biography

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Genres: Biography, Horror, Thriller

Country: United States

Director: Joe Chappelle

Duration: 92 min

Year: 2000

Actors: Rudolf Martin, Jane March, Christopher Brand

A warlord must fight a bloody battle in order to regain his...

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Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Country: France, Poland

Director: Andrzej Wajda

Duration: 136 min

Year: 1983

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Wojciech Pszoniak, Anne Alvaro

Action opens in November of 1793 with Danton returning to Paris from his country retreat upon learning that the Committee for Public Safety under Robespierres incitement has begun a series of massive executions The Terror. Confident in the peoples support Danton clashes with his former ally but calculating Robespierre soon rounds up Danton and his followers tries them before a...

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Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States

Director: John N. Smith

Duration: 99 min

Year: 1995

Actors: Michelle Pfeiffer, George Dzundza, Courtney B. Vance

Louanne Johnson is an ex-marine hired as a teacher in a high-school in a poor area of the city. She has recently separated from her husband. Her friend also teacher in the school got the temporary job for her. After a terrible reception from the students she tries unconventional methods of teaching using karate Bob Dylan lyrics etc to gain the trust of the...

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Genres: Biography, Drama, Romance

Country: United States

Director: Marshall Herskovitz

Duration: 111 min

Year: 1998

Actors: Catherine McCormack, Rufus Sewell, Oliver Platt

In 16th century Venice courtesans enjoy unique privileges: dressed richly in red they read compose poetry and music and discuss affairs of state with the men who govern the Republic. When Veronica Franco comes of age she cannot marry Marco Venier whom she loves because she is well born but penniless. Her choice: cloister or courtesan. She steels her heart and with beauty and intelligence...

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Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Richard Attenborough

Duration: 157 min

Year: 1987

Actors: Denzel Washington, Kevin Kline, Josette Simon

Donald Woods is chief editor of the liberal newspaper Daily Dispatch in South Africa. He has written several editorials critical of the views of Steve Biko. But after having met him for the first time he changes his opinion. They meet several times and this means that Woods and his family get attention from the security police. When Steve Biko dies in police custody he writes a book about...

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Genres: Documentary, Biography

Country: United States

Director: Terry Zwigoff

Duration: 119 min

Year: 1994

Actors: Robert Crumb, Aline Kominsky, Charles Crumb

This movie chronicles the life and times of R. Crumb. Robert Crumb is the cartoonist/artist who drew Keep On Truckin Fritz the Cat and played a major pioneering role in the genesis of underground comix. Through interviews with his mother two brothers wife and ex-girlfriends as well as selections from his vast quantity of graphic art we are treated to a darkly comic ride through one mans...

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Genres: Biography, Drama, History, War

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Ken Hughes

Duration: 139 min

Year: 1970

Actors: Richard Harris, Alec Guinness, Robert Morley

Disgusted with the policies of King Charles I Oliver Cromwell plans to take his family to the New World. But on the eve of their departure Cromwell is drawn into the tangled web of religion and politics that will result in the English Civil...

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Genres: Documentary, Biography, Crime, News

Country: United States

Director: Yoav Potash

Duration: 95 min

Year: 2011

Actors: Deborah Peagler, Joshua Safran, Nadia Costa

The story of the battle to free Debbie Peagler an incarcerated survivor of brutal domestic violence. Over 26 years in prison cannot crush the spirit of this determined African-American woman despite the injustices she has experienced first at the hands of a duplicitous boyfriend who beat her and forced her into prostitution and later by prosecutors who cornered her into a life behind bars for...

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Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United States

Director: Tony Goldwyn

Duration: 107 min

Year: 2010

Actors: Hilary Swank, Sam Rockwell, Melissa Leo

Betty Anne Waters Swank is a high school dropout who spent nearly two decades working as a single mother while putting herself through law school tirelessly trying to beat the system and overturn her brothers Rockwell unjust murder...

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Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Country: China

Director: Mei Hu

Duration: 125 min

Year: 2010

Actors: Yun-Fat Chow, Xun Zhou, Yi Lu

The life story of the highly-influential Chinese philosopher...

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Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: France, Belgium

Director: Anne Fontaine

Duration: 105 min

Year: 2009

Actors: Audrey Tautou, Benoît Poelvoorde, Alessandro Nivola

Several years after leaving the orphanage to which her father never returned for her Gabrielle Chanel finds herself working in a provincial bar. Shes both a seamstress for the performers and a singer earning the nickname Coco from the song she sings nightly with her sister. A liaison with Baron Balsan gives her an entrée into French society and a chance to develop her gift for designing...

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Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United States, Germany

Director:

Duration: 177 min

Year: 1999

Actors: Billy Zane, Timothy Dalton, Rupert Graves

Cleopatra the famed Egyptian Queen born in 69 B.C. is shown to have been brought by Roman ruler Julius Caesar at age 18. Caesar becomes sexually obsessed by the 18 year old queen beds her and eventually has a son by her. However his Roman followers and his wife are not pleased by the union. In fact as Caesar has only a daughter by his wife he had picked Octavian as his successor. The...
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