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Cantinflas (2014)
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Mike Todd is a Broadway producer struggling to produce the film. Around the World in 80 Days. In Mexico, Mario Moreno, a young entertainer is struggling to get some respect, and he manages to become a star. A twist of faith makes them partners. Together they won the Oscar for Best Picture.
Style:
sentimental, serious, captivating, realistic, crying, cult film
Plot:
filmmaking, biopic, hollywood, rise to the top, showbiz, actor's life, rising to stardom, artists and showbiz, celebrity, fame, husband wife relationship, friendship, infidelity, film history, award ceremony, mafia, phd, chicano, mexican gang, hollywood star, performer's life, sex, dancing, boxing, fight ...
Time:
year 1941, year 1945, year 1966, year 1993, year 1957, year 1940, year 1956 ...
Place:
mexico city, usa, mexico, los angeles, russian
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Most similar movies to Cantinflas
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and stylized films with plots about artists and showbiz, biopic, actor's life, showbiz, hollywood, actor and actress mostly in Drama, Biography and Romance genres. Some movies like Cantinflas: Burton and Taylor (2013), Beauty Spot (2011), These Foolish Things (2006), Hitchcock (2012), Gable and Lombard (1976). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
TV drama based on Richard Burton's diaries, about his last performance in 1983 with ex-wife Elizabeth Taylor. They meet after several years and he agrees to her suggestion that they star in a stage revival on Broadway of Noel Coward's ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, serious, stylized, historical drama ...
Plot:
actor's life, couple relations, artists and showbiz, couples, celebrity culture, hollywood, biopic, love, stage play, passion, art, showbiz ...
Time:
20th century, year 1983, 80s
Place:
usa, los angeles, new york, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Hollywood, 1927: As silent movie star George Valentin wonders if the arrival of talking pictures will cause him to fade into oblivion, he sparks with Peppy Miller, a young dancer set for a big break.
Style:
feel good, sentimental, touching, sweet, artsy ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, family friendly, date night
Plot:
hollywood, filmmaking, actor, movie star, love and romance, showbiz, actress, fame, actor's life, movie studio, film industry, art ...
Time:
1920s, 2010s, year 2011, 1930s, 1900s ...
Place:
los angeles, usa, california, iran
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
As war looms on the horizon, a hopeful ingenue (Zoe Tapper) finds herself caught between the warring affections of a playwright (David Leon) and a director (Andrew Lincoln) in 1930s London. Director Julia Taylor-Stanley's heartwarming ensemble ...
Style:
touching, emotional, sentimental, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
love triangle, family relations, rise to the top, actor's life, lifestyle, love affair, showbiz, ego clash, fall in love, hopes, couples, rich and poor ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
england, london
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Hitchcock follows the relationship between director Alfred Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville during the making of his most famous film "Psycho" - and the trials and tribulations the director faced from Hollywood censors.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, psychological, serious, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
biopic, showbiz, obsession, secrets, manipulation, investigation, hollywood, filmmaking, love and romance, couple relations, talented, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
1950s, year 1959, 1940s, year 1944, 1900s ...
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The Unauthorized Saved by the Bell Story delves into the experiences of six unknown young actors placed into the Hollywood spotlight, exposing the challenges of growing up under public scrutiny.
Style:
serious, realistic, sentimental
Plot:
teenage life, rising to stardom, celebrity culture, ambition, showbiz, actor's life, youth, behind the scenes, high school, media, artists and showbiz, hollywood ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 2010s
Place:
usa, california, los angeles
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100%
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, sexy ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
hollywood, actor's life, tragic love, love, filmmaking, world war two, superstar, biopic, opposites attract, journalism, ambition, private detective ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, year 1976, 50s
Place:
las vegas, palm springs california
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
My Wife is an Actress is a French Romantic Comedy/Drama film starring real life couple Yvan Attal and Charlotte Gainsbourg. Attal plays a journalist who becomes obsessively jealous when his actress wife gets a part in a movie with an attractive ...
Style:
stylized, disturbing, melancholic, semi serious, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
jealous husband, love story, female nudity, brutality, lifestyle, dishonesty, actor's life, couple relations, journalism, couples, relationship vs career, sex ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france, london, europe, england ...
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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:
55%
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Mexico’s half-forgotten B-movie master, “involuntary surrealist” Juan Orol (1897–1988), receives a pitch-perfect tribute in this deft, irresistible love letter to a self-made man of showbiz whose career spanned half a century and nearly 60 ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, stylized, captivating, realistic
Plot:
filmmaking, ambition, couples, showbiz, artists and showbiz, athlete's life, husband wife relationship, biopic, death of wife, gangster, baseball player, film set ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico, spain, latin america, cuba, mexico city ...
