20 best movies like Moulin Rouge (1952)

List of the best movies like Moulin Rouge (1952): Lust for Life, The Danish Girl, Klimt, Mr. Turner, Gauguin : Voyage de Tahiti, Rodin, Big Eyes, Phantom of the Opera, Cezanne and I, Maudie.

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Markimdb: 7.3
Genredrama, biography
CountryUSA
Duration02:02

An 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 Van Gogh eventually leaves Holland for France, where he meets volatile fellow painter Paul Gauguin and struggles to find greater inspiration.

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: 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: 6.8
    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: 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: 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
    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: 6.4
      Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama, music
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:32

      Pit violinist Claudin hopelessly loves rising operatic soprano Christine Dubois (as do baritone Anatole and police inspector Raoul) and secretly aids her career. But Claudin loses both his touch and his job, murders a rascally music publisher in a fit of madness, and has his face etched with acid. Soon, mysterious crimes plague the Paris Opera House, blamed on a legendary "phantom".

      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: 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: 7.4
      Genremelodrama, drama, music, biography
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration02:01

      The life and death of the legendary Ludwig van Beethoven. Beside all the work he is known for, the composer once wrote a famous love letter to a nameless beloved and the movie tries to find out who this beloved was. Not easy as Beethoven has had many women in his life.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genremelodrama, drama, biography
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Luxembourg, France, Belgium, USA
      Duration01:40

      This film, adapted from a work of fiction by author Tracy Chevalier, tells a story about the events surrounding the creation of the painting "Girl With A Pearl Earring" by 17th century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer. A young peasant maid working in the house of painter Johannes Vermeer becomes his talented assistant and the model for one of his most famous works.

      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: 6.7
      Genremelodrama, drama, military, biography
      CountryNetherlands
      Duration02:10

      Waldemar Nods, a young man from Suriname, meets the older Dutch woman Rika van der Lans and they fall in love. In pre-WWII Netherlands they could not be more different. The one black, the other white, 17 years between them and on top of that Rika already has four children with another man. They love each other, but then Rika appears to be pregnant...

      Markimdb: 7
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, music, biography
      CountryAustralia

      It's 1968, and four young, talented Australian Aboriginal girls learn about love, friendship and war when they entertain the US troops in Vietnam as singing group The Sapphires.

      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: 6.8
      Genredrama, music, biography
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:07

      In this biographical drama, Selena Quintanilla is born into a musical Mexican-American family in Texas. Her father, Abraham, realizes that his young daughter is talented and begins performing with her at small venues. She finds success and falls for her guitarist, Chris Perez, who draws the ire of her father. Seeking mainstream stardom, Selena begins recording an English-language album which, tragically, she would never complete.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genredrama, biography, sport
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:59

      In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell, a devout Christian born to Scottish missionaries in China, sees running as part of his worship of God's glory and refuses to train or compete on the Sabbath. Harold Abrahams overcomes anti-Semitism and class bias, but neglects his beloved sweetheart in his single-minded quest.

      Markimdb: 8.1
      Genremelodrama, drama, music
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration02:13

      In this classic drama, Vicky Page is an aspiring ballerina torn between her dedication to dance and her desire to love. While her imperious instructor, Boris Lermontov, urges to her to forget anything but ballet, Vicky begins to fall for the charming young composer Julian Craster. Eventually Vicky, under great emotional stress, must choose to pursue either her art or her romance, a decision that carries serious consequences.

      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
      Genremelodrama, drama, crime, music, biography
      CountryBrazil, France
      Duration02:20

      A story inspired by the life of one of the most remarkable figures in Brazilian popular culture, João Francisco dos Santos (1900-1976). In turn, bandit, transvestite, street fighter, brothel cook, convict and father to seven adopted children, dos Santos – better known as Madame Satã – was also a notorious gay performer who pushed social boundaries in a volatile time.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genremelodrama, drama, biography
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Japan, Germany
      Duration01:58

      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.

      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: 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: 7.2
      Genremelodrama, drama, music, biography
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:52

      Legendary trumpeter Art Hazzard teaches young Rick Martin everything he knows about playing, so Rick becomes a star musician, but a troubled marriage and the desire to play pure jazz instead of commercial swing songs cause him problems.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genredrama, music, biography
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration02:35

      The story of the late jazz musician and classical pianist Nina Simone including her rise to fame and relationship with her manager Clifton Henderson.

