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Mrs. Lowry and Son (2019)
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Original name: Mrs Lowry & Son
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
An intimate portrayal of the relationship between one of greatest artists of the 20th century, L.S. Lowry and his unhappy and controlling mother, Elizabeth, whom he lived with all his life.
Style:
psychological, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing
Plot:
painter, artist, art, mother, biopic, family relations, parents and children, follow your dream, relationship problems, family problems, lifestyle, artists' life, domineering mother, rich, poor, senior citizen, mission, painting, mother son relationship, male nudity, flashback, family
Time:
1930s, year 1934
Place:
manchester, manchester england
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, period drama, psychological and serious films with plots about painter, art, biopic, artist, painting, art history and female nudity mostly in Drama, Biography and History genres. Some movies like Mrs. Lowry and Son: At Eternity's Gate (2018), Mr. Turner (2014), Foujita (2015), Modigliani (2004), Red (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Ireland, Switzerland, UK, France, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Famed but tormented artist Vincent van Gogh spends his final years in Arles, France, painting masterworks of the natural world that surrounds him.
Style:
independent film, melancholic, art film, touching, rough ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
painter, loneliness, artist, art, priest, painting, doctor, insanity, obsession, art gallery, mission, genius ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1890s, 1880s
Place:
france, paris france
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100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA, Belgium
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes involved with a seaside landlady, while his faithful housekeeper bears an unrequited love for him.
Style:
sincere, costume drama, clever, surreal, meditative ...
Plot:
painter, painting, artist, biopic, art, eccentricity, art history, character study, estrangement, couple relations, elderly, love and romance ...
Time:
19th century, 1820s, 1830s, 1840s, ancient times ...
Place:
london, england, britain, holland
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56%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Japan, France
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
A biopic of seminal 20th century artist Leonard Foujita, a contemporary of Picasso and Modigliani, who was famous for mixing up European and Japanese styles.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, intercultural, avant garde ...
Plot:
artist, biopic, painter, art, painting, relationship problems, artists' life, family problems, social problems, world war two, modernism, identity ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
paris france, japan
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52%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, Romania, France, Italy, USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Set in Paris in 1919, biopic centers on the life of late Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, focusing on his last days as well as his rivalry with Pablo Picasso. Modigliani, a Jew, has fallen in love with Jeanne, a young and beautiful Catholic girl. ...
Style:
touching, realistic, serious, sad, factual ...
Plot:
painter, painting, artist, prodigy, biopic, art, art history, life is a bitch, addiction, tragic love, couple relations, tragic hero ...
Time:
20th century, year 1919, 1920s
Place:
europe, france, paris france, south of france
Similarity:
48%
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207
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Under the watchful gaze of his young assistant, the artist Mark Rothko takes on his greatest challenge yet: to create a definitive series of paintings for the Philip Johnson-designed Four Seasons restaurant in architect Mies van der Rohe’s iconic ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, disturbing, thought provoking, tense ...
Plot:
art, artist, character study, art teacher, painting, artists' life, social problems, drawing, painter, struggling artist, biopic, obsession ...
Time:
60s
Place:
new york
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
In 1962, Patricia Neal and Roald Dahl retreat to the English countryside to bring up their young family. The seemingly unlikely pair find their relationship put to the test by a tragic loss.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, psychological, depressing
Plot:
family tragedy, bereavement, biopic, marriage, child illness, family problems, parents and children, father daughter relationship, illness, terminal illness, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship ...
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A drama-documentary presented by Alan Yentob, with Benedict Cumberbatch in the lead role.
Style:
sincere, disturbing, semi autobiographical, thought provoking, art film ...
Plot:
art, painter, painting, artist, art history, famous painting, obsession, depression, anguish, mental illness, genius, loneliness ...
Time:
19th century
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Mystery
Country: UK, Poland, Canada, Netherlands
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
An extravagant, exotic and moving look at Rembrandt's romantic and professional life, and the controversy he created by the identification of a murderer in the painting The Night Watch.
Style:
serious, realistic, disturbing, captivating, enigmatic ...
Plot:
painter, art, nudity, biopic, female nudity, artist, art history, uncover truth, investigation, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, love affair ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
netherlands, amsterdam, europe
Similarity:
42%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The Catholic Church secretly investigates Caravaggio as the Pope weighs whether to grant him clemency for killing a rival.
