Movies like Viola

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Viola (2012)
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Viola (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, USA
Duration: 65 min.
Story: Several actresses get caught up in a web of romantic intrigue while performing in a production of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night."
Style: serious, realistic, non-linear, clever, witty, talky, postmodern, independent film
Plot: actor's life, lesbian relationship, theater, strong female presence, twentysomething life, actress, women, girl, urban, female female kiss, lesbian kiss, postmodernism
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: argentina, latin america

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, talky and psychological films with plots about strong female presence, artists and showbiz, couples, actor's life, introspection, female nudity and family relations mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Viola: Cracks in the Shell (2011), The Fire (2015), Opening Night (1977), Anna (1987), Ten Tiny Love Stories (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Cracks in the Shell (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Fine suffers from not being seen but she also does her best at not being noticed, even though she is an acting student. At night, when her mentally handicapped sister Jule cannot get to sleep and stereotypically bangs her head against the wall, Fine ...
Style: serious, psychological, tense, realistic, gloomy
Plot: actor's life, losing-it hero, power relations, artists and showbiz, actress, mentor protege relationship, self destructing, audition, theater, disability, casting, school ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
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The Fire (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A couple must hold on to $100,000 for 24 hours as they wait to buy a house. As the time ticks by, the true nature of their love unravels.
Style: touching, talky, realistic, serious, tense
Plot: breakup, couple relations, family problems, couples, sexual content, human nature, graphic violence, violent content, under the surface, indoor
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina
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87%
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Opening Night (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story: An actress suffers an emotional uproar in her personal life after a fan dies trying to see her.
Style: independent film, serious, cerebral, thought provoking, art house ...
Plot: aging, actor, actress, theater, thoughtful, beat generation, existentialism, strong female lead, art, mental disorder, time travel, filmmaking ...
Time: year 1977, 70s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
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87%
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Anna (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Czech refugee Krystyna (Paulina Porizkova) travels to New York in search of her actress idol and fellow expatriate, Anna (Sally Kirkland). After her own arrival in the Big Apple, Anna finds that celebrity often doesn't travel well, and she must ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, psychological, talky ...
Plot: girl, aging, strong female presence, immigrant, lifestyle, actor's life, follow your dream, desire for fame, artists and showbiz, rise to the top, midlife crisis, nightlife ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
Place: czechoslovakia, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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Ten Tiny Love Stories (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Ten women give monologues to camera, each remembering a man who was important in their lives.
Style: realistic, talky, sincere, clever, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: loss of virginity, gender, lifestyle, destructive relationship, love affair, looking for love, dangerous attraction, couple relations, unfulfilled love, sexual relations, male female relationship, monologue ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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Fall to Rise (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A famous dancer is fired after an injury and thrust into the role of motherhood.
Style: contemplative, emotional, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot: ambition, artists and showbiz, introspection, strong female presence, dancer's life, hopes, women, dancer
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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Voice Over (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile, France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A married woman — seeking to purify herself through a "disconnection vow" — leaves her husband and returns to her parents’ home, but finds a situation far from the peace and quiet she had imagined.
Style: semi serious, humorous, witty, clever, realistic
Plot: family relations, couples, breakup, dull life, nothing goes right, introspection, disorder, strong female presence, unfulfillment, parents and children, siblings relations, homecoming
Time: 21st century
Place: chile, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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The Bird (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young woman, withdrawn from life, rescues a live bird that had been trapped in the wall of her apartment.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, gloomy
Plot: estrangement, strong female presence, restaurant, women, bird, food, cigarette smoking, beach, kiss
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania, France
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A director with two weeks left on his latest production fakes an ulcer to pursue a romance with his lead actress.
Style: contemplative, postmodern, clever, sincere, serious ...
Plot: filmmaking, dishonesty, sexual relations, screenwriter, female nudity, theater, nudity, manipulation, under the surface, artists and showbiz, director, storytelling ...
Time: 21st century
Place: bucharest, romania
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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Union Square (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A reluctant reunion of two estranged sisters. One is on the verge of marriage; the other is on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Both struggle with truths they're hiding from each other - and from themselves. Jenny has rejected her tumultuous ...
