Movies like Stage Beauty

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Stage Beauty (2004)
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Stage Beauty (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA, Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Humble Maria, who outfits top London theater star Ned Kynaston, takes none of the credit for the male actor's success at playing women. And because this is the 17th century, Maria, like other females, is prohibited from pursuing her dream of acting. But when powerful people support her, King Charles II lifts the ban on female stage performers. And just as Maria aided Ned, she needs his help to learn her new profession.
Style: period piece, stylized, humorous, semi serious, romantic, costume drama, historical drama, clever, witty, sexual ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot: gender bending, mistaken identity, gender, cross dressing, actor, mistress, actor's life, lifestyle, overnight success, life is a bitch, human nature, downfall, artists and showbiz, women, art, women's rights, ambition, rehearsal, monarch, court, theater, viking, lgbt, time machine, age difference ...
Time: 17th century, victorian era, year 2004, 18th century, 19th century, victorian
Place: london, england, europe, egypt
Keyword: french

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sexual and independent film films with plots about couples, sex, artists and showbiz, female nudity, love and romance, lgbt and gender mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Stage Beauty: Shakespeare in Love (1998), The Merchant of Venice (2004), The Garden (1990), Interior. Leather Bar. (2013), Vanity Fair (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Shakespeare in Love (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Young Shakespeare is forced to stage his latest comedy, "Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter," before it's even written. When a lovely noblewoman auditions for a role, they fall into forbidden love -- and his play finds a new ...
Style: romantic, inspirational, sweet, sexy, period piece ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: forbidden love, cross dressing, shakespeare, gender disguise, writer's life, love and romance, theater, couples, love story, lovers, playwright, passion ...
Time: 16th century, 90s, middle ages, ancient times, year 1998 ...
Place: england, london, europe, britain
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100%
The Merchant of Venice (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Italy, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: In 16th century Venice, when a merchant must default on a large loan from an abused Jewish moneylender for a friend with romantic ambitions, the bitterly vengeful creditor demands a gruesome payment instead.
Style: sexy, period piece, talky, melancholic, stylized ...
Plot: shakespeare, renaissance, religious intolerance, women, friends, love and romance, judaism, trial, prejudice, segregation, culture clash, life is a bitch ...
Time: 16th century, middle ages, ancient times, year 2004
Place: venice, italy, israel, middle east, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Importance of Being Earnest (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Two young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym ("Ernest") on the sly, which is fine until they both fall in love with women using that name, which leads to a comedy of mistaken identities...
Style: entertaining, period piece, witty, feel good, costume drama ...
Audience: date night, family outing, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: mistaken identity, false identity, love story, happy ending, twists and turns, couples, social differences, comedy of errors, friendship, comedy of manners, disorder, farce ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, edwardian era, 1800s, year 2002 ...
Place: england, london, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 6.4
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The Garden (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Germany, Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A nearly wordless visual narrative intercuts two main stories and a couple of minor ones. A woman, perhaps the Madonna, brings forth her baby to a crowd of intrusive paparazzi; she tries to flee them. Two men who are lovers marry and are arrested by ...
Style: realistic, serious, thought provoking, art house, disturbing ...
Plot: gay, life is a bitch, society, gender, injustice, christ allegory, humiliation, torture, passion, religion, art, surrealism ...
Time: 80s
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Interior. Leather Bar. (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
Story: Filmmakers James Franco and Travis Mathews re-imagine the lost 40 minutes from "Cruising" as a starting point to a broader exploration of sexual and creative freedom.
Style: psychological, disturbing, sexual, independent film, realistic ...
Plot: gay, gay erotica, filmmaking, gay sex, gay interest, gender, lgbtq, gay club, gay love, lifestyle, male male relationship, gay couple ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.2
 23K
Vanity Fair (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK, India
Duration: 141 min.
Story: Beautiful, funny, passionate, and calculating, Becky is the orphaned daughter of a starving English artist and a French chorus girl. She yearns for a more glamorous life than her birthright promises and resolves to conquer English society by any ...
Style: period piece, costume drama, melancholic, emotional, stylized ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: high society, social climbing, aristocrat, rise to the top, female protagonist, rich and poor, blind ambition, couple relations, lovers, life turned upside down, power relations, society ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1820s, 1800s, regency period ...
Place: england, london, britain, europe, bombay india ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 5.7
 3K
Flesh (1968)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A heroin junkie works as a prostitute to support his habit and fund an abortion needed by the girlfriend of his lesbian wife. His seedy encounters with delusional and damaged clients, and dates with drag queens and hustlers are heavy on sex, drugs ...
Style: independent film, erotic, controversial, disturbing, social ...
Plot: male prostitution, gay, lgbt, hot guys, lesbian, erotica, hustler, virus, basement, passion, lgbtq, youth ...
