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Amadeus

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

Country: United States

Director: Milos Forman

Duration: 180 min

Year: 1984

Actors: F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge, Simon Callow, Roy Dotrice, Christine Ebersole, Jeffrey Jones, Charles Kay, Kenny Baker, Lisabeth Bartlett, Barbara Bryne, Martin Cavina, Roderick Cook, Milan Demjanenko, Peter DiGesu

Storyline: Antonio Salieri believes that Mozarts music is divine. He wishes he was himself as good a musician as Mozart so that he can praise the Lord through composing. But he cant understand why God favored Mozart such a vulgar creature to be his instrument. Salieris envy has made him an enemy of God whose greatness was evident in Mozart. He is set to take...

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I'm Not There.

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

Country: United States, Germany

Director: Todd Haynes

Duration: 135 min

Year: 2007

Actors: Cate Blanchett, Ben Whishaw, Christian Bale, Richard Gere, Marcus Carl Franklin, Heath Ledger, Kris Kristofferson, Don Francks, Roc LaFortune, Larry Day, Paul Cagelet, Brian R.C. Wilmes, Pierre-Alexandre Fortin, Richie Havens, Tyrone Benskin

Storyline: Six incarnations of Bob Dylan: an actor a folk singer an electrified troubadour Rimbaud Billy the Kid and Woody Guthrie. Put Dylans music behind their adventures soliloquies interviews marriage and infidelity. Recreate 1960s documentaries in black and white. Put each at a crossroads the artist becoming someone else. Jack the son of Ramblin Jack Elliott finds Jesus;...

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Topsy Turvy

Genres: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Music

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Mike Leigh

Duration: 160 min

Year: 1999

Actors: Allan Corduner, Dexter Fletcher, Sukie Smith, Roger Heathcott, Wendy Nottingham, Stefan Bednarczyk, Geoffrey Hutchings, Timothy Spall, Francis Lee, William Neenan, Adam Searle, Martin Savage, Jim Broadbent, Lesley Manville, Kate Doherty

Storyline: After their production Princess Ida meets with less-than-stunning reviews the relationship between Gilbert and Sullivan is strained to breaking. Their friends and associates attempt to get the two to work together again which opens the way to The Mikado one of the duos greatest...

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Impromptu

Genres: Biography, Comedy, Music, Romance

Country: United Kingdom, France

Director: James Lapine

Duration: 107 min

Year: 1991

Actors: Judy Davis, Hugh Grant, Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters, Julian Sands, Ralph Brown, Georges Corraface, Anton Rodgers, Emma Thompson, Anna Massey, David Birkin, Nimer Rashed, Fiona Vincente, John Savident, Lucy Speed

Storyline: Novelist George Sand Judy Davis falls in love with composer Frédéric Chopin Hugh Grant. She tries to profess her love for him at a weekend hosted by a pretentious artistically minded duchess for famous musicians artists and writers of the day. The gentle and sickly Chopin is wary of the outspoken Sand but finds himself strangely drawn to her as...

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Beyond The Sea

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music, Musical

Country: United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Director: Kevin Spacey

Duration: 118 min

Year: 2004

Actors: Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth, John Goodman, Bob Hoskins, Brenda Blethyn, Greta Scacchi, Caroline Aaron, Peter Cincotti, William Ullrich, Michael Byrne, Matt Rippy, Gary Whelan, Jake Broder, Tayfun Bademsoy, Tomas Spencer

Storyline: Consummate entertainer Bobby Darin 1936-1973 is making a movie about his life. Hes volatile driven by the love of performing ambition perfectionism and belief that hes living on borrowed time. He begins in the Bronx: a fatherless lad learning music and dance from his mom. His career starts slowly then Splish Splash puts him at the top of the charts and on Bandstand. He...

