Movies like Violette 2013
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Violette (2013)
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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 writing and on Simone's conviction that she holds in her hands the destiny of an extraordinary writer.
Style:
captivating, realistic, sincere, serious, psychological, intellectual, feminist film
Plot:
lesbian, gender, writers, lesbian relationship, friendship, friends, writer's life, society, lgbt, women, couples, erotica, lesbian love, girl, existential crisis, lgbtq, age-gap relationship, feminism, strong female presence, artists and showbiz, sex, gay, ghost, money, forest ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 70s, 60s, 50s, post world war two, year 1972 ...
Place:
france, paris france, europe, provence
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, queer cinema and sexy films with plots about kiss, drinking alcohol, cigarette smoking, lgbt, sex, friendship and love and romance mostly in Drama, Romance and Biography genres. Some movies like Violette: Reaching for the Moon (2013), Colette (2018), Kill Your Darlings (2013), Summertime (2015), Total Eclipse (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In 1951 New York poet Elizabeth Bishop travels to Rio de Janeiro to visit Mary, a college friend. The shy Elizabeth is overwhelmed by Brazilian sensuality. She is the antithesis to Mary’s dashing partner, architect Lota de Macedo Soares. Although ...
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touching, realistic, serious, captivating, inspirational ...
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lesbian, lesbian couple, lesbian love, writer's life, love and romance, love, lgbt, american abroad, writers, lgbtq, couples, couple relations ...
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Place:
rio de janeiro, brazil, latin america, new york
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Hungary
Duration: 111 min.
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French novelist, Colette, overcomes an abusive marriage to emerge as a leading writer in her country and a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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captivating, intellectual, inspirational, lyrical, art film ...
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female protagonist, novelist, writers, woman, bisexuality, female writer, lesbian, lesbian relationship, infidelity, open marriage, lesbian sex, lgbt ...
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Place:
paris france, marseille, algeria, louisiana, france
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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:
captivating, bleak, serious, intellectual, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
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gay, poet, obsession, friendship, youth, writers, coming of age, sexual tension, mental illness, murder, friends, lifestyle ...
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1940s, 20th century, year 2005, year 1944, post world war two ...
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usa, new jersey, manhattan new york city, greenwich village manhattan new york city, harlem ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In 1971, Carole and Delphine meet and fall in love in Paris. When Carole follows Delphine back to her family farm in Limousin, the two find lesbianism and feminism are not as easy in the countryside.
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erotic, sincere, sexy, sweet, feminist film ...
Plot:
lesbian, lgbt, lesbian relationship, mother daughter relationship, farm, love, lesbian sex, feminism, female nudity, farmer, lgbtq, countryside ...
Time:
year 1971, year 1976, 70s
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paris france, france, europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France, UK, Belgium
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Young, wild poet Arthur Rimbaud and his mentor Paul Verlaine engage in a fierce, forbidden romance while feeling the effects of a hellish artistic lifestyle.
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sexy, serious, erotic, psychological, sexual ...
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gay, poet, lgbt, melancholy, gay teenager, male nudity, older man younger man relationship, writer's life, writers, art, age difference, infidelity ...
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europe, paris france, africa, france, london ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 117 min.
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Claire is a midwife and has devoted her life to others. At a moment when she is preoccupied by the imminent closure of the maternity clinic where she works, her life is further turned upside down when Béatrice, her father's former mistress, ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The stories of three lesbian couples -- who live in the same house at different periods of time -- who are at a crossroads in their lives. In 1961, Edith loses her lover, Abby, to a stroke. Linda and Amy struggle with feminist issues in 1972. And, ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In 1931 budding author Christopher Isherwood goes to Berlin at the invitation of his friend W. H. Auden for the gay sex that abounds in the city. Whilst working as an English teacher his housemates include bewigged old queen Gerald Hamilton and ...
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chick flick
Plot:
gay, gender, lgbt, self discovery, gays and lesbians, lgbtq, lifestyle, writers, homosexual, fall in love, society, state affairs ...
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1930s, post world war two, 20th century, year 1976, year 1952 ...
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germany, europe, berlin germany, hamburg germany, england ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Manu arrives in Paris, in the early days of AIDS, at the beginning of the 1980s. He strikes up a friendship with Adrien, a wealthy doctor in his early fifties, who introduces him to Sarah and Mehdi, a young couple.
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paris france, munich germany, marseille, france, europe ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 125 min.
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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 ...
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romantic, erotic, sexy, thought provoking, light ...
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lesbian, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, world war two, wartime life, holocaust, gays and lesbians, lesbian interest, woman in danger, forbidden love, lesbian mother, nazi ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A brief extract of four kids' lives somewhere in France. Quentin, who won a writers contest and now pays more attention to his career as an author than to his friends, beautiful Julie, his girl-friend, much more mature than she looks, falling ...
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erotic, sexy, realistic, serious, sexual ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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sexy, psychological, erotic, romantic, sexual ...
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In nineteenth century Yorkshire wealthy orphan Anne Lister lives with an aunt and uncle, anxious for her to marry well and blissfully unaware that she is a lesbian,recording her thoughts and exploits in a coded diary. When her lover Mariana Belcombe ...
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captivating, emotional, stylized, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
lesbian relationship, lesbian, lesbian romance, lesbianism, lesbian sex, feminism, lgbt, lesbian couple, lgbtq, forbidden love, love and romance, lesbian love ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
In the midst of rehearsals for a new play, amateur dramatics proponents Colin and Kathryn receive the shattering news that their friend George is fatally ill and only has a few months to live.
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realistic, semi serious, talky, humorous, captivating ...
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100%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Story of the relationship between the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.
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suicide, depression, writers, mental illness, adultery, death, poet, art, tragic love, writer's life, artist, couple relations ...
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england, london, europe, new york
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
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writers, friendship, suicide, writer's life, male nudity, depression, sexualized violence, life, adaptation, life philosophy, literature, mentor ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Mystery, Romance
Country: Sweden, Norway
Duration: 210 min.
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A biographical film about the Norwegian Expressionist painter Edvard Munch. It was originally created as a three-part miniseries co-produced by the Norwegian and Swedish state television networks, but subsequently gained an American theatrical ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 135 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 ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
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Duration: 150 min.
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Duration: 210 min.
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Genre: Drama, Romance
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
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Duration: 110 min.
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Socialite Vita Sackville-West and literary icon Virginia Woolf run in different circles in 1920s London. Despite the odds, the magnetic Vita and the beguiling Virginia forge an unconventional affair, set against the backdrop of their own strikingly ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
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Duration: 116 min.
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
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Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
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Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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