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Caravaggio's Shadow (2022)
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Caravaggio's Shadow (2022)
Original name: L'ombra di Caravaggio
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: enigmatic, bleak, captivating, suspenseful, dramatic
Plot: painter, artist, art, artists' life, murder, genius, church, catholic church, pope, rivalry, female nudity, female full frontal nudity
Time: 17th century, 16th century, 1600s
Place: italy, rome italy, naples italy

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, serious, realistic and period drama films with plots about painter, art, artist, biopic, painting, female nudity and art history mostly in Biography, Drama and History genres. Some movies like Caravaggio's Shadow: I, Leonardo (2019), Leonardo (2021), Una vita scellerata (1990), Sin (2019), The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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I, Leonardo (2019)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Discover Leonardo da Vinci, the man, the painter, the scientist and the inventor, through a unique, engaging and fascinating journey in the mind of Leonardo.
Style: uplifting, inspirational, mind bending, intellectual
Plot: leonardo da vinci, genius, artist, art, renaissance, medieval, painter, art school, journey, scientist, talent
Time: 16th century, 15th century
Place: milan italy, italy
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Leonardo (2021)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Italy, USA, UK, France, Spain
Duration: 409 min.
TV show
Story: A fresh look at the life and legacy of the iconic artist Leonardo da Vinci, positing that he was a gay outsider who used his work as a way of hiding his true self. Each episode will examine one of da Vinci’s artworks for hidden clues about a ...
Style: costume drama, historical drama, sexy, period drama
Plot: leonardo da vinci, renaissance, painter, inventor, inventions and discoveries, artist, medieval, discovery, historical figure, artists' life, male female relationship, couple relations ...
Time: 15th century, 16th century
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Una vita scellerata (1990)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Italy, France, Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story: The story of Benvenuto Cellinin (1500 - 1571), a soldier and one of the most important craftsmen and artists of Renaissance Italy whose life was marked by many achievements and adventures, but also crimes.
Plot: renaissance, pope, painter, biopic, artist, time machine, judge, sculpture, italian history, soldier, female nudity, homosexuality ...
Time: 16th century
Place: italy, rome italy, florence
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Sin (2019)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Russia, Italy
Duration: 134 min.
Story: The life of Michelangelo Buonarroti.
Style: uplifting, inspirational, sentimental, intellectual, captivating ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: misery, renaissance, painter, dog attack, artist, art school, tudors, fight, wealthy family, sculptor, power struggle, genius ...
Time: 16th century
Place: florence, italy, rome italy
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45%
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The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Charlton Heston stars as Renaissance artist Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), who begrudgingly paints the Sistine Chapel for imperious Pope Julius II in this epic adaptation of Irvine Stone's novel ...
Style: epic, inspirational, uplifting, serious, biblical ...
Plot: renaissance, painter, artist, biopic, painting, art, catholic, pope, art history, christian, genius, sculpture ...
Time: 16th century, medieval times, ancient times, 60s
Place: italy, rome italy, europe
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Hokusai (2020)
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, serious, dramatic
Plot: painter, art, painting, artist, picture, creative process, famous painting, drawing, fight, profession
Place: japan
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Giordano Bruno (1973)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Flying from his enemies in the Catholic Church, the free thinking philosopher, poet and scientist Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) has found some protection in Venice. But the Roman Inquisition, fearing his influence in Europe, wants to bring him on trial ...
Style: spiritual, dramatic, esoteric, philosophical, contemplative ...
Plot: philosopher, philosophy, renaissance, female nudity, scientist, burned alive, catholic, writers, myth, art, time machine, occult ...
Time: 16th century, 17th century
Place: rome italy, venice, italy, europe
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Artemisia (1997)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653) was one of the first well-known female painters. The movie tells the story of her youth, when she was guided and protected by her father, the painter Orazio Gentileschi. Her professional curiosity about the male ...
Style: erotic, factual, sexual, art film, historical drama ...
Plot: female artist, art, artist, painter, virginity, biopic, women, art history, loss of virginity, renaissance, female nudity, rape ...
Time: 17th century, ancient times, year 1997, 16th century
Place: rome italy, italy, europe
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39%
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At Eternity's Gate (2018)
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, artist, art, mental illness, painting, priest, insanity, art gallery, loneliness, obsession, doctor, genius ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1890s, 1880s
Place: france, paris france
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Nightwatching (2007)
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: realistic, serious, captivating, disturbing, enigmatic ...
Plot: painter, art, biopic, artist, art history, artists and showbiz, uncover truth, investigation, lifestyle, love affair, ambition, painting ...
Time: 17th century
Place: europe, amsterdam, netherlands
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Mrs. Lowry and Son (2019)
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: disturbing, captivating, psychological, thought provoking
Plot: painter, art, artist, biopic, mother, follow your dream, family problems, lifestyle, parents and children, artists' life, relationship problems, family relations ...
Time: 1930s, year 1934
Place: manchester
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Paula (2016)
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: sentimental, humorous, exciting, captivating, melancholic ...
Plot: painter, impotent husband, art history, extramarital affair, nude model, art class, art, female protagonist, female nudity, german expressionism, female artist, artist ...
Time: edwardian era, victorian era, year 1900, 1900s
Place: paris france, germany
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
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Duration: 97 min.
Story: The story of nine-year old Maria and her father Marcelino who, in 1879, found the first pre-historic cave paintings at the now world famous Altamira cave.
