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Christmas film, Dramedy, Family Drama, biographical film, drama film
In 1977, Thomas Kinkade (Jared Padalecki, dressed in an assortment of knitted accessories), a fine arts student at UC Berkeley, leaves his girlfriend (and semi-nude model), Hope Eastbrook (Gina Holden), to go home to Placerville, Californi…
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Drama, Musical, biographical film, drama film, musical film
In the Bronx in 1959, waiter and aspiring singer-songwriter Vincent "Vinnie" Vacarri is informed by his best friend and piano accompanist, Gino "G.G." Pilato, of their upcoming time slot at a recording studio, while working at his family's…
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biographical film, drama film
Boudica, the Warrior Queen of Britain, leads her tribe into rebellion against the Roman Empire and the mad Emperor of Rome Nero.
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Biographical picture, War Film, biographical film, drama film, war film
In 1928, Douglas Bader joins the Royal Air Force (RAF) as a Flight Cadet. Despite a friendly reprimand from Air Vice-Marshal Halahan for his disregard for service discipline and flight rules, he successfully completes his training and is p…
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biographical film, documentary film
After leaving Brazil for political reasons in the late 1960s, Sebastião Salgado began a career in France as an economist. When his wife, Lélia, bought a camera, however, he discovered a love of photography, and changed professions. With Le…
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Biographical picture, drama film
Frank Shankwitz, an Arizona motorcycle cop with a troubled past, survives a near-fatal accident during a high-speed pursuit. As part of Frank's rehabilitation, police chief Sgt. Eddie Newman asks him to spend time with a terminally ill lit…
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Drama, biographical film
Biographical picture
Hippie Hippie Shake follows the love story of Oz editor Richard Neville and Louise Ferrier, as Neville and his cohorts launch the London edition of the radical magazine, and are put on trial for publishing an obscene issue. The film serves…
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Biographical picture, Romance Film, biographical film, drama film
In 1936, golfer Bobby Jones, while traveling to the Olympics in Berlin, makes a stop in Scotland to visit the Old Course at St. Andrews. Anxious about his reception, he is warmly welcomed by many spectators, some of whom have closed their …
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
In 1909, Woodrow Wilson is the president of Princeton University and the author of several books on the democratic process. The local Democratic Party political machine convinces him to run for governor of New Jersey. After he wins the ele…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
Ryan White is a teenage hemophiliac who discovers he has contracted AIDS through contaminated blood products and is then barred from attending school by Western School Corporation in Russiaville, Indiana, just outside Kokomo. Ryan and his …
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Drama, biographical film, drama film, historical film
Biographical picture, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, drama film
Much of the film is without dialogue and the story is presented in flashbacks, nightmares, and fantasy sequences set to Tchaikovsky's music. As a child, the composer sees his mother die horribly, forcibly immersed in scalding water as a su…
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Biographical picture, Historie
The film begins in Nanjing during late 1937, where German businessman John Rabe, director of the local Siemens subsidiary, and his wife Dora have resided for almost thirty years. The thought of transferring management to his successor Flie…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, musical film
Stage-struck Asa Yoelson wants to sing in burlesque performer Steve Martin's act. Cantor Yoelson, his father, refuses to consider it. After Asa runs away but is found in Baltimore, the Yoelsons grudgingly consent.
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
Vincent & Theo has a prelude, which is documentary footage of the 1987 auction of one of Vincent van Gogh's paintings at Christie's, a famed London art business. The painting sells for millions of pounds. The film then cuts to scenes that …
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Biographical picture, Drama, biographical film
biography
My Own Country traces the story of a young infectious-disease physician in the mid-1980s in Johnson City, Tennessee, who began to treat patients with a then unknown disease, which turned out to be AIDS. Dr. Verghese became, of necessity, t…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
The opening credits begin with a little hut on a pier on an idyllic lake exploding in flames; then a cocooned woman struggles to break free of her white wrappings in an outdoor setting near a rough rock carving of Mahler’s head. The struct…
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Biographical picture, Drama, Fantasy, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, drama film, fantasy film, historical film
The film is based on the story of Erzsébet Bathory, a Hungarian countess in the 16th and 17th centuries. Her story takes place in a part of the Kingdom of Hungary that is now Slovakia. In this retelling, the Countess is a healer who conduc…
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Biographical documentary
Komödie, biographical film, comedy film, independent film
A film instructor known as The Maestro champions a technique called "Star Power"—which teaches students how to avoid the fate of becoming "an extra in your own life," since "the camera never lies." His pupil Dennis Byrd films everything th…
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Biographical documentary, Musical
The film follows the rise to fame of Robert "Rob" Pilatus and Fabrice "Fab" Morvan as the duo Milli Vanilli, in the late 1980s. It features interviews with Morvan, Pilatus (through archival recordings), the real singers, record executives,…
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Biographical documentary
The documentary recounts Anderson's early life and childhood, her beginnings modelling for Playboy magazine, rise to stardom on the series Baywatch, her position as a sex symbol and sexual objectification, as well as her turbulent marriage…
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