Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.Explore biographical films about the lives of notable people.
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Biographical picture, Forensic, biographical film, drama film
In 1956, Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a first-year student at Harvard Law School. Her husband Martin Ginsburg, a second-year student, is diagnosed with testicular cancer. She attends both her classes and his, taking notes and transcribing lectur…
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Drama, Political Drama, biographical film, drama film, war film
At the close of the Easter Rising in 1916, the besieged Irish republicans surrender to the British Army at the republicans' headquarters in Dublin. Several key figures of the Rising, including Patrick Pearse, Thomas MacDonagh, Tom Clarke a…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
As her mother is a divorcee, young Tammy Faye LaValley is deemed a reminder of her mother's sins and subsequently denied entrance to the rural, chasmatic fundamentalist church where her mother plays piano; until Tammy sneaks in one day, re…
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Drama, biographical film, drama film, romance film, war film
Austrian peasant farmer Franz Jägerstätter, born and brought up in the small village of St. Radegund, is working his land when war breaks out. Married to Franziska, colloquially Fani, the couple are important members of the tight-knit rura…
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Adventure, Biographical picture, action film, biographical film, drama film
In 1973, Parisian street performer Philippe Petit bites a hard candy from the audience, damaging his tooth. In the dentist's waiting room, he sees a photo of the Twin Towers in a magazine. Analyzing it, he dreams of walking a tightrope bet…
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Biographical picture, Sport, biographical film, drama film, sport film
In New York City, 1914, a young Trudy Ederle, who is afflicted with measles, witnesses a burning ferry capsize, with that disaster leaving hundreds of the passengers dead. Her mother, Gertrude, is horrified by the incident. After learning …
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Biographical picture, Musical, biographical film, drama film, musical film
I'm Not There features a nonlinear narrative, shifting between six characters in separate storylines "inspired by the music and many lives of Bob Dylan". Each character represents a different facet of Dylan's public persona: poet (Arthur R…
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Dark Comedy, biographical film, black comedy film, comedy film, crime film, drama film
In small-town Carthage, Texas, local assistant mortician Bernie Tiede is a beloved member of the community, known for his charismatic demeanor, extreme charity, and heavy community involvement. Hired as a mortician at the Leggett Funeral H…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
The story begins with Thatcher in the present experiencing dementia and seeing her deceased husband Denis with her as a ghost. In a series of flashbacks, the young Margaret Roberts works at the family grocer's shop in Grantham, listening t…
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American football film, Drama, Thriller, biographical film, drama film
In 2002, retired Hall of Fame Pittsburgh Steelers center Mike Webster is found dead in his pickup truck, after years of self-mutilation and homelessness. Before his death, fellow former football player Justin Strzelczyk confides in Webster…
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Biographical picture, biographical sports film, comedy drama, drama film
From a young age, Michael "Eddie" Edwards harbours Olympic aspirations. When his efforts to compete in the Summer Games fail, he tries out skiing in the Winter Games. Although skilled at the sport, he is rejected by British Olympic officia…
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Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Modern-Day Fantasy, arthouse science fiction film, drama film, experimental film, horror film, monster film, mystery film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, surrealist film, thriller film
In 1953, exterminator William Lee finds that his wife Joan is stealing his insecticide to use as a recreational drug. Lee is arrested by the police, and he begins hallucinating due to exposure to the insecticide. Lee believes he is a secre…
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Drama, Historie, biographical film, disaster film, docudrama, drama film
At dawn on September 11, 2001, al-Qaeda members Ziad Jarrah, Saeed al-Ghamdi, Ahmed al-Nami, and Ahmed al-Haznawi pray in a Newark, New Jersey hotel before boarding United Airlines Flight 93, bound for San Francisco. Among the passengers a…
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Biographical picture, Dark Comedy, LGBTQ-related film, Satire, Satire On Media, Social Drama, biographical film, drama film, trial film
In 1972, Larry Flynt and his younger brother, Jimmy, run the Hustler Go-Go, a struggling strip club in Cincinnati. In a bid to improve his business, Flynt decides to publish a newsletter for the club featuring nude photos of his strippers,…
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Biographical picture, Historie, biographical film, drama film
In 1585, Catholic Spain, ruled by King Philip II, is the most powerful country in Europe. Seeing that the Catholic plots against Queen Elizabeth's life that occurred from the 1570s onwards had all failed, Pope Sixtus V approached King Phil…
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Biographical picture, drama film, musical film
In 1939, 16-year-old Judy Garland is told by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio head Louis B. Mayer on the set of The Wizard of Oz, that she has a gift other girls do not. Her singing talent is nearly unmatched while she is able to surpass the suc…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film, musical film
In 1952, 10-year-old Aretha Franklin lives with her father C.L., pastor of Detroit's largest Baptist church, and her siblings Cecil, Erma, and Carolyn. Aretha's father often has her sing for parties at their home, while her mother Barbara,…
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Drama, biographical film, drama film
Raynor Winn and her husband, Moth, who has been diagnosed with degenerative corticobasal degeneration, are evicted from their farm and home after investing in a friend's business venture, despite presenting evidence that could have prevent…
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Coming Of Age, Social Drama, biography, drama film
In 1987, Dr. Ben Carson travels to Ulm, Germany, to meet a couple, Peter and Augusta Rausch, who have twins conjoined at the back of their heads. Dr.
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Satire On Media, biographical film, comedy drama, comedy film, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir, spy film, thriller film
Tired of being rejected by the beautiful women he lusts after, Chuck Barris moves to Manhattan to become an NBC page with dreams of becoming famous in television but is eventually fired. He moves back to Philadelphia and becomes Dick Clark…
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Adventure, Drama, Historie, Monumental Film, adventure film, biographical film, drama film, historical film
Aware that the covered mostly in apparently flat actually has a ball-shaped surface, Christopher Columbus lobbies for a trip westward to Asia, but lacks a crew and ship. The Catholic theologians at the University of Salamanca heavily dis…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
In the late 1960s and 70s, José is a young boy whose family travels from Michoacán as migrant workers picking grapes in California, his parents hoping to buy a house back home after they've made enough money. While they are working in the …
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film, historical film
Drama, Musical, Romance Film, biographical film, comedy drama, drama film, musical film, romantic comedy
Set in and around New York City just before and following World War I, the story opens with Ziegfeld Follies star Fanny Brice awaiting her husband Nicky Arnstein to arrive at the theater, and then moves into an extended flashback focusing …
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