Movies like F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood

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F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood (1975)
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F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood (1975)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The story of author F. Scott Fitzgerald's two stays in Hollywood to write for films, once in 1927 at the height of his acclaim, and again in 1937 when he arrived with little money, enormous expenses and an ill wife.
Plot: writers, art, poet, mental institution, adultery, hollywood, infidelity, drunkenness, husband wife relationship, extramarital affair, psychiatric hospital, drinking, unfaithfulness, drinking alcohol, drink, columnist
Time: 1930s, 1920s
Place: north carolina

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, independent film and contemplative films with plots about husband wife relationship, writers, biopic, poet, art, infidelity and artists and showbiz mostly in Drama, Biography and Romance genres. Some movies like F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood: Zelda (1993), Harlow (1965), The Hearst and Davies Affair (1985), Obsessed with a Married Woman (1985), Poet and Muse (1978). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald and 'The Last of the Belles' (1974)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A semi-fictional account of how writer F. Scott Fitzgerald met his wife while he was in the army and stationed in Alabama in 1919.
Style: contemplative, sincere, touching, serious, realistic
Audience: girls' night
Plot: writers, art, poet, swing, biopic, couples, love affair, small town, writer's life, artists and showbiz, human nature, couple relations ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: alabama
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95%
 5.7
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Zelda (1993)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Story: Biopic about Zelda Fitzgerald, as played by Natasha Richardson
Plot: writers, art, girl, poet, alcoholism, eccentricity, mental illness, husband wife relationship, marriage, schizophrenia, modernism, mental patient ...
Time: 1920s
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76%
 4.8
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Harlow (1965)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Loosely based biography of 1930s star Jean Harlow as she begins her climb to stardom. One of two "Harlow" film biographies that appeared in 1965, this one stars Carol Lynley in the title role that begins as Jean Harlow, a bit player in ...
Style: independent film
Plot: hollywood, movie star, biopic, director, suicide, actress, blonde, mentor, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, infidelity, impotence ...
Time: 1930s
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
The Hearst and Davies Affair (1985)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Dramatization of the scandalous, long-time love affair between the powerful but married publisher and the chorus girl he helped turn into a Ziegfeld star and 1930s film personality.
Plot: hollywood, biopic, business tycoon, film history, older man younger woman relationship, newspaper publisher, scandal, movie star, power, mansion, age difference, actress ...
Time: 1910s, 1930s, 1920s
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Obsessed with a Married Woman (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Jane Seymour makes a six-course meal of her starring role as a magazine editor in Obsessed With a Married Woman--indeed, her performance is the only tangible reason for sitting through this artistically bankrupt TV movie. The story contrives to have ...
Plot: mistress, infidelity, adultery, writers, male female relationship, magazine editor, affair, obsession, husband wife relationship, terrorizing, magazine, unfaithfulness
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 5.6
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Poet and Muse (1978)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Semi-fictitious biopic of Finnish poet Eino Leino, made with a large budget to celebrate the 100th anniversary of his birth. The film concentrates on his relationships with first wife Freya Schoultz and later muse, poetess L. Onerva. His friends ...
Plot: biopic, poet, muse, artist, love triangle, syphilis, dysfunctional marriage, historical event, inspiration, venereal disease, nature, poetry ...
Time: 1920s, 1910s, 1900s
Place: finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
The Passion of Ayn Rand (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The rather eccentric (especially in her thinking) author of "The Fountainhead" and "Atlas Shrugged" becomes involved with a much younger, and married man... to the dismay of those close to her.
Style: political, independent film, captivating, sentimental, sexual ...
Plot: writers, philosopher, infidelity, individualism, libertarian, russian woman, art, biopic, bookstore, marriage, psychologist, poet ...
Time: 50s, 1940s, 1950s, 70s, 60s ...
Place: california, manhattan new york city, new york, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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 ⇓
53%
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Georgia O'Keeffe (2009)
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, artists and showbiz, obsession, lifestyle, love and romance, couple relations ...
Time: 20th century, 1920s, 1930s, year 1929, year 1932 ...
Place: usa, new mexico, manhattan new york city, new york, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
The Color of Time (2012)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: A poetic road trip through Pulitzer prize-winning CK Williams' life over the course of 40 years.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, melancholic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: poet, poetry, parent child relationship, artists and showbiz, couple relations, writer's life, haunted by the past, husband wife relationship, writers, biopic, professional, art ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 50s, 80s, 60s ...
Place: usa, detroit, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
A Half of Life (1985)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: East Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story: This tragic love story relates ten decisive years in the life of the great Romantic poet Friedrich Hölderlin, played by a young Ulrich Mühe.
Plot: french revolution, napoleonic wars, biopic, friendship, mental illness, poem, teacher, love, infidelity, fired from the job, adultery, husband wife relationship ...
Place: east germany, frankfurt germany, german democratic republic, switzerland, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 155 min.
Story: Writer Ernest Hemingway begins a romance with fellow scribe Martha Gellhorn.
Style: serious, stylized, psychological, captivating, heartbreaking ...