Time: 60s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Super 8? (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Germany, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A down-on-his-luck adult film star sees a chance to make a comeback via a lesbian documentary film-maker, but she is exploiting him to get financial backing for her pet project.
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, offbeat, sexual ...
Plot: gay, lgbtqi, filmmaking, erection, porn star, gay subtext, lgbt, partner, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, gender, misfit partners ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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The Libertine (2004)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 114 min.
Story: The story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and debauched his way to an early grave, only to earn posthumous critical acclaim for his life's work.
Style: period piece, costume drama, melancholic, atmospheric, surreal ...
Plot: writers, libertine, decadence, poet, infidelity, oral sex, biopic, alcoholic, depression, dysfunctional marriage, sexual attraction, lust ...
Time: 17th century, year 2004, ancient times, year 2006, 20th century ...
Place: england, london, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 7.0
 13K
Being Julia (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA, Hungary, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Julia Lambert is a true diva: beautiful, talented, weathly and famous. She has it all - including a devoted husband who has mastermined her brilliant career - but after years of shining in the spotlight she begins to suffer from a severe case of ...
Style: period piece, stylized, emotional, entertaining, witty ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: midlife crisis, older woman younger man relationship, theater, loneliness, women, complex characters, actor's life, love, art, adultery, backstage, vengeance ...
Time: 1930s, year 2004, 20th century, year 1938
Place: england, europe, london, west end london
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Fucking Different (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Fifteen queer crossovers: lesbian filmmakers from Berlin were asked to make a short film about their idea of male gay love and sexuality and, vice versa, gay men were given the task of making a short film about lesbian sexuality and eroticism.
Style: semi serious, witty, humorous, touching, realistic ...
Plot: gender, couple relations, social misfits, gays and lesbians, misfit, sexual relations, looking for sex, love and romance, looking for love, gender bending, society, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 7.3
 138K
An Education (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A coming-of-age story about a teenage girl in 1960s suburban London, and how her life changes with the arrival of a playboy nearly twice her age.
Style: realistic, period piece, costume drama, feel good, romantic ...
Audience: date night, teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: age difference, coming of age, older man younger woman relationship, love affair, lolita, self discovery, teenage girl, betrayal, virginity, teenage life, older man young girl relationship, culture ...
Time: 20th century, year 2009, 1900s, year 1961, 60s
Place: london, france, oxford university, paris france, britain ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Cradle Will Rock (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: A true story of politics and art in the 1930s USA, centered around a leftist musical drama and attempts to stop its production.
Style: talky, entertaining, intellectual, factual, disturbing ...
Plot: artist, art, politics, government, depression, capitalism, greed, world politics, congress, adaptation, justice, manipulation ...
Time: 1930s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: usa, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 7.2
 57K
Quills (2000)
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, realistic, sexual, sexy ...
Plot: rape, sexuality, writer's life, priest, perversion, lust, writers, aristocracy, eccentricity, fetish, sexual tension, sex ...
Time: 18th century, 19th century, year 2000, georgian era, y2k ...
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Dramatisation of Kenny Everett's struggle to achieve personal and professional fulfilment.
Style: semi serious, humorous, witty, sincere, realistic
Plot: gender, couples, couple relations, artists and showbiz, coping, radio dj, gays and lesbians, gay lead character, gay, biopic
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 7.5
 6K
The Dresser (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story: In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand - the dresser, is devoted to the brilliant but tyrannical head of the company. He struggles to support the deteriorating star as the company struggles to carry on during the London blitz. ...
Style: talky, realistic, psychological, gloomy, touching ...
Plot: gay lead character, lgbt, unrequited love, gay, backstage, world war two, friendship, shakespeare, actor, makeover, aging, railway ...
Time: 1940s, year 1983, post world war two, 20th century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Recently divorced career woman Alex Greville begins a romantic relationship with glamorous mod artist Bob Elkin, fully aware that he's also intimately involved with middle-aged doctor Daniel Hirsh. For both Alex and Daniel, the younger man ...
Style: sexy, controversial, mind blowing, psychological, serious ...
Plot: gay, female nudity, bisexual man, lgbt, doctor, gay husband, love triangle, art, open relationship, artist, sex, love story ...
Time: 70s, year 1971, 20th century
Place: london, england, europe, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Killing of Sister George (1968)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: When June Buckridge (Beryl Reid) arrives at her London flat and announces 'They are going to murder me', her long-time lover and doll-cuddling flat mate Alice 'Childie' McNaught (Susannah York) realises that things are going to ...
Style: sexual, dark comedy, independent film, soap opera, sadistic ...
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbian relationship, older woman younger woman relationship, lgbtq, sex, infidelity, satire, jealousy, doll, obsession, female nudity ...
Time: 60s
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Ten Tiny Love Stories (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Ten women give monologues to camera, each remembering a man who was important in their lives.
