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Seraphine (2008)
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Original name: Séraphine
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
The tragic story of French naïve painter Séraphine Louis aka Séraphine de Senlis (1864-1942), a humble servant who becomes a gifted self-taught painter. Discovered by prominent critic and collector William Uhde, she came to prominence between the wars grouped with other naïve painters like Henri Rouseau only to descend into madness and obscurity with the onset of Great Depression and World War II.
Style:
sincere, touching, sentimental, surprise ending, heartbreaking, avant garde, independent film, art film, visual, visually stunning ...
Plot:
painter, artist, art, painting, art collector, mental illness, art dealer, world war one, biopic, art history, lifestyle, anti conformity, women, photograph, fame, art exhibition, art critic, religion, skinny dipping, strong female lead, success, philosophy, moving, architecture, girl ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, year 2008, 1920s, 1930s, pre world war one, 20s
Place:
france, europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, period drama and sexy films with plots about painter, art, artist, art history, biopic, painting and famous mostly in Drama, Biography and Romance genres. Some movies like Seraphine: Maudie (2016), The Danish Girl (2015), Bonnard: Pierre & Marthe (2023), Modigliani (2004), Pollock (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, Ireland
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA, Germany, Denmark, Belgium, Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
1920s, 1930s, year 2015, 2010s, 20th century
Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
When French painter Pierre Bonnard met Marthe de Méligny, he didn’t know this self-proclaimed aristocrat would become the cornerstone of his life and work. From this moment, she became more than just a muse for the “painter of happiness”, ...
Plot:
skinny dipping, female pubic hair, female nudity, nudity, painter, death of wife, suicide, death, photograph, drawing, loss of wife, painting ...
Time:
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Place:
paris france
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100%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, Romania, France, Italy, USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Set in Paris in 1919, biopic centers on the life of late Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, focusing on his last days as well as his rivalry with Pablo Picasso. Modigliani, a Jew, has fallen in love with Jeanne, a young and beautiful Catholic girl. ...
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touching, realistic, serious, sad, factual ...
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Time:
20th century, year 1919, 1920s
Place:
europe, france, paris france, south of france
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
In August of 1949, Life Magazine ran a banner headline that begged the question: "Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?" The film is a look back into the life of an extraordinary man, a man who has ...
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Place:
new york, usa, greenwich village manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city, europe ...
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100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA, Belgium
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes involved with a seaside landlady, while his faithful housekeeper bears an unrequited love for him.
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sincere, costume drama, clever, surreal, meditative ...
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Time:
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Place:
london, england, britain, holland
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
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Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Famed but tormented artist Vincent van Gogh spends his final years in Arles, France, painting masterworks of the natural world that surrounds him.
Style:
independent film, melancholic, art film, touching, rough ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1890s, 1880s
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Paul Gauguin feels smothered by the atmosphere prevailing in Paris in the year 1891. Around him, everything is so artificial and conventional: he needs authenticity to renew his art. Failing to convince his wife Mette and his five children to follow ...
Style:
realistic, sincere, serious, captivating, art house ...
Plot:
painter, painting, older man young girl relationship, interracial romance, artist, art, art history, husband wife conflict, money problems, heart attack, biopic, wilderness ...
Time:
19th century, year 2017, victorian era
Place:
tahiti, polynesia, paris france, france, oceania
Similarity:
100%
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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 ...
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20th century, 80s, year 1989, 1930s
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland, england, europe, canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Austria, Luxembourg
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
At the beginning of the 20th Century Egon Schiele is one of the most provocative artists in Vienna. His life and work are driven by beautiful women and an era that is coming to an end. Two women will have a lasting impact on him - his sister and ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, touching, artsy ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
vienna
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Winter, 1915. Confined by her family to an asylum in the South of France - where she will never sculpt again - the chronicle of Camille Claudel's reclusive life, as she waits for a visit from her brother, Paul Claudel.
Style:
sexy, realistic, sincere, costume drama, factual ...
Plot:
art, biopic, painter, separation from family, unfulfillment, art history, artist, nervous breakdown, faith, paranoia, sculpture, painting ...
Time:
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Place:
france, europe
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34%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France, Netherlands, UK, Germany, Italy, USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
The tragic story of Vincent van Gogh broadened by focusing as well on his brother Theodore, who helped support Vincent. Based on the letters written between the two.
Style:
sexy, touching, psychological, scenic, cult classic ...
Plot:
painter, art, artist, painting, biopic, genius, mental disorder, obsession, brother brother relationship, poverty, art history, life is a bitch ...
