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Forever Enthralled (2008)
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Forever Enthralled (2008)
Original name: 梅蘭芳
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 150 min.
Story: A biographical account of Mei Lanfang, China's greatest opera star.
Style: serious, captivating, realistic, stylized, epic
Plot: opera, tragic love, ambition, lifestyle, love and romance, couples, society, performer's life, music, warning, unfulfillment, gender bending, asian, world war, artists and showbiz, biopic, world war two, romance
Place: china, asia
Keyword: chinese

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and stylized films with plots about biopic, ambition, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, society, love and romance and couples mostly in Drama, Biography and History genres. Some movies like Forever Enthralled: Sakuran (2006), Harem Suare (1999), Margot (2009), The Soong Sisters (1997), The Overture (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Sakuran (2006)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A young girl is sold into the red-light district Yoshiwara and is put under the care of the oiran (lead prostitute) of the Tamakiku house. The girl is rebellious, but the more experienced people in the household begin to think that she will be one ...
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Time: 18th century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
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Harem Suare (1999)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, France, Turkey
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A story of the impossible love between one of the Sultan's concubines and one of his eunuchs in a harem at the end of the Ottoman Empire.
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, sexual, queer cinema
Plot: sultan, nude girl, porn, nude, fetish, islam, erotica, erotic scene, taboo, opera, interracial relations, sexuality ...
Time: 1900s
Place: middle east, istanbul turkey, ottoman empire, turkey
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Margot (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: At the age of forty Dame Margot Fonteyn is considered to be past her best as a prima ballerina and Ninette de Valois is reducing her roles at the Royal Ballet. Then the exciting young Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev, a recent defector to the West, ...
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, stylized
Plot: love and romance, dancer's life, disability, couples, ambition, artists and showbiz, ballet, biopic, older woman younger man relationship, older woman younger man, music, ballerina ...
Time: 21st century
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The Soong Sisters (1997)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, Japan, China
Duration: 145 min.
Story: The Soong family was a political dynasty in China that reached the highest levels of power. This film follows the lives of the three Soong daughters, who were educated in America and returned to China. Ai-ling (the oldest) married a wealthy and ...
Style: epic, atmospheric, captivating, serious, realistic ...
Plot: chinese history, tragic love, family love, politics, family relations, strong female presence, siblings relations, rich and poor, state affairs, political unrest, society, ambition ...
Time: 20th century
Place: china, beijing china, asia
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The Overture (2004)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music
Country: Thailand
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Based on the life of Luang Pradit Pairoh (Sorn Silapabanleng) the most revered traditional Thai music master who lived during the reigns of Kings Rama V to VIII, the movie traces the life of Sorn, who picked up the ra-nad ek (Thai xylophone) mallets ...
Style: touching, emotional, sincere, captivating, serious ...
Plot: prodigy, ambition, fighting the system, musician's life, rebellion, lifestyle, society, injustice, life is a bitch, rivalry, politics, biopic ...
Time: 20th century
Place: asia, thailand
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Louis Cyr : The Strongest Man in the World (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Canada
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Biopic of Louis Cyr, strongest man in the world at the end of the 19th Century.
Style: realistic, captivating, touching, serious
Plot: strong man, ambition, performer's life, rise to the top, artists and showbiz, rising to stardom, humble, biopic, strongman, world
Time: 19th century
Place: quebec, canada
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Céline (2008)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A biopic on singer Céline Dion.
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, captivating
Plot: desire for fame, rise to the top, prodigy, relationship vs career, ambition, musician's life, showbiz, couples, rising to stardom, lifestyle, fall in love, tragic love ...
Time: 21st century
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My Nikifor (2004)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 97 min.
Story: From his birth in 1895 through his death in 1968, the gifted Polish naïve artist Nikifor Krynicki (AKA Epifan Drowniak) lived his life and eked out a career cloaked in obscurity - a casualty of both his extreme speech impediment (his tongue was ...
