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A Half of Life (1985)
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A Half of Life (1985)
Original name: Hälfte des Lebens
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: East Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story: This tragic love story relates ten decisive years in the life of the great Romantic poet Friedrich Hölderlin, played by a young Ulrich Mühe.
Plot: french revolution, napoleonic wars, biopic, love, sex, erotica, passion, loneliness, teacher, friendship, writers, depression, forbidden love, art, illness, wealth, adultery, poet, wife, mental illness, revolutionary, revolution, insanity, isolation, disease ...
Place: east germany, germany, switzerland, frankfurt germany, german democratic republic, gdr

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, crying and period drama films with plots about biopic, poet, writers, husband wife relationship, infidelity, love and death mostly in Drama, Biography and Romance genres. Some movies like A Half of Life: Lady Caroline Lamb (1972), The Children of the Century (1999), The Libertine (2004), Mary Shelley (2017), Passion of Love (1981). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Lady Caroline Lamb (1972)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Lady Caroline Lamb, dissatisfied in her marriage, has an affair with the dashing Romantic poet Lord Byron.
Style: realistic, serious, sexual, crying, period drama
Plot: french revolution, writers, poet, historical event, art, napoleonic wars, politics, obsession, love triangle, infidelity, adultery, extramarital affair ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, regency period, year 1972
Place: england, europe, rome italy
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F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood (1975)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The story of author F. Scott Fitzgerald's two stays in Hollywood to write for films, once in 1927 at the height of his acclaim, and again in 1937 when he arrived with little money, enormous expenses and an ill wife.
Plot: writers, poet, art, unfaithfulness, psychiatric hospital, hollywood, adultery, extramarital affair, mental institution, husband wife relationship, drinking, infidelity ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s
Place: north carolina
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78%
The Children of the Century (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 135 min.
Story: True tale of the tumultuous love affair between two French literary icons of the 19th Century, novelist George Sand and poet Alfred de Musset. But their affair falls apart during an excursion to Venice, Italy where Musset is distracted by drugs and ...
Style: atmospheric, stylized, captivating, sexy, visually stunning ...
Plot: sex, love affair, writers, lifestyle, destructive relationship, love and romance, sexuality, obsessive love, forbidden love, poet, female writer, infidelity ...
Time: 19th century, 1820s, 1830s
Place: paris france, italy, venice, france, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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The Libertine (2004)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 114 min.
Story: The story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and debauched his way to an early grave, only to earn posthumous critical acclaim for his life's work.
Style: period piece, costume drama, melancholic, atmospheric, surreal ...
Plot: writers, libertine, decadence, poet, infidelity, oral sex, biopic, alcoholic, depression, dysfunctional marriage, sexual attraction, lust ...
Time: 17th century, year 2004, ancient times, year 2006, 20th century ...
Place: england, london, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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Mary Shelley (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, Luxembourg, USA, Ireland, Australia
Duration: 120 min.
Story: The love affair between poet Percy Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin resulted in the creation of an immortal novel, “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.”
Style: stylized, serious, atmospheric, costume drama, period piece ...
Audience: date night
Plot: poet, forbidden love, literature, young lovers, relationship problems, tragedy, female writer, love and romance, renegade, frustration, social misfits, writers ...
Time: 19th century, regency period, 1810s
Place: london, scotland, switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Passion of Love (1981)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story: In the 1860's, Giorgio (Giraudeau), a young Italian soldier is sent to a remote post, far away from his lover, Clara (Antonelli). He is lodged in the house of the colonel (Girotti). He becames friends with the colonel and the local doctor ...
Style: novela, serious, realistic, witty, offbeat ...
Plot: obsession, duel, illness, broadway, soldier, female nudity, relationships, loneliness, amor, military, love triangle, infidelity ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, year 1981, 1860s
Place: italy, europe
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66%
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Sylvia (2003)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Story of the relationship between the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.
Style: depressing, emotional, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Plot: suicide, drinking, writers, mental illness, biopic, poet, death, art, tragic love, writer's life, artist, couple relations ...
Time: 1950s, year 2003, 50s, 60s, 20th century
Place: england, europe, new york
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65%
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Total Eclipse (1995)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Belgium
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Young, wild poet Arthur Rimbaud and his mentor Paul Verlaine engage in a fierce, forbidden romance while feeling the effects of a hellish artistic lifestyle.
