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Wojaczek (1999)
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 90 min.
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Plot:
poet, art, suicide, mental illness, rebel, scandal, suicide attempt, portrait, tragic event
Time:
60s, 1960s
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, captivating and psychological films with plots about poet, writers, poetry, suicide, artists and showbiz, art and loneliness mostly in Drama, Biography and Romance genres. Some movies like Wojaczek: The Bell Jar (1979), August (2007), The Young Schiller (2005), Angelus novus (1987), Antonia. (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Duration: 107 min.
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 175 min.
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
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competition, poet, new love, female nudity, disease, german history, theater, writers, german culture, theatre milieu
Time:
18th century
Place:
germany
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 80 min.
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The dramatic and scandalous life of the variously renowned and reviled poet, screenwriter and film director Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) is reportedly poorly served in this highly allegorical and intellectual film which focuses rather more on his ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy, Greece
Duration: 96 min.
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Distinguished Italian poet Antonia Pozzi (1912–1938) was among those women who were at odds with the times in which they lived. Her poems record her inability to adapt to social norms and her desire to live fully, and in poetry she sought an ...
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
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Duration: 85 min.
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The poet Jean Sénac is also a radio presenter. A Pied-noir, he opted to stay in Algeria after the country achieved independence in 1962. Ten years later he is monitored by the police of the present regime. His poems have a large public following ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min.
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 97 min.
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From his birth in 1895 through his death in 1968, the gifted Polish naïve artist Nikifor Krynicki (AKA Epifan Drowniak) lived his life and eked out a career cloaked in obscurity - a casualty of both his extreme speech impediment (his tongue was ...
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Duration: 130 min.
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Genre: Biography, Drama
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Duration: 108 min.
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
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The taped performance of Henry Fonda's one-man show was aired as "IBM Presents Clarence Darrow" on September 4, 1974, on NBC.
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scandal, religion, death sentence, lawyer, divorce, science, district attorney, big business, religion versus science, union
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 106 min.
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1936. Giovanni Comini, the youngest Federal in Fascist Italy, is summoned to Rome for a delicate mission: to monitor aging national poet Gabriele D'Annunzio, whose increasingly restless behavior Mussolini fears could damage his alliance with ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min.
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Farmer’s wife and mother of three Hanni worries about her youngest, Magdalena, who’s smaller and more sensitive than her siblings. She gets stomach flu and can’t see well. The doctors prescribe nothing but panaceas, and don’t take her case ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
The rise and fall of the most distinguished Polish-Gypsy poetess Bronislawa Wajs, widely known as Papusza, and her relationship with her discoverer, writer Jerzy Ficowski.
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non-linear, realistic, atmospheric, serious, gloomy ...
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gypsy camp, world war two, gypsy, rise and fall, writer's life, ambition, unfulfillment, artists and showbiz, poetry, poet, fire, writing a book ...
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1940s, 20th century
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poland
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
An aspiring poet in 1950s New York has his ordered world shaken when he embarks on a week-long retreat to save his hell raising hero, Dylan Thomas.
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Duration: 150 min.
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Duration: 103 min.
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Duration: 100 min.
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Plot:
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A fictionalized account of the lives of 1980s Tamil Nadu political icons M. G. Ramachandran and M. Karunanidhi, continuing the tryst between Tamil cinema and Dravidian politics.
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Duration: 106 min.
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Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
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Duration: 110 min.
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