Movies like Valentino
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Valentino (1977)
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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:
serious, realistic, stylized, campy, offbeat
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
hollywood, dancing, showbiz, gay, world war one, art, sensuality, affair, movie star, age-gap relationship, filmmaking, stepfather stepdaughter relationship, little boy, homosexual subtext, unconsciousness, lovers, historical figure, fame, prison, human spirit, gays and lesbians, ambition, rise and fall, actor's life, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
1920s, victorian era, year 1919, 1910s, 20s
Place:
california, usa, new york, los angeles, mexico
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Most similar movies to Valentino
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, stylized and captivating films with plots about artists and showbiz, cigarette smoking, drinking alcohol, flashback, photographer, dancing and sex mostly in Biography, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Valentino: Salome's Last Dance (1988), James Dean (2001), Burton and Taylor (2013), Factory Girl (2006), Mahler (1974). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Oscar Wilde watches an outrageous staging of his banned play "Salome" at a London brothel, with parts played by prostitutes, Wilde's host, his lover Bosey, and Lady Alice.
Style:
art house, campy, sexy, psychological, semi serious ...
Plot:
erotica, brothel, lgbt, bible, decadence, art, cult, prostitute, obsession, decapitation, prophet, dark humor ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s, victorian era
Place:
london, england
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95%
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, lifestyle, rising to stardom, prodigy, ambition, rise and fall, tragic hero ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, 1940s, 1930s
Place:
usa, malibu california, indiana, santa monica california, new york
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95%
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
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94%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In the mid-1960s, wealthy debutant Edie Sedgwick meets artist Andy Warhol. She joins Warhol's famous Factory and becomes his muse. Although she seems to have it all, Edie cannot have the love she craves from Andy, and she has an affair with a ...
Style:
sexy, factual, melancholic, sentimental, serious ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
art, artist, fashion, drugs, dysfunctional family, addiction, drug addiction, female nudity, mentor, rise and fall, destiny, life philosophy ...
Time:
70s, 60s, 20th century, year 1971, year 1970 ...
Place:
new york, new jersey, california, manhattan new york city, empire state building manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The film begins on a train journey with Gustav Mahler (Robert Powell) and his wife Alma (Georgina Hale) confronting their failing marriage. The story is then recounted in a series of flashbacks (some of which are surrealistic and nightmarish), ...
Style:
art house, stylized, sincere, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot:
composer, female nudity, jewish, classical music, musician, classical composer, psychology, art, artist, railway, family relations, train ...
Time:
19th century, 20th century, turn of the century, 1890s
Place:
austria, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Errol Flynn, the swashbuckling Hollywood star and notorious ladies man, flouted convention all his life, but never more brazenly than in his last years when, swimming in vodka and unwilling to face his mortality, he undertook a liaison with an ...
Style:
disturbing, realistic, serious, touching, sexy ...
Plot:
hollywood, movie star, sexual abuse, womanizer, actor's life, forbidden love, love affair, love and romance, life is a bitch, youth, teenage life, showbiz ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, year 1965, year 1958, year 2010 ...
Place:
new york, los angeles, usa, africa, vancouver ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Stephen Frears directs this biographical drama focusing on controversial British playwright Joe Orton, revealed in flashback after his murder by lover Kenneth Halliwell. Born in 1933 in Leicester, in the English Midlands, John 'Joe' Orton ...
Style:
witty, gloomy, sexy, melancholic, depressing ...
Plot:
gay, writers, lgbt, murder, male nudity, gay cruising, playwright, homosexuality, lgbtq, art, artist, death ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1967, year 1964, 50s ...
Place:
england, london, europe, brighton, britain ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima told in four parts. The first three parts relate events in three of his novels: The temple of the Golden Pavilion, Kyoko's House, and Runaway Horses. The last part depicts the ...
Style:
surreal, serious, atmospheric, intense, art film ...
Plot:
suicide, art, rebellion, friendship, nationalism, writers, radical, emperor, tragic hero, state affairs, writer's life, political unrest ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, post world war two
Place:
japan, mount fuji, kyoto japan, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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.
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, gloomy, touching ...
