Movies like rosalinda
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rosalinda (2012)
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Original name: Viola
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, witty, talky, postmodern, romantic comedy, costume drama, light hearted, indie film ...
Plot:
theater, actor's life, lesbian relationship, strong female presence, twentysomething life, actress, shakespeare, mistaken identity, cross dressing, intrigue, adaptation, women, girl, body swapping, love triangle, backstage, revelation, confusion, playwright, gender roles, female friendship, intimacy, satire, urban, bittersweet ...
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 independent film films with plots about actor's life, couples, artists and showbiz, actress, female nudity, lifestyle and urban mostly in Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like rosalinda: Hermia & Helena (2016), Cracks in the Shell (2011), Acts of Godfrey (2012), Cradle Will Rock (1999), Opening Night (1977). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Camila, a young Argentine theater director, travels from Buenos Aires to New York to attend an artistic residency to develop a Spanish translation of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Upon her arrival, she begins to ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, art house, independent film, poetic ...
Plot:
female protagonist, theatrical agent, social issues, theatre director, lifestyle, shakespeare, theatrical producer, social problems, self discovery, theater, identity, memory ...
Place:
buenos aires argentina, new york
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95%
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:
losing-it hero, actor's life, artists and showbiz, power relations, actress, mentor protege relationship, self destructing, audition, theater, casting, disability, school ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
At a two-day business conference, God (Simon Callow) decides to romantically pair Terry, a moral crusader, with his "win-at-all-cost" antithesis, Jacqui. However, fate, assisted by unique and corrupt characters, attempt to beset God's ...
Style:
stylized, talky, witty, semi serious, satirical ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
destiny, mistaken identity, cons and scams, disorder, dark humor, twists and turns, dishonesty, hotel, satire, opposites attract, social commentary, intimate ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
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81%
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:
art, artist, politics, government, depression, world politics, greed, capitalism, congress, justice, manipulation, adaptation ...
Time:
1930s, year 1999, 20th century
Place:
usa, new york, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
80%
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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, art house, thought provoking, cerebral ...
Plot:
aging, actor, actress, theater, thoughtful, strong female lead, existentialism, art, beat generation, filmmaking, time travel, recovery ...
Time:
year 1977, 70s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
78%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA, Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Humble Maria, who outfits top London theater star Ned Kynaston, takes none of the credit for the male actor's success at playing women. And because this is the 17th century, Maria, like other females, is prohibited from pursuing her dream of ...
Style:
period piece, costume drama, stylized, sexual, humorous ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
gender bending, gender, mistaken identity, cross dressing, actor, mistress, actor's life, overnight success, lifestyle, monarch, life is a bitch, human nature ...
Time:
17th century, year 2004, victorian era, 18th century, 19th century
Place:
london, england, europe, egypt
Similarity:
77%
878
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, realistic, psychological, serious, talky ...
Plot:
girl, aging, strong female presence, immigrant, desire for fame, follow your dream, artists and showbiz, rise to the top, actor's life, lifestyle, nightlife, culture clash ...
Time:
year 1987, 80s
Place:
czechoslovakia, usa, new york
Similarity:
76%
268
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The story follows a troubled woman and her search for identity. She is given a choice between a return to the dysfunction of the past, or a new life in self assumed identity.
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, suspense, romantic drama ...
Plot:
self discovery, mistaken identity, hidden identity, family relations, couples, mentally unstable, society, couple relations, parents and children, female protagonist, character study, identity ...
Similarity:
76%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
One fateful night in a small English regional theatre during World War II a troupe of touring actors stage a production of Shakespeares King Lear. Bombs are falling, sirens are wailing, the curtain is up in an hour but the actor/manager Sir who is ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, sad ...
Plot:
world war two, illness, aging, friendship, actor's life, elderly, showbiz, actor, death, husband wife relationship, backstage, air raid ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
england, london
Similarity:
76%
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:
crazy love, theater, art, nordic, relationships, dialogue, actor, memory, couples, dull life, couple relations, introspection ...
Time:
year 1984, 80s
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Drama
Country: Cuba
Duration: 68 min.
Story:
A theater director and script-writer falls for a female worker from the Havana docks, but his machismo, social and working conflicts, and the Cuban woman's condition interfere with their relationship.
Style:
satirical, witty, romantic comedy
Plot:
machismo, gender roles, love triangle, satire, infidelity, jealousy, feminism, sexual tension, sexually liberated, social realism, political satire, urban ...
Place:
cuba
Similarity:
75%
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:
talky, sincere, emotional, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, siblings relations, family problems, city life, rivalry, ego clash, estrangement, lifestyle, twists and turns, mental disorder, lost girl, snobbism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
75%
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, witty, realistic, humorous, clever ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
family relations, disorder, dull life, breakup, introspection, couples, nothing goes right, strong female presence, parents and children, homecoming, unfulfillment, siblings relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
chile, latin america
Similarity:
74%
542
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:
tense, realistic, talky, touching, serious ...
Plot:
couples, couple relations, breakup, family problems, human nature, sexual content, graphic violence, money, dispute, marital crisis, character study, frustration ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina
Similarity:
74%
420
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, contemplative, sincere, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
artists and showbiz, actor's life, theater, performer's life, showbiz, introspection, actor, society, rivalry, hollywood, art, biopic ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 1920s
Place:
canada
Similarity:
74%
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, clever, sincere, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
loss of virginity, gender, destructive relationship, lifestyle, love affair, looking for love, couple relations, dangerous attraction, unfulfilled love, sexual relations, male female relationship, monologue ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
74%
311
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Five former high school friends reunite for an evening of fun, remembrance and sadness in this Altmanesque portrait of female friendship. A look at how youthful idealism turns into adult pragmatism, and how one can fight such changes, from the ...
