Movies like A Quiet Passion
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A Quiet Passion (2016)
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
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.
Style:
costume drama, historical drama, depressing, romantic drama, period drama, queer cinema
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
poet, ecstasy, writers, women, art, victorian england, loneliness, female writer, publisher, atheism, heaven, woman, poetry, venereal disease, lesbian, recluse, philosophy, strength, gadget, sexist, art history, literary, sapphic, biopic, sex ...
Time:
victorian era, 1880s, 1860s, 19th century, 1830s, 1870s, 1840s ...
Place:
boston, massachusetts, britain
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Most similar movies to A Quiet Passion
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, period drama, realistic and period piece films with plots about marriage, biopic, kiss, writers, husband wife relationship, poet and art mostly in Drama, Biography and Romance genres. Some movies like A Quiet Passion: To Walk Invisible (2016), Saint-Ex (1996), Bright Star (2009), Colette (2018), Mary Shelley (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
To Walk Invisible takes a new look at the extraordinary Brontë family, telling the story of these remarkable women who, despite the obstacles they faced, came from obscurity to produce some of the greatest novels in the English language.
Style:
captivating, dark, historical drama, cult classic, gothic ...
Plot:
writers, victorian england, novelist, sisters, female writer, publisher, women, sister, historical figure, family relations, social relations, writer's life ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, 1840s
Place:
yorkshire
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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:
1940s, year 1996, 1920s, 1900s, 1930s ...
Place:
lyon, saigon, new york, argentina, mediterranean sea ...
Similarity:
100%
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:
29%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Hungary, Belgium
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
French novelist, Colette, overcomes an abusive marriage to emerge as a leading writer in her country and a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Style:
captivating, costume drama, historical drama, period piece, intellectual ...
Audience:
family friendly, chick flick
Plot:
lgbt, lgbtq, sex scene, lesbian relationship, female protagonist, novelist, lesbian attraction, writers, lesbian, open marriage, woman, female writer ...
Time:
19th century, 1900s, 1890s, year 1900, victorian era ...
Place:
paris france, france, algeria, louisiana, marseille
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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
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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:
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:
26%
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:
25%
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:
25%
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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: UK, Ireland, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A biographical portrait of a pre-fame Jane Austen and her romance with a young Irishman.
Style:
romantic, sweet, touching, costume drama, period piece ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night, adult
Plot:
unfulfilled love, love story, couples, writer's life, love and romance, love, prejudice, fall in love, biopic, women, passion, destiny ...
Time:
18th century, 19th century, victorian era, ancient times, 50s ...
Place:
england, ireland, britain, europe, london
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and sensual Emma Bovary finds herself in calamitous debt and purses scandalous sexual liaisons with absolute abandon. However, when her volatile ...
Style:
sexy, realistic, melancholic, costume drama, intense ...
Plot:
infidelity, adultery, tragic hero, family life, hopes, village life, destructive relationship, dull life, love affair, husband wife relationship, adulterer, male female relationship ...
Time:
19th century, 1840s, turn of the century, victorian era, 1830s ...
Place:
normandy, france, europe, switzerland, london
Similarity:
24%
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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 ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
In every generation, a torch passes from father to son. And that timeless dynamic is the beating heart of Tommy's Honor - an intimate, powerfully moving tale of the real-life founders of the modern game of golf.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, captivating, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
golf, family relations, friendship, loss of wife, tragic event, class differences, teenage boy, wedding, illegitimate child, victorian england, age-gap relationship, biopic ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1800s
Place:
scotland, britain
Similarity:
23%
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:
23%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The life of celebrated but reclusive author, J.D. Salinger, who gained worldwide fame with the publication of his novel, The Catcher in the Rye.
Style:
exciting, thought provoking, captivating, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
writers, world war two, recluse, name calling, writer's life, novelist, obsession, father son relationship, friendship, teenage boy, father daughter relationship, friend ...
Time:
year 1946, 50s, year 2010, year 1939, 20th century
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york, greenwich village manhattan new york city, usa, new hampshire
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A psychological, heart-wrenching love story that provides a unique and inside look at Charles Darwin. Torn between faith and science, he struggles to finish his legendary book "On the Origin of the Species," which goes on to become the ...
Style:
sexy, emotional, thought provoking, philosophical, talky ...
Plot:
evolution, atheism, biopic, atheist, storytelling, loss of daughter, science, scientist, family relations, haunted by the past, religion, family life ...
Time:
victorian era, ancient times, 19th century, year 2009, 1850s ...
Place:
england, europe, borneo, london
Similarity:
23%
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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:
23%
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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 ...
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
A woman risks losing her chance of happiness with the only man she has ever loved.
Style:
costume drama, period piece, atmospheric, emotional, talky ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love affair, infidelity, happy ending, destiny, temptation, tragedy, debt, gambling, fall in love, dishonesty, love and romance, couple relations ...
Time:
20th century, edwardian era, 19th century, 2000s, turn of the century ...
Place:
new york, america, britain, usa, mediterranean sea ...
Similarity:
22%
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:
22%
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:
22%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A young woman who is determined to maintain her independence finds herself at odds with her family who wants her to tame her wild side and get married.
Style:
period piece, independent film, historical drama, romantic, uplifting ...
Plot:
ranch, writers, feminist, farm, coming of age, biopic, women, woman, female writer, child, feminism, female protagonist ...
Time:
year 1979, victorian era, 1900s, 1890s, 20th century ...
Place:
australia, new south wales, jerusalem, new zealand
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Biography, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
After aspiring poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe fails his law exams, he's sent to a sleepy provincial court to reform. Instead, he falls for Lotte, a young woman who is promised to another man.
Style:
sincere, costume drama, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
young lovers, love, father son relationship, writers, wooing, fall in love, couples, love affair, student life, rebelliousness, writer's life, poet ...
Time:
19th century, 18th century, georgian era, victorian era
Place:
germany, frankfurt germany
Similarity:
22%
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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:
poet, writers, marriage, husband wife relationship, death, terminal illness, professor, biopic, cancer, bachelor, college, honesty ...
Time:
1950s, 60s, 20th century, 50s, year 1993
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA, China, Hungary
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Tells the story of Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie and her extraordinary scientific discoveries — through the prism of her marriage to husband Pierre — and the seismic and transformative effects their discovery of radium had on the 20th century.
Style:
poignant, captivating, serious, harsh, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
nobel prize, chemistry, scientist, radioactivity, scientific research, nuclear, radiation, physics, science, physicist, genius, nobel prize winner ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, edwardian era, year 1945, year 1957 ...
Place:
chernobyl, europe, stockholm sweden, paris france, poland ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
International art dealer Ron Hall must befriend a dangerous homeless man in order to save his struggling marriage to his wife, a woman whose dreams will lead all three of them on the journey of their lives.
Style:
inspirational, touching, sincere, captivating, sad ...
Plot:
marriage, friendship, ku klux klan, christian, homeless, homelessness, family relations, forgiveness, black, faith, love story, troubled marriage ...
Time:
year 2017
Place:
texas
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
Style:
romantic, sentimental, inspirational, sweet, melancholic ...
Audience:
chick flick, family outing, kids, date night, teens ...
Plot:
love, sisters, coming of age, writers, female protagonist, generosity, friendship, sister sister relationship, publisher, women's rights, sister, aspiring writer ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1860s, 2010s, year 2019
Place:
new york, france, paris france, massachusetts, usa
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21%
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:
1930s, year 1994, victorian era, 1910s, 20th century
Place:
england, europe, oxford university, london, california
Similarity:
21%
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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:
21%
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:
21%
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