Plot:
hollywood, john f. kennedy, lgbt, actor's life, showbiz, female protagonist, actress, playboy, celebrity, tragic hero, love and romance, lifestyle ...
Time:
1940s, 60s, 50s
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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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 ⇓
78%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Sir Laurence Olivier is making a movie in London. Young Colin Clark, an eager film student, wants to be involved and he navigates himself a job on the set. When film star Marilyn Monroe arrives for the start of shooting, all of London is excited to ...
Style:
sentimental, romantic, melancholic, factual, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
historical figure, fame, love, hollywood, actress, actor's life, movie star, ambition, cultural icon, women, depression, celebrity ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, year 1956
Place:
england, london, california, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
It's 1957, and Whale's heyday as the director of "Frankenstein," "Bride of Frankenstein" and "The Invisible Man" is long behind him. Retired and a semi-recluse, he lives his days accompanied only by images ...
Style:
melancholic, enigmatic, captivating, sentimental, witty ...
Plot:
homosexuality, friendship, life & death, homosexual, gay interest, filmmaking, gay, depression, loneliness, adaptation, gardener, lgbtq ...
Time:
50s, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, pacific ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Mike Todd is a Broadway producer struggling to produce the film. Around the World in 80 Days. In Mexico, Mario Moreno, a young entertainer is struggling to get some respect, and he manages to become a star. A twist of faith makes them partners. ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, sentimental, cult film
Plot:
filmmaking, hollywood, ambition, rising to stardom, rise to the top, showbiz, actor's life, artists and showbiz, celebrity, husband wife relationship, fame, film history ...
Time:
year 1933, year 1935, year 1956, year 1945, year 1955 ...
Place:
usa, los angeles, mexico, mexico city
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music, Romance
Country: USA, UK, Hungary
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Biography of the African-American who became a major performer in the Paris cabarets of the 1920's and 1930's. The film follows her life beginning as a struggling performer in 1917 St. Louis, her frustrations leading to her move to France, ...
Style:
captivating, uplifting, realistic, emotional, feminist film ...
Plot:
racism, vaudeville, showbiz, cabaret, lifestyle, rising to stardom, african american, performer, ambition, human spirit, follow your dream, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
1930s, victorian era, 1920s, 1910s, 70s ...
Place:
france, paris france, missouri, europe, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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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 ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 170 min.
Story:
A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate, while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe ...
Style:
epic, realistic, stylized, captivating, factual ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
mental illness, success, businessman, aviation, corruption, test pilot, obsessive compulsive disorder, filmmaking, pilot, billionaire, millionaire, character study ...
Time:
1930s, 1920s, 1940s, 50s, 1910s ...
Place:
los angeles, california, new york, connecticut, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A successful TV star during the 1960s, former "Hogan's Heroes" actor Bob Crane projects a wholesome family-man image, but this front masks his persona as a sex addict who records and photographs his many encounters with women, often ...
Style:
sexy, factual, intense, talky, serious ...
Plot:
sex addict, friendship, showbiz, group sex, actor's life, addiction, adultery, character study, serial killer, tv show, filmmaking, hollywood ...
Time:
60s, 70s, 20th century, year 1965, year 1964
Place:
usa, california, los angeles, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Germany, Canada, USA, France
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Six actors portray six personas of music legend Bob Dylan in scenes depicting various stages of his life, chronicling his rise from unknown folksinger to international icon and revealing how Dylan constantly reinvented himself.
Style:
non-linear, stylized, meditative, talky, lyrical ...
Plot:
music, musician, actor, poet, rock, drugs, art, brutality, african american, drug addiction, artist, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
60s, 70s, 50s, 20th century, year 1964 ...
Place:
usa, new york, london, woodstock, harlem ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
9K
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.
Style:
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Liverpool, 1978: What starts as a vibrant affair between a legendary femme-fatale, the eccentric Academy Award-winning actress Gloria Grahame, and her young lover, British actor Peter Turner, quickly grows into a deeper relationship, with Turner ...
