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Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story (1995)
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Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story (1995)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: The story of one of America's first female reporters.
Plot: drug addict, pregnancy, divorce, cocaine, suicide, accident, drug addiction, television, reporter, pregnant woman, accidental death, fame, newscaster, news anchor, drowning, miscarriage, pregnant wife, television crew, television studio, drug, tv news, tv station, newscast, tv broadcast, tv camera ...
Time: 80s, 70s

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, captivating and thought provoking films with plots about biopic, drug, drug addiction, husband wife relationship, life is a bitch, addiction and drug addict mostly in Drama, Biography and Crime genres. Some movies like Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story: Christine (2016), Beautiful Boy (2018), My Dinner with Hervé (2018), Hefner: Unauthorized (1999), Rated X (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Livin' for Love: The Natalie Cole Story (2000)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story: The true life story of famed singer Natalie Cole, daughter of Nat 'King' Cole. Gripping drama of her struggle with addiction and living in her father's shadow while still maintaining her own celebrity status.
Style: captivating, christian film, inspirational
Plot: musician's life, performer's life, life, celebrity, addiction, female singer, blaxploitation, biopic, drug, african american, divorce, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 70s, 60s, 80s, 20th century
Place: las vegas
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Christine (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Christine is an ambitious 29-year-old news reporter, in Sarasota, FL, circa 1974. Relentlessly motivated to succeed, she knows she has talent, but being a driven career woman in the 1970s comes with its own challenges, especially when competition ...
Style: sad, bleak, melancholic, depressing, disturbing ...
Plot: suicide, depression, loneliness, mental illness, television reporter, television, female journalist, female reporter, workplace, existentialism, employer employee relationship, self discovery ...
Time: 70s, year 1970, year 1974, 20th century
Place: florida
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88%
 7.4
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Beautiful Boy (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: After he and his first wife separate, journalist David Sheff struggles to help their teenage son Nic, who goes from experimenting with drugs to becoming devastatingly addicted to methamphetamine.
Style: disturbing, rough, captivating, sentimental, sad ...
Plot: addiction, drug addiction, drug addict, teenage boy, father son relationship, methamphetamine, teenager, boy, divorce, coming of age, stepmother stepson relationship, drug ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: san francisco, los angeles, new york
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76%
My Dinner with Hervé (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: An unlikely friendship evolves over one wild night in LA between a struggling journalist and actor Hervé Villechaize, the world's most famous gun-tothing dwarf, resulting in life-changing consequences for both
Style: factual, tragic ending, sad, ironic, cynical
Plot: bohemian life, interview, twists and turns, performer's life, celebrity, lust, untimely death, promiscuous past, journalism, dwarf, cooking, writers ...
Time: year 1997, 70s, 90s
Place: los angeles
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Hefner: Unauthorized (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The unauthorized biography of Hugh Hefner and the birth of the Playboy empire.
Plot: womanizer, magazine, playboy magazine, sex scene, father daughter relationship, female nudity, suicide, millionaire, divorce, secretary, nudity, drug ...
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Rated X (2000)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Based on the true story of Jim and Artie Mitchell, two brothers who entered the porn industry in the early 60's. After creating such legendary porn films as "Behind the Green Door" and "Inside Marily Chambers", they later ...
Style: sexy, psychological, intense, tense, cynical ...
Plot: murder, addiction, drug abuse, rags to riches, greed, lust, ambition, filmmaking, life is a bitch, rise and fall, showbiz, porn actor ...
Time: 70s, 80s, 20th century
Place: san francisco, bay area, usa
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Her Final Fury: Betty Broderick, the Last Chapter (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The sequel to "A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story" in which Betty Broderick is on trial for the murder of her ex-husband and his new wife.
Plot: love, divorce, murder, revenge, courtroom, lawyer, true crime
Place: san diego california
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Whitney (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Chronicles Whitney Houston's rise to fame and turbulent relationship with husband Bobby Brown.
Style: realistic, emotional, serious, touching, sincere ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: musician's life, music, rising to stardom, desire for fame, ambition, couple relations, fall in love, addiction, celebrity culture, showbiz, price of fame, pop star ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s
Place: usa, indiana
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64%
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Pinero (2001)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: "Piñero" tells the story of the explosive life of a Latino icon, the poet-playwright-actor Miguel Piñero, whose urban poetry is recognized as a pre-cursor to rap and hip-hop. After doing time in hard-core Sing-Sing for petty thefts and ...
