Movies like El Greco 1966
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El Greco (1966)
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Greek painter Domenikos Theotokopoulos (Mel Ferrer) woos a beauty (Rosanna Schiaffino) and faces the Inquisition in 16th-century Spain.
Style:
period piece, historical drama, atmospheric, intense
Plot:
painter, biopic, artist, inquisition, art, forbidden love, catholic church, renaissance, outsider, tragic romance, trial, persecution, obsession, jealousy, palace intrigue, ancient, famous, small town, love, nun, monk, priest, sword fight, spanish inquisition, false accusation ...
Time:
16th century
Place:
spain
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Most similar movies to El Greco
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, captivating, period drama and realistic films with plots about biopic, painter, artist, art, art history, painting and famous mostly in Drama, Biography and History genres. Some movies like El Greco: Una vita scellerata (1990), The Lady of Monza (1969), I, Leonardo (2019), Oscar: The Color of Destiny (2008), Paradise Found (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Italy, France, Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
The story of Benvenuto Cellinin (1500 - 1571), a soldier and one of the most important craftsmen and artists of Renaissance Italy whose life was marked by many achievements and adventures, but also crimes.
Style:
historical drama, period piece, intense, educational, epic ...
Plot:
renaissance, biopic, pope, painter, sculpture, ambition, artist, politics, rivalry, betrayal, palace intrigue, passion ...
Time:
16th century
Place:
rome italy, italy, florence
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A true story taken from the archives of the archdiocese of Milan.
Style:
historical drama, period piece, serious, atmospheric, bleak ...
Plot:
nun, nunsploitation, evil nun, catholic church, celibacy, biopic, forbidden love, scandal, tragedy, trial, murder, female protagonist ...
Time:
17th century
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Greece, Spain, Hungary
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
The story of the uncompromising artist and fighter for freedom, Domenicos Theotokopoulos, known to the world as "El Greco".
Style:
serious, emotional, stylized, captivating, period piece ...
Plot:
painter, art, lovers apart, idealism, tragic hero, politics, prodigy, ambition, self destructing, vengeance, love and romance, society ...
Time:
middle ages, 16th century
Place:
greece, spain, italy, europe, venice ...
Similarity:
84%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Discover Leonardo da Vinci, the man, the painter, the scientist and the inventor, through a unique, engaging and fascinating journey in the mind of Leonardo.
Style:
inspirational, intellectual, mind bending, thought provoking, educational ...
Plot:
leonardo da vinci, renaissance, genius, painter, artist, art, medieval, art school, scientist, biopic, mona lisa, innovation ...
Time:
15th century, 16th century
Place:
italy, florence, milan italy
Similarity:
76%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
"Óscar. The Color of Destiny" is a revealing portrayal of a forgotten icon of French Surrealism: Spanish painter Óscar Domínguez, contemporary of Picasso. The film rediscovers the life of a talented artist who was ignored after he ...
Style:
avant garde, melancholic, tragic, period drama, grotesque
Plot:
artist, biopic, art, nazi occupation, painter, surrealism, loneliness, bohemian, lesbian sex, identity, alienation, isolation ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 1930s
Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, France, Germany, Australia, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Paradise Found is a biography about the painter Paul Gauguin. Focusing on his personal conflict between citizen life and his family life and the art scene in Frane. In an incredible imagery montage Gauguin manages to make a successful living in the ...
Style:
realistic, serious, scenic, contemplative
Plot:
painter, survival, lifestyle, prodigy, obsessive quest, ambition, artist, biopic, rise and fall, obsession, life is a bitch, love and romance ...
Time:
ancient times, 19th century, 1890s, 1870s
Place:
tahiti, paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
This film is a chronicle of painter Frida Kahlo, and her encounter with the personalities of her time. Despite being confied to a wheelchair as a result of polio, operations and amputations, she faces and traces some of the most colorful and ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, visual, period drama
Plot:
biopic, painter, art, artist, female artist, cultural icon, polio, defiant, miscarriage, female empowerment, creative process, autobiography ...
Time:
20th century, year 1983
Place:
mexico
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, Romania, France, Italy, USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Set in Paris in 1919, biopic centers on the life of late Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, focusing on his last days as well as his rivalry with Pablo Picasso. Modigliani, a Jew, has fallen in love with Jeanne, a young and beautiful Catholic girl. ...
Style:
touching, realistic, serious, sad, factual ...
Plot:
painter, painting, artist, prodigy, biopic, art, art history, life is a bitch, addiction, tragic love, couple relations, tragic hero ...
Time:
20th century, year 1919, 1920s
Place:
europe, france, paris france, south of france
Similarity:
61%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France, Spain, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In the 16th century, the daughter of a Spanish nobleman joins a convent and becomes a spiritual leader.
Style:
historical drama, serious, dramatic, period piece, meditative ...
