19th century, 1820s, 1830s
Place:
venice, rome italy, paris france, italy, france ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Viennese doctor Josef Bruer meets with philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche to help him deal with his despair.
Style:
psychological, serious, talky, realistic, sincere ...
Plot:
psychoanalysis, philosopher, doctors and patients, prodigy, downfall, obsession, losing-it hero, introspection, intern, writers, philosophy, psychotherapy ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
austria, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
At Princeton University, John Nash struggles to make a worthwhile contribution to serve as his legacy to the world of mathematics. He finally makes a revolutionary breakthrough that will eventually earn him the Nobel Prize. After graduate school he ...
Style:
psychological, touching, cerebral, dramatic, intellectual ...
Audience:
teens, date night, chick flick, family friendly
Plot:
mathematics, mental illness, schizophrenia, genius, paranoia, insanity, imagination, scientist, prodigy, nobel prize, imaginary friend, mathematician ...
Time:
year 2001, 60s, 1940s, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place:
harvard university, boston, new jersey, detroit, persia ...
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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:
depressing, realistic, psychological, serious, heartbreaking ...
Plot:
suicide, writers, drinking, biopic, death, bipolar disorder, poet, couple relations, mental disorder, art, tragic love, writer's life ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, year 2003, 60s, 20th century
Place:
england, europe, new york, london
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The rise of national socialism in Germany should not be regarded as a conspiracy of madmen. Millions of "good" people found themselves in a society spiralling into terrible chaos. A film about then, which illuminates the terrors of now.
Style:
serious, realistic, disturbing, period piece, romantic drama ...
Plot:
nazi, politics, writers, nazi germany, third reich, moral dilemma, state affairs, society, political unrest, wartime life, holocaust, illicit affair ...
Time:
1930s, year 2008, 20th century, year 1937, year 1933 ...
Place:
germany, europe, berlin germany, paris france
Similarity:
22%
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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:
depressing, sentimental, touching, melancholic, intellectual ...
Plot:
alzheimer's disease, sex scene, writers, female pubic hair, writer's life, skinny dipping, love, biopic, mental illness, bisexual, adultery, making love ...
Time:
year 2001, 20th century, 50s, 90s, 1950s
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Australia, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
Janet Frame grows up in a poor family. She is different than the other kids. She is considered abnormal and locked away in a mental institution for eight years. Everything changes when she starts writing books.
Style:
erotic, psychological, touching, neurotic, spiritual ...
Plot:
writers, mental illness, making love, depression, biopic, schizophrenia, children, art, women, mental disorder, female writer, woman ...
Time:
year 1990, 20th century, 80s
Place:
new zealand, london, paris france
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In 1942 in occupied France, a Jewish refugee marries a soldier to escape deportation to Germany. Meanwhile a wealthy art student loses her first husband to a stray Resistance bullet; at the Liberation she meets an actor, gets pregnant, and marries ...
Style:
contemplative, serious, realistic, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
lesbian, world war two, lgbt, female nudity, world war, biopic, feminist, marriage of convenience, lesbianism, heartache, nazi occupation, swimming pool ...
Time:
year 1983, year 1942, 1950s, year 1952, 50s
Place:
paris france, lyon, france, europe, normandy ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 162 min.
Story:
In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almásy enters into a world of ...
Style:
romantic, sentimental, touching, emotional, scenic ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
world war two, love story, desert, beautiful scenery, tragic love, power of love, love and romance, passion, adultery, sex scene, doomed love, life philosophy ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, year 1944, year 1942, 90s ...
Place:
sahara, italy, ottoman empire, cairo egypt, africa ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
The true story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.
Style:
depressing, disturbing, compassionate, factual, intense ...
Plot:
mental illness, rich and poor, mother daughter relationship, hollywood, insanity, biopic, actor's life, women, lobotomy, courtroom, domineering mother, family relations ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 1930s, 1950s, year 1958 ...
Place:
california, usa, seattle, manhattan new york city, new york
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20%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
Writer Ernest Hemingway begins a romance with fellow scribe Martha Gellhorn.
Style:
serious, stylized, period piece, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
love affair, writers, war correspondent, divorce, biopic, media, spanish civil war, journalism, journalist, fame, world war two, couples ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, 1940s
Place:
europe, usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Canada, China, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
True story of Norman Bethune, a medical doctor who fought for justice in China during Mao's rise to power.
Style:
realistic, serious, epic, suspense, exciting ...
Plot:
japanese history, military, evacuation, politics, world war two, rebellion, hopes, idealism, media, injustice, revolution, medical profession ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, pre world war two
Place:
china, spain, asia, russia, montreal ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The Edge of love is a love story of two feisty women and a brilliant, charismatic poet who love both women. One woman Vera Phillips who is his first love and whom he lost for ten year, while other one is his present wife Caitlin who is adventurous ...
Style:
romantic, period piece, melancholic, sweet, captivating ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
marriage, love triangle, pregnancy, couple relations, jealousy, writers, husband wife relationship, love, infidelity, making love, unfulfillment, dishonesty ...
Time:
1940s, year 2008, post world war two, 18th century
Place:
wales, europe, england, london
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Elizabeth is on the verge of losing her grip on life after she leaves her emotionally fraught home to start college. Quickly, her life takes a turn for the worse: She clashes with her roommate and decides her boyfriend, Rafe, is her sole salvation. ...
Style:
depressing, psychological, sexy, teen, sad ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
mental illness, depression, coming of age, college, teenage girl, suicide attempt, university, therapy, female nudity, borderline personality disorder, drug, adolescence ...
