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The Duke (2020)
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The Duke (2020)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In 1961, a 60 year old taxi driver stole Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. It was the first (and remains the only) theft in the Gallery’s history. What happened next became the stuff of legend.
Style: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, semi serious, visually stunning
Plot: painting, art theft, taxi, father son relationship, couples, theft, husband wife relationship, fighting the system, senior citizen, society, social problems, elderly, social issues, thief, escapades, money problems, folk hero, elderly man, art, driver, post war, real life, cemetery, jury, courtroom ...
Time: 60s, year 2000, year 1963, year 1961, 1960s
Place: england, london, big ben london, yorkshire
Keyword: irish, watching a movie, movie theatre, salute

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, realistic, serious and sincere films with plots about telephone call, money, husband wife relationship, cigarette smoking, apology, drinking and drink mostly in Drama, Biography and Crime genres. Some movies like The Duke: Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (2022), Military Wives (2019), Conviction (2010), Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018), Georgetown (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Canada, France, Hungary, Belgium
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A 1950s London cleaning lady falls in love with an haute couture dress by Christian Dior and decides to gamble everything for the sake of this folly.
Style: satirical, semi serious, disturbing, captivating, uplifting ...
Plot: fashion, haute couture, widow, cleaning lady, fashion model, fashion show, fashion designer, dream, bigger dreams, female protagonist, culture, dreaming ...
Time: 20th century, year 1957, 1950s
Place: paris france, london, france
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100%
Military Wives (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Inspired by global phenomenon of military wives choirs, the story celebrates a band of misfit women who form a choir on a military base. As unexpected bonds of friendship flourish, music and laughter transform their lives, helping each other to ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, sincere, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot: choir, friendship, british army, rivalry, little boy, fame, mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, father daughter relationship, british soldier, father son relationship, fear ...
Time: year 2010
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.2
 46K
Conviction (2010)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Switzerland, UK, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: When Betty Anne Waters' older brother Kenny is arrested for murder and sentenced to life in 1983, Betty Anne, a Massachusetts wife and mother of two, dedicates her life to overturning the murder conviction. Convinced that her brother is ...
Style: emotional, sincere, touching, inspirational, sad ...
Audience: family friendly, adult
Plot: lawyer, legal, courtroom drama, trial, fighting the system, prison, injustice, false accusation, court, strong female character, freedom, hopes ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1995, year 1992, year 2001 ...
Place: massachusetts, rhode island, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: When bestselling celebrity biographer Lee Israel is no longer able to get published because she has fallen out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception, abetted by her loyal friend Jack.
Style: sad, tragicomedy, social, melancholic, novela ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: forgery, cat, lesbian, writers, lgbt, female protagonist, accomplice, letter, deception, female writer, living alone, fraud ...
Time: future, year 2014, year 1939, year 1994, year 1991
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Movie in collections
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 6K
Georgetown (2019)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Ulrich Mott, an ambitious social climber, marries a wealthy widow in Washington D.C. in order to mix with powerful political players.
Style: realistic, captivating, serious, factual, psychological ...
Plot: social climbing, elderly woman, lie, politics, marriage, investigation, deception, social climber, murder, relationship vs career, widow, embezzler ...
Time: year 2007, year 1999, year 2000, year 2004, year 2006 ...
Place: washington d.c., england, empire state building manhattan new york city, new york, middle east ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Closer to the Moon (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Romania, USA, Italy, Poland, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A Romanian police officer teams up with a small crew of bank robbers to pull off a heist by convincing everyone at the scene of the crime that they are only filming a movie.
Style: stylized, sincere, realistic, captivating, sad ...
Plot: crime gone awry, communist, money, deception, secret, military, robbery, judaism, world war two, post war, visceral, curse ...
Time: 20th century, 50s, year 1945, year 1959, year 1960 ...
Place: romania, bucharest, ussr, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
When Did You Last See Your Father? (2007)
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: father son relationship, memory, coming of age, teenager, loneliness, reconciliation, family relations, character study, parenthood, life, death, writers ...
Time: year 2007, 80s, 60s, year 1962, year 1989
Place: brighton, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.9
 4K
Skin (2008)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, South Africa
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.
Style: sincere, touching, captivating, emotional, contemplative ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: racism, interracial relations, self discovery, human spirit, forbidden love, eccentric family, family problems, couples, society, love and romance, social misfits, hopes ...
Time: year 2008, 70s, 60s, 50s, 20th century ...
Place: africa, south africa, johannesburg south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Movie in collections
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Longford (2006)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A portrait of Lord Longford, a tireless British campaigner whose controversial beliefs often resulted in furious political debate and personal conflict.
Style: realistic, serious, talky, political, tense ...
Plot: prison, serial killer, lawyer, politician, judge, cruelty, family relations, trial, friendship, civil rights, notoriety, social activist ...
Time: 60s, 70s, 80s, 20th century
Place: england, europe, yorkshire, manchester
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 5.4
 4K
Flag Day (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A father lives a double life as a counterfeiter, bank robber and con man in order to provide for his daughter.
