Movies like Mark Twain and Me

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Mark Twain and Me (1991)
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Mark Twain and Me (1991)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Dorothy Quick, A young girl befriends the famous writer, Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemans during the final years of his life.
Audience: kids
Plot: biopic, civil war, coming of age, ship, friendship, writers, family relations, old man, father daughter relationship, girl, aspiring writer, mark twain, hat, dress, 11 year old, white dress, white suit, disney
Time: 1900s, 20th century

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and captivating films with plots about biopic, family relations, writers, friendship, husband wife relationship, art and father daughter relationship mostly in Biography, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Mark Twain and Me: Act One (1963), Cross Creek (1983), Sophia Loren: Her Own Story (1980), The Patricia Neal Story (1981), Young Andersen (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Act One (1963)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Story of the life of writer/playwright Moss Hart.
Style: uplifting, realistic, serious, touching, sincere ...
Plot: biopic, writers, playwright, backstage, ambition, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, writer's life, determination, frustration, theatre director, theatrical agent ...
Time: year 1963, 60s, year 1929
Place: manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city, atlantic city new jersey, new york
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95%
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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 ⇓
93%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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Young Andersen (2005)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Denmark, Norway, Sweden
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A powerful modern film narrative, set in a historical framework, about the crucial encounter between vulnerable eighteen-year-old Hans Christian Andersen, who rates himself so highly, and Mr. Meisling, the cynical school principal. An encounter that ...
Style: period piece
Plot: writers, poet, inspiration, biopic, teen rebel, memories, school, storytelling, friendship, coming of age, loss of friend, hans christian andersen
Time: 19th century
Place: denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
This Boy's Life (1993)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: In 1957, a son and mother flee the East and an abusive boyfriend to find a new life, and end up in Seattle, where the mother meets a polite garage mechanic. The boy continually gets into trouble by hanging out with the wrong crowd. The mom marries ...
Style: depressing, realistic, emotional, touching, epic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, child abuse, small town, single parent, domestic violence, dysfunctional family, biopic, childhood, husband wife relationship, teenager, abusive stepfather, friendship ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, year 1993, 90s, 20th century ...
Place: seattle, washington state, salt lake city utah, washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Magic Beyond Words: The J.K. Rowling Story (2011)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Magic Beyond Words: The J.K. Rowling Story is a made-for-TV film starring Australian actress Poppy Montgomery. The film, which was shot in B.C. Canada locations altered to look like British locations, details the journey of struggling single mother ...
Style: serious, sentimental, realistic, touching, sincere ...
Audience: kids
Plot: biopic, multiple sclerosis, writers, rising to stardom, writer's life, school, family relations, rise to the top, ambition, artists and showbiz, single parent, single mother ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 80s, 21st century
Place: england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
The End Is My Beginning (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Germany, Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When an extraordinary man who has lived through all is approaching his end, he decides to call his son to join him for the last time at his home in Tuscany. His intention is to share some valuable conversations about his life as a press ...
Style: touching, contemplative, realistic, talky, captivating ...
Plot: introspection, elderly, dealing with death, unfulfillment, life is a bitch, terminal illness, parents and children, family relations, biopic, writers, poet, son ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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Aglaya (2012)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Hungary, Romania, Poland
Duration: 116 min.
Story: This film is about the relationship of a mother and her daughter, the split-up of their family, the blessing and curse of belonging together and about coming of age - all this from the perspective of the young girl Aglaja. The story is based on ...
Style: atmospheric, touching, sentimental, emotional, serious ...
Plot: circus, ambition, performer's life, self discovery, dysfunctional family, desire for fame, family relations, artists and showbiz, parents and children, eccentric family, youth, family problems ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s
Place: hungary
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years (1977)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 155 min.
Story: The story of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt during their 12-year stay at the White House.
Style: historical drama, postmodern
Plot: president, usa president, u.s. president, american politics, usa history, incest, biopic, winston churchill, marriage of convenience, polio, homelessness, media manipulation ...
Time: 1940s, 1890s, 1900s
Place: pearl harbor, usa, washington d.c., california
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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The Tender Bar (2021)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: J.R. is a fatherless boy growing up in the glow of a bar where the bartender, his Uncle Charlie, is the sharpest and most colorful of an assortment of quirky and demonstrative father figures. As the boy’s determined mother struggles to provide her ...
Style: sincere, captivating, disturbing, psychological, entertaining ...
Plot: uncle nephew relationship, writers, boy, male bonding, adult child friendship, coming of age, family relations, drunken man, bartender, family problems, bar owner, lifestyle ...
Time: 70s, year 1986, year 1973
Place: long island, new haven connecticut, yale university, north carolina, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Restless Virgins (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A sex scandal that shook Massachusetts prep school, Milton Academy in 2004-05 school year.
Style: serious, realistic, disturbing, psychological, sincere ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: preparatory school, high school, scandal, social relations, youth, teenage life, high school life, friendship, family relations, escapades, love and romance, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
A Home of Our Own (1993)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The story is located in Los Angeles in the sixties. An energetic widow, Frances Lacey, with her six children try to make a dream of theirs come true: to have a home of their own. Therefore they leave Los Angeles and head for the countryside, while ...
