Movies like Rita Hayworth: The Love Goddess

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Rita Hayworth: The Love Goddess (1983)
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Rita Hayworth: The Love Goddess (1983)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The life and times of silverscreen goddess Rita Hayworth.
Plot: hollywood, showbiz, actress, dance, dancing, star
Time: 1940s

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Most similar movies to Rita Hayworth: The Love Goddess

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sentimental films with plots about hollywood, biopic, showbiz, actress, artists and showbiz, actor's life and filmmaking mostly in Drama, Biography and Romance genres. Some movies like Rita Hayworth: The Love Goddess: Bud and Lou (1978), Mae West (1982), Goodnight, Sweet Marilyn (1989), Haywire (1980), Grace Kelly (1983). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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
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Mae West (1982)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Biography of the curvaceous and sharp-witted actress who scandalized Broadway and Hollywood in the 1920s-30s with her frank approach to sex.
Plot: hollywood, feminist, biopic, seduction, scandal, trial, filmmaking, actress, career, vaudeville, success, showbiz ...
Time: 1900s, 1930s, 1920s
Place: california, manhattan new york city, new york
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82%
Goodnight, Sweet Marilyn (1989)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The supposed story of superstar Marilyn Monroe's death...as told by a "friend" of hers. Watch flashbacks from "Goodbye Norma Jean" as it leads up to the night when Marilyn Monroe died.
Style: psychotronic, independent film
Plot: hollywood, biopic, showbiz, price of fame, euthanasia, death, flashback, mother daughter relationship, behind the scenes, star
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75%
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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
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58%
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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
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56%
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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56%
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Rainbow (1978)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The early life and struggles of Judy Garland (portrayed by Andrea McArdle), and of the film star's trials as a youngster in dealing with the Movie Studio system that held her back while her mother was forever pushing her to excel.
Style: reflective
Audience: kids
Plot: hollywood, teenage girl, singing, loss of father, mother, father daughter relationship, glory, actress, piano, actor's life, vaudeville, domineering mother ...
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55%
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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54%
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The Jayne Mansfield Story (1980)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The gaudy rise and dizzy fall of the last great Hollywood blonde bombshell: Jayne Mansfield.
Style: uplifting, captivating, emotional, gloomy, touching ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: big breasts, hollywood, actor's life, biopic, publicity, behind the scenes, price of fame, femme fatale, fame, movie business, publicity stunt, celebrity culture ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, 60s
Place: mississippi
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53%
Will There Really Be a Morning? (1983)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story: This is the story of actress Frances Farmer, her struggles with mental illness and involuntary confinement in an insane asylum.
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, emotional, gloomy
Plot: biopic, hollywood, mental illness, insane asylum, mental patient, couples, artists and showbiz, actor's life, state affairs, prodigy, politics, performer's life ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s
Place: washington d.c., seattle
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47%
Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter (1991)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter is described by CBS as "a dramatic love story" about the lives of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz.
Plot: hollywood, dysfunctional marriage, bandleader, actor's life, husband wife relationship, comedian, marriage, television, showbiz, womanizer, marital problem, family relations ...
Time: 1930s
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47%
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 ...
Plot: hollywood, actor's life, world war two, showbiz, celebrity culture, performer's life, rising to stardom, childhood, filmmaking, haunted by the past, human spirit, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 1940s, 50s, 1950s
Place: usa, new york, europe, holland, manhattan new york city
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47%
Marilyn: The Untold Story (1980)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 156 min.
Story: The story of how Norma Jean, once an orphan in Hollywood California, becomes Marilyn Monroe, the movie star and celebrity.
Style: iconic
Plot: hollywood, movie star, insanity, lie, self destructing, makeover, jealousy, gas station, mother daughter relationship, divorce, blonde, photographer ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, 1950s, 60s
Place: connecticut, big ben london, new york, japan
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45%
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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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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41%
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Flynn (1993)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A biographical movie on the film star Errol Flynn's early life before Hollywood fame.
Style: touching, sentimental, serious, realistic
Plot: lgbt, filmmaking, hollywood, biopic, ambition, artists and showbiz, heroes, rise to the top, gays and lesbians, actor's life, criminal heroes, prodigy ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s
Place: australia, usa
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41%
Malice in Wonderland (1985)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Struggling actress Hedda Hopper can't get a break in Hollywood, even though an acquaintence of hers is the extremely powerful gossip monger Louella Parsons - maker and breaker of careers (and lives) through her daily syndicated newspaper ...
