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Sonja: The White Swan (2018)
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Sonja: The White Swan (2018)
Original name: Sonja
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Norway
Duration: 113 min.
Story: The true story of Sonja Henie, one of the world's greatest athletes and the inventor of modern figure skating, who decides to go to Hollywood in 1936 to become a movie star.
Style: disturbing, emotional, artsy, tragic
Plot: ice skater, power struggle, price of fame, performer's life, rising to stardom, family relations, tragic love, olympic athlete, backstage, rise and fall, strong female character, frustration, cult figure, artists and showbiz, figure skating, world war one, hollywood, skating, hollywood star, artistic, female director
Time: year 1936, 1930s, pre world war two
Keyword: sport, norwegian

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, serious, realistic and disturbing films with plots about biopic, ambition, artists and showbiz, family relations, husband wife relationship, rising to stardom and life is a bitch mostly in Drama, Biography and History genres. Some movies like Sonja: The White Swan: A Prominent Patient (2016), Forever Enthralled (2008), Curtiz (2018), Amália (2008), The Audrey Hepburn Story (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Louis Cyr : The Strongest Man in the World (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Canada
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Biopic of Louis Cyr, strongest man in the world at the end of the 19th Century.
Style: realistic, captivating, touching, serious
Plot: strong man, ambition, performer's life, rise to the top, artists and showbiz, rising to stardom, humble, biopic, strongman, world
Time: 19th century
Place: quebec, canada
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95%
A Prominent Patient (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany
Duration: 114 min.
Story: It is 1939. Flamboyant Czech diplomat Jan Masaryk has fled to America to escape his recent past. Germany has invaded Czechoslovakia and Masaryk is now a man with no nation. In America he tries to forget the personal and political betrayal he and his ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, stylized, serious
Plot: diplomacy, diplomat, czech history, european history, nazi germany, psychiatrist, life is a bitch, fascism, cold war, philosopher, post war, psychology ...
Time: pre world war two, year 1937, year 1938, year 1939, 1930s
Place: israel, prague, central europe
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Forever Enthralled (2008)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 150 min.
Story: A biographical account of Mei Lanfang, China's greatest opera star.
Style: serious, stylized, captivating, realistic, epic
Plot: opera, lifestyle, tragic love, ambition, performer's life, love and romance, couples, society, unfulfillment, warning, music, gender bending ...
Place: china, asia
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Curtiz (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Hungary
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Hollywood, 1942. The US government pressures Hungarian-born film director Michael Curtiz, who is about to finish shooting Casablanca, to accentuate the film's propaganda message in order to sway public opinion in favor of the country's ...
Style: suspense, captivating, tense, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot: world war two, father daughter relationship, director, life is a bitch, political unrest, family relations, relationship problems, father and daughter, family problems, hollywood, movie business, filmmaking ...
Time: 1940s
Place: hungary
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Amália (2008)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Portugal
Duration: 127 min.
Story: You already know the legendary singer. For the first time, you'll get to know the woman behind the myth.
Style: emotional, realistic, serious, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: rise and fall, love and romance, musician's life, rising to stardom, human nature, family relations, lifestyle, unfulfillment, music, artists and showbiz, haunted by the past, love affair ...
Time: 20th century, 50s, 60s, 80s, 70s ...
Place: europe, portugal
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Rosie: The Rosemary Clooney Story (1982)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The story of singer Rosemary Clooney's rise to fame, her marriage to Jose Ferrer, and her nervous breakdown.
Style: touching, realistic, serious
Plot: biopic, showbiz, friends, couples, rising to stardom, unfulfillment, tragic hero, actor's life, prodigy, artists and showbiz, musician's life, rise and fall ...
Time: 60s, 50s, 1950s, 1940s
Place: kentucky
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54%
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
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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
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54%
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Anita (2021)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 137 min.
Story: This long-awaited biopic provides a vivid account of the remarkable life of Anita Mui in and behind the limelight, chronicling her journey from a child performer to becoming one of world's most recognized music icons.
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot: personal growth, pop star, musician's life, musician, rising to stardom, music, celebrity, music industry, lifestyle, price of fame, historical figure, biopic ...