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La Vie En Rose

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

Country: France, United Kingdom, Czech Republic

Director: Olivier Dahan

Duration: 140 min

Year: 2007

Actors: Marion Cotillard, Sylvie Testud, Pascal Greggory, Emmanuelle Seigner, Jean-Paul Rouve, Gérard Depardieu, Clotilde Courau, Jean-Pierre Martins, Catherine Allégret, Marc Barbé, Caroline Sihol, Manon Chevallier, Pauline Burlet, Elisabeth Commelin, Marc Ga

Storyline: An un-chronological look at the life of the Little Sparrow Édith Piaf 1915-1963. Her mother is an alcoholic street singer her father a circus performer her paternal grandmother a madam. During childhood she lives with each of them. At 20 shes a street singer discovered by a club owner whos soon murdered coached by a musician who brings her to concert halls and then quickly...

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Great Balls Of Fire!

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

Country: United States

Director: Jim McBride

Duration: 108 min

Year: 1989

Actors: Dennis Quaid, Winona Ryder, John Doe, Stephen Tobolowsky, Trey Wilson, Alec Baldwin, Steve Allen, Lisa Blount, Joshua Sheffield, Mojo Nixon, Jimmie Vaughan, David Ferguson, Robert Lesser, Lisa Jane Persky, Paula Person

Storyline: The story of Jerry Lee Lewis arguably the greatest and certainly one of the wildest musicians of the 1950s. His arrogance remarkable talent and unconventional lifestyle often brought him into conflict with others in the industry and even earned him the scorn and condemnation of the...

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The Runaways

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

Country: United States

Director: Floria Sigismondi

Duration: 106 min

Year: 2010

Actors: Kristen Stewart, Dakota Fanning, Michael Shannon, Stella Maeve, Scout Taylor-Compton, Alia Shawkat, Riley Keough, Johnny Lewis, Brett Cullen, Hannah Marks, Jill Andre, Ray Porter, Kiaya Snow, Allie Grant

Storyline: In 1975 San Fernando Valley teen Joan Larkin reinvents herself as Joan Jett a guitarist who wants to form an all-girl punk band. She pitches the idea to a sleazy manager Kim Fowley who pairs her with a drummer and then searches for a face: he finds Cherie Currie at 15 the perfect jailbait image for his purpose; by luck she can sing. Two others round out the band The Runaways....

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Coal Miner's Daughter

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

Country: United States

Director: Michael Apted

Duration: 125 min

Year: 1980

Actors: Sissy Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones, Levon Helm, Phyllis Boyens, Bill Anderson Jr., Foister Dickerson, Malla McCown, Pamela McCown, Kevin Salvilla, William Sanderson, Sissy Lucas, Pat Patterson, Brian Warf, Elizabeth Watson,

Storyline: At only thirteen years of age Loretta Webb marries Doolittle Lynn and is soon responsible for a sizeable family. Loretta appears destined to a life of homemaking but Doolittle recognises his wifes musical talent and buys her a guitar as an anniversary present one year. This gift sets Loretta Lynn on the gruelling tumultuous path to country music...

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Immortal Beloved

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance

Country: United Kingdom, United States

Director: Bernard Rose

Duration: 121 min

Year: 1994

Actors: Gary Oldman, Jeroen Krabbé, Isabella Rossellini, Johanna ter Steege, Marco Hofschneider, Miriam Margolyes, Barry Humphries, Valeria Golino, Gerard Horan, Christopher Fulford, Alexandra Pigg, Luigi Diberti, Michael Culkin, Donal Gibson, Matthew North

Storyline: The life and death of the legendary Ludwig van Beethoven. Beside all the work he is known for the composer once wrote a famous love letter to a nameless beloved and the movie tries to find out who this beloved was. Not easy as Beethoven has had many women in his...

