Movies like James Dean 2001
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James Dean (2001)
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The man behind the legend and a knowing look at the 1950's Hollywood are revealed in this dynamic bioepic of the meteoric star whose troubled life echoed his gut-grabbing performances in East of Eden, Rebel Without A Cause and Giant.
Style:
sentimental, serious, realistic, captivating, clever
Plot:
hollywood, actor, father son relationship, actor's life, filmmaking, dying young, prodigy, ambition, rise and fall, lifestyle, rising to stardom, addiction, life is a bitch, teenage life, tragic hero, artists and showbiz, desire for fame, celebrity culture, gay, homosexual, death of mother, sports car, alcohol abuse, hipster, musician ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, 1940s, 1930s, 1950s
Place:
usa, new york, malibu california, indiana, santa monica california
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and touching films with plots about artists and showbiz, lifestyle, hollywood, celebrity culture, ambition, actor's life and showbiz mostly in Biography, Drama and Music genres. Some movies like James Dean: Norma Jean & Marilyn (1996), Life (2015), The Brittany Murphy Story (2014), Sal (2011), The Audrey Hepburn Story (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
This film follows Norma Jean from her simple, ambitious youth to her sex star pinnacle and back down. She moves from lover to lover in order to further her career. She finds fame but never happiness, only knowing seduction but not love.
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Time:
1940s, 60s, 50s
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, Canada, Australia, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
In 1955, young photographer Dennis Stock develops a close bond with actor James Dean while shooting pictures of the rising Hollywood star.
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serious, realistic, captivating, psychological, thought provoking
Plot:
hollywood, actor's life, magazine, showbiz, friendship, actor, celebrity, buddy, celebrity culture, movie star, life, photographer ...
Time:
20th century, 50s, year 1955
Place:
usa
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A look at Brittany Murphy's rise to Hollywood fame in the 1990s, her struggles with celebrity and self-esteem, and her mysterious death in 2009 at the age of 32.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, sentimental
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rising to stardom, rise and fall, desire for fame, ambition, actor's life, celebrity culture, artists and showbiz, parents and children, mental illness, death of daughter, death of wife, lifetime ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1990, year 2009, 21st century
Place:
usa, new jersey, puerto rico
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45%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
James Franco's Sal chronicles the final hours of the life of actor Sal Mineo, one-time teen idol and star of the blockbuster films Rebel Without a Cause and Exodus.
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realistic, serious, touching, sincere, atmospheric ...
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gay, actor's life, introspection, ambition, lifestyle, hopes, artists and showbiz, friendship, celebrity, murder, lgbt, train ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1976
Place:
usa, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
The film spans from Hepburn's early childhood to the 1950s which details her life as a Dutch ballerina, coming to grips with her parents' divorce, and enduring life in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II. She then settles in ...
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uplifting, feel good, serious, emotional, sentimental ...
Plot:
hollywood, actor's life, world war two, showbiz, celebrity culture, performer's life, rising to stardom, childhood, human spirit, artists and showbiz, haunted by the past, filmmaking ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 50s, 60s
Place:
usa, new york, holland, europe, manhattan new york city
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44%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
An unauthorized chronicle of the life of Roman Polanski.
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realistic, serious, thought provoking, captivating, sexy ...
Plot:
prodigy, ambition, life is a bitch, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, filmmaking, celebrity culture, unfulfillment
Time:
70s, 60s
Place:
europe, usa
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39%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The gaudy rise and dizzy fall of the last great Hollywood blonde bombshell: Jayne Mansfield.
Style:
captivating, uplifting, realistic, serious, gloomy ...
Audience:
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Plot:
hollywood, actor's life, publicity, movie business, publicity stunt, celebrity culture, rich and poor, power relations, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, desire for fame, unfulfillment ...
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37%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Bettie Page was America's number one pin-up girl in the 1950s and became a cult icon. This biopic tells the story of the last 3 years of her short-lived career, recreating the incriminating bondage films which gave her the nickname "Dark ...
