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Biographical picture, Drama, Sport, biographical film, drama film, sport film
Steve Prefontaine, a Coos Bay, Oregon student, is too small to play most sports but becomes a talented distance runner. He enrolls at the University of Oregon in 1969, and meets fellow Oregon Ducks track and field athletes Pat Tyson and Ma…
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Biographical picture, biographical film
In 1961 Liverpool, Brian Epstein is the successful manager of NEMS, his family's record store. Brian gets numerous requests from teenage girls for the German single "My Bonnie" by a Liverpudlian group called the Beatles. Intrigued, Brian g…
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Western, Western film, action film, biographical film, drama film
In 1820, an expedition led by Captain Filmore Henry has completed two years of fur trapping in the unexplored Northwest territory. They are determined to reach the Missouri River before winter so they can sail south and trade their goods. …
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Biographical picture, Musical, biographical film, drama film, musical film
In 1939, Kansas City, Missouri, young alto saxophone player Charlie "Bird" Parker performs at the Reno Club. However, his rapid and sporadic playing gets him jeered offstage. Moving to New York City, Charlie begins performing at different …
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biographical film, spy film
Drama, Historie, biographical film, drama film, romance film
Veronica Franco is an adventurous, curious, slightly tomboyish young woman in Venice. Her love, Marco, who will be a Senator like his father, cannot marry her because her family is too poor; he marries a foreign noblewoman instead. Paola, …
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Biographical picture, Gangster Film, biographical film, comedy drama, crime film, drama film
The plot is based on a true story and follows Nate Norman, an eighteen-year-old high school dropout, who lives with his younger brother and single mom in northern Idaho. One day while delivering pizza he encounters a wealthy customer who t…
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biographical film
Bhimrao Ambedkar, studying in the Columbia University library, is approached by Lala Lajpat Rai to join his home rule league but Ambedkar refuses to do so, as he came here on the scholarship of his highness, Sayajirao Gaekwad III of Baroda…
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Drama, Historie, Sport, biographical film, drama film, sport film
In 1980, disciplined Swedish tennis champion Björn Borg and abrasive American upstart John McEnroe prepare to compete at Wimbledon. As the number one ranked player in the world, Borg is under enormous pressure to win his fifth consecutive …
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Family Drama, Historie, Road Movie, Tragic Comedy Film, biographical film, comedy drama, drama film
Jonathan Safran Foer, a young American Jew, goes on a quest to Ukraine to find Augustine, the woman who saved his grandfather, Safran Foer, during the Holocaust. He searches for a small town called Trachimbrod that was wiped off the map wh…
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Historie, adventure film, biographical film, drama film, historical film
Genoese navigator Christopher Columbus overcomes intrigue in the court of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain and gains financing for his expedition to the West Indies, which eventually leads to the European discovery of the America…
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Biographical picture, Romantic Drama, biographical film, drama film
In a 1936 chance encounter, Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn meet for the first time in a Key West bar in Florida. They encounter one another a year later in Spain, where both are covering the Spanish Civil War, and staying in the same…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
In 1988, Nina Simone is financially unsound, mentally unstable, and an alcoholic. Her 1960s heyday is far behind her. After threatening a lawyer with a gun, she is forcibly committed to a Los Angeles psychiatric hospital for twenty-four ho…
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Biographical documentary, documentary film
The film tells the story of French volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft, a daring couple bound by their love for each other and their shared obsession with volcanoes. Through rare archival footage and a poetic French New Wave-inspired n…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
Bettie Page is an ambitious, naïve, and devout young Christian woman who longs to leave Nashville, Tennessee, following a childhood of sexual abuse, a failed wartime marriage, and a gang rape. In 1949, she departs for New York City, where …
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
Shirley Chisholm, shortly after being elected as the first Black woman to the United States Congress for Brooklyn, immediately butts heads. Firstly, one of her colleagues essentially bullies her daily by marvelling to her that they all rec…
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Biographical picture, Romance Film, drama film
In 1971, New Yorker Helene Hanff is on an airplane heading for London. She is on a promotional tour for her book 84 Charing Cross Road which is about her 20-year correspondence with a secondhand bookshop specializing in out-of-print books.…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
Attorney Judy Wood moves with her son from New Mexico to Los Angeles so he can be closer to his dad, as they share joint custody. Originally a defense lawyer, she starts work in an immigration law office. Soon after starting there, Judy pr…
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Western, Western film, action film, biographical film
Tom Horn, a legendary frontier scout and tracker who helped capture Geronimo, is a drifter in the disappearing Western frontier at the turn of the twentieth century. The story begins as he rides into a small town and encounters prizefighte…
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Biographical picture, Musical, biographical film, drama film, musical film
In 1928 Baltimore, Eleanora Fagan, also known as Billie Holiday, works as a 15-year-old housekeeper in a brothel. A man who follows her from the brothel eventually rapes her. She flees to her mother Sadie, who sets her up a job cleaning fo…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
In June 1961 in New York City, jazz pianist Bill Evans is playing with what he considers his perfect musical trio. However, following the tragic death of his bass player Scott LaFaro, Evans is traumatized by grief and unsure whether he can…
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Biographical picture, Drama, War Film, biographical film, drama film
Marie Colvin is an American journalist for The Sunday Times, visiting the most dangerous countries and documenting their civil wars. In 2001, while trekking with the Tamil Tigers, Colvin and her crew are ambushed by the Sri Lanka Army. Des…
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Historie, biographical film, drama film, historical film, period drama film
Following the death of her husband Francis II of France in 1560, Mary, Queen of Scots returns to her native land. Though fearless, unselfish, and very beautiful, the young queen faces many challenges. As in neighbouring England, the Protes…
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Event Documentary, biographical film, documentary film