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Stevie (1978)
580
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Portrayal of British poet/author Stevie Smith and her life with her beloved aunt through direct dialogue with the audience by Stevie, as well as flashbacks, and narration by a friend. The movie mainly focuses on her relationship with her aunt, romantic relationships of the past, and the fame she received late in her life.
Style:
independent film, uplifting, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy, sexual, sexy
Plot:
poet, writers, biopic, brain tumor, loneliness, art, medical, girl, trippy, drowning, tumor, friendship, family relations, adolescence, forbidden love, misfit, love and romance, life is a bitch, profanity, fall in love, couples, society, mentally challenged, social misfits, down on your luck ...
Time:
year 1978, 70s
Place:
england, paris france, moscow russia, london, buckingham palace, yorkshire
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, touching and sentimental films with plots about biopic, art, poet, writers, love, death and friendship mostly in Biography, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Stevie: Saint-Ex (1996), My Left Foot (1989), Shadowlands (1985), Shadowlands (1993), Miss Potter (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Poetic biography of author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
Plot:
bedouin, writers, art, aviation, world war two, airplane, 007, poet, friend, marriage, wedding, hallucination ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In this true story told through flashbacks, Christy Brown is born with crippling cerebral palsy into a poor, working-class Irish family. Able only to control movement in his left foot and to speak in guttural sounds, he is mistakenly believed to be ...
Style:
inspirational, unusual plot structure, touching, sentimental, sad ...
Plot:
disability, cerebral palsy, biopic, artist, working class, writers, paralysis, handicapped, medical, painter, poet, art ...
Time:
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Place:
ireland, dublin ireland, england, europe, canada
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29%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A play based on the friendship between CS Lewis and Joy Gresham.
Style:
christian film, realistic, serious, talky, uplifting ...
Plot:
writers, poet, jesus, art, death, faith, christianity, cancer, marriage, friendship, biopic, family problems ...
Time:
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Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
sentimental, emotional, sincere, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
teenager, father son relationship, memory, death, coming of age, loneliness, reconciliation, family relations, character study, parenthood, life, writers ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned writer and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets spirited poet Joy Gresham
Style:
sentimental, heartbreaking, sweet, touching, melancholic ...
Audience:
kids, teens, girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
1950s, 60s, 20th century, 50s, year 1993
Place:
england, europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The story of Beatrix Potter, the author of the beloved and best-selling children's book, "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", and her struggle for love, happiness and success.
Style:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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disturbing, stylized, factual, intense, sincere ...
Plot:
drug abuse, writers, addiction, biopic, rise and fall, lifestyle, rising to stardom, drug, prison, drug addiction, society, life is a bitch ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, usa, lower east side manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, empire state building manhattan new york city ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
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Style:
sad, touching, depressing, compassionate, serious ...
Audience:
toddlers, teen drama
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
ireland, new york, brooklyn new york city, europe, usa ...
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Stephen Frears directs this biographical drama focusing on controversial British playwright Joe Orton, revealed in flashback after his murder by lover Kenneth Halliwell. Born in 1933 in Leicester, in the English Midlands, John 'Joe' Orton ...
Style:
independent film, period piece, witty, dark comedy, black comedy ...
Plot:
gay, homosexuality, writers, gay cruising, male nudity, glbt, lgbt, murder, lgbtq, homosexual, gay relationship, biopic ...
Time:
60s, year 1987, 20th century, 1950s, year 1953 ...
Place:
england, europe, australia, morocco, london ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
TV drama based on Richard Burton's diaries, about his last performance in 1983 with ex-wife Elizabeth Taylor. They meet after several years and he agrees to her suggestion that they star in a stage revival on Broadway of Noel Coward's ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, serious, stylized, historical drama ...
Plot:
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Time:
20th century, year 1983, 80s
Place:
usa, los angeles, new york, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
24%
4K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, South Africa
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.
Style:
sincere, touching, captivating, emotional, contemplative ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
year 2008, 20th century, 60s, 50s, 70s ...
Place:
south africa, africa, johannesburg south africa
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Based on the well-loved Australian classic by Mrs. Aeneas Gunn, this is the remarkable true story of Jeannie Gunn, a woman who fought to overcome sexual and racial prejudice amid the harsh beauties of the outback. Leaving her Melbourne existence for ...
