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Stevie (1978)
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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:
sexy, uplifting, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy, sexual
Plot:
writers, poet, loneliness, art, medical, girl, drowning, friendship, family relations, adolescence, distopia, forbidden love, misfit, love and romance, life is a bitch, fall in love, couples, society, mentally challenged, social misfits, down on your luck, single parent, working class, disability, writer's life ...
Time:
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 art, writers, death, love and romance, love, marriage and friendship mostly in Biography, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Stevie: My Left Foot (1989), Angela's Ashes (1999), Leonie (2010), Pandemonium (2000), Shadowlands (1986). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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 ...
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touching, inspirational, sincere, unusual plot structure, dramatic ...
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disability, cerebral palsy, irish, artist, working class, handicapped, writers, paralysis, art, poet, painter, mental illness ...
Time:
1930s, 80s, 20th century
Place:
ireland, canada, england, dublin ireland, europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 92 min.
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The story of a son's conflicting memories of his dying father.
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sentimental, emotional, sincere, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
father son relationship, memory, coming of age, teenager, loneliness, reconciliation, family relations, character study, life, parenthood, writers, death ...
Time:
80s, 60s, year 1962, year 1989, 70s
Place:
england, london, brighton
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 145 min.
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Based on the best selling autobiography by Irish expat Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes follows the experiences of young Frankie and his family as they try against all odds to escape the poverty endemic in the slums of pre-war Limerick. The film ...
Style:
emotional, touching, compassionate, sad, serious ...
Plot:
poverty, life is a bitch, ira, injustice, family relations, irish, youth, parents and children, depression, children, society, human nature ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1935
Place:
ireland, new york, brooklyn new york city, england, boston ...
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78%
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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:
uplifting, realistic, serious, stylized, retro
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
single mother, art, family relations, single parent, culture clash, parents and children, artists and showbiz, marriage, husband wife relationship, friendship, friend, baby ...
Time:
20th century, year 1932, year 1929, victorian era, 1920s ...
Place:
japan, asia, mount fuji, tokyo, maine ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Set in England during the early 19th century, Pandaemonium evokes late-1960s America in its depiction of the relationship between Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Linus Roach) and William Wordsworth (John Hannah). Instead of going to Vietnam, Wordsworth ...
Style:
atmospheric, serious, realistic, captivating
Plot:
friendship, betrayal, politics, addiction, drug abuse, prodigy, rise and fall, tragic hero, writer's life, lifestyle, tragic love, idealism ...
Time:
18th century, georgian era, 1790s, 19th century
Place:
france, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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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, talky, uplifting, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
writers, death, faith, cancer, christianity, marriage, art, family relations, family problems, disability, religions or cults, couples ...
Place:
england, europe
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67%
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:
witty, gloomy, sexy, melancholic, depressing ...
Plot:
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england, london, europe, brighton, britain ...
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66%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Story of the relationship between the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.
Style:
emotional, depressing, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
suicide, depression, writers, mental illness, adultery, death, poet, art, tragic love, writer's life, artist, couple relations ...
Time:
50s, 60s, 20th century
Place:
england, london, europe, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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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:
touching, sincere, captivating, emotional, depressing ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
racism, fall in love, self discovery, human spirit, forbidden love, eccentric family, society, social misfits, love and romance, hopes, couples, family problems ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 70s, 50s, year 2003 ...
Place:
africa, south africa, johannesburg south africa
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64%
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.
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sentimental, sweet, touching, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, kids, family outing, chick flick
Plot:
artist, writers, female artist, writer's life, painting, snobbism, art, friendship, family relations, first love, lifestyle, success ...
Time:
19th century, edwardian era, 18th century, 1910s, victorian era ...
Place:
england, london, europe, san francisco
⇓ 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
Plot:
actor's life, couple relations, artists and showbiz, couples, celebrity culture, hollywood, love, art, love affair, showbiz, love and romance, lifestyle ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1983
Place:
usa, los angeles, manhattan new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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
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sentimental, touching, emotional, sweet, factual ...
Audience:
teens, kids, girls' night
Plot:
writers, poet, fall in love, marriage, honest, college, death, writer's life, couple relations, terminal illness, melancholy, love story ...
Time:
50s, 60s, 20th century
Place:
england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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 ...
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australian aboriginal, countryside, strong female lead, aborigine, sexism, australian outback, killing an animal, racism, feminist, animal cruelty, strong female presence, graphic violence ...
Time:
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Place:
australia, melbourne australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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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:
touching, emotional, melancholic, sentimental, depressing ...
Plot:
alzheimer's disease, aging, writers, writer's life, mental illness, love, life & death, women, loneliness, terminal illness, understanding, senior citizen ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 50s
Place:
england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
"Piñero" tells the story of the explosive life of a Latino icon, the poet-playwright-actor Miguel Piñero, whose urban poetry is recognized as a pre-cursor to rap and hip-hop. After doing time in hard-core Sing-Sing for petty thefts and ...
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disturbing, intense, factual, stylized, touching ...
Plot:
drug abuse, addiction, writers, rise and fall, rising to stardom, lifestyle, ambition, drug addiction, prison, couple relations, society, human nature ...
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Place:
new york, usa, empire state building manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, puerto rico ...
