Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.Explore biographical films about the lives of notable people.
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Historie, Psychological Thriller, biographical film, drama film, thriller film
The movie starts on April 11, 1972. Nixon's advisers at the White House ask Mark Felt how to ask J. Edgar Hoover to step aside as the FBI director.
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
After the September 11 attacks occur, Kenneth Feinberg is appointed the Special Master of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund while his law partner, Camille Biros, is appointed as his administrative deputy. Feinberg develops a rigi…
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Coming Out, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, drama film
In 1882, during his lecture tour of the United States, Oscar Wilde visits Leadville, Colorado. Despite his flamboyant personality and urbane wit, he proves to be a success with the local silver miners as he regales them with tales of Renai…
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Biographical picture, Drama, Sport, biographical film, buddy film, drama film, sport film
In 1987, an 8-year-old boy in Santa Cruz, California, named Jay Moriarity is saved from drowning by his next door neighbor, surfer Frosty Hesson (Gerard Butler). This ignites his passion for the sport. One morning, Jay (Jonny Weston), now …
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Biographical picture, Dark Comedy, Tragic Comedy Film, biographical film
Reality is raised by her mother Billie, a social worker, and father Ron, an unemployed writer, in Texas. Reality has an interest in social justice and languages. She joins the Air Force out of high school, hoping to provide aid in Afghanis…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, crime film
When the aging Meyer Lansky is investigated one last time by the FBI, who suspect he has stashed away millions of dollars over half a century, the retired gangster spins a dizzying tale, revealing the untold truth about his life as the not…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, docudrama, drama film
On December 8, 1980, Mark David Chapman shocked the world by murdering 40-year-old musician, former member of the Beatles, and activist, John Lennon, outside The Dakota, his New York apartment building. Chapman's motives were fabricated fr…
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Drama, biographical film, drama film
Between 1981 and 1987, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar had a romantic relationship with the journalist and the television presenter, Virginia Vallejo.
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Biographical picture, Political Thriller, Thriller, biographical film, drama film, thriller film
The story opens in 2010, with the release of the Afghan War Logs. It then flashes back to 2007, where journalist Daniel Domscheit-Berg meets Australian journalist Julian Assange for the first time, at the Chaos Communication Congress in Be…
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Drama, Komödie, biographical film, comedy film
thumb|upright|Portrait of the Duke of Wellington by Francisco de Goya Sixty-year-old self-educated working-class Kempton Bunton appears in Court Number 1 at the Old Bailey, pleading not guilty to charges of stealing Goya's Portrait of the …
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Drama, War Film, biographical film, drama film, war film
Kathryn Bolkovac is a police officer from Lincoln, Nebraska, who accepts an offer to work with the UNPOL in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina for a private contractor called Democra Security (a thinly veiled allusion to DynCorp International…
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Documentation, documentary film
The film begins with a profile of Kenneth Lay, who founded Enron in 1985. In 1987, the company becomes embroiled in scandal after two traders begin betting on the oil markets, resulting in suspiciously consistent profits. One of the trader…
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Biographical picture, Military Film, War Film, biographical film, drama film, war film
Megan Leavey is a US Marine corporal who served as a Military Police K9 handler. She was paired with military working dog Rex (E168). The pair served two deployments in Iraq together.
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Biographical picture, Crime, Drama, biographical film, crime film, drama film, prison film, trial film
In 1950 San Francisco, petty criminal and prostitute Barbara Graham faces a misdemeanor charge for soliciting sex. She returns to her native San Diego, but is soon charged with perjury after she provides two criminal friends a false alibi.…
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Biographical picture, LGBTQ-related film, documentary film, drama film
Biographical picture, Historie, biographical film, drama film
Catherine Weldon narrates a letter to Sitting Bull which she sends to him via Indian Agent James McLaughlin at Fort Yates, North Dakota. Recently a widow, she decides to pursue her passion for painting, and wishes to make his portrait. Unb…
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Biographical picture, drama film
Coat of Many Colors details Dolly Parton's upbringing in 1955 as her family struggles to live in Tennessee's Great Smoky Mountains, putting a strain on love and faith. Dolly aspires to be something greater but must cope with family trouble…
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Komödie, Musical, biographical film, comedy film, musical film
In a small town in Ohio, Annie Oakley and her extraordinary shooting skills catch the attention of Foster Wilson, proprietor of the hotel where Buffalo Bill and members of his Wild West Show, including renowned marksman Frank Butler, are s…
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Biographical picture
Biographical picture, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, crime film, drama film
Seventeen-year-old Sean Paul Lockhart arrives in Pennsylvania to film a solo sex scene under the direction of Stephen Kocis, the owner of Cobra Videos. Sean lies to his mother, claiming that he is visiting Pennsylvania to intern with a fil…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
In 1981, a 20-year-old Barack Obama, commonly known as Barry, arrives in New York City to attend Columbia University as a transfer student from Occidental College. Unable to contact his expected roommate, Will, Barry spends the night in th…
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biographical film, sport film
Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
The film is framed by Edie Sedgwick being interviewed in a hospital several years after her time as an Andy Warhol superstar. In the mid 1960s, Edie is a young heiress studying art in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She moves to New York City wi…
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Crime, Drama, biographical film, crime film, drama film, period film, satanic film
In June 1966, new mother and wife Trish Weir is shocked the Supreme Court has passed the Miranda Ruling, making evidence gleaned from a criminal suspect without reading them the 'Miranda warning' inadmissible in court. Three years earlier,…
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