20 movies like Lady With Red Hair, ordered by similarity : The Incredible Sarah(1976), Till the Clouds Roll By(1946), The Jolson Story(1946), The Helen Morgan Story(1957), On the Basis of Sex(2018), I'll See You in My Dreams(1951), Star!(1968), Man of a Thousand Faces(1957), Beautiful Boy(2018), Prince of Players(1955), Birdman of Alcatraz(1962), The Toast of New York(1937) ...
Biography
USA
1940
81 Minutes
Miriam Hopkins Claude Rains Richard Ainley Laura Hope Crews Helen Westley John Litel Victor Jory
actress actor producer socialite ex-husband son melodramatic powerful chicago new york city courtroom theater boarding house divorce child custody adultery theater ambition mother/son relationship love
A messy divorce leaves Mrs. Leslie Carter shunned by Chicago society for being an adulteress and forbidden from having custody of her son. She's determined to return to her hometown in a ... See full summary »
Biography
1976
106 Minutes
Glenda Jackson Daniel Massey Yvonne Mitchell Douglas Wilmer David Langton Simon Williams John Castle
actress artist nobleman director lover actor engaging outlandish hedonistic france theater audition sarah bernhardt acting love interest theater show business career rise transformation
French actress Sarah Bernhardt (Glenda Jackson) carries on a personal life offstage as flamboyantly as she acts onstage.
Musical, Biography
USA
1946
132 Minutes
Robert Walker Van Heflin Lucille Bremer Dorothy Patrick Judy Garland Kathryn Grayson Lena Horne Tony Martin Dinah Shore Frank Sinatra June Allyson
composer mentor daughter producer sweetheart singer charming confident moving new york city theater ship london countryside nightclub songwriting ambition broadway romance competition
Biography of songwriter and Broadway pioneer, Jerome Kern (Robert Walker). Unable to find immediate success in the U.S., Kern sought recognition abroad. He journeyed to England where his dreams of success became real and where he met his future wife Eva Leale (Dorothy Patrick).
Biography
USA
1946
128 Minutes
Larry Parks Evelyn Keyes William Demarest Bill Goodwin Ludwig Donath Tamara Shayne John Alexander Jo-Carroll Dennison Ernest Cossart Scotty Beckett William Forrest
cantor singer actor vaudevillian performer entertainer charming endearing playful rousing synagogue theater nightclub movie studio washington, d.c. backstage al jolson father/son relationship show business career vs. family
This movie shows the idealized career of the singer Al Jolson, a little Jewish boy who goes against the will of his father in order to be in showbiz. He becomes a star, falls in love with a... See full summary »
Biography
USA
1957
118 Minutes
Ann Blyth Paul Newman Richard Carlson Gene Evans Alan King Cara Williams Virginia Vincent Walter Woolf King Dorothy Green Edward Platt Warren Douglas
singer broadway producer broadway star bootlegger boyfriend alcoholic bleak melodramatic brooding broadway theater hospital new york city chicago nightclub carnival musical performance rise to stardom alcoholism romance helen morgan
Torch singer Helen Morgan rises from sordid beginnings to fame and fortune only to lose it all to alcohol and poor personal choices.
Biography, Drama, History
USA|China|Canada
2018
120 Minutes
Felicity Jones Armie Hammer Justin Theroux Jack Reynor Cailee Spaeny Stephen Root Sam Waterston Kathy Bates Chris Mulkey Francis X. McCarthy Wendy Crewson
attorney mother husband judge child incredible inspiring emotional confident tense new york city house court party office washington, d.c. gender equality ruth bader ginsberg court battles historical events
The true story of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, her struggles for equal rights, and the early cases of a historic career that lead to her nomination and confirmation as U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice.
Biography
1951
110 Minutes
Doris Day Danny Thomas Frank Lovejoy Patrice Wymore James Gleason Julie Oshins
lyricist songwriter wife producer composer star creative amusing moving chicago office household new york city theater hollywood, calif. gus kahn songwriting show business marriage family
Songwriter Gus Kahn (Danny Thomas) and his wife (Doris Day) have problems as he pens hit tunes like "It Had to Be You."
Biography
USA
1968
122 Minutes
Julie Andrews Richard Crenna Michael Craig Daniel Massey Robert Reed Bruce Forsyth Beryl Reid John Collin
singer playwright husband actor spirited melodramatic engaging theater england new york city entertainment fame marital problems debt rise transformation love 1940s
A musical biography of Gertrude Lawrence, who led a hustling and bustling life on the stage.
Biography
USA
1957
122 Minutes
James Cagney Dorothy Malone Jane Greer Marjorie Rambeau Jim Backus Robert Evans Celia Lovsky Jeanne Cagney Jack Albertson Roger Smith Robert Lyden
actor wife son movie star father mother emotional powerful stage hollywood, calif. family home backstage san francisco show business marriage child custody mental illness lon chaney love transformation
The life and career of vaudevillian and silent screen horror star Lon Chaney, including his contentious relationship with his neurotic wife and his premature death.
Biography, Drama
USA
2018
112 Minutes
Steve Carell Timothée Chalamet Maura Tierney Amy Ryan Timothy Hutton Kaitlyn Dever Andre Royo LisaGay Hamilton
father son ex-wife drug addict doctor addict emotional intense melancholy raw tender powerful united states new york city los angeles school home addiction father/son relationship love
Based on the best-selling pair of memoirs from father and son David and Nic Sheff, Beautiful Boy chronicles the heartbreaking and inspiring experience of survival, relapse and recovery in a family coping with addiction over many years.