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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, sexy, sexual
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
debauchery, obsession, womanizer, radical, writer's life, romanticism, lifestyle, writers, social misfits, society, politics, fall in love ...
Time:
19th century, regency period, 1810s, georgian era
Place:
ottoman empire, yorkshire, london, turkey, india ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, UK, France
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
In 1818, high-spirited young Fanny Brawne finds herself increasingly intrigued by the handsome but aloof poet John Keats, who lives next door to her family friends the Dilkes. After reading a book of his poetry, she finds herself even more drawn to ...
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romantic, touching, sad, emotional, colourful ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
poet, writers, love, love story, art, poetry, friendship, letter, tragedy, couple relations, couples, love affair ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, regency period, 1810s, georgian era
Place:
england, europe, london, australia, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Belgium, Canada, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
The story of American poet Emily Dickinson from her early days as a young schoolgirl to her later years as a reclusive, unrecognized artist.
Plot:
poet, writers, women, art, loneliness, lesbian, recluse, woman, heaven, ecstasy, seminary, death of protagonist ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, 1880s, 1870s, 1860s ...
Place:
massachusetts, boston
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56%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
The true story of Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his ...
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touching, inspirational, emotional, psychological, sincere ...
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disability, nurse, hospital, human spirit, french, paralysis, courage, coma, patient, death, life turned upside down, writers ...
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france, paris france, europe, nepal, hong kong ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
James Herriot is a vet in Yorkshire, England, during the 1940's. He is assigned to the practice of Siegfried Farnon, who (together with his mischievous brother Tristan) already have a successful business. James undergoes a variety of adventures ...
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touching, emotional, sentimental, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
world war two, medical, doctor, veterinarian, small town, countryside, bittersweet, social differences, small town life, culture clash, animal life, love and romance ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s
Place:
yorkshire, england, europe, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France, Netherlands, UK, Germany, Italy, USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
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touching, psychological, scenic, sexy, gloomy ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: New Zealand, Australia, UK, USA
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
Janet Frame grows up in a poor family. She is different than the other kids. She is considered abnormal and locked away in a mental institution for eight years. Everything changes when she starts writing books.
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psychological, touching, sexy, neurotic, erotic ...
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mental illness, writers, depression, mental institution, art, women, children, woman, feminist, child abuse, female nudity, female writer ...
Time:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK, Italy, Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In 1904, in Dublin, James Joyce chats up Nora Barnacle, a hotel maid recently come from Galway. She enchants him with her frank, direct and uninhibited manner, and before long, he's convinced her to come with him to Trieste, where he has a job ...
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realistic, touching, sentimental, sincere, sexy ...
Plot:
novelist, love affair, writers, lifestyle, writer's life, family problems, society, couple relations, love triangle, artists and showbiz, sexual relations, male female relationship ...
Time:
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ireland, italy, dublin ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Finding Neverland is an amusing drama about how the story of Peter Pan and Neverland came to be. During a writing slump play writer J.M. Barrie meets the widowed Sylvia and her three children who soon become an important part of Barrie’s life and ...
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touching, sentimental, emotional, inspirational, clever ...
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kids, family outing, teens, date night
Plot:
single parent, writers, parents and children, friendship, writer's life, death, family relations, peter pan, artists and showbiz, human nature, bittersweet, children ...
Time:
edwardian era, future, 50s, 20th century, 19th century
Place:
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52%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, UK, Russia
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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sentimental, emotional, sexy, factual, melancholic ...
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When a humorous script-reader in her New York apartment sees an ad in the Saturday Review of Literature for a bookstore in London that does mail order, she begins a very special correspondence and friendship with Frank Doel, the bookseller who works ...
Style:
feel good, romantic, sweet, touching, sexy ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
correspondence, friendship, bookstore, writers, death, post war, marriage, dentist, longing, pen pal, love, bittersweet ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, london, england, europe, usa
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Rendered a quadriplegic since a child from a near-fatal neck injury, a young girl fights against all odds to succeed in life from grade school to her acceptance into college under the assistance of her loyal and dedicated mother.
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sincere, uplifting, touching, sentimental, saga ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France, UK, Belgium
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Young, wild poet Arthur Rimbaud and his mentor Paul Verlaine engage in a fierce, forbidden romance while feeling the effects of a hellish artistic lifestyle.
Style:
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Plot:
gay, poet, lgbt, melancholy, gay teenager, male nudity, older man younger man relationship, writer's life, writers, art, age difference, infidelity ...
Time:
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europe, paris france, africa, france, london ...
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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 ...
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melancholic, enigmatic, captivating, sentimental, witty ...
Plot:
homosexuality, friendship, life & death, homosexual, gay interest, filmmaking, gay, depression, loneliness, adaptation, gardener, lgbtq ...
Time:
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Place:
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45%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Based on her acclaimed autobiographical book, THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD tells the story of Novalyne Price, an attractive feisty West Texas schoolteacher and her bittersweet, romantic and turbulent relationship with Robert E. Howard, the great pulp ...
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touching, emotional, sentimental, sexy, stylized ...
Plot:
writers, love story, destiny, friendship, bittersweet, couples, hospital, loneliness, love, summer, melancholy, creativity ...
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Place:
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