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Dark Prince: The True Story Of Dracula

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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Danton

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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Dangerous Minds

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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Dangerous Beauty

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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Cry Freedom

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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Crumb

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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Cromwell

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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Crime After Crime

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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Conviction (2010)

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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Confucius

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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Coco Before Chanel (coco Avant Chanel)

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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Cleopatra (1999)

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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Cleopatra (1963)

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, Romance

Country: United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland

Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Rouben Mamoulian (uncredited)

Duration: 192 min

Year: 1963

Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison

In 48 B.C. Caesar pursues Pompey from Pharsalia to Egypt. Ptolemy now supreme ruler after deposing his older sister Cleopatra attempts to gain favor with Caesar by presenting the conquerer with the head of Pompey borne by his governors Pothinos and Achillas. To win Caesars support from her brother Cleopatra hides herself in a rug which Apollodorus her servant presents to Caesar. The...

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Cleopatra (1934)

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United States

Director: Cecil B. DeMille

Duration: 92 min

Year: 1934

Actors: Claudette Colbert, Warren William, Henry Wilcoxon

In 48 BC Cleopatra facing palace revolt in her kingdom of Egypt welcomes the arrival of Julius Caesar as a way of solidifying her power under Rome. When Caesar whom she has led astray is killed she transfers her affections to Marc Antony and dazzles him on a barge full of DeMillean splendor. But the trick may not work a third...

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Christopher Columbus: The Discovery

Genres: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History

Country: United States, United Kingdom, Spain

Director: John Glen

Duration: 120 min

Year: 1992

Actors: Marlon Brando, Tom Selleck, Georges Corraface

Genoan navigator Christopher Columbus has a dream to find an alternative route to sail to the Indies by traveling west instead of east across the unchartered Ocean sea. After failing to find backing from the Portugese he goes to the Spanish court to ask Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand for help. After surviving a grilling from the Head of the Spanish Inquisition Tomas de Torquemada he...

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Christiane F. - Wir Kinder Vom Bahnhof Zoo

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: West Germany

Director: Uli Edel (as Ulrich Edel)

Duration: 138 min

Year: 1981

Actors: Natja Brunckhorst, Eberhard Auriga, Peggy Bussieck

This movie portrays the drug scene in Berlin in the 1970s following tape recordings of Christiane F. 14-year-old Christiane lives with her mother and little sister in a typical multi-story apartment building in Berlin. Shes fascinated by The Sound a new disco with the most modern equipment. Although legally shes too young she asks a friend to take her. There she meets Detlef whos in a...

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Chopper

Genres: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama

Country: Australia

Director: Andrew Dominik

Duration: 94 min

Year: 2000

Actors: Eric Bana, Simon Lyndon, David Field

Chopper tells the intense story of Mark Chopper Read a legendary criminal who wrote his autobiography while serving a murder sentence in prison. His book From the Inside upon which the film is based was a...

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Chasing Ice

Genres: Documentary, Biography

Country: United States

Director: Jeff Orlowski

Duration: 75 min

Year: 2012

Actors: James Balog, Svavar Jónatansson, Louie Psihoyos

National Geographic photographer James Balog was once a skeptic about climate change. But through his Extreme Ice Survey he discovers undeniable evidence of our changing planet. In Chasing Ice we follow Balog across the Arctic as he deploys revolutionary time-lapse cameras designed for one purpose: to capture a multi-year record of the worlds changing glaciers. Balogs hauntingly beautiful...

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Charlie Wilson's War

Genres: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History

Country: United States, Germany

Director: Mike Nichols

Duration: 102 min

Year: 2007

Actors: Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Philip Seymour Hoffman

In the early 1980s Charlie Wilson is a womanizing US congressional representative from Texas who seemed to be in the minor leagues except for the fact that he is a member of two major foreign policy and covert-ops committees. However prodded by his major conservative supporter Houston Socialite Joanne Herring Wilson learns about the plight the people are suffering in the brutal Soviet...

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Catch Me If You Can

Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama

Country: United States, Canada

Director: Steven Spielberg

Duration: 141 min

Year: 2002

Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Christopher Walken

An FBI agent hunts down a young con artist who successfully impersonated an airline pilot doctor and assistant attorney general cashing more than $2.5 million in fraudulent checks in 26...