Style: sincere, serious, realistic, talky, emotional ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, family relations, family problems, siblings relations, ego clash, rivalry, lifestyle, city life, estrangement, twists and turns, mental disorder, lost girl ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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Barrymore (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story: As John Barrymore reckons with the ravages of his life of excess, he rents an old theatre to rehearse for a backer's audition to raise money for a revival of his 1920 Broadway triumph in Richard III.
Style: realistic, sincere, contemplative, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: artists and showbiz, actor's life, theater, showbiz, performer's life, introspection, actor, rivalry, society, hollywood, art, biopic ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 1920s
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
After the Rehearsal (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, West Germany
Duration: 70 min.
Story: Rational, exacting, and self-controlled theater director, Henrik Vogler, often stays after rehearsal to think and plan. On this day, Anna comes back, ostensibly looking for a bracelet. She is the lead in his new production of Stindberg's ...
Style: psychedelic, surreal, mind bending, art house, contemplative ...
Plot: theater, art, relationships, actor, dialogue, crazy love, nordic, memory, dull life, couples, aging, actor's life ...
Time: year 1984, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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Two (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Portugal
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Isabelle Huppert stars as a pair of twin sisters in Werner Schroeter's gorgeously composed and utterly berserk opus stuffed to overflowing with sailors, drag queens, suicides, cemeteries, doppelgängers, fickle foxes and operatic arias.
Style: non-linear, psychological, realistic, serious, controversial ...
Plot: family relations, strong female presence, opera, human nature, hopes, twins, destiny, cabaret, male nudity, town, mother, woman ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, portugal, marseille, provence
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
The Day I Was Not Born (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Argentina
Duration: 94 min.
Story: During a stopover in Buenos Aires on her way to Chile, 31-year-old Maria recognizes a nursery rhyme. Maria doesn't speak a work of Spanish, but without understanding what she is singing, she remembers the Spanish lyrics. Disturbed and thrown ...
Style: realistic, psychological, contemplative, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot: redemption, self discovery, parents and children, uncover truth, protecting from truth, haunted by the past, adoption, family relations, hopes, society, life is a bitch, monkey ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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 ...
Style: serious, realistic, contemplative, atmospheric, postmodern ...
Plot: relationship vs career, art, idealism, couple relations, ambition, actor's life, society, couples, workplace, hopes, repression, supportive spouse ...
Time: 1930s, 60s, 50s, 20th century, 1940s
Place: usa
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82%
Cradle Will Rock (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: A true story of politics and art in the 1930s USA, centered around a leftist musical drama and attempts to stop its production.
Style: talky, entertaining, intellectual, factual, disturbing ...
Plot: artist, art, politics, government, depression, capitalism, greed, world politics, congress, adaptation, justice, manipulation ...
Time: 1930s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: usa, new york, manhattan new york city
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82%
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Ten Benny (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The story of a young shoe salesman whose overestimation of his own sharpness leads to gambling debts, pissed-off loan sharks, and overall misery.
Style: independent film, contemplative, gloomy, realistic, serious ...
Plot: profanity, violent content, gangster, best friend, sexual content, friendship, dangerous animal, twentysomething life, down on your luck, gambling, working class, parents and children ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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Tokyo Noir (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 127 min.
Story: In this excursion into Tokyo's dark side, a sexually repressed woman finds liberation by turning tricks at night a sex worker is taken by surprise when her ex drops by and a sex blogger finds strange kinship with a loner.
Style: serious, sincere, touching, realistic
Plot: city life, prostitute, singleness, couples, lifestyle, strong female presence, urban
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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Poison Friends (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A group of college students are duped by a charming pathological liar.
Style: talky, psychological, realistic, serious, thought provoking ...
Plot: college, friendship, youth, friends, power relations, college life, betrayal, teachers and students, student life, student, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, mishap ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Chinese Coffee (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: When Harry Levine, an aging, unsuccessful Greenwich Village writer is fired from his job as restaurant doorman, he calls on friend and mentor Jake, ostensibly to collect a long-standing debt. Harry solicits his opinion on his latest manuscript, a ...
Style: psychological, serious, talky, clever, existential ...
Plot: friendship, poet, introspection, lifestyle, prodigy, writers, unsuccessful, betrayal, crumbling marriage, up and down relationship, jealousy, politics ...
Time: year 2000, 90s
Place: new york, greenwich village manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city
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80%
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Bloomington (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A former child actress attends college in search of independence and ends up becoming romantically involved with a female professor. Their relationship thrives until an opportunity to return to acting forces her to make life-altering decisions.
