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Little Richard

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

Country: United States

Director: Robert Townsend

Duration: 86 min

Year: 2000

Actors: Leon, Jenifer Lewis, Carl Lumbly

A revealing movie about the tumultuous life of Little Richard Penniman whose groundbreaking music revolutionized rock and roll. Growing up a social misfit in poverty Little Richards passion talent and flamboyance catapulted him into the limelight of rock music. His career was rocked by his homosexuality his fundamental beliefs and the pervasive discrimination within the music industry. We go...

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Klitschko

Genres: Documentary, Biography, Sport

Country: Germany

Director: Sebastian Dehnhardt

Duration: 118 min

Year: 2011

Actors: Lamon Brewster, Chris Byrd, Bernd Bönte

A documentary encompassing the lives of world heavyweight boxing champions Vitali & Wladimir Klitschko. The first time in history two brothers have shared all the heavyweight world titles this film explores their humble beginnings in the Ukraine to their rise to stardom and domination of heavyweight prize...

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Lemmy

Genres: Documentary, Biography, Music

Country: United States

Director: Greg Olliver, Wes Orshoski

Duration: 116 min

Year: 2010

Actors: Lemmy, Phil Campbell, Mikkey Dee

A documentary on the life and career of revered heavy-metal musician Lemmy...

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Invincible (2006)

Genres: Biography, Drama, Sport

Country: United States

Director: Ericson Core

Duration: 105 min

Year: 2006

Actors: Mark Wahlberg, Greg Kinnear, Elizabeth Banks

In the sumer of 1976 30-year old Vince Papale is having a tough run of luck. Hes been working as a supply teacher for two days a week but has just found out that his job has been eliminated because of budget cuts. His wife gives up on him saying hell never amount to anything and asks for a divorce. He works as a bartender and plays football with his friends. When the the new coach of the...

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Kurt & Courtney

Genres: Documentary, Biography, Music

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Nick Broomfield

Duration: 95 min

Year: 1998

Actors: Courtney Love, Nick Broomfield, Kurt Cobain

After rocker Kurt Cobains death ruled a suicide a film crew arrives in Seattle to make a documentary. Director Nick Broomfield talks to lots of people: Cobains aunt who provides home movies and recordings the estranged father of Cobains widow Courtney Love an L.A. private investigator who worked for Love a nanny for Kurt and Courtneys child friends and lovers of both and others....

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Invictus

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, Sport

Country: United States

Director: Clint Eastwood

Duration: 134 min

Year: 2009

Actors: Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon, Tony Kgoroge

The film tells the inspiring true story of how Nelson Mandela joined forces with the captain of South Africas rugby team to help unite their country. Newly elected President Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport Mandela rallies South Africas rugby team as...

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Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child

Genres: Documentary, Biography, Music

Country: United States

Director: Bob Smeaton

Duration: 91 min

Year: 2010

Actors: Bootsy Collins, Jimi Hendrix, Noel Redding

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Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet

Genres: Documentary, Biography, Music

Country: United Kingdom, United States

Director: Jesse Vile

Duration: 87 min

Year: 2012

Actors: Jason Becker, Ehren Becker, Gary Becker

A documentary film about the extraordinary life of a famous musical prodigy who has been battling against Lou Gehrigs Disease for 22 years. A paralyzing terminal illness with no real treatment or cure it has trapped Jason inside of his body for over 15 years; unable to move unable to speak and unable to play the instrument which propelled him to international stardom at just 19 years of...

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It's About You

Genres: Documentary, Biography, Music

Country: United States

Director: Ian Markus, Kurt Markus

Duration: 86 min

Year: 2010

Actors: Kurt Markus, John Mellencamp

This is a personal journey film about singer/songwriter John Mellencamp. It was made during his summer 2009 tour with Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson; Mellencamp also recorded his new album in three historical locations during the month and a half tour. The story is told through the eyes of the father/son film making team of Kurt and Ian Markus neither of whom had ever made a film before. The entire...

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Greased Lightning

Genres: Action, Biography, Comedy, Drama, ...

Country: United States

Director: Michael Schultz

Duration: 96 min

Year: 1977

Actors: Richard Pryor, Beau Bridges, Pam Grier

The true life story of Wendell Scott the first black stock car racing driver to win an upper tier NASCAR...

