Movies like Paula
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Paula (2016)
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Painting is an unacceptable vocation for a woman in provincial Germany in the year 1900, but budding artist Paula Becker is determined to make her own rules.
Style:
exciting, sentimental, humorous, captivating, touching, melancholic, suspenseful, artsy
Plot:
painter, childbirth, art history, extramarital affair, art class, nude model, art, female nudity, female protagonist, german expressionism, female artist, artist, impotent husband, sexually dissatisfied wife, women, victorian england, architecture, girl, famous, biopic, cheating wife, sex scene, poet, death of protagonist, flirting ...
Time:
victorian era, edwardian era, year 1900, 1900s, 20th century
Place:
paris france, germany
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Most similar movies to Paula
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, period drama, realistic and serious films with plots about biopic, art, painter, artist, female nudity, art history and painting mostly in Biography, Drama and History genres. Some movies like Paula: Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti (2017), Curiosa (2019), Cezanne and I (2016), Camille Claudel (1988), Artemisia (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Paul Gauguin feels smothered by the atmosphere prevailing in Paris in the year 1891. Around him, everything is so artificial and conventional: he needs authenticity to renew his art. Failing to convince his wife Mette and his five children to follow ...
Style:
realistic, sincere, serious, captivating, art house ...
Plot:
painter, painting, older man young girl relationship, interracial romance, artist, art, art history, husband wife conflict, money problems, heart attack, biopic, wilderness ...
Time:
19th century, year 2017, victorian era
Place:
tahiti, polynesia, paris france, france, oceania
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A passionate love story set against a backdrop of sexual freedom, loosely based on the relationship between 19th century authors Pierre Loüys and Marie de Régnier
Style:
sexy, atmospheric, erotic, emotional, romantic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
erotica, bohemian life, strong sexual content, cheating wife, nudity, cuckold, female nudity, adultery, love triangle, horny wife, sexual tension, husband wife estrangement ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1890s
Place:
paris france, algeria, france
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100%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
They loved each other with the ardor of thirteen-year-old boys. Rebellion and curiosity, hopes and doubts, girls and dreams of glory – they shared it all. Paul was rich, Emile poor. They went skinny-dipping, drank absinthe, starved, only to ...
Style:
captivating, exciting, factual, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot:
painter, art, friendship, artist, painting, novelist, female nudity, portrait, nude painting, seaside, infidelity, end of friendship ...
Time:
1890s, 19th century, 1880s, victorian era, 1860s ...
Place:
south of france, paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Austria, Luxembourg
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
At the beginning of the 20th Century Egon Schiele is one of the most provocative artists in Vienna. His life and work are driven by beautiful women and an era that is coming to an end. Two women will have a lasting impact on him - his sister and ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, touching, artsy ...
Plot:
painter, art, art history, brother sister relationship, biopic, model, trial, love, art exhibition, terminal illness, death of brother, money problems ...
Time:
1910s, year 1918
Place:
vienna
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31%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 175 min.
Story:
The life of Camille Claudel, a french scupltor who becomes the apprentice of Auguste Rodin and later his lover. Her passion for her art and Rodin drive her further away from reason and rationality.
Style:
emotional, psychological, intense, touching, heartbreaking ...
Plot:
art, biopic, mental illness, artist, fall in love, obsession, painter, sculptor, storytelling, art history, love, couples ...
Time:
19th century, ancient times, turn of the century
Place:
france, paris france
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31%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653) was one of the first well-known female painters. The movie tells the story of her youth, when she was guided and protected by her father, the painter Orazio Gentileschi. Her professional curiosity about the male ...
Style:
factual, sexual, historical drama, art film, spiritual ...
Plot:
virginity, art, female artist, artist, painter, biopic, renaissance, women, rape, art history, female nudity, painting ...
Time:
16th century, ancient times, 17th century, year 1997, 70s
Place:
rome italy, italy, europe
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Ireland, Switzerland, UK, France, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Famed but tormented artist Vincent van Gogh spends his final years in Arles, France, painting masterworks of the natural world that surrounds him.
Style:
independent film, melancholic, art film, touching, rough ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
painter, loneliness, artist, art, priest, painting, doctor, insanity, obsession, art gallery, mission, genius ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1890s, 1880s
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The story of nine-year old Maria and her father Marcelino who, in 1879, found the first pre-historic cave paintings at the now world famous Altamira cave.
Style:
suspenseful, touching, captivating, suspense, tense ...
Plot:
cave, discovery, love triangle, faith, painter, buffalo, art, artist, real life, victorian england, husband wife relationship, biopic ...
Time:
19th century, prehistory, victorian era, 1880s
Place:
spain
Similarity:
29%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The Côte d’Azur. 1915. In his twilight years, Pierre-Auguste Renoir is tormented by the loss of his wife, the pains of arthritic old age and the terrible news that his son Jean has been wounded in action. But when a young girl miraculously enters ...
