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Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer

Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror, ...

Country: United States

Director: John McNaughton

Duration: 83 min

Year: 1986

Actors: Michael Rooker, Tracy Arnold, Tom Towles

Henry likes to kill people in different ways each time. Henry shares an apartment with Otis. When Otis sister comes to stay we see both sides of Henry; the guy-next-door and the serial killer. Low budget movie with some graphic murder...

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Heleno

Genres: Biography, Drama, Sport

Country: Brazil

Director: José Henrique Fonseca

Duration: 116 min

Year: 2011

Actors: Rodrigo Santoro, Angie Cepeda, Alinne Moraes

The film about Heleno de Freitas 1920/1959 Santoro who was one of the greats of Brazilian football . An exceptional player but very temperamental while that displayed his enormous talent on the pitch showed her charm in the evenings locals . Beautiful elegant and arrogant and had lived in bohemian affairs constant drank heavily took drugs and not cared athletically living...

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Heaven & Earth

Genres: Action, Biography, Drama, History, ...

Country: France, United States

Director: Oliver Stone

Duration: 140 min

Year: 1993

Actors: Hiep Thi Le, Tommy Lee Jones, Haing S. Ngor

The final movie in Oliver Stones Vietnam trilogy follows the true story of a Vietnamese village girl who survives a life of suffering and hardship during and after the Vietnam war. As a freedom fighter a hustler young mother a sometime prostitute and the wife of a US. marine the girls relationships with men suggests an analogy of Vietnam as Woman and the U.S. as...

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Hawking (2004)

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Philip Martin

Duration: 90 min

Year: 2004

Actors: Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Brandon, Tom Hodgkins

A drama documenting the life and work of the theoretical physicist Professor Stephen Hawking who despite being diagnosed with motor neurone disease at the age of 21 has galvanized the scientific world with his ground-breaking work on the nature of the universe. Starring Benedict...

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Haute Cuisine

Genres: Biography, Comedy

Country: France

Director: Christian Vincent

Duration: 95 min

Year: 2012

Actors: Catherine Frot, Arthur Dupont, Jean d'Ormesson

Hortense Laborie is a celebrated chef living in the Perigord region. To her great surprise the President of the Republic appoints her as his personal cook. She accepts reluctantly but once she has accepted her nomination Hortense works her heart and soul to produce both a stylish and authentic cuisine. For a while she manages to impose herself thanks to her sturdy character and despite the...

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Harlow

Genres: Biography, Drama, Romance

Country: United States

Director: Gordon Douglas

Duration: 125 min

Year: 1965

Actors: Carroll Baker, Red Buttons, Raf Vallone

In this story Harlow starts in the movies as set dressing the pretty girl who is used for the glamour shots. Refusing to descend to the casting couch for work she finds that she is soon blacklisted from the industry. But an agent named Arthur sees something in Jean and begins representing her. For a long time the jobs are scarce and consist mostly of receiving the pie in the face in low...

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Gypsy (1993)

Genres: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Musical

Country: United States

Director: Emile Ardolino

Duration: 153 min

Year: 1993

Actors: Bette Midler, Peter Riegert, Cynthia Gibb

Based on the autobiography of Gypsy Rose Lee this made-for-TV movie-previously a Broadway smash and a 1962 film-depicts the life and times of a stripper and her domineering...

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Gypsy (1962)

Genres: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Musical

Country: United States

Director: Mervyn LeRoy

Duration: 143 min

Year: 1962

Actors: Rosalind Russell, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden

Mama Rose lives to see her daughter June succeed on Broadway by way of vaudeville. When June marries and leaves Rose turns her hope and attention to her elder less obviously talented daughter Louise. However having her headlining as a stripper at Minskys Burlesque is not what she initially has in...

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Grizzly Man

Genres: Documentary, Biography

Country: United States

Director: Werner Herzog

Duration: 103 min

Year: 2005

Actors: Timothy Treadwell, Amie Huguenard, Werner Herzog

A docudrama that centers on amateur grizzly bear expert Timothy Treadwell. He periodically journeyed to Alaska to study and live with the bears. He was killed along with his girlfriend Amie Huguenard by a rogue bear in October 2003. The films explores their compassionate lives as they found solace among these endangered...

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Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters

Genres: Documentary, Biography, Drama

Country: United States

Director: Ben Shapiro

Duration: 78 min

Year: 2012

Actors: Gregory Crewdson, Samantha Ressler, Richard Sands

Filmed over a decade Brief Encounters follows internationally renowned photographer Gregory Crewdsons quest to create his unique surreal and incredibly elaborate portraits of suburban life. He sets a house on fire builds 90 foot sets with crews of sixty shuts down city streets...all in the service of his haunted image of American life and his own anxieties dreams and inner desires. Brief...