Style:
emotional, touching, serious, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot:
bittersweet, friendship, friends, best friend, introspection, haunted by the past, strong female presence, midlife crisis, unfulfillment, female friendship, bereavement, nostalgia ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
73%
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:
psychological, realistic, contemplative, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot:
self discovery, redemption, family relations, protecting from truth, parents and children, uncover truth, adoption, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, hopes, society, monkey ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina, latin america
Similarity:
73%
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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, contemplative, realistic, atmospheric, postmodern ...
Plot:
couple relations, relationship vs career, art, idealism, hopes, workplace, repression, actor's life, couples, supportive spouse, painter, painting ...
Time:
50s, 1940s, 60s, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
73%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
To help his actress girlfriend regain her confidence a Hollywood bigshot bankrolls a small budget film being made by a first-time producer and director pair. Despite the hand-to-mouth way it has to be made the film starts to come good, as does the ...
Style:
neo noir, independent film, serious, realistic, talky ...
Plot:
hollywood, filmmaking, gangster, couples, realism, fall in love, love and romance, actor's life, artists and showbiz, underdog, showbiz, love triangle ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s, 1950s, 50s
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
73%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
When June Buckridge (Beryl Reid) arrives at her London flat and announces 'They are going to murder me', her long-time lover and doll-cuddling flat mate Alice 'Childie' McNaught (Susannah York) realises that things are going to ...
Style:
sexual, dark comedy, soap opera, sadistic, independent film ...
Plot:
lesbian, lesbian relationship, lgbt, lgbtq, sex, infidelity, jealousy, doll, satire, older woman younger woman relationship, obsession, female nudity ...
Time:
60s
Place:
europe, england, london, ireland, new york
Similarity:
73%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A candid and campy portrayal of life behind the scenes of the original Charlies Angels.
Style:
thrilling, entertaining, captivating, historical drama, comedy drama ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
behind the scenes, actress, showbiz, film industry, backstage, women, movie actor, movie actress, movie business, actor's life, filmmaker, filmmaking ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
73%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Life is hard. You can't always get what you want. but Alec Nichols has a plan to change all that. It involves his three friends, a bank and five million bucks. Together they swear to risk it all. But is the payoff worth it when there's no ...
Style:
realistic, sincere, serious, clever, independent film ...
Plot:
unlikely criminals, starting over, couples, best friend, heist, buddies, love and romance, crime gone awry, reunited friends, unfulfilled love, twentysomething life, criminal heroes ...
Time:
year 2001
Place:
california, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
73%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Buenos Aires is in a deep recession. As the money runs out, the relationship between an employer and her live-in maid changes dramatically.
Style:
semi serious, sentimental, sincere, realistic, touching
Plot:
power relations, life is a bitch, social differences, friendship, friends, lifestyle, boss and employee, unfulfillment, down on your luck, employer employee relationship, economics, professional ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina, latin america, buenos aires argentina
Similarity:
73%
269
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Set in a small Swedish town, the story is centered around three best friends aged 20. Michelle, a photo model, has a drinking problem which leads to a string of one-night-stands, including sex with the hot tempered boyfriend of Anna. She has just ...
Style:
sincere, serious, realistic, touching, gloomy
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
small town, twentysomething life, couple relations, friendship, friends, couples, female friendship, strong female presence, best friend, adolescence vs adulthood, dishonesty, infidelity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
73%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Searching for love abroad, two very different Chinese women, a dancer and a doctor, follow their dreams and journey west to Canada. They quickly learn that the paths of heart are rocky as the men in their lives reveal dark, unsettling secrets which ...
Style:
emotional, romantic drama, intercultural, multicultural, realistic ...
Plot:
lesbian relationship, lgbt, identity, female sexuality, lesbian, heartbreak, sexuality, intimacy, migration, gender roles, secrets, female friendship ...
Time:
90s
Place:
canada
Similarity:
73%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, Portugal, Russia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Marta and Manu are two Brazilian actresses that decide to move to Moscow to study the Stanislavski method. There, wrapped around a complex love triangle, they must overcome their differences to survive in a different country.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological, emotional, melancholic ...
Plot:
love triangle, brazilian abroad, relationship problems, romantic triangle, female protagonist, society, girlfriend, foreigner, life is a bitch, romantic relationship, immigrant, girlfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
russia, moscow russia
Similarity:
73%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Muriel and her mother leave their home for good and a freak occurrence leaves them stranded in the country. They beg a woman to let them stay and a shaky friendship develops between the two families.
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, sentimental, touching ...
Plot:
youth, bittersweet, family relations, family problems, life is a bitch, love and romance, on the run, parents and children, down on your luck, family in danger, family in crisis, family gatherings ...
Time:
90s
Place:
argentina, latin america, buenos aires argentina
Similarity:
72%
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, up and down relationship, betrayal, crumbling marriage, artist, politics ...
Time:
year 2000, 90s
Place:
manhattan new york city, greenwich village manhattan new york city, new york
Similarity:
72%
239
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Three women — a young coed, a forty-something single mother, and one a senior-aged widow — meet in the sauna of the local gym, where they gradually get to know one another and bond over their respective trials and tribulations.
Style:
serious, talky, emotional, touching, erotic ...
Plot:
sauna, making love, widow, introspection, female friendship, elderly, hopes, human spirit, self discovery, love and romance, life is a bitch, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new jersey, usa
Similarity:
72%
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