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Haunted Summer (1988)
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Authors Lord Byron, Mary Shelley (née Godwin) and Percy Shelley get together for some philosophical discussions, but the situation soon deteriorates into mind games, drugs, and sex. It is a fictionalization of the summer that Lord Byron and the Shelleys, together with Lord Byron's ex-lover Claire Clairmont and his Doctor John Polidori, spent in the isolated Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva. It is there they devise a contest to adduce the best horror story to kill the dullness of summer. It is also there that one of the world's most famous books was given life—Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
Style:
grindhouse, independent film, gothic, serious, realistic, sexual, intellectual, sexy
Plot:
writers, art, poet, drug use, women, strength, acid, literary, napoleonic era, love and romance, life is a bitch, couples, gays and lesbians, manipulation, mind game, writer's life, mad scientist, drug abuse, artists and showbiz, love, sex, dog, gay, mountain, cave ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s, 1810s
Place:
italy, europe
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Most similar movies to Haunted Summer
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, sexy and stylized films with plots about writers, writer's life, poet, biopic, artists and showbiz, art and writing mostly in Drama, Biography and Romance genres. Some movies like Haunted Summer: Wilde (1997), Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012), Before Night Falls (2000), Nora (2000), The Passion of Ayn Rand (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, Japan
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
The story of Oscar Wilde, genius, poet, playwright and the First Modern Man. The self-realisation of his homosexuality caused Wilde enormous torment as he juggled marriage, fatherhood and responsibility with his obsessive love for Lord Alfred ...
Style:
homoerotic, costume drama, period piece, touching, historical drama ...
Plot:
homosexuality, gay, lgbt, glbt, writers, lgbtq, hypocrisy, male homosexuality, biopic, gay sex, scandal, gay lead character ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, edwardian era, 1880s, year 1997 ...
Place:
ireland, britain, england, europe, london ...
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95%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
Writer Ernest Hemingway begins a romance with fellow scribe Martha Gellhorn.
Style:
serious, stylized, period piece, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
love affair, writers, war correspondent, divorce, biopic, media, spanish civil war, journalism, journalist, fame, world war two, couples ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, 1940s
Place:
europe, usa
Similarity:
90%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Spanning several decades, this powerful biopic offers a glimpse into the life of famed Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas, an artist who was vilified for his homosexuality in Fidel Castro's Cuba.
Style:
atmospheric, bleak, lyrical, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
homosexual, gay, lgbtq, aids, writers, gay latino, childhood, gays and lesbians, poet, novelist, homosexuality, artist ...
Time:
year 2000, 1950s, 2000s, 60s, 70s ...
Place:
cuba, latin america, havana cuba, south america, caribbean ...
Similarity:
88%
2K
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 ...
Style:
realistic, touching, sincere, sentimental, sexual ...
Plot:
love affair, novelist, sex scene, muse, love, poverty, jealousy, male female relationship, writers, lifestyle, writer's life, literary ...
Time:
edwardian era, victorian era, 1900s, 1910s, 20th century
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland, italy, europe
Similarity:
88%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The rather eccentric (especially in her thinking) author of "The Fountainhead" and "Atlas Shrugged" becomes involved with a much younger, and married man... to the dismay of those close to her.
Style:
sexual, political, independent film, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
writers, infidelity, philosopher, individualism, unfaithful husband, libertarian, russian woman, art, biopic, marriage, bookstore, extramarital affair ...
Time:
50s, 60s, 80s, 70s, 1950s ...
Place:
california, new york, manhattan new york city, los angeles
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88%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
He burned with ambition. He lusted for life. He lived for passion. This is the sprawling saga of Honoré de Balzac (Gérard Depardieu), a man who created a great literary oeuvre from the dramas and adventures of his own life - a life that he shaped ...
Style:
contemplative, serious, realistic, clever, stylized ...
Plot:
writers, art, literary, poet, age-gap relationship, family relations, biopic, love and romance, fall in love, betrayal, innocence lost, master and servant ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
france, switzerland, europe, paris france, black sea
Similarity:
87%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
The story of the relationship between painter Dora Carrington and author Lytton Strachey in a World War One England of cottages and countryside. Although platonic due to Strachey's homosexuality, the relationship was nevertheless a deep and ...
Style:
costume drama, sexual, talky, emotional, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
artist, writers, painter, polyamory, art, glbt, biopic, male nudity, world war one, passion, art history, lgbt ...
Time:
1930s, year 1915, victorian era, 1910s, 1920s ...
Place:
england, wales, europe, italy, venice ...
Similarity:
87%
20K
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:
year 2001, 20th century, 50s, 90s, 1950s
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
87%
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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 ...
