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The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle (2005)
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
What led Arthur Conan Doyle to create, and then destroy the world famous detective, Sherlock Holmes? This compelling drama explores the dark secrets that surround the author and his creation.
Style:
psychological, captivating, semi autobiographical, detective, thought provoking, dramatic, melancholic, suspenseful, art house, period drama
Plot:
sherlock holmes, writers, writer's life, biopic, investigation, murder investigation, forensics, private detective, lifestyle, homicide detective, private investigation, inspiration, creative process, character study, writer's block, victorian england, illness, mentor, british, novelist, psychological drama, christmas movie
Time:
victorian era
Place:
edinburgh scotland
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, melancholic, psychological and period drama films with plots about biopic, writers, poet, character study, writer's life, literary and lifestyle mostly in Drama, Biography and History genres. Some movies like The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle: Wildcat (2023), To Walk Invisible (2016), Enid (2009), August (2007), The Pact (2021). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Biography, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Can scandalous art still serve God? Does suffering precede all greatness? Can illness be a blessing? In 1950, writer Flannery O'Connor visits her mother Regina in Georgia when she is diagnosed with lupus at twenty-four years old. Struggling ...
Style:
southern gothic, thrilling, psychological, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
writers, biopic, female protagonist, literary, illness, mother daughter relationship, writer's life, aspiration, direction and purpose, lifestyle, character study, ambition ...
Time:
1950s
Place:
georgia
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
To Walk Invisible takes a new look at the extraordinary Brontë family, telling the story of these remarkable women who, despite the obstacles they faced, came from obscurity to produce some of the greatest novels in the English language.
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captivating, dark, historical drama, cult classic, gothic ...
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writers, victorian england, novelist, sisters, female writer, publisher, women, sister, historical figure, family relations, social relations, writer's life ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, 1840s
Place:
yorkshire
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83%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Edwardian child Enid Blyton begins to tell stories to her brothers as an escape from their parents' rows before the father deserts the family...
Style:
serious, captivating, realistic, costume drama, cult classic ...
Plot:
novelist, biopic, dysfunctional family, nanny, relationship vs career, rise to the top, writers, writer's life, couples, couple relations, lifestyle, family problems ...
Time:
1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 20th century, 1950s ...
Place:
britain, england, europe
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77%
196
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 175 min.
Story:
A portrait of Swedish writer August Strindberg.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, suspenseful, psychological, emotional ...
Plot:
playwright, poet, character study, biopic, life is a bitch, relationship problems, money problems, dream, poverty, creative process, ambition, literary ...
Time:
19th century, 1870s
Place:
stockholm sweden
Similarity:
76%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Denmark, Belgium, Norway, Finland
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Aged 63, Karen Blixen is at the pinnacle of her fame and next in line to win the Nobel Prize for literature. It has been 17 years since she gave up her famous farm in Africa, only to return to Denmark with her life in ruins. Devastated by syphilis ...
Style:
serious, psychological, thrilling, dramatic, captivating ...
Plot:
writers, literary, character study, biopic, relationships, male female relationship, relationship problems, love affair, poet, love and romance, writer's life, life is a bitch ...
Place:
denmark
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The life and loves of poet Sibilla Aleramo (Laura Morante), focusing on her relationship with Dino Campana (Stefano Accorsi).
Style:
psychological, sincere, disturbing, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
poet, love affair, relationships, biopic, female protagonist, couple relations, writer's life, writers, lifestyle, love interest, female writer, historical figure ...
Time:
turn of the century, 1910s
Place:
italy
Similarity:
65%
1K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Edvard Munch was one of the most important artists in the period between the 19th and 20th centuries. His motif Skrik (The Scream), repeated in several techniques, became part of the 20th-century world subconsciousness – an image of fear and ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, semi autobiographical, thrilling, emotional ...
Plot:
painter, artist, biopic, grief, mental illness, social problems, life is a bitch, problem, outcast, character study, loss, addiction ...
Time:
19th century, turn of the century, 20th century
Place:
oslo norway, berlin germany, copenhagen
Similarity:
64%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, literary editor at Scribner’s Sons is the first to sign such subsequent literary greats as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. When a sprawling, chaotic 1,000-page manuscript by an unknown writer named ...
Style:
period piece, talky, touching, intellectual, informative ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
writers, novelist, genius, book editor, book, mentor, brutality, relationships, biopic, literary, jazz, creativity ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
usa, new york, new jersey
Similarity:
64%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Sweden
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Chronicling the beautiful and tragic life and career of Ted Gärdestad, this biopic tells the story of the great highs and lows of one of Sweden's most loved artists.
