Movies like The Great Beauty

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The Great Beauty (2013)
 7.7
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The Great Beauty (2013)
Original name: La grande bellezza
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 141 min.
Story: Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.
Style: philosophical, art house, visually stunning, stylized, breathtaking, visually appealing, visual, cerebral, talky, surreal ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: writer's life, stripper, art, party, artist, aging, surrealism, friendship, high society, journalist, magic realism, old age, female nudity, male nudity, existentialism, storytelling, introspection, birthday party, old love, death, wealth, bare breasts, flashback, skinny dipping, writers ...
Time: 2010s, year 2013, 21st century, contemporary
Place: rome italy, italy
Keyword: dutch, latin, dreams

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Most similar movies to The Great Beauty

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, psychological and art house films with plots about family relations, husband wife relationship, female nudity, cigarette smoking, kiss, death and singing mostly in Drama, Biography and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Great Beauty: Youth (2015), The Hand of God (2021), Loro (2018), The Pillow Book (1995), The Young Pope (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Youth (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Switzerland, UK, France, Italy
Duration: 124 min.
Story: YOUTH explores the lifelong bond between two friends vacationing in a luxury Swiss Alps lodge as they ponder retirement. While Fred has no plans to resume his musical career despite the urging of his loving daughter Lena, Mick is intent on finishing ...
Style: melancholic, talky, philosophical, touching, psychological ...
Plot: aging, composer, screenwriter, father daughter relationship, hotel, life & death, sex scene, husband wife relationship, existentialism, spa, art, orchestra ...
Time: year 2015, year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place: switzerland, swiss alps, italy, venice, alps
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Hand of God (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: In 1980s Naples, young Fabietto pursues his love for football as family tragedy strikes, shaping his uncertain but promising future as a filmmaker.
Style: thought provoking, disturbing, captivating, psychological, semi autobiographical ...
Plot: coming of age, life, loss of virginity, poverty, lifestyle, society, city life, change of luck, european, feeling, youth, art ...
Time: 2020s, 80s
Place: naples italy, nebraska, europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.7
 5K
Loro (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: "Loro", in two parts, is a period movie that chronicles, as a fiction story, events likely happened in Italy (or even made up) between 2006 and 2010. "Loro" wants to suggest in portraits and glimps, through a composite ...
Style: factual, realistic, psychological, tense, captivating ...
Plot: politics, society, lie, political corruption, politician, sex trafficking, sex scene, party, extramarital affair, family relations, anti communism, poem ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Pillow Book (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, UK, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 126 min.
Story: As a young girl in Japan, Nagiko's father paints characters on her face, and her aunt reads to her from "The Pillow Book", the diary of a 10th-century lady-in-waiting. Nagiko grows up, obsessed with books, papers, and writing on ...
Style: erotic, art house, sexy, surreal, enigmatic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: nudity, art, model, obsession, male nudity, artist, book, sexuality, nude, translator, erotica, surrealism ...
Time: year 1996, 10th century, middle ages
Place: japan, california, asia, hong kong, tokyo ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 8.3
 47K
The Young Pope (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Spain, UK, USA
Duration: 546 min.
TV show
Story: Lenny Belardo, the youngest and first American Pope in the history of the Church, must establish his new papacy and navigate the power struggles of the closed, secretive Vatican.
Style: captivating, controversial, psychological, surreal, exciting ...
Plot: pope, religion, vatican, satire, god, catholic church, infidelity, betrayal, scandal, nun, conspiracy, orphan ...
Place: italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Clouds of Sils Maria (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A veteran actress comes face-to-face with an uncomfortable reflection of herself when she agrees to take part in a revival of the play that launched her career 20 years earlier.
Style: realistic, psychological, melancholic, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: actress, aging, lesbian, skinny dipping, midlife crisis, divorce, women, loneliness, character study, suicide, obsession, suicide attempt ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place: switzerland, alps, swiss alps, london, zurich switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Eight and a Half (1963)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 138 min.
