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1. Dangerous Beauty (1998)
directed by Marshall Herskovitz
featuring Catherine McCormack, Rufus Sewell, Jacqueline Bisset, Oliver Platt, Moira Kelly
Marshall Herskovitz directed this look at life in 16th-century Venice, based on Margaret Rosenthal's 1994 book The Honest Courtesan. Positioned ... More
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2. Camille Claudel (1989)
directed by Bruno Nuytten
featuring Isabelle Adjani, Gérard Depardieu, Laurent Grévill, Alain Cuny, Madeleine Robinson
The troubled life of French sculptor Camille Claudel and her long relationship with legendary sculptor Auguste Rodin are portrayed in this passionate ... More
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3. The Story of Adele H. (1975)
directed by François Truffaut
featuring Isabelle Adjani, Bruce Robinson, Sylvia Marriott, Reuben Dorey, Joseph Blatchley
Based on the real-life diaries of Adèle Hugo, The Story of Adele H. is a psychological drama opening in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in the 1860s. The ... More
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4. Lady Caroline Lamb (1974)
directed by Robert Bolt
featuring Fanny Rowe, Sarah Miles, Jon Finch, Richard Chamberlain, John Mills, Margaret Leighton
Screenwriter Robert Bolt's directorial debut is a lushly romantic saga concerning the 1812 love affair between the wife of William Lamb, Lord of ... More
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5. Becoming Jane (2007)
directed by Julian Jarrold
featuring Anne Hathaway, James McAvoy, Julie Walters, James Cromwell, Maggie Smith
Events from the life of the author Jane Austen inspired this romantic historical drama, which speculates of a romance that may have had a significant ... More
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6. Frida (2002)
directed by Julie Taymor
featuring Salma Hayek, Alfred Molina, Geoffrey Rush, Ashley Judd, Antonio Banderas
After being attached to a number of actors, directors, and producers, this long-gestating biography of one of Mexico's most prominent, iconoclastic ... More
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7. Queen Christina (1933)
directed by Rouben Mamoulian
featuring Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Ian Keith, Lewis Stone, Elisabeth Young
If Queen Christina is not the best of Greta Garbo's films (as many Garbo fanatics insist), it is certainly the most luxuriously romantic of her ... More
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8. Carrington (1995)
directed by Christopher Hampton
featuring Emma Thompson, Jonathan Pryce, Steven Waddington, Samuel West, Rufus Sewell
Carrington is the true story of the peculiar love affair between two nonconformists in Victorian England: painter Dora Carrington (Emma Thompson) and ... More
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9. The Whole Wide World (1996)
directed by Dan Ireland
featuring Vincent D'Onofrio, Renée Zellweger, Ann Wedgeworth, Harve Presnell, Benjamin Mouton
A touching and unusual love story, The Whole Wide World was based on a memoir by Novalyne Price Ellis, in which she recalled her brief romance with ... More
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10. Farinelli (1994)
directed by Gerard Corbiau
featuring Stefano Dionisi, Enrico Lo Verso, Elsa Zylberstein, Caroline Cellier, Jeroen Krabbé
The performer known as Farinelli, born Carlo Broschi (and played in this film by Stefano Dionisi), was famous in the 18th century as the world's ... More
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11. Lady Jane (1986)
directed by Trevor Nunn
featuring Helena Bonham Carter, Cary Elwes, John Wood, Michael Hordern, Jill Bennett
Lady Jane Grey, the 16-year-old girl who for nine days in the 16th century was Queen of England, is here portrayed by Helena Bonham Carter. Lady Jane ... More
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12. The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934)
directed by Sidney Franklin
featuring Norma Shearer, Fredric March, Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Sullivan, Katherine Alexander
Based on a successful stage drama, this historical romance stars Norma Shearer as Elizabeth Barrett, an invalid largely confined to her bed. ... More
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13. Children of the Century (1999)
directed by Diane Kurys
featuring Juliette Binoche, Benoît Magimel, Stefano Dionisi, Robin Renucci, Karin Viard
While pioneering pre-feminist author George Sand has been the subject of several film biographies focusing on her ten year relationship with ... More
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14. Abel Gance's Beethoven (1936)
directed by Abel Gance
featuring Harry Baur, Annie Ducaux, Jany Holt, Jean-Louis Barrault, Roger Blin, Jean Debucourt
This fascinating biography chronicles the years in which the master composer began to lose his hearing. The director's use of sound to represent ... More
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15. Spring Symphony (1983)
directed by Peter Schamoni
featuring Nastassja Kinski, Rolf Hoppe
Whatever it is about 19th century composer Robert Schumann and his pianist wife Clara Wieck that fascinates filmmakers, it is a strong enough ... More
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16. Dash and Lilly (1999)
directed by Kathy Bates
featuring Sam Shepard, Judy Davis, Bebe Neuwirth, Laurence Luckinbill, David Paymer
Oscar-winning actress Kathy Bates directed this made-for-cable feature inspired by the true story of one of America's greatest literary couples, ... More
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17. Napoleon and Josephine: A Love Story (1987)
directed by Richard T. Heffron
featuring Armand Assante, Jacqueline Bisset
Armand Assante and Jacqueline Bisset star as Napoleon Bonaparte and his faithful wife Josephine in this television mini-series following the powerful ... More
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18. Out of Africa (1985)
directed by Sydney Pollack
featuring Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Michael Kitchen, Malick Bowens
Out of Africa is drawn from the life and writings of Danish author Isak Dinesen, who during the time that the film's events occured was known by her ... More
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19. Cinderella Man (2005)
directed by Ron Howard
featuring Russell Crowe, Renée Zellweger, Paul Giamatti, Craig Bierko, Paddy Considine
The true story of an athlete who achieved his greatest success against the most daunting odds of his life is brought to the screen in this historical ... More
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20. Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
directed by Charles Jarrott
featuring Richard Burton, Geneviève Bujold, Irene Papas, Anthony Quayle, John Colicos
Anne of the Thousand Days is the belated film adaptation of Maxwell Anderson's 1948 stage play. The story concentrates on the romance between Britain ... More
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21. Chaplin (1992)
directed by Richard Attenborough
featuring Robert Downey, Jr., Dan Aykroyd, Geraldine Chaplin, Kevin Dunn, Anthony Hopkins
Partly based on Charlie Chaplin's My Autobiography, this humorous and dramatic biopic features an all-star cast including Oscar nominee Robert Downey ... More
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22. The Elephant Man (1980)
directed by David Lynch
featuring Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller
John Hurt stars as John Merrick, the hideously deformed 19th century Londoner known as "The Elephant Man". Treated as a sideshow freak, Merrick is ... More
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23. Lust for Life (1956)
directed by Vincente Minnelli
featuring Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, James Donald, Pamela Brown, Everett Sloane
This filmed biography of Vincent Van Gogh was adapted by Norman Corwin from the best-selling novel by Irving Stone, which was in turn inspired by the ... More
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24. Quills (2000)
directed by Philip Kaufman
featuring Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet, Joaquin Phoenix, Michael Caine, Billie Whitelaw
The Marquis de Sade was a man who liked to stir up trouble, at a time when his native France was in a state of tremendous political turmoil, and this ... More
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25. Creation (2010)
directed by Jon Amiel
featuring Paul Bettany, Jennifer Connelly, Jeremy Northam, Toby Jones, Benedict Cumberbatch
Actor Paul Bettany and his real-life wife, Jennifer Connelly, star as controversial English scientist Charles Darwin and his wife, Emily, in this ... More
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