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Howl

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United States

Director: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman

Duration: 84 min

Year: 2010

Actors: James Franco, Todd Rotondi, Jon Prescott

Its San Francisco in 1957 and an American masterpiece is put on trial. Howl the film recounts this dark moment using three interwoven threads: the tumultuous life events that led a young Allen Ginsberg to find his true voice as an artist societys reaction the obscenity trial and animation that echoes the poems surreal style. All three coalesce in hybrid that dramatizes the birth of a...

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The King Of Kong: A Fistful Of Quarters

Genres: Documentary, Biography, Sport

Country: United States

Director: Seth Gordon

Duration: 79 min

Year: 2007

Actors: Steve Wiebe, Billy Mitchell, Mark Alpiger

In the early 1980s legendary Billy Mitchell set a Donkey Kong record that stood for almost 25 years. This documentary follows the assault on the record by Steve Wiebe an earnest teacher from Washington who took up the game while unemployed. The top scores are monitored by a cadre of players and fans associated with Walter Day an Iowan who runs Funspot an annual tournament. Wiebe breaks...

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The Jackie Robinson Story

Genres: Biography, Drama, Sport

Country: United States

Director: Alfred E. Green

Duration: 76 min

Year: 1950

Actors: Jackie Robinson, Ruby Dee, Minor Watson

Biography of Jackie Robinson the first black major league baseball player in the 20th century. Traces his career in the negro leagues and the major...

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The Hurricane

Genres: Biography, Drama, Sport

Country: United States

Director: Norman Jewison

Duration: 146 min

Year: 1999

Actors: Denzel Washington, Vicellous Reon Shannon, Deborah Kara Unger

This film tells the story of Rubin Hurricane Carter an African-American man who rose above his troubled youth to become a top contender for the middle-weight boxing title. However his dreams are shattered when he is accused of a triple murder and is convicted to three natural-life terms. Despite becoming a cause celebre and his dogged efforts to prove his innocence through his autobiography...

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The Hammer (2010)

Genres: Biography, Drama, Sport

Country: United States

Director: Oren Kaplan

Duration: 108 min

Year: 2010

Actors: Russell Harvard, Raymond J. Barry, Shoshannah Stern

THE HAMMER is a sports drama depicting the struggles and successes Matt Hamill faces on the way to becoming a champion. Raised among those with the ability to hear Matt later finds himself no less an outsider amidst the Deaf Community. Through sheer determination he uses his perceived disability as an asset and becomes both the first deaf wrestler to win a National Collegiate Championship and...

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Cannibal! The Musical

Genres: Biography, Comedy, Musical, Thriller, ...

Country: United States

Director: Trey Parker

Duration: 95 min

Year: 1993

Actors: Trey Parker, Dian Bachar, Stephen Blackpool

Alfred Packer was a mountain guide and sole survivor of a party of pioneers that got lost in the mountains in winter. Accused and convicted of murdering and eating his travelling companions he was to be executed by hanging.The movie begins at his trial where he pleads his innocence to an unsympathetic audience. Only reporter Polly Pry will listen to his story which is then related to the...

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The Buddy Holly Story

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

Country: United States

Director: Steve Rash

Duration: 114 min

Year: 1978

Actors: Gary Busey, Don Stroud, Charles Martin Smith

The musical career of rock and roll pioneer Buddy Holly is chronicled from the days when Peggy Sue was Cindy Lou a song about his first girlfriend to the meteoric run of Thatll Be the Day up the charts to his marriage breakup with the Crickets reunion with the Crickets and untimely...

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The Fighter

Genres: Biography, Drama, Sport

Country: United States

Director: David O. Russell

Duration: 116 min

Year: 2010

Actors: Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Amy Adams

The Fighter is a drama about boxer Irish Micky Wards unlikely road to the world light welterweight title. His Rocky-like rise was shepherded by half-brother Dicky a boxer-turned-trainer on the verge of being KOd by drugs and...

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Brigham Young

Genres: Biography, History, Romance, Western

Country: United States

Director: Henry Hathaway

Duration: 114 min

Year: 1940

Actors: Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Dean Jagger

The true story of the famous Mormon leader Brigham Young and his battle to transport his people across the Rocky mountains to settle in Salt Lake City. The plot focuses on two of his people Jonathan Kent and Zina Webb and the hardships they have to face along the...

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God's Faithful Servant: Barla

Genres: Animation, Biography, Drama

Country: Turkey

Director: Orhan Öztürk Esin

Duration: 108 min

Year: 2011

Actors: Faruk Akgören, Ugur Aslanoglu, Murat Aydin

Having been one of the most eminent scholars of the recent past Bediuzzaman Said Nursis Barla...

