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Spencer (2021)
82K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, USA, Chile
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
During her Christmas holidays with the royal family at the Sandringham estate in Norfolk, England, Diana decides to leave her marriage to Prince Charles.
Style:
historical drama, philosophical, cerebral, visual, sentimental, romantic, independent film, political, psychological, thought provoking ...
Plot:
royal family, christmas, unhappy marriage, mental disorder, british royal family, women, mistress, adultery, female protagonist, slice of life, royalty, marriage, loneliness, princess, prince, bulimia, holiday, eating disorder, constable, revisionist history, rich man, lifestyle, mental health, european, female leader ...
Time:
90s, year 1991, 2020s, 1990s
Place:
england, house of windsor
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Most similar movies to Spencer
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, captivating and emotional films with plots about biopic, husband wife relationship, marriage, dancing, flashback, father daughter relationship and drinking alcohol mostly in Drama, Biography and History genres. Some movies like Spencer: Jackie (2016), The Queen (2006), Diana: Her True Story (1993), Certain Women (2016), Elizabeth (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
87K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, France, Chile, China
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An account of the days of First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, in the immediate aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963.
Style:
period piece, emotional, cerebral, sad, heartbreaking ...
Plot:
president, first lady, american history, kennedy assassination, assassination, u.s. president, loss of husband, biopic, widow, funeral, strong female character, depression ...
Time:
60s, year 2016, 90s, 2010s, year 1963
Place:
usa, washington d.c., austin texas, america, texas ...
Similarity:
100%
119K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA, France, Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Tony Blair during their struggle, following the death of Diana, to reach a compromise between what was a private tragedy for the Royal ...
Style:
factual, political, emotional, period piece, compassionate ...
Plot:
british royal family, royal family, queen, queen of england, historical character, head of state, monarchy, politics, queen elizabeth ii, british, biopic, monarch ...
Time:
90s, year 2006, 20th century, year 1997
Place:
england, buckingham palace, london, britain, scotland ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 181 min.
Story:
Television film telling the story of Diana, Princess of Wales, based on the publication of the same name by Andrew Morton.
Style:
historical drama, serious, melancholic, period piece
Plot:
royalty, royal family, princess, biopic, scandal, british monarchy, divorce, adaptation, family conflict, celebrity culture, media frenzy, empathy ...
Time:
90s
Place:
britain, house of windsor
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The lives of four women intersect in small-town America, where each is imperfectly blazing a trail.
Style:
thought provoking, ironic, disturbing, captivating, heartfelt ...
Plot:
lesbian interest, mountain, mother daughter relationship, small town, teacher, flirting, dysfunctional relationship, feminist, marriage, lgbt, women, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
2010s, year 1975, year 1959, year 1966, year 1918
Place:
montana
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Biography - First telecast in 1982, this drama picks up the story of Prince Charles (Roger Rees) and Lady Diana (Catherine Oxenberg) as their marriage begins to fall apart and follows it through to the royal couple's very public divorce. ...
Style:
dramatic, emotional, historical drama, intense, poignant ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
royal family, princess diana, princess, divorce, biopic, british monarchy, scandal, queen elizabeth ii, paparazzi, family conflict, tabloid journalism, royalty ...
Place:
london, buckingham palace, britain
Similarity:
100%
110K
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
The story of the ascension to the throne and the early reign of Queen Elizabeth the First, the endless attempts by her council to marry her off, the Catholic hatred of her and her romance with Lord Robert Dudley.
Style:
factual, costume drama, period piece, historical drama, visually stunning ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
queen, british history, queen elizabeth i, tudors, royalty, historical character, politics, head of state, british royal family, royal court, monarchy, throne ...
Time:
16th century, middle ages, ancient times, medieval times, victorian era ...
Place:
england, london, britain, scotland, europe ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line ...
Style:
psychological, crying, gothic, serious, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
mental illness, suicide, coming of age, psychiatric ward, suicide attempt, mental institution, teenage girl, psychiatrist, borderline personality disorder, insanity, female protagonist, mentally unstable ...
Time:
20th century, year 1999, 90s, year 1967, 60s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
21K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Sweden, Belgium, Croatia
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
During the last two years of her life, Princess Diana (Naomi Watts) campaigns against the use of land mines and has a secret love affair with a Pakistani heart surgeon (Naveen Andrews).
Style:
captivating, sentimental, emotional, romantic drama, political ...
Plot:
princess diana, royal family, princess, paparazzi, biopic, tragic love, british royal family, secret love, love affair, state affairs, society, charity ...
Time:
20th century, year 2013, 90s
Place:
england, europe, london, paris france
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
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Story:
The Lost Prince is an acclaimed British television drama about the life of Prince John – youngest child of Britain's King George V and Queen Mary – who died at the age of 13 in 1919. John suffered from epileptic seizures and an autism-like ...
