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Atletu

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United States, Germany, Ethiopia

Director: Davey Frankel, Rasselas Lakew

Duration: 92 min

Year: 2009

Actors: Rasselas Lakew, Dag Malmberg, Ruta Gedmintas

Running the streets of Rome in 1960 an unknown barefooted Ethiopian man stunned the world by winning Olympic gold in the marathon. Overnight Abebe Bikila became a sports legend. A hero in his own country and to the continent Bikila was the first African to win a gold medal and four years later in Tokyo would become the first person in history to win consecutive Olympic gold medals in the...

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Assembly (ji Jie Hao)

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

Country: Hong Kong, China

Director: Xiaogang Feng

Duration: 124 min

Year: 2007

Actors: Hanyu Zhang, Chao Deng, Wenkang Yuan

War feasts upon death. Its greedy appetite carries away many a life on the battlefield and soldiers must be ready to die at any time. Yet all these sacrifices can be given meaning and reason with honor. A weathered witness of wars insatiable appetite Guzidi Captain of the Ninth Company will struggle his entire life to return honor to his forty six men and their self-sacrifice. The year 1948...

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Artemisia

Genres: Biography, Drama, Romance

Country: Italy, France, Germany

Director: Agnès Merlet

Duration: 98 min

Year: 1997

Actors: Valentina Cervi, Michel Serrault, Predrag Manojlovic

Artemisia Gentileschi 1593-1653 was one of the first well-known female painters. The movie tells the story of her youth when she was guided and protected by her father the painter Orazio Gentileschi. Her professional curiosity about the male anatomy forbidden for her eyes led her to the knowledge of sexual pleasure. But she was also well known because in 1612 she had to appear in a...

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Andrei Rublev (andrey Rublev)

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Country: Soviet Union

Director: Andrei Tarkovsky (as Andrey Tarkovskiy)

Duration: 205 min

Year: 1966

Actors: Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolay Grinko

Andreiv Rublev charts the life of the great icon painter through a turbulent period of 15th Century Russian history a period marked by endless fighting between rival Princes and by Tatar...

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Amy Winehouse: Fallen Star

Genres: Biography

Country: United States

Director: Jason Boritz

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Year: 2012

Actors: Alain Azoulay, Kahlen Burrus, Pamela Cedar

A biography on the life of Amy...

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Amish Grace

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United States

Director: Gregg Champion

Duration: 88 min

Year: 2010

Actors: Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Tammy Blanchard, Matt Letscher

When a gunman killed five Amish children and injured five others in a Nickel Mines Pennsylvania schoolhouse shooting in October of 2006 the world media attention rapidly turned from the tragic events to the extraordinary forgiveness demonstrated by the Amish community. Through the eyes of a grieving mother Ida Graber and other devastated families this movie explores the Amishs astonishing...

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American Splendor

Genres: Biography, Comedy, Drama

Country: United States

Director: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini

Duration: 101 min

Year: 2003

Actors: Paul Giamatti, Shari Springer Berman, Harvey Pekar

Harvey Pekar is file clerk at the local VA hospital. His interactions with his co-workers offer some relief from the monotony and their discussions encompass everything from music to the decline of American culture to new flavors of jellybeans and life itself. At home Harvey fills his days with reading writing and listening to jazz. His apartment is filled with thousands of books and LPs and...

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American Radical: The Trials Of Norman Finkelstein (2009)

Genres: Documentary, Biography, History, Mystery, ...

Country: United States, Canada, Palestine, Israel, Lebanon

Director: David Ridgen, Nicolas Rossier

Duration: 84 min

Year: 2009

Actors: Musa Abu-Hashhash, Nidal Barham, Noam Chomsky

A devoted son of Holocaust survivors and ardent critic of Israeli foreign policy the polarizing American political scientist and author Norman Finkelstein has been called a lunatic and self-hating Jew by some and an inspirational revolutionary by others. Exploring the deeply complex issues at the heart of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict American Radical is the insightful and enraging...

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American Me

Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama, Romance

Country: United States

Director: Edward James Olmos

Duration: 125 min

Year: 1992

Actors: Edward James Olmos, William Forsythe, Sal Lopez

This epic depiction of thirty years of Chicano gang life in Los Angeles focuses on a teen named Santana who with his friends Mundo and the Caucasian-but-acting-Hispanic J.D. form their own gang and are soon arrested for a break-in. Santana gets into trouble again and goes straight from reform school to prison spending eighteen year there and becoming leader of a powerful gang both inside and...

