Movies like Edvard Munch
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Edvard Munch (1974)
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Mystery, Romance
Country: Sweden, Norway
Duration: 210 min.
Story:
A biographical film about the Norwegian Expressionist painter Edvard Munch. It was originally created as a three-part miniseries co-produced by the Norwegian and Swedish state television networks, but subsequently gained an American theatrical release in a three-hour version in 1976. The film covers about thirty years of Munch's life, focusing on the influences that shaped his art, particularly the prevalence of disease and death in his family and his youthful affair with a married woman.
Style:
expressionism, art film, psychological, atmospheric, serious, realistic, stylized, intellectual, crying, dread ...
Plot:
painter, painting, biopic, artist, art, art history, philosophy, disease, knight, passion, desire, women's rights, child, possessiveness, depression, quarantine, architecture, classical music, famous, artwork, artists' life, trauma, based on real people, scandinavian culture, obsession ...
Time:
year 1974, 19th century, 1870s, 1880s, 1860s, 1890s, 1900s ...
Place:
germany, paris france, berlin germany, copenhagen, oslo norway, copenhagen denmark
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Most similar movies to Edvard Munch
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, period drama and sexy films with plots about biopic, art, artist, female nudity, artists and showbiz, painter and obsession mostly in Biography, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Edvard Munch: Little Ashes (2008), Klimt (2006), Total Eclipse (1995), Violette (2013), Mary Shelley (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
About the young life and loves of artist Salvador Dalí, filmmaker Luis Buñuel and writer Federico García Lorca.
Style:
atmospheric, serious, erotic, tense, factual ...
Plot:
poet, artist, gay, lgbt, lgbtq, painter, homosexual, gay relationship, friendship, political unrest, closeted homosexual, spanish civil war ...
Time:
year 1936, 20th century, 1920s, 1930s, year 2008
Place:
spain, andalusia, paris france, europe, manhattan new york city ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Austria, France, Germany, UK
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
A portrait of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt whose lavish, sexual paintings came to symbolize the art nouveau style of the late 19th and early 20th century.
Style:
thought provoking, stylized, visually stunning, sexual, visual ...
Plot:
painter, artist, art, painting, biopic, puffy nipples, public nudity, artist's model, art history, prodigy, obsession, ambition ...
Time:
20th century, year 2006, 19th century, year 1918, 1900s ...
Place:
austria, france, vienna, paris france, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, 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:
erotic, cult classic, costume drama, sexual, serious ...
Plot:
gay, poet, lgbt, homosexuality, male nudity, violence, melancholy, homosexual, writer's life, homoeroticism, teenage boy, gay teenager ...
Time:
19th century, ancient times, victorian era, turn of the century, 1870s
Place:
paris france, europe, africa, france, holland ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
Born out of wedlock early in the last century, Violette Leduc meets Simone de Beauvoir in postwar Saint-Germain-des-Près. An intense lifelong relationship develops between the two women authors, based on Violette's quest for freedom through ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, serious, sincere, psychological ...
Plot:
lesbian, gender, lesbian relationship, writers, friendship, writer's life, friends, society, lgbt, women, couples, erotica ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 60s, 70s, post world war two ...
Place:
france, paris france, europe, provence
Similarity:
100%
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:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA, Belgium
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes involved with a seaside landlady, while his faithful housekeeper bears an unrequited love for him.
Style:
sincere, costume drama, clever, surreal, meditative ...
Plot:
painter, painting, artist, biopic, art, eccentricity, art history, character study, estrangement, couple relations, elderly, love and romance ...
Time:
19th century, 1820s, 1830s, 1840s, ancient times ...
Place:
london, england, britain, holland
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
In late spring, 1890, Vincent moves to Auvers-sur-Oise, near Paris, under the care of Dr. Gachet, living in a humble inn. Fewer than 70 days later, Vincent dies from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. We see Vincent at work, painting landscapes and ...
Style:
anthology, psychological, serious, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
artist, painter, painting, biopic, art, art history, sex, artist's model, nudity, male nudity, train conductor, model ...
Time:
19th century, year 1991, 1890s, victorian era
Place:
france, paris france, europe, provence
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35%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Biopic of American artist Georgia O'Keeffe and her husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz.
