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Biographical picture, LGBTQ-related film, Romance Film, drama film, romance film
The setting is an unnamed public school, modelled on Eton and Winchester, in the 1930s. Guy Bennett and Tommy Judd are pupils and, because they are both outsiders in their own ways, friends (Bennett is gay while Judd is a Marxist). One day…
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Biographical picture, Sport
In Akron, Ohio, LeBron James, Dru Joyce III, Willie McGee and Sian Cotton have been friends and basketball teammates for the Shooting Stars since they were ten. Coach Joyce, Dru's father, is their coach. The four boys, who work well togeth…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
During World War II in 1941, Alan Alexander Milne – nicknamed "Blue" by his friends and family – and his wife Daphne receive a distressing telegram at their home. The story then flashes back to 1916 during World War I with Blue fighting in…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
In 1934, Marie Curie collapses in her laboratory in Paris. As she is rushed to the hospital, she remembers her life. In 1893 she was frequently rejected for funding due to her attitude, which she had in common with Pierre Curie.
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Biographical picture, Drama, Komödie, comedy film, drama film
Mr and Mrs Slater, along with their young son Nigel, live in their Wolverhampton home. Their daily life revolves mostly around Mr Slater's job at the factory and Mrs Slater's homemaking, which is constantly hindered by her chronic debilita…
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Cartoon, adventure film, biographical film, historical drama
In London, 1610, three years later, John Smith is ambushed by a group of soldiers with a warrant for his arrest and presumed dead in the ensuing confrontation; Governor Ratcliffe being a personal friend to King James, lied and framed Smith…
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Family Drama, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, crime film, drama film
The film is based on the true story of Barbara Daly Baekeland (Moore), her husband Brooks Baekeland (Dillane), heir to the Bakelite plastics fortune, and their only child Antony (Redmayne), who was diagnosed with schizophrenia. The story b…
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Biographical picture, Historie, Romantic Drama, biographical film, drama film, romance film, teen film
Princess Alexandrina Victoria of Kent, the heiress presumptive to the British throne during the reign of her paternal uncle, King William IV, is subject to a political tug of war for influence over her. On one side is her mother, Victoria,…
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Action, Historie, action film, biographical film, drama film, historical film, medieval film
In the 14th century, Wenceslaus IV from the House of Luxembourg is the king of Bohemia, King of Germany and Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire at the same time. Wenceslaus has received the throne after his father Charles IV, but his reign is…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film, musical film, war film
In the early days of World War II, George M. Cohan comes out of retirement to star as President Roosevelt in the Rodgers and Hart musical I'd Rather Be Right. On the show's first night, he is summoned to the White House to meet the Preside…
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Biographical documentary
Biographical picture, Political Drama, biographical film, crime film, drama film
Months before the 2004 US presidential election, Mary Mapes (producer of 60 Minutes Wednesday) and her crew consisting of Mike Smith, Lucy Scott, and Colonel Roger Charles are seeking evidence to verify whether or not George W. Bush receiv…
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Biographical picture, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, drama film, romance film
In the film, Arenas is born in Oriente Province, Cuba in 1943 and raised by his single mother and her parents, who soon move the entire family to Holguín. After moving to Havana in the 1960s to continue his studies, Reinaldo begins to expl…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
Beatrix Potter and her chaperone, Miss Wiggin, visit the publishing house of Harold and Fruing Warne, who decide to publish her book The Tale of Peter Rabbit. While Beatrix is thrilled, the Warnes privately think the book is ridiculous and…
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biographical film, documentary film
The film dramatizes Jackson in the final years of his life, told from the point of view of one of his bodyguards, Bill Whitfield. At the time, Jackson was living in Las Vegas and he was trying to live a life as normal as possible, always p…
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biographical film, drama film
The film is set primarily from 1969 and 1974, during which Marlon Brando was preparing to star in The Godfather and Last Tango in Paris while making plans with Bernard Judge to create a paradise getaway on Tahiti.
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film, thriller film
In 1974, Jeffrey Dahmer is a high school freshman living in the Cleveland suburb of Bath, Ohio, with his parents, Lionel and Joyce, and his younger brother Dave. Jeffrey develops an obsession with a male jogger he sees every day from his s…
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Biographical picture, Crime, biographical film, crime film, drama film
At age eighteen, James Burns is imprisoned for selling guns and possession of drugs. Three years earlier, his mother, Tracy, attempts to enroll him in school, but he is turned away due to his criminal record and recent stint in a youth det…
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Adventure, action film, adventure film, biographical film, drama film
In 1862 London, Amelia Wren, a balloon pilot, and James Glaisher, a scientist, arrive for the launch of the largest balloon ever constructed. Despite being haunted by a vision of her husband, the late Pierre, Amelia keeps up the brave fron…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
Following a news story depicting the demolition of a slum in East London in the south-east of the Cape Province in South Africa, liberal white South African journalist Donald Woods seeks more information about the incident and ventures off…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, coming-of-age film, drama film, romance film
Antwone "Fish" Fisher is a temperamental young man from Cleveland, Ohio, with a violent history who is serving in the U.S. Navy. His father was killed before he was born and his teenage mother, Eva Mae Fisher, ended up arrested soon after …
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biographical film, drama film, flashback film, musical film
The film is structured as a largely non-linear series of key events from the life of Édith Piaf. The film begins with elements from her childhood, and at the end with the events prior to and surrounding her death, poignantly juxtaposed by …
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Biographical picture, Gangster Film, biographical film, crime film, drama film
On July 30, 1975, Jimmy Hoffa and his longtime friend Bobby Ciaro are impatiently waiting in the parking lot of a roadhouse diner. Moving in vignettes from when he was an International Brotherhood of Teamsters union organizer working the v…
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Biographical picture, Romantic Comedy, biographical film, comedy drama, drama film, melodrama, romance film
In 1958 Los Angeles, Frank Forbes is a driver working for mogul Howard Hughes. He picks up Marla Mabrey, a devout Baptist beauty queen under contract with Hughes' film studio RKO Pictures, receiving $400 a week and living in a beautiful ho…
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