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Surviving Picasso (1996)
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Surviving Picasso (1996)
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, heartbreaking, art film, romantic drama, historical drama, contemplative ...
Audience: toddlers
Plot: artist, painter, womanizer, art, biopic, love triangle, infidelity, art history, mistress, physical abuse, character study, couple relations, love and romance, love affair, painting, world war two, father daughter relationship, justice, writer's life, older man younger woman relationship, friendship, betrayal, psychopath, motivation, age difference ...
Time: 1940s, year 1996, 60s, 50s, 20th century, 1950s, 40s ...
Place: poland, paris france, france, europe, provence, las vegas, new jersey

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, period drama and stylized films with plots about biopic, couples, art, love and romance, artist, artists and showbiz and couple relations mostly in Drama, Biography and Romance genres. Some movies like Surviving Picasso: Carrington (1995), Frida (2002), Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003), Howards End (1992), The Libertine (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Carrington (1995)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 121 min.
Story: The story of the relationship between painter Dora Carrington and author Lytton Strachey in a World War One England of cottages and countryside. Although platonic due to Strachey's homosexuality, the relationship was nevertheless a deep and ...
Style: costume drama, talky, touching, sexual, emotional ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: artist, painter, writers, art, polyamory, lgbt, biopic, art history, glbt, world war one, painting, gay ...
Time: 1930s, 1910s, 1920s, victorian era, year 1915 ...
Place: england, europe, italy, wales, venice ...
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Frida (2002)
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, stylized, colorful, emotional, serious ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: painter, artist, art, painting, disability, female artist, feminism, bohemian life, lesbian, biopic, life, female protagonist ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, 1920s, 20th century, year 2002 ...
Place: mexico, paris france, empire state building manhattan new york city, america, mexico city ...
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Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)
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, period piece, costume drama, stylized, atmospheric ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: artist, painter, art, painting, maid, master and servant, sexual tension, society, older man younger woman relationship, teenage girl, portrait, age difference ...
Time: 17th century, ancient times, year 2003, 19th century, victorian era
Place: holland, netherlands, europe, america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.4
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Howards End (1992)
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 ...
Style: romantic, costume drama, emotional, period piece, stylized ...
Audience: date night
Plot: english countryside, estate, wealthy family, sister sister relationship, family drama, infidelity, inheritance, dysfunctional family, greed, character study, country house, rich snob ...
Time: 1910s, turn of the century, edwardian era, 19th century, year 1992 ...
Place: england, britain, oxford university, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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
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100%
The Hearst and Davies Affair (1985)
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.
Plot: hollywood, biopic, business tycoon, film history, older man younger woman relationship, newspaper publisher, scandal, movie star, power, mansion, age difference, actress ...
Time: 1910s, 1930s, 1920s
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100%
Camille Claudel (1988)
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.
Style: psychological, emotional, intense, heartbreaking, touching ...
Plot: biopic, mental illness, artist, art, painter, sculptor, obsession, storytelling, art history, fall in love, love, couples ...
Time: 19th century, ancient times
Place: france, paris france
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43%
Georgia O'Keeffe (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Biopic of American artist Georgia O'Keeffe and her husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz.
Style: serious, tense, emotional, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: biopic, painter, artist, art, couples, rise to the top, destructive relationship, artists and showbiz, obsession, lifestyle, love and romance, couple relations ...
Time: 20th century, 1920s, 1930s, year 1929, year 1932 ...
Place: usa, new mexico, manhattan new york city, new york, wisconsin
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41%
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Pollock (2000)
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, intellectual, atmospheric, depressing, breathtaking ...
Plot: painter, artist, art, painting, biopic, genius, addiction, alcoholism, bohemian life, art history, rise and fall, supportive spouse ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 1950s, 50s, year 1950 ...
Place: new york, usa, greenwich village manhattan new york city, long island
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Modigliani (2004)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, Romania, France, Italy
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. ...