Style:
serious, tense, emotional, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
biopic, painter, artist, art, couples, rise to the top, destructive relationship, love and romance, artists and showbiz, obsession, lifestyle, couple relations ...
Time:
20th century, 1920s, 1930s, year 1929, year 1932 ...
Place:
usa, new mexico, new york, manhattan new york city, wisconsin
Similarity:
30%
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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:
29%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France, Netherlands, UK, Germany, Italy, USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
The tragic story of Vincent van Gogh broadened by focusing as well on his brother Theodore, who helped support Vincent. Based on the letters written between the two.
Style:
sexy, touching, psychological, scenic, cult classic ...
Plot:
painter, art, artist, painting, biopic, genius, mental disorder, obsession, brother brother relationship, poverty, art history, life is a bitch ...
Time:
19th century, 80s, 20th century
Place:
holland, europe, london, paris france, france
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, Austria
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A biopic of Alma Mahler, the wife of composer Gustav Mahler (as well as Walter Gropius and Franz Werfel), and the mistress of Oskar Kokoschka.
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, atmospheric, heartbreaking ...
Plot:
painter, biopic, fall in love, artist, family relations, infidelity, passion, prodigy, lifestyle, ambition, love affair, couples ...
Time:
edwardian era, year 2001, 1900s, 20th century, 19th century ...
Place:
austria, new york, vienna, europe
Similarity:
26%
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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:
19th century, 1810s, regency period, georgian era
Place:
albania, ottoman empire, london, yorkshire, turkey ...
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25%
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:
24%
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 ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 175 min.
Story:
The life of Camille Claudel, a french scupltor who becomes the apprentice of Auguste Rodin and later his lover. Her passion for her art and Rodin drive her further away from reason and rationality.
Style:
emotional, psychological, intense, touching, heartbreaking ...
Plot:
art, biopic, mental illness, artist, fall in love, obsession, painter, sculptor, storytelling, art history, love, couples ...
Time:
19th century, ancient times, turn of the century
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
As influential Italian artist Caravaggio dies in exile in 1610, he recalls his short life, from his childhood to his initial artistic failures to his later triumphs as he catches the eye of a sympathetic cardinal to his destructive relationship with ...
Style:
atmospheric, realistic, serious, stylized, factual ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
painter, gay interest, art, male nudity, biopic, sexual relations, lifestyle, homoerotic fight, love triangle, older man younger man relationship, art history, rise and fall ...
Time:
17th century, ancient times, 16th century
Place:
rome italy, italy
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The struggles of an artist. Jang Seung-up (1843-1897), also called Owon, focusing on the years 1882 to 1897, when Korea was in political upheaval, caught between China and Japan, the conservative dynasty dying, and peasant revolt at hand. Jang, born ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, serious, sentimental, melancholic ...
Plot:
painter, politics, artist, biopic, art, nobility, painting, hopes, actor's life, ambition, human spirit, rise to the top ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s, 1870s, 1880s, 1860s ...
Place:
japan, asia, seoul, south korea, china ...
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
"Frida" chronicles the life Frida Kahlo shared unflinchingly and openly with Diego Rivera, as the young couple took the art world by storm. From her complex and enduring relationship with her mentor and husband to her illicit and ...
Style:
visually appealing, independent film, sexy, emotional, sincere ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
painter, artist, art, painting, female artist, bohemian life, lgbtq, disability, feminism, female protagonist, life, relationships ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, year 2002, 1920s, 20th century ...
Place:
mexico, paris france, empire state building manhattan new york city, mexico city, america ...
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The Newlyn School of artists flourished at the beginning of the 20th Century and the film focuses on the wild and bohemian Lamorna Group, which included Alfred Munnings and Laura and Harold Knight. The incendiary anti-Modernist Munnings, now ...
Style:
sincere, touching, emotional, serious, retro ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
painter, biopic, couples, love triangle, nudity, infidelity, love affair, lifestyle, family relations, unfulfilled love, fall in love, dishonesty ...
Time:
1910s, 1900s, year 1915, 20th century, year 1914 ...
Place:
cornwall, england, london
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, Australia, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
The story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and debauched his way to an early grave, only to earn posthumous critical acclaim for his life's work.
