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Adventure, Drama, action film, adventure film, biographical film
In 1904, Morocco is the source of conflict among the colonial powers of Germany, France, and the British Empire. Each nation is trying to establish a sphere of influence in that country. Mulai Ahmed er Raisuli is the leader of a band of Be…
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Biographical picture, Musical, biographical film, comedy drama, drama film, musical film
Jerry Lee Lewis (Dennis Quaid) plays piano, as opposed to a guitar like most other rock artists, during rock and roll's early years from 1956 to 1958. Jerry Lee is a man with many different sides: a skilled performer with little discipline…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film, flashback film
Dorothy Stratten lies dead as her husband Paul Snider rants to himself about the events that led up to the present moment. The story, told through a series of flashbacks, has a linear narrative but is interspersed by Paul's rants as well a…
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Dramedy, Musical, biographical film, comedy drama, drama film
Danny, a London music executive, travels to Cornwall for a colleague’s stag weekend. While there, his boss challenges him to try to secure a record deal with a group of local fishermen who perform sea shanties. Although he initially treats…
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Biographical picture, Crime, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, horror film, neo-noir
Jeffrey Dahmer lures attractive young men home, where he conducts experiments on and kills them, trying to create a living zombie who will never leave or judge him. Flashbacks to Dahmer's past reveal that he killed his first victim, a hitc…
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Biographical picture, Historie, biographical film, drama film, thriller film
Exhausted by years of war, Winston Churchill awaits the 1944 Normandy landings, which he believes will be a disaster.
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Biographical picture, Christmas film
In 1843, four years after the success of Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens is experiencing financial pressures after the failures of his last three books. To restore his finances, he sets out to write a new one, but when his publishers will no…
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Thriller, Time Travel, action film, biographical film, drama film, mystery film, science fiction film, time-travel film
In 1943, United States Navy sailors David Herdeg and Jim Parker serve aboard destroyer escort USS Eldridge, docked in Philadelphia. Doctor James Longstreet and his team conduct an experiment to render the ship invisible to radar, but a mal…
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Action, Adventure, Biographical picture, Drama, Historie, Western film, action film, adventure film, biographical film, crime film, drama film
After saving a young boy from drowning and being awarded a "hero sash" at the age of ten, Ned Kelly grows up in the colony of Victoria where he was born. The son of a Catholic Irish settler, he lives with his widowed mother Ellen, his youn…
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Biographical picture, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, drama film
In late 1959, Truman Capote is a celebrated author who is enormously popular in New York City society for both his writing achievements as well as for his wit and fashion flair. Openly gay and flamboyant, Capote spends much of his time wit…
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Documentation, Musical, music documentary film
Featuring concert footage of Los Angeles punk bands and interviews both with band members, the publishers of Slash fanzine, and with the punks who made up their audience, the film offers a look into a subculture that was largely ignored by…
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Drama, biographical film, drama film, musical film, period drama film, romance film
In 1890 Paris, crowds gather at the Moulin Rouge as artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec finishes a bottle of cognac while sketching the dancers. Regular patrons arrive: singer Jane Avril teases Henri, dancers La Goulue and Aicha argue, and ow…
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Biographical picture, Military Film, biographical film, drama film, war film
Before America's entry into World War I, Alvin York is a poor, young farmer in rural Tennessee, living with his widowed mother Mary Elizabeth, sister Rosie, and younger brother George. He spends his time fighting and getting drunk with fri…
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Biographical picture, Thriller, action film, biographical film, crime film, drama film, war film
In 2003 in southern Sudan, the LRA attacks a village and forces a young boy to kill his mother. A few years earlier, Sam Childers, an alcoholic drug-using biker from Pennsylvania, is released from prison and finds that his wife, Lynn, has …
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Political Documentary, biographical film, documentary film
Award-winning documentary from 2003. Director Errol Morris interviews former US Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara about America and the key events of the 20th century.
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Conspiracy Thriller, Political Drama, Political Thriller, biographical film, drama film, thriller film, war film
Valerie Plame is employed by the Central Intelligence Agency, a fact known outside the agency to no one except her husband and parents. She is an intelligence officer involved in a number of sensitive and sometimes dangerous covert operati…
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Biographical picture, Musical, biographical film, drama film, musical film
In Belleville, New Jersey in 1951, Tommy DeVito performs together with his brother Nicky, and their friend Nick Massi, as The Variety Trio. He meets 16-year-old Frankie Castelluccio, a barber's son, already well known in the neighborhood f…
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Historie, Western, action film, biographical film, drama film, war film
In 1853, soldier-of-fortune William Walker flees Mexico, after a failed attempt to incite an armed insurrection. He is placed on trial by US official for breaking the Neutrality Act, but wins an acquittal after giving a rousing speech to t…
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Drama, biographical film, drama film
Based on Laura Hillenbrand's bestselling book, the film begins where the movie Unbroken concludes, sharing the next chapter of the true story of Olympian and World War II veteran Louis Zamperini. Haunted by nightmares of his torment, Louie…
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Biographical picture, Political Drama, biographical film, drama film
In 1963, Lyndon B. Johnson becomes President of the United States after the John F. Kennedy assassination, assisted and advised by his wife Lady Bird.
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film, musical film, romance film
Lymon was aged 13 when the teenage group Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers erupted from radios and jukeboxes with their 1956 hit "Why Do Fools Fall in Love?" and appeared in the movie Rock, Rock, Rock! (1956). After Mr.
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Drama, biographical film, drama film
When a group of Amish schoolgirls are taken hostage and killed in their classroom, their parents and the Amish community of Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, stun the outside world by immediately forgiving the killer. Ida Graber (Kimberly Willia…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, bushranging film, crime film, drama film
Based on Peter Carey's novel of the same name, the film is a highly-fictionalised account of the life of Australian bushranger Ned Kelly and his gang as they flee from authorities during the 1870s. Although the following facts are not made…
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Biographical picture, Romance Film, biographical film, drama film, romance film
The film is based on the true story of the heir to the throne of Bechuanaland, Seretse Khama of the Bamangwato people, who studied law in London immediately after World War II. There he meets an Englishwoman, Ruth Williams, whom he eventua…
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