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Being the Ricardos (2021)
47K
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:
satirical, historical drama, independent film, period drama
Plot:
marriage, hollywood, biopic, adultery, singing, communist, infidelity, redheaded woman, love, women, friendship, writers, art, post war, journalism, comedian, urban, trailblazer, showbiz, interracial marriage, sex, dancing, strong female lead, pregnancy, sex scene ...
Time:
2020s, 1950s, year 1952, year 1960, 50s
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out period drama, realistic, serious and melancholic films with plots about biopic, husband wife relationship, drinking, drinking alcohol, writers, marriage and art mostly in Biography, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Being the Ricardos: The Patricia Neal Story (1981), Mank (2020), Bombshell (2019), My Week with Marilyn (2011), Genius (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The actress (Glenda Jackson) recovers from a 1966 stroke with help from friends and her husband, author Roald Dahl (Dirk Bogarde).
Style:
emotional, heartfelt, uplifting, intense, medical drama ...
Plot:
biopic, marriage, survival, resilience, family drama, disability, hollywood, inspiration, rehabilitation, writers, tragedy, intimate ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
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104K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane.
Style:
black and white, period piece, historical drama, intense, emotional ...
Plot:
screenwriter, beach, filmmaking, wealth, writers, biopic, movie business, politics, friendship, loneliness, movie studio, film history ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, year 1941, year 1942, year 1936 ...
Place:
los angeles, mojave desert, california, usa, berlin germany
Similarity:
92%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 210 min.
Story:
The story of the life of the actress Elizabeth Taylor.
Style:
period piece, costume drama, romantic drama, period drama
Plot:
hollywood, divorce, mother daughter relationship, biopic, fame, celebrity culture, ambition, glamour, showbiz, legacy, identity crisis, actress ...
Time:
1940s, 60s, 1950s, 50s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
90%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Based on the real scandal, BOMBSHELL is a revealing look inside the most powerful and controversial media empire of all time; and the explosive story of the women who brought down the infamous man who created it.
Style:
political, uplifting, sad, deep, social ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
sexual harassment, photograph, propaganda, news anchor, secret relationship, journalism, feminist, scandal, sexism, abuse of power, mother daughter relationship, quitting a job ...
Time:
2010s, year 2016, year 2019, year 2006, 2000s
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york, cleveland ohio
Similarity:
76%
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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:
71%
23K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, literary editor at Scribner’s Sons is the first to sign such subsequent literary greats as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. When a sprawling, chaotic 1,000-page manuscript by an unknown writer named ...
Style:
period piece, talky, touching, intellectual, informative ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
writers, novelist, genius, book editor, book, mentor, brutality, relationships, biopic, literary, jazz, creativity ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
usa, new york, new jersey
Similarity:
71%
44K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Story of Linda Lovelace, who is used and abused by the porn industry at the behest of her coercive husband, before taking control of her life.
Style:
sexual, sexy, erotic, erotic drama, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
sexual abuse, porn actress, redemption, sex, nudity, husband wife relationship, porn star, female nudity, orgasm, porn industry, skinny dipping, prostitution ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 20th century, year 2002, year 1970
Place:
usa, miami, new york, malibu california, florida ...
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
In 1926 the tragic and untimely death of a silent screen actor caused female moviegoers to riot in the streets and in some cases to commit suicide...
Style:
independent film, serious, realistic, offbeat, stylized ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
male nudity, hollywood, homosexual subtext, homosexual, filmmaking, illicit affair, affair, tango, dancing, showbiz, biopic, male prostitute ...
Time:
1920s, victorian era, year 1919, 1910s
Place:
california, usa, los angeles, new york, mexico
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
Writer Ernest Hemingway begins a romance with fellow scribe Martha Gellhorn.
Style:
serious, stylized, period piece, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
love affair, writers, war correspondent, divorce, biopic, media, spanish civil war, journalism, journalist, fame, world war two, couples ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, 1940s
Place:
europe, usa
Similarity:
66%
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:
64%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 240 min.