Style:
thought provoking, touching, captivating, melancholic
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, doctor, female nudity, terminal illness, promise, femme fatale, dying, breast cancer, lie, mother daughter relationship, actress, love ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s, 80s, year 1981
Place:
liverpool, new york, california, manhattan new york city, empire state building manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Iceland, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Touko Laaksonen, a decorated officer, returns home after a harrowing and heroic experience serving his country in World War II, but life in Finland during peacetime proves equally distressing. He finds peace-time Helsinki rampant with persecution of ...
Style:
homoerotic, realistic, compassionate, serious, romantic ...
Plot:
gay, male homosexuality, lgbt, homosexual history, gay soldier, gay interest, lgbtq, gay slur, homosexuality, naked man, 30 year old, murder ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, post world war two, year 1991
Place:
los angeles, new york, san francisco, helsinki finland, finland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz face a crisis that could end their careers and another that could end their marriage.
Style:
satirical
Plot:
hollywood, marriage, trailblazer, writers, post war, friendship, women, journalism, isolation, art, love, adultery ...
Time:
50s, year 1952, year 1960
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Australia, Canada, USA
Duration: 165 min.
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Story:
A fictional biography of Marilyn Monroe mixed with series of real events in her life.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sincere, contemplative
Plot:
hollywood, starlet, actor's life, historical figure, showbiz, ambition, lifestyle, love and romance, desire for fame, rising to stardom, filmmaking, couples ...
Time:
60s, 50s, 1930s, 1940s
Place:
venice beach california, usa, maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
An acclaimed stage performer, Dorothy still struggled with the challenge of her color, in a time that wouldn't let some stars in by the front door. Yet against the odds she beat out many more famous rivals for the role of "Carmen ...
Style:
thought provoking, captivating, realistic, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
racism, hollywood, women, rape, african american, sexual abuse, interracial romance, trailblazer, women of color, women's rights, black history, female musician ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 50s, 1940s
Place:
usa, manhattan new york city, miami beach, los angeles, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Austria, France, Germany, UK
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
A portrait of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt whose lavish, sexual paintings came to symbolize the art nouveau style of the late 19th and early 20th century.
Style:
thought provoking, stylized, sexy, experimental, talky ...
Plot:
painter, artist, art, painting, prodigy, obsession, sexual relations, lifestyle, ambition, society, against the rules, dying man ...
Time:
20th century, 19th century, year 1918, year 1900, turn of the century
Place:
austria, france, paris france, europe, vienna
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Bettie Page grew up in a conservative religious family in Tennessee and became a photo model sensation in 1950s New York. Bettie's legendary pin-up photos made her the target of a Senate investigation into pornography, and transformed her into ...
Style:
erotic, melancholic, factual, bleak, stylized ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
rape, sexual abuse, photographer, female nudity, fetish, fetishism, female protagonist, investigation, bdsm, model, sexuality, sexual awakening ...
Time:
50s, 1940s, 70s, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
usa, tennessee, new york, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
Based on the best selling autobiography by Irish expat Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes follows the experiences of young Frankie and his family as they try against all odds to escape the poverty endemic in the slums of pre-war Limerick. The film ...
Style:
emotional, touching, compassionate, sad, serious ...
Plot:
poverty, life is a bitch, ira, injustice, family relations, irish, youth, parents and children, depression, children, society, human nature ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1935
Place:
ireland, new york, brooklyn new york city, england, boston ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
1967-1976. As one of history's greatest fashion designers entered a decade of freedom, neither came out of it in one piece.
Style:
captivating, stylized, realistic, serious, eros ...
Plot:
fashion, gay, fashion designer, male nudity, ambition, rise to the top, couple relations, lgbt, scandal, erotica, art, post war ...
Time:
70s, 60s, 20th century, year 1975, year 1972 ...
Place:
paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Paul Snider is a narcissistic, small time hustler who fancies himself a ladies man. His life changes when he meets Dorothy Stratten working behind the counter of a Dairy Queen.
Style:
disturbing, stylized, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
murder, playboy, obsession, crimes of passion, fame, rise and fall, movie business, couple relations, female nudity, true crime, nude model, crumbling marriage ...
Time:
80s, 70s, year 1978
Place:
california, vancouver, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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