Style: sexual, sexy, touching, erotic, realistic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, gays and lesbians, lesbian couple, lesbian teen, lesbian sex, teacher student romance, teacher student relationship, college, teacher student sex ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, indiana
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80%
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Hitler's Grave (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Asia is a young Iranian woman whose brother has been tortured in prisons of the Islamic Republic of Iran during the recent controversial presidential elections in Iran. She goes to Berlin to find the grave of Hitler fulfilling a promise made to her ...
Style: realistic, sincere, serious, tense, contemplative
Plot: society, strong female presence, rabbi, religions or cults, political unrest, iranian, promise
Time: 21st century
Place: iran, middle east, europe, germany, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
Once Upon a Time Veronica (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A finely tuned, emotionally raw portrait of a woman’s conflicted entry into adulthood, Once Upon a Time Veronica is a thoroughly modern anti–fairy tale. Director Marcelo Gomes shows a rare ability to get under the skin — and cut close to the ...
Style: realistic, sincere, psychological, touching, serious ...
Plot: introspection, unfulfillment, cause and meaning, dull life, graphic violence, sexual deviant, women, destruction, public nudity, female pubic hair, female nudity, orgy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, brazil
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79%
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Nuit #1 (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Clara and Nikolai meet at a sweat-soaked rave and end their night at his apartment. The first part of the film is an erotic and candid portrait of their lovemaking. When Clara tries to sneak out without saying goodbye, this typical hookup takes an ...
Style: talky, serious, sincere, realistic, emotional ...
Plot: rave, slacker, one night stand, couples, young lovers, conversation, introspection, twentysomething life, sexual relations, isolation, sex, porn ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, quebec
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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Irene in Time (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A film about the complex relationships between fathers and daughters, and the potential lifelong consequences of those relationships.
Style: talky, serious, realistic, psychological, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: haunted by the past, looking for love, couples, family relations, couple relations, introspection, strong female presence, sexual content, parents and children, hopes, dating, lesbian ...
Time: 21st century
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79%
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Applause (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When the critically acclaimed, tough and coming of age actress Thea Barfoed ends her rehab, she confronts a hard choice. During her heavy drinking period she divorced and lost custody of her two boys. Now she wants them to be a part of her life ...
Style: serious, sincere, touching, realistic, emotional ...
Plot: alcohol abuse, rehabilitation, estrangement, starting over, family relations, family problems, hopes, actor's life, life is a bitch, haunted by the past, parents and children, strong female presence ...
Time: 21st century
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79%
The Final Curtain (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The Final Curtain is a British film from 2002 directed by Patrick Harkins and starring Peter O'Toole. It tells the story of J. J. Curtis, ageing gameshow host played by O'Toole, who hires novelist Jonathan Stitch (Adrian Lester) to pen his ...
Style: serious, witty, realistic, clever, black comedy ...
Plot: blind ambition, ambition, contests and competitions, media, showbiz, artists and showbiz, uninhibited rivalry, workplace, couples, dark humor, satire, murder ...
Time: 70s, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
The Third Side of the River (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Tensions rise when a doctor (Daniel Veronese) pressures his teenage son to follow in his footsteps.
Style: realistic, emotional, psychological, tense, serious
Plot: coming of age, family problems, parents and children, family relations, small town, under the surface, teenage life, dysfunctional family, father son relationship, double life, father, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
Signed, Sealed, Delivered: One in a Million (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Lead postal detective Oliver and his associate Shane have been doing a figurative dance with each other, swaying back and forth with the possibility of a relationship. Finally, on their first date at a romantic supper club, Shane begins wondering if ...
Style: romantic, realistic, talky, witty, clever
Plot: postman, workplace, coworker, workplace romance, middle age romance, office romance, letter, lottery ticket, unlikely couple, husband wife estrangement, old love, destiny ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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Beautiful Girl (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Odessa is a beautiful girl addicted to the attention and money that being an adult film star brings. William, a lonely mechanic, has a crush on her, and she indulges his fantasy and leads him on. Thinking he can save her and help her find a normal ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sincere, independent film ...
Plot: porn star, ambition, impossible love, fall in love, desire for fame, showbiz, actor's life, artists and showbiz, celebrity culture, love and romance, sexual content, innocence lost ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa, los angeles
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79%
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