Story: With 8 ½ Frederico Fellini leaves a self-portrait where dreams and reality are a mix. With help from a most excellent cast and unique scenery this self reflecting film is one of his master works.
Style: art house, psychological, surreal, cerebral, black and white ...
Audience: date night
Plot: filmmaking, surrealism, childhood, dream, midlife crisis, stream of consciousness, memory, catholic, adultery, actress, movie business, showbiz ...
Time: 20th century, year 1963, 60s
Place: rome italy, italy, europe, copenhagen, paris france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
The Kindergarten Teacher (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A teacher discovers in a five year-old child a prodigious gift for poetry. Amazed and inspired by this young boy, she decides to protect his talent in spite of everyone.
Style: realistic, contemplative, serious, clever, captivating ...
Plot: kindergarten, boy, obsession, israeli, female teacher, teaching the ways of the world, dedicated educator, teachers and students, family relations, prodigy, losing-it hero, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, palestine, jerusalem, madrid, boston ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 7.9
 30K
Nostalgia (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Soviet Union
Duration: 125 min.
Story: The Russian poet Andrei Gorchakov, accompanied by guide and translator Eugenia, is traveling through Italy researching the life of an 18th-century Russian composer. In an ancient spa town, he meets the lunatic Domenico, who years earlier had ...
Style: atmospheric, philosophical, art house, cerebral, contemplative ...
Plot: art, existentialism, philosophy, dream, poetry, storytelling, obsession, great ending, memory, redemption, writer's life, culture clash ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
Place: soviet union, russia, ussr, rome italy, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.3
 21K
The Son's Room (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba diving accident.
Style: touching, sincere, sad, depressing, meditative ...
Audience: teens
Plot: psychoanalysis, regret, loss of son, psychology, grief, parents and children, family problems, redemption, hopes, family in crisis, overcoming, running ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Oslo, August 31st (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Anders is a recovering drug addict in an Oslo rehab clinic. On the 30th August, he is given a day’s leave to attend a job interview in the city centre.
Style: depressing, touching, gloomy, melancholic, heartbreaking ...
Plot: suicide attempt, drug addict, suicide, addiction, loneliness, depression, drug addiction, complex characters, old friend, job interview, unlikely friendships, life is a bitch ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place: oslo norway, scandinavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.2
 32K
Living (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Japan, Sweden
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A veteran civil servant and bureaucratic cog in the rebuilding of Britain post-WWII, Williams expertly pushes paperwork around a government office only to reckon with his existence when he’s diagnosed with a fatal illness.
Style: thrilling, visually stunning, existential, period piece, independent film ...
Plot: terminal illness, bureaucrat, bureaucracy, changing lives, first day on the job, older man younger woman relationship, repression, petition, cancer, father son relationship, new job, rain ...
Time: 1950s, future, year 1953, post world war two, 20th century
Place: london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.4
 60K
Ida (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, Denmark, France, UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Anna, a young novitiate in 1960s Poland, is on the verge of taking her vows when she discovers a family secret dating back to the years of the German occupation.
Style: black and white, art house, emotional, melancholic, visually stunning ...
Plot: nun, world war two, faith, family secret, anti semitism, judaism, holocaust, religion, character study, orphan, suicide, self discovery ...
Time: 60s, 2010s, year 2014, year 2013, year 2016 ...
Place: poland, israel, eastern europe, europe, denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 7.5
 63K
Pain and Glory (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, reflects on the choices he's made in life as past and present come crashing down around him.
Style: sincere, touching, disturbing, twist ending, hispanic ...
Plot: gay, movie business, filmmaker, lgbt, actor, introspection, addiction, cinema, drawing, childhood memory, nostalgia, death of mother ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019, year 1985, 1950s, year 1981
Place: spain, madrid
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 7.9
 33K
The Conformist (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.
