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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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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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