Style:
period piece, costume drama, atmospheric, melancholic, surreal ...
Plot:
writers, decadence, sexual attraction, poet, libertine, debauchery, oral sex, making love, infidelity, biopic, steamy romance, unfaithful husband ...
Time:
17th century, ancient times, year 2006, year 2004, 19th century ...
Place:
england, london, britain, europe
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Ireland, Switzerland, UK, France, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Famed but tormented artist Vincent van Gogh spends his final years in Arles, France, painting masterworks of the natural world that surrounds him.
Style:
independent film, melancholic, art film, touching, rough ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
painter, loneliness, artist, art, priest, painting, doctor, insanity, obsession, art gallery, mission, genius ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1890s, 1880s
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
A biography of the dancer Isadora Duncan, the 1920s dancer who forever changed people's ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance projects as well as her attitudes on free love, debt, dress, and lifestyle shocked the public of ...
Style:
sexual, sad, historical drama, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
ballet, female nudity, women, dancer, dancing, children, biopic, art, girl, nude girl, unrequited love, passion ...
Time:
1920s, year 1900, 1890s, 19th century, 20th century
Place:
europe, russia, london, san francisco, florence ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music, Romance
Country: USA, UK, Hungary
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Biography of the African-American who became a major performer in the Paris cabarets of the 1920's and 1930's. The film follows her life beginning as a struggling performer in 1917 St. Louis, her frustrations leading to her move to France, ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, emotional, serious, entertaining ...
Plot:
african american, performer, dancer, racism, vaudeville, orchestra, showbiz, cabaret, lifestyle, rising to stardom, follow your dream, human spirit ...
Time:
1930s, victorian era, 1920s, 1910s, 70s ...
Place:
france, america, paris france, missouri, usa ...
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Luxembourg, France, Belgium, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
This film, adapted from a work of fiction by author Tracy Chevalier, tells a story about the events surrounding the creation of the painting "Girl With A Pearl Earring" by 17th century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer. A young peasant maid ...
Style:
enigmatic, erotic, period piece, costume drama, atmospheric ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
artist, painter, painting, art, master and servant, sexual tension, nymphet, teenage girl, society, couple relations, maid, portrait ...
Time:
17th century, ancient times, year 2003, 19th century, victorian era ...
Place:
holland, netherlands, europe, america
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), man of the people, autodidact and revolutionary sculptor - the most brilliant of his era. At 42, Rodin meets Camille Claudel, a young woman desperate to become his assistant. He quickly acknowledges her as his most able ...
Style:
captivating, touching, suspense, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
painter, artist, sculptor, female nudity, marriage proposal, photograph, art, biopic, father son relationship, female fight, painting, art history ...
Time:
year 2017
Place:
japan, paris france
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Mystery
Country: UK, Poland, Canada, Netherlands
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
An extravagant, exotic and moving look at Rembrandt's romantic and professional life, and the controversy he created by the identification of a murderer in the painting The Night Watch.
Style:
serious, realistic, disturbing, captivating, enigmatic ...
Plot:
painter, art, nudity, biopic, female nudity, artist, art history, uncover truth, investigation, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, love affair ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
netherlands, amsterdam, europe
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: China, France, Taiwan
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
At the beginning of the twentieth century, Yu-liang leaves a brothel in a small Chinese town, to become the second wife of Mr. Pan. While Pan is away at the revolution in Yunnan, Yu-liang learns to paint and takes art classes at the Shanghai Art ...
Style:
serious, realistic, sexual, sincere, sexy
Plot:
biopic, painter, artist, art, famous, couples, rise to the top, life is a bitch, artists and showbiz, unfulfillment, ambition, road not taken ...
Place:
china, paris france, asia, europe, france ...
Similarity:
21%
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:
21%
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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:
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:
21%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Japan, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Biography of the British painter Francis Bacon. The movie focuses on his relationship with George Dyer, his lover. Dyer was a former small time crook.
Style:
cult classic, controversial, art film, heartbreaking, contemplative ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
art, biopic, artist, painter, lgbt, naked man, subculture, gay bar, psychology, art history, sadomasochism, doomed love ...
Time:
90s, 70s, 60s
Place:
new york, east end london, paris france, london
Similarity:
21%
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