Movies like Rebel in the Rye
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Rebel in the Rye (2017)
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The life of celebrated but reclusive author, J.D. Salinger, who gained worldwide fame with the publication of his novel, The Catcher in the Rye.
Style:
exciting, thought provoking, touching, captivating, sincere, disturbing, depressing, anthology, freeze frame
Plot:
writers, world war two, recluse, name calling, writer's life, novelist, obsession, friendship, father son relationship, teenage boy, spirituality, father daughter relationship, isolation, friend, real life, dating, atheism, sarcasm, motivation, art, spirit, poet, fall in love, literature, poetry ...
Time:
year 1946, 50s, year 1939, 20th century, year 2010
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york, greenwich village manhattan new york city, usa, new hampshire, united states, united states of america
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Most similar movies to Rebel in the Rye
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, touching and thought provoking films with plots about kiss, drinking, drinking alcohol, writers, friendship, drink and husband wife relationship mostly in Drama, Romance and Biography genres. Some movies like Rebel in the Rye: Tolkien (2019), The Fault in Our Stars (2014), The Exception (2016), A Journal for Jordan (2021), Howl (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
51K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
England, early 20th century. The future writer and philologist John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) and three of his schoolmates create a strong bond between them as they share the same passion for literature and art, a true fellowship that ...
Style:
bleak, suspenseful, suspense, rough, retro ...
Plot:
world war one, teenage boy, orphan, boys' school, male friendship, priest, writers, treasure, friendship, soldier, coming of age, young soldier ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, year 1914, year 1916, edwardian era ...
Place:
oxford university, birmingham alabama, europe, england
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80%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a patient named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support ...
Style:
touching, emotional, sentimental, romantic, teen ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot:
cancer, terminal illness, teenager, fall in love, teenage love, love story, youth, teenage life, first love, dealing with death, illness, adolescence ...
Time:
year 2014, 21st century
Place:
amsterdam, usa, pittsburgh, ethiopia, indiana ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: UK, USA, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A German soldier tries to determine if the Dutch resistance has planted a spy to infiltrate the home of Kaiser Wilhelm in Holland during the onset of World War II, but falls for a young Jewish Dutch woman during his investigation.
Style:
sexy, suspense, captivating, tense, exciting ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
world war two, nazi germany, nazi officer, gestapo, german soldier, nazi occupation, royalty, espionage, conspiracy, german army, love, sex scene ...
Time:
1940s, year 1940, 1920s, year 1934
Place:
germany, berlin germany, poland, netherlands, holland
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of First Sergeant Charles Monroe King, a soldier deployed to Iraq begins to keep a journal of love and advice for his infant son. Back at home, senior New York Times editor Dana Canedy revisits the story of her unlikely, ...
Style:
romantic
Plot:
flirting, gladiator, swimming pool, hotel, hopes, male female relationship, family relations, getting home, red cross, memorabilia, death of boyfriend, cleaning lady ...
Time:
year 2009, year 1998, year 2007, year 2001, year 2006 ...
Place:
akron ohio, empire state building manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, new york, washington d.c.
Similarity:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
It's San Francisco in 1957, and an American masterpiece is put on trial. Howl, the film, recounts this dark moment using three interwoven threads: the tumultuous life events that led a young Allen Ginsberg to find his true voice as an artist, ...
Style:
sexy, thought provoking, sexual, atmospheric, surreal ...
Plot:
poet, gay, poetry, writers, homosexuality, beat generation, literature, freedom, biopic, lgbt, gay interest, art ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 1920s, post world war two, year 1957 ...
Place:
california, san francisco, kansas, bronx new york city, arkansas ...
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44%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
International art dealer Ron Hall must befriend a dangerous homeless man in order to save his struggling marriage to his wife, a woman whose dreams will lead all three of them on the journey of their lives.
Style:
inspirational, touching, sincere, captivating, sad ...
Plot:
marriage, friendship, ku klux klan, christian, homeless, homelessness, family relations, forgiveness, black, faith, love story, troubled marriage ...
Time:
year 2017
Place:
texas
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
J.R. is a fatherless boy growing up in the glow of a bar where the bartender, his Uncle Charlie, is the sharpest and most colorful of an assortment of quirky and demonstrative father figures. As the boy’s determined mother struggles to provide her ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, sincere, feel good ...
Plot:
uncle nephew relationship, boy, adult child friendship, writers, bartender, male bonding, coming of age, family relations, drunken man, social problems, lifestyle, family life ...
Time:
70s, year 1986, 80s, year 1973
Place:
long island, yale university, connecticut, manhattan new york city, new york ...
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Neal Cassady is living the beat life during the 1940s, working at The Tire Yard and and philandering around town. However, he has visions of a happy life with kids and a white picket fence. When his girlfried, Joan, tries to kill herself he gets ...
Style:
erotic, talky, stylized, independent film, retro ...
Plot:
writers, beat generation, friendship, making love, suicide, writer's life, male nudity, depression, older man teenage girl relationship, suicide attempt, art, poet ...
