Movies like Blonde
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Blonde (2022)
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 167 min.
Story:
From her volatile childhood as Norma Jeane, through her rise to stardom and romantic entanglements, this reimagined fictional portrait of Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe blurs the lines of fact and fiction to explore the widening split between her public and private selves.
Style:
exciting, art house, cerebral, psychological, thought provoking, period piece, based on true events
Plot:
abortion, fame, oral sex, traumatic childhood, female nudity, hollywood, marilyn monroe, women, sexual abuse, domestic violence, feminist, mother daughter relationship, isolation, disorder, lost soul, threesome, actress, psychological abuse, starlet, substance abuse, dog, airplane, police officer, life, friendship ...
Time:
60s, 50s, year 1953, year 1946, year 1933, 1940s, 1930s ...
Place:
los angeles, new york, maine
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Most similar movies to Blonde
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, melancholic and sexy films with plots about photograph, mother daughter relationship, drinking alcohol, cigarette smoking, photographer, artists and showbiz and nude mostly in Biography, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Blonde: Frida (2002), Norma Jean & Marilyn (1996), Marilyn: The Untold Story (1980), Frances (1982), The Last of Robin Hood (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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92K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
"Frida" chronicles the life Frida Kahlo shared unflinchingly and openly with Diego Rivera, as the young couple took the art world by storm. From her complex and enduring relationship with her mentor and husband to her illicit and ...
Style:
colourful, stylized, emotional, sexy, serious ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
artist, painter, art, disability, painting, bohemian life, female artist, lesbian, life, female protagonist, loneliness, adultery ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, 1920s, 20th century
Place:
mexico, paris france, empire state building manhattan new york city, canada, mexico city ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
This film follows Norma Jean from her simple, ambitious youth to her sex star pinnacle and back down. She moves from lover to lover in order to further her career. She finds fame but never happiness, only knowing seduction but not love.
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, gloomy, touching ...
Plot:
hollywood, john f. kennedy, lgbt, actor's life, showbiz, female protagonist, actress, playboy, celebrity, tragic hero, love and romance, lifestyle ...
Time:
1940s, 60s, 50s
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28%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
The story of how Norma Jean, once an orphan in Hollywood California, becomes Marilyn Monroe, the movie star and celebrity.
Plot:
hollywood, movie star, self destructing, symbol, makeover, dying young, orphan, jealousy, blonde, craziness, sexuality, career ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 50s, 60s
Place:
japan, new york, connecticut, big ben london
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
The true story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.
Style:
disturbing, depressing, emotional, compassionate, factual ...
Plot:
mental illness, hollywood, rich and poor, insanity, actor's life, mother daughter relationship, women, family relations, showbiz, rise to the top, life is a bitch, mentally unstable woman ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, 1940s, 50s, 70s
Place:
california, usa, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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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, sexy ...
Plot:
hollywood, movie star, sexual abuse, womanizer, actor's life, forbidden love, love affair, love and romance, life is a bitch, youth, teenage life, showbiz ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, year 1965, year 1958, year 2010 ...
Place:
new york, los angeles, usa, africa, vancouver ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Movies like Little Women
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Ben Stiller plays comedy writer Jerry Stahl, whose $6000-a-week heroin habit had him taking his infant daughter along on his drug runs and doing smack during TV script conferences. Departing detox, Stahl explores memories with survivor Kitty, who ...
Style:
depressing, intense, factual, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
drugs, addiction, writers, heroin, drug abuse, husband wife relationship, human nature, drug addiction, lifestyle, life is a bitch, rise and fall, family problems ...
Time:
90s, 80s, 70s
Place:
los angeles, new jersey, usa, beverly hills, pittsburgh
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Liverpool, 1978: What starts as a vibrant affair between a legendary femme-fatale, the eccentric Academy Award-winning actress Gloria Grahame, and her young lover, British actor Peter Turner, quickly grows into a deeper relationship, with Turner ...
Style:
thought provoking, touching, captivating, melancholic
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, doctor, female nudity, terminal illness, promise, femme fatale, dying, breast cancer, lie, mother daughter relationship, actress, love ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s, 80s, year 1981
Place:
liverpool, new york, california, manhattan new york city, empire state building manhattan new york city ...
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24%
42K
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, stylized, erotic, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
sexual abuse, porn actress, porn star, sex, porn industry, rough sex, husband wife relationship, rape, sex toy, manipulation, prostitution, female nudity ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 20th century, year 2002, year 1970
Place:
usa, new jersey, florida, malibu california, miami ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Hollywood drama loosely based on the life of film actress Jean Harlow, with Carroll Baker in the title role. One of two feature film biographies, both released in 1965 and both with the same title, about the '30s platinum blonde movie star.
