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Howl (2010)
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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, society's reaction (the obscenity trial), and mind-expanding animation that echoes the startling originality of the poem itself. All three coalesce in a genre-bending hybrid that brilliantly captures a pivotal moment-the birth of a counterculture.
Style:
sexy, thought provoking, sexual, atmospheric, surreal, period piece, sincere, realistic, lgbt cinema, art house ...
Plot:
poet, gay, poetry, writers, homosexuality, beat generation, literature, freedom, biopic, lgbt, gay interest, artist, art, counterculture, writer's life, courtroom, society, sex, beatnik, trial, novelist, male homosexuality, international relations, lgbtqi, courtroom drama ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 1920s, post world war two, year 1957, year 1955, 60s ...
Place:
new york, california, san francisco, manhattan new york city, bronx new york city, colorado, kansas ...
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Most similar movies to Howl
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, thought provoking and interesting films with plots about biopic, kiss, drinking alcohol, cigarette smoking, art, writers and drinking mostly in Drama, Biography and Romance genres. Some movies like Howl: Kill Your Darlings (2013), Before Night Falls (2000), I Am Michael (2015), J. Edgar (2011), Wilde (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.
Style:
intellectual, bleak, captivating, serious, sexual ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
poet, gay, obsession, friendship, youth, gay interest, lgbtq, writers, coming of age, sexual tension, lgbtqi, friends ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944, 20th century, 2000s, post world war two ...
Place:
usa, harlem, manhattan new york city, greenwich village manhattan new york city, chicago ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Spanning several decades, this powerful biopic offers a glimpse into the life of famed Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas, an artist who was vilified for his homosexuality in Fidel Castro's Cuba.
Style:
atmospheric, bleak, lyrical, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
homosexual, gay, lgbtq, aids, writers, gay latino, childhood, gays and lesbians, poet, novelist, homosexuality, artist ...
Time:
year 2000, 1950s, 2000s, 60s, 70s ...
Place:
cuba, latin america, havana cuba, south america, caribbean ...
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100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The controversial true story of a gay activist who rejects his homosexuality and becomes a Christian pastor.
Style:
serious, realistic, sincere, lgbt cinema, touching ...
Plot:
lgbtq, gay, gender, gay relationship, gay interest, lgbt, gay slur, gays and lesbians, gay man straight woman relationship, polyamory, church, gay teenager ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, year 2002, year 2006, year 2000 ...
Place:
indiana, usa, colorado, wyoming, san francisco
Similarity:
100%
138K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
As the face of law enforcement in America for almost 50 years, J. Edgar Hoover was feared and admired, reviled and revered. But behind closed doors, he held secrets that would have destroyed his image, his career and his life.
Style:
thought provoking, factual, political, compassionate, melancholic ...
Plot:
politics, homosexuality, gay, american history, fbi investigation, biopic, surveillance, corruption, fbi, fbi agent, investigation, abuse of power ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, 1940s, year 2011, 1950s ...
Place:
washington d.c., usa, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, Japan
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
The story of Oscar Wilde, genius, poet, playwright and the First Modern Man. The self-realisation of his homosexuality caused Wilde enormous torment as he juggled marriage, fatherhood and responsibility with his obsessive love for Lord Alfred ...
Style:
homoerotic, costume drama, period piece, touching, historical drama ...
Plot:
homosexuality, gay, lgbt, glbt, writers, lgbtq, hypocrisy, male homosexuality, biopic, gay sex, scandal, gay lead character ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, edwardian era, 1880s, year 1997 ...
Place:
ireland, britain, england, europe, london ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
About the young life and loves of artist Salvador DalÃ, filmmaker Luis Buñuel and writer Federico GarcÃa Lorca.
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atmospheric, serious, erotic, tense, factual ...
Plot:
poet, artist, gay, lgbt, lgbtq, painter, homosexual, gay relationship, friendship, political unrest, closeted homosexual, spanish civil war ...
Time:
year 1936, 20th century, 1920s, 1930s, year 2008
Place:
spain, andalusia, paris france, europe, manhattan new york city ...
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100%
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, sexual, talky, emotional, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
artist, writers, painter, polyamory, art, glbt, biopic, male nudity, world war one, passion, art history, lgbt ...
Time:
1930s, year 1915, victorian era, 1910s, 1920s ...
Place:
england, wales, europe, italy, venice ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Story of the relationship between the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.
Style:
depressing, realistic, psychological, serious, heartbreaking ...
Plot:
suicide, writers, drinking, biopic, death, bipolar disorder, poet, couple relations, mental disorder, art, tragic love, writer's life ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, year 2003, 60s, 20th century
Place:
england, europe, new york, london
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Docudrama about American poet Hart Crane, who committed suicide in April 1932 at the age of 32 by jumping off the steamship SS Orizaba.
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, serious, stylized, sincere ...
