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Crime, Drama, biographical film, crime film, drama film
In 1998, Stephen Glass is an associate editor at The New Republic. The youngest of the magazine's staff, he is popular with his colleagues for his entertaining stories, works collegially with everyone, and feigns a heartfelt self-deprecati…
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Drama, biographical film, drama film, trial film
In a series of flashbacks, Maria Altmann recalls the Anschluss, the arrival of Nazi forces in Vienna, the persecution of the Jewish community, and the looting and pillaging by the Nazis of Jewish families. Maria and her family attempt to f…
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American football film, Biographical picture, Sport, biographical film, drama film
In South Carolina in the 2000s, Ray McElrathbey is a freshman at Clemson University, having been accepted on a football scholarship for their team, the Tigers. He is quickly thrust into campus life as he tries to balance his school work an…
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American football film, Biographical picture, Drama, Sport
The movie begins as Chicago Bears rookie running back Gale Sayers arrives at team practice as an errant punt lands near him. Fellow rookie running back Brian Piccolo goes to retrieve the ball, and Sayers flips it to him. Before Sayers meet…
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biographical film, drama film
Biographical picture, Sport, biographical film, boxing film, drama film
Chuck Wepner, known as the Bayonne Bleeder, is a heavyweight boxer known for his iron chin and reckless behavior. He lives with his second wife Phyllis and daughter Kimberly in New Jersey. By 1974, he is rising up the boxing ranks hopeful …
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Drama, Historie, adventure film, biographical film, drama film, epic film, historical film, medieval film, war film
The film begins with Muhammad sending an invitation to accept Islam to the surrounding rulers: Heraclius, the Byzantine Emperor; Muqawqis, the Patriarch of Alexandria; Kisra, the Sasanian Emperor. Earlier, Muhammad is visited by the angel …
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biographical film
The narrative utilizes a non-linear structure, alternating between the 1940s in London, where revolutionary Udham Singh plans a high-profile assassination, and his formative years in British India as a member of the Hindustan Socialist Rep…
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Drama, biographical film, drama film, medieval film, war film
Act I The film starts with the Macbeths grieving at their child's funeral. Then, Macbeth leads King Duncan's troops into a civil war battle. He emerges victorious, despite losses, including boy soldiers.
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Biographical picture, Destiny, Parodie, biographical film, comedy film
Following his appearance at the MTV Video Music Awards as his superhero character Fartman, radio personality Howard Stern boards his flight home and finds himself seated next to a stranger named Gloria who is visibly repelled by him. Stern…
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Biographical picture, Sport, biographical sports film
In 2010, sixty-year-old Diana Nyad resolves to accomplish the one thing that has eluded her—a 110-mile nonstop swim from Cuba to Florida, which she unsuccessfully attempted thirty years prior. She appoints her best friend and former partne…
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Biographical picture, Psychodrama, biographical film, drama film
In 1972, Bobby Fischer tears apart his hotel room in a paranoid delusional state, believing he is being spied upon by the Soviet KGB. Two decades earlier, in 1951 Brooklyn, Fischer's mother, a Soviet Jewish immigrant, explains to 8-year-ol…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
In 1974, Christine Chubbuck, a television reporter in Sarasota, Florida, struggles with stress personally and professionally. While she's cultivating a crush on co-worker George Peter Ryan, her doctor tells her she needs to have an ovary r…
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Concert film, Documentation, Fake Documentary, Musical, biographical film, concert film, experimental film, musical film
Described as "a semiotic experiment", the film combines elements of documentary with a spoof biopic of the band, and incorporates moments from Slanted! Enchanted! A Pavement Musical, a jukebox musical using Pavement's music.
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biographical film, drama film
Biographical picture, Melodrama, biographical film, drama film
In Lafayette, Indiana, in September 1999, Jeremy Camp departs for Calvary Chapel College in Murrieta, California. The night of his arrival, he goes to a concert of Canadian Christian band, the Kry, where he meets the lead singer, Jean-Luc …
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Arranged Documentary, biographical film, music documentary film
Biographical picture, Mafia Film, Thriller, biographical film, crime film, drama film
The film highlights John Gotti's association with three fellow mobsters: a father-son like relationship with Gambino underboss Aniello "Neil" Dellacroce, his deep but rocky friendship with Gotti crew member and longtime friend Angelo Ruggi…
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Coming Of Age, biographical film, coming-of-age film, crime film, drama film
The film switches back and forth between the present and flashbacks of Dito's memories in the summer of 1986. Present Day (2005): Dito is a successful writer in Los Angeles. One day, after being urged by his mother Flori and his friend Ner…
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biographical film, comedy film, drama film
biographical film, drama film, political thriller film
Drama, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, drama film, fantasy film
A World War II Curtiss P-40 warplane piloted by a doll-like figure is hit by enemy fire and forced to ditch. The pilot's shoes are burned in the landing and he finds women's shoes, which he wears instead. The pilot is confronted by doll-li…
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Western, Western film, biographical film
In 1909, near Las Cruces, New Mexico, Pat Garrett is riding with men working for the Santa Fe Ring, when he is ambushed and coldly killed by his associates, including one John W. Poe. In 1881 in Old Fort Sumner, New Mexico, William H.
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Drama, biographical film, drama film
Guatemalan 14-year-old John Smith is being raised in Lake St. Louis, Missouri by his adoptive parents, Brian and Joyce. Though they are loving and supportive, John struggles with feelings of abandonment from his birth parents, and rebels a…
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