Country: United States
Genre: Biography, Drama
On the set of Cleopatra Hollywoods most beautiful star Elizabeth Taylor fell into the arms of one of the worlds greatest actors Richard Burton - and she didnt leave. Their subsequent white-hot scandalous love affair gave rise to the paparazzi and they became the most hunted and photographed couple on earth. Their rocky passionate relationship born in front of the cameras was...
Country: United Kingdom, France, Japan
Genre: Biography, Drama
In the 1960s British painter Francis Bacon 1909-1992 surprises a burglar and invites him to share his bed. The burglar a working class man named George Dyer 30 years Bacons junior accepts. Bacon finds Dyers amorality and innocence attractive introducing him to his Soho pals. In their sex life Dyer dominates Bacon is the masochist. Dyers bouts with depression his drinking and pill...
Country: United States, Germany
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Biography of Martin Luther the 16th-century priest who led the Christian Reformation and opened up new possibilities in exploration of faith. The film begins with his vow to become a monk and continues through his struggles to reconcile his desire for sanctification with his increasing abhorrence of the corruption and hypocrisy pervading the Churchs hierarchy. He is ultimately charged with...
Country: United States
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
The story of General of the Army Douglas MacArthur Supreme Allied Commander during World War II and United Nations Commander for the Korean War. MacArthur begins in 1942 following the fall of Phillipines and covers the remarkable career of this military legend up through and including the Korean War and into MacArthurs days of forced retirement after being dismissed from his post by...
Country: United States
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama
In Pittsburgh Pennsylvania addicted gang biker Sam Childers is released from prison and learns that his wife Lynn is no longer a stripper but has converted to Christianity. One night Sam and his best friend Donnie give a ride to a hitchhiker who threatens Donnie with a pocketknife; however Sam reacts and turns the tables on the stranger. Sam is affected by the incident and is convinced by Lynn...
Country: United Kingdom, Chile, Spain, France
Genre: Biography, Drama
Santiago capital of Chile during the Marxist government of elected highly controversial president Salvador Allende. Father McEnroe supports his leftist views by introducing a program at the prestigious collegio Catholic prep school St. Patrick to allow free admission of some proletarian kids. One of them is Pedro Machuca slum-raised son of the cleaning lady in Gonzalo Infantes...
Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History
In 1968 the Ford auto factory in Dagenham was one of the largest single private employers in the UK. In addition to the thousands of male employees there are also 187 underpaid women machinists who primarily assemble the car seat upholstery in poor working conditions. Dissatisfied the women represented by the shop steward and Rita OGrady work with union rep Albert Passingham for a better...
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