Time:
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Place:
holland, europe, london, paris france, france
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32%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Austria, France, Germany, UK
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
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thought provoking, stylized, visually stunning, sexual, visual ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Country: France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
year 1915, 1910s, 20th century
Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Denmark, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, touching, sexual ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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28%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Marie Krøyer is hailed as “the most beautiful woman in Europe” and leads a happy marriage life with her husband the great Danish painter P.S. Krøyer and an adorable daughter. However, not everything in her world is as perfect as it seems, and ...
Style:
captivating, emotional, stylized, costume drama, serious ...
Plot:
painter, biopic, family problems, under the surface, mentally unstable, crumbling marriage, self discovery, fall in love, art, nordic, artist, art history ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
27%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
They loved each other with the ardor of thirteen-year-old boys. Rebellion and curiosity, hopes and doubts, girls and dreams of glory – they shared it all. Paul was rich, Emile poor. They went skinny-dipping, drank absinthe, starved, only to ...
Style:
captivating, exciting, factual, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot:
painter, art, friendship, artist, painting, novelist, female nudity, portrait, nude painting, seaside, infidelity, end of friendship ...
Time:
1890s, 19th century, 1880s, victorian era, 1860s ...
Place:
south of france, paris france, france, europe
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27%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
sentimental, period drama
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
27%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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27%
24K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Director Julian Schnabel illustrates the portrait of his friend, the first African-American pop artist Jean-Michel Basquiat who unfortunately died at a young age and just as he was beginning to make a name for himself in the art world. Alongside the ...
Style:
inspirational, stylized, sexy, factual, atmospheric ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
artist, art, graffiti, painter, biopic, drug abuse, painting, drug addiction, friendship, art history, drug, self destructing ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Luxembourg, France, Belgium, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
This film, adapted from a work of fiction by author Tracy Chevalier, tells a story about the events surrounding the creation of the painting "Girl With A Pearl Earring" by 17th century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer. A young peasant maid ...
Style:
enigmatic, erotic, period piece, costume drama, atmospheric ...
Audience:
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Plot:
artist, painter, painting, art, master and servant, sexual tension, nymphet, teenage girl, society, couple relations, maid, portrait ...
Time:
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Place:
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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 ...
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Plot:
artist, painter, painting, biopic, art, art history, sex, artist's model, nudity, male nudity, train conductor, model ...
Time:
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Place:
france, paris france, europe, provence
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 175 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, psychological, intense, touching, heartbreaking ...
Plot:
art, biopic, mental illness, artist, fall in love, obsession, painter, sculptor, storytelling, art history, love, couples ...
Time:
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Place:
france, paris france
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
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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 ...
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23%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: West Germany, France, Austria
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In 1912, in Austria, the painter Egon Schiele is sent to jail accused of pornography with the nymphet Tatjana in his erotic paints. His mate, the model Vally, gets help from a famous lawyer to release him. Then he leaves Vally, marries with another ...
Style:
erotic, heartbreaking, sexy
Plot:
painter, artist, art, art history, painting, biopic, famous, artwork, sex, fashion, world war one, love ...
Time:
1910s
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Greece, Spain, Hungary
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
The story of the uncompromising artist and fighter for freedom, Domenicos Theotokopoulos, known to the world as "El Greco".
Style:
serious, emotional, stylized, captivating, period piece ...
Plot:
painter, art, lovers apart, idealism, tragic hero, politics, prodigy, ambition, self destructing, vengeance, love and romance, society ...
Time:
middle ages, 16th century
Place:
greece, spain, italy, europe, venice ...
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Japan, France
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, intercultural, avant garde ...
Plot:
artist, biopic, painter, art, painting, relationship problems, artists' life, family problems, social problems, world war two, modernism, identity ...
Time:
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Place:
paris france, japan
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
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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:
23%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, France, Germany, Australia, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Paradise Found is a biography about the painter Paul Gauguin. Focusing on his personal conflict between citizen life and his family life and the art scene in Frane. In an incredible imagery montage Gauguin manages to make a successful living in the ...
Style:
realistic, serious, scenic, contemplative
Plot:
painter, survival, lifestyle, prodigy, obsessive quest, ambition, artist, biopic, rise and fall, obsession, life is a bitch, love and romance ...
Time:
ancient times, 19th century, 1890s, 1870s
Place:
tahiti, paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of Valerie Solanas who was a 1960s radical preaching hatred toward men in her "Scum" manifesto. She wrote a screenplay for a film that she wanted Andy Warhol to produce, but he continued to ignore her. So she shot ...
Style:
independent film, disturbing, clever, edutainment, surreal ...
Plot:
art, artist, feminist, writers, lesbian, biopic, women, feminism, painter, true crime, art history, lgbt ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1996, year 1966, year 1968
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
22%
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