Style:
disturbing, semi autobiographical, psychological, captivating, thought provoking ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
pop music, music industry, celebrity, musician, biopic, musician's life, social problems, life, music, historical figure, lifestyle, rise and fall ...
Time:
70s, 80s
Place:
stockholm sweden, scandinavia, eastern europe
Similarity:
59%
322
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Basil Brookes joins "Captain Bob" - press mogul Robert Maxwell - as financial director and witnesses Maxwell's financial shenanigans as he contests status with fellow mogul Rupert Murdoch and descends into marital and monetary chaos.
Style:
thrilling, psychological, suspenseful, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
businessman, millionaire, business, british, fraud, scandal, biopic, corporate corruption, business tycoon, business and finance, money, historical figure ...
Place:
london
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Denmark, Norway, Sweden
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A powerful modern film narrative, set in a historical framework, about the crucial encounter between vulnerable eighteen-year-old Hans Christian Andersen, who rates himself so highly, and Mr. Meisling, the cynical school principal. An encounter that ...
Style:
period piece, historical drama, emotional, melancholic, art house ...
Plot:
writers, biopic, coming of age, hans christian andersen, school, character study, personal growth, ambition, identity crisis, isolation, social class, poet ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
denmark
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
An aspiring poet in 1950s New York has his ordered world shaken when he embarks on a week-long retreat to save his hell raising hero, Dylan Thomas.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, sincere, atmospheric, captivating ...
Plot:
poet, writer's life, life turned upside down, artists and showbiz, disorder, writers, novelist, life philosophy, relationships, historical character, lifestyle, historical figure ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 1940s, 20th century
Place:
new york, britain, usa
Similarity:
53%
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:
52%
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland, Canada, USA, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In 1843, Dickens was a literary rock star, but struggling financially after the slow sales of his previous novel, Martin Chuzzlewit. Seized with the vision of a story that would fire the hearts of humanity, Dickens pitched his publishers A Christmas ...
Style:
costume drama, period piece, feel good, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot:
christmas, writers, charles dickens, victorian england, book, publisher, holiday, inspiration, father son relationship, debt, poverty, christmas carol ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, future, 1800s, year 1943
Place:
turkey, england, new york, london
Similarity:
51%
140
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Zina, the daughter of Leon Trotsky by his first wife, is undergoing freudian analysis in Berlin in the 'thirties. Meanwhile Trotsky is in exile in Prinkipo having been driven from power by Stalin. The Nazis rise to power in Germany and Austria ...
Style:
bleak, historical drama, thought provoking, melancholic, period piece ...
Plot:
suicide, exile, mental illness, character study, biopic, tragedy, obsession, female protagonist, identity crisis, alienation, political repression, claustrophobia ...
Time:
1930s, year 1985
Place:
berlin germany, soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Biopic about the life of the French poet Arthur Rimbaud.
Style:
melancholic, art house, intense, bleak, period drama
Plot:
biopic, poet, death, flashback, literary, passion, moral ambiguity, exile, tragic love, self destructing, wandering, gay relationship ...
Time:
victorian era
Place:
africa, paris france
Similarity:
49%
915
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
realistic, captivating, sexual, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot:
rise and fall, writer's life, writers, couples, artists and showbiz, love affair, lifestyle, unfulfillment, car accident, novelist, society, biopic ...
Time:
20th century, 1950s, 21st century
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia
Duration: 168 min.
Story:
The film consists of two parts: “Insomnia” and “Departure”. We shall meet Lev Tolstoy in the final years of his life at Yasnaya Polyana. We shall see him surrounded by his family, friends, acquaintances and absolute strangers who were ...
Style:
contemplative, philosophical, melancholic, meditative, art house ...
Plot:
biopic, death, writer's life, character study, insomnia, introspection, isolation, spiritual journey, social injustice, memory, writers, flashback ...
Time:
turn of the century
Place:
soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
46%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Ariadna discovers that her grandfather has been searching for the remains of his father, who disappeared during the Civil War. Determined to help him, she travels to Burgos, where a mass grave is being excavated, and where he could be buried. During ...
Style:
historical drama, thrilling, psychological, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
teacher, biopic, school teacher, professor, small community, spanish civil war, civil war, storytelling, political violence, exhumation, memories, memory ...
