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Drama, biographical film, comedy film, drama film, erotic film
In Berkeley, California, in 1988, Mark O'Brien is a 38-year-old poet who is forced to live in an iron lung due to complications from polio. Due to his condition, he has never had sex. After unsuccessfully proposing to his caretaker Amanda,…
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Biographical picture, drama film
In Napoleonic France, Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin Clicquot is widowed by the early death of her beloved husband François, an unsuccessful winemaker. She refuses to sell her husband's vineyards and decides to use her own money to finance the fai…
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Martial-Arts, action film, biographical film, drama film, martial arts film
In 1959, Ip Man lives a low-profile life in Hong Kong. His elder son, Ip Chun, has returned to Foshan to study, leaving Ip with his younger son, Ip Ching, and his wife, Cheung Wing-sing, in Hong Kong. Bruce Lee visits Ip and asks to become…
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Biographical picture, Komödie, biographical film, comedy film
The film opens in the Rocky Mountains on the Colorado ranch of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, a journalist furiously trying to finish a story about his former attorney and friend, Carl Lazlo, Esq.
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Political Drama, Thriller, biographical film, drama film
A Mighty Heart is a detailed account of the search for kidnapped Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002. Pearl was kidnapped in Karachi by supporters of Omar Sheikh. The movie also covers efforts by Pakistan's Security Forces, D…
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Forensic, Komödie, Mafia Film, biographical film, comedy film, crime film, drama film, trial film
In the mid 1980s, Lucchese crime family New Jersey faction soldier Jackie DiNorscio and 19 of his peers have been waiting a year for their federal racketeering trial to begin. While out on bail, Jackie is shot by his drug addict cousin Ton…
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Tragic Comedy Film, biographical film, comedy drama, crime comedy film, romance film
Buster Edwards is a petty criminal from Lambeth in 1963 London. His long-suffering wife June thinks of him as a lovable rogue. The film opens with Buster walking along his local high street and breaking into a shop to steal a suit, which h…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, boxing film, drama film
A young George Foreman lives in poverty in Houston, Texas with his siblings and his religious mother Nancy. Foreman, however, is riddled with anger issues and violent outbursts. As a young adult, Foreman barely evades arrest for mugging an…
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biographical film
Part one (November 1, 1998) In 1958, a teenage Otis Williams is running to meet his friend Elbridge "Al" Bryant at a musical performance by The Cadillacs. After the concert that inspired Otis to pursue a music career, Otis and Al go to a b…
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Biographical picture, Musical, biographical film, musical film
In July 1969, Elvis Presley is performing at his first live performance in eight years at the International Hotel in Las Vegas. While in his suite, Elvis worries about this and remembers how he became the King of Rock and Roll. As he plays…
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Biographical picture, Komödie, biographical film, comedy drama, drama film, musical film
On the opening night of Princess Ida at the Savoy Theatre in January 1884, the composer Sir Arthur Sullivan, ill from kidney disease, is barely able to make it to the theatre to conduct. He goes on a holiday to the continent hoping that th…
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Biographical picture, Drama, biographical film, crime film
The film tells the story of Leslie "Lulu" Van Houten's life in the Manson Family cult and Karlene Faith's work to deprogram her, Patricia "Katie" Krenwinkel, and Susan "Sadie" Atkins after they were imprisoned for their involvement in the …
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
In 1863, hoping to subtly coax Queen Victoria toward resuming public life after two years of seclusion, Scottish servant John Brown is summoned to court. The plan succeeds a little too well for the liking of Victoria's Chief Secretary Sir …
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Drama, Historie, biographical film, drama film
In London, 1536, Henry VIII considers whether or not he should sign the warrant for the execution of his second wife, Anne Boleyn. Nine years earlier, in 1527, Henry has a problem: he reveals his dissatisfaction with his wife, Catherine of…
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Secret Agent, Thriller, biographical film, docudrama, documentary film, drama film, spy film
Eric O'Neill is a young ambitious FBI employee assigned to work undercover as a clerk to Robert Hanssen, a senior agent he is told is suspected of being a sexual deviant. Hanssen has been recalled from a detail post at the State Department…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
In 1780 in Frankfurt youngster Nathan Rothschild warns his parents Mayer and Guttle that the taxman is coming. They hurriedly hide their wealth. The taxman demands 20,000 gulden, an exorbitant sum, but accepts a bribe of 5,000 in exchange …
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Historie, biographical film, drama film
The death of Henry VIII of England throws his kingdom into chaos as his successor, Edward VI, is both under-age and in poor health. Anticipating the young king's imminent death from tuberculosis and anxious to keep England true to the Prot…
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Biographical picture, Romance Film, biographical film, drama film, romance film, war film
A widowed Eurasian doctor Han Suyin (Jones) falls in love with a married-but-separated American correspondent Mark Elliott (Holden) in Hong Kong, during the period of China's Civil War in the late 1940s. Although they find brief happiness …
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Biographical picture, biographical film
Set in 1974 New York, Dalíland follows James, a young assistant working at a gallery. He is assigned by his boss to assist the aging surrealist painter Salvador Dalí and ensure he completes his paintings for an upcoming major exhibition. A…
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Biographical picture, biographical film
The film opens with the words of Professor Stanley Wolpert: A guide takes Jinnah to 1947, where, at the Cromwell Conference with Lord Mountbatten, he demands a homeland for Indian Muslims. In flashbacks, the guide recounts Jinnah's marriag…
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Biographical picture, War Film, biographical film, drama film, war film
During the Second World War, Eric Lomax is a British officer who is captured by the Japanese in Singapore and sent to a Japanese POW camp, where he is forced to work on the Thai-Burma Railway north of the Malay Peninsula. During his time i…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, boxing film, drama film
In November 1988, Vinny Pazienza boxes Roger Mayweather for the WBC World Light Welterweight Title. He arrives late to the weigh-in, having spent hours riding a stationary bicycle in order to make the weight limit. Vinny's final weight is …
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Crime, Horror, Thriller, biographical film, crime film, drama film, psychological thriller
On 11 May 2000, a psychologist, Dr. Arnold, is conducting a session with Karla Homolka at Canada's Regional Psychiatric Centre in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Dr.
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Western, Western film, action film, biographical film
In 1878, Lincoln County, New Mexico, John Chisum, a kindly and successful cattle baron, finds his peace threatened when amoral Lawrence Murphy and his business partner James Dolan forcibly buy up most of the land and businesses in the area…
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