Style:
sexy, sexual, serious, realistic
Plot:
hollywood, actor's life, rise and fall, women, cult, wedding, showbiz, filmmaking, fashion, couples, voyeurism, celebrity culture ...
Time:
1930s, 1920s
Place:
los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Neal Cassady is living the beat life during the 1940s, working at The Tire Yard and and philandering around town. However, he has visions of a happy life with kids and a white picket fence. When his girlfried, Joan, tries to kill herself he gets ...
Style:
talky, stylized, bloody, reflective, ironic ...
Plot:
writers, friendship, suicide, writer's life, male nudity, depression, sexualized violence, life, adaptation, life philosophy, literature, mentor ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 50s, 60s, post world war two
Place:
new jersey, tokyo, colorado, usa, denver colorado ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Movies like Girl, Interrupted
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
An acclaimed stage performer, Dorothy still struggled with the challenge of her color, in a time that wouldn't let some stars in by the front door. Yet against the odds she beat out many more famous rivals for the role of "Carmen ...
Style:
thought provoking, captivating, realistic, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
racism, hollywood, women, rape, african american, sexual abuse, interracial romance, trailblazer, women of color, women's rights, black history, female musician ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 50s, 1940s
Place:
usa, manhattan new york city, miami beach, los angeles, new york ...
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23%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
Born out of wedlock early in the last century, Violette Leduc meets Simone de Beauvoir in postwar Saint-Germain-des-Près. An intense lifelong relationship develops between the two women authors, based on Violette's quest for freedom through ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, serious, sincere, psychological ...
Plot:
lesbian, gender, writers, lesbian relationship, friendship, writer's life, friends, society, lgbt, women, couples, erotica ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 70s, 60s, 50s ...
Place:
france, paris france, europe, provence
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22%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Bettie Page grew up in a conservative religious family in Tennessee and became a photo model sensation in 1950s New York. Bettie's legendary pin-up photos made her the target of a Senate investigation into pornography, and transformed her into ...
Style:
erotic, melancholic, factual, bleak, stylized ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
rape, sexual abuse, photographer, female nudity, fetish, fetishism, female protagonist, investigation, bdsm, model, sexuality, sexual awakening ...
Time:
50s, 1940s, 70s, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
usa, tennessee, new york, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city ...
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22%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
It's San Francisco in 1957, and an American masterpiece is put on trial. Howl, the film, recounts this dark moment using three interwoven threads: the tumultuous life events that led a young Allen Ginsberg to find his true voice as an artist, ...
Style:
thought provoking, sexy, atmospheric, surreal, sincere ...
Plot:
gay, poet, poetry, writers, literature, freedom, courtroom drama, lgbt, art, writer's life, twists and turns, courtroom ...
Time:
50s, 1920s, year 1955, year 1957, post world war two ...
Place:
san francisco, new jersey, idaho, denver colorado, colorado ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
77K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Hitchcock follows the relationship between director Alfred Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville during the making of his most famous film "Psycho" - and the trials and tribulations the director faced from Hollywood censors.
Style:
tricky, suspenseful, psychological, serious, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
suspense, showbiz, obsession, hollywood, manipulation, secrets, investigation, twists and turns, couple relations, love and romance, talented, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
year 1959, 1940s, 50s, 60s, year 1944 ...
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Japan, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Biography of the British painter Francis Bacon. The movie focuses on his relationship with George Dyer, his lover. Dyer was a former small time crook.
Style:
sexy, controversial, surreal, enigmatic, talky ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
art, artist, painter, lgbt, subculture, psychology, lgbtq, death, erotica, loneliness, male nudity, violence ...
Time:
90s, 60s, 70s
Place:
paris france, new york, east end london, london
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21%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Spans the period from 1958 to the present day and tells the story of an unconditional love between a mother and her daughter which is endangered by an unsteady and manipulative father.
Style:
sincere, disturbing, psychological, captivating
Plot:
love, mother daughter relationship, single mother, violence against women, incest, father daughter incest, class differences, illegitimate child, little girl, father daughter relationship, office worker, male female relationship ...
Time:
90s, 70s, 50s, 60s
Place:
france
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21%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Australia, Canada, USA
Duration: 165 min.
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Story:
A fictional biography of Marilyn Monroe mixed with series of real events in her life.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sincere, contemplative
Plot:
hollywood, starlet, actor's life, historical figure, showbiz, ambition, lifestyle, love and romance, desire for fame, rising to stardom, filmmaking, couples ...
Time:
60s, 50s, 1930s, 1940s
Place:
venice beach california, usa, maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 in an attempt to make a flight around the world.
Style:
factual, serious, stylized, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
airplane, female pilot, aviation, women, ambition, depression, flying, unlikely friendships, self fulfillment, follow your dream, lifestyle, adventurer ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, year 1935, year 1934, year 1932 ...
