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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film, historical film
thumb|Lionel Barrymore (center) as Rasputin The highly fictionalized story takes place in the Russian Empire during the last years of the reign of Czar Nicholas II and the Czarina Alexandra. Reform-minded Prince Paul has long been concerne…
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Drama, Sport, biographical film, boxing film, drama film
Erik Kernan Jr. is a young fledgling journalist employed by The Denver Times. Frustrated, Kernan struggles with his supervising editor Ralph Metz concerning rudimentary coverage of his articles related to professional sports.
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drama film
Scarlet Diva is a semi-autobiographical film about the Italian actress and director Asia Argento's life as an actress. A self-destructive streak in Anna Battista (Argento) pulls her into drugs, sex and other excesses. To combat this descen…
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Biographical documentary, LGBTQ-related film, documentary film
The film follows the story of Teena, a transgender man who was raped and murdered in rural Nebraska in 1993. The filmmakers drew on interrogation tapes, trial transcripts, photographs, and archival footage to reconstruct the events surroun…
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Documentation, biographical film, documentary film
The film follows the life story of Lamarr from her youth as the daughter of assimilated Austrian Jews through her rise to fame, the Nazi onslaught, her departure for the United States, six marriages, her acting career, her landmark inventi…
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Film Noir, Thriller, biographical film, drama film, spy film
In neutral Turkey in 1944, German ambassador Franz von Papen converses at a soiree with Countess Anna Staviska, a Frenchwoman and the widow of a pro-German Polish count. Now destitute, the countess volunteers to become a spy for a fee, but…
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Adventure, Biographical picture, adventure film, drama film
Set in the early 17th century, a Patuxet tribesman named Squanto (Adam Beach) is kidnapped by English sailors. He is then taken to England, along with Epenow (Eric Schweig), a Nauset from Martha's Vineyard who was also captured by the sail…
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biographical film, musical film
In 1930s Alabama, young Hank Williams learns from Teetot to play the guitar and sing. After he drinks a tonic, Teetot suddenly dies. Years later, Hank becomes a traveling salesman.
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Biographical picture, Musical, biographical film
In late-1950s New York City, WROL disc jockey Alan Freed promotes his upcoming rock n' roll show at the Brooklyn Paramount Theater, headlined by Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis. Freed's radio program is hugely popular with teenagers, and t…
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Classical Western, Drama, Historie, biographical film
With the end of the American Civil War, military industrialists are left with an oversupply of weapons. Some of the more unscrupulous ones view the Indians as possible new customers. Wild Bill Hickok has just been discharged from the Union…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
thumb|left|thumbtime=6|A near-complete 1934 version of the film. Nearly three minutes of pre-Code footage was deleted and presumably lost. In 1874, Disraeli's ambitious foreign policy, aimed at extending the British empire, is voted down b…
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Documentation, biographical film, documentary film
In 1957, Jane Goodall is assigned by paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey to observe chimpanzees in the jungles of Tanzania (the site of the future Gombe Stream National Park). She is an untrained 26-year-old, but grew up with a love of animal…
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biographical film, drama film
The films involves Bobbi Kristina Brown growing up in the spotlight, frequently appearing on stage and walking the red carpet alongside her parents, Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown, like other famous people's kids. For the majority, she wa…
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Western, Western film
Following the American Civil War, the two James brothers, along with the Younger brothers - Cole Younger and Bob Younger, Bob Ford and Charles Ford, Clell Miller, and Arch Clements, begin to feel oppressed by the Chicago railroad investors…
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Drama, Historie, biographical film, drama film, historical film, period drama film, romance film
31 March 1889 – Gustave Eiffel sits in his office, atop the newly completed thousand-foot (300 metre) iron tower he has designed and constructed – the Eiffel Tower. September 1886 – Eiffel receives an award for his groundbreaking design fo…
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Biographical documentary, biographical film, documentary film
Marjoe Gortner was a child preacher, who was popular in the American South starting in 1949. His parents earned large sums of money from his preaching; Gortner speculated their take to be in the millions. The novelty of Gortner's youthfuln…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film, historical drama
During the 1977 El Salvadoran presidential election, public unrest is at an all-time high over fears of election fraud. In the midst of a Marxist-Leninist guerrilla insurgency by the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, the anti-comm…
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Biographical picture, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, comedy film, drama film
The film, in a series of sketches, depicts Wittgenstein's life from boyhood, through the first World War period to his Cambridge professorship and association with Bertrand Russell and John Maynard Keynes. The emphasis is on the exposition…
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biographical film
Bill is a man with an intellectual disability in his 60s. He ventures out into the world for the first time after spending most of his life at Grandville, a dreary inner city institution in Minneapolis, Minnesota, since age seven (when his…
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Biographical picture, drama film
In 1990, in his cell in Barlinnie Prison in Glasgow, Paul Ferris reflects on his childhood. Young Paul is told by his father to always beware of strangers, to always be loyal, and to be a "lion" and avoid following others actions. He witne…
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Drama, Historie, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, drama film
1897. Oscar Wilde has just been released from prison after serving his sentence for gross indecency. Separated from his wife and children, he arrives in Dieppe, where old friends Reggie Turner and Robert Ross await him.
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Biographical picture, Military Film, War Film, action film, biographical film, drama film, partisan film
After fighting the Soviets as a volunteer during the Winter War in Finland, Max Manus, haunted by his experiences, returns to Norway, finding it occupied by the Nazis. He joins with the Norwegian resistance movement in their fight against …
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Drama, Komödie, biographical film, drama film
Nick Flynn is an aspiring writer who works at a homeless shelter where his estranged father Jonathan stays. Jonathan, an alcoholic ex-con and self-proclaimed "master storyteller", left Nick's mother Jody years earlier to raise Nick on her …
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
thumb|left|Walter Pidgeon, Greer Garson and Margaret O'Brien in Madame Curie Marie Skłodowska is a poor, idealistic student living in Paris and studying at the Sorbonne. She neglects her health and one day faints during class. Her tutor, P…
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