Time:
1930s
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Julia Law, a young paralegal, is found dead in a bathtub. Her boss, a prominent Philadelphia lawyer, is questioned by the authorities.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder mystery, investigation, mysterious death, scandal, manipulation, murder investigation, lawyer, secret, crime solving, uncover truth, male female relationship, puzzle ...
Place:
philadelphia
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Brazil, Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Paulo Coelho is the world’s most translated living author, his books having sold over 165 million copies. But he was not always the inspirational global phenomenon he is today. Like the heroes in his spiritual classics THE ALCHEMIST and THE ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, thought provoking, disturbing
Plot:
hopes, writers, writer's life, follow your dream, rising to stardom, life, lifestyle, historical figure, biopic, relationships, historical character, creative process ...
Time:
60s, 80s, 70s, 20th century
Place:
brazil
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
St. Petersburg, 1860. A member of the imperial family is assassinated. A few days later, the writer Fëdor Michajlovic Dostoevskij meets with Gusiev, a young man committed to a psychiatric hospital. Gusiev confesses that he took part in the ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, suspense, disturbing, historical drama
Plot:
writers, terrorist, revolutionary, writer's life, historical figure, private investigation, historical character, murder, terrorist plot, murder investigation, murderer, poet ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
russia, st. petersburg russia
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young writer tries to obtain romance letters a poet sent to his mistress.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, historical romance, period drama
Plot:
writers, gay, love story, love letter, writer's life, love, investigation, letter, romantic relationship, male female relationship, in love, love and romance ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century
Similarity:
41%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Russian poet, singer and actor Vladimir Vysotsky was an idol of the 1970s and '80s. In 1980, at the age of 42, he passed away during the Moscow Olympic Games. This is the story of his last great love as handed down to his son from a family ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, dramatic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
drug addiction, musician's life, artists and showbiz, society, addiction, life is a bitch, kgb, songwriter, actor, concert, writers, biopic ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 80s, year 1979
Place:
soviet union, russia, ussr
Similarity:
40%
714
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A amateur writer who seems to have nothing to live for, finds himself as the only hope of three people.
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, realistic, contemplative ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
writer's block, writers, creative block, writer's life, lifestyle, problem, social problems, relationships, character study, book publishing, self discovery, humanism ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
The Government Inspector is a 2005 television drama based on the life of Dr. David Kelly and the lead-up to the Iraq War in the United Kingdom.
Style:
serious, tense, thought provoking, political drama, tragic
Plot:
iraq war, investigation, british politics, moral ambiguity, cover up, journalism, bureaucracy, ethical dilemma, biopic, realism, whistleblower, character study ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
united kingdom, london, iraq, britain
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Based on true events, Paul is forced to recall his harrowing childhood growing up in a children’s home, when a police investigation into his boyhood friend’s suicide opens old wounds. As Paul struggles to shake off his past and build a ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
abuse, neglect, child abuse, childhood trauma, troubled past, tragic past, social problems, investigation, secret past, life is a bitch, confronting the past, grief ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Belgium, Italy, Germany, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
THE HAPPY PRINCE tells the story of the last days of Oscar Wilde. This great man of letters, once one of the most famous authors in England, is now a superstar on the skids. As Oscar lies on his death bed, the past comes flooding back to him, ...
Style:
costume drama, touching, suspenseful, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
gay relationship, victorian england, gay couple, writers, gay interest, gay youth, gay friend, gay, downfall, gay romance, exile, father son relationship ...
Time:
19th century, 2000s, victorian era
Place:
paris france, london, naples italy
Similarity:
39%
752
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Rome. The 1980s. After the magnum opus The Art of Joy she has been working on for a decade is rejected by the Italian publishing world, writer Goliarda Sapienza commits a desperate theft that costs her her reputation and social position. ...
Style:
reflective, melancholic, period drama
Plot:
character study, writers, feminism, biopic, self discovery, intimate, rejection, hopes, redemption, women's rights, resilience, outcast ...
Time:
80s, year 1980, 20th century
Place:
italy, rome italy
Similarity:
39%
31
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Bliss tells the story of Katherine Mansfield in her early 20s as she leaves New Zealand and begins her journey as a writer.
Style:
historical drama, poetic, period piece, sensitive, reflective ...
Plot:
modernism, biopic, writer's life, female protagonist, coming of age, character study, friendship, literary, female empowerment, writers, teenage girl, tuberculosis ...
Time:
edwardian era
Place:
england
Similarity:
38%
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