Movies like A Quiet Passion

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A Quiet Passion (2016)
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A Quiet Passion (2016)
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.
Style: historical drama, costume drama, romantic drama, period drama, queer cinema
Audience: chick flick
Plot: poet, writers, women, art, loneliness, female writer, publisher, lesbian, recluse, philosophy, strength, gadget, art history, literary, sapphic, heaven, woman, ecstasy, biopic, sex, dancing, lawyer, slavery, wedding, student ...
Time: victorian era, 1870s, 1860s, 1840s, 19th century, 1880s, 1830s ...
Place: massachusetts, boston, britain
Keyword: german, reading

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, period drama and crying films with plots about biopic, kiss, husband wife relationship, writers, art, poet and father daughter relationship mostly in Biography, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like A Quiet Passion: To Walk Invisible (2016), Saint-Ex (1996), Same Kind of Different as Me (2017), Colette (2018), Mary Shelley (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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To Walk Invisible (2016)
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, cult classic, historical drama, dark, gothic ...
Plot: writers, sisters, female writer, novelist, publisher, women, family relations, historical figure, social relations, writer's life, sister, life ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1840s
Place: yorkshire
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100%
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Saint-Ex (1996)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Poetic biography of author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
Plot: writers, bedouin, art, aviation, poet, 007, airplane, world war two, voice over narration, unfaithfulness, eccentricity, airplane crash ...
Time: 1940s, year 1996, 1920s, 1900s, 1930s
Place: lyon, saigon, new york, mediterranean sea, argentina ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Same Kind of Different as Me (2017)
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: touching, inspirational, sincere, captivating, spiritual ...
Plot: friendship, marriage, ku klux klan, christian, homeless, forgiveness, family relations, homelessness, black, faith, love story, dysfunctional marriage ...
Time: year 2017
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Colette (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Hungary
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, intellectual, inspirational, lyrical ...
Audience: chick flick, family friendly
Plot: writers, female protagonist, novelist, lesbian, woman, female writer, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, bisexuality, ghost writer, publisher, lgbt ...
Time: 19th century, 1900s, victorian era, 1890s, year 1900 ...
Place: paris france, france, marseille, louisiana, algeria
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Mary Shelley (2017)
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: stylized, serious, atmospheric, costume drama, period piece ...
Audience: date night
Plot: poet, forbidden love, literature, young lovers, relationship problems, tragedy, female writer, love and romance, renegade, frustration, social misfits, writers ...
Time: 19th century, regency period, 1810s
Place: london, scotland, switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 6.9
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Bright Star (2009)
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: heartbreaking, period piece, romantic, touching, sad ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: poet, poetry, writers, biopic, love story, love, art, friendship, letter, tragedy, passion, couple relations ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, regency period, ancient times, year 2009 ...
Place: england, europe, britain, rome italy, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
When Did You Last See Your Father? (2007)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The story of a son's conflicting memories of his dying father.
Style: sentimental, emotional, sincere, realistic, touching ...
Plot: father son relationship, memory, coming of age, teenager, loneliness, reconciliation, family relations, character study, parenthood, life, death, writers ...
Time: year 2007, 80s, 60s, year 1962, year 1989
Place: brighton, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Prick Up Your Ears (1987)
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: independent film, witty, dark comedy, black comedy, period piece ...
Plot: gay, writers, gay cruising, lgbt, murder, biopic, male nudity, glbt, playwright, homosexuality, lgbtq, art ...
Time: 60s, year 1987, 20th century, 1950s, year 1964 ...
Place: england, europe, britain, brighton, australia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Total Eclipse (1995)
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: serious, costume drama, cult classic, erotic, sexual ...
Plot: gay, poet, lgbt, male nudity, writer's life, homosexuality, gay teenager, melancholy, violence, homoeroticism, homosexual, art ...
Time: 19th century, 1870s, victorian era, ancient times
Place: paris france, africa, europe, france, holland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Being the Ricardos (2021)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz face a crisis that could end their careers and another that could end their marriage.
