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The Madness Of King George

Genres: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Nicholas Hytner

Duration: 107 min

Year: 1994

Actors: Nigel Hawthorne, Helen Mirren, Ian Holm

A meditation on power and the metaphor of the body of state based on the real episode of dementia experienced by George III [now suspected a victim of porphyria a blood disorder]. As he loses his senses he becomes both more alive and more politically marginalized; neither effect desirable to his lieutenants who jimmy the rules to avoid a challenge to regal authority raising the question of...

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The Mad Messiah (guyana Tragedy: The Story Of Jim Jones)

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United States

Director: William A. Graham

Duration: 192 min

Year: 1980

Actors: Powers Boothe, Ned Beatty, Irene Cara

Based upon the true story of Jim Jones a self proclaimed prophet. Jim Jones had a loyal following of about 1000 people who had donated their entire life savings to him to join his commune. When possible illegal activities came to the attention of the authorities they started to investigate. Rather that faces the charges Jim Jones committed suicide and convinced virtually All of his followers...

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The Lover

Genres: Biography, Drama, Romance

Country: United Kingdom, France, Vietnam

Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud

Duration: 115 min

Year: 1992

Actors: Jane March, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Frédérique Meininger

It is French Colonial Vietnam in 1929. A young French girl from a family that is having some monetary difficulties is returning to boarding school. She is alone on public transportation when she catches the eye of a wealthy Chinese businessman. He offers her a ride into town in the back of his chauffeured sedan and sparks fly. Can the torrid affair that ensues between them overcome the class...

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The Lost Bladesman (guan Yun Chang)

Genres: Action, Biography, Drama, History

Country: China, Hong Kong

Director: Felix Chong, Alan Mak

Duration: 109 min

Year: 2011

Actors: Donnie Yen, Wen Jiang, Betty Sun

This historical martial arts film adapted from the story of Guan Yu crossing five passes and slaying six generals in Luo Guanzhongs historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms. In AD 200 during the late Eastern Han Dynasty Cao Cao eliminates his political opponents Dong Cheng and others before turning his attention towards rival warlords Liu Bei and Yuan Shao. To avoid fighting a war on two...

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The Long Day Closes

Genres: Biography, Drama, Family

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Terence Davies

Duration: 85 min

Year: 1992

Actors: Leigh McCormack, Marjorie Yates, Anthony Watson

The Long Day Closes is the story of eleven-year-old Bud. A sad and lonely boy Bud struggles through his days. With cinema as his main source of solace he haunts the local movie-house. All the while his family looms large in our peripheral vision as do the menacing bullies of his school but Bud is the center of attention both from the cameras angle and from his doting family. With a gray...

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The Left Handed Gun

Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama, Western

Country: United States

Director: Arthur Penn

Duration: 102 min

Year: 1958

Actors: Paul Newman, Lita Milan, John Dehner

William Bonney - Billy the Kid - gets a job with a cattleman known as The Englishman and is befriended by the peaceful religious man. But when a crooked sheriff and his men murder the Englishman because he plans to supply the local Army fort with his beef Billy decides to avenge the death by killing the four men responsible throwing the lives of everyone around him - Tom and Charlie two...

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The Lady

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, Romance

Country: United Kingdom, France

Director: Luc Besson

Duration: 132 min

Year: 2011

Actors: Michelle Yeoh, David Thewlis, Jonathan Raggett

THE LADY is an epic love story about how an extraordinary couple and family sacrifice their happiness at great human cost for a higher cause. This is the story of Aung San Suu Kyi and her husband Michael Aris. Despite distance long separations and a dangerously hostile regime their love endures until the very end. A story of devotion and human understanding set against a background of...

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The Krays

Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Peter Medak

Duration: 119 min

Year: 1990

Actors: Gary Kemp, Martin Kemp, Billie Whitelaw

The life of a pair of twins Ronald and Reginald Kray who were born in London in 1934 and when they grew up became gangsters selling...