Plot:
saint, convent, biopic, religious, catholic, catholic saint, nun, mysticism, spiritual journey, a vision, catholicism, loyalty ...
Time:
16th century, ancient times, 17th century
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The film fictionalizes the real relationship between French sculptor Henri Gaudier and Polish writer Sophie Brzeska, twenty years his senior, who came to Paris, she says, for its “creative atmosphere.”
Style:
sentimental, period drama
Plot:
art, artist, painter, art history, nude, older woman younger man relationship, novelist, sculptor, anarchist, naked woman, sculpture, architecture ...
Time:
year 1972, 1910s
Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Luxembourg, France, Belgium, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
This film, adapted from a work of fiction by author Tracy Chevalier, tells a story about the events surrounding the creation of the painting "Girl With A Pearl Earring" by 17th century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer. A young peasant maid ...
Style:
enigmatic, erotic, period piece, costume drama, atmospheric ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
artist, painter, painting, art, master and servant, sexual tension, nymphet, teenage girl, society, couple relations, maid, portrait ...
Time:
17th century, ancient times, year 2003, 19th century, victorian era ...
Place:
holland, netherlands, europe, america
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: West Germany, France, Austria
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In 1912, in Austria, the painter Egon Schiele is sent to jail accused of pornography with the nymphet Tatjana in his erotic paints. His mate, the model Vally, gets help from a famous lawyer to release him. Then he leaves Vally, marries with another ...
Style:
erotic, heartbreaking, sexy
Plot:
painter, artist, art, art history, painting, biopic, famous, artwork, sex, fashion, world war one, love ...
Time:
1910s
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
They loved each other with the ardor of thirteen-year-old boys. Rebellion and curiosity, hopes and doubts, girls and dreams of glory – they shared it all. Paul was rich, Emile poor. They went skinny-dipping, drank absinthe, starved, only to ...
Style:
captivating, exciting, factual, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot:
painter, art, friendship, artist, painting, novelist, female nudity, portrait, nude painting, seaside, infidelity, end of friendship ...
Time:
1890s, 19th century, 1880s, victorian era, 1860s ...
Place:
south of france, paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
56%
107
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Japan, France
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
A biopic of seminal 20th century artist Leonard Foujita, a contemporary of Picasso and Modigliani, who was famous for mixing up European and Japanese styles.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, intercultural, avant garde ...
Plot:
artist, biopic, painter, art, painting, relationship problems, artists' life, family problems, social problems, world war two, modernism, identity ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
paris france, japan
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
The tragic story of French naïve painter Séraphine Louis aka Séraphine de Senlis (1864-1942), a humble servant who becomes a gifted self-taught painter. Discovered by prominent critic and collector William Uhde, she came to prominence between the ...
Style:
touching, sincere, sentimental, surprise ending, independent film ...
Plot:
painter, artist, art, painting, art collector, mental illness, art dealer, world war one, biopic, art history, lifestyle, anti conformity ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, year 2008, 1920s, 1930s ...
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The film tackles the life journey of Toni Ligabue, visionary naïf painter who used to draw tigers, lions and jaguars while living among the poplar trees of the boundless Po valley. A harsh life that is a fairy tale too, as a lonely and marginalized ...
Style:
captivating, sincere, semi autobiographical, suspense, psychotronic ...
Plot:
poverty, painter, isolation, autobiography, world war two, biopic, hiding place, alienation, painting, loneliness, character study, identity ...
Time:
1950s
Place:
switzerland
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Marie Krøyer is hailed as “the most beautiful woman in Europe” and leads a happy marriage life with her husband the great Danish painter P.S. Krøyer and an adorable daughter. However, not everything in her world is as perfect as it seems, and ...
Style:
captivating, emotional, stylized, costume drama, serious ...
Plot:
painter, biopic, family problems, under the surface, mentally unstable, crumbling marriage, self discovery, fall in love, art, nordic, artist, art history ...
Time:
19th century, 20th century
Place:
denmark, italy, europe
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Winter, 1915. Confined by her family to an asylum in the South of France - where she will never sculpt again - the chronicle of Camille Claudel's reclusive life, as she waits for a visit from her brother, Paul Claudel.
Style:
sexy, realistic, sincere, costume drama, factual ...
Plot:
art, biopic, painter, separation from family, unfulfillment, art history, artist, nervous breakdown, faith, paranoia, sculpture, painting ...
Time:
20th century, year 1915, 1910s
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
49%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, France, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In 1973, a young gallery assistant goes on a wild adventure behind the scenes as he helps aging genius Salvador Dali prepare for a big show in New York.
Style:
period piece, psychological, captivating
Plot:
painter, bohemian life, genius, surrealism, art, male female relationship, relationships, love story, historical figure, couple relations, storytelling, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
year 1973, 20th century, 70s
Place:
manhattan new york city, spain, new york
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Ireland, Switzerland, UK, France, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Famed but tormented artist Vincent van Gogh spends his final years in Arles, France, painting masterworks of the natural world that surrounds him.