Style: disturbing, captivating
Plot: cons and scams, father daughter relationship, family relations, counterfeiter, con artists, fraud, social problems, embezzler, family secret, money problems, father, bank robber ...
Time: 70s, 90s, 80s, year 1981, year 1975 ...
Place: minneapolis minnesota, minnesota, taj mahal
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Final Portrait (2017)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The story of Swiss painter and sculptor Alberto Giacometti.
Style: intellectual, artsy, thought provoking, philosophical, art house ...
Plot: painter, sculptor, art, sculpture, biopic, genius, artist, doubt, obsession, promise, art history, painting ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 1930s, year 1964, year 1935
Place: paris france, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 5.9
 5K
Charlie Says (2018)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Three young women were sentenced to death in the infamous Manson murder case, but when the death penalty was lifted, their sentence became life imprisonment. One young graduate student was sent in to teach them - and through her we witness their ...
Style: psychological, rough, suspense, disturbing, slasher ...
Plot: cult leader, female murderer, serial killer, charles manson, hippie, female nudity, prison, sect, psychopath, confined, serial murder, manipulation ...
Time: year 2014, year 2017, year 1969, year 2009, 60s
Place: los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story: A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.
Style: clever, captivating, motivational, cynical, dramatic ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: money, corruption, business, wall street, rise and fall, greed, stock market, addiction, success, stock broker, wealth, rags to riches ...
Time: 80s, year 2013, 90s, 2010s, 20th century ...
Place: new york, usa, america, geneva switzerland, italy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 7.1
 13K
The Traitor (2019)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France, Germany, Brazil
Duration: 153 min.
Story: Palermo, Sicily, 1980. Mafia member Tommaso Buscetta decides to move to Brazil with his family fleeing the constant war between the different clans of the criminal organization. But when, after living several misfortunes, he is forced to return to ...
Style: realistic, intense, suspense, captivating, factual
Plot: mafia, cosa nostra, gangster, trial, italian mafia, mob boss, organized crime, assassination attempt, judge, assassination, murder, death threat ...
Time: 20th century, 2000s, 80s, 90s, year 1980 ...
Place: sicily, italy, rome italy, rio de janeiro, miami ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.4
 9K
Le Week-End (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Nick and Meg Burrows return to Paris, the city where they honeymooned, to celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary and rediscover some romance in their long-lived marriage. The film follows the couple as long-established tensions in their marriage ...
Style: humorous, sincere, touching, powerful, happy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: elderly lovers, elderly, weekend, love and romance, aging, life is a bitch, dark humor, crumbling marriage, verbal byplay, old man, aged person, senior citizen ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, montmartre paris, france, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Prick Up Your Ears (1987)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Stephen Frears directs this biographical drama focusing on controversial British playwright Joe Orton, revealed in flashback after his murder by lover Kenneth Halliwell. Born in 1933 in Leicester, in the English Midlands, John 'Joe' Orton ...
Style: independent film, witty, dark comedy, black comedy, period piece ...
Plot: gay, writers, gay cruising, lgbt, murder, biopic, male nudity, glbt, playwright, homosexuality, lgbtq, art ...
Time: 60s, year 1987, 20th century, 1950s, year 1964 ...
Place: england, europe, britain, brighton, australia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 7.0
 99K
Big Eyes (2014)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The story of the awakening of the painter, Margaret Keane, her phenomenal success in the 1950s, and the subsequent legal difficulties she had with her husband, who claimed credit for her works in the 1960s.
Style: thought provoking, captivating, suspense, sentimental, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: art, painter, painting, artist, biopic, plagiarism, secret, courtroom, abusive husband, couples, ambition, art history ...
Time: 60s, 1950s, 20th century, year 2014, 1900s ...
Place: hawaii, san francisco, california, usa, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 4.7
 23K
Capone (2020)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The 47-year old Al Capone, after 10 years in prison, starts suffering from dementia and comes to be haunted by his violent past.
Style: factual, captivating, psychological, realistic, suspense ...
Plot: gangster, excrement, mafia, al capone, dementia, violence, syphilis, husband wife relationship, balloon, blood, male protagonist, criminal ...
Time: 1940s, year 1933, year 1931, 19th century, 1890s ...
Place: florida, usa, minneapolis minnesota, cleveland ohio, brooklyn new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Movie in collections
 7.4
 31K
Another Year (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Mike Leigh’s much praised 2010 tragicomical drama. During a year, a very content couple approaching retirement are visited by friends and family less happy with their lives.
Style: emotional, touching, meditative, psychological, sincere ...
Plot: midlife crisis, friendship, jealousy, marriage, everyday life, family life, parents and children, suffering, loneliness, character study, desperation, divorce ...
Time: 2010s, year 2010, 90s, 21st century
Place: london, europe, england, paris france, ireland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
When the Sky Falls (2000)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, Ireland, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Fact-based story about Irish crime-investigating reporter Sinead Hamilton, who invaded the Irish underworld and attempted to expose the illegitimate activities she found. Hampered by the system, a police consort is ineffectual at aiding her despite ...