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The Express

Genres: Biography, Drama, Sport

Country: United States, Germany

Director: Gary Fleder

Duration: 130 min

Year: 2008

Actors: Rob Brown, Dennis Quaid, Clancy Brown

This biopic focuses on the relationship of Ernie Davis 1939-1963 a gifted African-American athlete and his coach from 1958 to 1962 at Syracuse University Ben Schwartzwalder 1909-1993. Schwartzwalder recruits Davis with the help of All-American running back Jim Brown. The civil rights movement is gaining steam; Davis experiences prejudice on campus in town and on the field sometimes...

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Talk To Me

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, Music, ...

Country: United States

Director: Kasi Lemmons

Duration: 118 min

Year: 2007

Actors: Don Cheadle, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Bruce McFee

The true life story of Ralph Waldo Petey Greene Jr. In the mid-to-late 1960s in Washington D.C. vibrant soul music and exploding social consciousness were combining to unique and powerful effect. It was the place and time for Petey to fully express himself - sometimes to outrageous effect - and tell it like it is. With the support of his irrepressible and tempestuous girlfriend Vernell...

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The Crash Reel

Genres: Documentary, Biography, Family, Sport

Country: United States

Director: Lucy Walker

Duration: 108 min

Year: 2013

Actors: Kevin Pearce, Shaun White, Mason Aguirre

Fifteen years of verite footage show the epic rivalry between half-pipe legends Shaun White and Kevin Pearce childhood friends who become number one and two in the world leading up to the Vancouver Winter Olympics pushing one another to ever more dangerous tricks until Kevin crashes on a Park City half-pipe barely surviving. As Kevin recovers from his injury Shaun wins Gold. Now all Kevin...

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Sweet Dreams

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music, Musical

Country: United States

Director: Karel Reisz

Duration: 115 min

Year: 1985

Actors: Jessica Lange, Ed Harris, Ann Wedgeworth

Patsy Cline was the first female solo artist to be elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame. Thirty-two years after her untimely death in a plane crash in Tennessee her Greatest Hits album sold over six million copies. Loved by her fans today as much - if not more - than she was at the height of her fame the life the loves and most of all the voice of Patsy Cline is legendary. This film...

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The Blind Side

Genres: Biography, Drama, Sport

Country: United States

Director: John Lee Hancock

Duration: 129 min

Year: 2009

Actors: Quinton Aaron, Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw

Based on the true story of Leigh Anne and Sean Tuohy who take in a homeless teenage African-American Michael Big Mike Oher. Michael has no idea who his father is and his mother is a drug addict. Michael has had little formal education and few skills to help him learn. Leigh Anne soon takes charge however as is her nature ensuring that the young man has every opportunity to succeed. When he...

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Beyond The Law

Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States

Director: Larry Ferguson

Duration: 108 min

Year: 1993

Actors: Charlie Sheen, Linda Fiorentino, Michael Madsen

Dan Saxon is an undercover cop who infiltrates a biker gang to nail the scum behind a drug-smuggling operation. In order to maintain the trust of the gangs leader he must commit ever more dangerous and heinous crimes. Just how far beyond the law will Saxon go?...

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Stars And Stripes Forever

Genres: Biography, Comedy, Music

Country: United States

Director: Henry Koster

Duration: 90 min

Year: 1952

Actors: Clifton Webb, Robert Wagner, Debra Paget

In the 1890s Sgt. Major John Philip Sousa leader of the Marine Corps Band meets Private Willie Little inventor of an instrument he calls the Sousaphone...and Littles girlfriend shapely showgirl Lily. To support his growing family Sousa leaves the Marines and forms his own band; Willie and Lily go along. Though hed rather write ballads Sousas marches bring him increasing fame; from their...

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The Basketball Diaries

Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama, Sport

Country: United States

Director: Scott Kalvert

Duration: 102 min

Year: 1995

Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Lorraine Bracco, Marilyn Sokol

Film adaptation of street tough Jim Carrolls epistle about his kaleidoscopic free fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction. As a member of a seemingly unbeatable high school basketball squad Jims life centers around the basketball court and the court becomes a metaphor for the world in his mind. A best friend who is dying of leukemia a coach Swifty who takes unacceptable liberties...

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Somos Tão Jovens

Genres: Biography, Music

Country: Brazil

Director: Antonio Carlos da Fontoura

Duration: 90 min

Year: 2013

Actors: Thiago Mendonça, Laila Zaid, Bruno Torres

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The 5th Quarter

Genres: Biography, Drama, Sport

Country: United States

Director: Rick Bieber

Duration: 90 min

Year: 2010

Actors: Aidan Quinn, Ryan Merriman, Andie MacDowell

In February 2006 young Luke Abbate accepted a ride home from a fellow student following his high-school team practice. In a severe case of irresponsible and reckless teen-age driving and over the objections of Luke and the other young passengers the driver lost control of the car at nearly 90 miles-per-hour spinning off a narrow road and landing in an embankment some seventy feet below. Luke...

