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documentary film
The documentary explores Quek's experiences, presenting her life as a student in Los Angeles, California and London; her native Singapore; and in the porn industry. It focuses on her reasons for working in porn, and her relationship with f…
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biographical film, drama film
Director Salvador Litvak and his writing partner, Nina Davidovich Litvak, based their screenplay on their extensive research into Lincoln's friendship with Lamon. Saving Lincoln charts their relationship from their initial meeting to Linco…
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As prostitutes are arrested in New York, a flashback begins to the life of one of them, a Dutch secretary Xaviera Hollander who moved to New York in hopes of marrying her fiancé Carl, whom she met while visiting her sister in South Africa.…
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Drama, War Film, biographical film, drama film
On August 2, 1990, Iraqi forces and tanks roll into Kuwait City, as the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait begins. In Atlanta, CNN picks Robert Wiener and his crew to go to Baghdad and cover the invasion. As they settle in their hotel rooms, they no…
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Ruby Bridges tells the story of how a six-year-old Black girl integrated a New Orleans segregated school in 1960. Ruby did not achieve this feat alone – there was the NAACP that chose her; four US Marshals who kept back the angry mob of ha…
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Biographical picture, War Film, biographical film, drama film, war film
The Irish-American Catholic Sullivan brothers are introduced through a progression of baptisms: George Thomas in 1914, Francis "Frank" Henry in 1916, Joseph "Joe" Eugene in 1918, Madison "Matt" Abel in 1919, and Albert "Al" Leo in 1922 in …
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Romance Film, biographical film, drama film, romance film
The story takes place in 1671. In the context of the Franco-Dutch War, a financially struggling prince of Condé is visited by King Louis XIV for three days of festivities at the Château de Chantilly. The prince wants a commission as an arm…
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Drama Documentary, Psychodrama, biographical film, drama film, musical film
The film follows Mark David Chapman three months prior to the Lennon assassination and contains flashbacks to Chapman's earlier life and upbringing, while also exploring his infatuation with J.D. Salinger's 1951 novel The Catcher in the Ry…
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Biographical picture, Tragic Comedy Film
biographical film, drama film
As the film opens Eichmann has been captured in Argentina. It is revealed that he escaped there via the "rat line" and with forged papers. Arendt, now a professor in New York, volunteers to write about the trial for The New Yorker and is g…
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Documentation, documentary film
The documentary follows four salesmen as they travel across New England and southeast Florida, trying to sell large, expensive Bibles door-to-door in low-income neighborhoods, and attend a sales meeting in Chicago. The film focuses in part…
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biographical film, comedy film, documentary film, drama film
Adventure, biographical film, pirate film
Keelboat Race Tennessee frontiersman Davy Crockett and his best friend George "Georgie" Russell are transporting pelts to Maysville, Kentucky, after a successful season of trapping and hunting. On the Ohio River, they encounter Mike Fink, …
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Biographical picture, Sport, biographical film, biographical sports film, boxing film, sport film
Set in 1964, a direct cinema camera crew follows Willie Pep, retired two-time world featherweight boxing champion. Now living in Hartford, Connecticut with his wife Linda, an aspiring actress half his age, a drug-addled son, his Italian im…
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American football film, Drama, Sport
Brian Piccolo and Gale Sayers are not friends in the beginning of the story; in fact they are rivals. During their first season together with pro football's Chicago Bears, Piccolo is never in the spotlight because Sayers is a better and mo…
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biographical film, biography, drama film
The movie is about the production of the 1969–1974 ABC sitcom The Brady Bunch, on which Williams played young Greg Brady, with backstage dramas among the cast and the show's producers. However at times some of the scenes have been slightly…
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Documentation, biographical film, documentary film
Biographical picture, Musical, biographical film, comedy film, musical film
Red Nichols is a small-town cornet player who moves to New York City in the 1920s and finds work in a band led by Wil Paradise. He meets and marries singer Willia Stutsman, a.k.a. "Bobbie Meredith".
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film, historical film, war film
thumb|thumbtime=5|upright=1.3|alt=Black and white film clip showing period scenes|Abraham Lincoln (1930) The first act of the film covers Lincoln's early life as a storekeeper and rail-splitter in New Salem and his early romance with Ann R…
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Biographical documentary, Sport, documentary film
Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
The making of Breakfast at Tiffany's serves as a framing device for the film. Audrey's life up to that point is seen in elongated flashbacks. During Audrey's childhood, her Nazi-sympathizer father abandons her and her mother, Ella.
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Biographical picture
Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
The film is based on manuscripts of the interrogations of Adolf Eichmann (Thomas Kretschmann) before he was tried and hanged in a prison in Israel. Eichmann recounts events from his past to an Israeli detective, Chief inspector Avner Less …
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
The film recounts the life and loves of the physician, astrologer, and famed prognosticator; his encounters with medieval science at the University of Montpellier and the Inquisition; and his early struggles with his visions of the future.…
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