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Biographical documentary, documentary film
Reeve has a difficult childhood, with his parents divorcing at a young age and his family tree being complicated due to his parents' several remarriages, and he has a particularly strained relationship with his father, Franklin. Reeve is s…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film, romance film
Sheilah Graham sails from England to the US and meets with a newspaper editor John Wheeler, telling him of her royal lineage and many connections. He hires her to write a column, and when its blunt and gossipy nature increases its populari…
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Destiny, Justice Drama, Marital Tragedy, Political Drama, Psychodrama, Thriller, biographical film, drama film, thriller film
In 1973, 43-year-old Philadelphia resident Sam Bicke (Sean Penn) is a down-on-his-luck salesman who desperately wishes to reconcile with his estranged wife Marie (Naomi Watts). A constant moralizer, he states that he stopped working at the…
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Drama, Komödie, Musical, biographical film, comedy drama, comedy film
Following her husband's death, eccentric 70-year-old widow Mrs Laura Henderson purchases a redundant cinema and remodels it to create the Windmill Theatre in London, as a post-widowhood hobby and appoints autocratic manager Vivian Van Damm…
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Drama, War Film, biographical film, drama film, war film
The untested infantrymen of C Company, 18th Infantry, U.S. Army, board trucks to travel to the front for the first time. Lt.
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Biographical picture, biographical film, docudrama, drama film
A mock documentary opens the film with the actors (in character as the production crew members) reflecting on the tumultuous events of the 1960s. As the Vietnam War continues, stereotypical depictions of Black Americans in cinema persist. …
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found footage film, hood film
Three college students drive to the Bluff, a westside Atlanta neighborhood, intending to buy some drugs from a dealer. Clearly naive, they joke about flirting in hopes of getting free drugs, and reassure one another that they have nothing …
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LGBTQ-related film, musical film
Jan Paul Beahm grows up in Los Angeles through a troubled childhood: He does not know his biological father, his mother is an alcoholic, and his older brother dies from a heroin overdose. An avid reader, he develops into a "frighteningly i…
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Biographical documentary, biographical film, documentary film
Kurt Cobain is born in 1967 to car mechanic Donald Cobain and waitress Wendy Cobain. In 1970, shortly after his sister Kim is born, the family moves to Aberdeen, Washington. Kurt lives a normal childhood, although Donald occasionally picks…
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Biographical picture, Musical, biographical film
The film depicts the life and career of record producer and Casablanca Records founder Neil Bogart, who was credited with discovering many musical acts such as Donna Summer, Kiss, Village People, Cameo; and signing acts including the Pips …
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Biographical picture, Crime Comedy, comedy film
In Philadelphia, a cart containing $1.2 million in $100 bills falls out of an armored van as it leaves the Federal Reserve Bank. Joey Coyle, a struggling longshoreman, finds the cart laying on the side of a road, and decides to keep the ba…
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Swords and Sandals, action film, biographical film, drama film
The Gaul woman Varinia (Rhona Mitra) and her village are attacked by the Romans. Her entire village is taken into slavery, and she is sold to Lentulus Batiatus (Ian McNeice). Spartacus (Goran Višnjić), a Thracian slave condemned to the min…
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Biographical picture, Musical, biographical film, musical film
Aspiring lyricist Lorenz "Larry" Hart needs a composer for his lyrics, so Herb Fields introduces him to Richard "Dick" Rodgers and a partnership is born in 1919. They struggle to achieve success, however, and Dick considers leaving the bus…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, comedy drama, musical film
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll is a biopic directed by Mat Whitecross, starring Andy Serkis. The story follows Ian Dury, who helped create the punk-rock scene in Britain in the 70s despite being diagnosed with polio.
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Drama, biographical film, drama film, historical drama, political drama
The film opens on April 5, 1961, and focuses on Bob Zellner, who is the son of a Methodist minister, a senior attending all-White Huntingdon College in Montgomery, Alabama. Seeking information with which to write research papers on race re…
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Biographical picture, Drama, biographical film, drama film
thumb|left|Spencer Tracy (center) as Father Flanagan in Boys Town A convicted murderer asks to make his confession on the day of his execution. He is visited by an old friend, Father Flanagan, who runs a home for indigent men in Omaha, Neb…
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Adventure, Historical drama, adventure film, biographical film, swashbuckler film
Mary Tudor falls in love with a new arrival to court, Charles Brandon. She persuades her brother King Henry VIII to make him his Captain of the Guard. Meanwhile, Henry is determined to marry her off to the aging King Louis XII of France as…
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Biographical picture
In 1995 Detroit, Mitch Albom becomes caught up in his career as a sports commentator and journalist. His girlfriend Janine, a backup singer, feels he never places her as a priority. One evening, while on the phone with Janine, Mitch flips …
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Adventure, Biographical picture, biographical film
thumb|260px|left|Leslie Howard in The First of the Few A newsreel sets the scene for summer 1940, showing Nazi advances in Europe with Britain facing invasion and aerial attacks on the island increasing. On 15 September 1940, during the Ba…
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biographical film, thriller film
Based on the true events in Skidmore, Missouri in 1981, the film centers around the town dealing with violent bully Len Rowan (Brian Dennehy). After a confrontation at a local grocery, Rowan begins stalking the owner Ruth Westerman (Cloris…
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Biographical picture, Musical, biographical film, drama film
Western film, biographical film, bushranging film, drama film
The film opens with Ned's last few hours in black and white clips. During this we get our first taste of Mick Jagger as Ned. We then see Ned returning home while the first of the films many songs play.
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
The film is a partially fictionalised account of the relationship between Alfred Hitchcock and Tippi Hedren. In 1961, Hitchcock notices Hedren in a television commercial for a diet drink. He wants to turn her into the next Grace Kelly, wit…
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Psychodrama, Thriller, biographical film, crime film, drama film, prison film
On March 11, 2005, Brian Nichols escapes from the Fulton County courthouse in Atlanta, during his trial involving a rape case. In the process of the escape he murders the judge presiding over his trial, Rowland Barnes, as well as court rep…
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