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Sing Your Song

Genres: Documentary, Biography, Music

Country: United States

Director: Susanne Rostock

Duration: 103 min

Year: 2011

Actors: Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Marge Champion

Most people know the lasting legacy of Harry Belafonte the entertainer. This film unearths his significant contribution to and his leadership in the civil rights movement in America and to social justice...

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Shut Up & Sing

Genres: Documentary, Biography, Music

Country: United States

Director: Barbara Kopple, Cecilia Peck

Duration: 93 min

Year: 2006

Actors: Natalie Maines, Emily Robison, Martie Maguire

In 2003 the female country band The Dixie Chicks are at the top of their game being one of the most successful bands of all time. However with the US invasion of Iraq about to begin over frustrated worldwide objections about this needless war one of the Chick vents off the cuff in concert about being ashamed of US President George W. Bush. This statement sparks a firestorm of organized and...

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Shine A Light

Genres: Documentary, Biography, Music

Country: United States

Director: Martin Scorsese

Duration: 122 min

Year: 2008

Actors: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts

Martin Scorsese and the Rolling Stones unite in Shine A Light a look at The Rolling Stones. Scorcese filmed the Stones over a two-day period at the intimate Beacon Theater in New York City in fall 2006. Cinematographers capture the raw energy of the legendary...

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Shihad: Beautiful Machine

Genres: Documentary, Biography, Music

Country: New Zealand

Director: Sam Peacocke

Duration: 101 min

Year: 2012

Actors: Karl Kippenberger, Phil Knight, Tom Larkin

For over 20 years Shihad has defined New Zealand rock music. From their roots in Wellingtons furious 90s punk metal scene to the wild Berlin days the tragic overdose of their manager the international explosion of The General Electric and the infamous American name-change Shihad: Beautiful Machine asks- what went wrong?...

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Annie Get Your Gun

Genres: Biography, Comedy, Musical, Romance, ...

Country: United States

Director: George Sidney, Busby Berkeley

Duration: 107 min

Year: 1950

Actors: Betty Hutton, Howard Keel, Louis Calhern

Annie Oakley is an incredible shot who was raised Doin What Comes Naturally. Frank Butler the star sharpshooter in Colonel Buffalo Bills show however knows full well thats not how The Girl That I Marry must be. Anyway not at least until he finds that My Defences are Down. Though Annie defiantly says Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better she realizes that You Cant Get a Man With...

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And Starring Pancho Villa As Himself

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, War, ...

Country: United States

Director: Bruce Beresford

Duration: 108 min

Year: 2003

Actors: Antonio Banderas, Eion Bailey, Alan Arkin

Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa Antonio Banderas finds himself without adequate funding to finance his war against the military-run government. He also finds himself at odds with the Americans because of the Hearst media empires press campaign against him. To counter both of these he sends emissaries to movie producers to convince them to pay to film his progress and the actual battles....

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Selena

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

Country: United States

Director: Gregory Nava

Duration: 127 min

Year: 1997

Actors: Jennifer Lopez, Edward James Olmos, Jon Seda

The film tells the story of the life of Mexican Tejano style singer Selena Quintanilla-Perez and the progress of her career resulting in her No. 1 US...

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Searching For Sugar Man

Genres: Documentary, Biography, Music

Country: Sweden, United Kingdom

Director: Malik Bendjelloul

Duration: 86 min

Year: 2012

Actors: Rodriguez, Stephen 'Sugar' Segerman, Dennis Coffey

In the early 1970s Sixto Rodriguez was a Detroit folksinger who had a short-lived recording career with only two well received but non-selling albums. Unknown to Rodriguez his musical story continued in South Africa where he became a pop music icon and inspiration for generations. Long rumored there to be dead by suicide a few fans in the 1990s decided to seek out the truth of their heros...

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Somebody Up There Likes Me

Genres: Biography, Drama, Sport

Country: United States

Director: Robert Wise

Duration: 113 min

Year: 1956

Actors: Paul Newman, Pier Angeli, Everett Sloane

Rocky Graziano is building a career in crime when hes finally caught and arrested. In jail he is undisciplined always getting into trouble. When he gets out after many years he has decided to start a new life. However he is immediately drafted to the army. But they cant keep him and he goes AWOL. Rocky discovers boxing as a way of earning quick money and is discovered as a new...

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