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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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