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Feud: Bette and Joan (2017)
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Feud: Bette and Joan (2017)
Original name: FEUD
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Anthology series of famous feuds with the first season based on the legendary rivalry between Bette Davis and Joan Crawford which began early on their careers, climaxed on the set of "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?" and evolved into an Oscar vendetta.
Style: sincere, melancholic, thought provoking, anthology, humorous, factual, saga, costume drama, dark drama, historical drama ...
Plot: hollywood, filmmaking, feud, movie star, actress, jealousy, glory, aging, woman, family problems, workplace problem, loneliness, frustration, women, strong female lead, alzheimer's disease, drinking problem, designer, actor, feminist, film industry, backstage, resistance, human rights, girl power ...
Time: 60s, 1960s
Place: los angeles

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and historical drama films and TV series with plots about biopic, hollywood, actress, filmmaking, movie star, artists and showbiz and actor's life mostly in Drama, Biography and History genres. Some movies like Feud: Bette and Joan: Mommie Dearest (1981), My Week with Marilyn (2011), Blonde (2001), The Mystery of Natalie Wood (2004), The Patricia Neal Story (1981). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Mommie Dearest (1981)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: In this biographical film, glamorous yet lonely star Joan Crawford takes in two orphans, and at first their unconventional family seems happy. But after Joan's attempts at romantic fulfillment go sour and she is fired from her contract with MGM ...
Style: disturbing, controversial, factual, intense, talky ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: child abuse, adoption, dysfunctional family, abusive mother, single mother, bad mother, mother daughter relationship, mansion, hollywood, borderline personality disorder, mother, storytelling ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 1930s, 60s, 1950s ...
Place: usa, new york, los angeles
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My Week with Marilyn (2011)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Sir Laurence Olivier is making a movie in London. Young Colin Clark, an eager film student, wants to be involved and he navigates himself a job on the set. When film star Marilyn Monroe arrives for the start of shooting, all of London is excited to ...
Style: sentimental, period piece, romantic, factual, melancholic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: movie star, historical figure, biopic, fame, hollywood, actress, actor's life, ambition, cultural icon, women, depression, celebrity ...
Time: 50s, 2010s, year 2011, 1900s, 1950s ...
Place: england, britain, europe, london
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Blonde (2001)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Australia, Canada, USA
Duration: 165 min.
TV show
Story: A fictional biography of Marilyn Monroe mixed with series of real events in her life.
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, touching, contemplative ...
Plot: hollywood, starlet, actor's life, historical figure, showbiz, lifestyle, love and romance, rising to stardom, desire for fame, filmmaking, couples, couple relations ...
Time: 60s, 1930s, 1940s, 50s, 1950s
Place: venice beach california, usa, maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows (2001)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Musical
Country: Canada, Germany, USA
Duration: 170 min.
TV show
Story: The film, which chronicles Garland's life from her first public performance in 1924 until her death in 1969, is divided into two parts: the first part depicts her rise to fame in the 1930s, her descent into drugs, and her fall from grace in the ...
Style: realistic, touching, captivating, serious, emotional ...
Plot: addiction, biopic, filmmaking, showbiz, rising to stardom, actor's life, singer, ambition, lifestyle, celebrity culture, family problems, musician's life ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s
Place: usa, california, new york, london, manhattan new york city
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The Mystery of Natalie Wood (2004)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Mystery
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 172 min.
TV show
Story: Uses accounts from family, friends, and acquaintances to tell the story of Natalie Wood and how she started young, acting in the spotlight, making the transition from a childhood actress to serious actress, dating the top names in Hollywood, her ...
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, depressing
Plot: childhood, price of fame, actress, husband wife relationship, marriage, rape, movie star, understanding, child star, interview, extramarital affair, suicide attempt ...
Time: 1940s, 1950s, 80s, 60s, 70s
Place: los angeles
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The Patricia Neal Story (1981)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The actress (Glenda Jackson) recovers from a 1966 stroke with help from friends and her husband, author Roald Dahl (Dirk Bogarde).
Plot: writers, movie star, biopic, marriage, stroke, actress, filmmaking, writing
Time: 60s
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Liz: The Elizabeth Taylor Story (1995)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 210 min.
Story: The story of the life of the actress Elizabeth Taylor.
Plot: hollywood, celebrity, actress, cruise ship, love, courtroom, honeymoon, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, marriage, divorce, domineering mother ...