Style:
serious, realistic, sexual, captivating, sexy
Plot:
actor's life, desire for fame, rise and fall, friendship, celebrity culture, destructive relationship, showbiz, workplace romance, fashion, life is a bitch, workplace, obsession ...
Time:
50s, 20th century
Place:
tennessee, new york, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
TV drama based on Richard Burton's diaries, about his last performance in 1983 with ex-wife Elizabeth Taylor. They meet after several years and he agrees to her suggestion that they star in a stage revival on Broadway of Noel Coward's ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, serious, stylized
Plot:
actor's life, couple relations, artists and showbiz, couples, celebrity culture, hollywood, love, art, love affair, showbiz, love and romance, lifestyle ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1983
Place:
usa, los angeles, manhattan new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Born Vickie Lynn Hogan, she had a son at 18, became a stripper at 20, and married a billionaire at 26. Sheer determination turned her into Anna Nicole Smith, playmate, model and a household name.
Style:
sexy, realistic, serious, captivating
Plot:
rising to stardom, lifestyle, physical appearance, celebrity culture, artists and showbiz, hollywood, rags to riches, older man younger woman relationship, marriage, fame, single mother, drugs ...
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90s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A biographical movie on the film star Errol Flynn's early life before Hollywood fame.
Style:
touching, sentimental, realistic, serious
Plot:
lgbt, hollywood, gays and lesbians, artists and showbiz, prostitute, lifestyle, ambition, folk hero, prodigy, actor's life, criminal heroes, adventurer ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s
Place:
australia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
"Piñero" tells the story of the explosive life of a Latino icon, the poet-playwright-actor Miguel Piñero, whose urban poetry is recognized as a pre-cursor to rap and hip-hop. After doing time in hard-core Sing-Sing for petty thefts and ...
Style:
disturbing, intense, factual, stylized, touching ...
Plot:
drug abuse, addiction, writers, rise and fall, rising to stardom, lifestyle, ambition, drug addiction, prison, couple relations, society, human nature ...
Time:
80s, 70s
Place:
new york, usa, empire state building manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, puerto rico ...
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32%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
This is the story of actress Frances Farmer, her struggles with mental illness and involuntary confinement in an insane asylum.
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, gloomy, emotional
Plot:
hollywood, mental illness, mental patient, mental institution, couples, artists and showbiz, love and romance, state affairs, media, life is a bitch, actor's life, performer's life ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s
Place:
washington d.c., seattle
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32%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Voluptuous beauty Anna Nicole Smith marries an elderly millionaire and poses for Playboy, but after her husband's death, her excessive drinking, pill-popping and weight fluctuations take their toll.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, thought provoking, sexy
Plot:
playboy, celebrity, rise and fall, starlet, ambition, rising to stardom, desire for fame, celebrity culture, drug addiction, female protagonist, pole dancing, blonde ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place:
usa
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31%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Film biography of actor-comedian W.C. Fields, concentrating on his years in Hollywood and his relationship with aspiring actress Caroltta Monti.
Style:
realistic, serious, parody, silent film
Plot:
hollywood, filmmaking, couples, artists and showbiz, ambition, actor's life, relationship vs career, alcohol abuse, rivals, dwarf, wax museum, rain ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s
Place:
usa, california, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The rise and fall of salsa singer, Héctor Lavoe (1946-1993), as told from the perspective of his wife Puchi, who looks back from 2002.
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, disturbing, sentimental
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, new york, puerto rico
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30%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 215 min.
Story:
The Amazing Howard Hughes is a 1977 television movie about American aviation pioneer and filmmaker Howard Hughes, based on the book by Hughes' business partner Noah Dietrich. The film starred Tommy Lee Jones, Ed Flanders, and Tovah Feldshuh.