Style: realistic, touching, serious, sad, factual ...
Plot: painter, painting, artist, prodigy, biopic, art, art history, life is a bitch, addiction, tragic hero, tragic love, couple relations ...
Time: 20th century, 1920s, year 1919
Place: france, paris france, europe, south of france
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39%
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Total Eclipse (1995)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, 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.
Style: serious, costume drama, cult classic, erotic, sexual ...
Plot: gay, poet, lgbt, male nudity, writer's life, homosexuality, gay teenager, melancholy, violence, homoeroticism, homosexual, art ...
Time: 19th century, 1870s, victorian era, ancient times
Place: paris france, africa, europe, france, holland ...
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Summer in February (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The Newlyn School of artists flourished at the beginning of the 20th Century and the film focuses on the wild and bohemian Lamorna Group, which included Alfred Munnings and Laura and Harold Knight. The incendiary anti-Modernist Munnings, now ...
Style: touching, sincere, emotional, serious, retro ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: painter, love triangle, infidelity, biopic, love affair, lifestyle, couples, family relations, unfulfilled love, love and romance, fall in love, couple relations ...
Time: 1910s, 1900s, 20th century, year 1915, pre world war one ...
Place: cornwall, england, london
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37%
The End of the Affair (1999)
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, intellectual, heartbreaking, enigmatic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: world war two, obsessive love, obsession, infidelity, jealousy, love affair, private detective, passion, betrayal, sex scene, adultery, extramarital affair ...
Time: 1940s, year 1999, 1930s, 20th century, year 1946
Place: london, england, brighton, europe
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Basquiat (1996)
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: stylized, factual, inspirational, atmospheric, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: art, artist, graffiti, painter, drug abuse, biopic, painting, drug addiction, art history, drug, self destructing, rising to stardom ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1996, year 1981
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Bride of the Wind (2001)
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, prodigy, lifestyle, ambition, love affair, couples, remarry ...
Time: edwardian era, year 2001, 1900s, 19th century, 20th century ...
Place: austria, vienna, new york, europe
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35%
A Soul Haunted by Painting (1994)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: China, France, Taiwan
Duration: 130 min.
Story: At the beginning of the twentieth century, Yu-liang leaves a brothel in a small Chinese town, to become the second wife of Mr. Pan. While Pan is away at the revolution in Yunnan, Yu-liang learns to paint and takes art classes at the Shanghai Art ...
Style: sincere, sexual, serious, realistic
Plot: biopic, painter, artist, art, famous, ambition, rise to the top, unfulfillment, artists and showbiz, life is a bitch, couples, road not taken ...
Place: china, paris france, france, asia, europe ...
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35%
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Effie Gray (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A look at the mysterious relationship between Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his teenage bride Effie Gray.
Style: emotional, captivating, stylized, realistic, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: biopic, love, art critic, unfulfillment, self discovery, crumbling marriage, couples, love and romance, fall in love, painter, love triangle, art ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, ancient times
Place: england, britain, europe, scotland, london
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Van Gogh (1991)
Genre: Adventure, 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, gloomy, sincere, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot: painter, artist, biopic, painting, art, female nudity, art history, sex, philosophy, architecture, famous, artwork ...
Time: 19th century, year 1991, victorian era, 1890s
Place: france, paris france, europe, provence
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34%
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Shadowlands (1993)
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
Style: sentimental, heartbreaking, touching, melancholic, factual ...
Audience: kids, teens, girls' night
Plot: poet, writers, biopic, marriage, honest, college, death, writer's life, couple relations, terminal illness, melancholy, literature ...
Time: 1950s, year 1993, 60s, 20th century, 50s
Place: england, europe
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34%
84 Charing Cross Road (1987)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: 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: sweet, romantic, touching, sincere, feel good ...
Plot: bookstore, book, correspondence, friendship, writers, post war, marriage, pen pal, dentist, longing, voice over narration, love ...
Time: 1940s, 60s, 1950s, year 1987, 20th century ...