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Catch A Fire

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Country: United States, United Kingdom, France, South Africa

Director: Phillip Noyce

Duration: 101 min

Year: 2006

Actors: Derek Luke, Tim Robbins, Bonnie Henna

A political thriller: the real-life story of a South African heros journey to freedom. In the countrys turbulent and divided times in the 1980s Patrick Chamusso is an oil refinery foreman and soccer coach who is apolitical - until he and his wife Precious are jailed. Patrick is stunned into action against the countrys oppressive reigning system even as police Colonel Nic Vos further...

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Carve Her Name With Pride

Genres: Biography, Drama, War

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Lewis Gilbert

Duration: 119 min

Year: 1958

Actors: Virginia McKenna, Paul Scofield, Jack Warner

Violette Bushell is the daughter of an English father and a French mother living in London in the early years of World War 2. She meets a handsome young French soldier in the park and takes him back for the family Bastille day celebrations. They fall in love marry and have a baby girl when Violette Szabo receives the dreaded telegram informing her of his death in North Africa. Shortly...

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Carrington

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United Kingdom, France

Director: Christopher Hampton

Duration: 121 min

Year: 1995

Actors: Emma Thompson, Jonathan Pryce, Steven Waddington

The story of the relationship between painter Dora Carrington and author Lytton Strachey in a World War One England of cottages and countryside. Although platonic due to Stracheys homosexuality the relationship was nevertheless a deep and complicated one. When Carrington did develop a more physical relationship with soldier Ralph Partridge Strachey was able to welcome him as a friend although...

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Capturing The Friedmans

Genres: Documentary, Biography

Country: United States

Director: Andrew Jarecki

Duration: 107 min

Year: 2003

Actors: Arnold Friedman, Jesse Friedman, David Friedman

In the late 1980s the Friedmans - father and respected computer and music teacher Arnold Friedman mother and housewife Elaine Friedman and their three grown sons David Friedman Seth Friedman and Jesse Friedman - of Great Neck Long Island are seemingly your typical middle class American family. They all admit that the marriage was by no means close to being harmonious - Arnold and Elaine...

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Bugsy

Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama, History

Country: United States

Director: Barry Levinson

Duration: 136 min

Year: 1991

Actors: Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Harvey Keitel

New York gangster Ben Bugsy Siegel takes a brief business trip to Los Angeles. A sharp-dressing womaniser with a foul temper Siegel doesnt hesitate to kill or maim anyone crossing him. In L.A. the life the movies and most of all strong-willed Virginia Hill detain him while his family wait back home. Then a trip to a run-down gambling joint at a spot in the desert known as Las Vegas gives...

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Bruce Lee: The Man, The Myth

Genres: Biography

Country: Hong Kong

Director: See-Yuen Ng

Duration: 90 min

Year: 1976

Actors: David Chow, Kuei Chang, Chi-Min Chin

A highly fictionalized biography of the famous Bruce Lee this movie traces his college life his marriage to Linda Lee his relationship with his master and his untimely...

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Bruce Lee: The Legend Lives On

Genres: Biography

Country: United Kingdom

Director: James Harker, Ray Santilli

Duration: 70 min

Year: 2002

Actors: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Barbara Anderson, Robert Baker

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Bruce Lee, My Brother

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: Hong Kong, China

Director: Manfred Wong, Wai Man Yip

Duration: 129 min

Year: 2010

Actors: Tony Leung Ka Fai, Jin Auyeung, Christy Chung

The life story of martial arts icon and actor Bruce...

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Bronson

Genres: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Nicolas Winding Refn

Duration: 92 min

Year: 2008

Actors: Tom Hardy, Kelly Adams, Luing Andrews

In 1974 a hot-headed 19 year old named Michael Peterson decided he wanted to make a name for himself and so with a homemade sawn-off shotgun and a head full of dreams he attempted to rob a post office. Swiftly apprehended and originally sentenced to 7 years in jail Peterson has subsequently been behind bars for 34 years 30 of which have been spent in solitary confinement. During that time...

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