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Young Andersen (2005)
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Young Andersen (2005)
Original name: Unge Andersen
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Denmark, Norway, Sweden
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A powerful modern film narrative, set in a historical framework, about the crucial encounter between vulnerable eighteen-year-old Hans Christian Andersen, who rates himself so highly, and Mr. Meisling, the cynical school principal. An encounter that fundamentally transforms Hans Christian's life.
Style: period piece
Plot: writers, poet, inspiration, biopic, school, friendship, memories, teen rebel, coming of age, storytelling, loss of friend, hans christian andersen
Time: 19th century
Place: denmark

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, serious, realistic and touching films with plots about writers, biopic, poet, writing, art, literature and writer's life mostly in Biography, Drama and History genres. Some movies like Young Andersen: The Professor and the Madman (2019), To Walk Invisible (2016), The Last Road (1986), Anton Chekhov 1890 (2015), Leopardi (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Professor and the Madman (2019)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA, Mexico, UK, France, Belgium, Iceland, Ireland, Hong Kong
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid 19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dr. William Minor.
Style: captivating, disturbing, thought provoking, powerful, inspirational ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night, date night
Plot: professor, mental patient, biopic, direction and purpose, friendship, winston churchill, society, shared dream, book, writers, psychology, scientist ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1870s
Place: england, oxford university
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To Walk Invisible (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story: To Walk Invisible takes a new look at the extraordinary Brontë family, telling the story of these remarkable women who, despite the obstacles they faced, came from obscurity to produce some of the greatest novels in the English language.
Style: captivating, cult classic, historical drama, dark, gothic ...
Plot: writers, sisters, female writer, novelist, publisher, women, family relations, historical figure, social relations, writer's life, sister, life ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1840s
Place: yorkshire
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The Last Road (1986)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 101 min.
Story: About the death and the 'last road' of Aleksandr Pushkin, the leading poet and writer of Russia, who was shot on a duel at age 37. Pushkin was defending the reputation of his wife and mother of his four children - Nataly. She was a center ...
Plot: writers, poet, love, death, revenge, widow, jealousy, husband wife relationship, children, duel
Time: 19th century
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
Anton Chekhov 1890 (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Summer 1890. In order to make some money to feed his family, Anton Chekhov, modest physician, wrote short stories for newspapers to sign Antosha Tchékhonté. Important characters, writer and editor, just make him aware of his talent. His situation ...
Style: serious, realistic, psychological, captivating, gloomy ...
Plot: literature, writers, writer's life, biopic, tuberculosis, family relations, couple relations, obsession, life is a bitch, siblings relations, artists and showbiz, convict ...
Time: 19th century
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Leopardi (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 143 min.
Story: A luminously beautiful biopic of the celebrated eighteenth-century Italian poet, essayist and philosopher Giacomo Leopardi, who created immortal verse whilst struggling with a debilitating illness.
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, captivating, historical drama
Plot: poet, enlightenment, poetry, prodigy, biopic, writer's life, unrequited love, romanticism, society, family problems, writers, father son relationship ...
Time: 19th century
Place: italy, europe, naples italy, rome italy, southern italy ...
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The Demons of St. Petersburg (2008)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 118 min.
Story: St. Petersburg, 1860. A member of the imperial family is assassinated. A few days later, the writer Fëdor Michajlovic Dostoevskij meets with Gusiev, a young man committed to a psychiatric hospital. Gusiev confesses that he took part in the ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, psychological, suspense, historical drama
Plot: writers, writer's life, murderer, private investigation, historical figure, terrorist, terrorist plot, murder, murder investigation, revolutionary, historical character, poet ...
Time: 19th century
Place: russia, st. petersburg russia
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A Few People, a Little Time (2005)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The unusual bond between a blind female writer and an acclaimed poet changes their lives and forms an exceptional creative cooperation, free of politics and the complexities of mundane life.
Plot: poet, writers, disability, odd couple, poetry, blindness, friend, blind woman, homosexual, friendship, inspiration, journal ...
Time: 70s
Place: poland
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Mark Twain and Me (1991)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Dorothy Quick, A young girl befriends the famous writer, Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemans during the final years of his life.
Audience: kids
Plot: biopic, coming of age, civil war, ship, aspiring writer, old man, writers, family relations, friendship, girl, father daughter relationship, 11 year old ...
Time: 1900s
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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Genius (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, literary editor at Scribner’s Sons is the first to sign such subsequent literary greats as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. When a sprawling, chaotic 1,000-page manuscript by an unknown writer named ...