Plot:
writers, gay, gay sex, gays and lesbians, introspection, writer's life, gender, love and romance, poet, novelist, lgbt, suicide ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, 1920s
Place:
usa, ohio, new york, paris france, mexico
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In 1931 budding author Christopher Isherwood goes to Berlin at the invitation of his friend W. H. Auden for the gay sex that abounds in the city. Whilst working as an English teacher his housemates include bewigged old queen Gerald Hamilton and ...
Style:
sexual, sincere, serious, realistic, crying ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
gay, gay love, gay relationship, homosexuality, gay couple, gay interest, gender, homosexual, lgbt, lgbtq, fall in love, gays and lesbians ...
Time:
1930s, post world war two, 20th century, year 1933, year 1952 ...
Place:
germany, europe, berlin germany, hamburg germany, england ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Stephen Frears directs this biographical drama focusing on controversial British playwright Joe Orton, revealed in flashback after his murder by lover Kenneth Halliwell. Born in 1933 in Leicester, in the English Midlands, John 'Joe' Orton ...
Style:
independent film, period piece, witty, dark comedy, black comedy ...
Plot:
gay, homosexuality, writers, gay cruising, male nudity, glbt, lgbt, murder, lgbtq, homosexual, gay relationship, biopic ...
Time:
60s, year 1987, 20th century, 1950s, year 1953 ...
Place:
england, europe, australia, morocco, london ...
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24%
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:
erotic, talky, stylized, independent film, retro ...
Plot:
writers, beat generation, friendship, making love, suicide, writer's life, male nudity, depression, older man teenage girl relationship, suicide attempt, art, poet ...
Time:
1940s, year 1997, 20th century, 60s, post world war two ...
Place:
colorado, usa, denver colorado, new mexico, mexico ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Kinsey is a portrait of researcher Alfred Kinsey, driven to uncover the most private secrets of a nation. What begins for Kinsey as a scientific endeavor soon takes on an intensely personal relevance, ultimately becoming an unexpected journey into ...
Style:
sexy, sexual, controversial, talky, psychological ...
Plot:
scientist, gay, lgbt, sexuality, lgbtq, gay interest, sexology, research, sex scene, psychology, nudity, college ...
Time:
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Place:
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23%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Japan, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Biography of the British painter Francis Bacon. The movie focuses on his relationship with George Dyer, his lover. Dyer was a former small time crook.
Style:
cult classic, controversial, art film, heartbreaking, contemplative ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
art, biopic, artist, painter, lgbt, naked man, subculture, gay bar, psychology, art history, sadomasochism, doomed love ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, east end london, paris france, london
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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:
poetry, parent child relationship, artists and showbiz, couple relations, writer's life, haunted by the past, husband wife relationship, writers, biopic, flashback, professional, art ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 50s, 60s, 80s ...
Place:
usa, new york, detroit
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
Writer Ernest Hemingway begins a romance with fellow scribe Martha Gellhorn.
Style:
serious, stylized, period piece, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
love affair, writers, war correspondent, divorce, biopic, media, spanish civil war, journalism, journalist, fame, world war two, couples ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, 1940s
Place:
europe, usa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
The story of the onset of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City in the early 1980s, taking an unflinching look at the nation's sexual politics as gay activists and their allies in the medical community fight to expose the truth about the ...
Style:
touching, sad, emotional, sincere, thought provoking ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens
Plot:
aids, gay, homosexuality, lgbtq, gays and lesbians, gay interest, gay slur, male homosexuality, homosexual, terminal illness, lgbt, friendship ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 2014, year 1983, year 1982 ...
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, ethiopia, washington d.c., yale university ...
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22%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The life of celebrated but reclusive author, J.D. Salinger, who gained worldwide fame with the publication of his novel, The Catcher in the Rye.
Style:
exciting, thought provoking, captivating, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
writers, world war two, recluse, name calling, writer's life, novelist, obsession, father son relationship, friendship, teenage boy, father daughter relationship, friend ...
Time:
year 1946, 50s, year 2010, year 1939, 20th century
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york, greenwich village manhattan new york city, usa, new hampshire
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22%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
The story of California's first openly gay elected official, Harvey Milk, who became an outspoken agent for change, seeking equal rights and opportunities for all. His great love for the city and its people brought him backing from young and ...
Style:
thought provoking, sincere, sad, inspirational, political ...
Plot:
gay, politics, homosexuality, murder, homosexual, protest, gays and lesbians, male homosexuality, glbt, discrimination, gender, lgbtqi ...
Time:
70s, 2000s, year 2008, 20th century, year 1973 ...
Place:
california, san francisco, new york, north america, idaho ...
Similarity:
22%
146K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
"The Hours" is the story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a ...
Style:
depressing, intellectual, psychological, touching, poignant ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
suicide, depression, mental illness, aids, writers, lesbian, bipolar disorder, lgbtq, writer's life, lgbt, lesbian love, introspection ...
Time:
year 1941, 1940s, year 2001, 90s, 1920s ...
Place:
new york, england, california, london, los angeles ...