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, independent film
Plot: journalism, murder, gangster, uncover truth, tragic hero, law enforcement, drug abuse, life is a bitch, fighting the system, rise and fall, drug dealing, price of justice ...
Time: 2000s, year 1998
Place: ireland, europe, dublin ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 5.9
 9K
Lizzie (2018)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A young woman goes on a notorious ax-murdering rampage in Massachusetts at the turn of the century.
Style: suspense, queer horror, historical drama, tense, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, last will and testament, lesbian sex, lizzie borden, father daughter relationship, friendship, employer employee relationship, murder, lesbian love, oppression, double murder ...
Time: 19th century, 1890s
Place: massachusetts, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 7.3
 27K
Marshall (2017)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA, China, Hong Kong
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, battles through one of his career-defining cases.
Style: suspense, tense, captivating, touching, inspirational ...
Plot: lawyer, court, racism, courtroom, injustice, african american, racial segregation, trial, jury, african american protagonist, courtroom drama, black history ...
Time: 1940s, year 2017, 2010s, year 1967, year 1954
Place: new york, connecticut, philadelphia, maryland, mississippi ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Case for Christ (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Based on the true story of an award-winning investigative journalist -- and avowed atheist -- who applies his well-honed journalistic and legal skills to disprove the newfound Christian faith of his wife... with unexpected, life-altering results.
Style: christian film, biblical, disturbing, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot: christianity, christian, atheist, investigation, journalist, religion, faith, reporter, court case, trial, religious, interview ...
Time: year 2017, year 1980, year 1987
Place: indiana, jerusalem, california, wisconsin, los angeles ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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The Lady in the Van (2015)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The true story of the relationship between Alan Bennett and the singular Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who ‘temporarily’ parked her van in Bennett’s London driveway and proceeded to live there for 15 years.
Style: witty, touching, talky, semi serious, social ...
Plot: homeless, elderly, intergenerational friendship, friendship, van, poverty, social differences, old woman, life & death, loneliness, character study, nun ...
Time: 70s, 21st century
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 7.0
 18K
Infamous (2006)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: While researching his book In Cold Blood, writer Truman Capote develops a close relationship with convicted murderers Dick Hickock and Perry Smith.
Style: emotional, tense, sincere, serious, captivating ...
Plot: journalism, writers, gay, obsession, murder, biopic, friendship, writer's life, gossip and rumors, manipulation, justice, police investigation ...
Time: 60s, 1950s, year 2006, 50s, 20th century
Place: kansas, manhattan new york city, usa, new york, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 7.0
 3K
Swan Song (2021)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: An aging hairdresser escapes his nursing home to embark on an odyssey across his small town to style a dead woman's hair for her funeral, rediscovering his sparkle along the way.
Style: disturbing, sincere, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: gay, gay relationship, homosexual, gay bar, small town, drag queen, gay friend, gay father, gay interest, gay couple, lgbt, retirement home ...
Time: 90s
Place: ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 7.3
 140K
Capote (2005)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A biopic of the writer, Truman Capote and his assignment for The New Yorker to write the non-fiction book, 'In Cold Blood'.
Style: captivating, dramatic, dark, talky, psychological ...
Plot: writers, prison, biopic, literature, journalism, murder, moral dilemma, murderer, investigation, eccentricity, manipulation, friendship ...
Time: 60s, 50s, year 1960, 1950s, 20th century ...
Place: kansas, usa, new york, europe, new orleans ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 7.8
 428K
The Irishman (2019)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 209 min.
Story: A mob hit man recalls his possible involvement with the slaying of Jimmy Hoffa.
Style: captivating, tense, exciting, inspirational, crime drama ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: mafia, organized crime, gangster, labor union, italian mafia, murder, killer as protagonist, high society, hitman, mob hit, criminal as protagonist, male protagonist ...
Time: 2010s, 20th century, 1940s, 70s, 60s ...
Place: philadelphia, pennsylvania, ireland, chicago, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Veronica Guerin (2003)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In this true story, Veronica Guerin is an investigative reporter for an Irish newspaper. As the drug trade begins to bleed into the mainstream, Guerin decides to take on and expose those responsible. Beginning at the bottom with addicts, Guerin then ...
Style: suspense, intense, realistic, tense, emotional ...
Plot: journalism, investigation, strong female character, murder, gangster, justice, corruption, drug lord, police, drug dealing, heroin, journalist ...
Time: 90s, year 2003, 20th century
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, europe, amsterdam
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 5.9
 9K
French Exit (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, Ireland, UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story: “My plan was to die before the money ran out,” says 60-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite Frances Price, but things didn’t go as planned. Her husband Franklin has been dead for 12 years and with his vast inheritance gone, she cashes in the ...
Style: psychological, sincere, captivating, anamorphic, funny ...
Audience: adult
Plot: widow, inheritance, mother son relationship, cat, coming of age, social problems, money problems, family problems, financial problem, lifestyle, family relations, family life ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: paris france, manhattan new york city, new york, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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