20 movies like Meetings With Remarkable Men, ordered by similarity : Mary Queen of Scots(2018), The Gospel According to St. Matthew(1964), Song Without End(1960), McFarland, USA(2015), Final Portrait(2017), Rodin(2017), Lust for Life(1956), Albert Schweitzer(1957), The Current War: Director's Cut(2019), The Dark Horse(2014), The Miracle Worker(1962), The Case for Christ(2017) ...
Biography
UK
1979
108 Minutes
Dragan Maksimovic Terence Stamp Athol Fugard Gerry Sundquist Bruce Myers Warren Mitchell Mikica Dimitrijevic Donald Sumpter Natasha Parry Faro Konjhodzic Tom Fleming
mystic prince teacher student cult leader passionate intense rome egypt asia georgia philosophy mysticism religion journey g.i. gurdjieff quest discovery 1880s
G.I. Gurdjieff is a spiritual teacher and mystic who, after a lifetime study, developed a form of meditation incorporating modern dance.
Biography, Drama, History
UK|USA
2018
124 Minutes
Saoirse Ronan Margot Robbie Jack Lowden Joe Alwyn David Tennant Guy Pearce Gemma Chan Martin Compston Ismael Cruz Cordova Brendan Coyle Ian Hart
queen widow rival husband leader friend tense intense gripping brash uneasy france scotland england castle mansion queen elizabeth i queen mary power royalty
Mary Stuart's (Saoirse Ronan's) attempt to overthrow her cousin Elizabeth I (Margot Robbie), Queen of England, finds her condemned to years of imprisonment before facing execution.
Biography, Drama, History
Italy|France
1964
136 Minutes
Enrique Irazoqui Margherita Caruso Susanna Pasolini Marcello Morante Mario Socrate Settimo Di Porto Ferruccio Nuzzo
jesus mother disciple inspiring moving passionate israel desert waterfront the bible christianity rebellion religion quest discovery transformation temptation rise fall roman empire
The life of Jesus Christ according to the Gospel of Matthew. Pasolini shows Christ as a Marxist avant-la-lettre and therefore uses half of the text of Matthew.
Biography
USA
1960
145 Minutes
Charles Vidor Dirk Bogarde Capucine Genevieve Page Patricia Morison Ivan Desny Martita Hunt Lou Jacobi Albert Rueprecht Marcel Dalio Lyndon Brook
pianist wife princess prince manager duchess emotional melodramatic rousing passionate switzerland paris concert hall vienna kiev, ukraine rome franz liszt divorce new love classical music
The romantic story of Hungarian pianist Franz Liszt (Sir Dirk Bogarde), whose scandalous love affair forced him to abandon his adoring audiences.
Biography, Drama
USA
2015
129 Minutes
Kevin Costner Maria Bello Morgan Saylor Michael Aguero Sergio Avelar Hector Duran Rafael Martinez Martha Higareda Johnny Ortiz Carlos Pratts Ramiro Rodriguez
coach student runner teacher principal parent confident cool uplifting tense emotional california high school track gym car house track and field school winning
Jim White moves his family after losing his last job as a football coach, and at his new school he turns seven disappointing students into one of the best cross-country teams in the region.
Comedy, Biography, Drama
UK
2017
90 Minutes
Geoffrey Rush Armie Hammer Clémence Poésy Tony Shalhoub James Faulkner Sylvie Testud Philippe Spall Kerry Shale Attila G. Kerekes
artist writer amusing brooding charming cheeky confident creative fascinating engaging inspiring incredible intense passionate raw united kingdom london artistic struggle art portraiture
The story of Swiss painter and sculptor Alberto Giacometti.
Romance, Biography, Drama
France|Belgium|USA
2017
119 Minutes
Vincent Lindon Izïa Higelin Séverine Caneele Bernard Verley Anders Danielsen Lie Arthur Nauzyciel Laurent Poitrenaux Olivier Cadiot Alexandre Haulet Louise Le Pape Morgane De Vargas
sculptor partner mistress student assistant sultry creative confident passionate paris studio lake mansion workshop creative process relationships art sculpting muses love
An account of the famous French sculptor's romance with Camille Claudel.
Biography
USA
1956
122 Minutes
Kirk Douglas Anthony Quinn Everett Sloane James Donald Pamela Brown Niall MacGinnis Noel Purcell Henry Daniell Lionel Jeffries Eric Pohlmann
paul gauguin painter brother intense creative emotional france countryside holland vincent van gogh ambition mental illness art quest discovery fall 19th century
The life of brilliant but tortured artist Vincent van Gogh.
Biography
USA|France
1957
80 Minutes
doctor wife grandchild neighbor patient fascinating inspiring positive france germany africa medical school paris berlin albert schweitzer ethics philosophy religion family discovery
This biographical drama/documentary narrative written by Dr. Albert Schweitzer and spoken by Fredric March, traces the life of Dr. Schweitzer (with actors playing the characters), from his ... See full summary »
Biography, Drama, History
USA|Russia|UK
2019
101 Minutes
Benedict Cumberbatch Michael Shannon Nicholas Hoult Katherine Waterston Tuppence Middleton Tom Holland Matthew Macfadyen Conor MacNeill Tom Fisher
thomas edison inventor millionaire rival businessman scientist tense gripping creative passionate new york city house laboratory field street wall street electricity inventions power rivalry
The dramatic story of the cutthroat race between electricity titans Thomas A. Edison and George Westinghouse to determine whose electrical system would power the modern world.
