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Drama, Musical, biographical film, drama film, musical film
In 1970s New York City, Hilly Kristal is divorced, with two children and has filed bankruptcy for the second time. Despite setbacks, he is determined to own and manage a bar. With his business partner Merv Ferguson, Kristal convinces his m…
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Biographical picture, Destiny, biographical film, drama film, historical film
In 1792, the work of Francisco Goya, the Official Court Painter to Spain's royalty, disturbs the Spanish Inquisition. Brother Lorenzo Casamares hires Goya to paint his portrait. Lorenzo eventually is given power to intensify the Inquisitio…
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Biographical picture, Musical, biographical film, drama film, musical film
Rather than providing a straightforward biography, the film weaves fantasy sequences with scenes containing somewhat fictionalized accounts of events in Darin's life, and throughout it, the adult singer interacts with his younger self. It …
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Biographical picture
Casanova visits one of Venice's islands to copulate with a fake nun for the pleasure of a rich voyeur. Casanova is frustrated that the man finds no interest in his research into alchemy and his further scheming. As he rows back to the main…
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Biographical picture, War Film, action film, biographical film, drama film, war film
Young Audie Murphy grows up in a large, poor sharecropper family in Northeast Texas. His father deserts them around 1939–40, leaving his mother barely able to feed her nine children. As the eldest son, Murphy works from an early age for hi…
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Biographical picture, Sport, association football film, biographical sports film, drama film
During the 1950 FIFA World Cup, some Brazilians along with former footballer Dondinho are listening to the commentary of a football match on radio. Brazil loses that match and the World Cup, leaving everyone in tears. A slum kid Dico, the …
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Cartoon, biographical film, children's film, fantasy film
Miles Woodman, an African-American boy who is a fan of Hank Aaron and attends Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School, is doing poorly academically, and his teacher, Mrs. Clark, tells him that he may have to repeat sixth grade if his grades d…
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Biographical documentary
Biographical picture, Romance Film, association football film, drama film
In 1945, German paratrooper Bert Trautmann is captured while fighting in the forests near Kleve. Transferred to a British POW camp in Lancashire, he and his comrades are kept under strict conditions and made to work to repair the damage th…
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biographical film, horror film
In 1974, Theodore "Ted" Robert Bundy is a student at the Seattle University School of Law who has a long-term girlfriend, Lee, and works part-time at a crisis center nearing campus. Unbeknown to his family and friends, however, Ted is a sa…
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Event Documentary, documentary film
thumb|left|200px|Firehouse of FDNY Engine 7, Ladder 1, and Battalion 1 thumb|left|200px|Jules Naudet captured American Airlines Flight 11 striking the North Tower. Filmmakers James Hanlon and the Naudet brothers were given permission by th…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
Moe Berg, a 15-year baseball veteran, joins the war effort as a spy to beat Nazi Germany in the race to build the first atomic bomb. In 1936, Berg is playing for the Boston Red Sox 3 years before the end of a long and undistinguished pro c…
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biographical film
Set in the early 1900s, the film traces the life of the prodigious math genius Srinivasa Ramanujan from the time he was a young Tamil Brahmin to his years in England, where he attended Cambridge University during World War I. The film foll…
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Biographical picture, Sport, biographical film
In 1998, the family of the late Roger Maris goes to Busch Stadium to witness Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals break their father's record with a 62nd home run. Maris' widow, Pat, is hospitalized due to complications from arrhythmia …
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Drama, Historie, biographical film
In May 1986, David Young from Tucson, Arizona (and former town marshal of Cokeville), his daughter from his first marriage (Penny), and his second wife (Doris), journey to Cokeville, to take the school hostage and blow it up. Part of the t…
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Drama, Romance Film, Sport, drama film, romance film
Dan Millman is a university student as well as a locally famous gymnast who dreams of winning a National Championship competition. He suffers from restlessness, and on one occasion, Dan attempts to compensate for it by running along street…
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Biographical picture, Sport, biographical film, boxing film, drama film
Rocky Graziano has a difficult childhood and is beaten by his father. He joins a street gang, and undergoes a long history of criminal activities. He is sent to prison, where he is rebellious to all authority figures.
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Drama, biographical film, comedy drama, crime film, drama film
A miscarriage of justice lands Willis Newton languished in prison, he encountered a harsh reality: money held the key to societal status within the unforgiving confines. Determined to climb the social ladder, he joined forces with Slim and…
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American football film, Biographical picture, Sport, biographical film, drama film
Ernie Davis is a young African American growing up in Pennsylvania with his maternal half-uncle Will Davis Jr. in the late 1940s. Davis lives with his extended family, including his maternal grandfather, Willie 'Pops' Davis, who guides and…
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Animation, Biographical picture
On the eve of his retirement from the National Basketball Association (NBA), Kobe Bryant describes his love for the game, which began when he was a child. The film starts with him making a dunk as the game clock is running out, winning the…
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Drama, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, drama film
Sylvia Guerrero is a young single mother looking to make a fresh start for her three young children. Having escaped an abusive relationship at the hands of the children's father, Sylvia has moved back home to California to live closer to h…
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Sport, biographical film, drama film
In the late 1980s, gay wrestler Saúl Armendáriz lives in El Paso, Texas with his mother, regularly crossing the border to Ciudad Juárez to participate in professional wrestling matches. He begins wrestling as 'El Topo' until he meets a new…
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Biographical picture, Western, Western film, action film, biographical film
At Wild Bill Hickok's funeral, his friend Charley Prince recalls Hickok's final days in Deadwood. Calamity Jane mourns him especially. In a flashback, Bill and his friend California Joe come upon an Indian burial structure with a lone warr…
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Biographical picture, Romance Film, biographical film, drama film, romance film
Opening in October 1981, Gloria Grahame is playing the lead role, Amanda, in The Glass Menagerie in Lancaster and takes ill. She calls upon a former lover, Peter Turner, who reluctantly takes her to his parents' home in Liverpool to recupe…
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