Movies like Surviving Picasso
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Surviving Picasso (1996)
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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, intense, romantic, thought provoking, intellectual, enigmatic, melancholic, dramatic ...
Plot:
painter, artist, womanizer, art, love triangle, infidelity, mistress, physical abuse, character study, couple relations, love and romance, love affair, world war two, father daughter relationship, justice, writer's life, art history, older man younger woman relationship, friendship, betrayal, painting, nude, catastrophe, distopia, psychology ...
Time:
1940s, 60s, 50s, 20th century, 40s, 1950s, 1960s
Place:
poland, paris france, las vegas, new jersey, france, europe, provence
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, realistic, serious and sexy films with plots about mentor, storytelling, catastrophe, loneliness, couple relations, relationships and life philosophy mostly in Drama, Romance and Biography genres. Some movies like Surviving Picasso: Howards End (1992), Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003), Total Eclipse (1995), Pollock (2000), Sylvia (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Japan, USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, along with her sister Helen, becomes involved with two couples: wealthy, conservative industrialist ...
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romantic, emotional, stylized, melancholic, talky ...
Audience:
date night
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english countryside, estate, wealthy family, sister sister relationship, infidelity, beautiful scenery, dysfunctional family, inheritance, greed, character study, country house, love triangle ...
Time:
1910s, 19th century, turn of the century, edwardian era, victorian era ...
Place:
england, london
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Luxembourg, France, Belgium, USA
Duration: 100 min.
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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, sincere, thought provoking, stylized, atmospheric ...
Audience:
chick flick
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artist, art, painter, painting, maid, master and servant, jealousy, sexual tension, society, older man younger woman relationship, portrait, fall in love ...
Time:
17th century, 19th century, 18th century
Place:
holland, netherlands, europe
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100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France, UK, Belgium
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Young, wild poet Arthur Rimbaud and his mentor Paul Verlaine engage in a fierce, forbidden romance while feeling the effects of a hellish artistic lifestyle.
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sexy, serious, erotic, psychological, sexual ...
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gay, poet, lgbt, melancholy, gay teenager, male nudity, older man younger man relationship, writer's life, writers, art, age difference, infidelity ...
Time:
19th century, 1870s, victorian era
Place:
europe, paris france, africa, france, london ...
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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 ...
Style:
emotional, inspirational, intellectual, atmospheric, breathtaking ...
Plot:
artist, painter, art, painting, addiction, alcohol abuse, genius, bohemian life, supportive spouse, rise and fall, lifestyle, self destructing ...
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1940s, 20th century, 50s, year 1950, year 1949 ...
Place:
new york, usa, long island, greenwich village manhattan new york city
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62%
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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.
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emotional, depressing, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
suicide, depression, writers, mental illness, adultery, death, poet, art, tragic love, writer's life, artist, couple relations ...
Time:
50s, 60s, 20th century
Place:
england, london, europe, new york
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 139 min.
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His wife having recently died, Thomas Jefferson accepts the post of United States ambassador to pre-revolutionary France, though he finds it difficult to adjust to life in a country where the aristocracy subjugates an increasingly restless ...
Style:
dramatic, sexy, romantic, intellectual, reflective ...
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slavery, interracial romance, revolution, president, french revolution, politics, african american, u.s. president, ambassador, catholicism, mentor, betrayal ...
Time:
18th century, georgian era, 1780s, 19th century
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france, paris france, versailles, new jersey, england ...
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59%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
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When a humorous script-reader in her New York apartment sees an ad in the Saturday Review of Literature for a bookstore in London that does mail order, she begins a very special correspondence and friendship with Frank Doel, the bookseller who works ...
Style:
feel good, romantic, sweet, touching, sexy ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
correspondence, friendship, bookstore, writers, death, post war, marriage, dentist, longing, pen pal, love, bittersweet ...
Time:
1940s, 50s, 60s, 20th century
Place:
new york, london, england, europe, usa
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57%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
The story of the marriage of the poet TS Eliot to socialite Vivienne Haigh-Wood, which had to cope with her gynaeological and emotional problems and his growing fame.
Style:
romantic, psychological, sexy, visually appealing, harsh ...
Plot:
writers, art, women, poet, marriage, love, insanity, nude, nobel prize winner, world war one, mental disorder, redemption ...
