Movies like Maria

Why it's similar — Stanley Tucci's Giacometti chamber piece runs the same compressed-time conceit Larraín runs in Maria: a great late-career artist locked inside a single studio with a small support cast, working with diminishing returns on the last piece their body will let them finish. Both films treat artistic exhaustion as the real subject and the celebrity biography as the frame.

Why it's similar — Clint Eastwood's Frankie Valli adaptation shares Maria's interest in a single voice carrying the weight of a public-facing career across decades, and in the cost that career exacts from a private life left to manage itself between recording sessions. The musical-biography template is the closest sibling genre to what Larraín is doing in Paris.

Why it's similar — Wash Westmoreland's Keira Knightley vehicle stages the same European-icon question Maria stages: a woman whose creative life has been folded inside a controlling marriage, who eventually has to decide whose name the work is going out under. Callas's first husband Meneghini and Colette's first husband Willy occupy structurally identical positions in their respective biographies.

Why it's similar — Ido Fluk's drama about the 1975 Keith Jarrett Cologne concert covers the same musical-biography terrain from the other side of the stage door: a producer wrestling a performance into existence against the artist's deteriorating health, where the body's failure becomes the song the recording is finally about. Maria's late rehearsal-room scenes run on the same emotional fuel.

Why it's similar — Gregory Nava's Jennifer Lopez film is the original template Maria is working inside: a great female vocalist treated as a national figure, a family-and-management ensemble that has organised itself around the voice, and a biographical structure that pivots on the absence at the centre of the room. The genre vocabulary Larraín is using began here.