Similarity:
22%
149K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A biopic of the writer, Truman Capote and his assignment for The New Yorker to write the non-fiction book, 'In Cold Blood'.
Style:
sexy, captivating, dark, dramatic, talky ...
Plot:
prison, writers, lgbtq, literature, biopic, murder, moral dilemma, murderer, journalism, investigation, manipulation, eccentricity ...
Time:
60s, 50s, 1950s, 20th century, year 2005 ...
Place:
kansas, new york, new orleans, europe, spain ...
Similarity:
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101K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
"Frida" chronicles the life Frida Kahlo shared unflinchingly and openly with Diego Rivera, as the young couple took the art world by storm. From her complex and enduring relationship with her mentor and husband to her illicit and ...
Style:
visually appealing, independent film, sexy, emotional, sincere ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
painter, artist, art, painting, female artist, bohemian life, lgbtq, disability, feminism, female protagonist, life, relationships ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, year 2002, 1920s, 20th century ...
Place:
mexico, paris france, empire state building manhattan new york city, mexico city, america ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, UK, Russia
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A historical drama that illustrates Russian author Leo Tolstoy's struggle to balance fame and wealth with his commitment to a life devoid of material things. The Countess Sofya, wife and muse to Leo Tolstoy, uses every trick of seduction on her ...
Style:
sexy, sentimental, period piece, costume drama, factual ...
Plot:
philosophy, betrayal, male virgin, loss of virginity, love and romance, family relations, writer's life, lifestyle, parents and children, poet, art, taboo subject ...
Time:
1910s, edwardian era, year 2009, 20th century, 19th century
Place:
russia, europe, moscow russia
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
It's 1957, and Whale's heyday as the director of "Frankenstein," "Bride of Frankenstein" and "The Invisible Man" is long behind him. Retired and a semi-recluse, he lives his days accompanied only by images ...
Style:
cult classic, enigmatic, melancholic, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot:
homosexuality, lgbtq, gay interest, homosexual, life & death, gay, filmmaking, friendship, biopic, gay lead character, gardener, depression ...
Time:
year 1998, 1950s, 20th century, 50s, 1930s
Place:
pacific ocean, los angeles, california, usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
In 1958 New York Diane Arbus is a housewife and mother who works as an assistant to her husband, a photographer employed by her wealthy parents. Respectable though her life is, she cannot help but feel uncomfortable in her privileged world. One ...
Style:
sexy, atmospheric, erotic, intense, surreal ...
Plot:
photographer, photograph, couples, biopic, photography, making love, fall in love, love story, artist, art, friends, self discovery ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, 1950s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Five years after Yippie founder Abbie Hoffman goes underground to avoid a drug-related prison sentence, he contacts a reporter to get out the story of the FBI's covert spying, harassment and inciting of violence they then blame on the Left.
Style:
melancholic, talky, stylized, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
politics, fighting the system, conspiracy, depression, justice, biopic, mental illness, revolution, injustice, conspiracy theory, on the run, drug abuse ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 70s, year 1968
Place:
new york, usa, chicago, woodstock, pentagon ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Errol Flynn, the swashbuckling Hollywood star and notorious ladies man, flouted convention all his life, but never more brazenly than in his last years when, swimming in vodka and unwilling to face his mortality, he undertook a liaison with an ...
Style:
disturbing, realistic, serious, touching, sexual ...
Plot:
movie star, hollywood, forbidden love, sexual abuse, womanizer, actor's life, love affair, love and romance, youth, life is a bitch, showbiz, teenage life ...
Time:
year 1960, 50s, 20th century, year 2010, year 1959 ...
Place:
cuba, los angeles, new york, usa, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
True story of Mary Griffith, gay rights crusader, whose teenage son committed suicide due to her religious intolerance. Based on the book of the same title by Leroy Aarons.
Style:
touching, sentimental, sad, sexual, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
lgbt, gay, gay teenager, homosexuality, suicide, homosexual, gay love, gay rights, lgbt teen, gays and lesbians, gay relationship, religious intolerance ...
Time:
2000s, year 1984, year 1979, 21st century
Place:
usa, ethiopia, san francisco, california, portland oregon
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The story of the five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace, which took place right after the 1996 publication of Wallace's groundbreaking epic novel, 'Infinite Jest.'
Style:
philosophical, meditative, psychological, serious, sincere ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
loneliness, journalism, writers, book, friendship, existentialism, writer's block, dog, poet, biopic, novelist, depression ...
Time:
90s, 2010s, year 2015, 20th century, year 1996 ...
Place:
minneapolis minnesota, illinois, nebraska, new york, usa ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Australia, USA, China
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The son of a Baptist preacher is forced to participate in a church supported gay conversion program.
Style:
thought provoking, psychological, lgbt cinema, sentimental, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
lgbt, gay, lgbtq, father son relationship, gay teenager, religion, gay interest, church, coming of age, conversion therapy, lgbtqi, homosexuality ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s, 90s
Place:
new york, southern usa, arkansas
Similarity:
21%
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