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Amelia (2009)

Genres: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Romance

Country: United States, Canada

Director: Mira Nair

Duration: 111 min

Year: 2009

Actors: Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Ewan McGregor

Amelia Earhart a Kansas girl discovers the thrill of aviation at age 23 and within 12 years has progressed to winning the Distinguished Flying Cross for being the first woman to pilot a plane solo across the Atlantic Ocean. At age 39 she sets out on an attempt to circumnavigate the globe an adventure that catapults her into aviation...

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Amazing Grace (2006)

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, Romance

Country: United States, United Kingdom

Director: Michael Apted

Duration: 117 min

Year: 2006

Actors: Ioan Gruffudd, Albert Finney, Michael Gambon

In 1797 William Wilberforce the great crusader for the British abolition of slavery is taking a vacation for his health even while he is sicker at heart for his frustrated cause. However meeting the charming Barbara Spooner Wilberforce finds a soulmate to share the story of his struggle. With few allies such as his mentor John Newton a slave ship captain turned repentant priest who penned...

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Alpha Dog

Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama

Country: United States

Director: Nick Cassavetes

Duration: 118 min

Year: 2006

Actors: Emile Hirsch, Justin Timberlake, Anton Yelchin

1999 Claremont California. Middle-class kids in their 20s talk trash wave guns hang out in a pack. Johnny Truelove drug dealer and son of a underworld figure threatens Jake Mazursky an explosive head case who owes Johnny money; Jake responds by breaking into Johnnys house. On impulse Johnny and a couple pals kidnap Jakes 15-year-old brother Zach. Zachs okay with it figuring his...

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Ali (2001)

Genres: Biography, Drama, Sport

Country: United States

Director: Michael Mann

Duration: 157 min

Year: 2001

Actors: Will Smith, Jamie Foxx, Jon Voight

In 1964 a brash new pro boxer fresh from his olympic gold medal victory explodes on to the scene Cassius Clay. Bold and outspoken he cuts an entirely new image for African Americans in sport with his proud public self confidence with his unapologetic belief that he is the greatest boxer of all time. To his credit he sets out to prove that with his highly agile and forceful style soon making...

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Alexander The Great

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, War

Country: United States

Director: Robert Rossen

Duration: 141 min

Year: 1956

Actors: Richard Burton, Fredric March, Claire Bloom

An epic film that follows the life of Alexander the Great the macedonian king that united all ancient greek tribes and led them against the vast Persian Empire. Alexander conquered most of the then known world and created a greek empire that spanned all the way from the Balkans to...

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Abraham Lincoln (1930)

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, War

Country: United States

Director: D.W. Griffith

Duration: 96 min

Year: 1930

Actors: Walter Huston, Una Merkel, William L. Thorne

Brief vignettes about Lincolns early life include his birth early jobs unsubstantiated affair with Ann Rutledge courtship of Mary Todd and the Lincoln-Douglas debates; his presidency and the Civil War are followed in somewhat more detail though without actual battle scenes; film concludes with the...

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A Mighty Heart

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller, ...

Country: United States, United Kingdom

Director: Michael Winterbottom

Duration: 108 min

Year: 2007

Actors: Angelina Jolie, Dan Futterman, Irrfan Khan

On January 23 2002 Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is to fly from Karachi to Dubai with his pregnant wife Mariane also a reporter. On the day before with great care he has arranged an interview in a café with an Islamic fundamentalist cleric. When Danny doesnt return Mariane initiates a search. Pakistani police American embassy personnel and the FBI examine witnesses phone...

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A Man For All Seasons

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Fred Zinnemann

Duration: 120 min

Year: 1966

Actors: Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, Robert Shaw

The story takes place in 16th century England. But men like Sir Thomas More who love life yet have the moral fiber to lay down their lives for their principles are found in every century. Concentrating on the last seven years of English chancellors life the struggle between More and his King Henry VIII hinges on Henrys determination to break with Rome so he can divorce his current wife and...

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1492: Conquest Of Paradise

Genres: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History

Country: France, Spain

Director: Ridley Scott

Duration: 154 min

Year: 1992

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Armand Assante, Sigourney Weaver

Big budget account of Christopher Columbus discovery of the Americas. Released in 1992 to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the discovery. Shows the disastrous effects the Europeans had on the original inhabitants and Columbus struggle to civilize the New...

