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The Young Schiller (2005)
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Original name: Schiller
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
historical drama, dramatic, period piece, serious, intense, suspenseful
Plot:
poet, german history, competition, writers, ambition, playwright, biopic, literary, rivalry, sacrifice, palace intrigue, escape, illness, poverty, coming of age, romantic rivalry, desertion, friendship, love triangle, disease, napoleonic wars, new love, female nudity, theater, german culture ...
Time:
18th century, 19th century, 1700s
Place:
germany
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Most similar movies to The Young Schiller
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out historical drama, dramatic, captivating and melancholic films with plots about biopic, writers, poet, ambition, coming of age, friendship and literary mostly in Drama, Biography and History genres. Some movies like The Young Schiller: August (2007), Young Andersen (2005), The Pact (2021), Reis (2017), The Vow (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 175 min.
Story:
A portrait of Swedish writer August Strindberg.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, suspenseful, psychological, emotional ...
Plot:
playwright, poet, character study, biopic, life is a bitch, relationship problems, money problems, dream, poverty, creative process, ambition, literary ...
Time:
19th century, 1870s
Place:
stockholm sweden
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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 ...
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period piece, historical drama, emotional, melancholic, art house ...
Plot:
writers, biopic, coming of age, hans christian andersen, school, character study, personal growth, ambition, identity crisis, isolation, social class, poet ...
Time:
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Place:
denmark
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Denmark, Belgium, Norway, Finland
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Aged 63, Karen Blixen is at the pinnacle of her fame and next in line to win the Nobel Prize for literature. It has been 17 years since she gave up her famous farm in Africa, only to return to Denmark with her life in ruins. Devastated by syphilis ...
Style:
serious, psychological, thrilling, dramatic, captivating ...
Plot:
writers, literary, character study, biopic, relationships, male female relationship, relationship problems, love affair, poet, love and romance, writer's life, life is a bitch ...
Place:
denmark
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Following the life of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a Turkish politician who has been the 12th President of Turkey since 2014.
Style:
historical drama, dramatic, realistic, intense, political drama
Plot:
biopic, rise to power, leadership, ambition, political activism, campaigning, imprisonment, coming of age, childhood, poverty, nationalism, media coverage ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
turkey, istanbul turkey
Similarity:
79%
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172
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
1818 in the Münsterland: Innumerable pilgrims seeking comfort and consolation visit the bedside of Anna Katharina von Emmerich, a nun whose body bears marks of the holy wounds of Christ on her chest, forehead and hands. Clemens von Brentano, an ...
Style:
historical drama, period piece, bleak, meditative, atmospheric
Plot:
spirituality, faith, catholicism, religious, mysticism, loyalty, nun, visionary, redemption, morality, artist, transformation ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
germany
Similarity:
72%
31
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Bliss tells the story of Katherine Mansfield in her early 20s as she leaves New Zealand and begins her journey as a writer.
Style:
historical drama, poetic, period piece, sensitive, reflective ...
Plot:
modernism, biopic, writer's life, female protagonist, coming of age, character study, friendship, literary, female empowerment, writers, teenage girl, tuberculosis ...
Time:
edwardian era
Place:
england
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In the 19th century, young Charles Dickens is a promising young writer who is obsessed with material success in his career. His misguided priorities are soon challenged when he encounters a mysterious little girl. That girl takes Dickens on a ...
Style:
period piece, inspirational, historical drama, reflective, emotional ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
biopic, charles dickens, writer's life, social criticism, literary, christmas, child protagonist, ghost story, coming of age, supernatural, christmas carol, inspiration ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century
Place:
london
Similarity:
60%
59K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A nobleman with a literary flair, the Marquis de Sade lives in a madhouse where a beautiful laundry maid smuggles his erotic stories to a printer, defying orders from the asylum's resident priest. The titillating passages whip all of France ...
Style:
erotic, period piece, sexy, gothic, sexual ...
Plot:
sexuality, writer's life, rape, priest, sex, perversion, steamy romance, aristocracy, eccentricity, fetish, sexual tension, writers ...
Time:
18th century, 19th century, ancient times, year 2000, georgian era ...
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
59%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Biopic about the life of the French poet Arthur Rimbaud.
Style:
melancholic, art house, intense, bleak, period drama
Plot:
biopic, poet, death, flashback, literary, passion, moral ambiguity, exile, tragic love, self destructing, wandering, gay relationship ...