Style:
touching, sincere, costume drama, scenic, sentimental ...
Plot:
painter, painting, famous painting, art, redheaded woman, female pubic hair, wounded soldier, world war one, artist, art history, self discovery, fall in love ...
Time:
year 1915, 1910s, 20th century
Place:
cote d'azur, france, south of france, europe
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The film fictionalizes the real relationship between French sculptor Henri Gaudier and Polish writer Sophie Brzeska, twenty years his senior, who came to Paris, she says, for its “creative atmosphere.”
Style:
sentimental, period drama
Plot:
art, artist, painter, art history, nude, older woman younger man relationship, novelist, sculptor, anarchist, naked woman, sculpture, architecture ...
Time:
year 1972, 1910s
Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Denmark, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
This biographical film, based on the life of French artist Paul Gauguin, follows the painter as he returns to Paris after a long stay in Tahiti and must confront his wife, his children, and his former lover.
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, touching, sexual ...
Plot:
female nudity, biopic, art history, art, acid, famous, artists' life, playwright, nudity, artists and showbiz, homecoming, hopes ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s
Place:
paris france, europe, tahiti, france
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA, Belgium
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes involved with a seaside landlady, while his faithful housekeeper bears an unrequited love for him.
Style:
sincere, costume drama, clever, surreal, meditative ...
Plot:
painter, painting, artist, biopic, art, eccentricity, art history, character study, estrangement, couple relations, elderly, love and romance ...
Time:
19th century, 1820s, 1830s, 1840s, ancient times ...
Place:
london, england, britain, holland
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
The tragic story of French naïve painter Séraphine Louis aka Séraphine de Senlis (1864-1942), a humble servant who becomes a gifted self-taught painter. Discovered by prominent critic and collector William Uhde, she came to prominence between the ...
Style:
touching, sincere, sentimental, surprise ending, independent film ...
Plot:
painter, artist, art, painting, art collector, mental illness, art dealer, world war one, biopic, art history, lifestyle, anti conformity ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, year 2008, 1920s, 1930s ...
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Poland
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In 1945, as Stalin sets his hands over Poland, famous painter Wladislaw Strzeminski refuses to compromise on his art with the doctrines of social realism. Persecuted, expelled from his chair at the University, he's eventually erased from the ...
Style:
twist ending, exciting, sentimental, ambiguous ending, captivating ...
Plot:
art, artist, painting, painter, communism, legal system, father daughter relationship, professor, one legged man, loss of mother, teacher student relationship, art history ...
Time:
50s, year 1948, year 1952, 1940s, year 1950 ...
Place:
poland
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, Romania, France, Italy, USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Set in Paris in 1919, biopic centers on the life of late Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, focusing on his last days as well as his rivalry with Pablo Picasso. Modigliani, a Jew, has fallen in love with Jeanne, a young and beautiful Catholic girl. ...
Style:
touching, realistic, serious, sad, factual ...
Plot:
painter, painting, artist, prodigy, biopic, art, art history, life is a bitch, addiction, tragic love, couple relations, tragic hero ...
Time:
20th century, year 1919, 1920s
Place:
europe, france, paris france, south of france
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Germany in the early 19th century. "Die Vermessung der Welt" follows the two brilliant and eccentric scientists Alexander von Humboldt and Carl Friedrich Gauss on their life paths.
Style:
captivating, realistic, psychological, factual, semi serious ...
Plot:
scientist, mathematics, science, inventions and discoveries, biopic, naturalist, society, rivalry, friendship, wanderlust, victorian england, monkey ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
germany
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The Catholic Church secretly investigates Caravaggio as the Pope weighs whether to grant him clemency for killing a rival.
Style:
dramatic, captivating, suspenseful, enigmatic, bleak
Plot:
painter, art, artists' life, artist, murder, genius, pope, rivalry, catholic church, church, donkey, snake ...
Time:
17th century, 16th century
Place:
italy, naples italy, rome italy
Similarity:
24%
107
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Japan, France
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
A biopic of seminal 20th century artist Leonard Foujita, a contemporary of Picasso and Modigliani, who was famous for mixing up European and Japanese styles.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, intercultural, avant garde ...
Plot:
artist, biopic, painter, art, painting, relationship problems, artists' life, family problems, social problems, world war two, modernism, identity ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
paris france, japan
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A dedicated artist from Russian Georgia struggles to get recognition.
Style:
melancholic, emotional, meditative, lyrical, heartbreaking ...
Plot:
painter, art, painting, artist, art history, biopic, poverty, tragedy, starvation, loneliness, tragic hero, sacrifice ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
soviet union, russia
Similarity:
23%
11K
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Austria, Luxembourg, Germany, France
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Empress Elizabeth of Austria is idolized for her beauty and renowned for inspiring fashion trends. But in 1877, ‘Sisi’ celebrates her 40th birthday and must fight to maintain her public image by lacing her corset tighter and tighter. While ...
