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After the Rehearsal (1984), A Star Is Born (1976), The Hours and Times (1991), Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), The Cat's Meow (2001), A Slave of Love (1976), I've Heard the Mermaids Singing (1987) ... Let's take a look at the following list...

After the Rehearsal (1984)
An aging Swedish stage director's (Erland Josephson) ex-lover (Ingrid Thulin) and would-be lover (Lena Olin) visit him on the set.
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A Star Is Born (1976)
A has-been rock star falls in love with a young, up-and-coming songstress.
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The Hours and Times (1991)
A fictionalized account of what may have happened when John Lennon and Brian Epstein went on holiday together to Spain in 1963.
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Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
Between two Thanksgivings two years apart, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.
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The Cat's Meow (2001)
Movie producer Thomas Ince (Cary Elwes) dies after yachting with William Randolph Hearst (Edward Herrmann), Charlie Chaplin and Marion Davies (Kirsten Dunst).
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A Slave of Love (1976)
A fate of popular film actress during the turbulent years of the Russian Civil War.
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I've Heard the Mermaids Singing (1987)
Absent-minded photographer Polly (Sheila McCarthy) lands a job at an art gallery in Toronto operated by a woman named Gabrielle (Paule Baillargeon). Gabrielle tells Polly she regrets she never became a great painter. Polly is impressed with Gabrielle's paintings, however, and after she smuggles one into a gallery show, a critic praises it as a masterpiece. But when it turns out to be the work of Gabrielle's lover (Ann-Marie MacDonald), Polly begins to understand how the art world works.
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Dark Eyes (1987)
An old Italian (Marcello Mastroianni) recalls his rich wife (Silvana Mangano), mistress (Marthe Keller) and Russian lover while on an ocean liner in 1903.
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The Danish Girl (2015)
A fictitious love story loosely inspired by the lives of Danish artists Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener. Lili and Gerda's marriage and work evolve as they navigate Lili's groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer.
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The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)
Wife and husband, both actors, play a couple in love from the Victorian era. Soon they begin to feel that fiction interweaves into reality.
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Being Julia (2004)
Set in 1930s London, this movie involves stage actors and actresses and their experiences with love and revenge.
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Illuminata (1998)
A playwright (John Turturro) is anxious to stage his new work, which was written for a New York troupe.
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Alive and Kicking (1996)
A passionately committed young dancer is forced to re-examine his career and life when faced with death, finding hope through an older man who becomes his lover, mentor and companion.
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Two Weeks in Another Town (1962)
An actor (Kirk Douglas) and a director (Edward G. Robinson), both washed-up in Hollywood, try to make a comeback in Rome.
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This Girl's Life (2003)
"Slice of life" take on life of international porn celebrity, Moon, and her musings on modern life, love and loss.
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The Moderns (1988)
An art dealer (John Lone), his wife (Linda Fiorentino) and a U.S. artist (Keith Carradine) mix with Hemingway and Gertrude Stein in 1926 Paris.
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Mephisto (1981)
In early-1930s Germany, a passionate stage actor finds himself before a dilemma: renounce his apolitical stance and comply with the Reich's doctrine, or face oblivion. But, Faustian bargains never end well. What is the price of success?
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