Style: disturbing, stylized, factual, intense, sincere ...
Plot: drug abuse, addiction, writers, biopic, rise and fall, lifestyle, rising to stardom, ambition, drug, drug addiction, prison, society ...
Time: 80s, year 2001, 70s
Place: new york, usa, lower east side manhattan new york city, puerto rico, manhattan new york city ...
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The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Larry Flynt is the hedonistically obnoxious, but indomitable, publisher of Hustler magazine. The film recounts his struggle to make an honest living publishing his girlie magazine and how it changes into a battle to protect the freedom of speech for ...
Style: sexual, controversial, factual, semi serious, witty ...
Plot: courtroom drama, lawyer, free love, legal, courtroom, court, drug addiction, biopic, fighting the system, rebellion, porn industry, love ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1996, 1950s, 80s
Place: kentucky, ohio, georgia, usa, washington d.c. ...
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The Best of All Worlds (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Based on true events, seven year old Adrian is growing up in the underground drug scene of Salzburg, usually famous for culture and classical music. His mother Helga is torn between her drug addiction and her love for her son. Despite of this Adrian ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, suspense, captivating
Plot: drug addiction, heroin addict, drug, drug addict, family relations, social problems, social issues, life is a bitch, drug abuse, junkie, drug use, mother son relationship ...
Place: germany
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Will: The Autobiography of G. Gordon Liddy (1982)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Based on the autobiography of G. Gordon Liddy who spent 54 months in prison following the Watergate scandal.
Plot: rat, prison, politics, autobiography, watergate, dead rat
Time: 70s
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52%
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The Switch (1993)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Larry McAfee is paralyzed from the neck down following a motorcycle accident. He gradually loses the will to live, in the meantime befriending a talk radio DJ over the phone. The two meet each other and become friends, though Larry still wishes to ...
Plot: disability, suicide, euthanasia, suicidal thoughts, paralysis, motorcycle accident, medical, quadriplegic, wheelchair
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The Pirates of Somalia (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: After an inspiring chance encounter with his idol, rookie journalist Jay Bahadur uproots his life and moves to Somalia looking for the story of a lifetime. Hooking up with a local fixer, he attempts to get embedded with the local Somali pirates, ...
Style: suspenseful, exciting, suspense, factual, cult classic ...
Plot: pirate, drug, journalist, journalism, journey, danger, point of view, news report, escapades, culture clash, village, writers ...
Time: 2000s, year 2008
Place: somalia, africa, canada
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Joy (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A story based on the life of a struggling Long Island single mom who became one of the country's most successful entrepreneurs.
Style: inspirational, stylized, emotional, motivational, intense ...
Plot: entrepreneur, business, businesswoman, career woman, inventor, entrepreneurship, strong female lead, ambition, divorce, career, women, female protagonist ...
Time: 80s, year 2015, 2010s, 20th century, 70s ...
Place: boston, usa, california, new jersey, new york state ...
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Basquiat (1996)
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: stylized, factual, inspirational, atmospheric, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: art, artist, graffiti, painter, drug abuse, biopic, painting, drug addiction, art history, drug, self destructing, rising to stardom ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1996, year 1981
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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Trudeau (2002)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 208 min.
Story: This docu-drama spans fifteen turbulent years in the political and personal life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, one of the most enigmatic and polarizing Prime Ministers in Canadian history. The film explores the many facets of his character and his ...
Plot: election, campaign, politics, constitution, independence movement, ethnic conflict, terrorism, hostage, kidnapping, prime minister, politician
Time: 60s, 70s, 80s
Place: canada
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Mask (1985)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A boy with a massive facial skull deformity and biker gang mother attempts to live as normal a life as possible under the circumstances.
Style: uplifting, emotional, touching, sentimental, depressing ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: disability, coming of age, fall in love, human spirit, depression, adolescence, relationships, teenager, motorcycle, teenage love, family relations, protective parent ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1985
Place: california, usa
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43%
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Prophet of Evil: The Ervil LeBaron Story (1993)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The take-down of an infamous leader of a small polygamous Mormon fundamentalist group, who ordered assassinations of his opponents.
