Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.Explore biographical films about the lives of notable people.
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Drama Documentary, Political Drama, biographical film, drama film
The plot follows the rise of John F. Kennedy (Lowe) as he becomes President of the United States. As Kennedy's career shapes, Lee Harvey Oswald (Rothhaar), a former marine, begins to grow disillusioned with the US.
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Biographical picture, Tragic Comedy Film
The film begins with an interview of the older Roger Sharpe, with flashbacks to 1971.
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Documentation, Political Thriller, biographical film, comedy film, docudrama, drama film
A hot shot Washington DC lobbyist and his protégé go down hard as their schemes to peddle influence lead to corruption and murder.
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American football film, Biographical picture, Drama, drama fiction
On October 29, 2011, Joe Paterno wins his 409th game as head coach of the Penn State Nittany Lions football team. During 61 years at Penn State University, he helped the former "cow college" to quintuple its financial endowment and build P…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film, romance film
Set largely in 1966, Chet Baker is hired to play himself in a movie about his earlier years when he first tried heroin. He romances actress Jane Azuka (a fictional character and a composite of several of Baker's women in real life), but on…
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Biographical picture, comedy drama
Brothers Joe and Ben Weider were the architects of Muscle. Against all odds, they launched an empire. Along the way they discovered Arnold Schwarzenegger, inspired female empowerment, championed diversity, and started a movement that chang…
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Biographical documentary, biographical film, documentary film
Explores a year in the life of musician Jon Batiste, chronicling his career in music (including his 11 nominations at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards) and the struggles his wife, Suleika Jaouad, faces with leukemia.
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Drama, Historie, biographical film, drama film, horror film
In 1560, Elizabeth Báthory is born into the Hungarian noble Báthory family, the daughter of general George Báthory of Ecsed. From an early age, Elizabeth's parents raise her to accept hardness and cruelty. As a teenager, Elizabeth is impre…
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Drama Documentary, War Film, biographical film, war film
biographical film, drama film
In 1914, Lois Burnham, a college-educated woman from an affluent family, meets and falls in love with Bill Wilson, a 19-year-old man of modest means. They marry in 1918. After his return from World War I, the two set out to build a life to…
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Drama, Historie, biographical film
During Mao's Cultural Revolution, 11-year-old Chinese boy Li Cunxin resides in a rural village commune in Shandong Province, destined to labour in the fields. As often occurred in those times, government officials fanning out across the na…
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Biographical picture, Romance Film, biographical film
In 1933 Texas school teacher and aspiring writer Novalyne Price is introduced by friends to pulp fiction writer Robert E. Howard. A relationship soon develops between the two but, it is doomed by personality conflicts and life events, such…
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Horror, biographical film, horror film, vampire film
In 17th-century Hungary, recently widowed Countess Elisabeth Nádasdy discovers that her youthful appearance and libido can be temporarily restored if she bathes in the blood of young women. She enlists her steward and lover Captain Dobi an…
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Bible Film, Monumental Film, biographical film, drama film
The film's chronology entails a cinematic blending of the Four Gospels with the addition of extra-biblical elements not found in the New Testament accounts. It provides a down to earth approach through its focus on the human aspect of Jesu…
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Crime, Drama Documentary, biographical film, drama film
The film provides a look at inconsistencies in the death of Kurt Cobain, the lead singer of the American grunge band Nirvana, as seen through the perspective of former private investigator Tom Grant. In addition to the dramatization of Cob…
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Destiny, comedy film, drama film
Henry "Hank" Chinaski is working toward becoming a writer while struggling with alcoholism and holding various menial jobs. The film follows Chinaski as he works at, and gets fired from, various jobs, which include cleaning a massive sculp…
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Biographical picture, biographical film
George Wallace portrays the political life of a complex man. Initially an ordinary Southern judge, Wallace transforms himself to achieve political success and glory, becoming one of the most reviled political figures in the U.S. Finally, a…
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Biographical picture, Historie, biographical film, drama film, war film
The series begins in 82 BC when Julius Caesar is 18 years old. He is out in the town with his daughter Julia when news comes that Sulla is outside Rome with his army. The guards sent with the news post death lists on the Senate door.
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Biographical picture, Crime
The two-part television series is based on the true story of Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker. Barrow, a charismatic convicted armed robber, sweeps Parker – a young and impressionable, petite, small-town waitress, who is already married – of…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film, historical film
While in his 20s, Karl Marx struggles to establish himself as a writer of political and sociological importance. The film begins with a scene where poor people are gathering dead wood in a forest where they have done this for centuries, bu…
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Biographical picture, Romance Film, biographical film, drama film, mystery film, romance film
In New York City, 1958, Diane Arbus, a mother and housewife, plays assistant to her photographer husband Allan. One night, during a party, she gazes out the window and catches the eye of Lionel Sweeney, a neighbor who recently moved in ups…
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Crime, Romance Film, biographical film, crime film, drama film, romance film
June 1906, New York City. Arriving nearly two hours late for a dinner reservation, multimillionaire Harry Thaw is indignant that his imagined rival, prominent architect Stanford White, has been given his table. The detested White has a hig…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film, drama television series, war film, war television series
Drama, biographical film, drama film
In the early Sixties, Corinne Walker is a girl who is skeptical about God. After her brother is stillborn, her parents' marriage disintegrates over the course of several years. As a teenager, she meets Ethan Miller, a budding musician in l…
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