Time: 60s, 1940s, 1950s
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Nolly (2023)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Exploring the rise and fall of one of the most famous faces on British television in the 60s and 70s: Noele Gordon (or Nolly to her friends).
Style: soap opera, exciting, dramatic, entertaining, captivating
Plot: actress, movie actor, movie star, movie actress, tv star, celebrity, desire for fame, woman, actor's life, rising to stardom, female protagonist, actor ...
Time: 80s
Place: england, london
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Grey Gardens (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Based on the life stories of the eccentric aunt and first cousin of Jackie Onassis raised as Park Avenue débutantes but who withdrew from New York society, taking shelter at their Long Island summer home, "Grey Gardens." As their wealth ...
Style: touching, realistic, compassionate, depressing, melancholic ...
Plot: eccentric family, eccentricity, dysfunctional family, depression, betrayal, eviction, family life, family relations, parents and children, oldtimer, elderly, women ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 1930s
Place: new york, usa
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Frances (1982)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story: The true story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.
Style: depressing, disturbing, compassionate, factual, psychological ...
Plot: mental illness, hollywood, rich and poor, mother daughter relationship, insanity, biopic, actor's life, women, family relations, showbiz, rise to the top, life is a bitch ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 1930s, 1950s
Place: california, usa, manhattan new york city, new york
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: From F. Scott Fitzgerald's last work, The Last Tycoon follows Monroe Stahr, Hollywood's Golden Boy as he battles father figure and boss Pat Brady for the soul of their studio. In a world darkened by the Depression and the growing influence ...
Style: costume drama, period piece, captivating, tense, historical drama ...
Plot: hollywood, business, great depression, mogul, film industry, movie business, showdown, businessman, film producer, ambitious man, ambition, fight for supremacy ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
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Julia (2022)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Through Julia Child’s life and her singular joie de vivre, the series explores a pivotal time in American history – the emergence of public television as a new social institution, feminism and the women's movement, the nature of celebrity ...
Style: historical drama, culinary, captivating, saga, period drama ...
Plot: food, gastronomy, cooking, cooking and food, cooking show, female chef, lifestyle, female protagonist, chef, woman, post war, women ...
Time: 2020s, 60s, year 1962
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The Girl (2012)
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Country: UK, South Africa, USA, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Director Alfred Hitchcock is revered as one of the greatest creative minds in the history of cinema. Known for his psychological thrillers, Hitchcock’s leading ladies were cool, beautiful and preferably blonde. One such actress was Tippi Hedren, ...
Style: psychological, serious, captivating, stylized, realistic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: filmmaking, sexual harassment, actor's life, obsession, prodigy, artists and showbiz, starlet, infatuation, older man younger woman relationship, passion, movie star, dream girl ...
Time: 1900s, 60s, 20th century
Place: england
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A film about the making of Citizen Kane. Orson Welles produces his greatest film, Citizen Kane, despite the opposition of the film's de facto subject, William Randolph Hearst.
Style: talky, historical drama, atmospheric, stylized, clever ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
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Style: anthology, historical drama, inspirational, enigmatic, captivating ...
Plot: genius, physicist, painting, painter, adolescence vs adulthood, biopic, life, real life, scientist, discovery, scientific discovery, mind ...
Time: 1930s, 1950s, 60s, 70s, 1910s ...
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The Audrey Hepburn Story (2000)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 133 min.
Story: The film spans from Hepburn's early childhood to the 1950s which details her life as a Dutch ballerina, coming to grips with her parents' divorce, and enduring life in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II. She then settles in ...
Style: uplifting, serious, feel good, realistic, sentimental ...
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Time: 20th century, 60s, 1940s, 50s, 1950s
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The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe (2015)
Genre: Biography
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
TV show
Story: A chronicle of Marilyn Monroe's family life and how she succeeded in hiding her most intimate secrets from the press and an invasive world.
Style: realistic, sexy, touching, serious, captivating ...
Plot: parents and children, mental illness, actor's life, family relations, mental disorder, artists and showbiz, celebrity culture, historical figure, family secret, secret, famous, life ...
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Place: usa
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20%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 191 min.
TV show
Story: This limited series chronicles the incredible true story of Madam C.J. Walker, who was the first African American self-made millionaire.
Style: inspirational, thought provoking, feel good, captivating, period piece ...