Style:
serious, captivating, touching, sincere, depressing ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
royal family, epilepsy, disability, british royal family, monarchy, monarch, intrigue, state affairs, separation from family, family in crisis, world war one, countryside ...
Time:
1910s, 1900s, edwardian era, pre world war one, 20th century
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Belgium, Canada, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
The story of American poet Emily Dickinson from her early days as a young schoolgirl to her later years as a reclusive, unrecognized artist.
Style:
costume drama, historical drama, depressing, romantic drama, period drama ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
poet, ecstasy, writers, women, victorian england, art, female writer, publisher, loneliness, woman, atheism, heaven ...
Time:
victorian era, 1860s, 1880s, 19th century, 1830s ...
Place:
boston, massachusetts, britain
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA, UK
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, sentimental, uplifting ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, adult
Plot:
british history, stuttering, world war two, british royal family, royal family, politics, queen, friendship, british monarchy, monarchy, historical character, king ...
Time:
1930s, year 2010, pre world war two, 50s, 2000s ...
Place:
england, britain, london, united kingdom, scotland ...
Similarity:
31%
25K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Italy, Germany, Chile, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Maria Callas, the world's greatest opera singer, lives the last days of her life in 1970s Paris, as she confronts her identity and life.
Style:
period piece, cerebral, emotional, period drama
Plot:
opera, singing, dog, flashback, wealth, cafe, loneliness, based on real people, flash forward, butler, mother daughter relationship, interview ...
Time:
70s, year 1977, 20th century, year 1941, 1940s ...
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The story of the five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace, which took place right after the 1996 publication of Wallace's groundbreaking epic novel, 'Infinite Jest.'
Style:
philosophical, meditative, psychological, serious, sincere ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
loneliness, journalism, writers, book, friendship, existentialism, writer's block, dog, poet, biopic, novelist, depression ...
Time:
90s, 2010s, year 2015, 20th century, year 1996 ...
Place:
minneapolis minnesota, illinois, nebraska, new york, usa ...
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The story of a son's conflicting memories of his dying father.
Style:
sentimental, emotional, sincere, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
teenager, father son relationship, memory, death, coming of age, loneliness, reconciliation, family relations, character study, parenthood, life, writers ...
Time:
year 1989, year 2007, 80s, 60s, year 1962 ...
Place:
brighton, london, england
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
An amateur historian defies the academic establishment in her efforts to find King Richard III's remains, which were lost for over 500 years.
Style:
captivating, thought provoking, f word
Plot:
archaeologist, king of england, archeological dig, female protagonist, historical figure, direction and purpose, hidden treasure, ambitious woman, treasure hunter, coping, lost treasure, apparition ...
Time:
2010s, year 2012
Place:
britain, edinburgh scotland, united kingdom, scotland, england
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In this true story told through flashbacks, Christy Brown is born with crippling cerebral palsy into a poor, working-class Irish family. Able only to control movement in his left foot and to speak in guttural sounds, he is mistakenly believed to be ...
Style:
inspirational, unusual plot structure, touching, sentimental, sad ...
Plot:
disability, cerebral palsy, biopic, artist, working class, writers, paralysis, handicapped, medical, painter, poet, art ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1989, 1930s
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland, england, europe, canada
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
International art dealer Ron Hall must befriend a dangerous homeless man in order to save his struggling marriage to his wife, a woman whose dreams will lead all three of them on the journey of their lives.
Style:
inspirational, touching, sincere, captivating, sad ...
Plot:
marriage, friendship, ku klux klan, christian, homeless, homelessness, family relations, forgiveness, black, faith, love story, troubled marriage ...
Time:
year 2017
Place:
texas
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Franklin Roosevelt, left a paraplegic from polio at 39 years of age, seeks out a miracle cure in the backwoods of Georgia.
Style:
sincere, realistic, sentimental, political, captivating ...
Plot:
president, politics, disability, politician, political leader, ambition, rise and fall, rebellion, life is a bitch, hopes, introspection, world war two ...
Time:
1930s, 1920s, 20th century, 1940s
Place:
georgia, usa, southern usa, new york state, washington d.c. ...
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
The true story of Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his ...
Style:
inspirational, psychological, breathtaking, sincere, depressing ...
Plot:
disability, hospital, paralysis, death, coma, stroke, memory, writers, courage, patient, mute or deaf, communication problem ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 2000s, year 2007, y2k
Place:
france, paris france, europe, hong kong, nepal ...
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The Newlyn School of artists flourished at the beginning of the 20th Century and the film focuses on the wild and bohemian Lamorna Group, which included Alfred Munnings and Laura and Harold Knight. The incendiary anti-Modernist Munnings, now ...
Style:
sincere, touching, emotional, serious, retro ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
painter, biopic, couples, love triangle, nudity, infidelity, love affair, lifestyle, family relations, unfulfilled love, fall in love, dishonesty ...
