20 movies like Mapplethorpe, ordered by similarity : Carol(2015), Cloud 9(2008), Stella's Last Weekend(2018), After Louie(2017), My Art(2016), Lautrec(1998), Cruise(2018), Right Now, Wrong Then(2015), The Cakemaker(2017), Woodpeckers(2017), Seduced(2016), Klimt(2006) ...
Biography, Drama, Gay & Lesbian
USA
2018
102 Minutes
Matt Smith Marianne Rendón John Benjamin Hickey Brandon Sklenar McKinley Belcher III Mark Moses Carolyn McCormick Brian Stokes Mitchell Kerry Butler Hari Nef Rotimi Paul
photographer artist creative emotional new york city biopic growing up love 20th century
A look at the life of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe from his rise to fame in the 1970s to his untimely death in 1989.
Gay & Lesbian, Romance, Drama
UK|USA|Australia
2015
118 Minutes
Cate Blanchett Rooney Mara Sarah Paulson Jake Lacy John Magaro Cory Michael Smith Carrie Brownstein Kevin Crowley Nik Pajic Kyle Chandler
woman love interest divorcée romantic interest lover daughter mother photographer gay/lesbian emotional engaging endearing sad powerful tense united states manhattan new york new york city department store
An aspiring photographer develops an intimate relationship with an older woman in 1950s New York.
Romance, Drama
Germany
2008
98 Minutes
Ursula Werner Horst Rehberg Horst Westphal Steffi Kühnert
woman man couple lover cheeky confident emotional engaging heartwarming germany home apartment lake love love triangle loveless marriage lovers old age love forbidden love
A romantic drama about a woman who enters into an affair after 30 years of marriage.
Romance, Drama
USA
2018
102 Minutes
Nat Wolff Alex Wolff Polly Draper Paulina Singer Nick Sandow Julia Macchio Julia Abueva Leo Heller
young man brother love interest young woman mother father charming cheeky emotional heartwarming moving touching new york united states family home beach arcade party young love love triangle
STELLA'S LAST WEEKEND is the story of two brothers whose relationship is challenged when they find they are in love with the same girl, but it is also about the unshakable bond between them.
Gay & Lesbian, Romance, Drama
USA
2017
100 Minutes
Alan Cumming Zachary Booth Sarita Choudhury Patrick Breen Justin Bond Wilson Cruz Everett Quinton Anthony Johnston David Drake Joey Arias
artist activist friend lover aids victim profound cool creative emotional endearing raw artist's studio new york city apartment artistic struggle aids activism dating homosexuality relationships
After Louie explores the contradictions of modern gay life and history through Sam, a man desperate to understand how he and his community got to where they are today.
Comedy, Drama
2016
86 Minutes
Parker Posey Lena Dunham John Rothman Joshua Safdie Robert Clohessy Barbara Sukowa Al Thompson Grace Dunham Laurie Simmons Benjamin Eakeley Garland Hunter
artist friend dog man amusing charming emotional endearing cheeky creative new york city gallery office garden restaurant artistic struggle creative process creative block friendship small town
Frustrated by her lack of recognition, a middle-aged artist leaves the city for upstate New York to regain her creative spark.
Biography, Drama
France|Spain
1998
127 Minutes
Régis Royer Elsa Zylberstein Anémone Claude Rich Jean-Marie Bigard Helene Babu Claire Borotra Alexandra Pandev Amanda Rubenstein Florence Viala Micha Lescot
toulouse-lautrec artist wealthy man aristocrat frenchman woman engaging charming creative emotional lighthearted melodramatic villa france paris artist's studio café nightclub art ambition
Life, passion, love...all these were part of Toulouse-Lautrec's art. His artistic development among the masters of the postimpressionism.
Drama, Romance
USA
2018
90 Minutes
Spencer Boldman Emily Ratajkowski Sebastian Maniscalco Lucas Salvagno Kathrine Narducci Noah Robbins Gino Cafarelli Jen Cohn Grace Wan Peter Gaudio
italian-american jewish woman love interest mother father racer passionate emotional engaging charming intense heartwarming long island, n.y. america new york city road home love star-crossed lovers romance
Set in the 1980s, a young Italian-American from the "wrong side of the tracks" falls for a Jewish girl from Long Island.
Drama
South Korea
2015
121 Minutes
Jae-yeong Jeong Kim Min-hee Yeo-jeong Yoon Ju-bong Gi Joon-sang Yoo Hwa-Jeong Choi Young-hwa Seo Ah-sung Ko
filmmaker young man artist young woman poet love interest amusing creative engaging fascinating emotional heartwarming south korea movie theater park artist's studio serendipity attraction art creative process
A married film director falls for a young painter - twice.
Gay & Lesbian, Drama
Israel|Germany
2017
105 Minutes
Sarah Adler Zohar Strauss Tim Kalkhof Sandra Sade Roy Miller Stephanie Stremler Tagel Eliyahu Tamir Ben Yehuda Eliezer Shimon
baker married man widow lover son family member solemn emotional creative moving passionate bakery jerusalem berlin house kitchen love infidelity homosexuality loss
A German pastry maker travels to Jerusalem in search of the wife and son of his dead lover.