Style:
realistic, serious, sentimental
Plot:
aviation, hollywood, bus, aviator, lifestyle, unfulfillment, mentally unstable, misfit, rise to the top, ambition, obsession, adventurer ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
usa, california
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30%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Ray Danton plays the title role in director Joseph M. Newman's 1961 film biography of the nightclub dancer-turned-movie star. The cast also includes Jayne Mansfield, Barrie Chase, Julie London, Neville Brand and Frank Gorshin.
Style:
realistic, serious, stylized, psychotronic, slang
Plot:
gangsters, hollywood, actor's life, revolution, gambling, casino, movie star, fashion, couples, nightclub, drug abuse, celebrity culture ...
Time:
1940s, 50s, 1920s, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
cuba, new york, california, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Hollywood drama loosely based on the life of film actress Jean Harlow, with Carroll Baker in the title role. One of two feature film biographies, both released in 1965 and both with the same title, about the '30s platinum blonde movie star.
Style:
sexy, sexual, serious, realistic
Plot:
hollywood, actor's life, rise and fall, women, cult, wedding, showbiz, filmmaking, fashion, couples, voyeurism, celebrity culture ...
Time:
1930s, 1920s
Place:
los angeles, usa
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29%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Renowned writer F. Scott Fitzgerald is living the last months of his life with his youthful secretary, confidant, and protégé who later wrote a memoir of their time together.
Style:
serious, realistic, clever, emotional, gloomy ...
Plot:
prodigy, couples, showbiz, terminal illness, life is a bitch, mental illness, crumbling marriage, split personality, love and romance, ambition, lifestyle, family problems ...
Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
In 1926 the tragic and untimely death of a silent screen actor caused female moviegoers to riot in the streets and in some cases to commit suicide...
Style:
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Audience:
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Time:
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Place:
california, usa, los angeles, new york, mexico
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Biography of rock star Jimi Hendrix chronicles his early career, including a stint with Little Richard who fired him for getting too flamboyant, to his tragic failure.
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, gloomy
Plot:
musician's life, ambition, prodigy, rising to stardom, music band, tragic hero, artists and showbiz, rise and fall, life is a bitch, drug abuse, overdose, hotshot hero ...
Time:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A tell-all story of what happened behind the scenes of the 70s hit TV series "The Brady Bunch." Based on the book written by Barry Williams, the actor who played Greg Brady.
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Chronicles Whitney Houston's rise to fame and turbulent relationship with husband Bobby Brown.
Style:
realistic, emotional, serious, touching, sincere
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
A biography about the love affair between 1930s Hollywood superstars Clark Gable and Carole Lombard.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, sexual, stylized, sexy
Audience:
date night
Plot:
hollywood, actor's life, tragic love, love, quest, filmmaking, world war two, superstar, ghost, journalism, life is a bitch, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 50s
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The story of singer Rosemary Clooney's rise to fame, her marriage to Jose Ferrer, and her nervous breakdown.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching
Plot:
showbiz, friends, couples, actor's life, tragic hero, prodigy, performer's life, musician's life, artists and showbiz, unfulfillment, rising to stardom, rise and fall ...
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60s, 50s, 1940s
Place:
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27%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
On the set of Cleopatra, Hollywood's most beautiful star, Elizabeth Taylor, fell into the arms of one of the world's greatest actors, Richard Burton - and she didn't leave. Their subsequent white-hot, scandalous love affair gave rise ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
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Style:
uplifting, realistic, sincere, sentimental, political ...
Plot:
president, politics, disability, ambition, rise and fall, society, rebellion, fighting the system, human spirit, hopes, introspection, life is a bitch ...
Time:
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26%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Germany
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
A biography of Hildegard Knef, one of Germany's biggest post-war stars.
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, sentimental, atmospheric ...
Plot:
world war two, performer's life, musician's life, artists and showbiz, older man younger woman relationship, nazi germany, showbiz, desire for fame, rise and fall, celebrity culture, love affair, music ...
Time:
1940s, 50s, 60s, 20th century
Place:
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26%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The fairy tale story of the actress who became a princess is told in this biography that traces her rise from Philadelphia socialite to Hollywood movie star.
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious
Audience:
date night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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