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The Anna Nicole Smith Story (2007)
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Born Vickie Lynn Hogan, she had a son at 18, became a stripper at 20, and married a billionaire at 26. Sheer determination turned her into Anna Nicole Smith, playmate, model and a household name.
Style:
sexy, realistic, serious, captivating
Plot:
lifestyle, rising to stardom, physical appearance, artists and showbiz, celebrity culture, hollywood, rags to riches, model, celebrity, single mother, older man younger woman relationship, fame, marriage, drug, death, death of son, mother son relationship, con woman, scam, biopic, golddigger, female nudity, photographer, lesbianism, weight gain ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa
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Most similar movies to The Anna Nicole Smith Story
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, captivating and sentimental films with plots about biopic, artists and showbiz, ambition, celebrity culture, lifestyle, rising to stardom and unfulfillment mostly in Biography, Drama and Music genres. Some movies like The Anna Nicole Smith Story: Anna Nicole (2013), Burton and Taylor (2013), The Brittany Murphy Story (2014), Norma Jean & Marilyn (1996), James Dean (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Voluptuous beauty Anna Nicole Smith marries an elderly millionaire and poses for Playboy, but after her husband's death, her excessive drinking, pill-popping and weight fluctuations take their toll.
Style:
sexy, realistic, serious, captivating, thought provoking
Plot:
playboy, celebrity, rise and fall, rising to stardom, ambition, desire for fame, starlet, celebrity culture, drug addiction, female protagonist, pole dancing, economist ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
TV drama based on Richard Burton's diaries, about his last performance in 1983 with ex-wife Elizabeth Taylor. They meet after several years and he agrees to her suggestion that they star in a stage revival on Broadway of Noel Coward's ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, serious, stylized, historical drama ...
Plot:
actor's life, couple relations, artists and showbiz, couples, celebrity culture, hollywood, biopic, love, stage play, passion, art, showbiz ...
Time:
20th century, year 1983, 80s
Place:
usa, los angeles, new york, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A look at Brittany Murphy's rise to Hollywood fame in the 1990s, her struggles with celebrity and self-esteem, and her mysterious death in 2009 at the age of 32.
Style:
realistic, captivating, sentimental, serious
Plot:
rising to stardom, desire for fame, actor's life, rise and fall, ambition, celebrity culture, artists and showbiz, parents and children, heart attack, death of wife, death of daughter, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
year 1990, year 2009, year 2004, year 2005, year 2003 ...
Place:
puerto rico, new jersey, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 135 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:
contemplative, psychological, realistic, serious, gloomy ...
Plot:
playboy, female nudity, biopic, filmmaking, skinny dipping, actress, female protagonist, rape, abuse, john f. kennedy, hollywood, lgbt ...
Time:
60s, 1940s, 50s, 1950s
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The man behind the legend and a knowing look at the 1950's Hollywood are revealed in this dynamic bioepic of the meteoric star whose troubled life echoed his gut-grabbing performances in East of Eden, Rebel Without A Cause and Giant.
Style:
sentimental, realistic, serious, captivating, clever ...
Plot:
hollywood, actor, father son relationship, filmmaking, actor's life, death of mother, sports car, gay, voice over narration, biopic, dying young, rising to stardom ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 20th century, 1930s, 1940s
Place:
usa, malibu california, indiana, new york, santa monica california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The gaudy rise and dizzy fall of the last great Hollywood blonde bombshell: Jayne Mansfield.
Style:
serious, realistic, uplifting, captivating, emotional ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
big breasts, hollywood, actor's life, biopic, behind the scenes, price of fame, femme fatale, fame, publicity, movie business, publicity stunt, desire for fame ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 60s
Place:
mississippi
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, South Africa, USA, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Director Alfred Hitchcock is revered as one of the greatest creative minds in the history of cinema. Known for his psychological thrillers, Hitchcock’s leading ladies were cool, beautiful and preferably blonde. One such actress was Tippi Hedren, ...
Style:
psychological, serious, captivating, stylized, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
filmmaking, sexual harassment, actor's life, starlet, obsession, movie star, passion, jealousy, screenwriter, movie studio, director, dirty old man ...
Time:
1900s, 60s, 20th century
Place:
england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
An unauthorized chronicle of the life of Roman Polanski.
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, serious, captivating, intense ...
Plot:
celebrity culture, prodigy, ambition, artists and showbiz, life is a bitch, lifestyle, filmmaking, biopic, scandal, controversy, celebrity, fame ...
