Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.Explore biographical films about the lives of notable people.
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biographical film
Diaz followed Imelda Marcos, the former First Lady of the Philippines, for a month and interviewed her daughter Imee and her son Ferdinand Jr. The film incorporates third party interviews and archive material; it recounts Imelda's life, in…
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biographical film, musical film
In 1906 San Francisco Blossom Seely is an energetic performer in a club. Whilst performing, an earthquake strikes. The first theatre to reopen in the city since the earthquake is the Grauman Vaudeville theatre, where Blossom is set to next…
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Documentation, biographical film, documentary film, historical film
Biographical picture, Thriller
fantasy film, vampire film
In a posh London gallery, Carolyn Dalgleish (Carolyn Backhouse) prepares a showing of the latest works by John Bolton: disturbing portraits of beautiful, vicious vampiric women he encountered whilst pot holing. The Interviewer (Marcus Brig…
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biographical film, musical film
The film is a fictionalized biography of Fred Fisher, a German-born American writer of Tin Pan Alley songs. Tin Pan Alley promoter (Mark Stevens) turns serious composer Fred Breitenbach (S.Z. Sakall) into songwriter Fred Fisher.
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biographical film
documentary film
In the 1980s, video games were synonymous with arcades, and games were bringing in enough quarters to fill the Rose Bowl. This led Iowa entrepreneur Walter Day (with the support of various game manufacturers) to declare himself the sole au…
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American football film, biographical film, documentary film
biographical film, documentary film
ReMastered: Tricky Dick & the Man in Black is about the relationship between Johnny Cash and Richard Nixon and Cash's historic performance at the White House on April 17, 1970. During the visit, it becomes apparent that Cash's emerging ide…
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Documentation, biographical film, documentary film
Western film, biographical film
Based on real life events - Mexican peasant Joaquin Murieta and his wife go north to California to prospect for gold, finding only one white person, a marshal, who will befriend them. But after Murieta is beaten and robbed, and his wife ki…
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biographical film, documentary film
biographical film
biographical film
Biographical documentary
Biographical documentary
The film is a commentary on Vidal's professional and personal life, and the impact he had in art and politics. It includes exclusive interviews with Vidal, as well as figures such as Burr Steers and Christopher Hitchens.
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biographical film
The film presents the brothers' lives in dramatic vignettes sometimes historically rearranged. At the start of the 20th century, bicycle mechanics Wilbur and Orville Wright, begin tinkering with gliders on the windy sand dunes of Kitty Haw…
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Biographical documentary
The film follows the recovery and aftermath of the 2011 assassination attempt of congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Giffords becomes partially paralyzed and has a language impairment aphasia.
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Biographical documentary, documentary film
Documentation
The film makes use of archive footage and interviews with John Waters, Patti Smith, Iggy Pop, Gus Van Sant, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Sonic Youth, Laurie Anderson, Amiri Baraka, Jello Biafra, and David Cronenberg. The film looks at the lif…
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Biographical picture, Drama, Komödie, comedy film
Harry England, a British car salesman on a trip to France, meets a Baroness, "Dany", when her Rolls-Royce breaks down. They spend a few days together and become lovers before she disappears one night, but Harry does not know her surname. T…
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Musical, biographical film, musical film, romance film
In her hometown of Grass Valley, vivacious teenager Lotta Crabtree is thrilled when the famed performer Lola Montez arrives in town in 1863. She wants to become a singer like Lola someday, although her parents Mary Ann and John Crabtree, w…
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biographical film
Pedro Calungsod, a young Filipino catechist, leaves his Visayan home and joins a group of Jesuit missionaries under Diego Luis de San Vitores in evangelizing the native Chamorros of the Mariana Islands and Guam.
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