Time:
1930s, victorian era, 1910s, 20th century
Place:
england, london, europe, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
On a rainy London night in 1946, novelist Maurice Bendrix has a chance meeting with Henry Miles, husband of his ex-mistress Sarah, who abruptly ended their affair two years before. Bendrix's obsession with Sarah is rekindled; he succumbs to his ...
Style:
romantic, erotic, sexy, intellectual, melancholic ...
Audience:
girls' night
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world war two, obsession, infidelity, obsessive love, jealousy, love, love affair, private detective, betrayal, sex scene, adultery, extramarital affair ...
Time:
1940s, 19th century, 1930s, 20th century, year 1946
Place:
london, england, europe
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56%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted with despair.
Style:
intellectual, talky, witty, clever, sexy ...
Plot:
loveless marriage, female nudity, poetry, prohibition, nude, women, friendship, hotel, addiction, writers, female writer, relationships ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, 1940s, victorian era, 50s ...
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new york, new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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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:
colourful, stylized, emotional, sexy, serious ...
Audience:
chick flick
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artist, painter, art, disability, painting, bohemian life, female artist, lesbian, life, female protagonist, loneliness, adultery ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, 1920s, 20th century
Place:
mexico, paris france, empire state building manhattan new york city, canada, mexico city ...
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54%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
In 1958 New York Diane Arbus is a housewife and mother who works as an assistant to her husband, a photographer employed by her wealthy parents. Respectable though her life is, she cannot help but feel uncomfortable in her privileged world. One ...
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sexy, atmospheric, intense, enigmatic, surreal ...
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photographer, artist, art, bdsm, fall in love, love story, couples, lifestyle, self discovery, love and romance, couple relations, friends ...
Time:
50s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa
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53%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 175 min.
Story:
The life of Camille Claudel, a french scupltor who becomes the apprentice of Auguste Rodin and later his lover. Her passion for her art and Rodin drive her further away from reason and rationality.
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psychological, emotional, intense, touching, heartbreaking ...
Plot:
mental illness, art, artist, sculptor, obsession, fall in love, love, couples, actor's life, love and romance, love affair, painter ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned writer and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets spirited poet Joy Gresham
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sentimental, touching, emotional, sweet, factual ...
Audience:
teens, kids, girls' night
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writers, poet, fall in love, marriage, honest, college, death, writer's life, couple relations, terminal illness, melancholy, love story ...
Time:
50s, 60s, 20th century
Place:
england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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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 ...
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stylized, factual, inspirational, atmospheric, captivating ...
Audience:
chick flick
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artist, art, drug abuse, painter, graffiti, drug addiction, self destructing, society, rising to stardom, rise and fall, human spirit, ambition ...
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80s, 20th century, year 1981
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new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France, UK
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
An intricately plotted tale of thwarted love and betrayal, "The Golden Bowl" tells the story of an extravagantly rich American widower and his sheltered daughter, both of whom marry only to discover that their respective mates, a beautiful ...
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serious, stylized, realistic, sexy, melancholic ...
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adultery, love affair, love triangle, greed, deception, marriage for money, society, dishonesty, family problems, couples, suspense, fall in love ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, 20th century, edwardian era
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england, italy, london, san francisco, new jersey ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
This fictionalized story, based on the family life of writer James Jones, is an emotional slice-of-life story. Jones is portrayed here portrayed as Bill Willis, a former war hero turned author who combats alcoholism and is starting to experience ...
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talky, realistic, clever, sentimental, sexy ...
Plot:
writers, coming of age, friendship, adoption, dysfunctional family, world war two, family relations, father daughter relationship, culture clash, betrayal, life philosophy, adolescence ...
Time:
70s, 60s, 20th century
Place:
paris france, tokyo, france, new england, europe
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52%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Netherlands
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
As society hostess Clarissa Dalloway prepares for another of her legendary parties, she finds herself haunted by figures and scenes from her passionate adolescence.
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talky, sexy, romantic, enigmatic, clever ...
Audience:
girls' night
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mental illness, gender, world war one, lesbian, friendship, british, life philosophy, multiple storylines, adaptation, wartime, beautiful scenery, mentor ...
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18th century, 1920s, 20th century, victorian era, 1890s ...
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england, london, india, asia, europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Coleman Silk is a worldly and admired professor who loses his job after unwittingly making a racial slur. To clear his name, Silk writes a book about the events with his friend and colleague Nathan Zuckerman, who in the process discovers a dark ...
