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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 3,019 films · Page 37.
Documentation, Musical, documentary film, musical film
The film documents how Ry Cooder, long-time friend of Wenders, brought together legendary Cuban musicians to record an album (also called [[Buena Vista Social Club , and to perform a concert in the United States. Although they are geograph…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
In 1947, a young Aung San Suu Kyi spends time with her father Aung San, who led Burma to independence. Soon afterwards, he, along with a group of colleagues, is assassinated by armed men in uniform. In 1988, Aung San Suu Kyi, now happily m…
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Drama, biographical film
Gisella Perl, a Jewish-Hungarian gynecologist from Sighetul Marmatiei, Romania, testifies before an Immigration & Naturalization Service (INS) review board consisting of three men. Perl is seeking to be granted citizenship after passing th…
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Komödie, biographical film, parody film
Christopher Columbus believes he can find an alternative route to the far East and persuades King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain to finance his expedition. But the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, who makes a great deal of money throug…
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American football film, Biographical picture, Sport, Tragic Comedy Film, biographical film, comedy drama
Minden, Louisiana, is a former factory town with a failing economy and a pathetic football team that no one believes in. Curtis Plummer, a washed-up former football player, returns home broke and directionless until he meets his niece Jasm…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
Anna Politkovskaya was a journalist and human rights activist who persisted with reporting on the conflict in Chechnya despite considerable danger to herself and tried to expose corruption within Russia under the governance of Vladimir Put…
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Biographical picture, Musical, biographical film, musical film
Kern attends the opening night of Show Boat in 1927, the landmark musical that secured his popularity. Following several of the show's most notable songs, Kern departs to reminisce about his early days as a young songwriter. Kern recounts …
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Documentation, documentary film
The film details the experiences of Josh Harris, a dot-com millionaire who founded Pseudo.com, and who became interested in human experiments testing the effects of media and technology on the development of personal identity. To that end,…
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Biographical picture, Komödie, biographical film, comedy drama, ghost film
John Belushi sings the blues number "I'm the King Bee" with the Killer Bees on Saturday Night Live in 1976. In March 1982, he is found dead via overdose and sent to the coroner's office. As night passes, a mysterious force wakes John up fr…
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Biographical picture, Musical, biographical film, drama film, musical film
The son of a highly respected music professor, Florenz "Flo" Ziegfeld Jr. yearns to make his mark in show business. He begins by promoting Eugen Sandow, the "world's strongest man", at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, overcoming the competit…
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Biographical picture, Musical, biographical film
Robert "Rob" Pilatus–a mixed-race child adopted by a German couple in an all-white Munich neighbourhood–finds solace listening to Boney M., the pop group created by established music producer Frank Farian. Years later, following an argumen…
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Adventure, Biographical picture, Crime, Komödie, Romance Film, drama film
Bradley Morahan (played by Mason) is an Australian artist who feels he has become jaded by success and life in New York City. He decides that he needs to regain the edge he had as a young artist and returns to Australia. He sets up in a sh…
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Biographical picture, Justice Drama, Political Drama, biographical film, drama film
Based on South African President Nelson Mandela's autobiography of the same name, which chronicles his early life, coming of age, education and 27 years in prison before becoming President of South Africa and working to improve the country…
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Drama, drama film
Libby and Sarah Logan are two elderly, widowed sisters from Philadelphia. Near the end of their lives, they spend their annual summer in a seaside house in Maine. Their surroundings cause them to recall their relationship as young women, a…
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Historie, War Film, biographical film, drama film, historical film
The film opens in July 1945, with American correspondent James O'Donnell (James Naughton) gaining entry to the now dark and flooded Führerbunker by bribing a Soviet sentry with a packet of cigarettes. The film then tells the story of the o…
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Biographical picture, Historie
In 1845, the Brontë family, consisting of Patrick Brontë, his daughters Charlotte, Emily and Anne, and his son Branwell, are reunited after Branwell is dismissed from his position as tutor, and Anne, who had been working as a governess for…
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Biographical picture, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama, comedy film
Self-made multimillionaire F. Ross Johnson, CEO of RJR Nabisco, decides to take the tobacco and food conglomerate company private in 1988 after receiving advanced news of the likely commercial failure of the company's smokeless cigarette c…
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LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, drama film
In 1926, thousands of fans mob the wake of recently deceased film star Rudolph Valentino in New York City. When order is restored at the funeral home, a series of important women in Valentino's life come to mourn. Each remembers him via fl…
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Dramedy, Justice Drama, comedy film, drama film
Based on a true story, Made in Dagenham explores the movement that caused a significant law reform. Rita O'Grady (a fictional character) leads the 1968 Ford sewing machinists strike at the Ford Dagenham plant, where female workers walk out…
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Biographical picture, Musical, biographical film, drama film, musical film
The film follows big band leader Glenn Miller (1904–1944) from his early days in the music business in 1929 through to his 1944 death when the airplane he was flying in was lost over the English Channel during World War II. Prominent place…
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Biographical picture, Musical, biographical film, drama film
Cultural Film, Fake Documentary, Musical, exploitation film, music documentary film
Guitarist Steve Jones plays a shady private detective who through a series of set piece acts uncovers the truth about the band. Drummer Paul Cook and bass guitarist Sid Vicious play smaller roles, and the band's manager, Malcolm McLaren, i…
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Biographical picture, Sport, biographical film, drama film
The story begins in Baltimore, Maryland in 1902 where seven-year-old George Herman Ruth Jr. is sent to the St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys, a reformatory and orphanage.
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Biographical picture, Komödie, Thriller, biographical film, independent film
Pilot James T. Hoffman is busted by the FBI when he arrives in the United States with a large amount of cocaine in his airplane. His wife and two sons are with him, having accompanied him on the flight to Bolivia.
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