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands, Belgium, Finland, Mexico, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In 1931, following the success of the film Battleship Potemkin, Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein travels to the city of Guanajuato, Mexico, to shoot a new film. Freshly rejected by Hollywood, Eisenstein soon falls under Mexico’s spell. ...
Style:
realistic, serious, stylized, atmospheric, visual ...
Plot:
gay, erection, male nudity, naked man, gay sex, homosexuality, filmmaking, sodomy, rain, filmmaker, thunderstorm, movie business ...
Time:
year 1948, 2010s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1917 ...
Place:
mexico, soviet union, latin america, moscow russia, ussr
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
The professional and personal life of actor and comedian Peter Sellers was a turbulent one. His early movie fame was based primarily on his comic characterizations, often of bumbling and foreign-accented persons, characters which he embodied. As his ...
Style:
psychological, emotional, stylized, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
comedian, actor's life, showbiz, filmmaking, biopic, inferiority complex, relationships, rising to stardom, lifestyle, rise and fall, family relations, understanding ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 70s, 50s, 1950s
Place:
london, italy, switzerland, rome italy
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The man behind the legend and a knowing look at the 1950's Hollywood are revealed in this dynamic bioepic of the meteoric star whose troubled life echoed his gut-grabbing performances in East of Eden, Rebel Without A Cause and Giant.
Style:
sentimental, realistic, serious, captivating, clever ...
Plot:
hollywood, actor, father son relationship, filmmaking, actor's life, death of mother, sports car, gay, voice over narration, biopic, dying young, rising to stardom ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 20th century, 1930s, 1940s
Place:
usa, malibu california, indiana, new york, santa monica california
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Hollywood drama loosely based on the life of film actress Jean Harlow, with Carroll Baker in the title role. One of two feature film biographies, both released in 1965 and both with the same title, about the '30s platinum blonde movie star.
Style:
sexual, serious, realistic, entertaining, crying ...
Plot:
hollywood, actor's life, rise and fall, film industry, women, wedding, showbiz, filmmaking, fashion, couples, celebrity culture, relationship vs career ...
Time:
1930s, 1920s
Place:
los angeles, usa
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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, childhood, performer's life, rising to stardom, filmmaking, haunted by the past, artists and showbiz, human spirit ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 1940s, 50s, 1950s
Place:
usa, new york, holland, europe, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
In 1926 the tragic and untimely death of a silent screen actor caused female moviegoers to riot in the streets and in some cases to commit suicide...
Style:
independent film, serious, realistic, offbeat, stylized ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
male nudity, hollywood, homosexual subtext, homosexual, filmmaking, illicit affair, affair, tango, dancing, showbiz, biopic, male prostitute ...
Time:
1920s, victorian era, year 1919, 1910s
Place:
california, usa, los angeles, new york, mexico
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Family, History
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
With their golden era long behind them, comedy duo Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy embark on a variety hall tour of Britain and Ireland. Despite the pressures of a hectic schedule, and with the support of their wives Lucille and Ida – a formidable ...
Style:
emotional, sincere, factual, touching, informative ...
Plot:
friendship, comedy duo, betrayal, bromance, film history, husband wife relationship, biopic, comedian, coworker relationship, performer's life, dispute, family relations ...
Time:
1950s, 1940s, 2010s, 1930s, year 1937 ...
Place:
england, ireland, united kingdom, london, glasgow scotland
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47%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, Canada, Australia, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
In 1955, young photographer Dennis Stock develops a close bond with actor James Dean while shooting pictures of the rising Hollywood star.
Style:
serious, captivating, realistic, psychological, cult classic ...
Plot:
photograph, hollywood, friendship, actor, actor's life, magazine, showbiz, celebrity, buddy, celebrity culture, journalism, photography ...
Time:
20th century, 50s, 1950s, year 1955
Place:
usa
Similarity:
46%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
F.Scott Fitzgerald's novel is brought to life in this story of a movie producer slowly working himself to death.
Style:
stylized, realistic, captivating, sentimental, retro ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
filmmaking, hollywood, producer, introspection, ambition, film industry, showbiz, fall in love, great depression, loneliness, literary, bare breasts ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, 1920s, 70s
Place:
usa, california, los angeles
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A mother takes her two sons on an unusual road trip from New York. Pittsburgh, St. Louis and eventually Hollywood in her quest to find a man to take care of them all.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, captivating, humorous, sincere ...
Plot:
road trip, coming of age, parents and children, obsessive quest, teenage life, siblings relations, starting over, father son relationship, teenager, writers, sarcasm, stepfather stepson relationship ...
Time:
50s, 1950s, year 2009, 20th century, year 1953
Place:
usa, kansas city, los angeles, boston, new york ...