Biography
USA
1955
102 Minutes
Richard Burton Maggie McNamara John Derek Raymond Massey Charles Bickford Elizabeth Sellars Eva Le Gallienne Bill Walker
actor john wilkes booth alcoholic actress abolitionist wife sad emotional touching maryland san francisco new york city theater graveyard edwin booth theater production tragic death assassination historical events abraham lincoln
A tragic and sentimental story that depicts the early career of the 19th century American actor, Edwin Booth with some mention of the events leading to the assassination of President ... See full summary »
Biography, Drama, Crime
USA
1962
148 Minutes
Burt Lancaster Karl Malden Thelma Ritter Betty Field Neville Brand Edmond O'Brien Hugh Marlowe Telly Savalas James Westerfield Chris Robinson
prisoner warden guard mother wife moving touching leavenworth prison alcatraz island missouri solitude prison new love redemption rise transformation 1960s
A surly convicted murderer held in permanent isolation redeems himself when he becomes a renowned bird expert.
Biography
USA
1937
109 Minutes
Edward Arnold Cary Grant Frances Farmer Jack Oakie Donald Meek Clarence Kolb Billy Gilbert Stanley Fields
financier best friend cornelius vanderbilt actress smuggler victim melodramatic charming new york city office wall street theater stocks finance schemes corruption love triangle quest transformation 1870s
Notorious robber baron financier Jim Fisk, who makes and loses fortunes, tries to corner the gold market as well as the heart of a beautiful actress.
Drama, History, Biography
USA
2017
108 Minutes
Luke Evans Rebecca Hall Bella Heathcote Connie Britton Monica Giordano JJ Feild Chris Conroy Oliver Platt Maggie Castle Alexa Havins Sharon Kubo
professor writer inventor lover wife emotional sultry powerful passionate intricate inspiring harvard university massachusetts house stage classroom womanhood comic books threesome marriage
The story of psychologist William Moulton Marston, and his polyamorous relationship with his wife and their mistress who would inspire his creation of the superheroine, Wonder Woman.
Adventure, History, Biography, Drama
USA|Czech Republic|Spain
2017
133 Minutes
Charlie Hunnam Rami Malek Roland Møller Nina Senicar Tommy J. Flanagan Eve Hewson Christopher Fairbank Brian Vernel
convict innocent man prison guard prisoner escape artist friend tense bleak thrilling suspenseful incredible intricate prison island prison cell paris french guiana apartment prison prison break
Wrongfully convicted for murder, Henri Charriere forms an unlikely relationship with fellow inmate and quirky convicted counterfeiter Louis Dega, in an attempt to escape from the notorious penal colony on Devil's Island.
Drama
2017
106 Minutes
Jean Jean Ramón Emilio Candelario Judith Rodriguez Jose Cruz Manuel Raposo Karina Valdez Aleja Johnson Carlota Carretero Keunis Álvarez Orestes Amador
prison guard prisoner prisoners messenger gangsters love interest romantic interest romantic rival rival dark disturbing emotional engaging gripping intense moving passionate powerful raw tense
Incarcerated in the Dominican Republic, an inmate uses sign language to communicate with his imprisoned girlfriend at an adjacent institution.
Biography, Drama
UK|Cayman Islands|Denmark|USA
2008
92 Minutes
Tom Hardy Kelly Adams Luing Andrews Katy Barker Amanda Burton Mark Devenport Paul Donnelly Andrew Forbes Jon House Matt King James Lance
prisoner fighter prison guard promoter wife teacher brutal unrestrained gritty england prison cell solitary confinement prison life michael peterson solitary confinement crime criminal justice system alter ego underdog
A young man who was sentenced to seven years in prison for robbing a post office ends up spending three decades in solitary confinement. During this time, his own personality is supplanted by his alter-ego, Charles Bronson.
Biography
USA
1949
96 Minutes
entertainer wife agent producer nurse cheery melodramatic spirited household nightclub racetrack alaska hospital california al jolson show business marriage father/son relationship mother/daughter relationship obsession
In this sequel to The Jolson Story, we pick up the singer's career just as he has returned to the stage after a premature retirement. But his wife has left him and the appeal of the ... See full summary »
Biography, Drama
India
2016
122 Minutes
Sonam Kapoor Shabana Azmi Yogendra Tikku Shekhar Ravjiani Sadh Orhan Abrar Zahoor
young woman mother father terrorist passenger gripping thrilling intense powerful inspiring india city house airplane bedroom cockpit chasing dreams ambition abusive marriage hijacking
Neerja is the story of the courageous Neerja Bhanot, who sacrificed her life while protecting the lives of 359 passengers on the Pan Am flight 73 in 1986. The flight was hijacked by a terrorist organization.
Biography
UK
1952
123 Minutes
Jose Ferrer Zsa Zsa Gabor Colette Marchand Suzanne Flon Katherine Kath Claude Nollier Muriel Smith Georges Lannes Walter Crisham Mary Clare Harold Kasket
poet courtesan duke toulouse-lautrec emotional powerful uplifting paris illness forbidden love theater production death love discovery quest 1890s
Fictional account of French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
Biography
USA
1956
123 Minutes
Tyrone Power Kim Novak Victoria Shaw James Whitmore Rex Thompson Mickey Maga Shepperd Strudwick Frieda Inescort
socialite conductor band member band leader estranged son wife melodramatic tense unrestrained new york city casino eddy duchin music tragic death father/son relationship world war ii fame adventure rise transformation
The life story of the famous pianist and band-leader of the 1930s and 1940s.