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The Autobiography Of Nicolae Ceausescu

Genres: Documentary, Biography, History

Country: Romania

Director: Andrei Ujica

Duration: 180 min

Year: 2010

Actors: Nicolae Ceausescu, Elena Ceausescu, Leonid Brezhnev

During the summary trial that he and his wife were submitted to Nicolae Ceausescu is reviewing his long reign in power: 1965-1989. From a formal point of view The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu proves that it is possible to only use existing images to yield films focused on recent history yet with an epic vein similar to that of the historical fiction cinema. This is an eminently syntactic...

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The Audrey Hepburn Story

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United States, Canada

Director: Steven Robman

Duration: 133 min

Year: 2000

Actors: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Frances Fisher, Keir Dullea

Biographic made-for-TV movie of the life of one of Hollywoods most famous actreses: Audrey Hepburn spaning from her early childhood to the 1960s which details her life as Dutch overachieving ballerina coming to grips with her parents divorce and enduring five hard years of living in Nazi occupied Holland during World War II. Audrey then settles in the USA where she tries to make it big as a...

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The Assassination Of Richard Nixon

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United States, Mexico

Director: Niels Mueller

Duration: 95 min

Year: 2004

Actors: Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Don Cheadle

In 1974 Samuel Joseph Byck attempted to hijack a plane he intended to fly into the White House to kill Richard Nixon - possibly the first time an airliner was to be used as a flying bomb in a terrorist attack. Sam Bicke is a lonely ineffectual incompetent who feels wronged by his family friends employers and the world in general though his problems are largely of his own making and his...

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The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford

Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, ...

Country: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Director: Andrew Dominik

Duration: 160 min

Year: 2007

Actors: Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, Sam Shepard

The last months of Jesse Jamess life from meeting Robert Ford a 19-year-old who idolizes Jesse to the day Ford shoots him. Jesses a wanted man living under a pseudonym carrying out a train robbery disappearing to Kentucky and reappearing to plan a bank holdup with Robert and Roberts brother as his team. The rest of the gang is dead arrested or gone from Missouri. Whenever Jesses...

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The Actress

Genres: Biography, Comedy, Drama

Country: United States

Director: George Cukor

Duration: 90 min

Year: 1953

Actors: Spencer Tracy, Jean Simmons, Teresa Wright

Former seaman Clinton Jones now works at a lowly job. His daughter Ruth wants to become an actress. Clinton gets fired and Ruth rejects the advances of Fred Whitmarsh. Her father gives her his seamans spyglass to sell as she heads for New York...

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Temple Grandin

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United States

Director: Mick Jackson

Duration: 107 min

Year: 2010

Actors: Claire Danes, Julia Ormond, David Strathairn

Biopic of Temple Grandin an autistic woman who overcame the limitations imposed on her by her condition to become a Ph.D. and expert in the field of animal husbandry. She developed an interest in cattle early in life while spending time at her Aunt and Uncles ranch. She did not speak until age four and had difficulty right through high school mostly in dealing with people. Her mother was very...

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Ted Bundy

Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States, United Kingdom

Director: Matthew Bright

Duration: 99 min

Year: 2002

Actors: Michael Reilly Burke, Boti Bliss, Julianna McCarthy

Docu-drama based on the life of Ted Bundy a serial killer who killed at least 19 young women during the 1970s though some sources say as many as 30 to 35 were murdered. Set from his college student years to his first victims his capture escape from prison twice his final killing spree to his trial conviction and...

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Tarnation

Genres: Documentary, Biography

Country: United States

Director: Jonathan Caouette

Duration: 88 min

Year: 2003

Actors: Jonathan Caouette, Renee Leblanc, Adolph Davis

Part documentary part narrative fiction part home movie and part acid trip. A psychedelic whirlwind of snapshots Super-8 home movies old answering machine messages video diaries early short films snippets of 80s pop culture and dramatic reenactments to create an epic portrait of an American family travesty. The story begins in 2003 when Jonathan learns that his schizophrenic mother...

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Sylvia

Genres: Biography, Drama, Romance

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Christine Jeffs

Duration: 110 min

Year: 2003

Actors: Gwyneth Paltrow, Daniel Craig, Lucy Davenport

In 1956 aspiring American poet Sylvia Plath meets fellow poet Edward Ted Hughes at Cambridge where she is studying. Enthralled with the genius of his writing Sylvia falls in love with him even before meeting him and he quickly falls in love with her. They eventually marry. Sylvia quickly learns that others are also enthralled with her husband for a combination of his good looks charisma...