Style:
dramatic, captivating, suspenseful, enigmatic, bleak
Plot:
painter, art, artists' life, artist, murder, genius, pope, rivalry, catholic church, church, donkey, snake ...
Time:
17th century, 16th century
Place:
italy, naples italy, rome italy
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Drama looking at artist William Hogarth and his relationship with the prostitute that inspired his most famous piece.
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, emotional, sexual ...
Plot:
painter, starvation, jail, adultery, dominatrix, brothel, couples, reform, kept woman, brothel madam, husband wife relationship, biopic ...
Time:
18th century, georgian era
Place:
england, london
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Marie Krøyer is hailed as “the most beautiful woman in Europe” and leads a happy marriage life with her husband the great Danish painter P.S. Krøyer and an adorable daughter. However, not everything in her world is as perfect as it seems, and ...
Style:
captivating, emotional, stylized, costume drama, serious ...
Plot:
painter, biopic, family problems, under the surface, mentally unstable, crumbling marriage, self discovery, fall in love, art, nordic, artist, art history ...
Time:
19th century, 20th century
Place:
denmark, italy, europe
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Croatia
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Young and talented Han van Meegeren is a rebel in the early 1920's Amsterdam art-scene. Because he paints in the style of his idols Rembrandt and Vermeer, critics find his work old-fashioned and they call him a copycat. Just to prove a point, ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, tense, suspense, period drama
Plot:
painter, art, forbidden love, art forgery, artist, art critic, artwork, male female relationship, love story, escapades, rags to riches, forgery ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, post world war two
Place:
amsterdam, rome italy
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Poland
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In 1945, as Stalin sets his hands over Poland, famous painter Wladislaw Strzeminski refuses to compromise on his art with the doctrines of social realism. Persecuted, expelled from his chair at the University, he's eventually erased from the ...
Style:
twist ending, exciting, sentimental, ambiguous ending, captivating ...
Plot:
art, artist, painting, painter, communism, legal system, father daughter relationship, professor, one legged man, loss of mother, teacher student relationship, art history ...
Time:
50s, year 1948, year 1952, 1940s, year 1950 ...
Place:
poland
Similarity:
40%
386
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
The unknown life of Ukiyo-e artist Katsushika Hokusai in the Edo period, who is said to have painted more than 30,000 works throughout his life, such as "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji"
Style:
captivating, suspenseful, exciting, dramatic, serious ...
Plot:
painter, painting, art, artist, drawing, profession, famous painting, picture, creative process, fight, perseverance, art history ...
Place:
japan, mount fuji
Similarity:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A dedicated artist from Russian Georgia struggles to get recognition.
Style:
melancholic, emotional, meditative, lyrical, heartbreaking ...
Plot:
painter, art, painting, artist, art history, biopic, poverty, tragedy, starvation, loneliness, tragic hero, sacrifice ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
soviet union, russia
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Claire Smythson, wife of the renowned abstract artist Richard Smythson, is plunged into a late-life crisis when her husband is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and is in danger of not completing the paintings for his final show.
Style:
captivating, psychological, disturbing, suspense
Plot:
painter, artist, marriage, dementia, marital problem, marriage crisis, illness, changing lives, family in crisis, family relations, life is a bitch, lifestyle change ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
They loved each other with the ardor of thirteen-year-old boys. Rebellion and curiosity, hopes and doubts, girls and dreams of glory – they shared it all. Paul was rich, Emile poor. They went skinny-dipping, drank absinthe, starved, only to ...
Style:
captivating, exciting, factual, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot:
painter, art, friendship, artist, painting, novelist, female nudity, portrait, nude painting, seaside, infidelity, end of friendship ...
Time:
1890s, 19th century, 1880s, victorian era, 1860s ...
Place:
south of france, paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Brazil
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
After being released from prison, Dr. Nise da Silveira is back at work in a psychiatric hospital on the outskirts of Rio de Janeirom where she refuses to employ the new and violent electroshock in the treatment of schizophrenics. Ridiculed by ...
Style:
captivating, light, spiritual, inspirational, medical drama ...
Plot:
mental patient, disturbed individual, mental health, art, biopic, brazilian history, art exhibition, historical event, mental institution, mentally unstable, female artist, painter ...
Place:
brazil, rio de janeiro
Similarity:
38%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The film fictionalizes the real relationship between French sculptor Henri Gaudier and Polish writer Sophie Brzeska, twenty years his senior, who came to Paris, she says, for its “creative atmosphere.”