Style: serious, costume drama, cult classic, erotic, sexual ...
Plot: gay, poet, lgbt, male nudity, writer's life, homosexuality, gay teenager, melancholy, violence, homoeroticism, homosexual, art ...
Time: 19th century, 1870s, victorian era, ancient times
Place: paris france, africa, europe, france, holland ...
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63%
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Little Ashes (2008)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story: About the young life and loves of artist Salvador Dalí, filmmaker Luis Buñuel and writer Federico García Lorca.
Style: atmospheric, serious, factual, tense, art film ...
Plot: poet, friendship, artist, gay, lgbt, painter, closeted homosexual, gay relationship, political unrest, friends, art, spanish civil war ...
Time: 20th century, year 2008, 1920s, year 1936, 1930s
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Edvard Munch (1974)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Mystery, Romance
Country: Sweden, Norway
Duration: 210 min.
Story: A biographical film about the Norwegian Expressionist painter Edvard Munch. It was originally created as a three-part miniseries co-produced by the Norwegian and Swedish state television networks, but subsequently gained an American theatrical ...
Style: expressionism, art film, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Plot: painter, painting, biopic, artist, art, art history, philosophy, disease, artists' life, depression, famous, based on real people ...
Time: year 1974, 19th century, 1890s, 1900s, 1870s ...
Place: germany, copenhagen, berlin germany, paris france, oslo norway
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
I, the Worst of All (1990)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Argentina
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A viceroy and an archbishop take their posts in Mexico. A local nun, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651-1695), intrigues them. The viceroy and his wife find her brilliant and fascinating. The prelate finds her a symbol of European laxity. He engineers ...
Style: biblical, psychological, realistic, serious, gloomy ...
Plot: writers, art, artist, women, religion, catholic, writer's life, biopic, catholicism, poetry, lesbian, hospital ...
Time: 17th century, ancient times
Place: latin america, spain, mexico
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58%
Reaching for the Moon (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 118 min.
Story: In 1951 New York poet Elizabeth Bishop travels to Rio de Janeiro to visit Mary, a college friend. The shy Elizabeth is overwhelmed by Brazilian sensuality. She is the antithesis to Mary’s dashing partner, architect Lota de Macedo Soares. Although ...
Style: touching, serious, realistic, captivating, historical drama ...
Plot: lesbian, lesbian couple, lesbian love, writer's life, love and romance, love, lgbt, poet, american abroad, writers, lgbtq, couples ...
Time: 60s, 50s, 20th century, year 1951, 1950s
Place: rio de janeiro, brazil, latin america, nebraska, manhattan new york city ...
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57%
My Life and Times With Antonin Artaud (1993)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: May, 1946, in Paris young poet Jacques Prevel meets Antonin Artaud, the actor, artist, and writer just released from a mental asylum. Over ten months, we follow the mad Artaud from his cruel coaching of an actress in his "theatre of ...
Style: black and white
Plot: writers, love, drug addiction, drinking, death, artist, cancer, poetry, poet, biopic, art, insane asylum ...
Time: year 1993
Place: paris france
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The Whole Wide World (1996)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
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Style: emotional, touching, sentimental, period piece, cult classic ...
Plot: writers, biopic, love story, destiny, friendship, bittersweet, couples, hospital, love, loneliness, poet, summer ...
Time: 1930s, year 1996, 20th century
Place: texas, louisiana, usa, new mexico
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Poet and Muse (1978)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Semi-fictitious biopic of Finnish poet Eino Leino, made with a large budget to celebrate the 100th anniversary of his birth. The film concentrates on his relationships with first wife Freya Schoultz and later muse, poetess L. Onerva. His friends ...
Plot: biopic, poet, muse, artist, love triangle, syphilis, dysfunctional marriage, historical event, inspiration, venereal disease, nature, poetry ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
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Duration: 100 min.
Story: A man prepares himself to be transferred to a detention center and rest home where he will relive one more time the highlights of his youth.
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Plot: debauchery, fetish, teenage girl, female masturbation, female nudity, sadomasochism, sexual relations, infidelity, french revolution, sexual exploration, murder, couples ...
