20 best movies like Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)

List of the best movies like Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003): Gauguin : Voyage de Tahiti, Cezanne and I, Mr. Turner, The Danish Girl, Moulin Rouge, Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon, Rodin, Séraphine, Big Eyes, Albert Nobbs.

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Markimdb: 5.9
Genremelodrama, drama, biography
CountryFrance
Duration02:04

Paul Gauguin feels smothered by the atmosphere prevailing in Paris in the year 1891. Around him, everything is so artificial and conventional: he needs authenticity to renew his art. Failing to convince his wife Mette and his five children to follow him to Paradise Lost, he sets out for Tahiti alone. Once there, he chooses to settle down in Mataiera, a village far away from Papeete, installing himself in a native-made hut. He soon starts working passionately, painting and carving in a style close to the primitive art specific to the island. During his two-year stay the artist will experience poverty, cardiac problems and other displeasures but also happiness in the arms of Tehura, a beautiful young native girl.

Markimdb: 6
Genredrama, biography
CountryBelgium, France

They loved each other with the ardor of thirteen-year-old boys. Rebellion and curiosity, hopes and doubts, girls and dreams of glory – they shared it all. Paul was rich, Emile poor. They went skinny-dipping, drank absinthe, starved, only to overeat. Sketched models by day, caressed them by night... Now, Paul is a painter and Emile a writer. Glory has passed Paul by. But Emile has it all: fame, money, the perfect wife, whom Paul once loved. They judge each other, admire each other, confront each other. They lose touch, meet up again, like a couple who cannot stop loving each other.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genredrama, biography, history
CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Germany, USA
Duration02:30

Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes involved with a seaside landlady, while his faithful housekeeper bears an unrequited love for him.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genremelodrama, drama, biography
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Germany, Denmark, Belgium, Japan
Duration02:35

    When Gerda Wegener asks her husband Einar to fill in as a portrait model, Einar discovers the person she's meant to be and begins living her life as Lili Elbe. Having realized her true self and with Gerda's love and support, Lili embarks on a groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genremelodrama, drama, music, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:59

    Fictional account of French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Japan, USA
    Duration01:31

    Biography of the British painter Francis Bacon. The movie focuses on his relationship with George Dyer, his lover. Dyer was a former small time crook.

    Markimdb: 5
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography
    CountryFrance, Belgium
    Duration02:26

    Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), man of the people, autodidact and revolutionary sculptor - the most brilliant of his era. At 42, Rodin meets Camille Claudel, a young woman desperate to become his assistant. He quickly acknowledges her as his most able pupil, and treats her as an equal in matters of creation.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genredrama, biography
    CountryFrance, Belgium
    Duration02:05

    The tragic story of French naïve painter Séraphine Louis aka Séraphine de Senlis (1864-1942), a humble servant who becomes a gifted self-taught painter. Discovered by prominent critic and collector William Uhde, she came to prominence between the wars grouped with other naïve painters like Henri Rouseau only to descend into madness and obscurity with the onset of Great Depression and World War II.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genremelodrama, drama, crime, biography
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration01:46

      The story of the awakening of the painter, Margaret Keane, her phenomenal success in the 1950s, and the subsequent legal difficulties she had with her husband, who claimed credit for her works in the 1960s.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, France, USA
      Duration01:53

      Albert Nobbs struggles to survive in late 19th century Ireland, where women aren't encouraged to be independent. Posing as a man, so she can work as a butler in Dublin's most posh hotel, Albert meets a handsome painter and looks to escape the lie she has been living.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:33

      As influential Italian artist Caravaggio dies in exile in 1610, he recalls his short life, from his childhood to his initial artistic failures to his later triumphs as he catches the eye of a sympathetic cardinal to his destructive relationship with a dashing gambler.

      Markimdb: 5.1
      Genredrama, biography
      CountryAustria, France, Germany, United Kingdom
      Duration02:11

      A portrait of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt whose lavish, sexual paintings came to symbolize the art nouveau style of the late 19th and early 20th century.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genredrama, biography
      CountryFrance, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, USA
      Duration03:14

      The tragic story of Vincent van Gogh broadened by focusing as well on his brother Theodore, who helped support Vincent. Based on the letters written between the two.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrefantasy, melodrama, drama, biography
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Russia, Italy, France, Netherlands
      Duration01:34

      England, 1600. Queen Elizabeth I promises Orlando, a young nobleman obsessed with poetry, that she will grant him land and fortune if he agrees to satisfy a very particular request.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Luxembourg, USA, Republic of Ireland, Australia
      Duration02:05

      The love affair between poet Percy Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin resulted in the creation of an immortal novel, “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.”