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Ray

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

Country: United States

Director: Taylor Hackford

Duration: 152 min

Year: 2004

Actors: Jamie Foxx, Kerry Washington, Regina King, Clifton Powell, Harry Lennix, Bokeem Woodbine, Aunjanue Ellis, Sharon Warren, C.J. Sanders, Curtis Armstrong, Richard Schiff, Larenz Tate, Terrence Howard, David Krumholtz, Wendell Pierce

Storyline: Ray Charles has the distinction of being both a national treasure and an international phenomenon. By the early 1960s Ray Charles had accomplished his dream. Hed come of age musically. Hed made it to Carnegie Hall. The hit records Georgia Born to Lose successively kept climbing to the top of the charts. Hed made his first triumphant European concert tour in 1960 a feat which...

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Shine

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance

Country: Australia

Director: Scott Hicks

Duration: 105 min

Year: 1996

Actors: Geoffrey Rush, Justin Braine, Sonia Todd, Chris Haywood, Alex Rafalowicz, Gordon Poole, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Nicholas Bell, Danielle Cox, Rebecca Gooden, Marta Kaczmarek, John Cousins, Noah Taylor, Paul Linkson, Randall Berger

Storyline: Based on the true story of Australian pianist David Helfgott this delightful movie charts the traumatic early years through adulthood. Telling the story in flashback we see David as a child prodigy and as he grows up while his patriarchal father abuses him and his siblings with the memory of his childhood in Europe and the loss of his family in the concentration camps. David finally...

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Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Mat Whitecross

Duration: 115 min

Year: 2010

Actors: Andy Serkis, Tom Hughes, Clifford Samuel, Joseph Kennedy, Arthur Darvill, James Jagger, Shakraj Soornack, Mackenzie Crook, Olivia Williams, Sam Spruell, Julian Cox, Nick Rowson, Wesley Nelson, Ross Boatman, Msimisi Dlamini

Storyline: A biography of Ian Dury who was stricken with polio at a young age and defied expectations by becoming one of the founder of the punk-rock scene in Britain in the...

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Walk The Line

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance

Country: United States, Germany

Director: James Mangold

Duration: 153 min

Year: 2005

Actors: Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon, Ginnifer Goodwin, Robert Patrick, Dallas Roberts, Dan John Miller, Larry Bagby, Shelby Lynne, Tyler Hilton, Waylon Payne, Shooter Jennings, Sandra Ellis Lafferty, Dan Beene, Clay Steakley, Johnathan Rice

Storyline: While growing up in the Great Depression era Johnny Cash takes an interest in music and eventually moves out of his Arkansas town to join the air force in Germany. While there he buys his first guitar and writes his own music and proposes to Vivian. When they got married they settled in Tennessee and with a daughter he supported the family by being a salesman. He discovers a man...

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Control (2007)

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

Country: United Kingdom, United States, Australia, Japan

Director: Anton Corbijn

Duration: 122 min

Year: 2007

Actors: Sam Riley, Samantha Morton, Alexandra Maria Lara, Joe Anderson, James Anthony Pearson, Harry Treadaway, Craig Parkinson, Toby Kebbell, Andrew Sheridan, Robert Shelly, Richard Bremmer, Tanya Myers, Martha Myers Lowe, Matthew McNulty, David Whittington

Storyline: Ian Curtis is a quiet and rather sad lad who works for an employment agency and sings in a band called Warsaw. He meets a girl named Debbie whom he promptly marries and his band of which the name in the meantime has been changed to Joy Division gets more and more successful. Even though Debbie and he become parents their relationship is going downhill rapidly and Ian starts an...

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Hilary And Jackie

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Anand Tucker

Duration: 121 min

Year: 1998

Actors: Emily Watson, Rachel Griffiths, James Frain, David Morrissey, Charles Dance, Celia Imrie, Rupert Penry-Jones, Bill Paterson, Auriol Evans, Keylee Jade Flanders, Nyree Dawn Porter, Anthony Smee

Storyline: British sisters Hilary du Pré and Jacqueline du Pré are both talented musicians Hilary a flautist Jackie a cellist. With regard to their musical prowess they have always had a friendly competitive nature with each other fueled in large part by the want of their pianist mother Iris for them to achieve musical greatness. But underlying this friendliness is a deep desire to be...

