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Drama, Historie, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, drama film
In 1985, promiscuous Dallas electrician and rodeo cowboy Ron Woodroof is diagnosed with HIV/AIDS and told that he has about 30 days to live. At first, he refuses to accept the diagnosis until he remembers having unprotected sex with a pros…
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Biographical picture, Gangster Film, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
In the 1960s, Reggie "Reg" Kray is a former boxer who has become an important part of the criminal underground in London. His twin brother Ron is locked in a psychiatric hospital and being treated for paranoid schizophrenia. Reggie uses th…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film, gambling film, musical film
Raised mostly by his doting mother Gladys, Elvis Presley spends his childhood in the slums of Tupelo, Mississippi, finding solace in music and comic books. After moving with his parents to Memphis, Tennessee, he is ridiculed by his peers d…
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Biographical picture, Coming Of Age, biographical film, coming-of-age film, drama film
In 1967 in New England, aimless eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen has an acute psychiatric episode and overdoses on aspirin and alcohol. Against her wishes, she is checked into Claymoore, a psychiatric hospital. In the psychiatric ward, Sus…
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Biographical picture, Sport, biographical film
Madden depicts the life of John Madden and his involvement in development of the Madden NFL video game series.
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Biographical picture, action film, biographical film, boxing film, drama film, historical drama film, historical film, neo-noir, period drama film, sport film
In 1941, Jake LaMotta is a young up-and-coming middleweight boxer who suffers his first loss to Jimmy Reeves after a controversial decision. Jake's brother Joey discusses a potential shot for the middleweight title with one of his Mafia co…
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Drama, biographical film, drama film, romance film
The film depicts the last day of the life of Oscar Grant III, a 22-year-old from Hayward, California, before he was fatally shot by BART Police in the early morning hours of January 1, 2009. It begins with actual footage of Oscar and his f…
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Drama, biographical film, drama film
As a child, Jeannette Walls lives a nomadic life with her painter mother Rose Mary, intelligent but irresponsible father Rex, older sister Lori, and younger brother Brian. While cooking unsupervised, Jeannette is severely burned. At a loca…
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Biographical picture
In the early 1900s in Oklahoma Indian Territory, eleven-year-old Sarah Rector, a descendant of the Creek Freedmen, lives with her struggling family on a barren 160-acre allotment granted through a federal land program. Most local settlers …
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Drama, biographical film, drama film
Frederick Treves, a surgeon at the London Hospital, finds John Merrick in a Victorian freak show in London's East End, where he is kept by Mr. Bytes, the brutish ringmaster. Merrick's head is kept hooded outside of shows, and Bytes, who vi…
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Drama, Mafia Film, Thriller, biographical film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, gangster film, thriller film
In 1978 New York City, Lefty Ruggiero, an aging enforcer in the Bonanno crime family, meets Joseph D. Pistone, a young undercover FBI agent posing as jewel thief Donnie Brasco. Donnie insists that a diamond that Lefty has acquired from str…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
Komödie, biographical film, comedy film, drama film
Jerry Selbee, who lives in the declining town of Evart, Michigan, with his wife, Marge, is forced to retire from his job in a factory after working there for 42 years. Adept at mathematics, he is looking for something to do with the remain…
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Drama, Thriller, action film, biographical film, drama film, pirate film, survival film, thriller film
Richard Phillips takes command of MV Maersk Alabama, an unarmed container vessel from the Port of Salalah in Oman, with orders to sail through the Guardafui Channel to Mombasa, Kenya. Wary of pirate activity off the coast of the Horn of Af…
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Biographical picture, Psychodrama, biographical film, coming-of-age film, drama film
In 1979 Azusa, California, the film follows Rocky Dennis, a teenage boy with the extremely rare genetic disorder known as craniodiaphyseal dysplasia. He is accepted without question by his freewheeling bohemian biker mother Florence "Rusty…
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Biographical picture, Historie, biographical film, drama film, historical film
At the official closing of the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley Stadium, Prince Albert "Bertie", Duke of York, the second son of King George V, addresses the crowd with a strong stammer. His search for treatment has been discouraging, …
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Action, Biographical picture, adventure film, biographical film, drama film, epic film, historical film, war film
In 1793, amid the French Revolution, young army officer Napoleon Bonaparte watches Marie Antoinette beheaded by the guillotine. Later that year, Revolutionary leader Paul Barras has Napoleon manage the Siege of Toulon; he storms the enemy …
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
In Italy in 1978, Patrizia Reggiani is the office manager of her father's small trucking company. At a party, she meets Maurizio Gucci, a law student and heir to a 50% interest in the Gucci fashion house through his father Rodolfo. Patrizi…
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Action, action film, biographical film, drama film, sport film
Following a pitch by marketing executive Danny Moore, Nissan establishes the GT Academy to recruit skilled players of the racing simulator Gran Turismo and transform them into real racing drivers. Danny enlists former driver-turned-mechani…
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Historie, Mafia Film, Police Film, action film, biographical film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, gangster film, historical drama film, historical film, period drama film, police procedural film, suspense film, thriller film, trial film
In 1930, during Prohibition, the notorious gangland boss Al Capone supplies illegal liquor and controls most of Chicago. Bureau of Prohibition agent Eliot Ness has been tasked with halting Capone's activities by hitting a warehouse with cr…
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Drama, biographical film, drama film
In 1984, Oregon-based Nike, Inc. is on the verge of shutting its basketball shoe division down due to low sales. In response to this, Marketing VP Rob Strasser, along with co-founder and CEO Phil Knight, task Nike's basketball talent scout…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
left|thumb|upright=0.8|The film centers on Priscilla Beaulieu (pictured in 1973) and her relationship with Elvis Presley Two months before 24-year-old singer Elvis Presley is discharged from the U.S. military and leaves West Germany, he me…
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Biographical picture, action film, biographical film, drama film, sport film
James Hunt, a brash and self-confident individual, and Niki Lauda, a cool and calculating technical genius who relies on practice and precision, are exceptional racing drivers who develop a fierce rivalry in 1970 at a Formula Three event i…
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Adventure, Drama, action film, adventure film, biographical film, disaster film, drama film, survival film, thriller film
In May 1996, several commercial expeditions at the base camp of Mount Everest prepare to climb to the summit. Rob Hall, who popularized commercial Everest missions, leads Adventure Consultants; Scott Fischer is the chief guide for its riva…
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