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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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Bright Star

Genres: Biography, Drama, Romance

Country: United Kingdom, Australia, France

Director: Jane Campion

Duration: 119 min

Year: 2009

Actors: Abbie Cornish, Ben Whishaw, Paul Schneider

Its 1818 in Hampstead Village on the outskirts of London. Poet Charles Brown lives in one half of a house the Dilkes family who live in the other half. Through their association with the Dilkes the fatherless Brawne family know Mr. Brown. The Brawnes eldest daughter Fanny Brawne and Mr. Brown dont like each other. She thinks hes arrogant and rude and he feels that she is pretentious...

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Boys Town

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United States

Director: Norman Taurog

Duration: 107 min

Year: 1938

Actors: Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Henry Hull

Against all odds Father Flanagan starts Boys Town after hearing a convicts story. Whitey Marsh comes there. He runs away but hungry returns. He runs away again but when friend Pee Wee is hit by a car returns. He runs away and joins his brothers gang. Flanagan and the boys capture the crooks and the reward saves the...

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Born On The Fourth Of July

Genres: Biography, Drama, War

Country: United States

Director: Oliver Stone

Duration: 145 min

Year: 1989

Actors: Tom Cruise, Raymond J. Barry, Caroline Kava

The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought...

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Bonnie And Clyde

Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama, Romance

Country: United States

Director: Arthur Penn

Duration: 111 min

Year: 1967

Actors: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard

A bored small-town girl and a small-time bank robber leave in their wake a string of violent robberies and newspaper headlines that catch the imagination of the Depression-struck Mid-West in this take on the legendary crime spree of these archetypal lovers on the...

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Blaze

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United States

Director: Ron Shelton

Duration: 120 min

Year: 1989

Actors: Paul Newman, Lolita Davidovich, Jerry Hardin

This movie tells the story of the latter years of Earl Long a flamboyant governor of Louisiana. The aging Earl an unapologetic habitue of strip joints falls in love with young stripper Blaze Starr. When Earl and Blaze move in together Earls opponents use this to attack his controversial political program which included civil rights for blacks in the 1950s. Can Earl keep Blaze and retain...

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Bill Cunningham New York

Genres: Documentary, Biography

Country: United States, France

Director: Richard Press

Duration: 84 min

Year: 2010

Actors: Bill Cunningham, Anna Wintour, Michael Kors

Chronicles a man who is obsessively interested in only one thingthe pictures he takes that document the way people dress. The 80-year-old New York Times photographer has two columns in the papers Style section yet nobody knows who he...

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Becoming Jane

Genres: Biography, Drama, Romance

Country: United Kingdom, Ireland

Director: Julian Jarrold

Duration: 120 min

Year: 2007

Actors: Anne Hathaway, James McAvoy, Julie Walters

The year is 1795 and young Jane Austen is a feisty 20-year-old and emerging writer who already sees a world beyond class and commerce beyond pride and prejudice and dreams of doing what was then nearly unthinkable - marrying for love. Naturally her parents are searching for a wealthy well-appointed husband to assure their daughters future social standing. They are eyeing Mr. Wisley nephew...

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Bathory: Countess Of Blood

Genres: Biography, Drama, Fantasy, History

Country: United Kingdom, Slovakia, Hungary, Czech Republic

Director: Juraj Jakubisko

Duration: 141 min

Year: 2008

Actors: Anna Friel, Karel Roden, Vincent Regan

Bathory is based on the legends surrounding the life and deeds of Countess Elizabeth Bathory known as the greatest murderess in the history of mankind. Contrary to popular belief Elizabeth Bathory was a modern Renaissance woman who ultimately fell victim to mens aspirations for power and...

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Barbarians At The Gate

Genres: Biography, Comedy, Drama

Country: United States

Director: Glenn Jordan

Duration: 107 min

Year: 1993

Actors: James Garner, Jonathan Pryce, Peter Riegert

F. Ross Johnson the CEO of RJR Nabisco decides that the time is ripe to take over his own company and enlists American Express. This kicks off a tide of other firms swarming in to tender offers. The outline of the film follows the actual takeover of the RJR Nabisco empire in a tongue in cheek...

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B.t.k. Killer

Genres: Biography, Thriller

Country: United States

Director: Ulli Lommel

Duration: 82 min

Year: 2005

Actors: Gerard Griesbaum, Eric Gerleman, Victoria Ullmann

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Augustine Of Hippo

Genres: Biography, History

Country: Italy

Director: Roberto Rossellini

Duration: 121 min

Year: 1972

Actors: Dary Berkani, Virgilio Gazzolo, Cesare Barbetti

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Au Revoir Les Enfants

Genres: Biography, Drama, War

Country: France, West Germany, Italy

Director: Louis Malle

Duration: 104 min

Year: 1987

Actors: Gaspard Manesse, Raphael Fejtö, Francine Racette

In 1944 upper class boy Julien Quentin and his brother François travel to Catholic boarding school in the countryside after vacations. Julien is a leader and good student and when the new student Jean Bonnet arrives in the school they have friction in their relationship. However Julien learns to respect Jean and discovers that he is Jewish and the priests are hiding him from the Nazis. They...

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