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:
louisiana, usa, new mexico, texas, ireland
Similarity:
87%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Veronica is brilliant, gifted and beautiful, but the handsome aristocrat she loves, Marco Venier, cannot marry her because she is penniless and of questionable family. So Veronica's mother, Paola, teaches her to become a courtesan, one of the ...
Style:
romantic, sexy, sexual, period piece, witty ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot:
beauty, courtesan, forbidden love, prostitute, medieval, prostitution, love and romance, couple relations, sex, love story, social differences, rich and poor ...
Time:
16th century, ancient times, victorian era, year 1998
Place:
venice, italy, europe, turkey, cyprus ...
Similarity:
86%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
The portrait of a woman who, at the edge of survival, found a world of meaning.
Style:
realistic, touching, uplifting, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
writers, biopic, friendship, rural setting, backwoods, suburbs, art, deep south, poet, past, romantic relationship, wilderness ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s, 1930s
Place:
florida, southern usa, usa, new jersey, new york
Similarity:
86%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Ben Stiller plays comedy writer Jerry Stahl, whose $6000-a-week heroin habit had him taking his infant daughter along on his drug runs and doing smack during TV script conferences. Departing detox, Stahl explores memories with survivor Kitty, who ...
Style:
intense, factual, depressing, serious, cult classic ...
Plot:
addiction, drug, writers, heroin, drug abuse, husband wife relationship, drug addict, human nature, drug addiction, lifestyle, family problems, life is a bitch ...
Time:
year 1998, 90s, 80s, 70s
Place:
los angeles, usa, beverly hills, pittsburgh, new jersey
Similarity:
85%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Mexico, Italy
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Following the banning and burning of his novel, "The Rainbow," D.H. Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, move to the United States, and then to Mexico. When Lawrence contracts tuberculosis, they return to England for a short time, then to Italy, ...
Style:
intellectual, independent film, contemplative, talky, serious ...
Plot:
skinny dipping, writers, age-gap relationship, nudity, biopic, native american, male nudity, bisexuality, playwright, art, poet, naked man ...
Time:
1910s, year 1981, 1920s, 20th century
Place:
italy, mexico, usa, new mexico, england ...
Similarity:
85%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
The passionate Merchant-Ivory drama tells the story of Francoise Gilot, the only lover of Pablo Picasso who was strong enough to withstand his ferocious cruelty and move on with her life.
Style:
emotional, serious, realistic, sexy, romantic drama ...
Audience:
toddlers
Plot:
artist, painter, art, womanizer, biopic, love triangle, infidelity, art history, character study, mistress, physical abuse, couple relations ...
Time:
1940s, year 1996, 50s, 20th century, year 1943 ...
Place:
poland, france, paris france, europe, provence ...
Similarity:
85%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Trapped in a loveless marriage, a troubled writer experiences a sexual awakening when she meets a carefee American in Italy.
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, erotic, independent film ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
writers, sexually dissatisfied wife, older woman younger man relationship, love affair, cheating wife, female writer, neglectful husband, relationship problems, creative block, love and romance, writer's life, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, europe, naples italy
Similarity:
85%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands, Hungary, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Under pressure from his publisher, Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky gets work on his latest piece, 'Rouletenberg'. In the 27 days it takes for him to complete the novel reality and fiction become blurred; in this feverish atmosphere of ...
Style:
stylized, romantic drama, realistic, serious, independent film ...
Plot:
writers, novelist, older man younger woman relationship, gambling, gambling addiction, addiction, gambler, nudity, biopic, redemption, obsession, female nudity ...
Time:
1860s, year 1997, 19th century, 1870s, 1920s ...
Place:
st. petersburg russia, russia, germany, hong kong
Similarity:
84%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
A poetic road trip through Pulitzer prize-winning CK Williams' life over the course of 40 years.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
poetry, parent child relationship, artists and showbiz, couple relations, writer's life, haunted by the past, husband wife relationship, writers, biopic, flashback, professional, art ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 50s, 60s, 80s ...
Place:
usa, new york, detroit
Similarity:
84%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
In 1857, at the height of his fame and fortune, novelist and social critic Charles Dickens meets and falls in love with teenage stage actress Nelly Ternan. As she becomes the focus of his heart and mind, as well as his muse, painful secrecy is the ...
Style:
costume drama, period piece, sentimental, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
love affair, actress, writers, writer's life, forbidden love, biopic, older man younger woman relationship, secret relationship, affair, scandal, secret, marital discord ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, ancient times, 1860s, 1850s ...
Place:
london, england, britain, europe, manchester
Similarity:
84%
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12K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Story of the relationship between the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.