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The Kid Stays In The Picture

Genres: Documentary, Biography

Country: United States

Director: Nanette Burstein, Brett Morgen

Duration: 93 min

Year: 2002

Actors: Robert Evans, Eddie Albert, Peter Bart

This documentary captures the life story of legendary Hollywood producer and studio chief Robert Evans. The first actor to ever to run a film studio Robert Evans film career started in 1956 poolside at the Beverly Hills Hotel. His good looks charm and overwhelming confidence captured the eye of screen legend Norma Shearer who offered him a film role. After a glamorous--but...

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The Ken & Barbie Killers

Genres: Documentary, Biography, History

Country: Canada

Director:

Duration: 60 min

Year: 1996

Actors: Michelle Banks, Fred Berlin, Vince Bevan

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The Josephine Baker Story

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, Music, ...

Country: United States

Director: Brian Gibson

Duration: 130 min

Year: 1991

Actors: Lynn Whitfield, Rubén Blades, David Dukes

Born in St. Louis Missouri Josephine Baker was born poor but achieved fame and fortune through her sizzling erotic performances. Starting life on the American Vaudeville circuit success takes Josephine to Paris where her semi-nude dancing causes an international sensation. Through her marriages to an Italian count and orchestra leader to her bond with army officer Sydney Williams...

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The Jayne Mansfield Story

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United States

Director: Dick Lowry

Duration: 100 min

Year: 1980

Actors: Loni Anderson, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ray Buktenica

The gaudy rise and dizzy fall of the last great Hollywood blonde bombshell: Jayne...

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The Intouchables

Genres: Biography, Comedy, Drama

Country: France

Director: Olivier Nakache, Eric Toledano

Duration: 112 min

Year: 2011

Actors: François Cluzet, Omar Sy, Anne Le Ny

In Paris the aristocratic and intellectual Philippe is a quadriplegic millionaire who is interviewing candidates for the position of his carer with his red-haired secretary Magalie. Out of the blue the rude African Driss cuts the line of candidates and brings a document from the Social Security and asks Phillipe to sign it to prove that he is seeking a job position so he can receive his...

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The Imposter

Genres: Documentary, Biography

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Bart Layton

Duration: 99 min

Year: 2012

Actors: Adam O'Brian, Anna Ruben, Cathy Dresbach

A documentary centered on a young Frenchman who claims to a grieving Texas family that he is their 16-year-old son who has been missing for 3...

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The Iceman

Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama

Country: United States

Director: Ariel Vromen

Duration: 106 min

Year: 2012

Actors: Michael Shannon, Chris Evans, James Franco

In the 1960s Richard Kuklinski is working as a porn film lab tech until his mob bosses persuade him to change his career into that of a contract killer. For years Kuklinski gains a reputation for cold blooded professionalism even as he raises a family who are kept in the dark about his true career. Unfortunately mob politics ultimately forces him to secretly work independently with the...

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The Hunt For The Btk Killer

Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States

Director: Stephen Kay

Duration: 82 min

Year: 2005

Actors: Robert Forster, Michael Michele, Maury Chaykin

After 31 years at-large detectives in Wichita Kansas hone in on the serial killer known as...

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Hamill

Genres: Biography, Drama, Sport

Country: United States

Director: Oren Kaplan

Duration: 108 min

Year: 2010

Actors: Russell Harvard, Raymond J. Barry, Shoshannah Stern

THE HAMMER is a sports drama depicting the struggles and successes Matt Hamill faces on the way to becoming a champion. Raised among those with the ability to hear Matt later finds himself no less an outsider amidst the Deaf Community. Through sheer determination he uses his perceived disability as an asset and becomes both the first deaf wrestler to win a National Collegiate Championship and...

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Quills

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Director: Philip Kaufman

Duration: 124 min

Year: 2000

Actors: Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet, Joaquin Phoenix

The infamous writer The Marquis de Sade of 18th Century France is imprisoned for unmentionable activities at Charanton Insane Asylum. He manages to befriend the young Abbe de Coulmier who runs the asylum along with a beautiful laundress named Madeline. Things go terribly wrong when the Abbe finds out that the Marquis books are being secretly published. Emperor Napoleon contemplates sending...