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
On the set of Cleopatra, Hollywood's most beautiful star, Elizabeth Taylor, fell into the arms of one of the world's greatest actors, Richard Burton - and she didn't leave. Their subsequent white-hot, scandalous love affair gave rise ...
Style:
sexy, serious, realistic, stylized
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
actor's life, couples, hollywood, couple relations, renewed love, paparazzi, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, celebrity culture, infidelity, actress, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
rome italy, usa, los angeles
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46%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
An acclaimed stage performer, Dorothy still struggled with the challenge of her color, in a time that wouldn't let some stars in by the front door. Yet against the odds she beat out many more famous rivals for the role of "Carmen ...
Style:
crying, cult classic, contemplative, captivating, thought provoking ...
Plot:
racial discrimination, abuse, racism, swimming pool, desire, white male black female relationship, interracial love, racial prejudice, movie star, rape, filmmaking, biopic ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s, 20th century, 60s, 50s
Place:
usa, miami beach, los angeles, las vegas, miami ...
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
1930s in New York – The famous singer Fanny Brice has divorced her first husband Nicky Arnstein. During the depression she has trouble finding work as an artist but meets Billy Rose, a newcomer who writes lyrics and owns his own nightclub.
Style:
humorous, sentimental, anamorphic, hilarious, feel good ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
biopic, singer, female protagonist, nightclub, actor's life, love and romance, lifestyle, human nature, artists and showbiz, couple relations, fall in love, couples ...
Time:
1930s, year 1975, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, cleveland ohio
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
An inside look at the ABC sitcom which turned Robin Williams into a star in 1978.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, sentimental, sitcom
Plot:
rising to stardom, actor's life, couple relations, artists and showbiz, life is a bitch, workplace, showbiz, filmmaking, hollywood, comedian, celebrity culture, biopic ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
california, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, Canada, Japan, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An unsuccessful over-the-top actress becomes a successful over-the-top authoress in this biography of Jacqueline Susann, the famed writer of "The Valley Of The Dolls" and other trashy novels. Facing a failing career, Susann meets a ...
Style:
light, satirical, touching, sincere, humorous ...
Plot:
female protagonist, ambition, fame, marriage, writers, cancer, novelist, autism, eccentricity, showbiz, success, rags to riches ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s, 1930s, 70s, 60s ...
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, connecticut
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46%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
Born out of wedlock early in the last century, Violette Leduc meets Simone de Beauvoir in postwar Saint-Germain-des-Près. An intense lifelong relationship develops between the two women authors, based on Violette's quest for freedom through ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, serious, sincere, psychological ...
Plot:
lesbian, gender, lesbian relationship, writers, friendship, writer's life, friends, society, lgbt, women, couples, erotica ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 60s, 70s, post world war two ...
Place:
france, paris france, europe, provence
Similarity:
45%
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, France, Italy, Japan, USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
With the use of flashback, an elderly Charlie Chaplin discusses his autobiography with his editor, who urges him to be more vulnerable and emotionally honest with his memoirs while journeying through his poverty-stricken childhood, closest ...
Style:
sentimental, inspirational, period piece, costume drama, factual ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
biopic, rising to stardom, mccarthyism, childhood, filmmaker, flashback, actor's life, hollywood, female nudity, success, film history, filmmaking ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s, 70s, 1930s, 1800s ...
Place:
london, california, england, los angeles, switzerland
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 176 min.
Story:
Gertrude Lawrence rises to stage stardom at the cost of happiness.
Style:
non-linear, captivating, stylized, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot:
biopic, world war one, music, actor's life, ambition, celebrity culture, chorus girl, cinderella story, relationship vs career, showbiz, starlet, couples ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, 1920s, 1910s
Place:
usa, london, new york, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
This biographical docu-drama alternates between two parallel threads in the life of Arnold Schwarzenegger: his formative early years as the repeat winner of the Mr. Olympia body-building championship; and his modern foray into the world of politics, ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating
Plot:
politics, campaign, bodybuilding, showbiz, relationship vs career, rise and fall, actor's life, rise to the top, athlete's life, ambition, filmmaking, hollywood ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, austria, san diego california, los angeles
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Liverpool, 1978: What starts as a vibrant affair between a legendary femme-fatale, the eccentric Academy Award-winning actress Gloria Grahame, and her young lover, British actor Peter Turner, quickly grows into a deeper relationship, with Turner ...
Style:
thought provoking, touching, captivating, melancholic, neo noir ...
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, doctor, terminal illness, breast cancer, dying, femme fatale, promise, lie, mother daughter relationship, actress, life is a bitch, love ...
Time:
year 1979, year 2017, 70s, year 1981, 80s
Place:
liverpool, los angeles, new york, empire state building manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
44%
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