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Goya's Ghosts

Genres: Biography, Drama, War

Country: United States, Spain

Director: Milos Forman

Duration: 113 min

Year: 2006

Actors: Javier Bardem, Natalie Portman, Stellan Skarsgård

The painter Goya becomes involved with the Spanish Inquisition when his muse Ines is arrested by the church for heresy. Her father Thomas comes to him hoping that his connection with Brother Lorenzo whom he is painting can secure the release of his...

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Goodfellas

Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States

Director: Martin Scorsese

Duration: 146 min

Year: 1990

Actors: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci

Henry Hill is a small time gangster who takes part in a robbery with Jimmy Conway and Tommy De Vito two other gangsters who have set their sights a bit higher. His two partners kill off everyone else involved in the robbery and slowly start to climb up through the hierarchy of the Mob. Henry however is badly affected by his partners success but will he stoop low enough to bring about the...

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Goodbye Bafana

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Country: Germany, France, Belgium, South Africa, Italy, United Kingdom, Luxembourg

Director: Bille August

Duration: 118 min

Year: 2007

Actors: Joseph Fiennes, Dennis Haysbert, Diane Kruger

James Gregory once lived in a farm and had befriended a native youth Bafana and had even had a photograph taken with him. Years later now married to Gloria and father of three children Chris Brett and Natasha James has nothing but shame and regret as many South African Caucasians in the oppressive Apartheid-era ridiculed him leading him to hate Africans. He seeks to redeem himself by...

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Gods And Monsters

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United States, United Kingdom

Director: Bill Condon

Duration: 105 min

Year: 1998

Actors: Ian McKellen, Brendan Fraser, Lynn Redgrave

The story of James Whale the director of Frankenstein 1931 and Frankensteins Braut 1935 in the time period following the Korean War. Whale is homosexual and develops a friendship with his gardener an...

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Five Friends

Genres: Documentary, Biography

Country: United States

Director: Erik Santiago

Duration: 70 min

Year: 2010

Actors: Alan Frow, Jim Hood, Michael Kimmel

We live in the age of the bromance. Never has pop culture been so fascinated with male friendships. What do they look like? Why are they important? And how do we talk about them without seeming...unmanly? Films like I Love You Man or the recent GQ article entitled Are You Man Enough for the Man-Date? are just a couple of examples of how society is wrestling with what male relationships...

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Giulio Cesare, Il Conquistatore Delle Gallie

Genres: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, ...

Country: Italy

Director: Tanio Boccia

Duration: 91 min

Year: 1962

Actors: Cameron Mitchell, Rik Battaglia, Dominique Wilms

In 54 B.C. Julius Caesar seeks to solidify his position in Rome by putting down a rebellion in Gaul led by a tribal chieftain named Vercingetorix. Vercingetorix has rallied many tribes to his cause including one led by the beautiful Queen Asterix and others whod once pledged allegiance to Rome. At first things go badly for the Romans complicated by the fact that Vercingetorix has captured and...

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Florbela

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: Portugal

Director: Vicente Alves do Ó

Duration: 119 min

Year: 2012

Actors: Dalila Carmo, Ivo Canelas, Albano Jerónimo

Portugal 1920. Florbela Espanca a woman ahead of her time and a famous poet throws herself into a third marriage after two failed experiences... See full synopsis...

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Girl With A Pearl Earring

Genres: Biography, Drama, Romance

Country: United Kingdom, Luxembourg

Director: Peter Webber

Duration: 100 min

Year: 2003

Actors: Scarlett Johansson, Colin Firth, Tom Wilkinson

This film adapted from a work of fiction by author Tracy Chevalier tells a story about the events surrounding the creation of the painting Girl With a Pearl Earring by 17th century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer. Little is known about the girl in the painting it is speculated that she was a maid who lived in the house of the painter along with his family and other servants though there is no...

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Frida

Genres: Biography, Drama, Romance

Country: United States, Canada, Mexico

Director: Julie Taymor

Duration: 123 min

Year: 2002

Actors: Salma Hayek, Alfred Molina, Geoffrey Rush

Frida chronicles the life Frida Kahlo shared unflinchingly and openly with Diego Rivera as the young couple took the art world by storm. From her complex and enduring relationship with her mentor and husband to her illicit and controversial affair with Leon Trotsky to her provocative and romantic entanglements with women Frida Kahlo lived a bold and uncompromising life as a political...