Time: 18th century, 1790s
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Young Goethe in Love (2010)
Genre: Biography, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story: After aspiring poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe fails his law exams, he's sent to a sleepy provincial court to reform. Instead, he falls for Lotte, a young woman who is promised to another man.
Style: realistic, sincere, captivating, serious, emotional ...
Plot: writers, father son relationship, wooing, young lovers, fall in love, love, love affair, student life, couples, writer's life, rebelliousness, poet ...
Time: 19th century, 18th century, georgian era, victorian era
Place: germany, frankfurt germany
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The Butterfly's Dream (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 138 min.
Story: In a small Turkish town, two young tuberculous poets try to survive while publishing their poems. As they both fall in love, their life would never be the same.
Style: serious, sincere, captivating, realistic, touching ...
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Country: Denmark, Sweden, Czech Republic, Germany
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Story: A young queen falls in love with her physician, and they start a revolution that changes their nation forever.
Style: period piece, costume drama, realistic, stylized, factual ...
Audience: date night, teens, adult
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The Last Road (1986)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 101 min.
Story: About the death and the 'last road' of Aleksandr Pushkin, the leading poet and writer of Russia, who was shot on a duel at age 37. Pushkin was defending the reputation of his wife and mother of his four children - Nataly. She was a center ...
Plot: writers, poet, love, death, revenge, widow, jealousy, husband wife relationship, children, duel
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A Few People, a Little Time (2005)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The unusual bond between a blind female writer and an acclaimed poet changes their lives and forms an exceptional creative cooperation, free of politics and the complexities of mundane life.
Plot: poet, writers, disability, odd couple, poetry, blindness, friend, blind woman, homosexual, friendship, inspiration, journal ...
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Eclipse (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A round of unerotic sexual couplings in Toronto, interspersed with interviews about an impending total eclipse.
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Place: toronto ontario canada
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA, France, Japan
Duration: 123 min.
Story: The retelling of France's iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette. From her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at 15 to her reign as queen at 19 and ultimately the fall of Versailles.
Style: costume drama, period piece, visual, melancholic, visually stunning ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: queen, french revolution, historical character, princess, french history, royal family, royal court, aristocracy, decadence, biopic, fashion, royalty ...
Time: 18th century, year 2006, victorian era, ancient times, georgian era ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
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Style: disturbing, captivating, realistic, serious, contemplative ...
Plot: revolution, leadership, rebellion, injustice, politics, righting the wronged, fighting the system, folk hero, escapades, state affairs, hopes, rebelliousness ...
Time: 60s, 50s, 20th century, year 1956, year 1960 ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
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Duration: 143 min.
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Style: psychological, realistic, serious, captivating, historical drama
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 125 min.
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Style: romantic, psychological, romantic drama, emotional, sincere ...
Plot: writers, women, art, poet, biopic, artist, love, marriage, insanity, mental disorder, nobel prize winner, world war one ...
Time: 1930s, year 1994, victorian era, 1910s, 20th century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Georgia O'Keeffe (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Biopic of American artist Georgia O'Keeffe and her husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz.
Style: serious, tense, emotional, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: biopic, painter, artist, art, couples, rise to the top, destructive relationship, artists and showbiz, obsession, lifestyle, love and romance, couple relations ...
Time: 20th century, 1920s, 1930s, year 1929, year 1932 ...
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44%
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Young Andersen (2005)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Denmark, Norway, Sweden
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A powerful modern film narrative, set in a historical framework, about the crucial encounter between vulnerable eighteen-year-old Hans Christian Andersen, who rates himself so highly, and Mr. Meisling, the cynical school principal. An encounter that ...
Style: period piece
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42%
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Restoration (1995)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 117 min.
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Style: factual, costume drama, intense, serious, emotional ...
Audience: adult
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Time: 17th century, ancient times
Place: england, london, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Iris (2001)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer's disease.
Style: depressing, touching, melancholic, sentimental, compassionate ...
Plot: alzheimer's disease, aging, writers, writer's life, biopic, mental illness, love, female pubic hair, women, life & death, terminal illness, loneliness ...
Time: year 2001, 50s, 20th century, 90s
Place: england, europe
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