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My Father's Glory

Genres: Adventure, Biography, Drama

Country: France

Director: Yves Robert

Duration: 105 min

Year: 1990

Actors: Philippe Caubère, Nathalie Roussel, Didier Pain

A young boys life in turn-of-the-century France. Marcel witnesses the success of his teacher father as well as the success of his arrogant Uncle Jules. Marcel and family spend their summer vacation in a cottage in Provence and Marcel befriends a local boy who teaches him the secrets of the hills in...

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My Boy Jack

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, War

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Brian Kirk

Duration: 93 min

Year: 2007

Actors: David Haig, Daniel Radcliffe, Kim Cattrall

English gentleman author Rudyard Kipling famous for the Jungle Book uses his considerable influence being on a War Office propaganda think tank to get his nearly 18 year-old son John Jack admitted for military service during World war I after he is repeatedly refused on account of his bad eyesight. He is enrolled in the Irish Guards: their patriotic dream but mother and sisters nightmare....

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Mummies: Secrets Of The Pharaohs

Genres: Documentary, Biography, Drama, Family

Country: United States

Director: Keith Melton

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Year: 2007

Actors: Elana Drago, William Hope, Nasser Memarzia

The grail is not the gold nor the books of ancient wisdom but the 3000 year old DNA of the mummies which may lead to a cure for...

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Mrs Brown

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, Romance

Country: United States, United Kingdom, Ireland

Director: John Madden

Duration: 105 min

Year: 1997

Actors: Judi Dench, Billy Connolly, Geoffrey Palmer

Queen Victoria is deeply depressed after the death of her husband disappearing from public. Her servant Brown who adores her through caress and admiration brings her back to life but that relationship creates scandalous situation and is likely to lead to monarchy...

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Mongol: The Rise Of Genghis Khan

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, War

Country: Russia, Germany, Kazakhstan

Director: Sergey Bodrov

Duration: 126 min

Year: 2007

Actors: Tadanobu Asano, Amadu Mamadakov, Khulan Chuluun

The movie is an epic story of a young Genghis Khan and how events in his early life lead him to become a legendary conqueror. The 9-year-old Temüjin is taken on a trip by his father to select a girl as his future wife. He meets Börte who says she would like to be chosen which he does. He promises to return after five years to marry her. Temüjins father is poisoned on the trip and dies. As...

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Midnight Express

Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama

Country: United States, United Kingdom

Director: Alan Parker

Duration: 121 min

Year: 1978

Actors: Brad Davis, Irene Miracle, Bo Hopkins

On October 6 1970 while boarding an international flight out of Istanbul Airport American Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle 2 kilos of hashish out of the country the drugs strapped to his body. He is told that he will be released if he cooperates with the authorities in identifying the person who actually sold him the hash. Billys troubles really begin when after that assistance he...

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Micro Men

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Saul Metzstein

Duration: 84 min

Year: 2009

Actors: Alexander Armstrong, Martin Freeman, Edward Baker-Duly

In 1979 Clive Sinclair British inventor of the pocket calculator frustrated by the lack of home investment in his projectthe electric car also opposes former assistant Chris Currys belief that he can successfully market a micro-chip for a home computer. A parting of the ways sees Curry in partnership with the Austrian Hermann Hauser and using whizz kid Cambridge students set up his own...

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Michael Collins

Genres: Biography, Drama, Thriller, War

Country: United States, United Kingdom, Ireland

Director: Neil Jordan

Duration: 133 min

Year: 1996

Actors: Liam Neeson, Aidan Quinn, Julia Roberts

Neil Jordans depiction of the controversial life and death of Michael Collins the Lion of Ireland who led the IRA against British rule and founded the Irish Free State Eire in...

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Mesrine: Public Enemy #1

Genres: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, ...

Country: France, Canada

Director: Jean-François Richet

Duration: 133 min

Year: 2008

Actors: Vincent Cassel, Ludivine Sagnier, Mathieu Amalric

The story of Jacques Mesrine Frances public enemy No. 1 during the 1970s. After nearly two decades of legendary criminal feats -- from multiple bank robberies and to prison breaks -- Mesrine was gunned down by the French police in...

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Men Of Honor

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United States

Director: George Tillman Jr.

Duration: 129 min

Year: 2000

Actors: Cuba Gooding Jr., Robert De Niro, Charlize Theron

The story ultimately revolves around two men of honor; their relationship their individual and joint failures and triumphs. Carl Brashear is determined to be the first African American Navy Diver in a time where racism is rife. Leslie Sunday is his embittered trainer determined to see him fail. Fate challenges and circumstances eventually draw these two men together in a tale of turbulence...