Style: realistic, talky, sincere, clever, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: loss of virginity, gender, lifestyle, destructive relationship, love affair, looking for love, dangerous attraction, couple relations, unfulfilled love, sexual relations, male female relationship, monologue ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.9
 7K
Jesus' Son (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A young man turns from drug addiction and petty crime to a life redeemed by a discovery of compassion.
Style: independent film, cult classic, grim, dark comedy, psychedelic ...
Plot: addiction, drug, drug addiction, drug abuse, dialogue, existentialism, recovery, dark humor, heroin, redemption, apocalypse, drug addict ...
Time: 70s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: new jersey, chicago, phoenix arizona, iowa, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Tick Tock Lullaby (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 73 min.
Story: A wry interweave film about baby making and how as time marches on the decision gets more intense and less romantic.
Style: semi serious, humorous, talky, independent film
Audience: toddlers
Plot: lesbian, family relations, pregnancy, youth, couples, love and romance, lifestyle, babies and infants, gender, gays and lesbians, lesbian sex, lgbt ...
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 7.1
 21K
Venus in Fur (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Poland
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An enigmatic actress (Emmanuelle Seigner) may have a hidden agenda when she auditions for a part in a misogynistic writer's (Mathieu Amalric) play.
Style: erotic, stylized, sexual, psychological, sexy ...
Audience: adult
Plot: bdsm, masochism, theater, femdom, dominatrix, power relations, audition, female nudity, flirting, fetish, sadomasochism, role playing ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: europe, france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Me and Orson Welles (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: New York, 1937. A teenager hired to star in Orson Welles' production of Julius Caesar becomes attracted to a career-driven production assistant.
Style: talky, emotional, realistic, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: coming of age, art, historical figure, actor's life, youth, teenage life, artists and showbiz, boss and employee, fall in love, blind ambition, mentor, self discovery ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 2008, year 1937
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, grand central station manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Porn Theater (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In a Parisian porn theater, a cashier, a 50-year-old man and a young projectionist are drawn into a complex love affair.
Style: realistic, talky, semi serious, captivating, sexy ...
Plot: infidelity, love triangle, gay sex, couple relations, sexual relations, looking for love, lifestyle, explicit sex, fall in love, friendship, human nature, transvestism ...
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Pornographer (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A socially inept man's amateur porn film wins him a contract with a small-time pornography distribution company, where he faces a series of moral crises and is forced to face his own porn addiction.
Style: sensual, erotic, contemplative, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: prostitute, erotica, pole dancer, sexual abuse, film industry, adult film industry, adult filmmaking, nudity, stripper, porn industry, female nudity, sex ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 7.9
 281K
Boogie Nights (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 155 min.
Story: Set in 1977, back when sex was safe, pleasure was a business and business was booming, idealistic porn producer Jack Horner aspires to elevate his craft to an art form. Horner discovers Eddie Adams, a hot young talent working as a busboy in a ...
Style: stylized, erotic, sexy, talky, black comedy ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, adult
Plot: sex, drug abuse, rise and fall, porn industry, addiction, multiple storylines, disco, drug, cocaine, character study, drug addiction, adult filmmaking ...
Time: 70s, 80s, 90s, year 1997, 20th century ...
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 6.7
 4K
The Dresser (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: One fateful night in a small English regional theatre during World War II a troupe of touring actors stage a production of Shakespeares King Lear. Bombs are falling, sirens are wailing, the curtain is up in an hour but the actor/manager Sir who is ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, sad ...
Plot: world war two, aging, friendship, illness, actor's life, elderly, showbiz, actor, death, adultery, lgbtq, obsession ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
They Shoot Movies, Don't They? ...The Making of 'Mirage' (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: They Shoot Movies, Don't They? is a voyeuristic look at first time director Tom Paulson and the movie he wrote called Mirage. Frank Gallagher is the documentarian whose camera waits and watches as Paulson navigates through a jungle of ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, clever, captivating, mockumentary ...
Plot: lifestyle, ambition, obsession, actor's life, addiction, showbiz, filmmaking, hollywood, blind ambition, artists and showbiz, nothing goes right, media ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 6.3
 25K
Shopgirl (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Mirabelle is a disenchanted salesgirl and aspiring artist who sells gloves and accessories at a department store. She has two men in her life: wealthy divorcée Ray Porter and struggling musician Jeremy. Mirabelle falls in love with the glamorous ...
Style: touching, realistic, emotional, reflective, heartbreaking ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: depression, older man younger woman relationship, fall in love, artist, salesman, love, love story, honest, couples, age difference, lifestyle, unfulfillment ...
Time: year 2005, y2k, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, beverly hills, seattle ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 4.7
 929
The Sex Movie (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Four friends spend an evening together after time apart. Differences in sex and sexuality reveal deep-rooted conflicts and long-hidden longings.
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: introspection, under the surface, couples, lifestyle, love and romance, sexual relations, private vs public, gay, sexuality, friends, sex, sexual fantasy ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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