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genredrama, biography
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:25

      This character study joins the painter at the height of his fame in 1642, when his adored wife suddenly dies and his work takes a dark, sardonic turn that offends his patrons. By 1656, he is bankrupt but consoles himself with the company of pretty maid Hendrickje, whom he's unable to marry. Their relationship brings ostracism but also some measure of happiness. The final scenes find him in his last year, 1669, physically enfeebled but his spirit undimmed.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genremelodrama, drama, biography
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Kenya, France

      The true story of an 84 year-old Kenyan villager and ex Mau Mau freedom fighter who fights for his right to go to school for the first time to get the education he could never afford.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genremelodrama, drama, biography
      CountryRepublic of Ireland, Canada

      Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis falls in love with a fishmonger while working for him as a live-in housekeeper.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genremelodrama, drama, biography
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:28

      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.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genredrama, biography
      CountryUSA, Republic of Ireland, France, Iceland, Mexico, Belgium, United Kingdom, Hong Kong
      Duration02:04

      Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid 19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dr. William Minor.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genredocumentary, history
      CountryCanada, USA, France, Germany, United Kingdom
      Duration01:30

      Werner Herzog gains exclusive access to film inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France, capturing the oldest known pictorial creations of humankind in their astonishing natural setting.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genredrama, biography, history
      CountryRepublic of Ireland, Luxembourg, United Kingdom, France, USA
      Duration01:46

      Famed but tormented artist Vincent van Gogh spends his final years in Arles, France, painting masterworks of the natural world that surrounds him.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genremelodrama, drama, biography
      CountryFrance, Belgium
      Duration02:19

      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.

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genremelodrama, drama, biography
      CountrySpain, United Kingdom, France, USA, Germany
      Duration01:32

      Scandal erupts over a famous bullfighter's affair with a left-wing actress.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration01:57

      An aspiring young physician, Robert Merivel found himself in the service of King Charles II and saves the life of someone close to the King. Merivel joins the King's court and lives the high life provided to someone of his position. Merivel is ordered to marry his King's mistress in order to divert the queens suspicions. He is given one order by the king and that is not to fall in love. The situation worsens when Merivel finds himself in love with his new wife. Eventually, the King finds out and relieves Merivel of his position and wealth. His fall from grace leaves Merivel where he first started. And through his travels and reunions with an old friend, he rediscovers his love for true medicine and what it really means to be a physician.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genredrama, biography
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:48

      The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame, drugs and his identity.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
      CountryFrance, United Kingdom, Thailand
      Duration02:12

      The story of Aung San Suu Kyi as she becomes the core of Burma's democracy movement, and her relationship with her husband, writer Michael Aris.

      Markimdb: 5.5
      Genremelodrama, drama, biography
      CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Sweden, Belgium
      Duration01:52

      During the last two years of her life, Princess Diana campaigns against the use of land mines and has a secret love affair with a Pakistani heart surgeon.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration02:15

      A drama about explorer John Smith and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers in the 17th century.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
      CountryCzech Republic, United Kingdom, France, USA
      Duration02:31

      The inspiring true story of Seretse Khama, the King of Bechuanaland (modern Botswana), and Ruth Williams, the London office worker he married in 1948 in the face of fierce opposition from their families and the British and South African governments. Seretse and Ruth defied family, Apartheid and empire - their love triumphed over every obstacle flung in their path and in so doing they transformed their nation and inspired the world.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genremelodrama, drama, biography
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Spain
      Duration01:52

      About the young life and loves of artist Salvador Dalí, filmmaker Luis Buñuel and writer Federico García Lorca.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genredrama, biography, history
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, France
      Duration02:08

      "Selma," as in Alabama, the place where segregation in the South was at its worst, leading to a march that ended in violence, forcing a famous statement by President Lyndon B. Johnson that ultimately led to the signing of the Civil Rights Act.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
      CountryNetherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg

      Young and talented Han van Meegeren is a rebel in the early 1920's Amsterdam art-scene. Because he paints in the style of his idols Rembrandt and Vermeer, critics find his work old-fashioned and they call him a copycat. Just to prove a point, he produces a fake Vermeer and tries to pass it off as a real one. It works. Instead of revealing the truth and thereby embarrassing the art world, he continues to make money off of his many forgeries. Soon he is caught in a web of lies and deceit, and his life spins out of control. Then one day, high ranking Nazi Hermann Göring knocks on his door, looking for a Vermeer for his private collection...

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryFrance, United Kingdom, India, USA

      Director Jean Renoir’s entrancing first color feature—shot entirely on location in India—is a visual tour de force. Based on the novel by Rumer Godden, the film eloquently contrasts the growing pains of three young women with the immutability of the Bengal river around which their daily lives unfold. Enriched by Renoir’s subtle understanding and appreciation for India and its people, The River gracefully explores the fragile connections between transitory emotions and everlasting creation.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
      CountryUSA, France, Japan
      Duration02:03

      The retelling of France's iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette. From her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at 15 to her reign as queen at 19 and ultimately the fall of Versailles.