Style: historical drama, satirical, independent film
Plot: biopic, hollywood, marriage, art, friendship, love, trailblazer, writers, comedian, post war, women, urban ...
Time: 2020s, 1950s, year 1952, year 1960
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 7.0
 32K
Miss Potter (2006)
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: sentimental, touching, period piece, costume drama, serious ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: writers, artist, writer's life, biopic, female artist, family relations, snobbism, painting, art, friendship, first love, rabbit ...
Time: 1900s, victorian era, edwardian era, 19th century, 1910s ...
Place: england, london, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 6.1
 591
Leonie (2010)
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, stylized, realistic, serious, retro ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: single mother, art, family relations, single parent, culture clash, parents and children, artists and showbiz, husband wife relationship, marriage, friendship, little boy, friend ...
Time: 20th century, 1910s, 1900s, 1890s, year 1918 ...
Place: japan, america, asia, mount fuji, tokyo ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 5.9
 9K
Lizzie (2018)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A young woman goes on a notorious ax-murdering rampage in Massachusetts at the turn of the century.
Style: suspense, queer horror, historical drama, tense, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, last will and testament, lesbian sex, lizzie borden, father daughter relationship, friendship, employer employee relationship, murder, lesbian love, oppression, double murder ...
Time: 19th century, 1890s
Place: massachusetts, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Last Station (2009)
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: sentimental, factual, period piece, touching, melancholic ...
Plot: biopic, adultery, betrayal, love and romance, family relations, loss of virginity, lifestyle, writer's life, parents and children, art, poet, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 1910s, edwardian era, year 2009, 20th century
Place: russia, europe, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
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 ...
Style: touching, inspirational, emotional, depressing, psychological ...
Plot: disability, hospital, human spirit, nurse, paralysis, courage, coma, patient, life turned upside down, writers, bittersweet, mute or deaf ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 2000s, year 2007, y2k
Place: france, paris france, europe, hong kong, nepal ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Glass Castle (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A young girl is raised in a dysfunctional family constantly on the run from the FBI. Living in poverty, she comes of age guided by her drunkard, ingenious father who distracts her with magical stories to keep her mind off the family's dire ...
Style: sentimental, sad, emotional, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, father daughter relationship, painting, funeral, restaurant, hospital, alcoholic, pride, family conflict, biopic, writers, female protagonist ...
Time: year 2017, year 1989, year 1964
Place: nebraska, new york, lower east side manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, west virginia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.8
 6K
Carrington (1995)
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, talky, touching, sexual, emotional ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: artist, painter, writers, art, polyamory, lgbt, biopic, art history, glbt, world war one, painting, gay ...
Time: 1930s, 1910s, 1920s, victorian era, year 1915 ...
Place: england, europe, italy, wales, venice ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.9
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Stevie (1978)
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, ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, uplifting, gloomy ...
Plot: poet, writers, biopic, brain tumor, drowning, loneliness, art, tumor, trippy, medical, girl, family relations ...
Time: year 1978, 70s
Place: yorkshire, buckingham palace, england, london, moscow russia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Becoming Jane (2007)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A biographical portrait of a pre-fame Jane Austen and her romance with a young Irishman.
Style: romantic, touching, costume drama, period piece, sweet ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, adult
Plot: unfulfilled love, writer's life, love, prejudice, love and romance, love story, couples, fall in love, women, biopic, social differences, society ...
Time: 18th century, 19th century, victorian era, 50s, year 2007 ...
Place: england, ireland, britain, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Children of the Century (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 135 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: atmospheric, stylized, captivating, sexy, visually stunning ...
Plot: sex, love affair, writers, lifestyle, destructive relationship, love and romance, sexuality, obsessive love, forbidden love, poet, female writer, infidelity ...
Time: 19th century, 1820s, 1830s
Place: paris france, italy, venice, france, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Vincent & Theo (1990)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France, Netherlands, UK, Germany, Italy, USA
Duration: 140 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: touching, psychological, scenic, sexy, cult classic ...
Plot: painter, art, artist, painting, biopic, genius, obsession, brother brother relationship, poverty, art history, life is a bitch, mentally unstable ...