      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: 7
      Genremelodrama, drama, music, biography
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:24

      Chronicles the rise and fall of legendary blues singer Billie Holiday. Her late childhood, stint as a prostitute, early tours, marriages and drug addiction are featured.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genremelodrama, drama, music, biography
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada
      Duration01:38

      The drama tells the story of Lennon's teenage years and the start of his journey to becoming a successful musician. The story also examines the impact on his early life and personality of the two dominant females in his childhood

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration02:08

      Miss Havisham, a wealthy spinster who wears an old wedding dress and lives in the dilapidated Satis House, asks Pip's "Uncle Pumblechook" (who is actually Joe's uncle) to find a boy to play with her adopted daughter Estella. Pip begins to visit Miss Havisham and Estella, with whom he falls in love,then Pip a humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.

      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: 7.2
      Genremelodrama, drama, music, biography
      CountryBelgium, Italy

      The true story of Rocco Granata, an Italian coal miner's son who followed his passion for music against his father's wishes and social barriers.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genremelodrama, drama, music, biography
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:58

      Based on the autobiographical novel, the tempestuous 6-year relationship between Liberace and his (much younger) lover, Scott Thorson, is recounted.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genredrama, music, biography
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration02:19

      A chronicle of James Brown's rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genremelodrama, drama, biography
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Japan, USA
      Duration02:03

        The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genredrama, music, biography
        CountryUnited Kingdom, Republic of Ireland
        Duration01:43

        The story of music legend Terri Hooley, a key figure in Belfast's punk rock scene. Hooley founded the Good Vibrations store from which a record label sprung, representing bands such as The Undertones, Rudi and The Outcasts.

        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: 7.5
        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: 7.2
        Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
        CountryFrance
        Duration02:38

        The life of Camille Claudel, a french sculptor 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.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, biography
        CountryMexico

        Mike Todd is a Broadway producer struggling to produce the film. Around the World in 80 Days. In Mexico, Mario Moreno, a young entertainer is struggling to get some respect, and he manages to become a star. A twist of faith makes them partners. Together they won the Oscar for Best Picture.

        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: 6.9
        Genremelodrama, drama, music, biography
        CountryUSA, France, United Kingdom
        Duration02:11

        A biography of the dancer Isadora Duncan, the 1920s dancer who forever changed people's ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance projects as well as her attitudes on free love, debt, dress, and lifestyle shocked the public of her time.

        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: 6.8
        Genredrama, biography, history
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

        British Prime Minister Winston Churchill suffers from a stroke in the summer of 1953 that's kept a secret from the rest of the world.

        Markimdb: 7.4
        Genremelodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:21

        When lovely and virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy comes to educate the children of the debonair Duc de Praslin, a royal subject to King Louis-Philippe and the husband of the volatile and obsessive Duchesse de Praslin, she instantly incurs the wrath of her mistress, who is insanely jealous of anyone who comes near her estranged husband. Though she saves the duchess's little son from a near-death illness and warms herself to all the children, she is nevertheless dismissed by the vengeful duchess. Meanwhile, the attraction between the duke and Henriette continues to grow, eventually leading to tragedy.

        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: 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: 6.5
        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: 7.7
        Genremelodrama, drama, military, biography
        CountryGermany, Italy
        Duration02:16

        Inspired by real events and spanning three eras of German history, film tells the story of Kurt, a young art student who falls in love with fellow student, Ellie. Ellie’s father, Professor Seeband, a famous doctor, is dismayed at his daughter’s choice of boyfriend, and vows to destroy the relationship. What neither of them knows is that their lives are already connected through a terrible crime Seeband committed decades ago.

        Markimdb: 7.6
        Genredrama, biography
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:36

        In 1858 France, Bernadette, an adolescent peasant girl, has a vision of "a beautiful lady" in the city dump. She never claims it to be anything other than this, but the townspeople all assume it to be the virgin Mary. The pompous government officials think she is nuts, and do their best to suppress the girl and her followers, and the church wants nothing to do with the whole matter. But as Bernadette attracts wider and wider attention, the phenomenon overtakes everyone in the the town, and transforms their lives.




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