Plot: writers, love affair, war correspondent, divorce, biopic, media, journalism, spanish civil war, journalist, fame, world war two, couples ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s, 1940s
Place: europe, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Permanent Midnight (1998)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Ben Stiller plays comedy writer Jerry Stahl, whose $6000-a-week heroin habit had him taking his infant daughter along on his drug runs and doing smack during TV script conferences. Departing detox, Stahl explores memories with survivor Kitty, who ...
Style: factual, intense, depressing, serious, cult classic ...
Plot: addiction, drug, writers, heroin, drug abuse, husband wife relationship, drug addict, human nature, drug addiction, lifestyle, family problems, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: los angeles, usa, pittsburgh, beverly hills
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Cross Creek (1983)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: The portrait of a woman who, at the edge of survival, found a world of meaning.
Style: touching, realistic, atmospheric, serious, captivating ...
Plot: writers, swamp, biopic, friendship, suburbs, deep south, art, romantic relationship, past, poet, rural setting, backwoods ...
Time: year 1983, 80s, 1930s
Place: florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 6.3
 11K
Sylvia (2003)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Story of the relationship between the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.
Style: depressing, emotional, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Plot: suicide, drinking, writers, mental illness, biopic, poet, death, art, tragic love, writer's life, artist, couple relations ...
Time: 1950s, year 2003, 50s, 60s, 20th century
Place: england, europe, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
The Last Time I Committed Suicide (1997)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Neal Cassady is living the beat life during the 1940s, working at The Tire Yard and and philandering around town. However, he has visions of a happy life with kids and a white picket fence. When his girlfried, Joan, tries to kill herself he gets ...
Style: talky, stylized, independent film, retro, erotic ...
Plot: writers, beat generation, friendship, suicide, writer's life, male nudity, depression, suicide attempt, art, poet, sex scene, making love ...
Time: 1940s, year 1997, 20th century, 1950s, 60s ...
Place: colorado, usa, denver colorado, new mexico, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Last Road (1986)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 101 min.
Story: About the death and the 'last road' of Aleksandr Pushkin, the leading poet and writer of Russia, who was shot on a duel at age 37. Pushkin was defending the reputation of his wife and mother of his four children - Nataly. She was a center ...
Plot: writers, poet, love, death, revenge, widow, jealousy, husband wife relationship, children, duel
Time: 19th century
Place: russia
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44%
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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 ⇓
42%
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 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 ⇓
42%
 6.5
 21K
Genius (2016)
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, storytelling, book editor, mentor, biopic, obsession, eccentricity, creativity, art, writer's life ...
Time: 1930s
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 6.3
 2K
Tom & Viv (1994)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 125 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, romantic drama, emotional, sincere ...
Plot: writers, women, art, poet, biopic, artist, love, marriage, insanity, mental disorder, nobel prize winner, world war one ...
Time: 1930s, year 1994, victorian era, 1910s, 20th century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Haunted Summer (1988)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Authors Lord Byron, Mary Shelley (née Godwin) and Percy Shelley get together for some philosophical discussions, but the situation soon deteriorates into mind games, drugs, and sex. It is a fictionalization of the summer that Lord Byron and the ...
Style: grindhouse, independent film, gothic, realistic, serious ...
Plot: writers, art, poet, napoleonic era, strength, acid, literary, women, drug use, couples, mutant, gays and lesbians ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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 9K
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Summer Solstice (1981)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: An old man lives out the final years of his half-century marriage by living and remembering.
Plot: beach, flashback, aging, adultery, marriage, affair, husband wife relationship, death of child, memory, infidelity, artist, unfaithfulness ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.6
 13K
Howl (2010)
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: atmospheric, surreal, thought provoking, realistic, sincere ...
Plot: poet, gay, poetry, courtroom drama, writers, beat generation, literature, biopic, freedom, lgbt, art, artist ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, 1920s, post world war two, year 1957 ...
Place: kansas, bronx new york city, colorado, arkansas, greenwich village manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.9
 206
The Moth (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 100 min.
Story: This is psychological drama by Tomasz Zygadlo begins as a straightforward story. Jan (Roman Wilhelmi) is the host of a nightly talk show in which he counsels people who call in with their problems. He is dedicated to helping these lonely souls but ...
Style: experimental
Plot: radio station, female nudity, unfaithfulness, loneliness, nervous breakdown, exhaustion, mistress, alcohol abuse, advice, telephone call, employer employee relationship, drunkenness ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.6
 2K
The Moderns (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Nick Hart is a struggling American artist who lives amongst the expatriate community in 1920s Paris. He spends most of his time drinking and socializing in local café's and pestering gallery owner Libby Valentin to sell his paintings. He ...
Style: clever, humorous, surreal, expressionism, realistic ...
Plot: art, artist, sensuality, painter, writers, painting, forgery, collector, drinking, love, nude photography, world war one ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
I Saw the Light (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Singer and songwriter Hank Williams rises to fame in the 1940s, but alcohol abuse and infidelity take a toll on his career and marriage to fellow musician Audrey Mae Williams.
Style: atmospheric, stylized, emotional, romantic, historical drama ...
Plot: country music, marriage, biopic, musician, country singer, husband wife relationship, singer, alcoholism, songwriter, infidelity, drinking, divorce ...
Time: 1940s, 50s, year 1944
Place: usa, new york, nashville tennessee
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 7.0
 1K
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 ⇓
35%
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 ⇓
35%
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