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Mask (1985)

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United States

Director: Peter Bogdanovich

Duration: 120 min

Year: 1985

Actors: Cher, Eric Stoltz, Sam Elliott

Rusty Dennis is the mother of Rocky a seriously deformed but extremely intelligent and emotionally warm teenager. Rusty is a no-nonsense mother whose wild lifestyle is often at odds with her tenderness and protectiveness towards Rocky. She is determined that Rocky be given the same chances and happiness that everyone else takes for...

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Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present

Genres: Documentary, Biography, History

Country: United States

Director: Matthew Akers, Jeff Dupre

Duration: 106 min

Year: 2012

Actors: Marina Abramovic, Ulay, Klaus Biesenbach

This feature-length documentary film follows the artist as she prepares for what may be the most important moment of her life: a major retrospective of her work at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. To be given a retrospective at one of the worlds premiere museums is for any living artist the most exhilarating sort of milestone. For Marina it is far more - it is the chance to finally...

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Marie Antoinette

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Country: United States, France, Japan

Director: Sofia Coppola

Duration: 123 min

Year: 2006

Actors: Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman, Rip Torn

All eyes will be on you says the Austrian Empress Maria Theresa to her youngest daughter Marie Antoinette. The film marketed for a teen audience is an impressionistic retelling of Marie Antoinettes life as a young queen in the opulent and eccentric court at Versailles. The film focuses on Marie Antoinette as she matures from a teenage bride to a young woman and eventual queen of...

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Man On Wire - Der Drahtseilakt

Genres: Documentary, Biography

Country: United States, United Kingdom

Director: James Marsh

Duration: 94 min

Year: 2008

Actors: Philippe Petit, Jean François Heckel, Jean-Louis Blondeau

On August 7 1974 Philippe Petit a French wire walker juggler and street performer days shy of his 25th birthday spent 45 minutes walking dancing kneeling and lying on a wire he and friends strung between the rooftops of the Twin Towers. Uses contemporary interviews archival footage and recreations to tell the story of his previous walks between towers of Notre Dame and of the Sydney...

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Man On The Moon

Genres: Biography, Comedy, Drama

Country: United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Japan

Director: Milos Forman

Duration: 118 min

Year: 1999

Actors: Jim Carrey, Danny DeVito, Gerry Becker

Man on the Moon is a biographical movie on the late comedian Andy Kaufman. Kaufman along with his role on Taxi 1978 was famous for being the self-declared Intergender Wrestling Champion of the world. After beating women time and time again Jerry Lawler who plays himself in the movie a professional wrestler got tired of seeing all of this and decided to challenge Kaufman to a match. In...

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Malcolm X

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Country: United States, Japan

Director: Spike Lee

Duration: 202 min

Year: 1992

Actors: Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett, Delroy Lindo

Biograpical epic of Malcolm X the legendary African American leader. Born Malcolm Little his father a Garveyite Baptist minister was killed by the Ku Klux Klan. Malcolm became a gangster and while in jail discovered the Nation of Islam writings of Elijah Muhammad. He preaches the teachings when let out of jail but later on goes on a pilgrimage to the city of Mecca there he converts to the...

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Magic Beyond Words: The Jk Rowling Story

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United States

Director: Paul A. Kaufman

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Year: 2011

Actors: Poppy Montgomery, Emily Holmes, Antonio Cupo

An inspiring look at JK Rowlings rise to become one of the most influential writers-from her humble beginnings as an imaginative young girl and awkward teenager to the loss of her mother and the genesis of the Harry Potter...

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Made In Dagenham

Genres: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Nigel Cole

Duration: 113 min

Year: 2010

Actors: Sally Hawkins, Bob Hoskins, Andrea Riseborough

In 1968 the Ford auto factory in Dagenham was one of the largest single private employers in the UK. In addition to the thousands of male employees there are also 187 underpaid women machinists who primarily assemble the car seat upholstery in poor working conditions. Dissatisfied the women represented by the shop steward and Rita OGrady work with union rep Albert Passingham for a better...

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Machuca

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United Kingdom, Chile, Spain, France

Director: Andrés Wood

Duration: 121 min

Year: 2004

Actors: Matías Quer, Ariel Mateluna, Manuela Martelli

Santiago capital of Chile during the Marxist government of elected highly controversial president Salvador Allende. Father McEnroe supports his leftist views by introducing a program at the prestigious collegio Catholic prep school St. Patrick to allow free admission of some proletarian kids. One of them is Pedro Machuca slum-raised son of the cleaning lady in Gonzalo Infantes...