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I'll Sing For You

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

Country: France, Mali

Director: Jacques Sarasin

Duration: 76 min

Year: 2001

Actors: Haruna Barry, Dèmba-Kane Niang, Madieye Niang

In the sixties the people of Mali awoke each morning to the sound of Boubacar KarKar Traorés voice on the radio singing of independence. Everyone in Mali remembers having danced to his hits. But since his music was only played on the radio he didnt earn enough money to live on and he had to stop playing music to work as a tailor and a salesman to feed his family. A few years later he is...

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Gracie

Genres: Biography, Drama, Sport

Country: United States

Director: Davis Guggenheim

Duration: 95 min

Year: 2007

Actors: Carly Schroeder, Andrew Shue, Elisabeth Shue

This is the story of a teenager named Gracie Bowen who lives in South Orange New Jersey is crazy about soccer as are her three brothers and former soccer star father. Although Gracie wants to join her brothers and father in the nightly practices she is discouraged by everyone except her elder brother Johnny. Her father does not believe that girls should play soccer and tells her that she is...

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Hit So Hard

Genres: Documentary, Biography, Music

Country: United States

Director: P. David Ebersole

Duration: 103 min

Year: 2011

Actors: Patty Schemel, Courtney Love, Eric Erlandson

HIT SO HARD follows the journey of Patty Schemel the openly gay drummer of Courtney Loves seminal rock band Hole. As a young girl who always knew she was different from the other kids in her farm town home outside of Seattle Patty never dreamed she would one day have her picture on the cover of Rolling Stone. But she also never fathomed that she could lose it all. A true survivor of what...

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Alien Origin

Genres: Biography, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Country: United States

Director: Mark Atkins

Duration: 88 min

Year: 2012

Actors: Chelsea Vincent, Peter Pedrero, Philip Coc

A movie created from found footage of a lost military expedition that exposes the origins of life on...

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Hated: Gg Allin & The Murder Junkies

Genres: Documentary, Biography, Music

Country: United States

Director: Todd Phillips

Duration: 90 min

Year: 1993

Actors: GG Allin, Merle Allin, Shireen Kadivar

Documentary about the life and death of the notorious underground punk icon GG Allin the foul mouthed heroin shooting lead singer of the Murder Junkies who would throw excrement at the crowd start fights with the biggest guys in the audience and threatened to kill himself onstage. He was considered the lowest common denominator of our society by some an avant-garde artist by others. He died...

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Focus: A Documentary

Genres: Documentary, Biography, Sport

Country: United States

Director: Steve Hwang

Duration: 71 min

Year: 2010

Actors: Ryan Gutierrez, Eliver Ling, Jonathan Ross

FOCUS is a documentary about Mike Ross an average 26-year-old African-American unemployed college graduate who happens to be one of the worlds best video game players. The documentary is a portrait of his summer as he travels around the country competing in events to prepare for the biggest tournament of his life while revealing the origins hardships and misconceptions of his...

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Good Vibrations

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

Country: United Kingdom, Ireland

Director: Lisa Barros D'Sa, Glenn Leyburn

Duration: 103 min

Year: 2012

Actors: Liam Cunningham, Jodie Whittaker, Dylan Moran

A chronicle of Terri Hooleys life a record-store owner instrumental in developing Belfasts punk-rock...

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Good Ol' Freda

Genres: Documentary, Biography, History, Music

Country: United States, United Kingdom

Director: Ryan White

Duration: 86 min

Year: 2013

Actors: Freda Kelly, Paul McCartney, John Lennon

Good Ol Freda tells the story of Freda Kelly a shy Liverpudlian teenager asked to work for a young local band hoping to make it big: the Beatles. As the Beatles fame multiplies Freda bears witness to music and cultural history but never exploits her insider access. Their loyal secretary from beginning to end Freda finally tells her tales for the first time in 50...

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Fearless

Genres: Action, Kung Fu, Biography, ...

Country: China, Hong Kong, United States

Director: Ronny Yu

Duration: 104 min

Year: 2006

Actors: Jet Li, Shidô Nakamura, Betty Sun

Martial arts legend Huo Yuanjia became the most famous fighter in all of China at the turn of the 20th Century. Huo faced personal tragedy but ultimately fought his way out of darkness and into history defining the true spirit of martial arts. His self-discovery and the choices he made inspired his nation. The son of a great fighter who did not wish for his child to follow in his footsteps...