Time:
1910s, 1900s, year 1915, 20th century, year 1914 ...
Place:
cornwall, england, london
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz face a crisis that could end their careers and another that could end their marriage.
Style:
historical drama, satirical, independent film, period drama
Plot:
marriage, biopic, hollywood, infidelity, adultery, communist, singing, redheaded woman, comedian, writers, trailblazer, urban ...
Time:
1950s, 2020s, year 1960, year 1952, 50s
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Prince William is the elder son of Britain's Prince Charles and if the late Diana, Princess of Wales. After his father, he is next in line to the British throne. A biography of his journey so far....
Style:
serious, emotional, touching, controversial, realistic
Plot:
royal family, lifestyle, teenage life, family problems, family relations, state affairs, youth, parents and children, adolescence vs adulthood, paparazzi, coming of age, queen of england ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Germany, Belgium
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
55 Steps is based a the inspiring true story of Eleanor Riese, a mental illness patient herself, who brings a class action suit to give competent mental patients the right to have a say in their medication while they’re in a hospital, and Colette ...
Style:
suspense, tense, sincere, captivating, psychological ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
mental patient, mental health, lawyer, female lawyer, female protagonist, opposites attract, female friendship, friendship, psychology, danger, society, escapades ...
Time:
year 1991, year 1985
Place:
san francisco
Similarity:
29%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Canada, Hong Kong
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A young girl is raised in a dysfunctional family constantly on the run from the FBI. Living in poverty, she comes of age guided by her drunkard, ingenious father who distracts her with magical stories to keep her mind off the family's dire ...
Style:
sentimental, thought provoking, emotional, sad, psychological ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family conflict, funeral, painting, hospital, pride, regret, father daughter relationship, mountain, biopic, female protagonist, writers ...
Time:
year 2017, year 1964, year 1989
Place:
west virginia, nebraska, new york, manhattan new york city, utah ...
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
King George III's erratic behaviour leads to a plot in Parliament to have him declared insane and removed from the throne.
Style:
costume drama, period piece, political, talky, clever ...
Plot:
monarchy, politics, biopic, royalty, nobility, aristocracy, mental illness, royal court, monarch, king of england, british monarchy, royal family ...
Time:
18th century, ancient times, year 1994, georgian era, victorian era ...
Place:
england, britain, europe, north america, london
Similarity:
28%
31K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
In August of 1949, Life Magazine ran a banner headline that begged the question: "Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?" The film is a look back into the life of an extraordinary man, a man who has ...
Style:
emotional, breathtaking, intellectual, inspirational, atmospheric ...
Plot:
painter, artist, art, painting, biopic, genius, addiction, alcoholism, bohemian life, art history, self destructing, rise and fall ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 1950s, year 1945, year 1941 ...
Place:
new york, usa, greenwich village manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city, europe ...
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
TV drama based on Richard Burton's diaries, about his last performance in 1983 with ex-wife Elizabeth Taylor. They meet after several years and he agrees to her suggestion that they star in a stage revival on Broadway of Noel Coward's ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, serious, stylized, historical drama ...
Plot:
actor's life, couple relations, artists and showbiz, couples, celebrity culture, hollywood, biopic, love, stage play, passion, art, showbiz ...
Time:
20th century, year 1983, 80s
Place:
usa, los angeles, new york, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA, Germany, Denmark, Belgium, Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
When Gerda Wegener asks her husband Einar to fill in as a portrait model, Einar discovers the person she's meant to be and begins living her life as Lili Elbe. Having realized her true self and with Gerda's love and support, Lili embarks ...
Style:
touching, inspirational, period piece, costume drama, romantic ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
transsexual, lgbt, art, transgender, couple relations, painting, love, gay, lgbtq, gays and lesbians, artist, gender ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, year 2015, 2010s, 20th century
Place:
denmark, paris france, idaho, copenhagen, europe ...
Similarity:
28%
20K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer's disease.
Style:
depressing, sentimental, touching, melancholic, intellectual ...
Plot:
alzheimer's disease, sex scene, writers, female pubic hair, writer's life, skinny dipping, love, biopic, mental illness, bisexual, adultery, making love ...
Time:
year 2001, 20th century, 50s, 90s, 1950s
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Sir Laurence Olivier is making a movie in London. Young Colin Clark, an eager film student, wants to be involved and he navigates himself a job on the set. When film star Marilyn Monroe arrives for the start of shooting, all of London is excited to ...
Style:
sentimental, period piece, romantic, melancholic, factual ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
movie star, historical figure, fame, biopic, impossible love, actress, hollywood, celebrity, actor's life, love story, nervous breakdown, ambition ...
Time:
50s, year 2011, 1900s, 1950s, 20th century ...
Place:
england, britain, europe, london, california
Similarity:
28%
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