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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

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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

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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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Party Monster

Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States, Netherlands

Director: Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato

Duration: 98 min

Year: 2003

Actors: Macaulay Culkin, Wilson Cruz, Seth Green

Set in the New York club scene of the late 1980s thru the 1990s a tale which chronicles the rise and fall of club-kid promoter Michael Alig a party organizer whose extravagant life was sent spiralling downward when he boasted on television that he had killed his friend roommate and drug dealer Angel Melendez. Originally from Indiana Alig moved to New York and came to be an underground...

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Once Upon A Rooftop

Genres: Documentary, Short, Biography, Drama, ...

Country: United States, Hong Kong

Director: Sybil Wendler

Duration: 31 min

Year: 2010

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On a rooftop high above the bustling streets of Hong Kong a woman practices the ancient art of tai chi as her daughter watches from the shadows. Invisible from below they share their hidden promontory with 30 other families. All live in shanties perched precariously on top of a nine-story building. This film is a porthole to an intimate view of life in these illegal rooftop tenements that exist...

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October Sky

Genres: Biography, Drama, Family

Country: United States

Director: Joe Johnston

Duration: 108 min

Year: 1999

Actors: Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper, Laura Dern

In a 1950s mining town called Coalwood Homer Hickam is a kid with only one future in sight to work in the local coal mine like his father. However in October 1957 everything changes when the first artificial satellite Sputnik goes into orbit. With that event Homer becomes inspired to learn how to build rockets. With his friends and the local nerd Homer sets to do just that by trial and a...

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Nova Darwin's Darkest Hour

Genres: Documentary, Biography

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Director: John Bradshaw

Duration: 104 min

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Actors: Henry Ian Cusick, Frances O'Connor, Nigel Bennett

Charles Darwin is taken aback when he receives a manuscript from a colleague Alfred Wallace which contains many of the same conclusions as he on evolution and the development of various species. Darwins theory was developed over a great many years and in flashbacks the manner in which it developed is shown. He had many supporters and likely more critics. He knew that his ideas were radical...

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Nova Wave That Shook The World

Genres: Documentary, Biography

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Director: Lara Acaster, Alex Williamson

Duration: 54 min

Year:

Actors: Richard Anthony, Simon Boxall, Dan Cox

Dec. 26 2004...

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Secrets Of Lost Empires: China Bridge

Genres: Documentary, Biography

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Actors: Bashar Altabba, Marcus Brandt, Fu Xiang Chen

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Nova Alien From Earth

Genres: Documentary, Biography

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Director: Simon Nasht, Annamaria Talas

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Actors: Jay O. Sanders

NOVA investigates the furious scientific debate raging over what Hobbit bones...

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Nixon

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United States

Director: Oliver Stone

Duration: 192 min

Year: 1995

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Joan Allen, Powers Boothe

Director Oliver Stones exploration of former president Richard Nixons strict Quaker upbringing his nascent political strivings in law school and his strangely self-effacing courtship of his wife Pat. The contradictions in his character are revealed early in the vicious campaign against Helen Gahagan Douglas and the oddly masochistic Checkers speech. His defeat at the hands of the hated and...

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Nicky's Family

Genres: Documentary, Biography, Drama, History

Country: United States, United Kingdom, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Israel, Cambodia

Director: Matej Minac

Duration: 96 min

Year: 2011

Actors: Ben Abeles, Jirina Bohdalová, The Dalai Lama

Nicholas Winton an Englishman today 102 years old organized the rescue of 669 Czech and Slovak children just before the outbreak of World War II. Winton now 102 years old did not speak about these events with anyone for more than half a century. His exploits would have probably been forgotten if his wife fifty years later hadnt found a suitcase in the attic full of documents and...

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My Reincarnation

Genres: Documentary, Adventure, Biography, Family

Country: Switzerland, Netherlands, Malaysia, Italy, United States, Germany, Finland, Venezuela, China, Taiwan, Singapore, Russia

Director: Jennifer Fox

Duration: 90 min

Year: 2011

Actors: Yeshi Silvano Namkhai, Chögyal Namkhai Norbu

For twenty years filmmaker Jennifer Fox has been following the high Tibetan master Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche and his Italian born son Yeshi with her camera. The result is the astounding feature length documentary MY REINCARNATION which tells the rare inside story of one of the last reincarnate teachers to be trained in Tibet and his sons stubborn reluctance to follow in his fathers...

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Isoroku Yamamoto, The Commander-in-chief Of The Combined Fleet

Genres: Biography, Drama, War

Country: Japan

Director: Izuru Narushima

Duration: 140 min

Year: 2011

Actors: Kôji Yakusho, Hiroshi Abe, Shûichi Azumaya

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Isn't She Great

Genres: Biography, Comedy, Romance

Country: United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Japan

Director: Andrew Bergman

Duration: 95 min

Year: 2000

Actors: Bette Midler, Nathan Lane, Stockard Channing

An unsuccessful over-the-top actress becomes a successful over-the-top authoress in this biography of Jacqueline Susann the famed writer of The Valley Of The Dolls and other trashy novels. Facing a failing career Susann meets a successful promoter who becomes her husband. After several failures to place her in commercials and a TV quiz show he hits upon the idea for her to become a writer....

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