Place: hong kong
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Aglaya (2012)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Hungary, Romania, Poland
Duration: 116 min.
Story: This film is about the relationship of a mother and her daughter, the split-up of their family, the blessing and curse of belonging together and about coming of age - all this from the perspective of the young girl Aglaja. The story is based on ...
Style: atmospheric, touching, sentimental, emotional, serious ...
Plot: circus, ambition, performer's life, self discovery, dysfunctional family, desire for fame, family relations, artists and showbiz, parents and children, eccentric family, youth, family problems ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s
Place: hungary
⇓ similarity ⇓
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A Tale of Two Coreys (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The story of teen heartthrobs Corey Feldman and Corey Haim, whose lives were forever changed by the glitz, glamour, and the darker side of show business.
Style: captivating, suspense, thought provoking, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot: drug addiction, celebrity, film industry, child star, hollywood, notoriety, rising to stardom, price of fame, showbiz, actor, lifestyle, social issues ...
Time: 80s
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The Jayne Mansfield Story (1980)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The gaudy rise and dizzy fall of the last great Hollywood blonde bombshell: Jayne Mansfield.
Style: uplifting, captivating, emotional, gloomy, touching ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: big breasts, hollywood, actor's life, biopic, publicity, behind the scenes, price of fame, femme fatale, fame, movie business, publicity stunt, celebrity culture ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, 60s
Place: mississippi
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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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
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Churchill's Secret (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill suffers from a stroke in the summer of 1953 that's kept a secret from the rest of the world.
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Plot: winston churchill, stroke, secret, historical figure, rehabilitation, politician, family problems, parents and children, philosopher, wartime, world war one, british history ...
Time: year 1953, 1950s
Place: united kingdom, london
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Whitney (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Chronicles Whitney Houston's rise to fame and turbulent relationship with husband Bobby Brown.
Style: realistic, emotional, serious, touching, sincere ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: musician's life, music, rising to stardom, desire for fame, ambition, couple relations, fall in love, addiction, celebrity culture, showbiz, price of fame, pop star ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s
Place: usa, indiana
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Anton Chekhov 1890 (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
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Plot: literature, writers, writer's life, biopic, tuberculosis, family relations, couple relations, obsession, life is a bitch, siblings relations, artists and showbiz, convict ...
Time: 19th century
Place: russia
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The Lennon Report (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The events on the night John Lennon was killed, seen through the eyes of those who lived it. The great men and women of NYC who did all they could to save a life, some without even knowing it was John Lennon himself. Based on a true story.
Style: captivating, disturbing, suspense
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Place: manhattan new york city
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Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter (1991)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter is described by CBS as "a dramatic love story" about the lives of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz.
Plot: hollywood, dysfunctional marriage, bandleader, actor's life, husband wife relationship, comedian, marriage, television, showbiz, womanizer, marital problem, family relations ...
Time: 1930s
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37%
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A Vote for the King of the Romans (2016)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Czech Republic
Story: Czech Television's epic historical film draws on the breathtaking dramatic life of the great of Czech history, King Charles IV.
Style: captivating, thought provoking, tense, disturbing
Plot: king, knight, father son relationship, czech history, european history, aristocrat, royal family, historical character, family relations, power struggle, kingdom, historical figure ...
Time: 14th century, middle ages
Place: central europe
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An Adventure in Space and Time (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: This special one-off drama travels back in time to 1963 to see how Doctor Who was first brought to the screen. Actor William Hartnell felt trapped by a succession of hard-man roles. Wannabe producer Verity Lambert was frustrated by the TV ...
Style: captivating, sincere, sentimental, atmospheric, stylized ...
Plot: doctor who, time travel, television, producer, director, british, fantasy world, artists and showbiz, cultural icon, backstage, media, biopic ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1964, year 1963, year 1966 ...
Place: england
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The Brittany Murphy Story (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A look at Brittany Murphy's rise to Hollywood fame in the 1990s, her struggles with celebrity and self-esteem, and her mysterious death in 2009 at the age of 32.
Style: sentimental, serious, realistic, captivating
Plot: rising to stardom, desire for fame, rise and fall, ambition, actor's life, artists and showbiz, celebrity culture, parents and children, mental illness, death of wife, death of daughter, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: year 1994, year 2004, year 2003, year 2005, year 1990 ...
