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Wojaczek (1999)
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
melancholic, intense, art house, bleak, avant garde, stylized, grim, period drama
Plot:
poet, biopic, suicide, tragedy, scandal, rebellion, self destructing, tragic hero, character study, alcoholism, literary, existentialism, angst, bohemian, counterculture, anti conformist, obsession, youth, nightlife, legacy, realism, mourning, generation gap, friendship, urban ...
Time:
60s, 1960s
Place:
poland
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, period drama, art house and intense films with plots about biopic, character study, obsession, writers, poet, literary and isolation mostly in Drama, Biography and Romance genres. Some movies like Wojaczek: A Season in Hell (1971), Oscar: The Color of Destiny (2008), Zina (1985), The Smell of Humans (2022), Manto (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Duration: 130 min.
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Time:
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Place:
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Plot:
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140
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
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suicide, exile, mental illness, character study, biopic, tragedy, obsession, female protagonist, identity crisis, alienation, political repression, claustrophobia ...
Time:
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Place:
berlin germany, soviet union, ussr
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
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Style:
reflective, lyrical, melancholic, bleak, emotional ...
Plot:
humanity, poetry, poet, memory, biopic, literary, haunting, survival, loss, resilience, oppression, anti semitism ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
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Duration: 127 min.
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Time:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
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Duration: 175 min.
Story:
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Plot:
playwright, poet, character study, biopic, life is a bitch, relationship problems, money problems, dream, poverty, creative process, ambition, literary ...
Time:
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Place:
stockholm sweden
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78%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Time:
80s
Place:
rome italy
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77%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia
Duration: 168 min.
Story:
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biopic, death, writer's life, character study, insomnia, introspection, isolation, spiritual journey, social injustice, memory, writers, flashback ...
Time:
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152
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
1920s
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542
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
1920s
Place:
portugal, lisbon portugal
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 77 min.
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Time:
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Place:
rome italy, sicily
Similarity:
71%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
melancholic, costume drama, period drama
Plot:
writers, poet, death, duel, tragedy, biopic, grief, loss, mourning, tragic hero, honor, russian empire ...
Time:
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Place:
russia
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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138
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
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Duration: 128 min.
Story:
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Duration: 100 min.
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Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
playboy, biopic, celebrity culture, fame, ambition, wealth, controversy, modeling, sexually liberated, entrepreneurship, glamour, nightlife ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: Spain
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Story:
Enric Marco, a Spanish trade unionist, claims to be a survivor of Nazi concentration camps.
Style:
thought provoking, historical drama, non fiction, bleak, tense ...
Plot:
holocaust, fraud, biopic, reputation, scandal, moral ambiguity, investigation, shame, ethical dilemma, character study, testimony, betrayal ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
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Similarity:
64%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Soviet Union, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
bleak, melancholic, tense, intellectual, grim ...
Plot:
repression, biopic, political persecution, tragedy, courtroom, historical figure, idealism, ideology, communism, totalitarianism, trial, revolutionary ...
Time:
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Place:
soviet union, eastern europe, moscow russia
Similarity:
64%
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Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, sincere, disturbing, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
poet, love affair, relationships, biopic, female protagonist, couple relations, writer's life, writers, lifestyle, love interest, female writer, historical figure ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
contemplative, poetic, art house, reflective, emotional ...
Plot:
friendship, visual impairment, intimate, female writer, literary, empathy, poet, writers, everyday life, communication, minimalism, confined ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Sweden, Austria, West Germany, Denmark
Duration: 383 min.
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Story:
A mini-series about the life of Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter, August Strindberg. He is portrayed as a misogynous, selfish and racial. And he loses everything, for the sake of the art.
Style:
psychological, intellectual, melancholic, realistic, intense ...
Plot:
biopic, painter, playwright, novelist, literary, character study, poet, ambition, obsession, isolation, misogyny, controversy ...
Time:
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Place:
stockholm sweden
Similarity:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
historical drama, poetic, period piece, sensitive, reflective ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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480
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, melancholic ...
Plot:
farm, hopes, love and romance, loss of innocence, resilience, female protagonist, young woman, toxic relationship, mature, small town, longing, naivete ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 240 min.
Story:
Actress Mia Farrow's personal life takes a turn for the worse when she engages in a long relationship with Woody Allen.
Style:
controversial, emotional, intense, psychological, tragic ...
Plot:
biopic, actress, female protagonist, betrayal, relationships, actor, character study, scandal, celebrity, infidelity, private vs public, film industry ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 90s
Place:
new york
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Style:
melancholic, period piece, grim, noir, ambiguous ending ...
Plot:
ethical dilemma, obsession, forbidden love, character study, morality, adultery, guilt, desire, existential crisis, existentialism, sexual repression, romantic obsession ...
Time:
60s, 1900s, 20th century
Place:
stockholm sweden
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Biopoic of actor Győző Szabó's younger years struggling with his drug addiction.
Style:
intense, tense, dark, therapeutic, heavy ...
Plot:
drug addiction, rehabilitation, biopic, psychiatrist, character study, male protagonist, conflict, substance abuse, actor's life, mental health, isolation, obsession ...
Place:
hungary, budapest
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Opening in the seductive style of the sixties, »A Funny Man« uncovers the perennial loneliness that comedian Dirch Passer (Nikolaj Lie Kaas) has found himself in after a fast-tracked rise to fame. He struggles between his own desire to gain ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, comedy drama, period piece, emotional ...
Plot:
comedian, biopic, friendship, showbiz, fame, loneliness, actor's life, lifestyle, social problems, actor, character study, identity crisis ...
Time:
60s
Place:
denmark
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