Place: new york, london, england, europe, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 155 min.
Story: Writer Ernest Hemingway begins a romance with fellow scribe Martha Gellhorn.
Style: serious, stylized, psychological, captivating, heartbreaking ...
Plot: writers, love affair, war correspondent, divorce, biopic, media, journalism, spanish civil war, journalist, fame, world war two, couples ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s, 1940s
Place: europe, usa
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34%
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998)
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: cult classic, controversial, heartbreaking, art film, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: art, artist, painter, biopic, lgbt, older man younger man relationship, subculture, psychology, art history, sadomasochism, lgbtq, erotica ...
Time: 90s, 60s, 70s
Place: paris france, east end london, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Quartet (1981)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Quartet is the story of a girl who, adrift with her feckless husband amidst the literati of glittering Paris in the 1920s, becomes entrapped by a rich and sybaritic English couple. Adapted from the wistful, melancholy autobiographical novel by Jean ...
Style: romantic drama, costume drama, independent film, realistic, serious ...
Plot: couples, dancing, prison, male pubic hair, coffee, hotel, theft, performer's life, womanizer, destructive relationship, couple relations, dishonesty ...
Time: 1920s, year 1981
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Paradise Found (2003)
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, obsessive quest, lifestyle, ambition, prodigy, survival, artist, biopic, love and romance, life is a bitch, obsession, tragic hero ...
Time: 19th century, ancient times, 1890s, 1870s
Place: tahiti, paris france, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Wolf at the Door (1986)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Denmark, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: This biographical film, based on the life of French artist Paul Gauguin, follows the painter as he returns to Paris after a long stay in Tahiti and must confront his wife, his children, and his former lover.
Style: sexual, serious, realistic, sincere, touching
Plot: female nudity, biopic, art history, art, artists' life, acid, famous, playwright, nudity, performer's life, society, hopes ...
Time: 19th century, 1890s
Place: paris france, europe, tahiti, france
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33%
Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006)
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 ...
Style: atmospheric, intellectual, intense, surreal, enigmatic ...
Plot: photographer, biopic, photography, art, artist, photograph, couples, bdsm, fall in love, love story, friends, love and romance ...
Time: 20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Artemisia (1997)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653) was one of the first well-known female painters. The movie tells the story of her youth, when she was guided and protected by her father, the painter Orazio Gentileschi. Her professional curiosity about the male ...
Style: erotic, factual, sexual, art film, historical drama ...
Plot: female artist, art, artist, painter, virginity, biopic, women, art history, loss of virginity, renaissance, female nudity, rape ...
Time: 17th century, ancient times, year 1997, 16th century
Place: rome italy, italy, europe
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33%
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Renoir (2012)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The Côte d’Azur. 1915. In his twilight years, Pierre-Auguste Renoir is tormented by the loss of his wife, the pains of arthritic old age and the terrible news that his son Jean has been wounded in action. But when a young girl miraculously enters ...
Style: sincere, touching, scenic, sentimental, historical drama ...
Plot: painter, painting, famous painting, art, artist, art history, world war one, self discovery, fall in love, redheaded woman, wounded soldier, love and romance ...
Time: year 1915, 1910s, 20th century
Place: cote d'azur, france, south of france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Remains of the Day (1993)
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 ...
Style: period piece, costume drama, emotional, romantic, breathtaking ...
Plot: nazi, aristocracy, butler, nazism, housekeeper, master and servant, class differences, master servant relationship, love, domestic servant, estate, older man younger woman relationship ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, 20th century, 1950s, victorian era ...
Place: england, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Children of the Century (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 135 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: atmospheric, stylized, captivating, sexy, visually stunning ...
Plot: sex, love affair, writers, lifestyle, destructive relationship, love and romance, sexuality, obsessive love, forbidden love, poet, female writer, infidelity ...
Time: 19th century, 1820s, 1830s
Place: paris france, italy, venice, france, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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