Place: puerto rico, new jersey, usa
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36%
The Zookeeper's Wife (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Czech Republic, UK, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: The account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion.
Style: factual, rough, sad, costume drama, suspense ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: holocaust, zoo, nazi, world war two, hiding place, marriage, women, zookeeper, nazi occupied poland, world war, shoah, biopic ...
Time: 1930s, year 2017, 1940s
Place: warsaw poland, poland, germany, central europe
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The King's Speech (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: The King's Speech tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II. After his brother abdicates, George ('Bertie') reluctantly assumes the throne. Plagued by a dreaded stutter and considered unfit ...
Style: inspirational, period piece, sincere, uplifting, dramatic ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, adult
Plot: british royal family, british history, world war two, stuttering, royal family, disability, queen, politics, unlikely friendships, british monarchy, king of england, historical character ...
Time: 1930s, year 2010, 2010s, pre world war two, 50s ...
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Experimenter (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Yale University, 1961. Stanley Milgram designs a psychology experiment that still resonates to this day, in which people think they’re delivering painful electric shocks to an affable stranger strapped into a chair in another room. Despite his ...
Style: political, disturbing, philosophical, factual, melancholic ...
Plot: psychology, electric shock, experiment, biopic, science, scientist, insanity, couple relations, social experiment, workplace, inventions and discoveries, manipulation ...
Time: 60s, year 2015, year 1961, 20th century
Place: usa, connecticut, yale university
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The Meanest Man in Texas (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Convicted murderer Clyde Thompson receives the death penalty for shooting two men in Texas in 1928. When the governor spares his life, Thompson gains a reputation as the meanest man in the state while working hard labor in prison.
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot: convict, redemption, parole, historical figure, serial killer, fall in love, murderer, prisoner, character change, in love, changing lives, historical character ...
Place: texas
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32%
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The Bad Poet (2020)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: 1936. Giovanni Comini, the youngest Federal in Fascist Italy, is summoned to Rome for a delicate mission: to monitor aging national poet Gabriele D'Annunzio, whose increasingly restless behavior Mussolini fears could damage his alliance with ...
Style: psychological, captivating, tense, disturbing
Plot: fascism, poet, italian fascism, secret police, political intrigue, moral dilemma, federal agent, politics, political unrest, relationship vs career, social problems, poetry ...
Time: 1930s, year 1936
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Brecht (2019)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Germany, Austria, Czech Republic
Duration: 187 min.
Story: Bertolt Brecht, a theatre revolutionary, poet of the state, outsider, looks back on his life in 1956, the year of his death, in East Berlin: adolescent provocations in Augsburg during the First World War, early poetic and amorous flights of fancy in ...
Style: tense, psychological, disturbing, thought provoking, fun
Plot: playwright, nazi, poet, nazism, world war one, german culture, literature, art, biopic, life, female nudity, poem ...
Time: 1920s, 1940s, 1930s, 1950s, 50s ...
Place: germany, berlin germany, east germany
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32%
Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long (1995)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A look at the life and career of controversial Louisiana governor Huey Long, whose nickname was "The Kingfish."
Style: political, captivating, thought provoking, disturbing, sincere ...
Plot: american politics, politician, royalty, corporation, fascism, assassination, biopic, campaign, rise to the top, society, life is a bitch, media ...
Time: 1930s, 1910s, 1920s
Place: louisiana, usa
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32%
12 Years a Slave (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty as well as unexpected kindnesses Solomon struggles not only to stay alive, but to retain his dignity. In ...
Style: motivational, heartbreaking, disturbing, harsh, bleak ...
Audience: teens
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Time: 19th century, year 2013, 2010s, victorian era, ancient times ...
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Behind the Lines (1997)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Based on Pat Barker's novel of the same name, 'Regeneration' tells the story of soldiers of World War One sent to an asylum for emotional troubles. Two of the soldiers meeting there are Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, two of ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, emotional, serious, realistic ...
Plot: world war one, shell shock, great war, war, gay interest, world war, writers, psychology, poet, world war two, mental illness, anti war ...
Time: year 1997, 20th century
Place: scotland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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