Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.Explore biographical films about the lives of notable people.
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film, trial film
In 1832, a family traveling through New Salem, Illinois in their wagon need groceries from Lincoln's store, and the only thing of value that they have to trade is a barrel of old books including a law book, Blackstone's Commentaries. After…
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Drama, biographical film, drama film, romance film, spy film
In 1917, France is embroiled in World War I. Dubois, head of the French spy bureau, offers to spare the life of a captured agent if he will reveal who he is protecting. Dubois suspects it is Mata Hari, a celebrated exotic dancer, but the p…
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Biographical picture, Documentation, Musical, documentary film, rockumentary
The documentary begins as an investigation of the circumstances surrounding Cobain's death and the theories which sprung up afterwards. Cobain was legally declared to have committed suicide but has been alleged by some, to have been murder…
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Biographical picture, biographical film
As a result of General George S. Patton's (George C. Scott) decision to use former Nazis to help reconstruct post-World War II occupied Germany (and publicly defending the practice), General Dwight Eisenhower (Richard Dysart) removes him f…
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Biographical picture, Drama, Historie, biographical film, drama film, musical film
When he is approached by a supporter wishing to finance his musical career, Niccolo Paganini becomes attracted to the life which Urbani the promoter has come to offer him. He signs a contract to oblige him to perform as scheduled by Urbani…
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Drama, drama film
Frankie is performing at a Los Angeles club in 1973. She is one of the best strippers at the club, and often attracts the attention of wealthy businessmen. One night, the club's female employees go out for a "Girls Night".
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Biographical picture, Drama, Komödie, biographical film, comedy drama, crime film, drama film
The film begins in 2010, with 65-year-old Howard Marks going onto a stage in front of a packed theatre to great applause. Marks asks if there are any plainclothes policemen in the audience, to which the reply is negative. Then, while light…
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Documentation, Musical, biographical film, music documentary film
Tupac details his childhood, from growing up with a mother addicted to crack to being taken care of by drug dealers on the streets, as well as the type of jobs he had to do to make money. He also talks about his love for poetry, his friend…
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Biographical picture, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film
The film spans Cohn's life from childhood through his initial rise to power as Joseph McCarthy's right-hand man in the Senate subcommittee hearings of the 1950s, and eventually to his public discrediting a month before his death from AIDS …
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Biographical picture, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, docudrama, drama film, musical film
The film tells the story of record producer Joe Meek, the songwriter-producer behind the 1960s hits "Have I the Right?", "Just Like Eddie" and "Johnny Remember Me". The film charts Meek's initial success with the multi-million-selling reco…
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Romantic Comedy, biographical film, drama film, romantic comedy
Louise Randall Pierson does not have an easy life. When she is a teenager, her beloved father dies, leaving her, her mother, and her sister in financial difficulty. However, heeding her father's advice to shoot for the stars, she remains u…
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Biographical picture, Drama, biographical film, drama film
Set in Paris in 1919, this biopic presents the life of Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, centering, artistically, on his relationship to and rivalry with Pablo Picasso when they both lived in Paris. Modigliani, an Italian Jew from Livorno,…
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Biographical documentary
The film looks into New York lawyer Roy Cohn whose career ranged from Senator Joseph McCarthy's chief counsel in the Second Red Scare to Former President Donald Trump's personal attorney. In 1951, Cohn is a 24-year-old legal assistant at t…
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LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, drama film
Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé promote the French fashion industry and stay friends against all odds.
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Biographical picture, Drama, Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, comedy drama
Oscar Wilde and his lover Lord Alfred "Bosie" Douglas arrive late on Guy Fawkes Night in 1892 at their friend Alfred Taylor's brothel, where they are treated to a surprise staging of Wilde's play Salome, public performances of which have j…
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Biographical picture, drama film, war film
As the Nazis invade the Netherlands in 1940, Corrie (Jeannette Clift George) and the rest of her family bravely choose to open their home to Jews as a hiding place, trusting that God would help them to do this. A part of their home is spec…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
Documentation, documentary film, rockumentary
The film begins by listing the headlining acts of the Super Rock festival held in Japan in 1984: Scorpions, Whitesnake, and Bon Jovi, all of whom have gone on to sell millions of records, except one: Anvil. Despite their ambition, the Cana…
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Western, Western film, biographical film
Drifter William Bonney, known as "Billy The Kid", befriends a cattle boss named John Tunstall, who is known as "The Englishman". Tunstall is murdered by corrupt rival cattlemen led by the local sheriff in the Lincoln County War. Bonney pla…
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Biographical picture, Drama, comedy drama
In 1947, in Portland, Oregon, infant Richard Pimentel was given up for adoption by his paranoid schizophrenic mother. She later reclaims her son from an orphanage, but his childhood with her as a single mother is turbulent, and he is large…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
In 1906, at the Baltimore Waterfront, 11-year-old George Herman Ruth Jr. is allowed by his father to be taken away by Brother Matthias to St. Mary's after being forced to work in his rowdy saloon.
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Biographical picture, Musical, biographical film, musical film
In the 1910s, young Hungarian composer Sigmund Romberg works as a waiter at the Café Vienna on Second Avenue in New York City, which is run by his close friend Anna Mueller. One day, a music agent named Lazar Berrison Sr. comes into the ca…
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Biographical picture
Melodrama, Musical, biographical film, drama film, musical film
Rick Martin is a young Midwestern orphan cared for by an indifferent elder sister, living in his own isolated world. He is first drawn to an inner-city mission for alcoholics and its piano-accompanied hymns. Seeking a more portable instrum…
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