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Z: The Beginning of Everything (2015)
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Z: The Beginning of Everything (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 27 min.
TV show
Story: A biography series based on the life of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, the brilliant, beautiful and talented Southern Belle who becomes the original flapper and icon of the wild, flamboyant Jazz Age in the 20s. Z starts before Zelda Fitzgerald meets the unpublished writer F. Scott Fitzgerald and moves through their passionate, turbulent love affair and their marriage-made in heaven, lived out in hell as the celebrity couple of their time.
Style: historical drama, tense, captivating, period piece, costume drama, period drama
Plot: scandal, southern belle, flapper, writers, biopic, party, fall in love, strong female lead, family life, relationships, jealousy, family relations, historical figure, life is a bitch, dysfunctional family, love affair, male female relationship, conflict, family problems, jealous husband, family conflict, brawl, marital argument, marital crisis, historical character ...
Time: edwardian era, 1920s, 20th century

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, period drama, costume drama and historical drama films and TV series with plots about family relations, couple relations, male female relationship, relationships, marriage, husband wife relationship and biopic mostly in Drama, History and Biography genres. Some movies like Z: The Beginning of Everything: Pan Am (2011), Leonardo (2021), The Phoenix (2020), A Very British Scandal (2021), John Adams (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Pan Am (2011)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 583 min.
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Story: Pan Am is an American period drama television series created by writer Jack Orman. Named for the iconic Pan American World Airways, the series features the pilots and stewardesses of the airline as it operated in the early 1960s at the beginning of ...
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Plot: stewardess, bohemian life, airport, airline, female protagonist, ambitious, american dream, sexism, workplace, sexual tension, workplace problem, parent child relationship ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: usa, new york
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Leonardo (2021)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Italy, USA, UK, France, Spain
Duration: 409 min.
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Story: A fresh look at the life and legacy of the iconic artist Leonardo da Vinci, positing that he was a gay outsider who used his work as a way of hiding his true self. Each episode will examine one of da Vinci’s artworks for hidden clues about a ...
Style: costume drama, historical drama, sexy, period drama
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Time: 15th century, 16th century
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The Phoenix (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min.
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Story: After her boyfriend, Serhat, announced dead, Zümrüt was forced to marry his uncle. This crucial decision will turn her life upside down.
Style: tense, captivating
Plot: forced marriage, marriage, relationships, family problems, couple relations, changing lives, marital problem, husband wife relationship, family life, life is a bitch, troubled marriage, family relations ...
Place: cappadocia turkey
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A Very British Scandal (2021)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 177 min.
TV show
Story: Sex, secrets and suspicion - the true story of a duchess publicly shamed in a high society divorce that gripped the nation.
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological, costume drama, period drama
Plot: duchess, divorce, marriage, high society, aristocracy, adultery, scandal, relationship problems, political scandal, crumbling marriage, marital problem, british royal family ...
Time: 20th century
Place: london, britain
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John Adams (2008)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
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Story: The life of one of the USA's Founding Fathers, its second President, and his role in the nation's first 50 years.
Style: atmospheric, political, period piece, realistic, serious ...
Plot: american history, president, american revolution, politics, lawyer, freedom, u.s. president, politician, colonial america, leadership, historical character, true love ...
Time: 18th century, 19th century, 2000s, ancient times, year 2008 ...
Place: usa, massachusetts, boston, america, paris france ...
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Rivals Forever - The Sneaker Battle (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 174 min.
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Story: The life and struggle of the Dassler brothers. Founders of the brands of Adidas and Puma.
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating, psychological
Plot: brother brother relationship, shoemaker, family business, business, nazism, factory, father son relationship, nazi germany, disagreement, relationship problems, businessman, rivalry ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 70s, 1920s, 1930s ...
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Golden Marriage (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: China
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Style: captivating, thrilling, psychological
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Genius (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
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Story: Anthology series about famous geniuses with the first season charting how Albert Einstein unlocked the mysteries of the atom and the universe, and the second exploring the passionate nature and relentless creative drive of Pablo Picasso.
Style: anthology, historical drama, inspirational, enigmatic, captivating ...
Plot: genius, physicist, painting, painter, adolescence vs adulthood, biopic, life, real life, scientist, discovery, scientific discovery, mind ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 191 min.
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Style: inspirational, thought provoking, feel good, captivating, period piece ...
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Time: edwardian era, 19th century
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Inborn Pair (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 48 min.
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Story: Betrothed while in utero, a resort group president enters into an arranged marriage with a legal assistant. Despite their bickering, love blooms.
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Style: political, thought provoking, captivating, anthology, costume drama ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
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Story: Noda Ryusuke is a popular scriptwriter specialising in stories about the perfect married couple but is shocked when his wife of 23 years suddenly wants to get a divorce.
Style: thrilling, captivating, psychological
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Place: japan
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Scenes from a Marriage (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 296 min.
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Story: A chronicle of the many years of love and turmoil that bind a contemporary American couple, tracking their relationship as it progresses through a number of successive stages: matrimony, infidelity, divorce, and subsequent partnerships.
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating, thought provoking, erotic ...
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Black Rose (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 100 min.
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Story: A married women has to fight for the things she lost because of the revealed secrets of her husband.
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Russia
Duration: 140 min.
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Lillie (1978)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, Romance
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Duration: 52 min.
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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Place: britain, england, london, united kingdom, buckingham palace
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 200 min.
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Country: USA
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Story: Explore the early life and evolution of the philosopher and visionary Voltaire, from his love stories, his father's issues to the discovery of his vocation, his commitments against religious fanaticism and the arbitrary misuse of justice and ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 111 min.
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