20 best movies like Séraphine (2008)

List of the best movies like Séraphine (2008): Rodin, Klimt, The Danish Girl, Girl with a Pearl Earring, At Eternity's Gate, Mr. Turner, Camille Claudel, 1915, Moulin Rouge, Modigliani, My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown.

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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 6.8
    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: 6.4
    Genredrama, biography
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:35

    Winter, 1915. Confined by her family to an asylum in the South of France - where she will never sculpt again - the chronicle of Camille Claudel's reclusive life, as she waits for a visit from her brother, Paul Claudel.

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

    Fictional account of French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genredrama, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, Romania, France, Italy
    Duration02:08

    Set in Paris in 1919, biopic centers on the life of late Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, focusing on his last days as well as his rivalry with Pablo Picasso. Modigliani, a Jew, has fallen in love with Jeanne, a young and beautiful Catholic girl. The couple has an illegitimate child, and Jeanne's bigoted parents send the baby to a faraway convent to be raised by nuns. Modigliani is distraught and

    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: 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.

    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: 7.4
    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
    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: 6.4
    Genredrama, biography
    CountryFrance, Germany

    Painting is an unacceptable vocation for a woman in provincial Germany in the year 1900, but budding artist Paula Becker is determined to make her own rules.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genredrama, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France
    Duration01:45

    A look at the life of Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, with a focus on the price she paid for power.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genredrama, music, biography
    CountryFrance, Belgium
    Duration02:28

    A biopic of French pop star Claude Francois, most famous for co-writing the song 'My Way'. Tracing his life from his childhood in Egypt through his success in France to his untimely death in Paris in 1978.

    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: 7.8
    Genredrama, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:01

    A high school student falls asleep while sitting in class. When he wakes up, all time is frozen, except for him.

    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.

    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: 7.6
    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: 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: 6.6
    Genremelodrama, drama, military, history
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:39

    In Paris during WWII, an Algerian immigrant is inspired to join the resistance by his unexpected friendship with a Jewish man. Based on not very known facts about the Muslim community in Paris during WWII, when the Paris Mosque and its dynamic leader played a pivotal role in supporting the resistance and rescuing Jews.

    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: 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: 6.8
    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: 7.2
    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, 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
    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: 6.9
      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: 7.3
      Genredrama, crime, biography
      CountryFrance, Belgium
      Duration01:42

      Investigates the corrupt judicial system under which Alain Mar'caux and his wife Edith were arrested on accusations of pedophilia horrific acts they never committed- and the years he spent fighting to get out of prison, clear his name and keep his family.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genredrama, biography, history
      CountryFrance, Belgium

      Follows Joseph Ferdinand Chavel a French postman who built a palace in the French countryside over 33 years.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genremelodrama, drama, biography
      CountryFrance, Belgium

      Spans the period from 1958 to the present day and tells the story of an unconditional love between a mother and her daughter which is endangered by an unsteady and manipulative father.

      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: 7
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryFrance
      Duration01:47

      It's the beginning of the WWII. South of France. Patricia, 18, is the oldest daughter of a well-digger, Pascal, who considers her a princess because of her moral qualities. She's kind, devoted. One day, she briefly meets a young man, Jacques, the son of Mazel, owner of the shop where her father buy his material. He's handsome and teasing. Her father's friend, Felipe, would love to marry her, and he invites her to an aviation show. She accepts his invitation only because she knows Jacques is a pilot and will be there. Soon, she'll carry his child, and he'll be gone, and the family will have to deal with this out-of-wedlock pregnancy...

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genredrama, biography, history
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, France, Belgium, Japan
      Duration01:49

      Jimmy Gralton returns from New York and reopens his beloved community hall, only to meet opposition from the local parish.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genredrama, biography
      CountryKenya, India, USA, Canada, South Africa
      Duration01:50

      A young refugee of the Sudanese Civil War who wins a lottery for relocation to the United States with three other lost boys. Encountering the modern world for the first time, they develop an unlikely friendship with a brash American woman assigned to help them, but the young man struggles to adjust to this new life and his feelings of guilt about the brother he left behind.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genredrama, biography, history
      CountryFrance, Germany, Netherlands
      Duration01:46

      This French-German-Dutch biopic on the life of 17th century Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn is told in flashbacks from the point-of-view of the aged artist. Soon after establishing his career as a painter in Amsterdam, he marries the radiant Saskia. As he makes a name for himself, he can soon afford to buy a large house by teaching wealthy aristocrats how to paint. However, the couple's happiness is short-lived; Saskia dies soon after bearing their son, Titus. Crushed, van Rijn seeks comfort first in the arms of his maid Geertje and then with his second wife, Hendrickje, who gives birth to a daughter. In spite of his genius, van Rijn's determinedly eccentric behavior alienates the very members of the elite who were paying his bills. At one point, the artist's home and belongings, including many of his paintings, are seized and sold for humiliatingly low prices in a rigged auction.

      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: 7.7
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, biography
      CountryItaly, France, Belgium

      Simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet; he uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice.

      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: 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: 7.4
      Genredrama, military, biography, history
      CountryPoland, Germany, United Kingdom

      The story of Polish pedagogue Janusz Korczak and his dedication to protecting Jewish orphans during the war.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genredrama, music, biography
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:27

      A biography of Woody Guthrie, one of America's greatest folk singers. He left his dust-devastated Texas home in the 1930s to find work, discovering the suffering and strength of America's working class.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genredrama, music, biography
      CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
      Duration01:57

        A Los Angeles journalist befriends a homeless Juilliard-trained musician, while looking for a new article for the paper.

        Markimdb: 7
        Genrecomedy, drama, biography
        CountryFrance

        Seyolo Zantoko is a doctor from Congo who wants to get away from dictatorship and he is hired by the mayor of a small village in the north of France. The locals fear Seyolo and his family as they have never seen African people before, and Seyolo and his family struggle to adapt to this new life. But Seyolo is determined to succeed and to win the trust of the villagers.

        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: 6.6
        Genredrama, adventure, military, biography, history
        CountryCanada
        Duration03:00

        Joan of Arc is born in 1412 in the village of Domrémy in the war zone of Northern France. During her youth she often witnesses the horrors of war, but her spirit is kept high by the legend of the Maiden of Lorraine. This says that a young maiden one day will unite the divided country and lead the people to freedom.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genredrama, biography, sport
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:52

        Up-and-coming sports reporter rescues a homeless man ("Champ") only to discover that he is, in fact, a boxing legend believed to have passed away. What begins as an opportunity to resurrect Champ's story and escape the shadow of his father's success becomes a personal journey as the ambitious reporter reexamines his own life and his relationship with his family.




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