Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.Explore biographical films about the lives of notable people.
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Crime, Drama, Film Noir, biographical film, crime film, detective film, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir
San Francisco-based Dashiell Hammett, trying to put his Pinkerton detective days behind him while establishing himself as a writer, finds himself drawn back into his old life one last time by the irresistible call of friendship and to hono…
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Crime, crime film, docudrama, drama film
Martha Beck is a sullen, overweight nursing administrator living in Mobile, Alabama, with her elderly mother. Martha's friend Bunny surreptitiously submits Martha's name to a "lonely hearts" club, which results in a letter from Raymond Fer…
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Biographical documentary, Concert film, concert film, documentary film
Documentation, Long Term Documentary, biographical film, documentary film
The film offers a biographical perspective on the life of musician George Harrison, from his early life in Liverpool, the Beatlemania phenomenon, his travels to India, the influence of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness in…
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Drama, War Film, biographical film, drama film, historical film, war film
As the Great War (World War I) begins, 17-year-old Jack Kipling (Daniel Radcliffe), the only son of the famous English writer and poet Rudyard Kipling, declares his intention to join the Royal Navy to fight against the Germans. The elder K…
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biographical film, crime film
The film is based on the early life of Aileen Wuornos in 1976 when she married wealthy yacht club commodore Lewis Fell, only to inflict mayhem within her new family and Florida's high society.
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
In 1983, movie stars Richard Burton (Dominic West) and Elizabeth Taylor (Helena Bonham Carter) are in New York City preparing to perform the Noël Coward play, Private Lives. The pair have been married and divorced twice before, but remain …
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Drama, biographical film, drama film
In the early 1900s, actor Lon Chaney is working in vaudeville with his wife Cleva. Lon quits the show and Cleva announces that she is pregnant. Lon is happy and tells Cleva that he has been hired by the famous comedy team of Kolb and Dill …
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Biographical picture, Historie, biographical film, drama film, historical film, sword-and-sandal film, war film
The Greek orator Demosthenes of Athens is advocating war to resist King Philip II of Macedon and his planned invasion and takeover of all the city-states of Greece. While Philip II is leading a campaign to take over Olynthus, he is informe…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
British naturalist Charles Darwin is a young father who lives a quiet life in an idyllic village. He is a brilliant and deeply emotional man, devoted to his wife and children. Darwin is especially fond of his eldest daughter Annie, a preco…
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Drama, biographical film, comedy drama, teen film
Born with spina bifida and hydrocephalus, 12-year-old Justin Yoder uses a wheelchair and lives with his overprotective parents and his athlete brother, Seth (Patrick Levis). Justin is unable to play any sports due to his disability; howeve…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
Biographical picture, biographical film, drama fiction
In 1989, Whitney Houston (Yaya DaCosta) is a worldwide phenomenon and household name with two highly successful self-titled albums under her belt. She attends the 3rd Annual Soul Train Awards with her high school friend and road manager Ro…
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Drama, biographical film, drama film
In 2003, a disc jockey announces over a Kenyan radio station that the government is offering free primary school education to all natives who can prove citizenship with a birth certificate. Kimani Maruge (Litondo), an 84-year-old villager,…
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Drama, teen film
Based on a true story about two sisters who came out on top of a man's sport, the story is based on Courtney and Erica Enders, two sisters who get into junior drag racing and make it all the way to the top. The two sisters fight a battle o…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
The film follows American poet Emily Dickinson from her early years as a student to her later years. Emily's upbringing in Massachusetts' Puritan/Congregational world is evident from the start, when she stands up to a Mount Holyoke Female …
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Biographical documentary
Drama, Romance Film, biographical film, drama film
In Italy 1972, Kuki Boccazzi, a divorced Italian socialite, changes her life after surviving a car crash. She marries Paolo Gallmann, a man she does not know well, and moves with him and her young son Emanuele Pirri to Kenya, where they st…
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Crime, Drama, biographical film, crime film, drama film
In 1855, an upper middle-class Victorian family purchases a house in Blythswood Square, Glasgow. Their eldest daughter Madeleine Smith claims the basement bedroom so she will have easy access to the servants' entrance and be able to entert…
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Crime, Drama, Historie, biographical film, crime film, drama film, trial film
Derek Bentley is an illiterate, epileptic young adult with developmental disabilities who falls into a gang led by a younger teenager named Christopher Craig. During the course of the robbery of a warehouse in Croydon, in which Bentley is …
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Biographical documentary, documentary film
Featuring interviews with Amanda Knox, her ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, Italian prosecutor Giuliano Mignini, and Daily Mail reporter Nick Pisa, the documentary chronicles the murder of Knox's roommate Meredith Kercher and the subsequen…
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crime film, drama film
When she is 16, Laurie meets and falls in love with an older man, 31-year-old Bruce Kellogg. She soon moves in with him, not knowing that her stepfather actually sold her to him for $500. They are happy, at first, but it soon becomes clear…
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biographical film, slice of life
Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film, musical film