Style: period piece, talky, touching, intellectual, informative ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: writers, novelist, genius, storytelling, book editor, mentor, biopic, obsession, eccentricity, creativity, art, writer's life ...
Time: 1930s
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Becoming Astrid (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 123 min.
Story: When Astrid Lindgren was very young something happened that affected her profoundly, and this combination of both miracle and calamity came to shape her entire life. It was an event that transformed her into one of the most inspiring women of our ...
Style: captivating, thought provoking, romantic, touching, retro
Plot: biopic, writers, woman, older man younger woman relationship, pregnancy, love affair, marriage proposal, baby, female nudity, female protagonist, newspaper, poet ...
Time: 1930s, 1920s, 80s
Place: stockholm sweden, denmark, eastern europe, copenhagen, scandinavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
The Bronte Sisters (1979)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In a small presbytery in Yorkshire, England, living under the watchful eyes of their aunt and father, a strict Anglican pastor, the Bronte sisters write their first works and quickly become literary sensations.
Style: realistic, serious, gloomy, contemplative, period drama ...
Plot: writers, art, women, biopic, writer's life, winter, disease, tuberculosis, fire, historical event, painting, poet ...
Time: 19th century, year 1979, victorian era, georgian era, 1840s ...
Place: yorkshire, france, europe, england, united kingdom ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Miss Austen Regrets (2007)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An outwardly confident but unmarried woman on the verge of her fortieth birthday reflects on her past suitors and the choices she once made while attempting to help her marriage minded niece choose between a number of potential suitors in this tale ...
Style: realistic, stylized, period piece, captivating, melancholic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: writers, introspection, love and romance, regret, looking for love, society, maid, countryside, sister sister relationship, women, love, world war one ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, regency period
Place: england, london, europe, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
The Dreamer of Oz (1990)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The film is the biography of Frank Baum, the children's book author and creator of the fantasy world Oz.
Plot: writers, wizard of oz, poet, fantasy world, literary, shakespeare, biopic, imagination, book, children's book
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
A Season in Hell (1971)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Biopic about the life of the French poet Arthur Rimbaud.
Plot: biopic, writers, gay subtext, poetry, death, decadence, slave trader, poet, flashback, gunrunner, bisexual, french giallo
Place: africa, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Saving Lincoln (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The almost entirely true story of Abraham Lincoln and his self-appointed bodyguard, U.S. Marshal Ward Hill Lamon - a banjo-playing Southerner who foiled repeated attempts on the President's life, and kept him functioning during the darkest ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, stylized
Plot: american civil war, civil war, head of state, state affairs, danger, friendship, historical event, abraham lincoln, death of son, assassination plot, storytelling, biopic ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s, year 1958
Place: usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Zelda (1993)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Story: Biopic about Zelda Fitzgerald, as played by Natasha Richardson
Plot: writers, art, girl, poet, alcoholism, eccentricity, mental illness, husband wife relationship, marriage, schizophrenia, modernism, mental patient ...
Time: 1920s
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Oscar (1985)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
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Story: In the summer of 1891, Oscar Wilde first met Lord Alfred Douglas — an encounter that will dramatically and tragically change both of their lives.
Plot: male prostitution, writers, poet, historical event, hustler, male prostitute, prison, sodomy, older man younger man relationship, gay interest
Time: 19th century
Place: ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Cezanne and I (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story: They loved each other with the ardor of thirteen-year-old boys. Rebellion and curiosity, hopes and doubts, girls and dreams of glory – they shared it all. Paul was rich, Emile poor. They went skinny-dipping, drank absinthe, starved, only to ...
Style: factual, realistic, exciting, captivating, contemplative ...
Plot: painter, friendship, art, artist, painting, nude painting, novelist, end of friendship, portrait, seaside, infidelity, art history ...
Time: 1890s, 19th century, 1870s, 1880s, victorian era ...
Place: south of france, paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Louis Cyr : The Strongest Man in the World (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Canada
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Biopic of Louis Cyr, strongest man in the world at the end of the 19th Century.
Style: realistic, captivating, touching, serious
Plot: strong man, ambition, performer's life, rise to the top, artists and showbiz, rising to stardom, humble, biopic, strongman, world
Time: 19th century
Place: quebec, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Magic Beyond Words: The J.K. Rowling Story (2011)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Magic Beyond Words: The J.K. Rowling Story is a made-for-TV film starring Australian actress Poppy Montgomery. The film, which was shot in B.C. Canada locations altered to look like British locations, details the journey of struggling single mother ...
Style: serious, sentimental, realistic, touching, sincere ...