Style: political, art house, visual, breathtaking, neo noir ...
Plot: fascism, assassination, italian fascism, fascist, murder, honeymoon, professor, politics, existentialism, confession, child molestation, ambush ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, 20th century, year 1970, year 1917 ...
Place: italy, paris france, rome italy, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 7.2
 19K
Il Divo (2008)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The narration spans the period since the seventh election of Andreotti as Prime Minister of Italy in 1992, until the trial in which he was accused of collusion with the Mafia.
Style: political, disturbing, enigmatic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: politics, political corruption, italian history, assassination, corruption, prime minister, murder, state affairs, idealism, blackmail, head of state, chases and races ...
Time: 70s, year 2008, 90s, 80s, year 1993 ...
Place: italy, europe, rome italy, soviet union, moscow russia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.7
 7K
Loro (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 151 min.
Story: Internationally released Director's Cut of "Loro 1" and "Loro 2", which were released separately as two movies in Italy. The film talks about the group of businessmen and politicians – the Loro (Them) from the title – ...
Style: disturbing, realistic, atmospheric, serious, cult classic ...
Plot: business, scandal, sex scene, politician, rise to the top, head of state, society, sex, rivalry, storytelling, interview, blackmail ...
Place: italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 8.0
 327K
Magnolia (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 188 min.
Story: An epic mosaic of many interrelated characters in search of happiness, forgiveness, and meaning in the San Fernando Valley.
Style: philosophical, cerebral, sincere, depressing, mind bending ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: social problems, multiple storylines, depression, human nature, child prodigy, dysfunctional family, introspection, cancer, terminal illness, loneliness, alienation, coincidence ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1999, 60s, 1950s ...
Place: los angeles, california, reno nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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A Burning Hot Summer (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Paul reflects on the summer he met Angèle and Frédéric as he watches his friend being laid to rest.
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, tense, gloomy ...
Plot: friendship, breakup, fall in love, human nature, love and romance, artists and showbiz, couples, husband wife relationship, adultery, jealousy, friendship between men, affair ...
Time: 21st century
Place: rome italy, italy, france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
My Own Private Idaho (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare's "Henry IV," Mike Waters is a gay hustler afflicted with narcolepsy. Scott Favor is the rebellious son of a mayor. Together, the two travel from Portland, Oregon to Idaho and finally to the ...
Style: road movie, surreal, art house, lgbt cinema, cult classic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: gay, homosexual, friendship, homosexuality, friendship between men, lgbt, male prostitute, character study, alienation, unrequited love, love, road trip ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1991
Place: idaho, portland oregon, seattle, rome italy, indiana ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 8.3
 1.2M
American Beauty (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.
Style: melancholic, thought provoking, dark comedy, sexual, dramatic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, kids, teen drama ...
Plot: midlife crisis, dysfunctional family, existentialism, age difference, obsession, loneliness, coming of age, older man younger woman relationship, nymphet, dysfunctional marriage, adultery, older man young girl relationship ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1999, year 2013
Place: usa, america, los angeles, iran
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A fading actor best known for his portrayal of a popular superhero attempts to mount a comeback by appearing in a Broadway play. As opening night approaches, his attempts to become more altruistic, rebuild his career, and reconnect with friends and ...
Style: surreal, psychological, dark comedy, black comedy, psychedelic ...
Audience: date night, teens, adult
Plot: midlife crisis, existentialism, theater, surrealism, showbiz, actor, magic realism, satire, father daughter relationship, dark humor, alter ego, art ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, 21st century
Place: new york, los angeles, america, ethiopia, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: The true story of Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his ...
Style: touching, inspirational, emotional, depressing, psychological ...
Plot: disability, hospital, human spirit, nurse, paralysis, courage, coma, patient, life turned upside down, writers, bittersweet, mute or deaf ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 2000s, year 2007, y2k
Place: france, paris france, europe, hong kong, nepal ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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The Celebration (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A grandiose party to celebrate a sixtieth birthday unleashes a family drama with all the lies that conceal horrendous secrets. The eldest son, Christian, stages a showdown with the popular pater familias; his provocative, moving after-dinner speech ...