Plot: serial killer, religion, true crime, polygamy, religious fundamentalist, mormon, sermon, religious fundamentalism, cult leader, sect, husband wife relationship, police ...
Time: 70s
Place: utah
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Factory Girl (2006)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In the mid-1960s, wealthy debutant Edie Sedgwick meets artist Andy Warhol. She joins Warhol's famous Factory and becomes his muse. Although she seems to have it all, Edie cannot have the love she craves from Andy, and she has an affair with a ...
Style: factual, sentimental, melancholic, contemplative, serious ...
Plot: art, artist, fashion, biopic, addiction, drug addiction, painter, bare butt, drug, mentor, rise and fall, love ...
Time: y2k, year 2006, 70s, 60s, 20th century ...
Place: new york, empire state building manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, usa, paris france ...
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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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Bingo: The King of the Mornings (2017)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 113 min.
Story: 1980s. Brazilian television exploding in color and auditorium programs not so politically correct. In the middle of this fervor, Augusto Mendes, a young rising actor, seeks his place in the sun. From porn studios to soap operas, he finally finds ...
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing, ironic, thought provoking ...
Plot: clown, fame, desire for fame, surrealism, problem, television, irony, actor's life, life, actor, popularity, social criticism ...
Time: 80s
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41%
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I Want to Live (1983)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The movie tells the story of a woman who struggles and fights to escape the gas chamber being condemned with capital punishment because of her participation in a hold up in which a person was killed.
Style: thought provoking, realistic, serious, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot: prison, courtroom drama, death penalty, biopic, fighting the system, legal, dishonesty, society, life is a bitch, fugitives, confined, death row ...
Time: 50s, 20th century
Place: mexico
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41%
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I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can (1982)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: An adaptation of Barbara Gordon's nonfiction account of her addiction to Valium.
Style: thought provoking, realistic, serious, gloomy, sincere
Plot: addiction, recovery, drug addiction, journalism, substance abuse, drug abuse, life is a bitch, artists and showbiz, rehabilitation, misfit, down on your luck, filmmaking ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
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40%
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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40%
The Pregnancy Pact (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Inspired by the true story of teenagers at Gloucester (Mass.) High School who agreed to get pregnant at the same time.
Style: thought provoking, realistic, serious, captivating, teen ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: pregnancy, motherhood, high school, social relations, journalism, society, teenage life, teenager, mother daughter relationship, investigation, mother, teenage girl ...
Time: 21st century
Place: massachusetts, usa
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Loving Pablo (2017)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Spain, Bulgaria
Duration: 123 min.
Story: The film chronicles the rise and fall of the world's most feared drug lord Pablo Escobar and his volatile love affair with Colombia's most famous journalist Virginia Vallejo throughout a reign of terror that tore a country apart.
Style: factual, serious, exciting, rough, brutal ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: drug lord, drug cartel, cocaine, journalist, pablo escobar, colombian drug cartel, assassination, congress, drug traffic, latinx lead, drug dealing, fighting crime ...
Time: 80s, year 1984, year 2017, year 1982, year 1993 ...
Place: colombia, south america, panama, latin america, florida
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Lies of the Heart: The Story of Laurie Kellogg (1994)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A young mother is accused of convincing four teenagers to murder her husband, who she claims abused her during their ten-year relationship.
Audience: teens
Plot: age difference, domestic violence, love, true crime, bare chested male, prison, courtroom, trial, miscarriage, lsd, teenager, gun ...
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38%
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Blow (2001)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A boy named George Jung grows up in a struggling family in the 1950's. His mother nags at her husband as he is trying to make a living for the family. It is finally revealed that George's father cannot make a living and the family goes ...
Style: depressing, touching, emotional, serious, epic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: drug addiction, drug lord, drug abuse, drug dealing, friendship, drug, drug dealer, drug cartel, rise and fall, addiction, gangster, drug use ...
Time: 70s, year 2001, 20th century, 80s, near future ...
Place: latin america, colombia, california, mexico, usa ...
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38%
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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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