Movies Like The Lovers of Montparnasse
If you liked The Lovers of Montparnasse (1958), a romance and drama movie directed by Jacques Becker, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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At Eternity's Gate (2018)
★ 7/10Also drama and historyFamed but tormented artist Vincent van Gogh spends his final years in Arles, France, painting masterworks of the natural world that surrounds him.
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Lust for Life (1956)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and historyAn intense and imaginative artist, revered Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh possesses undeniable talent, but he is plagued by mental problems and frustrations with failure. Supported by his brother, Theo, the tormented…
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Four Nights of a Dreamer (1972)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and romanceJacques, a young man with artistic aspirations, spends four nights wandering Paris with a young woman, whom he rescued from suicide.
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Pollock (2000)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and historyIn August of 1949, Life Magazine ran a banner headline that begged the question: "Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?" The film is a look back into the life of an extraordinary man…
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Lost Illusions (2021)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and romanceLucien de Rubempré, a young, lower-class poet, leaves his family's printing house for Paris. Soon, he learns the dark side of the arts business as he tries to stay true to his dreams.
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Final Portrait (2017)
★ 6/10Also history and dramaParis, 1964. The Swiss sculptor and painter Alberto Giacometti, one of the most accomplished and respected artists of his generation, asks his friend, the American writer James Lord, to sit for a portrait, assuring him…
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Niki (2024)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and historyFrench-American artist Niki de Saint-Phalle, from the age of 23, is a model and an aspiring actor who is married and has a two year old daughter. Together, they flee the U.S. during the oppressive McCarthy era and come…
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Basquiat (1996)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and historyThe brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame, drugs and his identity.
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La Vie de Bohème (1992)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and romanceThree penniless artists become friends in modern-day Paris: Rodolfo, an Albanian painter with no visa, Marcel, a playwright and magazine editor with no publisher, and Schaunard, a post-modernist composer of execrable…
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Stavisky... (1974)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and historyBiarritz, 1933. Charm and talent assist small-time swindler Serge Alexandre, alias Stavisky, to bribe his way into the centre of French politics. But when his great scam involving millions is exposed, he brings the…
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Désirée (1954)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and romanceIn Marseilles, France in 1794, Desiree Clary, a young millinery clerk, becomes infatuated with Napoleon Bonaparte, but winds up wedding General Jean-Baptiste Berandotte, an aid to Napoleon who later joins the forces…
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Loving Vincent (2017)
★ 8/10Also drama and historyA young man arrives at the last hometown of painter Vincent van Gogh to deliver the troubled artist's final letter and ends up investigating his final days there.
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Candy (2006)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and romanceA poet falls in love with an art student, who gravitates to his bohemian lifestyle — and his love of heroin. Hooked as much on one another as they are on the drug, their relationship alternates between states of…
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Nightwatching (2007)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and historyAn 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.
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The World of Suzie Wong (1960)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and romanceA Hong Kong prostitute tries modeling and falls for the artist who's painting her.
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The House of Mirth (2000)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and romanceIn early 20th century New York City, an impoverished socialite desperately seeks a suitable husband as she gradually finds herself betrayed by her friends and exiled from high society.
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Caravaggio (1986)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and historyA retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtations with the underworld.
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Those People (2015)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and romanceOn Manhattan's gilded Upper East Side, a young gay painter is torn between an obsession with his infamous best friend and a promising new romance with an older foreign pianist.
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Van Gogh (1991)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and historyAfter leaving the asylum, Vincent van Gogh settles in the home of Doctor Gachet, where he keeps painting amidst the torments of his failing mental health. He begins an affair with his host’s daughter, however, she soon…
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Tulip Fever (2017)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and romanceAn 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.