Audience: kids
Plot: biopic, multiple sclerosis, writers, rising to stardom, writer's life, school, family relations, rise to the top, ambition, artists and showbiz, single parent, single mother ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 80s, 21st century
Place: england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Butterfly's Dream (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 138 min.
Story: In a small Turkish town, two young tuberculous poets try to survive while publishing their poems. As they both fall in love, their life would never be the same.
Style: serious, sincere, captivating, realistic, touching ...
Plot: poet, world war two, poetry, love and romance, friendship, hopes, bet, poverty, lifestyle, follow your dream, teachers and students, competition ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: turkey, istanbul turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Dreams of Love - Liszt (1970)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music, Romance
Country: Hungary, Soviet Union
Duration: 171 min.
Story: This is a romantic biographical film about Franz Liszt. In a distinguished saloon of Paris, the unknown composer, Liszt, defeats the renown Thalberg at a piano competition. Through his playing, he wins the favours and later the hand of the countess ...
Style: period piece
Plot: composer, musician, biopic, male female relationship, jealousy, adultery, love, concert, piano, passion, pianist
Time: 19th century
Place: soviet union, paris france, russia, hungary
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Maria Graham: Diary of a Residence in Chile (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Chile, UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A true story of passion and political intrigue in early nineteenth century Chile, based on the memoirs of the intrepid travel writer, Maria Graham.
Plot: biopic, ship, diary, history of chile, latin american history
Time: 19th century, 1820s
Place: chile
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42%
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Edo Porn (1981)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story: The world-famous woodblock artist Hokusai, a widower in need of a steady income, lives with his daughter Oei in the house of his friend Bakin.
Style: manga, jidai geki, erotic
Plot: nude model, female nudity, painter, art, single father, master apprentice relationship, suicide by hanging, obsession, father daughter relationship, biopic, fetish, samurai ...
Time: 19th century, 1840s
Place: japan, mount fuji
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Molière (1978)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 260 min.
Story: Jean-Baptiste Poquelin is raised by his father and his grandfather because his mother dies when he's still very little. He works as a handyman, studies the law at a university and travels the country as an actor before he becomes the celebrated ...
Style: weird, period drama
Plot: writers, art, poet, time machine, historical event, playwright, theater, killing a horse, misery, carnival, king of france, starvation ...
Time: 17th century
Place: france, versailles, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Karl May (1974)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: West Germany
Duration: 187 min.
Story: This ethereal, three-hour biopic is the middle film in Hans-Jürgen Syberberg’s “German Trilogy” on the mythological foundations of the Third Reich. By fusing theater, music, and cinema, Syberberg conjures up Karl May (1842-1912), the ...
Style: visual, surreal, avant garde
Plot: writers, poet, divorce, flashback, journalist, death, past, male protagonist, breaking the fourth wall, symbolism, novelist, dictator ...
Place: germany
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40%
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All Is True (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A look at the final days in the life of playwright William Shakespeare.
Style: captivating, tense, touching, psychological, historical drama ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: playwright, british history, shakespeare, historical figure, father daughter relationship, family secret, death of son, retirement, church, tudors, writers, biopic ...
Time: ancient times, 17th century
Place: united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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The Outlaw (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Spain, Brazil, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A chronicle of the life of Spanish playwright and poet Lope de Vega, who dominated Spain’s early Golden Age of Theatre in the 16th Century. Lope returns home from war and enters the theatre world when a producer’s beautiful daughter takes a ...
Style: captivating, serious, clever, realistic, stylized ...
Plot: playwright, love affair, love and romance, love triangle, lifestyle, writers, womanizer, artists and showbiz, writer's life, employer employee relationship, sex scene, scandal ...
Time: 16th century, middle ages
Place: spain, europe, portugal
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Austria, Germany, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Before Dawn charts the years of exile in the life of famous Jewish Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, his inner struggle for the "right attitude" towards the events in war torn Europe and his search for a new home.
Style: exciting, thought provoking, captivating, sincere, touching ...
Plot: writers, literature, husband wife relationship, exile, world war two, writing a book, ex husband ex wife relationship, judaism, art, sociology, politics, biopic ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, year 1941, year 1942, year 1936
Place: germany, new york, buenos aires argentina, brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Mary Shelley (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, Luxembourg, USA, Ireland, Australia
Duration: 120 min.
Story: The love affair between poet Percy Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin resulted in the creation of an immortal novel, “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.”
Style: stylized, serious, atmospheric, costume drama, period piece ...
Audience: date night
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Time: 19th century, regency period, 1810s
Place: london, scotland, switzerland
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