Style:
depressing, realistic, psychological, serious, heartbreaking ...
Plot:
suicide, writers, drinking, biopic, death, bipolar disorder, poet, couple relations, mental disorder, art, tragic love, writer's life ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, year 2003, 60s, 20th century
Place:
england, europe, new york, london
Similarity:
84%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
True tale of the tumultuous love affair between two French literary icons of the 19th Century, novelist George Sand and poet Alfred de Musset. But their affair falls apart during an excursion to Venice, Italy where Musset is distracted by drugs and ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, captivating, stylized, atmospheric ...
Plot:
sexuality, sex, forbidden love, obsessive love, insomnia, love affair, writers, lifestyle, love and romance, destructive relationship, poet, female writer ...
Time:
19th century, 1820s, 1830s
Place:
venice, rome italy, paris france, italy, france ...
Similarity:
84%
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 ...
Style:
costume drama, heartbreaking, period piece, romantic, sad ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
poet, writers, poetry, love story, love, biopic, tuberculosis, passion, art, friendship, literary, longing ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, regency period, ancient times, 1810s ...
Place:
england, europe, britain, rome italy, london ...
Similarity:
84%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.
Style:
intellectual, bleak, captivating, serious, sexual ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
poet, gay, obsession, friendship, youth, gay interest, lgbtq, writers, coming of age, sexual tension, lgbtqi, friends ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944, 20th century, 2000s, post world war two ...
Place:
usa, harlem, manhattan new york city, greenwich village manhattan new york city, chicago ...
Similarity:
84%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Neal Cassady is living the beat life during the 1940s, working at The Tire Yard and and philandering around town. However, he has visions of a happy life with kids and a white picket fence. When his girlfried, Joan, tries to kill herself he gets ...
Style:
erotic, talky, stylized, independent film, retro ...
Plot:
writers, beat generation, friendship, making love, suicide, writer's life, male nudity, depression, older man teenage girl relationship, suicide attempt, art, poet ...
Time:
1940s, year 1997, 20th century, 60s, post world war two ...
Place:
colorado, usa, denver colorado, new mexico, mexico ...
Similarity:
84%
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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:
writers, art, poet, swing, biopic, couples, love affair, small town, artists and showbiz, writer's life, couple relations, love and romance ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
alabama
Similarity:
83%
1K
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:
19th century, 1810s, regency period, georgian era
Place:
albania, ottoman empire, london, yorkshire, turkey ...
Similarity:
83%
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:
touching, sentimental, period piece, costume drama, serious ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
writers, writer's life, biopic, female artist, book, family relations, snobbism, painting, fall in love, art, happy ending, artist ...
Time:
1900s, victorian era, edwardian era, 19th century, 1910s ...
Place:
england, london, britain, europe, san francisco
Similarity:
83%
14K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
It's San Francisco in 1957, and an American masterpiece is put on trial. Howl, the film, recounts this dark moment using three interwoven threads: the tumultuous life events that led a young Allen Ginsberg to find his true voice as an artist, ...
Style:
sexy, thought provoking, sexual, atmospheric, surreal ...
Plot:
poet, gay, poetry, writers, homosexuality, beat generation, literature, freedom, biopic, lgbt, gay interest, art ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 1920s, post world war two, year 1957 ...
Place:
california, san francisco, kansas, bronx new york city, arkansas ...
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Docudrama about American poet Hart Crane, who committed suicide in April 1932 at the age of 32 by jumping off the steamship SS Orizaba.
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, serious, stylized, sincere ...
Plot:
writers, gay, gay sex, gays and lesbians, introspection, writer's life, gender, love and romance, poet, novelist, lgbt, suicide ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, 1920s
Place:
usa, ohio, new york, paris france, mexico
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, UK, Russia
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A historical drama that illustrates Russian author Leo Tolstoy's struggle to balance fame and wealth with his commitment to a life devoid of material things. The Countess Sofya, wife and muse to Leo Tolstoy, uses every trick of seduction on her ...
Style:
sexy, sentimental, period piece, costume drama, factual ...
Plot:
philosophy, betrayal, male virgin, loss of virginity, love and romance, family relations, writer's life, lifestyle, parents and children, poet, art, taboo subject ...
Time:
1910s, edwardian era, year 2009, 20th century, 19th century
Place:
russia, europe, moscow russia
Similarity:
82%
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:
gothic, stylized, costume drama, atmospheric, period piece ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
poet, forbidden love, young lovers, literature, love and romance, relationship problems, tragedy, female writer, renegade, frustration, social misfits, writers ...
Time:
19th century, regency period, 1810s, georgian era
Place:
london, scotland, switzerland
Similarity:
82%
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