Movies like Molière 1978
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Molière (1978)
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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 playwright Molière who impresses firstly the Duke of Orleans and then even King Louis XIV.
Style:
weird
Plot:
writers, art, historical event, playwright, theater, misery, starvation, king of france, carnival, killing a horse, prince, religion, tragedy, actor, royal family, actress, catholicism, death of mother, tuberculosis, law student, rehearsal, farce, bigotry, father son conflict, theatrical troupe ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
france, versailles, paris france
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, serious, realistic and weird films with plots about art, writers, female nudity, royal family, artist, politics and nude mostly in Drama, Biography and History genres. Some movies like Molière: The Rise of Louis XIV (1966), The Bronte Sisters (1979), Vatel (2000), The Youth of Peter the Great (1980), Giordano Bruno (1973). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Biography, History
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Cardinal Mazarin dies, leaving a power vacuum in which the young Louis asserts his intention to govern as well as rule. Mazarin's fiscal advisor, Colbert, warns against Fouquet, the Superintendant who has been systematically looting the ...
Style:
political, epic, baroque, weird
Plot:
king of france, french history, royal family, colonialism, french royalty, musketeer, art, fashion, hunting, police arrest, government, royal court ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
france, versailles
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Genre: Documentary, Biography, Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
Docudrama about the life of Louis XIV nicknamed "the Sun King", the King of France who ran a glamorous court, expanded the borders of France, loved women and parties and built an incredible palace for himself - the Versailles.
Style:
political, weird
Plot:
king of france, palace, womanizer, french history, construction, affair, royal family, french royalty, king, royal court, reenactment
Time:
17th century
Place:
versailles
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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
Plot:
writers, women, art, writer's life, historical event, painting, winter, disease, tuberculosis, fire, sisters, love affair ...
Time:
19th century, 1830s, 1850s, 1840s, georgian era ...
Place:
yorkshire, france, brussels, england, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: France, UK, Belgium
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In 1671, with war brewing with Holland, a penniless prince invites Louis XIV to three days of festivities at a chateau in Chantilly. The prince wants a commission as a general, so the extravagances are to impress the king. In charge of all is the ...
Style:
light, melancholic, tricky, captivating, visually appealing ...
Plot:
king of france, food, betrayal, political intrigue, tragic love, fall in love, power relations, nobility, intrigue, secret love, cooking and food, royal court ...
Time:
17th century, victorian era, 70s
Place:
france, paris france, england, europe, holland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Soviet Union, East Germany
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
The years of the tsar’s adolescence and youth were permeated with deadly danger coming from some of the Boyars, the rebellious Streltsy and Tsarevna Sophia who aspired for power. But already at that early time Peter demonstrates a profound, bright ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
russian empire, prince, royalty, royal family, youth, historical event, mutiny, throne, young man, russian history, czar
Time:
17th century
Place:
russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Flying from his enemies in the Catholic Church, the free thinking philosopher, poet and scientist Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) has found some protection in Venice. But the Roman Inquisition, fearing his influence in Europe, wants to bring him on trial ...
Style:
dramatic, spiritual, captivating, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
female nudity, scientist, burned alive, catholic, writers, philosopher, philosophy, art, church, renaissance, prison, righting the wronged ...
Time:
16th century, 17th century
Place:
rome italy, venice, italy, europe
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47%
Genre: Biography, Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Molière, a down-and-out actor-cum-playwright up to his ears in debt. When the wealthy Jourdain offers to cover that debt (so that Molière's theatrical talents might help Jourdain win the heart of a certain widowed marquise), hilarity ensues.
Style:
witty, semi serious, stylized, humorous, sexy ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love and romance, secret identity, lifestyle, love triangle, couples, dishonesty, actor's life, farce, fall in love, infidelity, mistaken identity, writers ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Drama, History, Music
Country: France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Louis XIV, the French sun-king has two passions, establishing absolute rule over the realm -after decades of religious/civil wars- by divine right and artistic brilliancy as a dancer
Style:
atmospheric, stylized, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
king of france, performer's life, french history, royal family, ballet, dancing, prodigy, playwright, composer, intrigue, dishonesty, love and romance ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
france, versailles, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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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, touching, tense, psychological, sad
Audience:
date night
Plot:
british history, playwright, shakespeare, father daughter relationship, historical figure, family secret, retirement, church, tudors, writers, society, art ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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:
serious, captivating, realistic, clever, stylized ...
Plot:
playwright, lifestyle, love triangle, love affair, love and romance, writers, womanizer, writer's life, artists and showbiz, scandal, employer employee relationship, sex scene ...
Time:
16th century
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Late 17th Century: Anne de Grandcamp and Lucie de Fontenelle, two little girls from Normandy, arrive at the Saint-Cyr school founded by Madame de Maintenon for educating the daughters of impoverished nobles ruined in wars and making them into free ...
Style:
captivating, touching, sincere, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
royalty, women's rights, boarding school, hysteria, mistress, human spirit, youth, obsessive quest, idealism, society, teaching the ways of the world, hopes ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: France
Duration: 160 min.
Story:
History buffs will glory in the riches of Louis, Enfant Roi, others will perhaps find this complex story of intrigues and betrayals in the court of the young king tough sledding. When Louis the Fourteenth (1638-1715) was born, the power of ...
Style:
baroque
Plot:
french history, french royalty, royal family, intrigue, ballet, spaniard, decadence, sibling rivalry, female nudity, court, teenage boy, male nudity ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
france
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42%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In 17th century France, a theater troupe is allowed by its patron to go to Paris to produce an erotic play. The head of the troupe dreams of fame while his wife, the leading actress, and a new leading girl fall for each other.
Plot:
lesbian sex, lesbian, nude, competitor, theatrical troupe, male full rear nudity, patron, female nudity, sex, male nudity, actress, affair ...
Time:
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Place:
paris france
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41%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
17th century
Place:
italy
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40%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Ireland, Switzerland, UK, France, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Style:
melancholic, touching, psychological, rough, art film ...
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: France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 159 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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37%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A dramatised historical account of the rise and fall of Urbain Grandier, a 17th-century Roman Catholic priest accused of witchcraft following alleged demonic possessions of sexually repressed nuns.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, surreal, controversial, bleak ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
france, england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Poland
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In 1945, as Stalin sets his hands over Poland, famous painter Wladislaw Strzeminski refuses to compromise on his art with the doctrines of social realism. Persecuted, expelled from his chair at the University, he's eventually erased from the ...
Style:
avant garde, twist ending, captivating, ambiguous ending, exciting ...
Plot:
art, artist, communism, painting, legal system, father daughter relationship, professor, one legged man, teacher student relationship, loss of mother, life, painter ...
Time:
50s, year 1948, year 1950, year 1952, 1940s
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Country: France, Italy, Spain
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Country: France
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: Canada, USA
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: Austria, Germany, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Country: France
Duration: 176 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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30%
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Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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