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Action, Adventure, action film, biographical film, drama film, war film
In 1890, Frank T. Hopkins and his mustang, Hidalgo, are part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, advertised as "the world's greatest endurance horse and rider". A famous long-distance racer, cowboy, and dispatch rider for the United States g…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
In 2010, New York City paparazzo Jae Donnelly stakes out the private Manhattan home of Jeffrey Epstein for an exclusive shot. After a chase through Central Park, he gets photographs of Prince Andrew walking with Epstein. Nine years later, …
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
Stuart Long, a foul-mouthed amateur boxer from Helena, Montana, has a troubled relationship with his parents, who have been hostile towards religion since his brother's death. He moves to Southern California to pursue an acting career and …
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Drama, Sport, biographical film, documentary film, drama film, sport film, surf film
In the year 2003, 13-year-old Bethany Hamilton lives in Kauai, Hawaii with her parents Tom and Cheri, and two older brothers, Noah and Timmy. All are surfers, but she and her best friend, Alana Blanchard, have grown up with a passion for t…
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Biographical picture, Musical, biographical film, drama film, musical film
In 1983, 19-year-old Whitney Houston is coached by her demanding professional singer mother Cissy for a church choir. Her close friendship with Robyn Crawford turns romantic, leading to cohabitation and upsetting Cissy. At the Sweetwaters …
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Historical drama, biographical film, drama film
The film spans seventy-two hours in the life of Bohemian Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, known to his friends as Modì, who frequented the streets of war-torn Paris in 1916. On the run from the police, his desire to end his career and lea…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film, musical film
At the Clinton Correctional Facility in 1995, a documentary filmmaker arrives to interview Tupac Shakur. In a flashback to 1971, Tupac's mother, Afeni Shakur, and other Black Panther Party members are released from prison following acquitt…
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LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, drama film, erotic film
The film begins on November 25, 1970, the last day of Mishima's life. He finishes a manuscript and then puts on a uniform he designed for himself and meets with four of his most loyal followers from his private army, the Tatenokai. In flas…
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Drama, War Film, biographical film, drama film, war film
Joe Bonham, a young American soldier during World War I, awakens in a hospital bed after being hit by an artillery shell. He has lost his eyes, ears, mouth, nose, and limbs, but remains conscious and able to reason, rendering him a prisone…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
Jeff Bauman is a well-intentioned but underachieving Boston native who works at the deli counter of a Costco and lives in a small two-bedroom apartment with his alcoholic mother, Patty. One day at the local bar, Jeff runs into his ex-girlf…
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Drama, Social Drama, biographical film, drama film
Based on a true story, the plot revolves around the efforts of debate coach Melvin B. Tolson at Wiley College, a historically black college related to the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (now The United Methodist Church), to place his te…
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Horror, Thriller, biographical film, drama film, horror film, thriller film
In 1984, young guitarist Euronymous forms black metal band Mayhem, the first of the genre in their country of Norway, with Necrobutcher on bass and Manheim on drums. Manheim leaves and is soon replaced by new drummer Hellhammer, and they r…
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biographical film, drama film
Michelle McNally, a 42-year-old, Anglo-Indian woman living in Shimla, is "special" in more ways than one for being deafblind and mute. She inhabits a suffocating world of infinite Black -- where she is isolated in the darkness of her own e…
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Biographical picture, Melodrama, drama film
Grappling with tremendous personal tragedy, writer Isabel Wilkerson sets herself on a path of global investigation and discovery as she writes Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. Wilkerson is consulted for her opinion after the killing …
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Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Tragic Comedy Film, biographical film, drama film
London-based journalist Martin Sixsmith has lost his job as a government adviser. He is approached at a party by the daughter of Philomena Lee. She suggests that he write a story about her mother, who was forced to give up her toddler son …
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Drama, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, coming-of-age film, crime film, drama film, horror film
In the poor Adelaide suburb of Salisbury, 16-year-old Jamie lives with his distressed mother, Elizabeth Harvey (Louise Harris), and his brothers—including half-brother Troy, who rapes Jamie. One day, his mother's boyfriend takes indecent p…
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Gangster Film, action film, biographical film, crime thriller film, drama film, gangster film, thriller film
In 1960, Danny Greene and his childhood friends Billy McComber and Art Sneperger are longshoremen on the Cleveland docks. Sneperger's gambling leaves him with a huge debt to Cleveland Mafia captain John Nardi. In return for Sneperger's deb…
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Biographical picture, Historie, Political Drama
The opening is a montage of Adolf Hitler's life from 1899 to 1913, when he left Austria for Munich. His participation in the First World War on the German side is then shown in a series of episodes that includes his promotion to the rank o…
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Biographical documentary, documentary film
Through archive photos, newsreels, films, contemporary documentaries, and notorious speeches, Raoul Peck investigates how early 20th century authoritarianism still echoes in contemporary life, especially during ongoing conflicts threatenin…
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Biographical picture, Romance Film, Sport, biographical film, drama film, sport film
Sports agent J. B. Bernstein and his business partner Ash Vasudevan have formed their own struggling company in Los Angeles, but all J.
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
Following his graduation from Christ Church, Oxford, in 1956, aspiring filmmaker Colin Clark travels to London to gain a job on Laurence Olivier's next production. Production manager Hugh Perceval tells Colin that there are no jobs availab…
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Biographical picture, Drama, biographical film, drama film
In 1963, a week after the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy, a journalist visits his widow Jacqueline "Jackie" Kennedy for an interview at her home in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts regarding her husband's legacy. After…
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Biographical picture, Dark Comedy, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, comedy film, crime film, docudrama, drama film
The film opens with Michael Alig as a small-town outcast who lived with his mother before moving to New York. Michael learns about the New York party scene from James St. James, who teaches him the "rules of fabulousness", which revolve ar…
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