Time:
victorian era
Place:
africa, paris france
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Aleksis Kivi (1834-1872) was a Finnish author who wrote the first significant novel in the Finnish language, "Seven Brothers/Seitsemän veljestä". Although Kivi was among the very earliest authors of prose and lyrics in Finnish language, ...
Style:
sincere, realistic, serious, captivating
Plot:
class society, mental breakdown, art, love interest, friendship, student, creativity, money problems, writers, politics, university, financial problem ...
Time:
1800s, 19th century, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s
Place:
finland
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Russian poet, singer and actor Vladimir Vysotsky was an idol of the 1970s and '80s. In 1980, at the age of 42, he passed away during the Moscow Olympic Games. This is the story of his last great love as handed down to his son from a family ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, dramatic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
drug addiction, musician's life, artists and showbiz, society, addiction, life is a bitch, kgb, songwriter, actor, concert, writers, biopic ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 80s, year 1979
Place:
soviet union, russia, ussr
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
An underprivileged, gifted young black man from Newark reaches Yale University, only for shadows and injustices from his past to threaten his future.
Style:
realistic, psychological, captivating, thrilling, emotional ...
Plot:
biopic, character study, family drama, father son relationship, social commentary, poverty, life is a bitch, social problems, past, confronting the past, social issues, class conflict ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s, 90s, 80s
Place:
yale university
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Sweden, Austria, West Germany, Denmark
Duration: 383 min.
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Story:
A mini-series about the life of Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter, August Strindberg. He is portrayed as a misogynous, selfish and racial. And he loses everything, for the sake of the art.
Style:
psychological, intellectual, melancholic, realistic, intense ...
Plot:
biopic, painter, playwright, novelist, literary, character study, poet, ambition, obsession, isolation, misogyny, controversy ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
stockholm sweden
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Italy, France, Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
The story of Benvenuto Cellinin (1500 - 1571), a soldier and one of the most important craftsmen and artists of Renaissance Italy whose life was marked by many achievements and adventures, but also crimes.
Style:
historical drama, period piece, intense, educational, epic ...
Plot:
renaissance, biopic, pope, painter, sculpture, ambition, artist, politics, rivalry, betrayal, palace intrigue, passion ...
Time:
16th century
Place:
rome italy, italy, florence
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Dorothy Quick, A young girl befriends the famous writer, Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemans during the final years of his life.
Style:
historical drama, period piece, emotional, touching, sentimental ...
Audience:
kids, adult
Plot:
biopic, coming of age, intergenerational friendship, female protagonist, legacy, young girl, heartwarming, character study, family drama, aspiring writer, civil war, families ...
Time:
turn of the century, 1900s, 20th century
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
To win scholarship money for college, Lauren enters the same beauty pageant her mom once dominated in her youth. Lauren is thrust into a dark, toxic world of cutthroat competition and manipulation. Too preoccupied with the pageant, Lauren doesn’t ...
Style:
dramatic, tension, inspirational
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
competition, beauty pageant, ambition, coming of age, rivalry, friendship, illness, manipulation, mother daughter relationship, identity, sacrifice, self discovery ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: Serbia
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Professor Vujić's Hat (Serbian: Sesir profesora Koste Vujica) is a Serbian movie. The story was first presentet as a TV drama in 1972. The story of professor Kosta Vujić who in the mid-19th century taught an extraordinarily talented ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, entertaining, dramatic, reflective ...
Plot:
teacher student relationship, education, historical figure, talented, historical character, lifestyle, teacher, professor, high school life, mentor, biopic, coming of age ...
Time:
19th century, 1860s
Place:
serbia, belgrade
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The professional and personal lives of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello are examined.
Style:
historical drama, dramatic, melancholic, costume drama, period drama
Plot:
hollywood, biopic, showbiz, entertainment industry, behind the scenes, comedy duo, partnership, friendship, burlesque, rise and fall, vaudeville, rivalry ...
Similarity:
41%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Nina (Melina Mercouri) is a former silent-film star from Russia who abandons her career to care for her son. She is a single mother -- the boy's father is a famous actor who wants nothing to do with either Nina or her child. She joins an acting ...
Style:
emotional, poignant, family saga, historical drama, dramatic ...
Plot:
single mother, mother son relationship, struggle, biopic, ambition, migration, identity, coming of age, resilience, survival, immigration, illegitimate child ...
Place:
france, eastern europe, paris france
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: New Zealand, Poland, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
American ballet dancer Joy Womack is accepted into Moscow's infamously tough Bolshoi Ballet Academy, with the dream of becoming a great ballerina.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, dramatic, intense ...