Time:
80s, 2010s, year 2001, 90s, 2000s
Place:
harvard university, austin texas
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, Austria
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A biopic of Alma Mahler, the wife of composer Gustav Mahler (as well as Walter Gropius and Franz Werfel), and the mistress of Oskar Kokoschka.
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, atmospheric, heartbreaking ...
Plot:
painter, biopic, fall in love, artist, family relations, infidelity, passion, prodigy, lifestyle, ambition, love affair, couples ...
Time:
edwardian era, year 2001, 1900s, 20th century, 19th century ...
Place:
austria, new york, vienna, europe
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The life of celebrated but reclusive author, J.D. Salinger, who gained worldwide fame with the publication of his novel, The Catcher in the Rye.
Style:
exciting, thought provoking, captivating, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
writers, world war two, recluse, name calling, writer's life, novelist, obsession, father son relationship, friendship, teenage boy, father daughter relationship, friend ...
Time:
year 1946, 50s, year 2010, year 1939, 20th century
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york, greenwich village manhattan new york city, usa, new hampshire
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Hungary, Germany, Canada, Austria, France, UK
Duration: 181 min.
Story:
The film follows a Jewish family living in Hungary through three generations, rising from humble beginnings to positions of wealth and power in the crumbling Austro-Hungarian Empire. The patriarch becomes a prominent judge but is torn when his ...
Style:
costume drama, erotic, saga, family saga, sad ...
Plot:
holocaust, sex scene, politics, love affair, political unrest, world war two, illicit affair, fascism, nazi, family life, siblings relations, jewish culture ...
Time:
19th century, 1940s, edwardian era, year 1999, 20th century ...
Place:
eastern europe, hungary, israel, sarajevo, serbia ...
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, War
Country: France, Poland, Germany, UK, USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
The true story of pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he ...
Style:
emotional, sad, harsh, reflective, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, survival, genocide, nazi, classical music, wartime, war, nazism, anti semitism, hunger, nazi occupation ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1939, 1930s, year 2002 ...
Place:
poland, germany, europe, eastern europe, central europe ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
In late spring, 1890, Vincent moves to Auvers-sur-Oise, near Paris, under the care of Dr. Gachet, living in a humble inn. Fewer than 70 days later, Vincent dies from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. We see Vincent at work, painting landscapes and ...
Style:
anthology, psychological, serious, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
artist, painter, painting, biopic, art, art history, sex, artist's model, nudity, male nudity, train conductor, model ...
Time:
19th century, year 1991, 1890s, victorian era
Place:
france, paris france, europe, provence
Similarity:
18%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, UK, 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:
sexy, sentimental, period piece, costume drama, factual ...
Plot:
philosophy, betrayal, male virgin, loss of virginity, love and romance, family relations, writer's life, lifestyle, parents and children, poet, art, taboo subject ...
Time:
1910s, edwardian era, year 2009, 20th century, 19th century
Place:
russia, europe, moscow russia
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Waldemar Nods, a young man from Suriname, meets the older Dutch woman Rika van der Lans and they fall in love. In pre-WWII Netherlands they could not be more different. The one black, the other white, 17 years between them and on top of that Rika ...
Style:
sincere, touching, captivating, sentimental, emotional ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
interracial relations, world war two, unlikely couple, coming of age, parents and children, society, love affair, racism, family relations, couples, bittersweet, forceful separation ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 20th century, 1920s
Place:
holland, europe
Similarity:
18%
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:
emotional, serious, realistic, sexy, romantic drama ...
Audience:
toddlers
Plot:
artist, painter, art, womanizer, biopic, love triangle, infidelity, art history, character study, mistress, physical abuse, couple relations ...
Time:
1940s, year 1996, 50s, 20th century, year 1943 ...
Place:
poland, france, paris france, europe, provence ...
Similarity:
18%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
"Frida" chronicles the life Frida Kahlo shared unflinchingly and openly with Diego Rivera, as the young couple took the art world by storm. From her complex and enduring relationship with her mentor and husband to her illicit and ...
Style:
visually appealing, independent film, sexy, emotional, sincere ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
painter, artist, art, painting, female artist, bohemian life, lgbtq, disability, feminism, female protagonist, life, relationships ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, year 2002, 1920s, 20th century ...
Place:
mexico, paris france, empire state building manhattan new york city, mexico city, america ...
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, Switzerland, Australia, Thailand
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A victim from World War II's "Death Railway" sets out to find those responsible for his torture. A true story.
Style:
inspirational, emotional, epic, intense, captivating ...
Plot:
revenge, war, world war two, japanese soldier, autobiography, biopic, japanese occupation, prison, life is a bitch, human spirit, haunted by the past, wartime life ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1980, year 1942
Place:
burma, england, asia, thailand, japan
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In this true story told through flashbacks, Christy Brown is born with crippling cerebral palsy into a poor, working-class Irish family. Able only to control movement in his left foot and to speak in guttural sounds, he is mistakenly believed to be ...
Style:
inspirational, unusual plot structure, touching, sentimental, sad ...
Plot:
disability, cerebral palsy, biopic, artist, working class, writers, paralysis, handicapped, medical, painter, poet, art ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1989, 1930s
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland, england, europe, canada
Similarity:
18%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Brazil
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
Based upon the true story of Olga Benário, the German-born wife of Brazilian communist leader Luís Carlos Prestes. During the dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas (1930-1945) she was arrested and sent to Nazi Germany, where she was put to death in a ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, emotional, contemplative ...
Plot:
nazi germany, world war two, concentration camp, holocaust, wartime life, life is a bitch, dictatorship, biopic, love affair, revolution, politics, confined ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
germany, rio de janeiro, europe, brazil
Similarity:
18%
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