Movies like Star!

20 movies like Star!, ordered by similarity : Lady With Red Hair(1940), I Saw the Light(2015), The Great Victor Herbert(1939), The Helen Morgan Story(1957), The Jolson Story(1946), The Incredible Sarah(1976), Prick Up Your Ears(1987), Judy(2019), Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool(2017), Isadora(1968), La môme(2007), Beloved Infidel(1959) ...

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Star!

A musical biography of Gertrude Lawrence, who led a hustling and bustling life on the stage.

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Lady With Red Hair

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 »

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I Saw the Light

The story of the country-western singer Hank Williams, who in his brief life created one of the greatest bodies of work in American music. The film chronicles his rise to fame and its tragic effect on his health and personal life.

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The Great Victor Herbert

A fictionalized version of famous opera composer Victor Herbert where he witnesses the romance, stardom, parenthood, and troubled experiences of his star singers.

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The Helen Morgan Story

Torch singer Helen Morgan rises from sordid beginnings to fame and fortune only to lose it all to alcohol and poor personal choices.

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The Jolson Story

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 »

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The Incredible Sarah

French actress Sarah Bernhardt (Glenda Jackson) carries on a personal life offstage as flamboyantly as she acts onstage.

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Prick Up Your Ears

Biographer John Lahr is writing a book about playwright Joe Orton. Joe and Kenneth meet at drama school and live together for ten years as lovers and collaborators. Both want to be writers, but only one of them is successful.

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Judy

Legendary performer Judy Garland arrives in London in the winter of 1968 to perform a series of sold-out concerts.

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Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool

A romance sparks between a young actor and a Hollywood leading lady.

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Isadora

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

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La môme

Biopic of the iconic French singer Édith Piaf. Raised by her grandmother in a brothel, she was discovered while singing on a street corner at the age of 19. Despite her success, Piaf's life was filled with tragedy.

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Beloved Infidel

Toward the end of his life, F. Scott Fitzgerald is writing for Hollywood studios to be able to afford the cost of an asylum for his wife. He is also struggling against alcoholism. Into his life comes the famous gossip columnist.

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Factory Girl

Based on the rise and fall of socialite Edie Sedgwick, concentrating on her relationships with Andy Warhol and a folk singer.

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Sweet Dreams

The story of Patsy Cline, the velvet-voiced country music singer who died in a tragic plane crash at the height of her fame.

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Carol

An aspiring photographer develops an intimate relationship with an older woman in 1950s New York.

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Professor Marston & the Wonder Women

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.

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Vita & Virginia

It's the fascinating true story about the love affair between socialite and popular author Vita Sackville-West and literary icon Virginia Woolf.

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A Street Cat Named Bob

Based on the international best selling book. The true feel good story of how James Bowen, a busker and recovering drug addict, had his life transformed when he met a stray ginger cat.

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Carve Her Name With Pride

During World War II, a recently widowed young woman is recruited to work as a spy in France.

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Cross Creek

In 1930's Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings moves to Florida's backwaters to write in peace. She feels bothered by affectionate men, editor and confused neighbors, but soon she connects and writes The Yearling, a classic of American literature.

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