Time: 19th century, 20th century, 80s
Place: holland, europe, london, paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 5.1
 10K
Tesla (2020)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The story of the Promethean struggles of Nikola Tesla, as he attempts to transcend entrenched technology—including his own previous work—by pioneering a system of wireless energy that would change the world.
Style: serious, factual, stylized, inspirational, freeze frame ...
Plot: inventor, scientific experiment, invention, inventions and discoveries, electrician, rivalry, electricity, progress, genius, scientist, storytelling, science ...
Time: 19th century, 2020s, future, year 1943
Place: chicago, pittsburgh, colorado, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.1
 2K
Valentino (1977)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: In 1926 the tragic and untimely death of a silent screen actor caused female moviegoers to riot in the streets and in some cases to commit suicide...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, stylized, offbeat ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: hollywood, homosexual subtext, gay, filmmaking, tango, dancing, showbiz, biopic, movie star, sensuality, world war one, affair ...
Time: 1920s, victorian era, year 1919, 1910s
Place: california, usa, los angeles, new york, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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 7.0
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Byron (2003)
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: realistic, serious, costume drama, crying, romantic drama ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: womanizer, obsession, debauchery, radical, writer's life, romanticism, lifestyle, writers, society, social misfits, politics, incestuous desire ...
Time: 19th century, 1810s, regency period
Place: albania, ottoman empire, yorkshire, london, turkey ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.9
 4K
55 Steps (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Germany, Belgium
Duration: 115 min.
Story: 55 Steps is based a the inspiring true story of Eleanor Riese, a mental illness patient herself, who brings a class action suit to give competent mental patients the right to have a say in their medication while they’re in a hospital, and Colette ...
Style: psychological, suspense, disturbing, tense, sincere ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: mental patient, lawyer, female protagonist, female lawyer, mental health, opposites attract, female friendship, friendship, psychology, dishonesty, danger, society ...
Time: year 1991, year 1985
Place: san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Rebel in the Rye (2017)
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: captivating, thought provoking, exciting, touching, sincere ...
Plot: writers, world war two, recluse, name calling, writer's life, obsession, father son relationship, friendship, teenage boy, spirituality, isolation, father daughter relationship ...
Time: 50s, year 2010, 20th century, year 1939, year 1946
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, greenwich village manhattan new york city, usa, new hampshire
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 7.8
 79K
My Left Foot (1989)
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: touching, inspirational, sincere, unusual plot structure, dramatic ...
Plot: disability, cerebral palsy, biopic, artist, working class, writers, handicapped, paralysis, medical, painter, art, poet ...
Time: 20th century, year 1989, 80s
Place: ireland, england, dublin ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 7.3
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Angela's Ashes (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, UK, Ireland
Duration: 145 min.
Story: 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: touching, depressing, sad, compassionate, serious ...
Audience: toddlers, teen drama
Plot: poverty, life is a bitch, ira, injustice, family relations, youth, parents and children, depression, children, society, human nature, childhood ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, 90s, year 1999, 20th century ...
Place: ireland, new york, brooklyn new york city, usa, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 7.2
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Quills (2000)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A nobleman with a literary flair, the Marquis de Sade lives in a madhouse where a beautiful laundry maid smuggles his erotic stories to a printer, defying orders from the asylum's resident priest. The titillating passages whip all of France ...
Style: erotic, period piece, realistic, sexual, sexy ...
Plot: rape, sexuality, writer's life, priest, perversion, lust, writers, aristocracy, eccentricity, fetish, sexual tension, sex ...
Time: 18th century, 19th century, year 2000, georgian era, y2k ...
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
On the Basis of Sex (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, China, Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Young lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg teams with her husband Marty to bring a groundbreaking case before the U.S. Court of Appeals and overturn a century of gender discrimination.
Style: clever, inspirational, captivating, political, retro ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, boys' night, adult
Plot: courtroom, women's rights, supreme court, human rights, lawyer, female lawyer, marriage, equality, husband wife relationship, teacher, misogyny, feminism ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, 70s, 20th century, year 1963 ...
Place: usa, denver colorado, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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