Time:
70s, 60s
Place:
usa, europe
Similarity:
40%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
On the set of Cleopatra, Hollywood's most beautiful star, Elizabeth Taylor, fell into the arms of one of the world's greatest actors, Richard Burton - and she didn't leave. Their subsequent white-hot, scandalous love affair gave rise ...
Style:
sexy, serious, realistic, stylized
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
actor's life, couples, hollywood, couple relations, renewed love, paparazzi, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, celebrity culture, infidelity, actress, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
rome italy, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
The film spans from Hepburn's early childhood to the 1950s which details her life as a Dutch ballerina, coming to grips with her parents' divorce, and enduring life in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II. She then settles in ...
Style:
uplifting, serious, feel good, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot:
hollywood, actor's life, world war two, showbiz, celebrity culture, childhood, performer's life, rising to stardom, filmmaking, haunted by the past, artists and showbiz, human spirit ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 1940s, 50s, 1950s
Place:
usa, new york, holland, europe, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Bettie Page was America's number one pin-up girl in the 1950s and became a cult icon. This biopic tells the story of the last 3 years of her short-lived career, recreating the incriminating bondage films which gave her the nickname "Dark ...
Style:
serious, realistic, sexual, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
desire for fame, actor's life, rise and fall, showbiz, celebrity culture, friendship, workplace romance, fashion, workplace, against the rules, artists and showbiz, obsession ...
Time:
20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place:
new york, tennessee, florida
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 215 min.
Story:
The Amazing Howard Hughes is a 1977 television movie about American aviation pioneer and filmmaker Howard Hughes, based on the book by Hughes' business partner Noah Dietrich. The film starred Tommy Lee Jones, Ed Flanders, and Tovah Feldshuh.
Style:
serious, realistic, sentimental
Plot:
aviation, hollywood, biopic, howard hughes, aviator, rise to the top, mentally unstable, lifestyle, unfulfillment, misfit, obsession, ambition ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
36%
24K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Director Julian Schnabel illustrates the portrait of his friend, the first African-American pop artist Jean-Michel Basquiat who unfortunately died at a young age and just as he was beginning to make a name for himself in the art world. Alongside the ...
Style:
inspirational, stylized, sexy, factual, atmospheric ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
artist, art, graffiti, painter, biopic, drug abuse, painting, drug addiction, friendship, art history, drug, self destructing ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1996, year 1981
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The fairy tale story of the actress who became a princess is told in this biography that traces her rise from Philadelphia socialite to Hollywood movie star.
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious
Audience:
date night
Plot:
hollywood, biopic, love, psychic, fortune telling, wedding, historical figure, cinderella story, social differences, relationship vs career, media, actor's life ...
Time:
20th century, 50s, 1940s
Place:
philadelphia, europe, monaco
Similarity:
35%
577
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
James Franco's Sal chronicles the final hours of the life of actor Sal Mineo, one-time teen idol and star of the blockbuster films Rebel Without a Cause and Exodus.
Style:
serious, realistic, sincere, touching, atmospheric ...
Plot:
gay, gay slur, gay interest, ambition, actor's life, introspection, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, hopes, friendship, murder, celebrity ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1976
Place:
california, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Chronicles Whitney Houston's rise to fame and turbulent relationship with husband Bobby Brown.
Style:
realistic, emotional, serious, touching, bleak ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
musician's life, price of fame, pop star, music, rising to stardom, ambition, desire for fame, couple relations, addiction, celebrity culture, fall in love, showbiz ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 90s
Place:
usa, indiana
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The Unauthorized Saved by the Bell Story delves into the experiences of six unknown young actors placed into the Hollywood spotlight, exposing the challenges of growing up under public scrutiny.
Style:
serious, realistic, sentimental
Plot:
teenage life, rising to stardom, celebrity culture, ambition, showbiz, actor's life, youth, behind the scenes, high school, media, artists and showbiz, hollywood ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 2010s
Place:
usa, california, los angeles
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
TLC's humble beginnings in Atlanta quickly led to an unprecedented rise to fame in the 1990's as one of the world's most talented, celebrated and highest-selling female groups of all time. Through very public and high profile success, ...
Style:
serious, realistic, sincere, captivating
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
music band, rising to stardom, musician's life, hip hop, artists and showbiz, ambition, bankruptcy, music, blaxploitation, black, pop star, girl power ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
34%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of Jim and Artie Mitchell, two brothers who entered the porn industry in the early 60's. After creating such legendary porn films as "Behind the Green Door" and "Inside Marily Chambers", they later ...
Style:
sexy, psychological, intense, cynical, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
murder, addiction, drug abuse, porn actor, lust, rags to riches, greed, ambition, filmmaking, rise and fall, life is a bitch, showbiz ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 20th century
Place:
san francisco, bay area, usa
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Magic Beyond Words: The J.K. Rowling Story is a made-for-TV film starring Australian actress Poppy Montgomery. The film, which was shot in B.C. Canada locations altered to look like British locations, details the journey of struggling single mother ...
