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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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12 Years A Slave

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Country: United States, United Kingdom

Director: Steve McQueen

Duration: 134 min

Year: 2013

Actors: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael K. Williams, Michael Fassbender

Based on an incredible true story of one mans fight for survival and freedom. In the pre-Civil War USA Solomon Northup Chiwetel Ejiofor a free black man from upstate New York is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty personified by a malevolent slave owner portrayed by Michael Fassbender as well as unexpected kindnesses Solomon struggles not only to stay alive but to retain...

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Rudy

Genres: Biography, Drama, Sport

Country: United States

Director: David Anspaugh

Duration: 114 min

Year: 1993

Actors: Sean Astin, Jon Favreau, Ned Beatty

Rudy grew up in a steel mill town where most people ended up working but wanted to play football at Notre Dame instead. There were only a couple of problems. His grades were a little low his athletic skills were poor and he was only half the size of the other players. But he had the drive and the spirit of 5 people and has set his sights upon joining the...

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Remember The Titans

Genres: Biography, Drama, Sport

Country: United States

Director: Boaz Yakin

Duration: 113 min

Year: 2000

Actors: Denzel Washington, Will Patton, Wood Harris

Suburban Virginia schools have been segregated for generations in sight of the Washington Monument over the river in the nations capital. One Black and one White high school are closed and the students sent to T.C. Williams High School under federal mandate to integrate. The year is seen through the eyes of the football team where the man hired to coach the Black school is made head coach over...

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Rebound: The Legend Of Earl The Goat Manigault

Genres: Biography, Drama, Sport

Country: United States

Director: Eriq La Salle

Duration: 120 min

Year: 1996

Actors: Don Cheadle, James Earl Jones, Michael Beach

A dramatization of the life of Earl The Goat Manigault Don Cheadle with a lot of factual based occurrences. A reformed junkie returns from prison to clean up his act and devote the rest of his life to the young kids of Harlem. 1996 was the 25th anniversary of the first tournament named after...

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Raging Bull

Genres: Biography, Drama, Sport

Country: United States

Director: Martin Scorsese

Duration: 129 min

Year: 1980

Actors: Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci

When Jake LaMotta steps into a boxing ring and obliterates his opponent hes a prizefighter. But when he treats his family and friends the same way hes a ticking time bomb ready to go off at any moment. Though LaMotta wants his familys love something always seems to come between them. Perhaps its his violent bouts of paranoia and jealousy. This kind of rage helped make him a champ but in...

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Phantom Punch

Genres: Biography, Drama, Sport

Country: Canada, United States

Director: Robert Townsend

Duration: 90 min

Year: 2008

Actors: Ving Rhames, Stacey Dash, Nicholas Turturro

The story of World heavyweight champion boxer Charles L. Sonny Liston who was knocked down 2 minutes into a championship fight by a seemingly harmless right hook from Muhammad Ali. It would forever be known as the Phantom Punch. Liston later died under mysterious...

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Paan Singh Tomar

Genres: Action, Biography, Crime, Sport, ...

Country: India

Director: Tigmanshu Dhulia

Duration: 135 min

Year: 2010

Actors: Irrfan Khan, Mahie Gill, Rajendra Gupta

Paan Singh Tomar is a Hindi-language film based on the true story of a runner employed by the Army and has won Gold medal at Indian National Games but forced to become notorious baaghi. It is directed by Tigmanshu...

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Mr Hockey: The Gordie Howe Story

Genres: Biography, Drama, Sport

Country: United States

Director: Andy Mikita

Duration: 90 min

Year: 2013

Actors: Michael Shanks, Kathleen Robertson, Martin Cummins

The story of the 1973 hockey season when aging legend Gordie Howe returned to the ice at the age of...

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Nina Simone: La Légende

Genres: Documentary, Biography, Music

Country: France, United Kingdom

Director: Frank Lords

Duration: 54 min

Year: 1992

Actors: Nina Simone, Edney Whiteside, John Waymon

In this up-close and personal portrait of vocalist and musician Nina Simone the singer herself and a number of friends relatives and connaisseurs tell excerpts of her path in music and life. Remarkably the documentary was able to follow Simone on a visit back to her childhood home and her mother and siblings are interviewed. Simone also discusses her participation in the civil rights movement...

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My Paparotti

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

Country: South Korea

Director: Jong-chan Yun

Duration: 127 min

Year: 2013

Actors: Lee Do-Yeon, Suk-kyu Han, Cho Jin-Woong

Based on the true story of Kim Ho-Joong who first appeared on Korean TV show STARKING on July 18 2009. During the program Kim Ho-Joong surprised people with his vocal abilities and also made people cry because of his background story. He grew up as a troubled kid who joined gangs but because of his grandmother he began to sing in...

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Michael Jordan: His Airness

Genres: Documentary, Biography, Sport

Country: United States

Director:

Duration: 90 min

Year: 1999

Actors: Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley, Larry Bird

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Mission To Lars

Genres: Documentary, Adventure, Biography, Music

Country: United Kingdom, United States

Director: James Moore, William Spicer

Duration: 74 min

Year: 2012

Actors: Kate Spicer, Tom Spicer, William Spicer

Kate and Will Spicers brother Tom has Fragile X Syndrome the most common form of inherited learning disability. He is also a massive fan of Lars Ulrich from Metallica. They made a promise to Tom that they would get him to meet Lars. Toms dream is their promise. Together they went on a Mission to...

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Marley

Genres: Documentary, Biography, Music

Country: United States, United Kingdom

Director: Kevin Macdonald

Duration: 144 min

Year: 2012

Actors: Bob Marley, Ziggy Marley, Jimmy Cliff

Bob Marleys universal appeal impact on music history and role as a social and political prophet is both unique and unparalleled. The definitive life story of the musician revolutionary and legend from his early days to his rise to international super-stardom. Made with the support of the Marley family there is rare footage incredible performances and revelatory interviews with the people...

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