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Plot Summary:
French novelist, Colette, overcomes an abusive marriage to emerge as a leading writer in her country and a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Hungary
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: captivating, costume drama, intellectual, inspirational, lyrical, period piece, erotic, social, art film, historical drama
Best tv shows and movies like Colette (2018):
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The Favourite (2018)
Plot Summary:
In early 18th century England, a frail Queen Anne occupies the throne and her close friend Lady Sarah governs the country in her stead. When a new servant Abigail arrives, her charm endears her to Sarah.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 216000
Genere: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: period piece, factual, costume drama, historical drama, political, dark comedy, funny, intellectual, emotional, social
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The Children of the Century (1999)
Plot Summary:
True tale of the tumultuous love affair between two French literary icons of the 19th Century, novelist George Sand and poet Alfred de Musset. But their affair falls apart during an excursion to Venice, Italy where Musset is distracted by drugs and Sand by a handsome doctor.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, sexy, captivating, stylized, erotic, romantic, visual, visually stunning, serious, emotional
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A Quiet Passion (2016)
Plot Summary:
The story of American poet Emily Dickinson from her early days as a young schoolgirl to her later years as a reclusive, unrecognized artist.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Belgium, Canada, USA
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: historical drama, costume drama, romantic drama, period drama, queer cinema
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Mary Shelley (2017)
Plot Summary:
The love affair between poet Percy Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin resulted in the creation of an immortal novel, “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.”.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, Luxembourg, USA, Ireland, Australia
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, stylized, serious, costume drama, gothic, sweet, art house, period piece, independent film, touching
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The Libertine (2004)
Plot Summary:
The story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and debauched his way to an early grave, only to earn posthumous critical acclaim for his life's work.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: period piece, costume drama, atmospheric, melancholic, surreal, stylized, serious, erotic, thought provoking, scenic
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Tulip Fever (2017)
Plot Summary:
An artist falls for a married young woman while he's commissioned to paint her portrait. The two invest in the risky tulip market in hopes to build a future together.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: costume drama, period piece, touching, suspense, sincere, rough, melancholic, suspenseful, exciting, sexy
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Camille Claudel (1988)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 175 min
Plot tags: psychological, emotional, intense, touching, heartbreaking, serious, captivating, disturbing, atmospheric, romantic
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Carrington (1995)
Plot Summary:
The story of the relationship between painter Dora Carrington and author Lytton Strachey in a World War One England of cottages and countryside. Although platonic due to Strachey's homosexuality, the relationship was nevertheless a deep and complicated one. When Carrington did develop a more physical relationship with soldier Ralph Partridge, Strachey was able to welcome him as a friend, although Partridge remained somewhat uneasy, not so much with Strachey's lifestyle and sexual orientation as with the fact that he was a conscientious objector.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: costume drama, touching, emotional, talky, sexual, historical drama, independent film, sentimental, sincere, atmospheric
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The Edge of Love (2008)
Plot Summary:
The Edge of love is a love story of two feisty women and a brilliant, charismatic poet who love both women. One woman Vera Phillips who is his first love and whom he lost for ten year, while other one is his present wife Caitlin who is adventurous and felt same adventurous nature in this charismatic poet, Dylan Thomas, also.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, sincere, melancholic, sweet, period piece, realistic, erotic, retro, heartbreaking
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The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister (2010)
Plot Summary:
In nineteenth century Yorkshire wealthy orphan Anne Lister lives with an aunt and uncle, anxious for her to marry well and blissfully unaware that she is a lesbian,recording her thoughts and exploits in a coded diary. When her lover Mariana Belcombe makes a marriage of convenience to rich old Charles Lawton,she feels betrayed and,although Mariana visits and has sex with her,the relationship is going nowhere. Helped by old flame Tib she makes a play for innocent Miss Browne but sees she is barking up the wrong tree and diverts herself by renovating the family hall. A drunken Tib almost exposes her secret and scornful mine-owner Christopher Rawson,whose marriage proposal she rejects,tells her that her sexuality is a subject of local gossip. Undeterred Anne meets Ann Walker who becomes her new 'wife' and they open a coal-mine ,living happily together. An end title tells us that Anne Lister died prematurely in 1840 on holiday in Russia.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: captivating, emotional, stylized, lgbt cinema, period piece, costume drama, deep, historical drama, serious, realistic
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Gentleman Jack (2019)
Plot Summary:
Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, 1832. Anne Lister attempts to revitalize her inherited home, Shibden Hall. Most notably for the time period, a part of her plan is to help the fate of her own family - by taking a wife.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, thought provoking, psychological, period piece, costume drama, funny, dramatic, controversial, deep, suspense
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Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
Plot Summary:
On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the 18th century, an artist is commissioned to paint a young woman's wedding portrait.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 105000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: touching, costume drama, scenic, disturbing, sexy, period piece, visual, erotic, cute, romantic
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Miss Potter (2006)
Plot Summary:
The story of Beatrix Potter, the author of the beloved and best-selling children's book, "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", and her struggle for love, happiness and success.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, period piece, costume drama, serious, realistic, sweet, romantic drama, motivational, intellectual
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Violette (2013)
Plot Summary:
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 writing and on Simone's conviction that she holds in her hands the destiny of an extraordinary writer.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: captivating, realistic, sincere, serious, psychological, intellectual, heartbreaking, existential, crying, queer cinema
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Wilde (1997)
Plot Summary:
The story of Oscar Wilde, genius, poet, playwright and the First Modern Man. The self-realisation of his homosexuality caused Wilde enormous torment as he juggled marriage, fatherhood and responsibility with his obsessive love for Lord Alfred Douglas.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Japan, Germany
