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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film, historical film
In 1889 New York City, Italian immigrant Paolo is unable to obtain medical help for his dying mother because he speaks no English. After her death, he is taken in by Enzo, an older homeless boy living in the sewers. Mother Frances Xavier C…
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Drama, biographical film, drama film
Young Helen Keller, deaf, blind, and mute since infancy due to a severe illness, is frustrated and angry by her inability to communicate and subject to frequent uncontrollable outbursts. Unable to deal with her, her terrified and helpless …
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Biographical picture, Historie, biographical film, drama film
In 1797, William Wilberforce is severely ill and taking a recuperative holiday in Bath, Somerset, with his cousin, Henry Thornton. It is here that Wilberforce is introduced to his future wife, Barbara Spooner. Although he initially resists…
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Biographical picture, Historie, Holocaust film, Monumental Film, War Film, biographical film, coming-of-age film, drama film, war film
thumb|The film's trailer In 1945, after World War II, Otto Frank returns to the Amsterdam garret where his family hid for more than 2 years before being arrested by the Gestapo. He is accompanied by Miep Gies and Mr. Kraler, his Christian …
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
Detroit engineer Preston Tucker has been interested in building cars since childhood. During World War II he designed an armored car for the military and made money building gun turrets for aircraft in a small shop next to his home in Ypsi…
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Action, Drama, Historie, Martial-Arts, action film, biographical film, drama film, historical film, martial arts film
In 1910, Chinese martial artist Huo Yuanjia defeats three foreign challengers at an international tournament in Shanghai. As he awaits a fourth match, he reflects on his life. As a child, Huo secretly learns martial arts despite his father…
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Biographical picture
Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
In 1957, Billie Holiday meets with a radio journalist, Reginald Lord Devine, for an interview. He asks her what it is like to be a "colored woman" and about the trouble she keeps getting into because of her hit song "Strange Fruit". Billie…
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Biographical picture, Historie, biographical film, drama film, epic film, historical drama, period drama film, war film
Oliver Cromwell is a devout Puritan, a country squire, magistrate and former Member of Parliament. King Charles I's policies, including the enclosing of common land for the use of wealthy landowners and the introduction of "Romish" rituals…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, comedy drama, drama film
The film opens with Peter Sellers walking to a director's chair. An unseen live audience applauds as Sellers directs his gaze toward the film of his life. In 1950s London, Peter Sellers achieves success on The Goon Show but fails to branch…
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Biographical picture, Historie, Romance Film, biographical film, drama film, historical film, romance film
Widowed British educator Anna Leonowens and her son Louis travel to Siam, where she is to teach English, Modern Western Education, Scientific and Secular Education to Crown Prince Chulalongkorn, the heir of King Mongkut. Believing moderniz…
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Biographical picture, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, drama film
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette is a young woman from the rural Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye at the end of the 19th century, who begins an affair with Willy. Willy eventually brings Colette to Paris as his bride, with socialites expressing surprise …
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Tragic Comedy Film, biographical film, comedy drama
Aaron (Cooper Raiff), a young comedy writer, battles PTSD and struggles to come to terms with the death of his sister and best friend, Leah (Kaitlyn Dever). With the help of his family, he navigates the toll that avoiding his grief takes o…
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Historie, biographical film, drama film, romance film, war film
In 11th century General Ben Yusuf of the Almoravid dynasty has summoned all the emirs of Al-Andalus to North Africa. He chastises them for co-existing peacefully with their Christian neighbours, which goes against his dream of Islamic worl…
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Drama, biographical film, boxing film, drama film
In 1963, Cassius Clay nearly loses a boxing match to Henry Cooper at Wembley Stadium in London. At the Copacabana in New York City, soul singer Sam Cooke suffers through a performance in front of a cold, all-white audience. Returning home …
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Biographical picture, Marital Tragedy, biographical film, drama film, romance film
When the young Iris Murdoch meets fellow student John Bayley at Somerville College, Oxford, he is a naive virgin easily flummoxed by her libertine spirit, arch personality, and obvious artistic talent. Decades later, little has changed and…
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Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, Musical, Western, Western film, comedy film, musical film
thumb|left|Calamity Jane (Doris Day) and Wild Bill Hickok (Howard Keel) at the Deadwood saloon Dakota Territory, the 1870s. Tough-talking, hard-riding, straight-shooting Calamity Jane (Doris Day) has a crush on Second Lieutenant Gilmartin …
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Drama, Historie, biographical film, drama film, political film, thriller film
In 1933, Gareth Jones is an ambitious young journalist, who has gained some renown for his interview with Adolf Hitler. The son of an English teacher in the Welsh colony of Hughesovka in Soviet Ukraine, Jones is troubled by the question of…
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biographical film, drama film, historical film, melodrama, romance film
Princess Caroline Matilda of Great Britain is shown writing a letter to her children in which she professes to tell them the truth. In flashback, Caroline talks of England, as she was about to leave to marry Christian VII of Denmark. She i…
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, biographical film, crime thriller film, psychological thriller
In the mid-2000s, Chris Hansen sets out to make television history as the host of To Catch a Predator, in which he investigates and interviews online child sex predators caught using sting operations. The show proves immensely successful a…
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Biographical picture, Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, drama film, flashback film
The film jumps between various sections of Lenny Bruce's life, including scenes of when he was in his prime, and the burned-out, strung-out performer who, in the twilight of his life, used his nightclub act to pour out his personal frustra…
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Drama Documentary, documentary film, sport film
In 1975, bodybuilders are preparing for the upcoming Mr. Universe amateur competition and Mr. Olympia professional competition in Pretoria, South Africa.
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Drama, Late Western, Western, Western film, biographical film
During the years following the Civil War, banks and trains become the targets of the James-Younger gang, who terrorize the Midwestern United States. The band of robbers is led by Jesse James and Cole Younger, along with several of their br…
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Drama, biographical film, drama film
Gabrielle van der Mal, whose widowed father, Hubert, is a prominent surgeon in Belgium, enters a convent of nursing sisters in the late 1920s, hoping to serve in the Belgian Congo. After receiving the religious name of Sister Luke, she und…
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