Movies like Lips, Love and Power: 120 Years of the Cinematic Kiss (2015)
The best movies like Lips, Love and Power: 120 Years of the Cinematic Kiss (2015) are My Week with Marilyn (2011), Man of a Thousand Faces (1957) and The Cat's Meow (2002). If Lips, Love and Power: 120 Years of the Cinematic Kiss hooked you, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Lips, Love and Power: 120 Years of the Cinematic Kiss
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- Highest ratedSingin' in the Rain (1952)8.1/10 from 3,688 votes
- NewestOn Swift Horses (2025)Released 2025
My Week with Marilyn (2011)
London, 1956. Genius actor and film director Laurence Olivier is about to begin the shooting of his upcoming movie, premiered in 1957 as The Prince and the Showgirl, starring Marilyn Monroe. Young Colin Clark, who dreams on having a career in movie business, manages to get a job on the set as third assistant director.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMan of a Thousand Faces (1957)
The turbulent life and professional career of vaudeville actor and silent screen horror star Lon Chaney (1883-1930), the man of a thousand faces; bearer of many personal misfortunes that even his great success could not mitigate.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Cat's Meow (2002)
Semi-true story of the Hollywood murder that occurred at a star-studded gathering aboard William Randolph Hearst's yacht in 1924.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
SnoozefestMovies like thisBe Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché (2018)
The epic life story of Alice Guy-Blaché (1873–1968), a French screenwriter, director and producer, true pioneer of cinema, the first person who made a narrative fiction film; author of hundreds of movies, but banished from history books. Ignored and forgotten. At last remembered.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisValentino (1977)
The untimely death of silent screen star Rudolph Valentino prompts the many women in his past to reminisce about his troubled rise to superstardom.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
SnoozefestMovies like thisBabylon (2022)
A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, tracing the rise and fall of multiple characters in an era of unbridled decadence and depravity during Hollywood's transition from silent films to sound films in the late 1920s.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSingin' in the Rain (1952)
In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his paranoid screen partner struggle to make the difficult transition to talking pictures.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisWomen in Love (1969)
Growing up in the sheltered confines of a 1920s English coal-mining community, free-spirited sisters Gudrun and Ursula explore erotic love with a wealthy playboy and a philosophical educator, with cataclysmic results for all four.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLeaving Las Vegas (1995)
Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisNickelodeon (1976)
In the silent film era, attorney Leo Harrigan and gunslinger Buck Greenway are hired to stop an illegal film production. However, they soon team up with the filmmakers and become important players in the show business industry. Leo learns he has a talent for directing, and Buck's cowboy persona quickly earns him leading-man status — but both men fall for beautiful starlet Kathleen Cooke, leading to a heated personal rivalry.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
Cecilia is a waitress in New Jersey, living a dreary life during the Great Depression. Her only escape from her mundane reality is the movie theatre. After losing her job, Cecilia goes to see 'The Purple Rose of Cairo' in hopes of raising her spirits, where she watches dashing archaeologist Tom Baxter time and again.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisOn Swift Horses (2025)
Returning from the Korean War, Lee wants to begin a new life with his wife Muriel in California. But when his charismatic brother Julius arrives, their lives begin to change. Julius’s rebellious streak rubs off on Muriel, who secretly steps into the world of race horse gambling. Here she meets a new lover, a fellow woman looking to break free from her restrictive life. Meanwhile, Julius travels to Las Vegas, where he falls in love with a young man he meets at the card tables.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBeing the Ricardos (2021)
Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz face a crisis that could end their careers and another that could end their marriage.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRambling Rose (1991)
In the Deep South of the 1930s, Rose is taken in by the Hillyer family to serve as housemaid so that she can avoid falling into a life of prostitution. Her appearence and personality is such that all men fall for her, and she knows it. She can't help herself from getting into trouble with men.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisS1m0ne (2002)
The career of a disillusioned producer, who is desperate for a hit, is endangered when his star walks off the film set. Forced to think fast, the producer decides to digitally create an actress "Simone" to sub for the star — the first totally believable synthetic actress.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOnegin (1999)
A virtuous and passionate girl falls in love with a cynical but a dashing aristocrat.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEd Wood (1994)
The mostly true story of the legendary "worst director of all time", who, with the help of his strange friends, filmed countless B-movies without ever becoming famous or successful.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAutumn in New York (2000)
Will Keane, a Manhattan restaurateur, is content with his playboy lifestyle until he meets Charlotte Fielding, a free-spirited young woman. Together the pair pursue a passionate affair that forces them both to reevaluate what they want out of life, even as fate threatens to steal away their future.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCafé Society (2016)
The story of a young man who arrives in Hollywood during the 1930s hoping to work in the film industry, falls in love, and finds himself swept up in the vibrant café society that defined the spirit of the age.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSkin: A History of Nudity in the Movies (2020)
The definitive documentary on the history of nudity in feature films from the early silent days to the present, studying the changes in morality that led to the use of nudity in films while emphasizing the political, sociological and artistic changes that shaped that history. Skin will also study the gender inequality in presenting nude images in motion pictures and will follow the revolution that has created nude gender equality in feature films today.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
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What are the best movies like Lips, Love and Power: 120 Years of the Cinematic Kiss?
The closest matches to Lips, Love and Power: 120 Years of the Cinematic Kiss are My Week with Marilyn (2011), Man of a Thousand Faces (1957) and The Cat's Meow (2002). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Lips, Love and Power: 120 Years of the Cinematic Kiss?
Start with My Week with Marilyn (2011), the closest match to Lips, Love and Power: 120 Years of the Cinematic Kiss.
What is the highest-rated movie like Lips, Love and Power: 120 Years of the Cinematic Kiss?
Singin' in the Rain (1952), rated 8.1/10 by 3,688 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Lips, Love and Power: 120 Years of the Cinematic Kiss?
On Swift Horses (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Lips, Love and Power: 120 Years of the Cinematic Kiss?
Yes: My Week with Marilyn (2011), Man of a Thousand Faces (1957) and The Cat's Meow (2002).
How are movies similar to Lips, Love and Power: 120 Years of the Cinematic Kiss chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Lips, Love and Power: 120 Years of the Cinematic Kiss, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.