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Bird

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

Country: United States

Director: Clint Eastwood

Duration: 161 min

Year: 1988

Actors: Forest Whitaker, Diane Venora, Michael Zelniker, Samuel E. Wright, Keith David, Michael McGuire, James Handy, Damon Whitaker, Morgan Nagler, Arlen Dean Snyder, Sam Robards, Penelope Windust, Glenn Wright

Storyline: Saxophone player Charlie Parker comes to New York in 1940. He is quickly noticed for his remarkable way of playing. He becomes a drug addict but his loving wife Chan tries to help...

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Last Days

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

Country: United States

Director: Gus Van Sant

Duration: 97 min

Year: 2005

Actors: Michael Pitt, Lukas Haas, Asia Argento, Scott Patrick Green, Nicole Vicius, Ricky Jay, Ryan Orion, Harmony Korine, Rodrigo Lopresti, Kim Gordon, Adam Friberg, Andy Friberg

Storyline: Introspective artist Blake is buckling under the weight of fame professional obligations and a mounting feeling of isolation. Dwarfed by towering trees Blake slowly makes his way through dense woods. He scrambles down an embankment to a fresh spring and undresses for a short swim. The next morning he returns to his house an elegant if neglected stone mansion. Many people are...

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La Bamba

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

Country: United States

Director: Luis Valdez

Duration: 108 min

Year: 1987

Actors: Lou Diamond Phillips, Esai Morales, Rosanna DeSoto, Elizabeth Peña, Danielle von Zerneck, Joe Pantoliano, Rick Dees, Marshall Crenshaw, Howard Huntsberry, Brian Setzer, Daniel Valdez, Felipe Cantu, Eddie Frias, Mike Moroff, Geoffrey Rivas

Storyline: This is the true story of Ritchie Valens a young rock & roll singer who tragically died in a plane crash at the age of 17. The film follows Ritchie from his days in Pacoima California where he and his family make a meager living working on farms to his rise as a star. The film also focuses on Richies friendship and rivalry with his older brother Bob and his relationship with...

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Rockstar

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance

Country: India

Director: Imtiaz Ali

Duration: 136 min

Year: 2011

Actors: Ranbir Kapoor, Nargis Fakhri, Shammi Kapoor, Shikha Jain, Jaideep Ahlawat, Aditi Rao Hydari, Piyush Mishra, Moufid Aziz, Kumud Mishra, Shreya Narayan, Shernaz Patel, Paritosh Sand

Storyline: Dressed in Persian clothes chased by hooligans famous Indian-born Rockstar Jordan barely makes it to a Czech stadium to perform before a huge crowd. It was not too long ago that he was just an awkward uninhibited collegian wanna-be musician with a name of Janardhan Jakhar who was ridiculed everywhere. His family wanted him to be inducted in their business but he refuses. He is...

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Capone

Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama

Country: United States

Director: Steve Carver

Duration: 101 min

Year: 1975

Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Ben Gazzara, Harry Guardino, Susan Blakely, John Cassavetes, Frank Campanella, John Orchard, Carmen Argenziano

Storyline: The story of the rise and fall of the infamous Chicago gangster Al Capone and the control he exhibited over the city during the prohibition years. Unusually briefly covering the years after Capone was...

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Bloodsport

Genres: Action, Biography, Sport

Country: United States

Director: Newt Arnold

Duration: 92 min

Year: 1988

Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Donald Gibb, Leah Ayres, Norman Burton, Forest Whitaker, Roy Chiao, Philip Chan, Pierre Rafini

Storyline: Frank Dux has spent most his life being trained by Tanaka to participate in the Kumite the ultimate martial arts tournament where participants are seriously injured even killed. Frank decides to go despite being told by his superiors in the army that he cant because they need him. Two army officers are sent to get him and the trail leads to Hong Kong but Frank eludes them. While...