Plot: hollywood, actress, gossip, gossip columnist, rivalry, restaurant, mother daughter relationship, rise to power, filmmaking, rags to riches, film industry, female protagonist ...
Time: year 1937, year 1942, 1920s, 1940s, 1930s ...
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Norma Jean & Marilyn (1996)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: This film follows Norma Jean from her simple, ambitious youth to her sex star pinnacle and back down. She moves from lover to lover in order to further her career. She finds fame but never happiness, only knowing seduction but not love.
Style: contemplative, realistic, serious, psychological, touching ...
Plot: biopic, female nudity, playboy, filmmaking, lgbt, john f. kennedy, sad ending, hollywood, actor's life, showbiz, actress, rape ...
Time: 60s, 1940s, 50s, 1950s
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Growing Up Brady (2000)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A tell-all story of what happened behind the scenes of the 70s hit TV series "The Brady Bunch." Based on the book written by Barry Williams, the actor who played Greg Brady.
Style: sitcom, semi serious, humorous, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot: actor's life, showbiz, relationship vs career, lifestyle, workplace, artists and showbiz, alcohol abuse, movie studio, love, family relations, suburbs, hollywood ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 60s
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RKO 281 (1999)
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 ...
Plot: biopic, filmmaking, screenwriter, movie business, film industry, movie studio, writers, obsession, hollywood, anti semitism, american history, bankruptcy ...
Time: 1940s
Place: wisconsin
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38%
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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38%
W.C. Fields and Me (1976)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Film biography of actor-comedian W.C. Fields, concentrating on his years in Hollywood and his relationship with aspiring actress Caroltta Monti.
Style: serious, realistic, skit, silent
Plot: hollywood, biopic, addiction, filmmaking, actor, comedian, actor's life, ambition, artists and showbiz, couples, relationship vs career, alcohol abuse ...
Time: year 1976, 1920s, 20th century, 1930s
Place: new york, california, usa
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37%
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Star 80 (1983)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Paul Snider is a narcissistic, small time hustler who fancies himself a ladies man. His life changes when he meets Dorothy Stratten working behind the counter of a Dairy Queen.
Style: disturbing, stylized, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot: murder, playboy, female nudity, obsession, crimes of passion, nude model, fame, rise and fall, movie business, couple relations, jealous husband, true crime ...
Time: 80s, year 1983, year 1978
Place: vancouver, canada
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37%
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The George Raft Story (1961)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Ray Danton plays the title role in director Joseph M. Newman's 1961 film biography of the nightclub dancer-turned-movie star. The cast also includes Jayne Mansfield, Barrie Chase, Julie London, Neville Brand and Frank Gorshin.
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, stylized, psychotronic ...
Plot: hollywood, biopic, al capone, actor's life, revolution, casino, gambling, gangster, movie star, couples, fashion, nightlife ...
Time: 1940s, year 1961, 1920s, 1930s, 50s ...
Place: new york, cuba, california, las vegas
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36%
Mr. Rock 'n' Roll: The Alan Freed Story (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: This is the story of Alan Freed. He was working as a DJ in Cleveland, Ohio, and he discovered how amazing R&B or Rhytym & Blues is, however, the music is considered to be "BLACK" music. So, most radio stations won't ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic
Plot: racism, biopic, media, artists and showbiz, rising to stardom, love and romance, society, life is a bitch, ambition, desire for fame, music, showbiz ...
Time: 50s
Place: ohio, new york, usa, boston, nashville tennessee ...
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Gable and Lombard (1976)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: A biography about the love affair between 1930s Hollywood superstars Clark Gable and Carole Lombard.
Style: semi serious, realistic, sexual, stylized
Audience: date night
Plot: hollywood, actor's life, tragic love, love, filmmaking, world war two, superstar, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, fall in love, love and romance, private detective ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, year 1976, 50s
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36%
The Amazing Howard Hughes (1977)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 215 min.
Story: The Amazing Howard Hughes is a 1977 television movie about American aviation pioneer and filmmaker Howard Hughes, based on the book by Hughes' business partner Noah Dietrich. The film starred Tommy Lee Jones, Ed Flanders, and Tovah Feldshuh.
Style: realistic, serious, sentimental
Plot: aviation, hollywood, biopic, howard hughes, aviator, prodigy, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, ambition, rise to the top, misfit, unfulfillment ...
Time: 20th century
Place: california, usa
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35%
Butterfly Caught (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Three beautiful aspiring actresses embark on a mission to break into the competitive Los Angeles acting scene only to discover the road leading to stardom comes at a price.
Style: captivating, psychological, sincere, touching
Plot: price of fame, longing, ambition, hollywood, down on your luck, showbiz, rising to stardom, female friendship, glory, actress, life is a bitch, mission
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35%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Rosie: The Rosemary Clooney Story (1982)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The story of singer Rosemary Clooney's rise to fame, her marriage to Jose Ferrer, and her nervous breakdown.
Style: touching, realistic, serious
Plot: biopic, showbiz, friends, couples, rising to stardom, unfulfillment, tragic hero, actor's life, prodigy, artists and showbiz, musician's life, rise and fall ...
Time: 60s, 50s, 1950s, 1940s
Place: kentucky
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34%
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