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Adventure, Western, biographical film, children's film
Creek Indian Wars Two Tennessee wilderness settlers, Davy Crockett and his best friend George Russell (son of Captain William Russell and Agness H. Mccollough), volunteer to fight with General Andrew Jackson and Major Tobias Norton in the …
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Documentation, documentary film
The film revolves around the making of the September 2007 issue of Vogue. (The September Vogue is traditionally the biggest, most important issue of the year.) It depicts the effort that goes into making the magazine, and the passion that …
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Adventure, action film, adventure film, drama film
Edgar Anscombe is an instructor at a US Army Air Corps flying school in 1918. While he is teaching a young pilot, the aircraft crashes during a landing attempt and bursts into flames. The student is killed, though Edgar survives.
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Historical drama, biographical film, drama film
A disgraced Richard Nixon is restlessly pacing in the study of his Saddle River, New Jersey mansion in the early 1980s. Armed with a loaded revolver, a bottle of Scotch whisky and a running tape recorder, while surrounded by closed-circuit…
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biographical film, drama film, religious film
Biographical picture, Drama, biographical film, crime film, drama film, mystery film
The film retells events leading up to the night of Natalee Holloway's disappearance in Aruba, and the ensuing investigation in the aftermath. The film does not solve the case, but stages re-creations of various scenarios, based on the test…
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drama film, war film
After repeated defeats during the American Revolutionary War's campaign of 1776, the Continental Army retreats across New Jersey. In the prior six months, they have lost New York City and been chased through New Jersey by the British, and …
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Biographical picture, biographical film, crime film, drama film
A former nude model and prostitute, Ruth is manager of a drinking club in London that has racing drivers as its main clients. Ruth lives in a flat above the bar with her illegitimate son Andy. Another child is in the custody of her estrang…
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Drama, biographical film, drama film
Jack Kerouac, coming off the recent success of On the Road, is unable to cope with a suddenly demanding public and his rise in popularity, and begins battling with advanced alcoholism as a result. He seeks respite first in solitude in the …
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Biographical picture, Drama, Komödie, biographical film, drama film
The story opens in London in 1992. Paul Raymond returns to his flat, after attending the funeral of his daughter, Debbie. He plays a videotape of a television programme that he and Debbie took part in, and reflects on their lives.
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Biographical picture, Political Drama, drama film, political film, prison film
In 2009, London-based Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari is detained in Iran after he reports on violence against protesters of the country's presidential election, as well as giving a satirical interview with Jason Jones of The Dai…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
The film recounts the true story of Dr. Dennis Slamon (played by Harry Connick Jr.), who helped develop the breast cancer drug Herceptin, over eight years from 1988 to 1996. Dr.
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Drama, biographical film, drama film
Jean Harlow is a struggling extra and bit actress supporting a greedy stepfather Marino and a loving but oblivious mother "Mama Jean". With the help of agent Arthur Landau, she secures a contract at the studio of the Howard Hughes-inspired…
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historical film
The film starts with a quotation from Lawrence's 1926 book Seven Pillars of Wisdom which is used to provide the title of the film: T. E. Lawrence is received before representatives of the British delegation, and urges them to back the clai…
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biographical film, drama film
An introductory scene takes place in Paris in 1913, where Coco Chanel attends the first, scandalous performance of Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring. The rhythmic and harmonic dissonance of the score and the surprising choreography of t…
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Drama, Historie, biographical film, drama film
Princess Sophia Frederica is the daughter of a minor East Prussian prince. Count Alexei brings her to Russia at the behest of Empress Elizabeth to marry her nephew Grand Duke Peter. Elizabeth renames her Catherine and demands that the new …
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Biographical picture, biographical film, docudrama, drama film
Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
thumb|267px|The Roosevelt family at Campobello, 1920 thumb|right|267px|(l-r) Ralph Bellamy, Eleanor Roosevelt and Greer Garson at Hyde Park, New York filming Sunrise at Campobello in 1960. During the summer of 1921, Franklin D. Roosevelt r…
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biographical film, drama film, prison film
At 19 years old, Terry Jean Moore was convicted of armed robbery. Soon after entering prison, she meets a guard named Jack Hansen. The two start an affair, which falls apart after Moore becomes pregnant with his child.
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LGBTQ-related film, Western, Western film, drama film
Josephine Monaghan bears an illegitimate child. She leaves her newborn son under the care of her sister and heads West dressed as a man. She meets Percy, who teaches her about how to survive in the frontier and nurses a deep suspicion of w…
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Biographical picture, biographical film
Oxford professor, world-renowned writer and confirmed bachelor C.S. Lewis (Joss Ackland) finds himself famed and admired from the success of his recently published series of Narnia books for children. One day, Lewis receives a captivating …
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Drama, Historie, Melodrama, biographical film, drama film, romance film
The Earl of Essex returns in triumph to London after having dealt the Spanish a crushing naval defeat at Cádiz. In London, an aging Queen Elizabeth awaits him with love, but also with fear, because of his popularity with the commoners and …
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Biographical picture, Musical, biographical film, comedy drama, drama film
Sister Ann (Debbie Reynolds) leaves the Dominican convent near Antwerp for her assignment at Samaritan House in a depressed area of Brussels. Sister Ann loves to play the guitar and sing, and when she joins in the traditional evening singa…
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Melodrama, biographical film, romance film
In 1924, Richard and his father Melville walk through the woods where Melville shows his scientific inspiration for Richard. In 1934, Richard and Arline are in high school and their romantic relationship starts. The story jumps to his coll…
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