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Biographical picture, Historie, biographical film, fiction film
The film begins during a thunderstorm in 1505, as Luther is returning to his home. For fear of losing his life in the storm, Luther commits his life to God and becomes an Augustinian friar. Two years later, Luther is a friar at St.
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Political Drama, Social Drama, biographical film, crime film, drama film
Veronica Guerin, a neophyte crime reporter for the Sunday Independent, becomes aware of how much Dublin's illegal drug trade is encroaching upon the lives of its working class, especially the children, and vows to expose the men responsibl…
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Crime, Drama, Historie, Thriller, biographical film, crime film, drama film
Rogue Trader tells the true story of Nick Leeson, a young employee of Barings Bank who after a successful spell working for the firm's office in Indonesia is sent to Singapore as General Manager of the Trading Floor on the SIMEX exchange. …
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Biographical picture, Komödie, comedy film
The film depicts Steve Coogan playing himself as an arrogant actor with low self-esteem and a complicated love life. Coogan is playing the eponymous role in an adaptation of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman being filmed …
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Biographical picture, Historie, Romantic Drama, drama television series
Part 1 In 1579, Elizabeth I refuses to marry. Chief advisor Lord Burghley and spymaster Francis Walsingham plan to have her wed the Duke of Anjou, which would cement an English-French alliance against Spain. Meanwhile, Elizabeth's favorite…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
Vincent has trained to be a minister, like his father, but the church authorities find him unsuitable. He pleads with them to be allowed some position and they place him in a very poor mining community. Here he becomes deeply absorbed in t…
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Biographical picture, Thriller, biographical film, drama film, thriller film
Fred and Rose Nemser are newlyweds relocating to Bennington College for Fred's job as a lecturer. Fred is about to work for Stanley Hyman while Rose, still a student, is already enthralled by the work of Stanley's wife, Shirley Jackson, wr…
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Biographical picture, drama film
In 1914, at the outbreak of the First World War, Eddington is appointed chief astronomer at Cambridge by Sir Oliver Lodge and instructed to research Einstein's work and defend the Newtonian status quo. Meanwhile, Einstein is lured back fro…
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Biographical picture, drama television series
Svetlana Alliluyeva, daughter of Joseph Stalin, recounts her father returning from his Siberian exile to enlist in World War I, but being rejected for service. Stalin continues to fight against the tsar, and in 1917, stands at the train pl…
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Biographical picture, Drama, biographical film, drama film
Liz Murray grows up in a dysfunctional home in The Bronx with her sister, Lisa, and drug-addicted parents who contracted HIV from shared needles. Their mother Jean is schizophrenic and nearly blind, and their father Peter Finnerty is intel…
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Biographical picture, Musical, drama film, historical film, musical film
The main icon Frank Sinatra discusses the film's main narrative beginning during high points in the solo careers of the Rat Pack: Dean Martin was doing well without the help of the Rat Pack posy Jerry Lewis; Sinatra's career never dwindled…
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Sport, action film, biographical film, boxing film, drama film
Growing up in Panama, Durán is homeschooled by Chaflan, who teaches young Roberto some vital life lessons. Later, Duran joins a boxing club with Nestor "Plomo" Quiñones as his coach. As he reaches 20, an American legendary boxing trainer R…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
In 1910, the last year of Leo Tolstoy's life, his disciples, led by Vladimir Chertkov, manoeuvre against his wife, Sofya, for control over Tolstoy's works after his death. The main setting is the Tolstoy country estate of Yasnaya Polyana. …
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Biographical picture, Sport, biographical film, boxing film, drama film
Mike Tyson grows up a troubled youth, who aspires to become a professional boxer. Manager and trainer Cus D'Amato begins turning the young Tyson into an undefeated fighter. However, Tyson becomes a difficult pupil who is often exposed and …
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film, romance film
Approaching the end of a drug rehabilitation program, Jerry Stahl quits his job at a fast food restaurant on an impulse when an attractive woman named Kitty pulls up at the drive-through window. The two check into a motel, where Jerry tell…
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biographical film, drama film, erotic film
Lucy Irvine answers an advertisement to live with a man for one year on a deserted tropical island. They meet at dinner and have sex. They move to the island.
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Drama, biographical film, comedy film, drama film
In 1675, John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, delivers a prologue of themes of his fondness for drink, his sexual proclivities, and his disdain for his audience. King Charles II retracts his banishment of the earl as he has need of him i…
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Biographical picture, drama film
On Easter Sunday 2009, Doug White, a 56-year-old pharmacist, his wife, and their two daughters return to Archibald, Louisiana, after attending a funeral for White's brother. Less than 10 minutes after their King Air 200 private plane (regi…
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biographical film
Audrey Evans was a British-born American pediatric oncologist who revolutionized treatment for neuroblastoma, a deadly form of pediatric nerve cancer, from which 90% of patients died in 1970. She also co-founded the Ronald McDonald House C…
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Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, biographical film, drama film, dystopian film
In Prague in 1919, Franz Kafka works as an insurance adjuster while moonlighting as a writer. He gets involved with an underground group after one Eduard Rabin, of his co-workers, is murdered. The underground group, responsible for bombing…
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Biographical picture, Musical, biographical film, drama film
In Liverpool, England in 1960, art students and friends John Lennon and Stuart Sutcliffe have an altercation with a group of men outside a club, with Stu sustaining a head injury. Stu is a painter, and has joined John's rock-and-roll group…
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Drama, Sport, biographical film, drama film, sport film
In 1990, Charles and Veronica "Vera" Antetokounmpo are forced to leave their eldest son Francis in Nigeria while they travel to Greece for a better life. They are unable to get visas due to the political climate and thus have no identifica…
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Documentation, biographical film, documentary film
The film follows the life and career of actor Val Kilmer, including footage of Kilmer shot by himself throughout his career, footage of his childhood, and home movies. The film showcases Kilmer's battle with throat cancer and gives a behin…
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Biographical picture, Crime, biographical film, crime film, drama film, heist film
On August 18, 1994, Martin Cahill leaves his home in Cowper Downs, Rathmines. He is ambushed by an assassin, who escapes on a motorcycle driven by an accomplice. As his family grieve, his Garda nemesis, Inspector Ned Kenny, arrives to see …
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