Movies like Leonie
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Leonie (2010)
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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 tender and inspiring story of a remarkable woman who nurtures the amazing artistic talent of her son who has only one way to succeed and one person to guide him, as he grows into the world renown artist, Isamu Noguchi.
Style:
uplifting, serious, realistic, stylized, period piece, retro, crying, period drama
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
single mother, art, family relations, single parent, culture clash, parents and children, artists and showbiz, friendship, husband wife relationship, marriage, biopic, baby, little boy, friend, strong female lead, interracial romance, artist, women, writers, female writer, girl, progress, gilded age, strong female presence, performer's life ...
Time:
20th century, victorian era, year 1918, 1930s, 1920s, year 1932, 1910s ...
Place:
japan, america, asia, new york, california, tokyo, mount fuji ...
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and period drama films with plots about biopic, art, artists and showbiz, couples, writers, husband wife relationship and family relations mostly in Biography, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Leonie: Vincent & Theo (1990), Enid (2009), Coco Before Chanel (2009), Riding in Cars with Boys (2001), Miss Potter (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Biography, Drama
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 ...
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serious, sentimental, realistic, sincere, touching ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
biopic, school, multiple sclerosis, writers, rising to stardom, writer's life, family relations, ambition, artists and showbiz, rise to the top, single parent, single mother ...
Time:
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Place:
england, europe, london
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted with despair.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
1920s, 1930s, 1940s, year 1994, victorian era ...
Place:
new york, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
77%
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:
76%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Edwardian child Enid Blyton begins to tell stories to her brothers as an escape from their parents' rows before the father deserts the family...
Style:
serious, captivating, realistic, costume drama, cult classic ...
Plot:
novelist, biopic, dysfunctional family, nanny, relationship vs career, rise to the top, writers, writer's life, couples, couple relations, lifestyle, family problems ...
Time:
1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 20th century, 1950s ...
Place:
britain, england, europe
Similarity:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
2009 biopic about the early life of Coco Chanel. Several years after leaving the orphanage, to which her father never returned for her, Gabrielle Chanel finds herself working in a provincial bar both. She's both a seamstress for the performers ...
Style:
sexy, stylized, costume drama, period piece, factual ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens
Plot:
fashion, women, high society, feminist, fashion designer, designer, rise to the top, gender, feminism, dressmaker, rags to riches, social climbing ...
Time:
1920s, 19th century, 1900s, ancient times, edwardian era ...
Place:
france, paris france, europe, canada, new jersey ...
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
A single mother, with dreams of becoming a writer, has a son at the age of 15 in 1965, and goes through a failed marriage with the drug-addicted father.
Style:
sentimental, emotional, sad, melancholic, teen ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new york, usa, connecticut, california, new jersey
Similarity:
70%
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:
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Plot:
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Time:
1900s, victorian era, edwardian era, 19th century, 1910s ...
Place:
england, london, britain, europe, san francisco
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211
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
Shirley is the youngest of eight children from a mixed race marriage. By the time she is a toddler the family have moved to the all white area of Splott and by the time she is 12 Shirley has discovered she has an extraordinary voice and can earn ...
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:
1930s, 60s, 1940s, 50s, 20th century ...
Place:
wales, england, glasgow scotland, europe
Similarity:
69%
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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:
actor's life, couple relations, artists and showbiz, couples, celebrity culture, hollywood, biopic, love, stage play, passion, art, showbiz ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, los angeles, new york, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
68%
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:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
france, england, europe
Similarity:
67%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Vietnam, Ireland
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Christina Noble overcomes the harsh difficulties of her childhood in Ireland to discover her destiny on the streets of Saigon. A true story.
Style:
touching, realistic, emotional, serious, gloomy ...
Plot:
poverty, strong female lead, orphan, kids in trouble, destiny, father daughter relationship, social activism, social injustice, female protagonist, empowerment, hopes, youth ...
Time:
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Place:
saigon, ireland, vietnam, asia
Similarity:
66%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, South Africa
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Style:
sincere, touching, captivating, emotional, contemplative ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
forbidden love, racism, interracial relations, self discovery, human spirit, eccentric family, family problems, couples, society, social misfits, hopes, love and romance ...
Time:
year 2008, 20th century, 60s, 50s, 70s ...
Place:
south africa, africa, johannesburg south africa
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 134 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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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
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Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 99 min.
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
61%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
poet, writers, biopic, brain tumor, loneliness, drowning, tumor, trippy, art, medical, girl, friendship ...
Time:
year 1978, 70s
Place:
london, yorkshire, england, buckingham palace, moscow russia ...
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Australia, New Zealand, 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.
Style:
erotic, psychological, touching, neurotic, spiritual ...
Plot:
writers, mental illness, making love, depression, biopic, schizophrenia, children, art, women, mental disorder, female writer, woman ...
Time:
year 1990, 20th century, 80s
Place:
new zealand, london, paris france
Similarity:
59%
23K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, literary editor at Scribner’s Sons is the first to sign such subsequent literary greats as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. When a sprawling, chaotic 1,000-page manuscript by an unknown writer named ...
Style:
period piece, talky, touching, intellectual, informative ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
writers, novelist, genius, book editor, book, mentor, brutality, relationships, biopic, literary, jazz, creativity ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
usa, new york, new jersey
Similarity:
59%
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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
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58%
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:
poverty, ira, injustice, parents and children, youth, family relations, depression, life is a bitch, death, children, rich and poor, human nature ...
Time:
1940s, year 1999, 90s, 1930s, 20th century ...
Place:
ireland, new york, brooklyn new york city, europe, usa ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, sincere, sentimental, surprise ending, independent film ...
Plot:
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Time:
1910s, 20th century, year 2008, 1920s, 1930s ...
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
57%
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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, sincere, sentimental, sexual ...
Plot:
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Time:
edwardian era, victorian era, 1900s, 1910s, 20th century
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland, italy, europe
Similarity:
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Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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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:
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Place:
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Similarity:
57%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Netherlands, Germany, South Africa
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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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:
20th century, 60s
Place:
africa, south africa, paris france, europe
Similarity:
55%
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:
20th century, 80s, year 1989, 1930s
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland, england, europe, canada
Similarity:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
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:
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Place:
louisiana, usa, new mexico, texas, ireland
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA, Germany, Denmark, Belgium, Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
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touching, inspirational, period piece, costume drama, romantic ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
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transsexual, lgbt, art, transgender, couple relations, painting, love, gay, lgbtq, gays and lesbians, artist, gender ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, year 2015, 2010s, 20th century
Place:
denmark, paris france, idaho, copenhagen, europe ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, UK, France
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
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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:
51%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In contemporary Paris, expat American writer Henry Miller works his way through a series of amorous encounters while trying to find his literary voice.
Style:
stylized, realistic, atmospheric, serious, erotic ...
Plot:
female nudity, school, social relations, artists and showbiz, writer's life, womanizer, mental institution, immigrant, nudity, husband wife relationship, american abroad, english teacher ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, 1920s, 60s
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The story of the marriage of the poet TS Eliot to socialite Vivienne Haigh-Wood, which had to cope with her gynaeological and emotional problems and his growing fame.
Style:
romantic, psychological, costume drama, romantic drama, contemplative ...
Plot:
writers, women, art, poet, biopic, world war one, marriage, mental illness, artist, insanity, love, tragic romance ...
Time:
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Place:
england, europe, oxford university, london, california
Similarity:
50%
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