Style: suspenseful, touching, suspense, exciting, tense ...
Plot: cave, discovery, love triangle, faith, painter, art, real life, artist, buffalo, beach, cemetery, church ...
Time: 19th century, prehistory, victorian era, 1880s
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El Greco (1966)
Genre: Biography, Drama
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Duration: 95 min.
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Style: surreal, meditative, sincere, captivating, visual ...
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Time: 19th century, 1820s, year 2014, 1800s, ancient times ...
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Egon Schiele: Death and the Maiden (2016)
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Style: serious, captivating, touching, realistic, art house ...
Plot: painter, art, art history, biopic, love, trial, model, death of brother, terminal illness, art exhibition, money problems, brother sister relationship ...
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Place: vienna
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Pasolini (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Italy
Duration: 84 min.
Story: We are with Pasolini during the last hours of his life, as he talks with his beloved family and friends, writes, gives a brutally honest interview, shares a meal with Ninetto Davoli, and cruises for the roughest rough trade in his gun-metal gray ...
Style: atmospheric, serious, realistic, intellectual, independent film ...
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Loro (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama
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Style: factual, realistic, psychological, tense, captivating ...
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The Last Family (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Beksiński is a gentle man with arachnophobia, despite his hardcore sexual fantasies and his fondness for painting disturbing dystopian works. Beksiński is a family man who wants only the best for his loving wife Zofia, neurotic son Tomasz and the ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, serious, captivating, art house ...
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Place: poland
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Afterimage (2016)
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: avant garde, twist ending, educational, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot: art, artist, painting, painter, communism, legal system, father daughter relationship, professor, teacher student relationship, loss of mother, one legged man, art history ...
Time: 50s, year 1948, year 1950, year 1952, 1940s ...
Place: poland
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I.M. Caravaggio (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In a daring tale of identity crisis, witness the rise and fall of a modern day Master, Ian Milano, who works and lives as 17th Century Italian Painter Caravaggio in order to forge his artistic genius and unlock his sociopathic nature.
Plot: painter, art, gay, biopic, art history, homeless, sexual attraction, molestation, sex, blood, murder, prostitute ...
Place: nevada, italy
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Monstrum (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Movie about a sculptor Otakar Svec who is building a statue of Stalin in Prague.
Style: retro
Plot: artist, painter, art, josef stalin, suicide, husband wife relationship, communist, european history, communism, moral dilemma, sculptor, czech history ...
Time: 1950s
Place: prague, central europe
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The Conclave (2006)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In 1458, five years after the fall of Constantinople to the Moslems, eighteen cardinals meet to elect a new pope. Rodrigo Borgia, a 27 year old cardinal learns to play a very dangerous game.
Style: disturbing, stylized, captivating, suspense, controversial ...
Plot: renaissance, vatican, politics, medieval, pope, rivalry, brutality, religious, war, violence, priest, catholic ...
Time: middle ages, medieval times, 15th century
Place: italy, rome italy
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476 A.D. Chapter One: The Last Light of Aries (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Croatia, USA, Italy
Duration: 76 min.
Story: After General Flavius Aetius frees the Roman Empire from the clutches of Attila the Hun, Rome is once again secure. However, this assurance is short-lived, as Attila is no longer a threat, it only brings the Germanic tribes to once again unite ...
Style: captivating, suspenseful, contemplative, unusual plot structure, independent film
Plot: ancient rome, roman soldier, family relations, husband wife relationship, murder of father, love, murder, violence, friendship, ancient world, medieval, fatherhood ...
Place: rome italy
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The Life of Leonardo Da Vinci (1971)
Genre: Biography, History
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 300 min.
TV show
Story: La Vita di Leonardo Da Vinci — in English, The Life of Leonardo da Vinci — is a 1971 Italian television miniseries dramatizing the life of the Italian Renaissance polymath Leonardo da Vinci. The Golden Globe-winning miniseries was directed by ...
Style: educational, inspirational, uplifting, mind bending, enigmatic ...
Plot: art, renaissance, leonardo da vinci, painter, artist, talented, talent, discovery, scientific discovery, art history, medieval, genius ...
Time: 15th century, 16th century, medieval times
Place: italy, france, milan italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Modigliani (2004)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, Romania, France, Italy
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: realistic, touching, serious, sad, factual ...
Plot: painter, painting, artist, prodigy, biopic, art, art history, life is a bitch, addiction, tragic hero, tragic love, couple relations ...
Time: 20th century, 1920s, year 1919
Place: france, paris france, europe, south of france
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A Harlot's Progress (2006)
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: realistic, serious, captivating, emotional, historical drama ...
Plot: painter, prostitute, starvation, dominatrix, adultery, jail, brothel, couples, reform, kept woman, brothel madam, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 18th century, georgian era
Place: england, london
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24%
The Bronte Sisters (1979)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In a small presbytery in Yorkshire, England, living under the watchful eyes of their aunt and father, a strict Anglican pastor, the Bronte sisters write their first works and quickly become literary sensations.
Style: realistic, serious, gloomy, contemplative, period drama ...
Plot: writers, art, women, biopic, writer's life, winter, disease, tuberculosis, fire, historical event, painting, poet ...
Time: 19th century, year 1979, victorian era, georgian era, 1840s ...
Place: yorkshire, france, europe, england, united kingdom ...
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