Time:
1940s, year 1997, 20th century, 60s, post world war two ...
Place:
colorado, usa, denver colorado, new mexico, mexico ...
Similarity:
43%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Belgium, Canada, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
The story of American poet Emily Dickinson from her early days as a young schoolgirl to her later years as a reclusive, unrecognized artist.
Style:
costume drama, historical drama, depressing, romantic drama, period drama ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
poet, ecstasy, writers, women, victorian england, art, female writer, publisher, loneliness, woman, atheism, heaven ...
Time:
victorian era, 1860s, 1880s, 19th century, 1830s ...
Place:
boston, massachusetts, britain
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Leonard Schiller once counted among New York's Literary lions, but illness and ten years of writers block have lowered his profile, almost to the point of obscurity. When Heather Wolfe, an ambitious literature major, asks to interview him for ...
Style:
touching, realistic, talky, melancholic, emotional ...
Plot:
older man younger woman relationship, writers, aging, writer's life, friendship, male female relationship, masseuse, starting over, character study, love and romance, couples, graduation ...
Time:
year 2007, 20th century, 70s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, lower east side manhattan new york city, california ...
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The rather eccentric (especially in her thinking) author of "The Fountainhead" and "Atlas Shrugged" becomes involved with a much younger, and married man... to the dismay of those close to her.
Style:
sexual, political, independent film, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
writers, infidelity, philosopher, individualism, unfaithful husband, libertarian, russian woman, art, biopic, marriage, bookstore, extramarital affair ...
Time:
50s, 60s, 80s, 70s, 1950s ...
Place:
california, new york, manhattan new york city, los angeles
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Around 1940, New Yorker staff writer Joe Mitchell meets Joe Gould, a Greenwich Village character who cadges meals, drinks, and contributions to the Joe Gould Fund and who is writing a voluminous Oral History of the World, a record of 20,000 ...
Style:
melancholic, sentimental, independent film, realistic, stylized ...
Plot:
friendship, writers, storytelling, eccentricity, alone in the world, character study, writer's life, human nature, buddies, secret, reporter, philosophy ...
Time:
1940s, 50s, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
new york, greenwich village manhattan new york city, usa, manhattan new york city, north carolina ...
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Based on her acclaimed autobiographical book, THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD tells the story of Novalyne Price, an attractive feisty West Texas schoolteacher and her bittersweet, romantic and turbulent relationship with Robert E. Howard, the great pulp ...
Style:
period piece, touching, emotional, sentimental, cult classic ...
Plot:
writers, destiny, biopic, love story, friendship, mental disorder, bittersweet, couples, hospital, small town, loneliness, love ...
Time:
1930s, year 1996, year 1933, 20th century
Place:
louisiana, usa, new mexico, texas, ireland
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
The portrait of a woman who, at the edge of survival, found a world of meaning.
Style:
realistic, touching, uplifting, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
writers, biopic, friendship, rural setting, backwoods, suburbs, art, deep south, poet, past, romantic relationship, wilderness ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s, 1930s
Place:
florida, southern usa, usa, new jersey, new york
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.
Style:
intellectual, bleak, captivating, serious, sexual ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
poet, gay, obsession, friendship, youth, gay interest, lgbtq, writers, coming of age, sexual tension, lgbtqi, friends ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944, 20th century, 2000s, post world war two ...
Place:
usa, harlem, manhattan new york city, greenwich village manhattan new york city, chicago ...
Similarity:
42%
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, love and romance, artists and showbiz, obsession, lifestyle, couple relations ...
Time:
20th century, 1920s, 1930s, year 1929, year 1932 ...
Place:
usa, new mexico, new york, manhattan new york city, wisconsin
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
One of the most celebrated war correspondents of our time, Marie Colvin is an utterly fearless and rebellious spirit, driven to the frontlines of conflicts across the globe to give voice to the voiceless.
Style:
tense, disturbing, suspense, rough, powerful ...
Plot:
journalism, war correspondent, terrorist, death of child, photographer, mission, female reporter, female journalist, hospital, desert, death, dictator ...
Time:
2010s, 90s, year 2003, year 2001, year 2012 ...
Place:
syria, baghdad iraq, libya, iraq, sri lanka ...
Similarity:
41%
23K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, literary editor at Scribner’s Sons is the first to sign such subsequent literary greats as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. When a sprawling, chaotic 1,000-page manuscript by an unknown writer named ...
Style:
period piece, talky, touching, intellectual, informative ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
writers, novelist, genius, book editor, book, mentor, brutality, relationships, biopic, literary, jazz, creativity ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
usa, new york, new jersey
Similarity:
41%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, Music, Romance, War
Country: USA, Germany, Austria
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Agathe von Trapp, the eldest daughter of a well-known musical family, overcomes many obstacles to pursue her musical career and move to the United States.
Style:
touching, contemplative, romantic, unusual plot structure, captivating ...
Plot:
family relations, world war two, husband wife relationship, father daughter relationship, brother brother relationship, marriage, father son relationship, teenage girl, sister sister relationship, relationships, male female relationship, love and romance ...