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84 Charing Cross Road

Genres: Biography, Drama, Romance

Country: United States, United Kingdom

Director: David Hugh Jones

Duration: 100 min

Year: 1987

Actors: Anne Bancroft, Anthony Hopkins, Judi Dench

When a humorous script-reader in her New York apartment sees an ad in the Saturday Review of Literature for a bookstore in London that does mail order she begins a very special correspondence and friendship with Frank Doel the bookseller who works at Marks & Co. 84 Charing Cross...

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61

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, Sport

Country: United States

Director: Billy Crystal

Duration: 129 min

Year: 2001

Actors: Barry Pepper, Thomas Jane, Anthony Michael Hall

Summer 1961: Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle are on pace to break the most hallowed record in U.S. sports Babe Ruths single-season 60 home runs. Its a big story and the intense plain-spoken Maris is the bad guy: sports writers bait him and minimize his talent fans cheer Mantle the leagues golden boy and baseballs commissioner announces that Ruths record stands unless its broken within...

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Kill Your Darlings

Genres: Biography, Drama, Romance, Thriller

Country: United States

Director: John Krokidas

Duration: 104 min

Year: 2013

Actors: Daniel Radcliffe, Dane DeHaan, Michael C. Hall

In the early 1940s Alan Ginsberg is an English major in Columbia University only to learn more than he bargained for. Dissatisfied by the orthodox attitudes of the school Alan finds himself drawn to iconoclastic colleagues like Lucien Carr William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac. Together this gang would explore bold new literary ideas that would challenge the sensibilities of their time as...

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Bathory

Genres: Biography, Drama, Fantasy, History

Country: Slovakia, United Kingdom, Hungary

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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Persepolis

Genres: Animation, Biography, Drama, War

Country: France, United States

Director: Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi

Duration: 96 min

Year: 2007

Actors: Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Gena Rowlands

In 1970s Iran Marjane Marji Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shahs defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However as Marji grows up she witnesses first hand how the new Iran now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists has become a repressive tyranny on its own. With Marji dangerously refusing to remain silent...

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The Gabby Douglas Story

Genres: Biography

Country: United States

Director: Gregg Champion

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Year: 2014

Actors: Regina King, Imani Hakim, Sydney Mikayla

The story follows the childhood and teen years of Gabby Douglas the first black gymnast in Olympic history to become the Individual All-Around Champion and the first American gymnast to win gold in both the individual all-around and team competitions at the same...

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The Monuments Men

Genres: Action, Biography, Drama, War

Country: United States, Germany

Director: George Clooney

Duration: 118 min

Year: 2014

Actors: George Clooney, Matt Damon, Bill Murray

Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on an unlikely World War II platoon tasked by FDR with going into Germany to rescue artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and returning them to their rightful owners. It would be an impossible mission: with the art trapped behind enemy lines and with the German army under orders to...

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Diana (2013)

Genres: Biography, Drama, Romance

Country: United Kingdom, France, Sweden, Belgium

Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel

Duration: 113 min

Year: 2013

Actors: Naomi Watts, Naveen Andrews, Douglas Hodge

During the last two years of her life Princess Diana embarks on a final rite of passage: a secret love affair with Pakistani heart surgeon Hasnat...

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Cutie And The Boxer

Genres: Documentary, Biography

Country: United States

Director: Zachary Heinzerling

Duration: 82 min

Year: 2013

Actors: Ushio Shinohara, Noriko Shinohara, Alex Shinohara

For years Ushio Shinohara has been one of the leading and most underappreciated alternative artists in Japan and New York City with an wildly esoteric style. For many of those years his wife Noriko has been a faithful companion to this idiosyncratic man but grew want to be more. This film covers the relationship of these special couple as Ushio struggles for commercial success on his own...

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Creation

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Jon Amiel

Duration: 108 min

Year: 2009

Actors: Paul Bettany, Jennifer Connelly, Ian Kelly

What happens when a world-renowned scientist crushed by the loss of his eldest daughter formulates a theory in conflict with religious dogma? This is the story of Charles Darwin and his master-work The Origin of Species. It tells of a global revolution played out within the confines of a small English village; a passionate marriage torn apart by the most dangerous idea in history; and a...

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The Look Of Love

Genres: Biography, Comedy, Drama

Country: United States, United Kingdom

Director: Michael Winterbottom

Duration: 101 min

Year: 2013

Actors: Steve Coogan, Matt Lucas, Anna Friel

After the untimely death of his daughter Paul Raymond reflects on his life. Rising from a mind-reading act Raymond grew to have a fabulously successful career as an erotica magnate that would make him the richest man in Britain. However for all his material success Pauls appetites mess up his personal life such as alienating his wife with his philandering. Furthermore even as he challenged...

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