Style:
period piece, disturbing, captivating, psychological, period drama ...
Plot:
royalty, hand job, revisionist history, empress, middle aged woman, aging, female protagonist, royal family, woman, identity crisis, middle aged, lifestyle ...
Time:
19th century, 1870s, victorian era
Place:
germany, vienna, england, bavaria, italy
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Czech Republic, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
The story of communist show-trial victim Milada Horáková. Horáková was one of the first victims of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia. She opposed the communist coup in 1948 but did not leave the country. She was arrested and tried for ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, tense, touching, captivating ...
Plot:
european history, prisoner, lawyer, world war two, communism, death sentence, czech history, trial, husband wife relationship, jail, politics, strong female character ...
Time:
20th century, 1950s, 1930s, 1940s, 50s
Place:
prague, czechoslovakia, central europe
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Beksiński is a gentle man with arachnophobia, despite his hardcore sexual fantasies and his fondness for painting disturbing dystopian works. Beksiński is a family man who wants only the best for his loving wife Zofia, neurotic son Tomasz and the ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, captivating, serious, art house ...
Plot:
painter, dysfunctional family, suicide, father son relationship, murder, family feud, suicidal tendency, art, artist, love letter, art history, biopic ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 90s, 2000s
Place:
poland
Similarity:
23%
364
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Sweden, Finland, Norway
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Dramatised biography of Swedish painter Anders Zorn.
Style:
melancholic, romantic drama, period drama, tragic
Plot:
painter, nudity, biopic, artist, womanizer, marital infidelity, performer's life, affair, alcoholism, domestic drama, adultery, art ...
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Winter, 1915. Confined by her family to an asylum in the South of France - where she will never sculpt again - the chronicle of Camille Claudel's reclusive life, as she waits for a visit from her brother, Paul Claudel.
Style:
sexy, realistic, sincere, costume drama, factual ...
Plot:
art, biopic, painter, separation from family, unfulfillment, art history, artist, nervous breakdown, faith, paranoia, sculpture, painting ...
Time:
20th century, year 1915, 1910s
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Austria, Germany, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Before Dawn charts the years of exile in the life of famous Jewish Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, his inner struggle for the "right attitude" towards the events in war torn Europe and his search for a new home.
Style:
exciting, thought provoking, captivating, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
writers, exile, husband wife relationship, world war two, writing a book, ex husband ex wife relationship, judaism, art, politics, sociology, biopic, double suicide ...
Time:
1940s, year 1942, 1930s, year 1941, year 1936
Place:
germany, new york, buenos aires argentina, brazil
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Lou Andreas-Salomé, the woman who enraptured 19th century Europe’s greatest minds, recounts her life to Ernst Pfeiffer in this German film directed by Cordula Kablitz-Post. A published novelist, poet and essayist, Salomé’s desire to live a ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological, thought provoking, psychiatric
Plot:
psychiatry, psychoanalysis, psychiatrist, female psychiatrist, women, ambition, social relations, society, historical figure, high society, ambitious woman, social problems ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, 1860s
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Poland, Germany, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The most turbulent five years in the life of a genius woman: Between 1905, where Marie Curie comes with Pierre Curie to Stockholm to be awarded the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the radioactivity, and 1911, where she receives her second Nobel ...
Style:
light, touching, melancholic, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
female scientist, nobel prize, strong female character, science, female protagonist, european history, women, radioactivity, woman, female nudity, ambitious, job ...
Time:
90s, edwardian era, 20th century
Place:
stockholm sweden, poland
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Austria, France, Germany, UK
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
A portrait of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt whose lavish, sexual paintings came to symbolize the art nouveau style of the late 19th and early 20th century.
Style:
thought provoking, stylized, visually stunning, sexual, visual ...
Plot:
painter, artist, art, painting, biopic, puffy nipples, public nudity, artist's model, art history, prodigy, obsession, ambition ...
Time:
20th century, year 2006, 19th century, year 1918, 1900s ...
Place:
austria, france, vienna, paris france, europe
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Based on the life of German toymaker Margarete Steiff, the movie shows her long way from a 10-year-old girl, confined to a wheelchair, to one of the first and most successful creators of toy stuffed animals.
Style:
uplifting, emotional, sentimental, period drama
Plot:
disability, german history, determination, female protagonist, inspiration, perseverance, biopic, empowerment, entrepreneurship, heartwarming, small business, innovation ...
Time:
victorian era
Place:
germany
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
This film is a chronicle of painter Frida Kahlo, and her encounter with the personalities of her time. Despite being confied to a wheelchair as a result of polio, operations and amputations, she faces and traces some of the most colorful and ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, visual, period drama
Plot:
biopic, painter, art, artist, female artist, cultural icon, polio, defiant, miscarriage, female empowerment, creative process, autobiography ...
Time:
20th century, year 1983
Place:
mexico
Similarity:
21%
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