Plot: entrepreneur, rags to riches, american dream, hair, black, women, black history, black lives matter, biopic, social climbing, strong female lead, ambitious man ...
Time: edwardian era, 19th century
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Style: factual, homoerotic, semi autobiographical, semi documentary, feel good ...
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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 ...
Style: historical drama, tense, captivating, period piece, costume drama ...
Plot: scandal, southern belle, flapper, biopic, writers, fall in love, party, strong female lead, family life, marital crisis, family relations, jealous spouse ...
Time: 1920s, edwardian era, 20th century
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James Dean (2001)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: The man behind the legend and a knowing look at the 1950's Hollywood are revealed in this dynamic bioepic of the meteoric star whose troubled life echoed his gut-grabbing performances in East of Eden, Rebel Without A Cause and Giant.
Style: realistic, serious, sentimental, captivating, clever ...
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Time: 1950s, 20th century, 50s, 1940s, 1930s
Place: usa, malibu california, indiana, santa monica california, new york
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My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn (1985)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story: The life and wanton times of Errol Flynn
Plot: hollywood, movie star, bad boy, biopic, older man younger woman relationship, controversy, male female relationship, statutory rape, autobiography, unrequited love, filmmaking, fame ...
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 347 min.
TV show
Story: A group of aspiring actors and filmmakers in post-World War II Hollywood try to make it big — no matter the cost.
Style: funny, colorful, social, feel good, entertaining ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: hollywood, gay, racial discrimination, follow your dream, aspiring actor, male prostitute, film industry, gay sex, lgbtq, male prostitution, sexploitation, sexual harassment ...
Time: 1940s, post world war two, 20th century
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19%
Sophia Loren: Her Own Story (1980)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Dramatization of the life of Italian actress Sophia Loren who plays herself during adulthood and also that of her mother Romilda Villani.
Plot: hollywood, biopic, glory, mother daughter relationship, world war two, father daughter relationship, extramarital affair, italian woman, air raid, poverty, actress, miscarriage ...
Place: rome italy, italy
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19%
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Super Pumped (2022)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Each season of this anthology series explores a story that rocked the business world to its core and changed culture. The first season tells the story of Uber, one of Silicon Valley’s most successful and most destructive unicorns.
Style: disturbing, captivating, thought provoking, anthology
Plot: business, taxi, businessman, scandal, sex scandal, economist, driver, finance, real life, entrepreneurship, entrepreneur, silicon valley ...
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George Wallace (1997)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 178 min.
TV show
Story: George Wallace is a 1997 television film starring Gary Sinise as George Wallace, the former Governor of Alabama. It was directed by John Frankenheimer, who won an Emmy award for it; Sinise and Mare Winningham also won Emmies for their performances. ...
Style: political, non fiction, captivating, thought provoking, tense ...
Plot: politics, campaign, american politics, assassination attempt, president, biopic, politician, election, usa history, intrigue, civil rights, racism ...
Time: 60s, 70s, year 1972, year 1965, year 1963 ...
Place: alabama, georgia, usa, america
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19%
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Mank (2020)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: 1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane.
Style: black and white, historical drama, sentimental, inspirational, intense ...
Plot: screenwriter, filmmaking, wealth, biopic, writers, beach, movie business, politics, friendship, loneliness, car accident, name calling ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, 2020s, year 1942, year 1936 ...
Place: los angeles, mojave desert, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Gods and Monsters (1998)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: It's 1957, and Whale's heyday as the director of "Frankenstein," "Bride of Frankenstein" and "The Invisible Man" is long behind him. Retired and a semi-recluse, he lives his days accompanied only by images ...
Style: enigmatic, melancholic, captivating, sentimental, cult classic ...
Plot: homosexuality, life & death, gay interest, gay, friendship, filmmaking, homosexual, biopic, depression, loneliness, adaptation, gardener ...
Time: year 1998, 1950s, 50s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, usa, california, pacific ocean
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19%
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Life (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, Canada, Australia, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: In 1955, young photographer Dennis Stock develops a close bond with actor James Dean while shooting pictures of the rising Hollywood star.
Style: serious, captivating, realistic, psychological, thought provoking ...
Plot: hollywood, actor's life, magazine, showbiz, friendship, actor, celebrity, buddy, photograph, celebrity culture, journalism, photographer ...
Time: 20th century, 50s, 1950s, year 1955
Place: usa
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19%
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