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: homoerotic, costume drama, touching, period piece, witty, historical drama, sentimental, sincere, serious, captivating
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Frida (2002)
Plot Summary:
"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 controversial affair with Leon Trotsky, to her provocative and romantic entanglements with women, Frida Kahlo lived a bold and uncompromising life as a political, artistic, and sexual revolutionary.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 94000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: stylized, emotional, colorful, serious, psychological, touching, independent film, visually appealing, sincere, erotic
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Pride (2014)
Plot Summary:
Based on a true story, the film is set in the summer of 1984 – when Margaret Thatcher is in power and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is on strike. At the Gay Pride March in London, a group of gay and lesbian activists decides to raise money to support the families of the striking miners. But there is a problem - the union seems embarrassed to receive their support. However the activists are not deterred. They decide to ignore the union and go direct to the miners. They identify a mining village of Onllwyn, in the Dulais Valley in Wales, and later set off in a mini bus to make their donation in person. And so begins the extraordinary story of two seemingly alien communities who form a surprising and ultimately triumphant partnership.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 61000
Genere: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: touching, political, feel good, witty, sincere, humorous, inspirational, emotional, sad, realistic
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Reaching for the Moon (2013)
Plot Summary:
In 1951 New York poet Elizabeth Bishop travels to Rio de Janeiro to visit Mary, a college friend. The shy Elizabeth is overwhelmed by Brazilian sensuality. She is the antithesis to Mary’s dashing partner, architect Lota de Macedo Soares. Although frosty at first, the architect soon makes a play for Elizabeth and the poet finally succumbs to Lota’s advances. Mary is jealous, but unconventional Lota is determined to have both women at all costs. Their ménage à trois is thrown off balance when Lota starts work on her biggest project to date, designing Parque do Flamengo in Rio. Elizabeth accepts an academic teaching post in the USA and the women drift apart. Lota, at all other times brimming with self-confidence, is inconsolable. This eternal triangle plays out against the backdrop of the military coup of 1964. Bishop’s moving poems are at the core of a film which lushly illustrates a crucial phase in the life of this influential Pulitzer prize-winning poet.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, captivating, realistic, lgbt cinema, deep, romantic drama, historical drama, crying, inspirational
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Gia (1998)
Plot Summary:
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, Gia quickly shoots to the top of the modeling world. When Cooper dies of lung cancer, however, Gia turns to drugs – and both she and her career begin to spiral out of control.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 49000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, melancholic, erotic, sexy, rough, sad, serious, touching, bleak, thought provoking
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Vita & Virginia (2018)
Plot Summary:
Socialite Vita Sackville-West and literary icon Virginia Woolf run in different circles in 1920s London. Despite the odds, the magnetic Vita and the beguiling Virginia forge an unconventional affair, set against the backdrop of their own strikingly contemporary marriages; which inspired one of Woolf's most iconic novels, 'Orlando'.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sentimental, factual, psychological, captivating, period piece, deep, historical drama, historical romance, sensual, queer cinema
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Ammonite (2020)
Plot Summary:
1840s England, an infamous fossil hunter and a young woman sent to convalesce by the sea develop an intense relationship, altering both of their lives forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, Australia, USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: psychological, intellectual, realistic, disturbing, contemplative, period piece, costume drama, erotic, sexy, gothic
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The Invisible Woman (2013)
Plot Summary:
In 1857, at the height of his fame and fortune, novelist and social critic Charles Dickens meets and falls in love with teenage stage actress Nelly Ternan. As she becomes the focus of his heart and mind, as well as his muse, painful secrecy is the price both must pay.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: costume drama, sentimental, serious, captivating, realistic, romantic, romantic drama, historical drama, crying, period piece
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The Duchess (2008)
Plot Summary:
A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 87000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy, France, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: romantic, costume drama, sexy, emotional, dramatic, period piece, historical drama, stylized, heartbreaking, touching
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Little Ashes (2008)
Plot Summary:
About the young life and loves of artist Salvador Dalí, filmmaker Luis Buñuel and writer Federico García Lorca.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, tense, factual, art film, sincere, suspenseful, intellectual, erotic, romantic
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Radioactive (2019)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA, China, Hungary
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: uplifting, intellectual, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, harsh, poignant, inspirational, historical drama
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To Walk Invisible (2016)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: captivating, dark, cult classic, historical drama, gothic, period drama
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A Dangerous Method (2011)
Plot Summary:
Seduced by the challenge of an impossible case, the driven Dr. Carl Jung takes the unbalanced yet beautiful Sabina Spielrein as his patient. Jung’s weapon is the method of his master, the renowned Sigmund Freud. Both men fall under Sabina’s spell.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 107000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, Canada, USA, Switzerland
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, philosophical, intellectual, sexy, period piece, sexual, serious, thought provoking, costume drama, erotic
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Disobedience (2017)
Plot Summary:
A woman learns about the death of her father. She returns to her Orthodox Jewish home and falls in love with her best childhood friend who is now married to her cousin.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Drama
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: melancholic, depressing, sexy, sincere, ambiguous ending, romantic, touching, heartbreaking, social, sad
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Carol (2015)
Plot Summary:
In 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 139000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Australia
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: sexy, serious, emotional, heartbreaking, atmospheric, realistic, erotic, costume drama, romantic, intense
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Professor Marston & the Wonder Women (2017)
Plot Summary:
The unconventional life of Dr. William Marston, the Harvard psychologist and inventor who helped invent the modern lie detector test and created Wonder Woman in 1941.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sad, factual, historical drama, psychological, sentimental, captivating, inspirational, thought provoking