Style:
independent film, serious, realistic, uplifting, sincere ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
23%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 124 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: UK, USA
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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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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France, UK, Australia, Germany, Belgium, USA, Japan, Netherlands
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In the lush tradition of the glorious films of Merchant and Ivory, comes the true life story of Leonie Gilmour (Emily Mortimer), whose life crossed continents, wars and cultures, embodied with courage and passion in search of art and freedom. A ...
Style:
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Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
20th century, year 1932, year 1929, victorian era, year 1918 ...
Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer's disease.
Style:
depressing, sentimental, touching, melancholic, intellectual ...
Plot:
alzheimer's disease, sex scene, writers, female pubic hair, writer's life, skinny dipping, love, biopic, mental illness, bisexual, adultery, making love ...
Time:
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Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
22%
12K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Story of the relationship between the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
england, europe, new york, london
Similarity:
22%
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Country: Australia, UK, France
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
victorian era, 19th century, regency period, ancient times, 1810s ...
Place:
england, europe, britain, rome italy, london ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Style:
period piece, touching, emotional, sentimental, cult classic ...
Plot:
writers, destiny, biopic, love story, friendship, mental disorder, bittersweet, couples, hospital, small town, loneliness, love ...
Time:
1930s, year 1996, year 1933, 20th century
Place:
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Similarity:
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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:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
england, europe, london
Similarity:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Australia, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
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Style:
erotic, psychological, touching, neurotic, spiritual ...
Plot:
writers, mental illness, making love, depression, biopic, schizophrenia, children, art, women, mental disorder, female writer, woman ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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211
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
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Style:
sincere, realistic, serious
Plot:
rags to riches, family relations, interracial relations, nightclub, baby, musician's life, rising to stardom, ambition, youth, artists and showbiz, society, parents and children ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
Life and adventures of lord George Gordon Byron. BBC dramatization of the poet's final thirteen years
Style:
serious, realistic, costume drama, crying, romantic drama ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
brother sister incest, womanizer, debauchery, bare breasts, obsession, romanticism, radical, sodomy, passion, writer's life, lifestyle, writers ...
Time:
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Place:
albania, ottoman empire, london, yorkshire, turkey ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Style:
inspirational, psychological, breathtaking, sincere, depressing ...
Plot:
disability, hospital, paralysis, death, coma, stroke, memory, writers, courage, patient, mute or deaf, communication problem ...
Time:
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Place:
france, paris france, europe, hong kong, nepal ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
sincere, touching, sentimental, saga, captivating ...
Plot:
quadriplegic, disability, college, against the odds, hospital, teenage love, lifestyle, family problems, parents and children, tragic hero, society, single parent ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, UK, Russia
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, sentimental, period piece, costume drama, factual ...
Plot:
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Time:
1910s, edwardian era, year 2009, 20th century, 19th century
Place:
russia, europe, moscow russia
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK, Italy, Germany
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
ireland, dublin ireland, italy, europe
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Netherlands, Germany, South Africa
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Confronted by Apartheid and a father who was Minister of Censorship, Ingrid Jonker searched for a home, searched for love. With men like Jack Cope and André Brink she found much love, but no home. Later, in his first speech to the South African ...
Style:
sexy, realistic, serious, emotional, captivating ...
Plot:
apartheid, writers, fighting the system, writer's life, estrangement, family relations, lifestyle, downfall, parents and children, bittersweet, society, poet ...
Time:
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Place:
africa, south africa, paris france, europe
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
It's 1957, and Whale's heyday as the director of "Frankenstein," "Bride of Frankenstein" and "The Invisible Man" is long behind him. Retired and a semi-recluse, he lives his days accompanied only by images ...
Style:
cult classic, enigmatic, melancholic, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot:
homosexuality, lgbtq, gay interest, homosexual, life & death, gay, filmmaking, friendship, biopic, gay lead character, gardener, depression ...
Time:
year 1998, 1950s, 20th century, 50s, 1930s
Place:
pacific ocean, los angeles, california, usa
Similarity:
20%
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