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couples, haunted by the past, loneliness, redemption, character study, brutality, justice, self destructing, tennis, writers, loss of child, dishonesty ...
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1940s, 90s, year 1944, year 1998, 20th century
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new england, massachusetts, new jersey, usa, oxford university
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51%
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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:
touching, emotional, melancholic, sentimental, depressing ...
Plot:
alzheimer's disease, aging, writers, writer's life, mental illness, love, life & death, women, loneliness, terminal illness, understanding, senior citizen ...
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england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Dramatization of the scandalous, long-time love affair between the powerful but married publisher and the chorus girl he helped turn into a Ziegfeld star and 1930s film personality.
Style:
nostalgic
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hollywood, yacht, newspaper, millionaire, wealth, business tycoon, mogul, rich, film history, career, mansion, newspaper man ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
A rule bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with him in post-WWI Britain. The possibility of romance and his master's cultivation of ties ...
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aristocracy, butler, master and servant, nazi, love, housekeeper, melancholy, nazism, domestic servant, class differences, character study, master servant relationship ...
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1930s, 1940s, 50s, 19th century, victorian era ...
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england, britain, germany, europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
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.
Style:
enigmatic, surreal, meditative, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
painter, art, painting, artist, eccentricity, character study, estrangement, ambition, elderly, love and romance, society, couple relations ...
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19th century, 1820s, 1840s, 1830s, victorian era ...
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england, london, holland
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
The portrait of a woman who, at the edge of survival, found a world of meaning.
Style:
realistic, touching, sexy, witty, thought provoking ...
Plot:
writers, swamp, friendship, courage, culture clash, depression, destiny, childhood, unlikely friendships, solitude, aging, character study ...
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florida, new york, usa, new jersey
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50%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden, Italy, Germany, Finland, Norway
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
Scripted by Ingmar Bergman, this very personal film is about a destructive affair which wrecks the marriage of an actress (Marianne) and musician (Markus). Wanting to continue the affair, Marianne moves in with her lover. But she is tormented by ...
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psychological, sincere, atmospheric, lyrical, gloomy ...
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adultery, infidelity, betrayal, parenthood, custody, love affair, fall in love, family problems, crumbling marriage, destructive relationship, rivalry, parents and children ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Ben Stiller plays comedy writer Jerry Stahl, whose $6000-a-week heroin habit had him taking his infant daughter along on his drug runs and doing smack during TV script conferences. Departing detox, Stahl explores memories with survivor Kitty, who ...
Style:
depressing, intense, factual, serious, psychological ...
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drugs, addiction, writers, heroin, drug abuse, husband wife relationship, human nature, drug addiction, lifestyle, life is a bitch, rise and fall, family problems ...
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Place:
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49%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A young girl from an affluent family rebels and becomes involved with a much older photographer.
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disturbing, erotic, touching, sentimental, romantic ...
Audience:
girls' night
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older man younger woman relationship, art, photographer, secrets, love and romance, social differences, society, parents and children, women, dysfunctional family, age difference, coming of age ...
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium, USA, UK, Germany, Italy
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
An acclaimed novelist struggles to write an analysis of love in one of three stories, each set in a different city, that detail the beginning, middle and end of a relationship.
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tricky, intense, twist ending, touching, twisted ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night
Plot:
love, multiple storylines, unfaithful husband, hotel room, guilt, suspense, female nudity, chambermaid, estrangement, couples, lifestyle, love and romance ...
Time:
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Place:
paris france, rome italy, europe, new york, france ...
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49%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Japan, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Biography of the British painter Francis Bacon. The movie focuses on his relationship with George Dyer, his lover. Dyer was a former small time crook.
Style:
sexy, controversial, surreal, enigmatic, talky ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
art, artist, painter, lgbt, subculture, psychology, lgbtq, death, erotica, loneliness, male nudity, violence ...
Time:
90s, 60s, 70s
Place:
paris france, new york, east end london, london
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49%
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:
disturbing, depressing, emotional, compassionate, factual ...
Plot:
mental illness, hollywood, rich and poor, insanity, actor's life, mother daughter relationship, women, family relations, showbiz, rise to the top, life is a bitch, mentally unstable woman ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, 1940s, 50s, 70s
Place:
california, usa, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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