Time:
1930s, 1920s, year 1965, year 1937, year 1938
Place:
austria, america, usa
Similarity:
41%
12K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Story of the relationship between the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.
Style:
depressing, realistic, psychological, serious, heartbreaking ...
Plot:
suicide, writers, drinking, biopic, death, bipolar disorder, poet, couple relations, mental disorder, art, tragic love, writer's life ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, year 2003, 60s, 20th century
Place:
england, europe, new york, london
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy, France, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In the present days, Maria Spielrein and Fraser are in Russia making a research about the life of Sabina Spielrein. In the beginning of the Twentieth Century, this Russian girl was a patient treated by Dr. Jung and later they fall in love for each ...
Style:
psychological, sexual, serious, captivating, touching ...
Plot:
love affair, mental institution, mental illness, psychology, nazi occupation, tragic hero, power relations, mentally unstable, doctors and patients, society, experimenting, sex scene ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 1920s, 20th century, 1900s
Place:
switzerland, russia, europe, zurich switzerland, geneva switzerland ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The controversial true story of a gay activist who rejects his homosexuality and becomes a Christian pastor.
Style:
serious, realistic, sincere, lgbt cinema, touching ...
Plot:
lgbtq, gay, gender, gay relationship, gay interest, lgbt, gay slur, gays and lesbians, gay man straight woman relationship, polyamory, church, gay teenager ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, year 2002, year 2006, year 2000 ...
Place:
indiana, usa, colorado, wyoming, san francisco
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Come See The Paradise is a deeply touching love story set against the backdrop of a dramatic and controversial period in American history, It follows the romance and eventual marriage of Jack McGurn (Dennis Quad), a hot blooded Irish American, and a ...
Style:
emotional, contemplative, realistic, serious, thought provoking ...
Plot:
world war two, forbidden love, love, racism, atomic bomb, family relations, culture clash, war, interracial romance, hospital, death, marriage ...
Time:
1940s, year 1936, 1930s, 20th century, year 1941 ...
Place:
hiroshima japan, ireland, japan, asia, seattle ...
Similarity:
41%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Berlin 1943/44 ("The Battle of Berlin"). Felice, an intelligent and courageous Jewish woman who lives under a false name, belongs to an underground organization. Lilly, a devoted mother of four, though an occasional unfaithful wife, is ...
Style:
erotic, romantic, sexual, romantic drama, historical drama ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
lesbian, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, lgbtq, lesbian interest, holocaust, gays and lesbians, woman in danger, nazi, society, forbidden love, couples ...
Time:
ancient times, year 1999, 1940s, 20th century, year 1943 ...
Place:
germany, europe, berlin germany
Similarity:
41%
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:
41%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 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:
sexy, erotic, captivating, stylized, atmospheric ...
Plot:
sexuality, sex, forbidden love, obsessive love, insomnia, love affair, writers, lifestyle, love and romance, destructive relationship, poet, female writer ...
Time:
19th century, 1820s, 1830s
Place:
venice, rome italy, paris france, italy, france ...
Similarity:
40%
45K
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Sweden, USA, Switzerland, Denmark
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm with her husband, where he is slated to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Style:
thought provoking, sincere, lyrical, novela, intellectual ...
Plot:
writers, infidelity, marriage, aspiring writer, novelist, twists and turns, father son relationship, family relations, revelation, adulterous husband, professor, love affair ...
Time:
1950s, year 1992, 60s, 90s, 2010s ...
Place:
stockholm sweden, connecticut, new york, manhattan new york city, eastern europe ...
Similarity:
40%
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:
sincere, costume drama, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
young lovers, love, father son relationship, writers, wooing, fall in love, couples, love affair, student life, rebelliousness, writer's life, poet ...
Time:
19th century, 18th century, georgian era, victorian era
Place:
germany, frankfurt germany
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA, Germany, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
In the aftermath of World War II, a British colonel and his wife are assigned to live in Hamburg during the post-war reconstruction, but tensions arise with the German widower who lives with them.
Style:
philosophical, realistic, melancholic, serious, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
post war germany, extramarital affair, unfaithful wife, cheating wife, husband wife relationship, adultery, horny wife, infidelity, love hate relationship, world war two, love triangle, cheating on husband ...
Time:
post world war two, 1940s, year 1945, year 2019, year 1942 ...
Place:
hamburg germany, alps, london, northern germany
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
In the 1970s and ’80s, Tammy Faye and Jim Bakker rose from humble beginnings to create the world’s largest religious broadcasting network and a theme park, and were revered for their message of love, acceptance, and prosperity.
Style:
period piece, disturbing, serious, realistic, cynical ...
Plot:
televangelist, rise and fall, adultery, religion, unfaithful husband, luxury, lgbt, family relations, religious, secret, lie, scandal ...
Time:
year 1960, 1950s, 60s, year 1978, year 1977 ...
Place:
palm springs california, minneapolis minnesota, minnesota
Similarity:
40%
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