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Cantinflas (2014)
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Cantinflas (2014)
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, ambition, actor's life, rising to stardom, artists and showbiz, celebrity, fame, husband wife relationship, friendship, infidelity, film history, award ceremony, mafia, phd, chicano, hollywood star, performer's life, sex, dancing, boxing, fight ...
Time: year 1941, year 2014, year 1945, year 1933, year 1966, year 1993, year 1957 ...
Place: usa, mexico, los angeles, mexico city
Keyword: mexican, russian, movie theatre

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and sentimental films with plots about artists and showbiz, biopic, hollywood, actor, showbiz, actor's life and ambition mostly in Drama, Biography and Romance genres. Some movies like Cantinflas: Burton and Taylor (2013), Beauty Spot (2011), The Last of Robin Hood (2013), James Dean (2001), Eisenstein in Guanajuato (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Burton and Taylor (2013)
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, artists and showbiz, couple relations, couples, celebrity culture, hollywood, biopic, love, art, love affair, showbiz, love and romance ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1983
Place: usa, los angeles, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
The Fantastic World of Juan Orol (2012)
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, cabaret, bullfighting ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, spain, cuba, latin america, mexico city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 7.9
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Beauty Spot (2011)
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: black and white, romantic, touching, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, family friendly, date night
Plot: hollywood, filmmaking, actor, movie star, showbiz, love and romance, dog, actor's life, fame, actress, love, art ...
Time: 1920s, 2010s, year 2011, 1930s, 1900s ...
Place: los angeles, usa, california, iran
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
The Last of Robin Hood (2013)
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, touching, realistic, serious, independent film ...
Plot: hollywood, movie star, sexual abuse, womanizer, actor's life, forbidden love, love affair, love and romance, youth, life is a bitch, teenage life, showbiz ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, year 1960, year 1957, year 2010 ...
Place: cuba, los angeles, new york, usa, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
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James Dean (2001)
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: realistic, serious, sentimental, captivating, clever ...
Plot: hollywood, actor, filmmaking, father son relationship, actor's life, biopic, dying young, lifestyle, prodigy, ambition, rising to stardom, rise and fall ...
Time: 1950s, 20th century, 50s, 1940s, 1930s
Place: usa, malibu california, indiana, santa monica california, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004)
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, relationships, lifestyle, rise and fall, rising to stardom, family relations, understanding, couple relations ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 70s, 50s, 1950s
Place: london, switzerland, italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
Eisenstein in Guanajuato (2015)
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: atmospheric, stylized, realistic, serious, visual ...
Plot: gay, erection, male nudity, filmmaking, gay sex, movie business, love and romance, fall in love, artists and showbiz, homosexuality, thunderstorm, rain ...
Time: 2010s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1931, year 1948 ...
Place: mexico, soviet union, latin america, moscow russia, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
These Foolish Things (2006)
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, realistic ...
Plot: love triangle, family relations, rise to the top, lifestyle, actor's life, love affair, showbiz, ego clash, fall in love, hopes, couples, rich and poor ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, post world war two
Place: london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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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 ...
Place: usa, new mexico, manhattan new york city, new york, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
 5.6
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Harlow (1965)
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, filmmaking, showbiz, couples, fashion, celebrity culture, voyeurism ...
Time: 1930s, 1920s
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
The Unauthorized Saved by the Bell Story (2014)
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: rising to stardom, teenage life, showbiz, actor's life, ambition, youth, celebrity culture, hollywood, coming of age, artists and showbiz, media, film within a film
Time: 90s, 20th century, 2010s
Place: usa, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
 6.8
 79K
Hitchcock (2012)
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, psychological, suspenseful, serious, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: biopic, showbiz, obsession, secrets, filmmaking, hollywood, manipulation, investigation, couple relations, love and romance, talented, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 1950s, year 1959, 1940s, year 2012, 1900s ...
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 6.0
 9K
Life (2015)
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, thought provoking ...
Plot: hollywood, actor's life, magazine, showbiz, friendship, actor, celebrity, buddy, photograph, celebrity culture, journalism, photographer ...
Time: 20th century, 50s, 1950s, year 1955
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
The Audrey Hepburn Story (2000)
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, performer's life, rising to stardom, childhood, filmmaking, haunted by the past, human spirit, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 1940s, 50s, 1950s
Place: usa, new york, europe, holland, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
 6.1
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Valentino (1977)
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, stylized, offbeat ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: hollywood, homosexual subtext, gay, filmmaking, tango, dancing, showbiz, biopic, movie star, sensuality, world war one, affair ...
Time: 1920s, victorian era, year 1919, 1910s
Place: california, usa, los angeles, new york, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
The Last Tycoon (1976)
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: realistic, stylized, captivating, sentimental, cult classic ...
Plot: hollywood, filmmaking, producer, introspection, ambition, film industry, showbiz, fall in love, great depression, literary, female nudity, time travel ...