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, atmospheric, gloomy
Plot: art, painter, genius, prodigy, couples, celebrity culture, tragic love, family life, love and romance, couple relations, society, lifestyle ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: poland
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The Woman Knight of Mirror Lake (2011)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 115 min.
Story: When the women of her time had their feet bound to please men, Qiu Jin was already questioning the sexual inequality of feudal traditions. Free-spirited and well-educated, she grew up practicing martial arts and was as well versed in poetry as she ...
Style: serious, exciting, stylized, rough, captivating ...
Plot: martial arts, rebellion, idealism, ambition, fighting the system, rivalry, hopes, human spirit, discrimination, society, master warrior, underdog ...
Time: 19th century
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Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This (2014)
Genre: Biography
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The life and times of Tommy Cooper
Style: captivating, stylized, realistic, serious
Plot: ambition, performer's life, couples, artists and showbiz, love triangle, workplace romance, infidelity, couple relations, alcohol abuse, biopic, magic
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: england
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The Outlaw (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Spain, Brazil, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A chronicle of the life of Spanish playwright and poet Lope de Vega, who dominated Spain’s early Golden Age of Theatre in the 16th Century. Lope returns home from war and enters the theatre world when a producer’s beautiful daughter takes a ...
Style: captivating, serious, clever, realistic, stylized ...
Plot: playwright, love affair, love and romance, love triangle, lifestyle, writers, womanizer, artists and showbiz, writer's life, employer employee relationship, sex scene, scandal ...
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Place: spain, europe, portugal
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P.T. Barnum (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: This series illustrates the life and career of P.T. Barnum, America's greatest showman and promoter. Starting as a young man who managed an old woman who was supposedly George Washington's nursemaid, we see his career as he finds success ...
Style: captivating, serious, realistic, humorous
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
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Style: realistic, serious, captivating, disturbing, informative ...
Plot: music, ambition, musician's life, artists and showbiz, showbiz, dancing, biopic, lifestyle, life is a bitch, rise and fall, drug abuse, salsa ...
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Last Call (2002)
Genre: Biography, Drama
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Duration: 96 min.
Story: Renowned writer F. Scott Fitzgerald is living the last months of his life with his youthful secretary, confidant, and protégé who later wrote a memoir of their time together.
Style: clever, emotional, realistic, serious, gloomy ...
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Castles in the Sky (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
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Style: realistic, clever, serious, captivating, contemplative ...
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Style: contemplative, epic, atmospheric, serious, realistic ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
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Place: china, ancient china, asia
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A Woman's Revenge (2012)
Genre: Biography, Drama
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Story: Roberto is one of those men to whom simulation has become the greatest art. He is an unmoved, inscrutable, mysterious man. But the truth is that Robert feels an intimate, deep tedium. The boredom of those who have already exhausted all the pleasures ...
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Stretch (2011)
Genre: Drama
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Style: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, stylized ...
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Wagner (1983)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music
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Story: A huge panorama of Wagner's life and work, from before the 1848 Revolution, through his exile in Switzerland, his rescue by the besotted King Ludwig II of Bavaria to the final triumph at Bayreuth.
Style: historical drama, sentimental, epic, emotional, realistic ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
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Style: touching, emotional, serious, captivating, stylized ...
Plot: rags to riches, musician's life, obsession, success, death, rise to the top, parents and children, society, lifestyle, music, car accident, peasant ...
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Purple Butterfly (2003)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: China, France
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Story: Ding Hui is a member of Purple Butterfly, a powerful resistance group in Japanese occupied Shanghai. An unexpected encounter reunites her with Itami, an ex-lover... and officer with a secret police unit tasked with dismantling Purple Butterfly.
Style: thought provoking, realistic, serious, captivating, suspenseful ...
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Place: china, japan, shanghai, asia
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Kano (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Sport
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Duration: 185 min.
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America's Prince: The John F. Kennedy Jr. Story (2003)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A look inside the life of John F. Kennedy Jr.
Style: touching, realistic, serious, captivating
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Time: 21st century
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