Place:
usa, indiana, atlantic ocean, africa, ireland ...
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21%
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, melancholic, sentimental, serious ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
art, artist, fashion, drugs, dysfunctional family, addiction, drug addiction, female nudity, mentor, rise and fall, destiny, life philosophy ...
Time:
70s, 60s, 20th century, year 1971, year 1970 ...
Place:
new york, new jersey, california, manhattan new york city, empire state building manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Movies similar to The Aviator
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
1967-1976. As one of history's greatest fashion designers entered a decade of freedom, neither came out of it in one piece.
Style:
captivating, stylized, realistic, serious, eros ...
Plot:
fashion, gay, fashion designer, male nudity, ambition, rise to the top, couple relations, lgbt, scandal, erotica, art, post war ...
Time:
70s, 60s, 20th century, year 1975, year 1972 ...
Place:
paris france, france, europe
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21%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
The passionate Merchant-Ivory drama tells the story of Francoise Gilot, the only lover of Pablo Picasso who was strong enough to withstand his ferocious cruelty and move on with her life.
Style:
emotional, serious, realistic, intense, romantic ...
Plot:
painter, artist, womanizer, art, love triangle, infidelity, physical abuse, character study, mistress, couple relations, love and romance, love affair ...
Time:
1940s, 60s, 50s, 20th century
Place:
poland, paris france, las vegas, new jersey, france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
11K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Story of the relationship between the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.
Style:
emotional, depressing, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
suicide, depression, writers, mental illness, adultery, death, poet, art, tragic love, writer's life, artist, couple relations ...
Time:
50s, 60s, 20th century
Place:
england, london, europe, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Gia Carangi travels to New York City with dreams of becoming a fashion model. Within minutes of arriving, she meets Wilhelmina Cooper, a wise and high-powered agent who takes Gia under her wing. With Cooper's help and her own natural instincts, ...
Style:
psychological, rough, melancholic, sexy, erotic ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
lesbian, fashion, addiction, drug abuse, mental illness, heroin, drug addiction, aids, supermodel, model, lesbian romance, lesbianism ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 20th century
Place:
new york
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20%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 210 min.
Story:
The story of the life of the actress Elizabeth Taylor.
Plot:
hollywood, celebrity, actress, mother daughter relationship, cruise ship, honeymoon, love, courtroom, domineering mother, filmmaking, movie star, divorce ...
Time:
60s, 50s, 1940s
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Julie & Julia similar movies
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The life of celebrated but reclusive author, J.D. Salinger, who gained worldwide fame with the publication of his novel, The Catcher in the Rye.
Style:
thought provoking, touching, captivating, exciting, sincere ...
Plot:
writers, world war two, recluse, name calling, writer's life, obsession, teenage boy, friendship, father son relationship, friend, father daughter relationship, isolation ...
Time:
50s, year 1939, 20th century, year 2010, year 1946
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york, greenwich village manhattan new york city, usa, new hampshire
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20%
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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, sentimental, serious, feel good ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
art, painter, artist, painting, plagiarism, secret, suspense, abusive husband, ambition, greed, marriage, court case ...
Time:
60s, 50s, 20th century, year 2000, year 1963 ...
Place:
hawaii, san francisco, paris france, california, usa ...
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19%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Elizabeth is on the verge of losing her grip on life after she leaves her emotionally fraught home to start college. Quickly, her life takes a turn for the worse: She clashes with her roommate and decides her boyfriend, Rafe, is her sole salvation. ...
Style:
psychological, emotional, melancholic, intense, depressing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
mental illness, depression, university, introspection, college, suicide attempt, psychiatrist, coming of age, teenage girl, dysfunctional family, drugs, therapy ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
harvard university, austin texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
In this biographical film, glamorous yet lonely star Joan Crawford takes in two orphans, and at first their unconventional family seems happy. But after Joan's attempts at romantic fulfillment go sour and she is fired from her contract with MGM ...
Style:
disturbing, controversial, factual, talky, intense ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens
Plot:
child abuse, adoption, mother daughter relationship, abusive mother, dysfunctional family, narcissism, bad mother, mansion, hollywood, cult, mother, family problems ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, 1940s, 60s, 50s ...
Place:
usa, new york, los angeles
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19%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA, China, Hungary
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Tells the story of Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie and her extraordinary scientific discoveries — through the prism of her marriage to husband Pierre — and the seismic and transformative effects their discovery of radium had on the 20th century.
Style:
emotional, harsh, serious, realistic, intellectual ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
scientist, nuclear, chemistry, nobel prize, science, radioactivity, scientific research, physicist, physics, genius, backfire, scientific discovery ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, year 1957, year 1934, year 1961 ...
Place:
chernobyl, europe, poland, paris france, sweden ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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