Time: 1930s, 1920s, 20th century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of 'Mork & Mindy' (2005)
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: humorous, realistic, semi serious, sentimental, sitcom
Plot: rising to stardom, ambition, actor's life, artists and showbiz, life is a bitch, couple relations, showbiz, workplace, filmmaking, hollywood, comedian, celebrity culture ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 70s
Place: california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
 6.8
 82K
Mank (2020)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: 1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane.
Style: black and white, historical drama, sentimental, inspirational, intense ...
Plot: screenwriter, filmmaking, wealth, biopic, writers, beach, movie business, politics, friendship, loneliness, car accident, name calling ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, 2020s, year 1942, year 1936 ...
Place: los angeles, mojave desert, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999)
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: cult classic, contemplative, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: biopic, racism, black, hollywood, women, rape, african american, filmmaking, women of color, sexual abuse, interracial romance, post war ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 1940s, 50s, 1950s
Place: usa, miami beach, new york, miami, las vegas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
Isn't She Great (2000)
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, writers, ambition, eccentricity, showbiz, fame, artists and showbiz, actor's life, aging, love and romance, autism, marriage ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, 60s, 70s, 50s ...
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
 4.0
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Liz & Dick (2012)
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: realistic, serious, stylized, sexy
Audience: girls' night
Plot: hollywood, couples, actor's life, paparazzi, couple relations, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, renewed love, celebrity culture, infidelity, actress, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 70s
Place: usa, los angeles, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
 5.8
 14K
Amelia (2009)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 in an attempt to make a flight around the world.
Style: factual, serious, stylized, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot: airplane, female pilot, biopic, flying, adventurer, aviation, ambition, depression, unlikely friendships, self fulfillment, follow your dream, lifestyle ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s, year 2009, 1920s, year 1931 ...
Place: usa, chicago, long beach california, paris france, hawaii ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
 7.5
 62K
Chaplin (1992)
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: inspirational, sentimental, factual, light, intense ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: biopic, rising to stardom, hollywood, childhood, actor's life, filmmaking, success, mccarthyism, comedian, unlikely friendships, depression, honest ...
Time: 1940s, 70s, edwardian era, 1950s, 1920s ...
Place: london, los angeles, england, california, switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Funny Girl (1968)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 151 min.
Story: The life of comedienne Fannie Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of the Lower East Side, to the height of her career with the Ziegfeld Follies, including her marriage to and eventual divorce from her first husband, Nick Arnstein.
Style: light, witty, feel good, touching, humorous ...
Audience: kids, chick flick, girls' night, date night, adult
Plot: divorce, broadway, dancing, biopic, women, showbiz, love story, marriage, ambition, desire for fame, performer's life, couples ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, 1920s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, baltimore, new york state ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Martin and Lewis (2002)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The story of the 10-year rocky relationship between Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, slapstick, sexual
Plot: ambition, friendship, rising to stardom, desire for fame, actor's life, rise and fall, musician's life, showbiz, breakup, rise to the top, celebrity culture, betrayal ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 60s, 50s, 1950s
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 4.9
 482
See Arnold Run (2005)
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, ambition, actor's life, rise to the top, athlete's life, rise and fall, showbiz, relationship vs career, bodybuilding, couple relations, rising to stardom ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, austria, san diego california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 6.4
 2K
Star! (1968)
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, sentimental, stylized, serious ...
Plot: biopic, world war one, music, ambition, actor's life, relationship vs career, chorus girl, celebrity culture, showbiz, cinderella story, couples, starlet ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s, 1920s, 1910s
Place: usa, new york, london, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
 7.2
 40K
Stan & Ollie (2018)
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, factual, touching, sincere, funny ...
Plot: friendship, comedy duo, betrayal, biopic, comedian, bromance, husband wife relationship, film history, coworker relationship, performer's life, dispute, family relations ...
Time: 1950s, 1940s, 2010s, year 1953, 1930s ...
Place: england, ireland, london, united kingdom, glasgow scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
My One and Only (2009)
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, sincere, humorous ...
Plot: road trip, coming of age, parents and children, obsessive quest, siblings relations, teenage life, starting over, father son relationship, teenager, writers, mother, lgbt ...
Time: 50s, 1950s, year 2009, 20th century, year 1953
Place: usa, kansas city, philadelphia, pittsburgh, los angeles ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
The Way We Were (1973)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Two desperate people have a wonderful romance, but their political views and convictions drive them apart.
Style: sentimental, realistic, serious, captivating, intellectual ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: mccarthyism, naval officer, couples, politics, breakup, husband wife relationship, adultery, love story, passion, world war two, love and romance, friendship ...
Time: 1940s, 50s, 1930s, 1950s, pre world war two ...
Place: usa, new york, california, middle east, malibu california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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