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Machine Gun Preacher

Genres: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama

Country: United States

Director: Marc Forster

Duration: 129 min

Year: 2011

Actors: Gerard Butler, Michelle Monaghan, Michael Shannon

In Pittsburgh Pennsylvania addicted gang biker Sam Childers is released from prison and learns that his wife Lynn is no longer a stripper but has converted to Christianity. One night Sam and his best friend Donnie give a ride to a hitchhiker who threatens Donnie with a pocketknife; however Sam reacts and turns the tables on the stranger. Sam is affected by the incident and is convinced by Lynn...

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Macarthur

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, War

Country: United States

Director: Joseph Sargent

Duration: 130 min

Year: 1977

Actors: Gregory Peck, Dan O'Herlihy, Ed Flanders

The story of General of the Army Douglas MacArthur Supreme Allied Commander during World War II and United Nations Commander for the Korean War. MacArthur begins in 1942 following the fall of Phillipines and covers the remarkable career of this military legend up through and including the Korean War and into MacArthurs days of forced retirement after being dismissed from his post by...

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Mabo

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: Australia

Director: Rachel Perkins

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Year: 2012

Actors: Jimi Bani, Deborah Mailman, Ewen Leslie

Mabo tells the story of one of Australias national heroes - Eddie Koiki Mabo the Torres Strait Islander who left school at age 15 yet spearheaded the High Court challenge that overthrew the fiction of terra...

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Luther

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Country: United States, Germany

Director: Eric Till

Duration: 123 min

Year: 2003

Actors: Joseph Fiennes, Bruno Ganz, Peter Ustinov

Biography of Martin Luther the 16th-century priest who led the Christian Reformation and opened up new possibilities in exploration of faith. The film begins with his vow to become a monk and continues through his struggles to reconcile his desire for sanctification with his increasing abhorrence of the corruption and hypocrisy pervading the Churchs hierarchy. He is ultimately charged with...

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Love Is The Devil: Study For A Portrait Of Francis Bacon

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United Kingdom, France, Japan

Director: John Maybury

Duration: 90 min

Year: 1998

Actors: Derek Jacobi, Daniel Craig, Tilda Swinton

In the 1960s British painter Francis Bacon 1909-1992 surprises a burglar and invites him to share his bed. The burglar a working class man named George Dyer 30 years Bacons junior accepts. Bacon finds Dyers amorality and innocence attractive introducing him to his Soho pals. In their sex life Dyer dominates Bacon is the masochist. Dyers bouts with depression his drinking and pill...

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Liz & Dick

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United States

Director: Lloyd Kramer

Duration: 88 min

Year: 2012

Actors: Lindsay Lohan, Grant Bowler, Theresa Russell

On the set of Cleopatra Hollywoods most beautiful star Elizabeth Taylor fell into the arms of one of the worlds greatest actors Richard Burton - and she didnt leave. Their subsequent white-hot scandalous love affair gave rise to the paparazzi and they became the most hunted and photographed couple on earth. Their rocky passionate relationship born in front of the cameras was...

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Little Ashes

Genres: Biography, Drama, Romance

Country: United Kingdom, Spain

Director: Paul Morrison

Duration: 112 min

Year: 2008

Actors: Robert Pattinson, Javier Beltrán, Matthew McNulty

In 1922 Madrid is wavering on the edge of change as traditional values are challenged by the dangerous new influences of Jazz Freud and the avant-garde. Salvador Dali arrives at the university; 18 years old and determined to become a great artist. His bizarre blend of shyness and rampant exhibitionism attracts the attention of two of the universitys social elite - Federico Garcia Lorca and...

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Lillian Russell

Genres: Biography, Drama, Musical

Country: United States

Director: Irving Cummings

Duration: 127 min

Year: 1940

Actors: Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Henry Fonda

Life story of the musical star from her discovery in 1890 by band leader Tony Pastor till her retirement in 1912 when she married newspaperman Alexander...

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Lenny

Genres: Biography, Comedy, Drama

Country: United States

Director: Bob Fosse

Duration: 111 min

Year: 1974

Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Valerie Perrine, Jan Miner

Interview-style biography of controversial and pioneering stand-up comedian Lenny Bruce. The film traces Bruce from his beginnings as a Catskills comic to his later underground popularity based on his anti-establishment politics and his scatological...

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Koch

Genres: Documentary, Biography, History

Country: United States

Director: Neil Barsky

Duration: 100 min

Year: 2012

Actors: Ed Koch, Michael Bloomberg, Calvin O. Butts III

Three-time New York City Mayor 1978-1989 Ed Koch was combative funny and blunt. He was also intensely private. Koch gives us a contemporary history of the worlds greatest city and an intimate portrait of the 86-year old former mayor as he confronts his own mortality and legacy. The film examines issues still relevant today - race homelessness AIDS and gay rights - and gives us a...

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