Style: dark comedy, black comedy, art house, disturbing, surreal ...
Plot: dogme 95, suicide, incest, family secret, child abuse, hotel, sexual abuse, haunted by the past, birthday, depression, party, birthday party ...
Time: year 1998, 20th century, 90s
Place: europe, denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 8.0
 55K
Winter Sleep (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany
Duration: 196 min.
Story: Aydin, a retired actor, owns a small hotel in central Anatolia with his young wife Nihal and his sister Necla, who is coping with her recent divorce. During the winter, snow covers the ground and boredom brings the return of old memories, pushing ...
Style: philosophical, art house, meditative, independent film, lyrical ...
Plot: midlife crisis, divorce, family problems, winter, art, storytelling, snow, social differences, haunted by the past, couple relations, dull life, estrangement ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, year 2013, 21st century
Place: middle east, maghreb, cappadocia turkey, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Joe Gould's Secret (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Around 1940, New Yorker staff writer Joe Mitchell meets Joe Gould, a Greenwich Village character who cadges meals, drinks, and contributions to the Joe Gould Fund and who is writing a voluminous Oral History of the World, a record of 20,000 ...
Style: melancholic, sentimental, independent film, realistic, stylized ...
Plot: friendship, writers, eccentricity, character study, buddies, writer's life, human nature, secret, reporter, philosophy, drinking, death ...
Time: 1940s, 50s, 20th century
Place: new york, greenwich village manhattan new york city, usa, manhattan new york city, north carolina ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 7.8
 13K
Poetry (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea, France
Duration: 139 min.
Story: Grandmother Mi Ja works part-time as a caretaker, and struggles to raise a teen grandson by herself. Despite her tough situation, she speaks softly, dresses fashionably, and approaches the world with child-like curiosity. Enrolling in a poetry ...
Style: touching, sincere, emotional, realistic, lyrical ...
Plot: loneliness, bullying, self discovery, teenage rape, suicide, existentialism, teenager, introspection, society, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, grandparent and grandchild ...
Time: 2010s, year 2010, 21st century
Place: korea, japan, south korea, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 7.2
 87K
Enter the Void (2009)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Germany, Italy, Canada, Japan
Duration: 161 min.
Story: This psychedelic tour of life after death is seen entirely from the point of view of Oscar (Nathaniel Brown), a young American drug dealer and addict living in Tokyo with his prostitute sister, Linda (Paz de la Huerta). When Oscar is killed by ...
Style: psychedelic, art house, philosophical, atmospheric, disturbing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: surrealism, afterlife, trippy, stripper, hallucination, drug trip, life after death, lsd, male nudity, youth, incest, abortion ...
Time: year 2010, year 2009, 2000s, future, 21st century
Place: tokyo, japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Tree of Life (2011)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his ...
Style: philosophical, surreal, artsy, atmospheric, visually stunning ...
Audience: teens, family outing
Plot: philosophy, childhood, grief, coming of age, spirituality, father son relationship, parenthood, existentialism, family relations, domineering father, hopes, religion ...
Time: 1950s, 2010s, year 2011, prehistory, 20th century ...
Place: texas, america, usa, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Cries & Whispers (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 91 min.
Story: As Agnes slowly dies of cancer, her sisters are so deeply immersed in their own psychic pains that they can't offer her the support she needs. Maria is wracked with guilt at her husband's suicide, caused by his discovery of her ...
Style: touching, emotional, depressing, serious, psychological ...
Plot: cancer, terminal illness, maid, art, family relations, nordic, women, dialogue, obsession, existentialism, sisters, visceral ...
Time: year 1972, 19th century, turn of the century, 90s, 1900s
Place: scandinavia, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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