Plot:
ballet, dance, female protagonist, ballerina, dancer, sacrifice, dancing, training, ambition, determination, aspiration, perseverance ...
Place:
moscow russia, russia
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
After star composer Richard Wagner's fatal cardiac arrest in Venice, his Hungarian-Italian-turned-French widow Cosima has a testament faked so she can inherit the family franchise, notably the annual Bayreuth Festspiele festival, 'until ...
Style:
historical drama, family saga, suspenseful, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
legacy, blackmail, fatherhood, trial, biopic, problem, undercover, inheritance, musician, deception, secret, classical music ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s
Place:
germany, venice
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Musical, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Alexander Pushkin is young, brash and adored by high society. He is the star at every ball he attends, his fans revere his poetic talent, and young women dream of winning his attention. However, not even his aristocratic patrons and loyal friends, ...
Style:
lyrical, dramatic, period drama
Plot:
poet, biopic, exile, duel, cultural icon, romanticism, russian empire, legacy, love affair, aristocracy, ambition, tragic hero ...
Time:
18th century, 19th century
Place:
moscow russia
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Netherlands, Germany, South Africa
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Confronted by Apartheid and a father who was Minister of Censorship, Ingrid Jonker searched for a home, searched for love. With men like Jack Cope and André Brink she found much love, but no home. Later, in his first speech to the South African ...
Style:
sexy, realistic, serious, emotional, captivating ...
Plot:
apartheid, writers, fighting the system, writer's life, estrangement, family relations, lifestyle, downfall, parents and children, bittersweet, society, poet ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
africa, south africa, paris france, europe
Similarity:
36%
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412
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Germany, Austria, Czech Republic
Duration: 187 min.
Story:
Bertolt Brecht, a theatre revolutionary, poet of the state, outsider, looks back on his life in 1956, the year of his death, in East Berlin: adolescent provocations in Augsburg during the First World War, early poetic and amorous flights of fancy in ...
Style:
tense, psychological, disturbing, thought provoking, humorous ...
Plot:
playwright, nazi, poet, nazism, world war one, german culture, literature, life, art, biopic, female nudity, poem ...
Time:
1920s, 1940s, 50s, 1950s, 1930s ...
Place:
germany, berlin germany, east germany
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The true story of Robert Elliot Burns, the prisoner who, after being sentenced to a Georgia chain gang, attempted two daring escapes.
Style:
serious, period piece, bleak, historical drama, harsh ...
Plot:
crime and punishment, imprisonment, injustice, escape, escape attempt, biopic, wrongful conviction, forced labor, oppression, realism, survival, brutality ...
Time:
1930s
Similarity:
35%
409
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Trash is a coming of age drama set amongst the poverty stricken trailer parks of the deep South. In a spiraling tale of hatred, love and loyalty, two teenage friends realize that the only way for each of them to escape their miserable futures is by ...
Style:
bleak, harsh, tragic ending, independent film
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
escape, poverty, trailer park, love, loyalty, hate, coming of age, desperation, deep south, betrayal, sacrifice, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
90s, future
Similarity:
35%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
The rise and fall of the most distinguished Polish-Gypsy poetess Bronislawa Wajs, widely known as Papusza, and her relationship with her discoverer, writer Jerzy Ficowski.
Style:
non-linear, realistic, serious, atmospheric, contemplative ...
Plot:
gypsy, gypsy camp, world war two, rise and fall, poet, ambition, writer's life, unfulfillment, writers, poetry, dialogue, biopic ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
poland
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A true intersection story of a teenage boy lives in Black Sea hills whose life is full of struggle, a heroic soldier Ferhat and an uninvited visitor from back of beyond.
Style:
poignant, emotional, serious, heroic, tragic
Plot:
biopic, heroism, moving, teenage protagonist, coming of age, resilience, sacrifice, bravery, small town life, identity, mourning, poverty ...
Time:
year 2017
Place:
black sea, turkey
Similarity:
34%
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:
enlightenment, poet, poetry, prodigy, unrequited love, romanticism, biopic, writer's life, society, family problems, writers, father son relationship ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
italy, rome italy, europe, naples italy, southern italy ...
Similarity:
34%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, literary editor at Scribner’s Sons is the first to sign such subsequent literary greats as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. When a sprawling, chaotic 1,000-page manuscript by an unknown writer named ...
Style:
period piece, talky, touching, intellectual, informative ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
writers, novelist, genius, book editor, book, mentor, brutality, relationships, biopic, literary, jazz, creativity ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
usa, new york, new jersey
Similarity:
34%
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