Style:
independent film, melancholic, art film, touching, rough ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
painter, loneliness, artist, art, priest, painting, doctor, insanity, obsession, art gallery, mission, genius ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1890s, 1880s
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Charlton Heston stars as Renaissance artist Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), who begrudgingly paints the Sistine Chapel for imperious Pope Julius II in this epic adaptation of Irvine Stone's novel ...
Style:
inspirational, uplifting, serious, costume drama, biblical ...
Plot:
renaissance, painter, artist, biopic, gay subtext, painting, art, catholic, pope, male male relationship, art history, christian ...
Time:
16th century, ancient times, medieval times, 60s
Place:
italy, europe, rome italy
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Painter Francisco Goya faces a scandal involving his muse, who is labeled a heretic by a monk.
Style:
period piece, costume drama, historical drama, factual, realistic ...
Plot:
rape, artist, spanish inquisition, spanish history, art, prison, prostitute, painter, biopic, life is a bitch, lifestyle, painting ...
Time:
18th century, ancient times, regency period, 19th century, 1800s ...
Place:
spain, persia, madrid, europe
Similarity:
47%
24K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Director Julian Schnabel illustrates the portrait of his friend, the first African-American pop artist Jean-Michel Basquiat who unfortunately died at a young age and just as he was beginning to make a name for himself in the art world. Alongside the ...
Style:
inspirational, stylized, sexy, factual, atmospheric ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
artist, art, graffiti, painter, biopic, drug abuse, painting, drug addiction, friendship, art history, drug, self destructing ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1996, year 1981
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
46%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
In August of 1949, Life Magazine ran a banner headline that begged the question: "Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?" The film is a look back into the life of an extraordinary man, a man who has ...
Style:
emotional, breathtaking, intellectual, inspirational, atmospheric ...
Plot:
painter, artist, art, painting, biopic, genius, addiction, alcoholism, bohemian life, art history, self destructing, rise and fall ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 1950s, year 1945, year 1941 ...
Place:
new york, usa, greenwich village manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city, europe ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 175 min.
Story:
The life of Camille Claudel, a french scupltor who becomes the apprentice of Auguste Rodin and later his lover. Her passion for her art and Rodin drive her further away from reason and rationality.
Style:
emotional, psychological, intense, touching, heartbreaking ...
Plot:
art, biopic, mental illness, artist, fall in love, obsession, painter, sculptor, storytelling, art history, love, couples ...
Time:
19th century, ancient times, turn of the century
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The Catholic Church secretly investigates Caravaggio as the Pope weighs whether to grant him clemency for killing a rival.
Style:
dramatic, captivating, suspenseful, enigmatic, bleak
Plot:
painter, art, artists' life, artist, murder, genius, pope, rivalry, catholic church, church, donkey, snake ...
Time:
17th century, 16th century
Place:
italy, naples italy, rome italy
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
From his birth in 1895 through his death in 1968, the gifted Polish naïve artist Nikifor Krynicki (AKA Epifan Drowniak) lived his life and eked out a career cloaked in obscurity - a casualty of both his extreme speech impediment (his tongue was ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, atmospheric, gloomy
Plot:
art, genius, painter, prodigy, society, lifestyle, love and romance, couple relations, family life, celebrity culture, tragic love, couples ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
poland
Similarity:
40%
386
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
The unknown life of Ukiyo-e artist Katsushika Hokusai in the Edo period, who is said to have painted more than 30,000 works throughout his life, such as "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji"
Style:
captivating, suspenseful, exciting, dramatic, serious ...
Plot:
painter, painting, art, artist, drawing, profession, famous painting, picture, creative process, fight, perseverance, art history ...
Place:
japan, mount fuji
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France, UK, Germany, Romania
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A dramatic retelling of the life of Michel de Nostredame, from his early work as a plague doctor to his time at the court of Catherine de Medici, after he became famed for his prophetic almanacs. Stars Rutger Hauer and Julia Ormond.
Style:
spiritual, serious, independent film, period drama
Plot:
inquisition, male pubic hair, doctor, biopic, seer, prophecy, chambermaid, male nudity, professor, priest, dancer, apocalypse ...
Time:
16th century, middle ages, year 1994, future
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Spain 1640, the reverend superior nun Mariana, attends the death of her younger sister, Isabel's husband, who is overcome with hopelessness and heartache. Isabel then kisses and caresses the cadaver's exposed body as if he were still ...
Style:
historical drama, controversial, period piece, tragic ending, atmospheric ...
Plot:
nun, lesbian sex, religious hypocrisy, sexual repression, forbidden love, spanish inquisition, female sexuality, confession, mature, illicit affair, female masturbation, obsession ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
spain
Similarity:
39%
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