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Sybil

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United States

Director:

Duration: 198 min

Year: 1976

Actors: Joanne Woodward, Sally Field, Brad Davis

The story tells of a young woman admitting to have blackouts fearing they are getting worse. She is believed to suffer from multiple personalities as a result of severe abuse at the hands of her mother whom the psychiatrist Cornelia B. Wilbur believes was schizophrenic. The movie Sibyl is based upon author Flora Rheta Schreiberthes novel and fictionalized version of the life story of...

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Star 80 - Tod Eines Playmates

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United States

Director: Bob Fosse

Duration: 103 min

Year: 1983

Actors: Mariel Hemingway, Eric Roberts, Cliff Robertson

Paul Snider is a narcissistic small time hustler who fancies himself a ladies man. His life changes when he meets Dorothy Stratten working behind the counter of a Dairy Queen. Dorothy is a pretty but naive high school senior. Paul immediately falls for Dorothy who sees in Paul a wise worldly person unlike herself. Paul believes Dorothy is Playboy material the magazine he sees as only a...

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Stander

Genres: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama

Country: United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, South Africa

Director: Bronwen Hughes

Duration: 111 min

Year: 2003

Actors: Thomas Jane, David O'Hara, Dexter Fletcher

In the early 1980s a white police officer Andres Stander played by Thomas Jane in Johannesburg suffers a crisis of conscience due to his involvement in apartheid and becomes a notorious bank robber on the run. Then from 1983 to 1984 the Stander gang Stander Alan Heyl & Patrick McCall rob as many as four banks a...

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Spartacus

Genres: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, ...

Country: United States

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Duration: 197 min

Year: 1960

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons

In 73 BCE a Thracian slave leads a revolt at a gladiatorial school run by Lentulus Batiatus. The uprising soon spreads across the Italian Peninsula involving thousand of slaves. The plan is to acquire sufficient funds to acquire ships from Silesian pirates who could then transport them to other lands from Brandisium in the south. The Roman Senator Gracchus schemes to have Marcus Publius Glabrus...

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Sophie Scholl - Die Letzten Tage

Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, ...

Country: Germany

Director: Marc Rothemund

Duration: 120 min

Year: 2005

Actors: Julia Jentsch, Fabian Hinrichs, Gerald Alexander Held

The Final Days is the true story of Germanys most famous anti-Nazi heroine brought to life. Sophie Scholl is the fearless activist of the underground student resistance group The White Rose. Using historical records of her incarceration the film re-creates the last six days of Sophie Scholls life: a journey from arrest to interrogation trial and sentence in 1943 Munich. Unwavering in her...

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Siberian Education

Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama

Country: Italy

Director: Gabriele Salvatores

Duration: 110 min

Year: 2013

Actors: Arnas Fedaravicius, Vilius Tumalavicius, Eleanor Tomlinson

A drama based on a memoir about growing up as a member of the Urka community in the small republic of...

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Shadowlands - Ein Geschenk Des Augenblicks

Genres: Biography, Drama, Romance

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Richard Attenborough

Duration: 131 min

Year: 1993

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Debra Winger, Julian Fellowes

CS Lewis is the author of the Narnia books - The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe. Known as Jack he teaches at an Oxford College during the 1930s. An American fan Joy Gresham arrives to meet him for tea in Oxford. It is the beginning of a love affair. Tragically Joy becomes terminally unwell and their lives become...

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Serpico

Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama

Country: United States, Italy

Director: Sidney Lumet

Duration: 130 min

Year: 1973

Actors: Al Pacino, John Randolph, Jack Kehoe

Serpico is a cop in the 1960s-early 1970s. Unlike all his colleagues he refuses a share of the money that the cops routinely extort from local criminals. Nobody wants to work with Serpico and hes in constant danger of being placed in life threatening positions by his partners. Nothing seems to get done even when he goes to the highest of authorities. Despite the dangers he finds himself in...

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Self Medicated

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United States

Director: Monty Lapica

Duration: 107 min

Year: 2005

Actors: Monty Lapica, Diane Venora, Michael Bowen

Based on true events. On the edges of Las Vegas 17-year-old Andrews life is spiraling out of control. Unable to cope with the loss of his father Andrews descent into drugs and violence is gaining momentum and the once promising young man is now headed for self-destruction. Andrews mother helpless to control her son and fighting an addiction of her own refuses to watch idly as her only...

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Samurai Iii: Duel At Ganryu Island

Genres: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, ...

Country: Japan

Director: Hiroshi Inagaki

Duration: 105 min

Year: 1956

Actors: Toshirô Mifune, Mariko Okada, Kôji Tsuruta

A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. Hes sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun Japans most powerful clan leader. Hes also challenged to fight by the supremely confident and skillful Sasaki Kojiro. Takezo agrees to fight Kojiro in a years time but rejects Shoguns patronage choosing instead to live on the edge of a village raising vegetables. Hes followed...