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.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA
2016
90 Minutes
Elisabeth Röhm Jon Prescott Julie Mond Robert Mailhouse Jessica Amlee April Audia Tanner Stine Ser'Darius Blain Cade Carradine Alexandria Basso
widow woman con man love interest murder suspect lover charming cheeky emotional passionate suspenseful disheartening germany city beach love love interest relationships betrayal trust
A woman is conned by a man who uses online dating ads to rob women.
Biography, Drama
Austria|France|Germany|UK
2006
95 Minutes
John Malkovich Veronica Ferres Stephen Dillane Saffron Burrows Nikolai Kinski Aglaia Szyszkowitz Annemarie Düringer Marion Mitterhammer Sandra Ceccarelli Gunther Gillian Paul Hilton
artist john malkovich man woman painter austrian charming creative melodramatic inspiring lighthearted fascinating austria vienna art studio artist's studio art gallery art art history relationships
A portrait of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt, whose lavish, sexual paintings came to symbolize the art nouveau style of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
Gay & Lesbian, Romance, Biography, Drama
Ireland|UK
2018
110 Minutes
Gemma Arterton Elizabeth Debicki Isabella Rossellini Rupert Penry-Jones Peter Ferdinando Emerald Fennell Gethin Anthony Rory Fleck-Byrne Karla Crome
writer married woman love interest husband socialite feminist confident emotional engaging gripping intense passionate london home city garden party affair modernity marriage
It's the fascinating true story about the love affair between socialite and popular author Vita Sackville-West and literary icon Virginia Woolf.
Drama
Spain|France
2019
113 Minutes
Antonio Banderas Asier Etxeandia Penélope Cruz Leonardo Sbaraglia Julieta Serrano Nora Navas Raúl Arévalo Cecilia Roth Pedro Casablanc Susi Sánchez
director first love addict family mother laborer brooding cool creative engaging emotional heartwarming moving passionate profound somber spirited tender touching madrid
A film director reflects on the choices he's made in life as the past and present come crashing down around him.
Romance
USA|Canada
2020
110 Minutes
Geraldine Viswanathan Dacre Montgomery Utkarsh Ambudkar Molly Gordon Phillipa Soo Suki Waterhouse Arturo Castro Ego Nwodim Taylor Hill Bernadette Peters
art gallerist young woman ex-boyfriend friend amusing charming creative emotional melancholy offbeat positive quirky new york city united states romance relationships art growing up love growing up
After a break-up, a young woman decides to start a gallery where people can leave trinkets from past relationships.
Gay & Lesbian, Romance, Drama
Kenya|South Africa|Germany|Netherlands|France|Norway|Lebanon|UK
2018
83 Minutes
Samantha Mugatsia Sheila Munyiva Neville Misati Nice Githinji Charlie Karumi Muthoni Gathecha Vitalis Waweru Mellen Aura Jimmy Gathu Nini Wacera Dennis Musyoka
best friend father lesbian love interest family member emotional touching cool tender passionate solemn nairobi kenya house bar forbidden love lesbianism secret love secret life forbidden love
"Good Kenyan girls become good Kenyan wives," but Kena and Ziki long for something more. When love blossoms between them, the two girls will be forced to choose between happiness and safety.
Romance, Biography, Drama, History
Canada|Ireland
2016
115 Minutes
Sally Hawkins Ethan Hawke Kari Matchett Gabrielle Rose Zachary Bennett Billy MacLellan Marthe Bernard David Feehan
artist housekeeper painter fisherman family love interest emotional endearing heartwarming gripping engaging nova scotia farmhouse room rural community illness violence against women independence art abusive relationship
An arthritic Nova Scotia woman works as a housekeeper while she hones her skills as an artist and eventually becomes a beloved figure in the community.
Comedy, Romance, Drama
India
2018
150 Minutes
Tapsee Pannu Abhishek Bachchan Vicky Kaushal Jasmin Bajwa Ashnoor Kaur Abdul Quadir Amin Saurabh Sachdeva
young woman dj bank employee father mother emotional intense melodramatic inspiring heartwarming charming india disco love triangle loveless marriage wedding true love unconditional love forbidden love love
A love triangle between a spirited young woman, her outgoing boyfriend and a fiance who's husband material.
Gay & Lesbian, Comedy, Biography, Drama
USA
2018
106 Minutes
Melissa McCarthy Richard E. Grant Dolly Wells Ben Falcone Gregory Korostishevsky Jane Curtin Stephen Spinella Christian Navarro Pun Bandhu Marc Evan Jackson Erik LaRay Harvey
celebrity biographer friend writer storyteller amusing creative emotional new york city office park bookstore street writing creative process unemployment forgery celebrities pop culture transformation
When Lee Israel falls out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception.
Drama
USA
1985
105 Minutes
Sam Shepard Kim Basinger Harry Dean Stanton Randy Quaid Martha Crawford Louise Egolf Sura Cox Jonathan Skinner April Russell Deborah McNaughton Lon Hill
woman man half brother lover ex-boyfriend adult brash dark intense emotional melodramatic gripping united states motel las vegas love relationships incest fighting past loves
May is waiting for her boyfriend in a run-down American motel, when an old flame turns up and threatens to undermine her efforts and drag her back into the life that she was running away from. The situation soon turns complicated.