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The Iron Lady

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United Kingdom, France

Director: Phyllida Lloyd

Duration: 105 min

Year: 2011

Actors: Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent, Susan Brown, Alice da Cunha, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Iain Glen, Alexandra Roach, Victoria Bewick

Storyline: Tells the story of a woman who smashed through the barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male-dominated world. The story concerns power and the price that is paid for power and is a surprising and insightful portrait of an extraordinary and complex...

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Dark Prince The True Story Of Dracula

Genres: Biography, Horror, Thriller

Country: United States

Director: Joe Chappelle

Duration: 92 min

Year: 2000

Actors: Rudolf Martin, Jane March, Christopher Brand, Peter Weller, Roger Daltrey, Michael Sutton, Razvan Vasilescu, Radu Amzulescu, Maia Morgenstern, Claudiu Bleont, Claudiu Trandafir, Dan Bordeianu, Victor Ungureanu, Dan Badarau, Sebastian Lupea

Storyline: A warlord must fight a bloody battle in order to regain his...

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J. Edgar

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United States

Director: Clint Eastwood

Duration: 137 min

Year: 2011

Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Josh Hamilton, Geoff Pierson, Cheryl Lawson, Kaitlyn Dever, Brady Matthews, Gunner Wright, David A. Cooper, Ed Westwick, Naomi Watts

Storyline: As the face of law enforcement in America for almost 50 years J. Edgar Hoover was feared and admired reviled and revered. But behind closed doors he held secrets that would have destroyed his image his career and his...

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There Be Dragons

Genres: Biography, Drama, War

Country: United States, Argentina, Spain

Director: Roland Joffe

Duration: 122 min

Year: 2011

Actors: Charlie Cox, Wes Bentley, Dougray Scott, Unax Ugalde, Olga Kurylenko, Pablo Lapadula, Golshifteh Farahani, Rusty Lemorande

Storyline: A young journalist long ago rejected by his now aged and dying father finds himself investigating one of his fathers former friends a candidate for canonization. Uncovering the two mens complicated relationship from childhood through the horrors of the Spanish Civil War unveils a compelling drama filled with passion betrayal love and religion. An action packed story set during a...

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Moneyball

Genres: Biography, Drama, Sport

Country: United States

Director: Bennett Miller

Duration: 133 min

Year: 2011

Actors: Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Robin Wright, Chris Pratt, Stephen Bishop, Brent Jennings, Ken Medlock, Tammy Blanchard

Storyline: Oakland As GM Billy Beane is handicapped with the lowest salary constraint in baseball. If he ever wants to win the World Series Billy must find a competitive advantage. Billy is about to turn baseball on its ear when he uses statistical data to analyze and place value on the players he picks for the...

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Senna

Genres: Documentary, Biography, Sport

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Asif Kapadia

Duration: 106 min

Year: 2010

Actors: Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost, Frank Williams, Ron Dennis, Viviane Senna, Milton da Silva, Neide Senna, Jackie Stewart

Storyline: The story of the monumental life and tragic death of legendary Brazilian motor-racing Champion Ayrton Senna. Spanning the decade from his arrival in Formula One in the mid 80s the film follows Sennas struggles both on track against his nemesis French World Champion Alain Prost and off it against the politics which infest the sport. Sublime spiritual yet on occasion ruthless -...

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Soul Surfer

Genres: Action, Biography, Drama, Sport

Country: United States

Director: Sean McNamara

Duration: 106 min

Year: 2011

Actors: AnnaSophia Robb, Helen Hunt, Dennis Quaid, Lorraine Nicholson, Kevin Sorbo, Carrie Underwood, Ross Thomas, Chris Brochu, Sonya Balmores, Jeremy Sumpter

Storyline: 13 year-old Bethany Hamilton is a champion surfer who was born to be in the water. But after a fun night out night surfing and what should be a fun day in the water she is attacked by a shark and loses her arm. Rushed to the hospital she remains calm and maintains her faith in God. Now she has to re-learn how to do everything with only one arm - including how to surf. It will take...

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