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Biographical picture, Drama, War Film, action film, biographical film, drama film, war film
Reinhard Heydrich is serving as an officer in the German Navy. After beginning a relationship with Lina, he is court-martialled for breaking his word to another woman he had been having sex with. He marries Lina and follows her in joining …
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
Yale University graduate Rob Peace, known as Shaun at the time his father was arrested for crimes he may not have committed, turns to drug dealing in order to get his father out of jail while maintaining other activities.
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Destiny, Justice Drama, Sitcom, biographical film, comedy film, drama film
King George III's bout of madness in 1788 touched off the Regency Crisis of 1788 and triggered a power struggle between factions of Parliament under the Tory Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger and the reform-minded Leader of the Oppos…
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Biographical picture, Martial-Arts, action film, biographical film, drama film, martial arts film
In Hong Kong, Bruce Lee's father Lee Hoi-chuen awakens from a nightmare about a phantom, known as the Demon, haunting his young son. He subsequently enrolls him in Chinese martial arts training with instructor Yip Man. As a young adult, Br…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
In August 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till lives with his mother, Mamie, in Chicago, Illinois. As Emmett leaves to visit relatives in Money, Mississippi, Mamie warns him to be cautious around white people. At a train station, the two meet wit…
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Crime, biographical film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
In 2015, Los Angeles Times investigative reporter Darius "Jack" Jackson is assigned to write about the murder of the Notorious B.I.G. (Christopher Wallace), and meets with the retired and disgraced Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) dete…
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Biographical picture, Crime, crime film, thriller film
In an Anchorage motel room in 1983, 17-year-old Cindy Paulson (Vanessa Hudgens) is handcuffed and screaming for help. She is rescued by an Anchorage Police Department patrol officer. He takes Paulson to the hospital, and her clothes are ke…
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American football film, Biographical picture, Sport, biographical film
A young Kurt Warner watches Super Bowl XIX. He then makes a commitment to become a Super Bowl and MVP quarterback. Several years later, Kurt is playing his fifth year for the University of Northern Iowa (UNI) Panthers with coach Terry Alle…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
In 1872 London, retired United States Army surgeon William Chester Minor has hallucinations in which he sees himself being persecuted by a soldier he had to brand for desertion. During one of these visions, he mistakenly chases and kills i…
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Biographical documentary
Biographical picture, Destiny, Melodrama, biographical film, drama film, melodrama
In the 1950s, the reserved, middle-aged bachelor C. S. Lewis is an Oxford University academic at Magdalen College and author of The Chronicles of Narnia series of children's books.
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Drama, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, coming-of-age film, drama film
Jared Eamons is the son of Marshall Eamons, a car dealer and Baptist preacher in Arkansas, and Nancy Eamons, a hairdresser. He begins his first day at the Love in Action gay conversion therapy assessment program in Memphis, Tennessee. Chie…
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Drama, Historie, biographical film, drama film, historical film
Deborah Lipstadt is an American professor of Holocaust studies whose speaking engagement is disrupted by David Irving, a British writer on Nazi Germany. He files a libel lawsuit in the United Kingdom against Lipstadt and her publisher for …
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Biographical picture, Musical, Romance Film, biographical film, drama film, musical film, romance film
A man wanders through a heavy rainstorm, finding his way into a nearby restaurant. The restaurant's employees try to determine if he needs help. Despite his manic mode of speech being difficult to understand, a waitress, Sylvia, learns tha…
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Adventure, Drama, Komödie, adventure film, biographical film, comedy film
In a television interview a condescending reporter grills travel guide author Bill Bryson about his published, but dated, popular travel guides and asks if he will be writing more. Bryson, now in his 60’s, has not published much since movi…
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Biographical picture, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, drama film, independent film
The film is a lightly fictionalized account of Basquiat's life. A struggling artist living in a cardboard box in Tompkins Square Park works his way up the rungs of the New York art world in the eighties, thanks in part to his association w…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film, historical film, independent film
On December 19, 1974, photographer Peter Hujar visits the SoHo apartment of writer Linda Rosenkrantz to participate in an interview for her book project documenting ordinary days in the lives of artists. Sitting on her couch with a cigaret…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, comedy drama, drama film
In 1959, Alfred Hitchcock opens his latest film, North by Northwest, to both critical and commercial success, but is troubled by a reporter's insinuation that he should retire. Seeking to reclaim the artistic daring of his youth, Hitchcock…
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Biographical picture, Drama, biographical film, drama film, sport film
In 1969, Denver housewife and mother Penny Chenery learns of her own mother's death and returns to her childhood home, where she reunites with Mrs. Ham, her father's secretary, and comforts her confused and elderly father. At her mother's …
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biographical film, musical film
A depressing look at the life of Michael Jackson, following the success of his sixth album, Thriller, his broken relationship with his father Joseph, his sexual abuse allegations, his marriage and divorce to Lisa Marie Presley, the birth o…
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Biographical documentary, documentary film
The film explores the life and career of Jeff Buckley, incorporating voice messages and previously unseen footage. It also features interviews with Buckley's mother Mary Guibert, as well as friends, ex-girlfriends and musicians such as Reb…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
On June 1, 1937, aviator Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan, start their attempt to circumnavigate the globe. Moving in vignettes from her early years when Earhart was captivated by an aircraft flying overhead on the Kansas prair…
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Biographical picture, Musical, biographical film, drama film, independent film, musical film
In 1975, Ian Curtis and Debbie Woodruff marry in their home town of Macclesfield, south of Manchester, England, at ages 19 and 18 respectively. Ian retreats from domestic life, preferring to write poetry in solitude. On 4 June 1976 they at…
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Biographical picture, Crime, biographical film, crime film, drama film
Led by their fellow preppie friend Joe Hunt, a group of wealthy young men in 1980s Los Angeles come up with a plan to get rich quick with a Ponzi scheme. The plan ends badly for all involved when Hunt and friend Tim Pittman end up murderin…
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