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Historie, biographical film, drama film
It is the year 1857, and a large part of the Indian subcontinent is under the control of the British East India Company. On 7 April, in Barrackpore in West Bengal, Mangal Pandey (Aamir Khan), a sepoy (soldier of Indian origin) in the 34th …
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Drama, biographical film, drama film, musical film
In 2005, Steve Lopez is a journalist working for the Los Angeles Times. He is divorced and now works for his ex-wife, Mary, an editor. A biking accident lands Lopez in a hospital.
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film, fiction film
The film is based on the life stories of the eccentric paternal aunt and first cousin of Jackie Kennedy, both named Edith Bouvier Beale. The elder Edith Bouvier Beale was the sister of Jackie Kennedy's father John Vernou Bouvier III and wa…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
The film revolves around country music singer Hank Williams' rise to fame and sudden death at the age of 29. It also explains his rocky marriage to and eventual divorce from Audrey Sheppard mostly due to his alcoholism and infidelity.
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Biographical picture, Crime, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, crime film, drama film
The film opens in medias res immediately after Valerie Solanas' attempted assassination of Andy Warhol at the Factory in New York City in 1968, followed by her being taken into custody for the attack. The film then uses flashbacks to when …
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Biographical picture, Romance Film, biographical film, drama film, romance film
In 1818 Hampstead, the fashionable Fanny Brawne is introduced to poet John Keats through the Dilke family. The Dilkes occupy one half of a double house, with Charles Brown occupying the other half. Brown is Keats' friend, housemate, and as…
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Political Drama, biographical film, drama film, political film
After finishing second to Walter Mondale in the 1984 Democratic Party presidential primaries, former Senator Gary Hart is now the widely accepted front-runner in the 1988 Democratic Party presidential primaries. Leading up to the formal la…
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Drama, Historie, biographical film, drama film, historical film, war film
Doctor Jan Żabiński is director of the Warsaw Zoo, one of Europe's largest, assisted by his wife, Antonina. On 1 September 1939, the bombardment of Warsaw begins. Antonina and her son Ryszard survive the German and Russian invasion of Pola…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film, melodrama, romance film
In 1857, forty-five-year-old Charles Dickens notices eighteen-year-old actress Ellen "Nelly" Ternan while she is performing at London's Haymarket Theatre. Dickens later casts her, along with her mother and sister Maria, in his three-perfor…
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Drama, Forensic, Historie, biographical film, drama film, trial film
On April 14, 1865, five days after the Civil War ends with Robert E. Lee's surrender to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, Union veteran Frederick Aiken, with his friends, William Thomas Hamilton and Nicholas Baker, and …
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Documentation, Musical, biographical film, documentary film, drama film, musical film
The film narrative is focused on the life of singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse, who was found dead on 23 July 2011 from alcohol poisoning, at the age of 27 at her home in Camden, North London. The film starts with a 1998 home movie depicting…
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Biographical documentary, documentary film
Political Drama, biographical film, drama fiction, drama film
The film opens in 2010 with a frame story: Republican strategist Steve Schmidt is being interviewed by Anderson Cooper for 60 Minutes. Cooper poses a difficult question regarding former vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin: was she select…
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Documentation, documentary film
Mark Borchardt of Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, dreams of being a professional filmmaker. Currently, however, he delivers newspapers for a living, is deeply in debt, still lives with his parents, suffers from alcoholism, and is estranged fro…
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Komödie, Romance Film, drama film, romantic comedy
Destitute alcoholic Henry Chinaski lives in a Los Angeles rundown apartment and works menial jobs when he can find them. He also writes poetry and short stories which he submits to magazines and papers for little money. Henry frequents The…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, comedy film, drama film
On Halloween 1950, 11-year-old Harvey Pekar refuses to dress up as a superhero for trick-or-treating. Years later, Harvey is seen walking the Cleveland streets, and the real Harvey Pekar appears in a documentary-style setup. In 1975, Harve…
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Adventure, Biographical picture, adventure film, biographical film, drama film, family film, teen film
In 2009, 16-year-old Jessica Watson dreams of becoming the youngest person to circumnavigate the globe non-stop and unassisted, which means she must sail alone and not dock at any port along the way. The journey is estimated to take 200 da…
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Crime, Drama, Mysterie, biographical film, crime film, trial film
Throughout the Second World War, aristocrats in the Kenya Colony's Happy Valley region often led hedonistic lifestyles of indulgence in alcohol, drugs, and extramarital relationships. On 24 January 1941, Josslyn Hay, the philandering Earl …
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Biographical picture, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, drama film
In 1929, in New York City, Maxwell Perkins is a successful editor at Scribner's and discoverer of great authors such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. He lives in a "cottage"—actually, a mansion—just outside the city with his wi…
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Action, Adventure, Biographical picture, action film, adventure film, biographical film, drama film, historical film
The film is the dramatized story of Thor Heyerdahl and his Kon-Tiki expedition of 1947. While the prevailing theories of the time held that Polynesia had been settled by peoples originating from Asia, Heyerdahl, an experimental ethnographe…
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Adventure, Biographical picture
The film follows Jacques-Yves Cousteau, a French ocean-going adventurer, biologist, and filmmaker. It sticks to historical events, and was based on documentation and interviews with people who worked with Cousteau. In 1949, Cousteau was an…
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Drama, biographical film, drama film
Born in Seattle, Washington, Frances Elena Farmer is a rebel from a young age, winning $100 in 1931 from the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards for a high school essay called God Dies. In 1935, Frances attracts controversy again when she wi…
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Drama, drama film
The film focuses on Anne Sullivan's struggle to draw the young Helen Keller, a blind and prelingually deaf girl, out of her world of darkness and silence during the 1880s. Helen has been unable to communicate with her family except through…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
In 2003, United Nations' Special Representative in Iraq, Sérgio Vieira de Mello, is a victim of a terrorist suicide truck bombing and becomes trapped in the collapsed portion of the former hotel used as the UN's Iraq headquarters where he …
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