Style:
serious, sentimental, realistic, sincere, touching ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
biopic, school, multiple sclerosis, writers, rising to stardom, writer's life, family relations, ambition, artists and showbiz, rise to the top, single parent, single mother ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
england, europe, london
Similarity:
34%
864
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The life story of former Manchester United football legend, George Best.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, emotional
Plot:
football player, athlete's life, rising to stardom, ambition, rivalry, life is a bitch, sport team, celebrity culture, professional sports, football, football team, biopic ...
Time:
60s, 90s, 70s, 20th century
Place:
ireland, england, europe, northern england, manchester
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Mexico
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Gloria never imagined that an audition for the music producer Sergio Andrade was going to change her life so drastically. King Midas not only brought her to stardom, but also to a dramatic story of love, heartbreak and betrayal. Based on the life ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, emotional
Plot:
ambition, desire for fame, musician's life, downfall, artists and showbiz, rising to stardom, biopic, girl, pop singer, strong female presence, music, unfulfillment ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
mexico, latin america
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Bruce Lee, My Brother is an action-dramatic biopic of the eponymous martial arts legend as told by his younger brother, Robert Lee. It revolves around Bruce Lee's life as a rebellious adolescent in Hong Kong before he sets off for the USA and ...
Style:
exciting, captivating, serious, realistic, mind blowing
Plot:
martial arts, wing chun, master warrior, biopic, actor's life, ambition, lifestyle, rising to stardom, heroes, artists and showbiz, showbiz, celebrity culture ...
Time:
1950s
Place:
china, hong kong
Similarity:
33%
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19K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The story of acerbic 1960s comic Lenny Bruce, whose groundbreaking, no-holds-barred style and social commentary was often deemed by the Establisment as too obscene for the public.
Style:
black and white, psychological, atmospheric, clever, realistic ...
Plot:
stand up comedian, drug abuse, judaism, showbiz, addiction, biopic, rise and fall, adult humor, courtroom, drug addiction, civil rights, drug ...
Time:
20th century, 1950s, year 1974, 50s, 70s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A chronicle of the days leading up to Jeff Buckley's performance at his father's tribute concert in 1991.
Style:
captivating, realistic, atmospheric, gloomy, serious ...
Plot:
rock, musician's life, music, introspection, artists and showbiz, love and romance, lifestyle, ambition, art, biopic, junkie, punk ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
33%
342
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A biographical movie on the film star Errol Flynn's early life before Hollywood fame.
Style:
sentimental, touching, serious, realistic
Plot:
lgbt, filmmaking, hollywood, biopic, adventurer, artists and showbiz, heroes, lifestyle, prostitute, criminal heroes, rise to the top, folk hero ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s
Place:
australia, usa
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Biography of rock star Jimi Hendrix chronicles his early career, including a stint with Little Richard who fired him for getting too flamboyant, to his tragic failure.
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, gloomy
Plot:
musician's life, biopic, ambition, rising to stardom, prodigy, tragic hero, music band, life is a bitch, rise and fall, artists and showbiz, drug abuse, overdose ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The rise and fall of salsa singer, Héctor Lavoe (1946-1993), as told from the perspective of his wife Puchi, who looks back from 2002.
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, disturbing, dramatic ...
Plot:
music, artists and showbiz, ambition, musician's life, showbiz, dancing, biopic, lifestyle, rise and fall, life is a bitch, drug abuse, salsa ...
Time:
70s, year 2006, 60s
Place:
usa, new york, puerto rico
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Biography
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
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Story:
A chronicle of Marilyn Monroe's family life and how she succeeded in hiding her most intimate secrets from the press and an invasive world.
Style:
sexy, realistic, serious, touching, costume drama ...
Plot:
parents and children, actor's life, family relations, mental disorder, celebrity culture, artists and showbiz, secret, family secret, historical figure, famous, life, lifestyle ...
Time:
20th century, 50s, 60s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
The very sad tale of socialite & Warhol muse Edie Sedgwick (1943-1971) who effectively plays herself in a film that follows her life in a large part from the time she left Warhol's 'factory' and what the life of excess drugs did ...
Style:
mondo, independent film, experimental, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
electroshock therapy, counterculture, fashion, art, biopic, drug abuse, female nudity, free spirited, sexploitation, hippie, drug overdose, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
year 1972, 60s, 70s, 20th century
Place:
new york, california, usa
Similarity:
33%
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