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Girl, Interrupted

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United States, Germany

Director: James Mangold

Duration: 127 min

Year: 1999

Actors: Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Clea DuVall

Susanna is rushed to the hospital. Afterwards she discusses this with a psychiatrist. She had been having some delusions. She had also been having an affair with the husband of her parents friend. The doctor suggests that combining a bottle of aspirin and a bottle of vodka was a suicide attempt. This she denies. He recommends a short period of rest at Claymoore. Claymoore is a private mental...

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Gia

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United States

Director: Michael Cristofer

Duration: 120 min

Year: 1998

Actors: Angelina Jolie, Faye Dunaway, Elizabeth Mitchell

When Gia Carangi first arrives in New York City shes a beautiful drop-out from Philadelphia brashly bursting through the closed doors of top modeling agent Wilhelmina Cooper. Gias electrifying personality and potent sexuality soon find their way onto the covers of Americas top-selling magazines. But being loved by the world isnt the same as being love by one - an unfulfilled desire that can...

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General Idi Amin Dada

Genres: Documentary, Biography, War

Country: France, Switzerland

Director: Barbet Schroeder

Duration: 90 min

Year: 1974

Actors: Idi Amin, Fidel Castro, Golda Meir

Ugandas dictator General Idi Amin Dada accepts a foreign crews request to interview and film him. He talks to the camera about his outreach to Arab nations his goal of eradicating Israel his views on economic policy and his views of Nixon Kissinger and other world leaders. We also see him dressing down his ministers at a cabinet meeting two weeks after this meeting the foreign...

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Garbo: The Spy

Genres: Documentary, Biography, History

Country: Spain

Director: Edmon Roch

Duration: 88 min

Year: 2009

Actors: Rupert Allason, José Antonio Escoriza, Aline Griffith

A compelling account of Juan Pujol an extraordinary Spanish double agent during WWII who helped change the course of...

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Gandhi, My Father

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Country: India

Director: Feroz Abbas Khan

Duration: 136 min

Year: 2007

Actors: Akshaye Khanna, Darshan Jariwala, Shefali Shetty

Mohandas was born in the Gujarati speaking family had several brothers who jointly owned property in Rajkot. At the age of 13 Mohandas married Kasturba. On attaining maturity he re-located to England became a Barrister returned home and together with Kasturba re-located to South Africa. They returned to India for a few years and this is where they became parents of four sons: Harilal...

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Gacy

Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror, ...

Country: United States

Director: Clive Saunders

Duration: 88 min

Year: 2003

Actors: Mark Holton, Adam Baldwin, Tom Waldman

Wisconsin 1953. John Gacy Sr. forces his fat teenage son to have sexual relations with him during a fishing trip. Iowa 1968. The adult John Wayne Gacy Jr. is convicted of sodomy and after 18 months he is released and settles in Des Plains near Chicago. From 1972 John Wayne Gacy Jr. grows up as a respected family father and businessman even tipped for a political career with the Democrats....

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Freedom Writers

Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama

Country: United States, Germany

Director: Richard LaGravenese

Duration: 123 min

Year: 2007

Actors: Hilary Swank, Imelda Staunton, Patrick Dempsey

Its 1994 in Long Beach California. Idealistic Erin Gruwell is just starting her first teaching job that as freshman and sophomore English teacher at Woodrow Wilson High School which two years earlier implemented a voluntary integration program. For many of the existing teachers the integration has ruined the school whose previously stellar academic standing has been replaced with many...

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My One And Only

Genres: Adventure, Biography, Comedy, Drama, ...

Country: United States

Director: Richard Loncraine

Duration: 108 min

Year: 2009

Actors: Renée Zellweger, Logan Lerman, Mark Rendall

An unusual road trip movie about a mother driving her two sons from New York to Pittsburgh to St. Louis and eventually Hollywood in her quest to find a man to take care of them...

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My Mother's Castle

Genres: Adventure, Biography, Comedy, Drama, ...

Country: France

Director: Yves Robert

Duration: 98 min

Year: 1990

Actors: Julien Ciamaca, Philippe Caubère, Nathalie Roussel

Every holiday Marcel and his family go to their cottage in the Provence France. He likes the hills in this region. Before they arrive at the cottage they have to walk about 5 miles. With the co-operation of an ex-pupil of Marcels father whos a teacher they only have to walk 1 mile since they can take a shortcut along a canal through the backyards of some eccentric people. During one of...

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My Left Foot (my Left Foot: The Story Of Christy Brown)

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United Kingdom, Ireland

Director: Jim Sheridan

Duration: 103 min

Year: 1989

Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker, Alison Whelan

Christy Brown is a spastic quadriplegic born to a large poor Irish family. His mother Mrs Brown recognizes the intelligence and humanity in the lad everyone else regards as a vegetable. Eventually Christy matures into a cantankerous writer who uses his only functional limb his left foot to write...

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