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Leona Helmsley: The Queen of Mean (1990)
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Original name: Leona Helmsley: The Queen Of Mean
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Spanning years of both Harry and Leona Helmsley's cutthroat control of their eponymonous empire, this made-for-TV movie chronicles both the high and low points of the couple's life together.
Style:
sincere, serious, realistic, cynical
Plot:
fraud, couples, manipulation, ambition, rise and fall, dishonesty, unfulfillment, blind ambition, couple relations, cons and scams, biopic, hotel, husband wife relationship, cheating, manipulations, crimes
Time:
80s, 70s, 60s, 50s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sincere films with plots about couples, couple relations, love and romance, unfulfillment, infidelity, love affair and artists and showbiz mostly in Drama, Romance and Biography genres. Some movies like Leona Helmsley: The Queen of Mean: The Color of Time (2012), Power and Beauty (2002), The Carpetbaggers (1964), G (2002), The Boost (1988). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, new york, detroit
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Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, touching, captivating, serious
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
1920s, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
california, usa
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819
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A young Hip Hop star named Summer G falls for a middle to upper class sister while in college. After she rejects him for a fellow social climber, Summer G spends ten years building a Hip Hop empire, then moves to the Hamptons where he finds the ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, sentimental, gloomy ...
Plot:
lovers reunited, unfulfilled love, love triangle, lifestyle, haunted by the past, social differences, tragic love, infidelity, showbiz, love affair, society, betrayal ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, long island, usa
Similarity:
47%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Lenny Brown moves to California to find his fortune in tax shelter investments. When the federal government changes the tax laws, poor Lenny finds himself $700,000 in hock with nowhere to turn. His friend, Joel, introduces him to cocaine to give ...
Style:
bleak, independent film, gloomy, touching, serious ...
Plot:
addiction, drug addiction, drug, alcoholism, recovery, drug abuse, drug addict, cautionary tale, substance abuse, couples, life is a bitch, drug dealing ...
Time:
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Place:
los angeles, usa, mexico, california, new york
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Ambitious but thwarted, Rae Smith meets handsome Marine Paul Saxon, (of the Saxon department store chain), as he passes through Lincoln, Nebraska, on his way home from World War II. There's a definite spark between them but circumstances ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sentimental, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
fashion show, fashion designer, extramarital affair, department store, fashion industry, marriage, feminism, lonely, infidelity, love and romance, life is a bitch, dishonesty ...
Time:
year 1961, 60s, 20th century
Place:
rome italy, new york, usa, paris france, france
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, psychological, atmospheric, contemplative, serious ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, family life, self discovery, introspection, couple relations, family relations, writer's life, couples, unfulfillment, artists and showbiz, playwright, crumbling marriage ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
42%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, atmospheric ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
42%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Standard romantic melodrama from novelist Danielle Steele finds a couple embroiled in marital conflict with a nasty child-custody battle at its center.
Style:
serious, realistic
Plot:
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Time:
20th century, 80s
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, sincere, psychological, touching, sex comedy ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
couple relations, life turned upside down, love affair, love and romance, crumbling marriage, career change, breakup, couples, love, bar owner, suicide attempt, death of child ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ukraine, France, Georgia, Armenia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A film director Sergey Paradjanov creates brilliant films. His nonconformist behavior conflicts with Soviet System. He is committed to prison for being eccentric.
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, stylized
Plot:
filmmaking, prison life, artists and showbiz, couple relations, isolation, maverick, celebrity, prisoner, kgb, filmmaker, biopic, couples ...
Time:
20th century, 50s, 60s
Place:
ukraine, russia, georgia, armenia, caucasus ...
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40%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, touching, humorous, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
friendship, best friend, homecoming, friends, old love, couples, introspection, couple relations, midlife crisis, husband wife relationship, bittersweet, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, touching, sentimental, realistic, offbeat ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, talky, sentimental ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
sentimental, realistic, emotional, serious, inspirational ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Spanning nearly 40 years from 1925 to 1964, two Texas farm boys; straight-arrow Gid and laid-back Johnny fight over the affections of the beautiful and headstrong Molly Taylor, who consistently refuses to marry either of them.
Style:
sincere, touching, serious, realistic
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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Style:
erotic, sexy, sexual, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
spain
Similarity:
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917
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A semi-fictional account of how writer F. Scott Fitzgerald met his wife while he was in the army and stationed in Alabama in 1919.
Style:
contemplative, realistic, serious, sincere, touching
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
alabama
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
60s
Place:
pennsylvania, usa
Similarity:
33%
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Country: China
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, sincere, sentimental, realistic, romantic ...
Audience:
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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: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Style:
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Plot:
wealthy family, family relations, betrayal, rivalry, intrigue, family business, family problems, parents and children, family feud, couple relations, dishonesty, workplace ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, serious, realistic, stylized
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
sincere, realistic, captivating, serious, independent film
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, touching, sincere, psychological, realistic ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, realistic, sexual, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
31%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
1930s, 1940s, 50s, 1950s
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
long distance relationship, lovers apart, couples, relationship vs career, unfulfillment, lifestyle, mental disorder, hot guys, naked man, love, longing, hotel room ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york, chicago
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Film version of the Neil Simon play has three separate acts set in the same hotel suite in New York's Plaza Hotel with Walter Matthau in a triple role. In the first, Karen Nash tries to get her inattentive husband Sam's attention to spruce ...
Style:
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Time:
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Place:
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