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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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Elizabeth - Das Goldene Königreich

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Country: United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany

Director: Shekhar Kapur

Duration: 114 min

Year: 2007

Actors: Cate Blanchett, Clive Owen, Geoffrey Rush

Two faiths two empires two rulers - colliding in 1588. Papist Spain wants to bring down the heretic Elizabeth. Philip is building an armada but needs a rationale to attack. With covert intrigue Spain sets a trap for the Queen and her principal secretary Walsingham using as a pawn Elizabeths cousin Mary Stuart whos under house arrest in the North. The trap springs and the armada sets...

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Elizabeth

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Country: United States, United Kingdom

Director: Shekhar Kapur

Duration: 124 min

Year: 1998

Actors: Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, Christopher Eccleston

This film details the ascension to the throne and the early reign of Queen Elizabeth the First as played by Cate Blanchett. The main focus is the endless attempts by her council to marry her off the Catholic hatred of her and her romance with Lord Robert...

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El Presidente

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

Country: Philippines

Director: Mark Meily

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Year: 2012

Actors: Jorge Estregan, Nora Aunor, Christopher De Leon

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Edgar Allan Poe (1909)

Genres: Short, Biography

Country: United States

Director: D.W. Griffith

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Year: 1909

Actors: Barry O'Moore, Linda Arvidson, Clara T. Bracy

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Ed Wood

Genres: Biography, Comedy, Drama

Country: United States

Director: Tim Burton

Duration: 127 min

Year: 1994

Actors: Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Sarah Jessica Parker

The life of Edward D. Wood Jr. hailed as the worst director of Plan 9 aus dem Weltall 1959 Glen or Glenda 1953 and Die Rache des Würgers 1955 of all...

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Ed Gein (in The Light Of The Moon)

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

Country: United States, Portugal

Director: Chuck Parello

Duration: 89 min

Year: 2000

Actors: Steve Railsback, Carrie Snodgress, Carol Mansell

The true story of Edward Gein the farmer whose horrific crimes inspired Psycho The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Silence of the Lambs. This is the first film to Geins tormented upbringing his adored but domineering mother and the 1957 arrest uncovered the most bizarre series of murders America has ever...

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Eames: The Architect & The Painter

Genres: Documentary, Biography

Country: United States

Director: Jason Cohn, Bill Jersey

Duration: 85 min

Year: 2011

Actors: Charles Eames, Ray Eames, James Franco

The husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames were Americas most influential and important industrial designers. Admired for their creations and fascinating as individuals they have risen to iconic status in American culture. Eames: The Architect & The Painter draws from a treasure trove of archival material as well as new interviews with friends colleague and experts to capture the...

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Dreams With Sharp Teeth

Genres: Documentary, Biography

Country: United States

Director: Erik Nelson

Duration: 96 min

Year: 2008

Actors: Harlan Ellison, Robin Williams, Neil Gaiman

A documentary on speculative fiction writer and essayist Harlan...

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Dragon - Die Bruce Lee Story

Genres: Action, Biography, Drama

Country: United States

Director: Rob Cohen

Duration: 120 min

Year: 1993

Actors: Jason Scott Lee, Lauren Holly, Robert Wagner

Based on the life and career of Martial Arts superstar Bruce Lee. Haunted by demons. Bruce was taught Martial arts at childhood. Bruce then was told by his father to flee to the USA. There he opened up a Martial Arts school then was chosen to be the Green Hornets sidekick Kato. Then his big movie career that included The Big Boss and Enter the Dragon. Fighting many enemies along the...

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Domino

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

Country: United States, United Kingdom, France

Director: Tony Scott

Duration: 127 min

Year: 2005

Actors: Keira Knightley, Mickey Rourke, Édgar Ramírez

The daughter of an actor father and a social-climber mother Domino Harvey bored with her life decides to join the team of Ed Moseby and becomes a bounty hunter. But she gets in trouble when the Mafias money is stolen from an armored truck while Moseby and his crew are participating in a reality show produced by Mark Heiss. The situation gets out of control when the sons of a rival mobster...

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Dirty Pictures

Genres: Documentary, Biography

Country: United States

Director: Étienne Sauret (as Etienne Sauret)

Duration: 90 min

Year: 2010

Actors:

Alexander Sasha Shulgin is the scientist behind more than 200 psychedelic compounds including MDMA more commonly known as Esctasy. Considered to be one of the the greatest chemists of the twentieth century Sashas vast array of discoveries have had a profound impact in the field of psychedelic research. Dirty Pictures delves into the lifework of Dr. Shulgin and scientists alike explores...

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Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel

Genres: Documentary, Biography

Country: United States

Director: Lisa Immordino Vreeland, Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt

Duration: 86 min

Year: 2011

Actors: Diana Vreeland, Richard Avedon, David Bailey

For decades Diana Vreeland was one of the leading authorities in fashion through eccentric self-taught skill and a bold stylistic audacity. This film guides you through this fashion pioneers long career from her youth in Paris until she became a leading magazine fashion columnist and editor. In this medium Vreeland challenged its preconceptions to present a new definition of beauty and...

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Diana: Her True Story

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Kevin Connor

Duration: 180 min

Year: 1993

Actors: Serena Scott Thomas, David Threlfall, Elizabeth Garvie

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Desirée

Genres: Biography, Drama, Romance

Country: United States

Director: Henry Koster

Duration: 110 min

Year: 1954

Actors: Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Merle Oberon

In Marseilles France in 1794 Desiree Clary a young millinery clerk becomes infatuated with Napoleon Bonaparte but winds up wedding Genaral Jean-Baptiste Berandotte an aid to Napoleon who later joins the forces that bring about the Emperors downfall. Josephine Beauharnais a worldly courtesan marries Napoleon and becomes Empress of France but is then cast aside by her spouse when she...

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Dersu Uzala

Genres: Adventure, Biography, Drama

Country: Soviet Union, Japan

Director: Akira Kurosawa (as Akira Kurosava)

Duration: 144 min

Year: 1975

Actors: Maksim Munzuk, Yuriy Solomin, Mikhail Bychkov

A Russian army explorer who is rescued in Siberia by a rugged Asian hunter renews his friendship with the woodsman years later when he returns as the head of a larger expedition. The hunter finds that all of his nature lore is of no help when he accompanies the explorer back to...

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Deadman's Curve

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United States

Director: Richard Compton

Duration: 100 min

Year: 1978

Actors: Richard Hatch, Bruce Davison, Wolfman Jack

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David

Genres: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History

Country: United States, Italy, Germany

Director: Robert Markowitz

Duration: 190 min

Year: 1997

Actors: Nathaniel Parker, Jonathan Pryce, Leonard Nimoy

The tribes of Israel need to defeat the superior might of the Philistines: Now appoint a king to lead us such as all the other nations have. I Samuel 8:5. And so the prophet Samuel gives the Hebrews their first king Saul a simple farmer who with Gods help becomes a brave and mighty warlord who leads the united tribes of Israel against their enemies. Saul however has incessant doubts...

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