Biography, Drama
New Zealand
2014
124 Minutes
Cliff Curtis James Rolleston Kirk Torrance Xavier Horan Miriama McDowell Wayne Hapi James Napier Robertson Te Ahorangi Retimana-Martin Sia Trokenheim
maori chess grandmaster chess player teenager intense emotional inspiring heartwarming melodramatic auckland, new zealand psychiatrist's office hospital chess competition training new life motivation psychiatry rise fall
A brilliant but troubled New Zealand chess champion finds purpose by teaching underprivileged children about the rules of chess and life.
Biography, Drama
USA
1962
106 Minutes
Anne Bancroft Patty Duke Victor Jory Inga Swenson Andrew Prine Kathleen Comegys Beah Richards Jack Hollander
young girl teacher mother father inspiring emotional incredible uplifting powerful alabama family home blindness deafness daunting task teaching rescue transformation quest 1880s
The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate.
Biography, Drama
USA
2017
112 Minutes
Mike Vogel Erika Christensen Faye Dunaway Robert Forster Frankie Faison L. Scott Caldwell Tom Nowicki Renell Gibbs Haley Rosenwasser Mike Pniewski
reporter manager journalist priest atheist confident gripping intense passionate office chicago church house home office personal revelation faith investigative journalism love discovery love
An investigative journalist and self-proclaimed atheist sets out to disprove the existence of God after his wife becomes a Christian.
Biography
1969
165 Minutes
Anatoliy Solonitsyn Ivan Lapikov Nikolay Grinko Nikolai Sergeyev Irma Raush Kolya Burlyayev Yuriy Nazarov
painter monk mentor profound inspiring russia monastery countryside art christianity religion faith andrei rublev discovery quest 15th century
A 15th-century Russian (Anatoliy Solonitsyn) who paints icons renounces his art after taking part in a peasant uprising.
Biography, Drama, History
USA
2019
152 Minutes
Matt Damon Christian Bale Jon Bernthal Caitriona Balfe Tracy Letts Josh Lucas Noah Jupe Remo Girone Ray McKinnon JJ Feild Jack McMullen
designer auto builder race car driver rival intense passionate confident creative gripping france america auto race car dealership corporate headquarters desert auto racing design corporate rule rivalry creative process
American car designer Carroll Shelby and driver Ken Miles battle corporate interference and the laws of physics to build a revolutionary race car for Ford in order to defeat Ferrari at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1966.
Biography, Comedy, Drama
USA|UK|Australia|Canada
2017
121 Minutes
Margot Robbie Sebastian Stan Allison Janney Julianne Nicholson Paul Walter Hauser Bobby Cannavale Mckenna Grace Caitlin Carver Bojana Novakovic
figure skater ex-husband competitor friend mother athlete amusing bleak brash intense gutsy unrestrained portland, ore. france norway ice-skating rink press conference police station figure skating ice skating
Competitive ice skater Tonya Harding rises amongst the ranks at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, but her future in the activity is thrown into doubt when her ex-husband intervenes.
Biography, Drama
2016
119 Minutes
Rebecca Hall Michael C. Hall Tracy Letts Maria Dizzia J. Smith-Cameron John Cullum David Alexander Kim Shaw Timothy Simons Morgan Spector
reporter anchorman station manager mother co-worker friend brooding emotional intense florida newsroom television studio stage house crime scene journalism ethics emotional involvement desperation defiance
In 1974, a female TV news reporter aims for high standards in life and love in Sarasota, Fla, and missing her mark is not an option. Based on true events.
Biography, Drama
UK|Australia|USA
2016
121 Minutes
Dev Patel Rooney Mara David Wenham Nicole Kidman Abhishek Bharate Divian Ladwa Priyanka Bose Deepti Naval Tannishtha Chatterjee Nawazuddin Siddiqui Sunny Pawar
indian adopted son australian husband wife girlfriend emotional gripping intense calcutta, india train australia airplane house bedroom loss isolation search family reunion
A five-year-old Indian boy is adopted by an Australian couple after getting lost hundreds of kilometers from home. 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.
War, Biography, Drama, History
UK|USA
2017
125 Minutes
Gary Oldman Kristin Scott Thomas Ben Mendelsohn Lily James Ronald Pickup Stephen Dillane Nicholas Jones Samuel West Richard Lumsden Charley Palmer Rothwell Hannah Steele
winston churchill nazi king soldier politician adolf hitler brooding rousing passionate striking tense spirited london great britain war zone nazi germany government building house of parliament world war ii nazi occupation
In May 1940, the fate of World War II hangs on Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler, or fight on knowing that it could mean the end of the British Empire.
Adventure, Biography, Drama
USA
2015
124 Minutes
Joseph Gordon-Levitt Ben Kingsley Charlotte Le Bon James Badge Dale Clément Sibony César Domboy Benedict Samuel Ben Schwartz Steve Valentine Mark Camacho
daredevil mentor teammate spectator new yorker police officer confident gripping intense suspenseful new york city world trade center apartment gym car street daredevils danger dreams teamwork
In 1974, high-wire artist Philippe Petit recruits a team of people to help him realize his dream: to walk the immense void between the World Trade Center towers.
Gay & Lesbian, Biography, Drama
Australia|USA
2018
115 Minutes
Lucas Hedges Nicole Kidman Joel Edgerton Russell Crowe Flea Joe Alwyn Xavier Dolan Troye Sivan Britton Sear Jesse LaTourette David Ditmore
gay man young man father mother therapist preacher emotional powerful somber uplifting house high school church office homosexuality homophobia family love religion self-discovery
The son of a Baptist preacher unwillingly participates in a church-supported gay conversion program after being forcibly outed to his parents.