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Biographical picture, Drama, biographical film, boxing film, drama film, prison film
In 1966, Rubin "Hurricane" Carter was a promising and top-ranked middleweight boxer from Paterson, New Jersey, who was expected by many fans to become the world's greatest boxing champion. However, a bartender and two customers were shot t…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
In Defiance, Ohio, housewife Evelyn Ryan managed to support her husband, Kelly, and their 10 children by winning jingle-writing contests. Kelly failed to support his family, in part due to apparent alcoholism and low self-esteem. He dreame…
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Dramedy, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy film, drama film
Mild-mannered Adam Lerner is a 27-year-old public radio journalist in Seattle. His loyal but immature best friend Kyle disapproves of his girlfriend Rachael, an artist. After experiencing severe pains in his back, Adam is diagnosed with sc…
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Biographical picture, Criminal Comedy Film, biographical film, crime comedy film, drama film
Career criminal Forrest Tucker, a wanted man for two years since his daring escape from San Quentin State Prison in 1979, has just robbed another bank. While evading police, the 74-year-old charmer passes Jewel, a woman on the side of the …
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Biographical picture, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, drama film
Gia Carangi is a Philadelphia native who moves to New York City to become a fashion model and immediately catches the attention of the powerful agent Wilhelmina Cooper. Gia's attitude and beauty help her rise quickly to the forefront of th…
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Biographical picture, drama film
Ten-year-old Bart Millard lives with his mother Adele and abusive father Arthur in Texas. One day, Bart's mother drops him off at a Christian camp, where Bart meets Shannon Street. Upon his return from camp, Bart finds that his mother has …
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Biographical picture, Marital Tragedy, Political Drama, Romance Film, biographical film, boxing film, drama film
Before his championship debut against the heavyweight champion Sonny Liston, Cassius Clay Jr. taunts Liston then dominates the early rounds of the match. Between rounds, Liston asks his corner to apply a substance to his gloves.
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Biographical picture, Destiny, Musical, biographical film, drama film, musical film
In 1949, young Jim Morrison and his family are traveling on a desert highway in New Mexico where they encounter an auto wreck and see an elderly Native American dying by the roadside. In 1965, Jim arrives in California and is assimilated i…
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Political Drama, biographical film, drama film
The story begins as Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird Johnson, greet President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas.
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Biographical picture, LGBTQ-related film, Thriller, biographical film, drama film
In 1972, Karen Silkwood, a worker at the Kerr-McGee Cimarron Fuel Fabrication Site (near Crescent, Oklahoma), shares a ramshackle house with two co-workers, her boyfriend Drew Stephens and her lesbian friend Dolly Pelliker. She makes MOX f…
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Biographical picture, LGBTQ-related film, Romantic Comedy, Romantic Drama, comedy drama, romantic comedy film
Frances Mayes is a San Francisco writer whose seemingly perfect life takes an unexpected turn when she inadvertently learns that her husband has been cheating on her. The husband, who had been working on his writing and had no income, iron…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film, epic film, historical drama film, historical film, war drama, war film
upright|thumb|At the beginning of the film the two-year-old boy (Tenzin Yeshi Paichang) is visited at his rural birthplace in Amdo by the searching lamas and undertakes a test to confirm his identity as the "Bodhisattva". The film has a li…
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Social Drama, biographical film, drama film, hood film, teen film
LouAnne Johnson, a veteran of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps, applies for a high school teaching job and is surprised and pleased to be offered the position with immediate effect, even though it is a low paying job. Showing up the next day…
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Biographical picture, LGBTQ-related film, Thriller, biographical film, drama film, romance film, thriller film
In 1944, poet Allen Ginsberg wins a place at Columbia University in New York City. He arrives as a very inexperienced freshman, but soon runs into Lucien Carr, an unruly character who holds strong anti-establishment beliefs. Ginsberg disco…
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Historie, Political Drama, Political Thriller, biographical film, drama film, historical film
On October 25, 1958, at a gathering entitled 'A Salute to Edward R Murrow', Ed Murrow delivers a speech where he mentions Senator McCarthy among others. The film then reverts to October 14, 1953, in the CBS Studios, with on-screen titles e…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film, legal drama
In April 1941, Thurgood Marshall is an NAACP lawyer traveling the country defending people of color who are wrongly accused of crimes because of racial prejudice. Upon his return to his New York City office, he is sent to Bridgeport, Conne…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film, sport film
Living in Katwe, a slum in Kampala, the Capital City of Uganda, is a constant struggle for 10-year-old Phiona Mutesi (Madina Nalwanga), her mother Nakku Harriet (Lupita Nyong'o) and younger members of her family. She and her younger brothe…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film, musical film
A film is interrupted when news breaks of the death of Eva Perón, Argentina's First Lady, at the age of 33 (“A Cinema in Buenos Aires on July 26, 1952”). The nation goes into public mourning ("Requiem for Evita"), with a funeral worthy of …
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Biographical picture, action film, biographical film, drama film, thriller film
In 2013, Edward Snowden arranges a clandestine meeting in Hong Kong with documentarian Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald. They discuss releasing the classified information in the former's possession regarding illegal mass survei…
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Drama, biographical film, coming-of-age film, drama film, teen film
In 1987, the once idyllic Eastside High School in Paterson, New Jersey, has deteriorated due to drug use and rampant crime throughout the school. The majority of the student body cannot pass basic skills testing, and even the teachers are …
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Biographical picture, Romantic Drama, biographical film, drama film, historical film
As Emily Brontë is ill and near death, her older sister Charlotte asks her what inspired her to write her novel Wuthering Heights. Sometime in the past Charlotte, nearly graduated from school, returns home for a visit. Emily tries to talk …
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Biographical picture, Sport, biographical film, drama film, sport film
As elderly Joe Rantz watches his grandson rowing a fiberglass boat, he recalls his glorious rowing days. In 1936, Joe is a poor engineering student at the University of Washington (UW), living in an abandoned car and eating canned food, wi…
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Biographical picture, Gangster Film, biographical film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
When a man insults Richard Kuklinski's girlfriend during a game of pool, he follows the man to his car and murders him by slashing his throat. Kuklinski marries Deborah in 1964 and the couple have two daughters. Kuklinski presents himself …
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biographical film, musical film
The film tells the true story of Silibil N' Brains, a rap duo from Dundee who, for three years, pretended to be American in order to be taken seriously by the record industry.
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