Story:
Actress Mia Farrow's personal life takes a turn for the worse when she engages in a long relationship with Woody Allen.
Style:
controversial, emotional, intense, psychological, tragic ...
Plot:
biopic, actress, female protagonist, betrayal, relationships, actor, character study, scandal, celebrity, infidelity, private vs public, film industry ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 90s
Place:
new york
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A film about the making of Citizen Kane. Orson Welles produces his greatest film, Citizen Kane, despite the opposition of the film's de facto subject, William Randolph Hearst.
Style:
talky, historical drama, sentimental, stylized, clever ...
Plot:
biopic, filmmaking, screenwriter, movie business, movie studio, film industry, writers, obsession, hollywood, american history, bankruptcy, movie star ...
Time:
1940s, 70s
Place:
wisconsin, california, new jersey
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The professional and personal lives of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello are examined.
Style:
historical drama, dramatic, melancholic, costume drama, period drama
Plot:
hollywood, biopic, showbiz, entertainment industry, behind the scenes, comedy duo, partnership, friendship, burlesque, rise and fall, vaudeville, rivalry ...
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter is described by CBS as "a dramatic love story" about the lives of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz.
Style:
dramatic, sentimental, period drama
Plot:
hollywood, marriage, showbiz, actor, biopic, divorce, entertainment industry, behind the scenes, love story, ambition, family life, bandleader ...
Time:
1950s, 1930s, 1940s
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA, Japan, Canada
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Singer and songwriter Hank Williams rises to fame in the 1940s, but alcohol abuse and infidelity take a toll on his career and marriage to fellow musician Audrey Mae Williams.
Style:
atmospheric, stylized, emotional, romantic, anamorphic ...
Plot:
country music, musician, marriage, biopic, country singer, alcoholism, husband wife relationship, singer, songwriter, infidelity, drinking, divorce ...
Time:
1940s, 50s, year 1944
Place:
usa, nashville tennessee, new york
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The story of author F. Scott Fitzgerald's two stays in Hollywood to write for films, once in 1927 at the height of his acclaim, and again in 1937 when he arrived with little money, enormous expenses and an ill wife.
Style:
melancholic, reflective, emotional, period drama, tragic ...
Plot:
hollywood, writers, film industry, biopic, financial difficulty, screenwriter, ambition, alcoholism, celebrity culture, urban, nostalgia, poet ...
Time:
1930s, 1920s
Place:
los angeles, north carolina
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In the mid-1960s, wealthy debutant Edie Sedgwick meets artist Andy Warhol. She joins Warhol's famous Factory and becomes his muse. Although she seems to have it all, Edie cannot have the love she craves from Andy, and she has an affair with a ...
Style:
sexy, factual, sentimental, melancholic, erotic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
art, fashion, artist, biopic, bare butt, addiction, destiny, drug addiction, couple relations, painter, cowboy, mentor ...
Time:
y2k, year 2006, 60s, 70s, 20th century ...
Place:
empire state building manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, usa, paris france, london ...
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted with despair.
Style:
intellectual, talky, clever, witty, heartbreaking ...
Plot:
biopic, addiction, loveless marriage, female nudity, flapper, poetry, prohibition, women, female writer, friendship, hotel, unrequited love ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, 1940s, year 1994, victorian era ...
Place:
new york, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
51%
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87K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is blacklisted.
Style:
emotional, political, sad, factual, talky ...
Plot:
communism, politics, hollywood, biopic, gossip columnist, gossip, communist, cancer, movie business, mccarthyism, screenwriter, lung cancer ...
Time:
2010s, year 2015, 70s, year 1947, 1940s ...
Place:
los angeles, usa, kentucky
Similarity:
51%
692
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France, UK, Australia, Germany, Belgium, USA, Japan, Netherlands
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In the lush tradition of the glorious films of Merchant and Ivory, comes the true life story of Leonie Gilmour (Emily Mortimer), whose life crossed continents, wars and cultures, embodied with courage and passion in search of art and freedom. A ...