Style:
sentimental, period drama
Plot:
art, artist, painter, art history, nude, older woman younger man relationship, novelist, sculptor, anarchist, naked woman, sculpture, architecture ...
Time:
year 1972, 1910s
Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
38%
56
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Dominican Republic
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A cheating husband decides to seek revenge against the woman who infected him with HIV.
Style:
psychological, thought provoking, disturbing, captivating
Plot:
hiv, infidelity, revenge, one night stand, social problems, family problems, unhappy marriage, relationships, hiv positive, marital problem, family relations, lifestyle ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Hungary
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Hollywood, 1942. The US government pressures Hungarian-born film director Michael Curtiz, who is about to finish shooting Casablanca, to accentuate the film's propaganda message in order to sway public opinion in favor of the country's ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, psychological, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
world war two, father daughter relationship, director, life is a bitch, political unrest, family problems, relationship problems, father and daughter, family relations, hollywood, propaganda, movie business ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
hungary
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Austria, Luxembourg
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
At the beginning of the 20th Century Egon Schiele is one of the most provocative artists in Vienna. His life and work are driven by beautiful women and an era that is coming to an end. Two women will have a lasting impact on him - his sister and ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, touching, artsy ...
Plot:
painter, art, art history, brother sister relationship, biopic, model, trial, love, art exhibition, terminal illness, death of brother, money problems ...
Time:
1910s, year 1918
Place:
vienna
Similarity:
37%
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:
37%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Brazil
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
"Zuzu Angel" covers the last years of the famous Brazilian fashion designer in her doomed quest for justice in the case of her activist son Stuart's arrest, torture, murder and subsequent corpse disposal by the military forces in ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, serious, suspenseful, absurd ...
Plot:
missing person, uncover truth, fighting the system, injustice, life is a bitch, politics, legal, society, rebellion, parents and children, political unrest, price of justice ...
Time:
60s, 70s, 20th century
Place:
latin america, rio de janeiro, brazil
Similarity:
37%
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:
37%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The Côte d’Azur. 1915. In his twilight years, Pierre-Auguste Renoir is tormented by the loss of his wife, the pains of arthritic old age and the terrible news that his son Jean has been wounded in action. But when a young girl miraculously enters ...
Style:
touching, sincere, costume drama, scenic, sentimental ...
Plot:
painter, painting, famous painting, art, redheaded woman, female pubic hair, wounded soldier, world war one, artist, art history, self discovery, fall in love ...
Time:
year 1915, 1910s, 20th century
Place:
cote d'azur, france, south of france, europe
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, USA, Austria
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Maria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, takes on the Austrian government to recover a world famous painting of her aunt plundered by the Nazis during World War II, she believes rightfully belongs to her family. She did so not just to regain ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, touching, cute, dramatic ...
Plot:
holocaust, art, lawyer, nazi, courtroom drama, justice, art theft, painting, injustice, legal, legal action, stolen painting ...
Time:
year 2015, 1930s, 1900s, 20th century, 90s
Place:
austria, vienna, los angeles, pasadena california, california ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
After running away from her last foster placement with the Regan family, twelve year old Hollis Woods is placed with a new foster mother, the loving, retired art teacher, Josie Cahill.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, psychological, sad
Audience:
kids
Plot:
foster child, foster home, painter, adoptive mother, female artist, painting, drawing, sculptor, family problems, adoption, adoptive mother adopted son relationship, changing lives ...
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36%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 175 min.
Story:
The life of Camille Claudel, a french scupltor who becomes the apprentice of Auguste Rodin and later his lover. Her passion for her art and Rodin drive her further away from reason and rationality.
Style:
emotional, psychological, intense, touching, heartbreaking ...
Plot:
art, biopic, mental illness, artist, fall in love, obsession, painter, sculptor, storytelling, art history, love, couples ...
Time:
19th century, ancient times, turn of the century
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
36%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Painting is an unacceptable vocation for a woman in provincial Germany in the year 1900, but budding artist Paula Becker is determined to make her own rules.
Style:
captivating, humorous, exciting, sentimental, suspenseful ...
Plot:
painter, childbirth, art history, extramarital affair, art class, nude model, art, female protagonist, german expressionism, female nudity, female artist, artist ...
Time:
edwardian era, victorian era, year 1900, 1900s, 20th century
Place:
paris france, germany
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