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Shirley: Visions of Reality (2013)
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Shirley: Visions of Reality (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A series of snapshots from the life of a fictional actress named Shirley serves to weave together thirteen paintings by Edward Hopper (e.g. "Office at Night", "Western Motel", "Usherette", "A Woman in the Sun") into a fascinating synthesis of painting and film, personal and political history. Each station in Shirley’s professional and private life from the 1930s to 1960s is precisely dated: It is always August 28/29 of the year in question, as the locations vary from Paris to New York to Cape Cod.
Style: serious, atmospheric, realistic, contemplative, experimental, postmodern, offbeat, stylized, weird, beautiful
Plot: relationship vs career, art, ambition, idealism, couple relations, repression, couples, society, actor's life, workplace, hopes, supportive spouse, painter, painting, art history, surrealism, nude photography, strong female presence, social relations, artists and showbiz, workplace situations, female nudity, actress, female full frontal nudity, postmodernism
Time: 60s, 50s, 1940s, 1930s, 20th century, 30s, 40s
Place: usa
Keyword: americana, american

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, contemplative and atmospheric films with plots about couples, hopes, couple relations, society, artists and showbiz, love and romance and introspection mostly in Drama, Biography and Mystery genres. Some movies like Shirley: Visions of Reality: Fall to Rise (2014), Dreaming of Space (2005), The Garden of Earthly Delights (2004), Almost Heaven (2006), Barrymore (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Fall to Rise (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
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Dreaming of Space (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 90 min.
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The Garden of Earthly Delights (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Italy, Poland
Duration: 103 min.
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Place: london, italy, england, venice
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Almost Heaven (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
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Barrymore (2011)
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 83 min.
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Style: realistic, sincere, contemplative, psychological, captivating ...
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The Dust of Time (2008)
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 125 min.
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 238 min.
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Style: realistic, sincere, touching, psychological, atmospheric ...
Audience: adult
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Damaged Care (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
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The Artist and the Model (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The story of a famous old sculptor, weary of life and the folly of men, who finds, thanks to the arrival of a Spanish girl escaped from a refugee camp, the desire to return to work and sculpt your final work in occupied France in 1943. Model and ...
Style: atmospheric, light, touching, melancholic, visually appealing ...
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Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1943
Place: france
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The Exchange (2011)
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Country: Israel, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
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The Wager (2007)
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 82 min.
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Paju (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
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Country: USA
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Genre: Drama
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No One Writes to the Colonel (1999)
Genre: Drama
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