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Queen Margot

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, Romance

Country: France, Italy, Germany

Director: Patrice Chéreau

Duration: 174 min

Year: 1994

Actors: Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Hugues Anglade

The night of August 24 1572 is known as the Massacre of St. Bartholomew. In France a religious war is raging. In order to impose peace a forced wedding is arranged between Margot de Valois sister of the immature Catholic King Charles IX and the Hugenot King Henri of Navarre. Catherine of Medici maintains her behind-the-scenes power by ordering assaults poisonings and instigations to...

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Put Up Your Dux

Genres: Documentary, Biography

Country: United States

Director: Jesse Barrett-Mills, Daniel Gallai

Duration: 70 min

Year: 2010

Actors: Frank Dux, Joe Fiorentino, Jeff Langton

A documentary about the true life story of world renowned martial artist Frank...

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Prick Up Your Ears

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Stephen Frears

Duration: 111 min

Year: 1987

Actors: Gary Oldman, Alfred Molina, Vanessa Redgrave

This film is the story of the spectacular life and violent death of British playwright Joe Orton. In his teens Orton is befriended by the older more reserved Kenneth Halliwell and while the two begin a relationship its fairly obvious that its not all about sex. Orton loves the dangers of bath-houses and liaisons in public restrooms; Halliwell not as charming or attractive as Orton doesnt...

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Prayers For Bobby

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United States

Director: Russell Mulcahy

Duration: 90 min

Year: 2009

Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Henry Czerny, Ryan Kelley

In Prayers for Bobby Mary Griffith is a devout Christian who raises her children with the conservative teachings of the Presbyterian Church. However when her son Bobby confides to his older brother he may be gay life changes for the entire family after Mary learns about his secret. While Bobbys father and siblings slowly come to terms with his homosexuality Mary believes God can cure him...

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Poster Girl

Genres: Documentary, Short, Biography, War

Country: United States

Director: Sara Nesson

Duration: 38 min

Year: 2010

Actors:

Apple pie cheerleader turned tough-as-nails machine gunner in the Iraq War Sgt. Robynn Murray comes home to face a new kind of battle she never...

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Pirosmani

Genres: Biography

Country:

Director: Giorgi Shengelaya

Duration: 105 min

Year: 1969

Actors: Avtandil Varazi, Dodo Abashidze, Givi Aleqsandria

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Pirates Of Silicon Valley

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United States

Director: Martyn Burke

Duration: 95 min

Year: 1999

Actors: Anthony Michael Hall, Noah Wyle, Joey Slotnick

This is a semi-humorous biographical film about the men who made the world of technology what it is today their struggles during college the founding of their companies and the ingenious actions they took to build up the global corporate empires of Apple Computer Corporation and Microsoft...

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Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman

Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama, History

Country: United States, United Kingdom

Director: Adrian Shergold

Duration: 90 min

Year: 2005

Actors: Timothy Spall, Juliet Stevenson, Eddie Marsan

Albert Pierrepont delivered groceries - and was a hangman. Following in his fathers footsteps he quickly became known for his efficiency and compassion rising to become the best in the land. From early 1933 until the end of his career in 1955 he executed 608 people including the Beasts of Belsen war criminals for which he earned the gratitude of a nation. But by the time he hanged...

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Peter And Paul

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Country: United States

Director: Robert Day

Duration: 198 min

Year: 1981

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Robert Foxworth, Eddie Albert

Peter and Paul assume leadership of the Church as they struggle against violent opposition to the teachings of Christ and their own personal...

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Paul Williams Still Alive

Genres: Documentary, Biography, Comedy, Musical

Country: United States, Philippines

Director: Stephen Kessler

Duration: 87 min

Year: 2011

Actors: Paul Williams, Robert Blake, Karen Carpenter

A documentary about legendary songwriter and 70s icon Paul...

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Paul Kelly - Stories Of Me

Genres: Documentary, Biography, Music

Country: Australia

Director: Ian Darling

Duration: 95 min

Year: 2012

Actors: Paul Kelly, Michael Barclay, Kasey Chambers

An intimate portrait of Paul Kelly Australias foremost singer-songwriter. In a career spanning more than thirty years he has documented the history of our country described its landscapes and cities and captured the lives and loves of its citizens. Kelly has written over 350 songs penned lyrics for many other singers co-authored songs and written for film. But like all great artists Paul...

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