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genremelodrama, drama, biography
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:40

      The Newlyn School of artists flourished at the beginning of the 20th Century and the film focuses on the wild and bohemian Lamorna Group, which included Alfred Munnings and Laura and Harold Knight. The incendiary anti-Modernist Munnings, now regarded as one of Britain's most sought-after artists, is at the centre of the complex love triangle, involving aspiring artist Florence Carter-Wood and Gilbert Evans, the land agent in charge of the Lamorna Valley estate. True - and deeply moving - the story is played out against the timeless beauty of the Cornish coast, in the approaching shadow of The Great War.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genremelodrama, drama, western, biography
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:37

      Wyatt Earp and his brothers Morgan and Virgil ride into Tombstone and leave brother James in charge of their cattle herd. On their return they find their cattle stolen and James dead. Wyatt takes on the job of town marshal, making his brothers deputies, and vows to stay in Tombstone until James' killers are found. He soon runs into the brooding, coughing, hard-drinking Doc Holliday as well as the sullen and vicious Clanton clan. Wyatt discovers the owner of a trinket stolen from James' dead body and the stage is set for the Earps' long-awaited revenge.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genremelodrama, drama, biography
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:24

      It's San Francisco in 1957, and an American masterpiece is put on trial. Howl, the film, recounts this dark moment using three interwoven threads: the tumultuous life events that led a young Allen Ginsberg to find his true voice as an artist, society's reaction (the obscenity trial), and mind-expanding animation that echoes the startling originality of the poem itself. All three coalesce in a genre-bending hybrid that brilliantly captures a pivotal moment-the birth of a counterculture.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:51

      Loosely based on the Charles Dickens' classic novel, "Great Expectations" is a sensual tale of a young man's unforgettable passage into manhood, and the three individuals who will undeniably change his life forever. Through the surprising interactions of these vivid characters, "Great Expectations" takes a unique and contemporary look at life's great coincidences.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genremelodrama, drama, music, biography
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany
      Duration01:40

      Chronicles the early days of The Beatles in Hamburg, Germany. The film focuses primarily on the relationship between Stuart Sutcliffe, John Lennon, and Sutcliffe's girlfriend Astrid Kirchherr.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genremelodrama, drama, biography
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:44

      A look at the mysterious relationship between Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his teenage bride Effie Gray.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genremelodrama, drama, music, biography, history
      CountryFrance
      Duration01:55

      It's late 17th century. The viola da gamba player Monsieur de Sainte Colombe comes home to find that his wife died while he was away. In his grief he builds a small house in his garden into wich he moves to dedicate his life to music and his two young daughters Madeleine and Toinette, avoiding the outside world. Rumor about him and his music is widespread, and even reaches to the court of Louis XIV, who wants him at his court in Lully's orchestra, but Monsieur de Sainte Colombe refuses. One day a young man, Marin Marais, comes to see him with a request, he wants to be taught how to play the violin.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genremelodrama, drama, biography
      CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA, China, Hungary

      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.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genredrama, biography, history
      CountryUSA, France, United Kingdom, Japan
      Duration01:33

      The story of journalist, Edward R Murrow's stand against Senator McCarthy's anti-communist witch-hunts in the early 1950s.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryFrance, Australia, Germany, Italy, USA
      Duration01:40

      The O'Neills lived happily in their house in the Australian countryside. That was until one day fate struck blindly, taking the life of Peter, the father, leaving his grief-stricken wife Dawn alone with their four children. Among them, eight-year-old Simone denies this reality. She is persuaded that her father still lives in the giant fig tree growing near their house and speaks to her through its leaves. But the tree becomes more and more invasive and threatens the house. It must be felled. Of course, Simone won't allow it.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Australia
      Duration02:35

      In 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:30

      An outwardly confident but unmarried woman on the verge of her fortieth birthday reflects on her past suitors and the choices she once made while attempting to help her marriage minded niece choose between a number of potential suitors in this tale inspired by the life and letters of Jane Austen. Jane Austen is about to turn forty, but she still hasn't found her ideal man. When Jane is approached by her niece Fanny and asked to help select the perfect husband for the young girl, the aging spinster begins to wonder why it is that she never found a man to share her own life with. Perhaps if Jane had accepted the proposal of a wealthy landowner she could have saved her family from financial ruin, and what of the handsome young physician who once warmed to Jane after tending to her ailing family members?

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genremelodrama, drama, crime, biography
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:06

      When Colin Warner was wrongfully convicted of murder, his best friend Carl King devoted his life to proving his innocence.

      Markimdb: 7.9
      Genredrama, biography
      CountryRepublic of Ireland, United Kingdom
      Duration01:43

      In this true story told through flashbacks, Christy Brown is born with crippling cerebral palsy into a poor, working-class Irish family. Able only to control movement in his left foot and to speak in guttural sounds, he is mistakenly believed to be retarded for the first ten years of his life.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genredrama, music, biography
      CountryFrance
      Duration02:15

      A glimpse at the life of French singer Serge Gainsbourg, from growing up in 1940s Nazi-occupied Paris through his successful song-writing years in the 1960s to his death in 1991 at the age of 62.




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