Style: touching, sentimental, emotional, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: kids
Plot: single parent, christmas, heartwarming, bittersweet, youth, family relations, widow, corporal punishment, coming of age, biopic, family problems, children ...
Time: 1900s, year 1993, 90s
Place: los angeles, california, idaho, usa
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66%
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Haywire (1980)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 200 min.
Story: After fleeting marriages to Henry Fonda and William Wyler, Margaret Sullavan found contentment as the wife of producer Leland Hayward (Jason Robards) and as the mother of three. Or so it seemed, until the marriage crumbled, the children rebelled and ...
Plot: hollywood, biopic, grownups, theater, actress, broadway, producer, childhood, cruelty
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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To Olivia (2021)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In 1962, Patricia Neal and Roald Dahl retreat to the English countryside to bring up their young family. The seemingly unlikely pair find their relationship put to the test by a tragic loss.
Style: suspense, disturbing, psychological, depressing
Plot: bereavement, family tragedy, biopic, marriage, family problems, child illness, parents and children, terminal illness, fighting illness, illness, husband wife relationship, father daughter relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Bill: On His Own (1983)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Bill Sackter struggles to cope after his best friend and guardian, Barry Morrow and his wife Beverly move away. Bill moves into a group home run by Mae Driscoll who teaches him how to read. Bill soon discovers his religious heritage, overcoming the ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, touching, emotional
Plot: biopic, family problems, disability, family relations, mental illness, custody, mentally challenged, misfit, life is a bitch, society, human spirit, hopes ...
Time: 80s
Place: iowa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Jeremiah Terminator LeRoy (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A young woman named Savannah Knoop spends six years pretending to be a transgender writer named JT Leroy, the made-up literary persona of her sister-in-law.
Style: tense, captivating, disturbing, queer cinema
Plot: writers, lesbian, gay, fraud, women, hidden identity, lie, secret identity, aspiring writer, secret, deception, con trick ...
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57%
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Prince William (2002)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Prince William is the elder son of Britain's Prince Charles and if the late Diana, Princess of Wales. After his father, he is next in line to the British throne. A biography of his journey so far....
Style: serious, emotional, touching, controversial, realistic
Plot: royal family, lifestyle, teenage life, youth, state affairs, family problems, family relations, adolescence vs adulthood, parents and children, coming of age, paparazzi, queen of england ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Grace Kelly (1983)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The fairy tale story of the actress who became a princess is told in this biography that traces her rise from Philadelphia socialite to Hollywood movie star.
Style: serious, realistic, captivating
Audience: date night
Plot: hollywood, biopic, love, psychic, wedding, historical figure, love and romance, artists and showbiz, actor's life, media, rise to the top, social differences ...
Time: 1940s, 50s, 20th century
Place: philadelphia, europe, monaco
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Papa Hemingway in Cuba (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In 1959, a young journalist ventures to Havana, Cuba to meet his idol, the legendary Ernest Hemingway who helped him find his literary voice, while the Cuban Revolution comes to a boil around them.
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot: writers, cuban revolution, revolution, journalist, cultural icon, historical figure, lifestyle, social problems, meeting, journalism, world war one, art ...
Place: cuba
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55%
The Ditchdigger's Daughters (1997)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Based on the memoirs of Yvonne S. Thornton, this heartwarming, inspirational family drama centers on a poor black laborer who wanted his six daughters to grow up to be doctors.
Plot: black, blaxploitation, teenager, interracial relations, family relations, patriarch, racism, education, funeral, father daughter relationship, african american, flashback ...
Place: new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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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 ⇓
54%
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
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48%
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Winslow Homer: An American Original (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 49 min.
Story: American artist Winslow Homer's illustrations for Harpers' Weekly magazine earned high praise for their honest portrayal of the Civil War. Discouraged by the horrors he witnessed, Homer abandons his post and heads to the quiet of Houghton ...
Plot: painter, artist, american civil war, civil war, biopic, teenager, brother brother relationship, girl, painting, boy, friendship, children
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Love and Betrayal: The Mia Farrow Story (1995)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 240 min.
Story: Actress Mia Farrow's personal life takes a turn for the worse when she engages in a long relationship with Woody Allen.
Plot: biopic, catholic, actress, nun, cardinal the priest, priest, female nudity, sex scene
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46%
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Bud and Lou (1978)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The professional and personal lives of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello are examined.
Plot: hollywood, biopic, showbiz, comedy team, abbott and costello
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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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 ⇓
45%
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Marie (1985)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A single mother takes a job with the government where she is confronted with corruption.
Style: political, independent film, thought provoking, talky, realistic ...
Plot: political corruption, women, biopic, girl, corruption, politics, fighting the system, profanity, violent content, power relations, dishonesty, uncover truth ...
Time: year 1985, 80s, 20th century
Place: tennessee, nashville tennessee
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1979)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Based on writer Maya Angelou's childhood, this story is about a young girl in the South who is sent to live with her grandmother after her parents divorce.
Plot: rape, black, sexual abuse, blaxploitation, black lives matter, homeless, writers, poverty, trauma, childhood, racism, voice over narration ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s
Place: southern usa, arkansas, st. louis missouri
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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