Style:
uplifting, stylized, realistic, serious, period piece ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
single mother, art, family relations, single parent, culture clash, parents and children, artists and showbiz, husband wife relationship, marriage, friendship, biopic, little boy ...
Time:
20th century, year 1932, year 1929, victorian era, year 1918 ...
Place:
japan, america, asia, tokyo, mount fuji ...
Similarity:
48%
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:
48%
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:
47%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Errol Flynn, the swashbuckling Hollywood star and notorious ladies man, flouted convention all his life, but never more brazenly than in his last years when, swimming in vodka and unwilling to face his mortality, he undertook a liaison with an ...
Style:
disturbing, realistic, serious, touching, sexual ...
Plot:
movie star, hollywood, forbidden love, sexual abuse, womanizer, actor's life, love affair, love and romance, youth, life is a bitch, showbiz, teenage life ...
Time:
year 1960, 50s, 20th century, year 2010, year 1959 ...
Place:
cuba, los angeles, new york, usa, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
46%
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152
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Biopic about Zelda Fitzgerald, as played by Natasha Richardson
Style:
melancholic, historical romance, period drama
Plot:
writers, mental illness, schizophrenia, alcoholism, marriage, biopic, modernism, female protagonist, flapper, hospitalization, socialite, tragic romance ...
Time:
1920s
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, France, Serbia, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Director Ralph Fiennes captures the raw physicality and brilliance of Rudolf Nureyev, whose escape to the West stunned the world at the height of the Cold War. With his magnetic presence, Nureyev emerged as ballet’s most famous star, a wild and ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, tense, retro ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
ballet, dancer, gay, politics, cold war, dancing, nudity, painting, desertion, kgb, biopic, male nudity ...
Time:
50s, year 1961, year 2019, 1950s, year 1938
Place:
paris france, soviet union, moscow russia, ussr
Similarity:
45%
9K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, Canada, Australia, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
In 1955, young photographer Dennis Stock develops a close bond with actor James Dean while shooting pictures of the rising Hollywood star.
Style:
serious, captivating, realistic, psychological, cult classic ...
Plot:
photograph, hollywood, friendship, actor, actor's life, magazine, showbiz, celebrity, buddy, celebrity culture, journalism, photography ...
Time:
20th century, 50s, 1950s, year 1955
Place:
usa
Similarity:
45%
19K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The story of acerbic 1960s comic Lenny Bruce, whose groundbreaking, no-holds-barred style and social commentary was often deemed by the Establisment as too obscene for the public.
Style:
black and white, psychological, atmospheric, clever, realistic ...
Plot:
stand up comedian, drug abuse, judaism, showbiz, addiction, biopic, rise and fall, adult humor, courtroom, drug addiction, civil rights, drug ...
Time:
20th century, 1950s, year 1974, 50s, 70s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
In the 1970s and ’80s, Tammy Faye and Jim Bakker rose from humble beginnings to create the world’s largest religious broadcasting network and a theme park, and were revered for their message of love, acceptance, and prosperity.
Style:
period piece, disturbing, serious, realistic, cynical ...
Plot:
televangelist, rise and fall, adultery, religion, unfaithful husband, luxury, lgbt, family relations, religious, secret, lie, scandal ...
Time:
year 1960, 1950s, 60s, year 1978, year 1977 ...
Place:
palm springs california, minneapolis minnesota, minnesota
Similarity:
44%
14K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A famous horror writer finds inspiration for her next book after she and her husband take in a young couple.
Style:
suspense, period piece, psychological, psychological thriller, mind blowing ...
Plot:
drunkenness, adultery, unhappy marriage, marriage, unfaithful, husband wife relationship, neighbor neighbor relationship, mad love, marriage crisis, young couple, women, depression ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
vermont
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In 1959, a young journalist ventures to Havana, Cuba to meet his idol, the legendary Ernest Hemingway who helped him find his literary voice, while the Cuban Revolution comes to a boil around them.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot:
writers, cuban revolution, revolution, cultural icon, historical figure, lifestyle, meeting, social problems, skinny dipping, world war one, journalism, art ...
Place:
cuba
Similarity:
43%
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