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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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The Fifth Estate

Genres: Biography, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States, Belgium

Director: Bill Condon

Duration: 128 min

Year: 2013

Actors: Benedict Cumberbatch, Daniel Brühl, Carice van Houten

The story begins as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange Benedict Cumberbatch and his colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg Daniel Brühl team up to become underground watchdogs of the privileged and powerful. On a shoestring they create a platform that allows whistle-blowers to anonymously leak covert data shining a light on the dark recesses of government secrets and corporate crimes. Soon they...

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Summer In February

Genres: Biography, Drama, Romance

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Christopher Menaul

Duration: 100 min

Year: 2013

Actors: Dominic Cooper, Emily Browning, Dan Stevens

The Newlyn School of artists flourished at the beginning of the 20th Century and the film focuses on the wild and bohemian Lamorna Group which included Alfred Munnings and Laura and Harold Knight. The incendiary anti-Modernist Munnings now regarded as one of Britains most sought-after artists is at the centre of the complex love triangle involving aspiring artist Florence Carter-Wood and...

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Spark: A Burning Man Story

Genres: Documentary, Action, Biography, Drama

Country: United States, New Zealand, South Africa, United Kingdom, Lithuania

Director: Steve Brown, Jessie Deeter

Duration: 90 min

Year: 2013

Actors: Katy Boynton, Marco Cochrane, Harley K. Dubois

Each year 60000 people from around the globe gather in a dusty windswept Nevada desert to build a temporary city collaborating on large-scale art and partying for a week before burning a giant effigy in a ritual frenzy. Rooted in principles of self-expression self-reliance and community effort Burning Man has grown famous for stirring ordinary people to shed their nine-to-five existence and...

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Ring Of Fire

Genres: Biography

Country: United States

Director: Allison Anders

Duration: 89 min

Year: 2013

Actors: Jewel Kilcher, Matt Ross, John Doe

This is the story of the decades-long love affair between June Carter and her husband Johnny Cash a love that was stretched to the breaking point by Johnnys addiction to...

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Restless Virgins

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United States

Director: Jason Lapeyre

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Year: 2013

Actors: Vanessa Marano, Max Lloyd-Jones, Charlie Carver

A sex scandal that shook Massachusetts prep school Milton Academy in 2004-05 school...

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The Wolf Of Wall Street

Genres: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama

Country: United States

Director: Martin Scorsese

Duration: 180 min

Year: 2013

Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie

In The Wolf of Wall Street DiCaprio plays Belfort a Long Island penny stockbroker who served 36 months in prison for defrauding investors in a massive 1990s securities scam that involved widespread corruption on Wall Street and in the corporate banking world including shoe designer Steve...

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Dallas Buyers Club

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Country: United States

Director: Jean-Marc Vallée

Duration: 117 min

Year: 2013

Actors: Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Jared Leto

Dallas 1985. Electrician and sometimes rodeo bull rider Ron Woodroof lives hard which includes heavy smoking drinking drug use primarily cocaine and casual sex. He is a stereotypical redneck: racist and homophobic. While in the hospital on a work related injury the doctors discover and inform him that he is HIV+ and that he will most-likely die within thirty days. Ron is initially in angry...

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Der Fall Phil Spector

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United States

Director: David Mamet

Duration: 92 min

Year: 2013

Actors: Al Pacino, Helen Mirren, Jeffrey Tambor

Record producer Phil Spector hires Bruce Cutler to defend him when hes accused of murder. Cutler persuades Linda Kenney Baden to advise him. While the prosecutions story is contradicted by facts in the case there is convincing circumstantial evidence against Spector not the least of which is his appearance. As Baden gradually takes over the defense even as she is ill with pneumonia she must...

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Lone Survivor

Genres: Action, Biography, Drama, Thriller, ...

Country: United States

Director: Peter Berg

Duration: 121 min

Year: 2013

Actors: Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch, Emile Hirsch

Based on the failed mission Operation Red Wings which tasked four members of SEAL Team 10 on June 28 2005 to kill Taliban leader Ahmad Shah. They were quickly compromised and under...

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Our Nixon

Genres: Documentary, Biography, History

Country: United States

Director: Penny Lane

Duration: 84 min

Year: 2013

Actors: Dwight Chapin, John Ehrlichman, H.R. Haldeman

Storyline: Never before seen Super 8 home movies filmed by Richard Nixons closest aides - and convicted Watergate conspirators - offer a surprising and intimate new look into his...

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Saving Mr. Banks

Genres: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Family, ...

Country: United States, United Kingdom, Australia

Director: John Lee Hancock

Duration: 125 min

Year: 2013

Actors: Emma Thompson, Tom Hanks, Annie Rose Buckley

When Walt Disneys daughters begged him to make a movie of their favorite book P.L. Travers Mary Poppins he made them a promise - one that he didnt realize would take 20 years to keep. In his quest to obtain the rights Walt comes up against a curmudgeonly uncompromising writer who has absolutely no intention of letting her beloved magical nanny get mauled by the Hollywood machine. But as...

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Muscle Shoals

Genres: Documentary, Biography, History, Music

Country: United States

Director: Greg 'Freddy' Camalier

Duration: 111 min

Year: 2013

Actors: Rick Hall, Aretha Franklin, Keith Richards

Located alongside the Tennessee River Muscle Shoals Alabama is the unlikely breeding ground for some of Americas most creative and defiant music. Under the spiritual influence of the Singing River as Native Americans called it the music of Muscle Shoals changed the world and sold millions upon millions of copies. At its heart is Rick Hall who founded FAME Studios. Overcoming crushing...

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Jesse James

Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, ...

Country: United States

Director: Henry King, Irving Cummings

Duration: 106 min

Year: 1939

Actors: Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, Nancy Kelly

The railroads are squeezing farmers off their land. When a railroad agent kills their mother Frank and Jesse James take up robbing banks and trains. The public regard them as heroes. When Jesse retires his erstwhile friend Robert Ford shoots him in the back to get the...

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Lovelace

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United States

Director: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman

Duration: 93 min

Year: 2013

Actors: Amanda Seyfried, James Franco, Peter Sarsgaard

The story of Linda Lovelace who is used and abused by the porn industry at the behest of her coercive husband before taking control of her...

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Killing Lincoln

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, War

Country: United States

Director: Adrian Moat

Duration: 90 min

Year: 2013

Actors: Tom Hanks, Regen Wilson, Billy Campbell

Based on The New York Times best-selling novel Killing Lincoln is the suspenseful eye-opening story of the events surrounding the assassination of U.S. President Abraham...

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You Are God

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

Country: Poland

Director: Leszek Dawid

Duration: 110 min

Year: 2012

Actors: Marcin Kowalczyk, Dawid Ogrodnik, Tomasz Schuchardt

The process of creating Polish hip-hop group Paktofonika its highs and lows and very last days of life of its frontman and co-founder Piotr Magik...

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Wish Me Away

Genres: Documentary, Biography, Music

Country: United States

Director: Bobbie Birleffi, Beverly Kopf

Duration: 120 min

Year: 2011

Actors: Chely Wright, Jennifer Archer, Howard Bragman

After a lifetime of hiding Chely Wright becomes the first commercial country music singer to come out as gay shattering cultural stereotypes within Nashville her conservative heartland family and most importantly within herself. With unprecedented access over a two-year period including her private video diaries the film layers Chelys rise to fame while hiding in the late 90s with the...

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