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God Bless Ozzy Osbourne

Genres: Documentary, Biography, Music

Country: United States

Director: Mike Fleiss, Mike Piscitelli

Duration: 120 min

Year: 2011

Actors: Blasko, Brandon Boyd, Mike Brodin

Ozzy Osbournes four decade track record as a culturally relevant artist is unprecedented but his personal struggles have been shrouded in secrecy until now. Featuring never before seen footage uncovered from the archives and interviews with Paul McCartney Tommy Lee and others God Bless Ozzy Osbourne is the first documentary to take viewers inside the complex mind of rocks great icon....

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George Harrison: Living In The Material World

Genres: Documentary, Biography, Music

Country: United States

Director: Martin Scorsese

Duration: 208 min

Year: 2011

Actors: George Harrison, Paul McCartney, John Lennon

George Harrison first became known to the world as The Quiet Beatle of the Fab Four but there was far more to his life than simply being a part of The Beatles. This film explores the life and career of this seminal musician philanthropist film producer and amateur race car driver who grew to make his own mark on the world. Through his music archival footage and the memories of friends and...

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Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

Country: France

Director: Joann Sfar

Duration: 130 min

Year: 2010

Actors: Eric Elmosnino, Lucy Gordon, Laetitia Casta

Lucien Ginsburg a rebellious French Jewish boy with a grotesque imagination hates playing the piano like his father a bar professional and manages to be admitted to Montmartre Academy as painter where he befriends an SS officer who helps him survive he occupation. After the war he chooses to become a performing artist and adopts the stage name Serge Gainsbourg. His unorthodox songs bring...

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Fab Five: The Texas Cheerleader Scandal

Genres: Biography, Drama, Sport

Country: United States

Director: Tom McLoughlin

Duration: 88 min

Year: 2008

Actors: Jenna Dewan-Tatum, Ashley Benson, Aimee Spring Fortier

Five high school cheerleaders including the daughter of the school principal run amok -- and teachers parents and administrators allow them to get away with a wide range of scandalous behavior. Know as the fab five the girls disregard school rules drink alcohol and post suggestive pictures on the Internet. But when the new cheerleading coach attempts to discipline them her superiors ask...

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Freddie Mercury, The Untold Story

Genres: Documentary, Biography, Music

Country: United Kingdom, Germany

Director: Rudi Dolezal, Hannes Rossacher

Duration: 59 min

Year: 2000

Actors: Freddie Mercury, Jer Bulsara, Kashmira Cooke

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Endurance

Genres: Biography, Drama, Sport

Country: United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Director: Leslie Woodhead, Bud Greenspan

Duration: 83 min

Year: 1999

Actors: Haile Gebrsellasie, Shawananness Gebrselassie, Yonas Zergaw

The gold medal for the mens 10000-meter race in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics is won by Ethiopian Haile...

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Elvis

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

Country: United States, Germany

Director: James Steven Sadwith

Duration: 173 min

Year: 2005

Actors: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Randy Quaid, Rose McGowan

A chronicle of the life of Elvis Presley Rhys Meyers from his humble beginnings to his rise to international...

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Counterpunch

Genres: Action, Biography, Drama, Sport

Country: United States

Director: Kenneth Castillo

Duration: 97 min

Year: 2013

Actors: Danny Trejo, Steven Bauer, Alvaro Orlando

Based on a true story. A young boxer Emilio from the wrong side of the tracks with big dreams of winning the Golden Gloves boxing championship finds himself at a cross roads after being locked up. As he fights his way back into the winning circle he gets a second shot at the championship title. As he is toe to toe in the ring with his competitor hell throw all the punches and be the last man...

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Bobby Fischer Against The World

Genres: Biography, History, Sport

Country: United States, United Kingdom, Iceland

Director: Liz Garbus

Duration: 93 min

Year: 2011

Actors: Bobby Fischer, David Edmonds, Anthony Saidy

Bobby Fischer Against the World is a documentary feature exploring the tragic and bizarre life of the late chess master Bobby Fischer. The drama of Bobby Fischers career was undeniable from his troubled childhood to his rock star status as World Champion and Cold War icon to his life as a fugitive on the run. This film explores one of the most infamous and mysterious characters of the 20th...

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Captain Phillips

Genres: Action, Adventure, Biography, Crime, ...

Country: United States

Director: Paul Greengrass

Duration: 134 min

Year: 2013

Actors: Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi, Barkhad Abdirahman

Captain Phillips is a multi-layered examination of the 2009 hijacking of the U.S. container ship Maersk Alabama by a crew of Somali pirates. It is - through director Paul Greengrasss distinctive lens - simultaneously a pulse-pounding thriller and a complex portrait of the myriad effects of globalization. The film focuses on the relationship between the Alabamas commanding officer Captain...

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