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Robert Mugabe... What Happened?

Genres: Documentary, Biography, History, News

Country: United Kingdom, France, South Africa

Director: Simon Bright

Duration: 84 min

Year: 2011

Actors: Guy de Lancey

Robert Mugabe... what happened? charts the Shakespearean rise and fall of the man who led a very successful African country and then ruined it. Mugabe was damned as a terrorist then knighted by Queen Elizabeth and is still in power more than 30 years later. The film explores what happened through interviews with some of his closest comrades. It assembles a unique collection of southern...

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Citizen Kane - Die Hollywood-legende

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United States, United Kingdom

Director: Benjamin Ross

Duration: 83 min

Year: 1999

Actors: Liev Schreiber, James Cromwell, Melanie Griffith

Coming to Hollywood as a celebrated boy genius featuring a spectacular career arc in New York including his War of the Worlds radio hoax Orson Welles is stymied on the subject for his first film. After a dinner party at Hearst Castle during which he has a verbal altercation with Hearst Welles decides to do a movie about Hearst. It takes him some time to convince co-writer Herman Mankiewicz...

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Rise Of The Footsoldier

Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Julian Gilbey

Duration: 119 min

Year: 2007

Actors: Ricci Harnett, Terry Stone, Craig Fairbrass

Rise of the Footsoldier follows the inexorable rise of Carlton Leach from one of the most feared generals of the football terraces to becoming a member of a notorious gang of criminals who rampaged their way through London and Essex in the late eighties and early nineties. It is three decades of his life following him from football hooliganism through to his burgeoning career as a bouncer his...

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Rihanna: Good Girl, Bad Girl

Genres: Biography

Country: United States

Director: Thomas Gibson

Duration: 55 min

Year: 2012

Actors:

Good Girl Bad Girl tells the story of Rihanna and her triumphant journey from poverty and obscurity on the Caribbean island of Barbados to becoming a worldwide pop...

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Riding In Cars With Boys

Genres: Biography, Comedy, Drama

Country: United States

Director: Penny Marshall

Duration: 132 min

Year: 2001

Actors: Drew Barrymore, Steve Zahn, Adam Garcia

Seriocomic story based on the memoir by Beverly Donofrio the movie follows a young woman who finds her life radically altered by an event from her teen years. Born in 1950 Beverly grew up bright and ambitious in a working-class neighborhood in Connecticut; her father was a tough but good-hearted cop who listened to his daughters problems and her mother was a nervous woman eager to imagine the...

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Reversal Of Fortune

Genres: Biography, Drama, Mystery

Country: United States, United Kingdom, Japan

Director: Barbet Schroeder

Duration: 111 min

Year: 1990

Actors: Jeremy Irons, Glenn Close, Ron Silver

Alan Dershowitz a brilliant professor of law is hired by wealthy socialite Claus von Bulow to attempt to overturn his two convictions for attempted murder of his extremely wealthy wife. Based on a true story the film concentrates not on the trial like other legal thrillers but on the preparatory work that Dershowitz and his students put in as they attempt to disprove the prosecutions case and...

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Regeneration

Genres: Documentary, Action, Biography, Drama

Country: United States

Director: Phillip Montgomery

Duration: 81 min

Year: 2010

Actors: Noam Chomsky, Ryan Gosling, Talib Kweli

ReGENERATION explores the inherent cynicism found in many of todays youth and young adults and the influences that perpetuate our cultures apathetic approach to social and political causes. The film features three intersecting stories of students parents and artists all looking for their place in society. Together they capture the thoughts and feelings of todays struggling generation as...

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Rasputin: The Mad Monk

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Don Sharp

Duration: 91 min

Year: 1966

Actors: Christopher Lee, Barbara Shelley, Richard Pasco

The movie chronicles the events of historys man of mystery Rasputin. Although not quite historically accurate and little emphasis is put on the politics of the day Rasputins rise to power and eventual assassination are depicted in an attempt to explain his extraordinary power and...

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Young Winston

Genres: Biography, Drama, War

Country: United States, United Kingdom

Director: Richard Attenborough

Duration: 157 min

Year: 1972

Actors: Simon Ward, Robert Shaw, Anne Bancroft

This historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill Simon Ward including his childhood years his time as a war correspondent in Africa and culminating with his first election to...

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Young Mr. Lincoln

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United States

Director: John Ford

Duration: 100 min

Year: 1939

Actors: Henry Fonda, Alice Brady, Marjorie Weaver

Ten years in the life of Abraham Lincoln before he became known to his nation and the world. He moves from a Kentucky cabin to Springfield Illinois to begin his law practice. He defends two men accused of murder in a political brawl suffers the death of his girlfriend Ann courts his future wife Mary Todd and agrees to go into...

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