Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.Explore biographical films about the lives of notable people.
Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 3,019 films · Page 60.
Drama, biographical film, drama film
The movie details the true story of stockbroker William Griffith Wilson, a World War I veteran whose alcoholism ("drinking problem") becomes a serious addiction and causes him to lose his fortune in the stock market collapse of 1929. Wilso…
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Biographical picture, War Film, drama film
The film starts with Siegfried Sassoon's open letter of July 1917, Finished with the War: A Soldier's Declaration, inveighing "against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed". The letter publ…
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Conspiracy theory film, biographical film, documentary film
biographical film
In 1938, Philippine President Manuel L. Quezon, military adviser Dwight D. Eisenhower, along with other notable figures, set out to rescue Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany.
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Western, Western film, biographical film
Wild Bill Hickok, a legendary lawman and gunslinger, is assigned with taming the wildest cow-town in the west. His reputation for his style of frontier justice is then put to the ultimate test.
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Biographical picture, Drama, biographical film
Biographical documentary
Biographical picture, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, crime film, drama film
In 1998, a young gay man by the name of Matthew Shepard (Shane Meier) was robbed, viciously beaten and left tied to a fence to die. Although he's found by the police, rescued and hospitalized, he dies from his injuries. This film recounts …
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Animation, Fantasy, Horror
The film has no spoken dialogue, just lighthearted music playing throughout the background. A young girl is walking down a snow-covered street of Barcelona. She stumbles across a wall with names written in chalk on it.
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Justice Drama, Political Drama, Thriller, biographical film, drama film, historical film, political thriller film
In South Africa in 1980, Patrick Chamusso, a young, apolitical man, is accused of carrying out a terrorist bombing. Afrikaner police officer Nic Vos is in charge of locating the perpetrators of a recent terrorist attack against the Secunda…
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Biographical documentary, documentary film
Biographical picture, Musical, biographical film, drama film, musical film
Jane Froman (Susan Hayward) is a humble staff singer at a Cincinnati radio station, but in no time she rises to the uppermost rungs of network radio fame. Jane gratefully marries her agent Don Ross (David Wayne), but soon both realize they…
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Biographical documentary
Biographical documentary, biographical film, documentary film
biographical film, drama film
In 1959, young journalist Ed Myers (a character representing Petitclerc) is working for a Miami newspaper. He wants to be a writer and had long admired Ernest Hemingway, then living in Cuba. Myers writes to Hemingway and is surprised when …
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American football film, Drama, Sport, biographical film, drama film
Luke Abbate is a popular high school athlete, who plays lacrosse and football. When the 15-year-old dies in a car accident caused by a reckless teenage driver after lacrosse practice in February 2006, Luke's older brother, Jon Abbate, is m…
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Coming Of Age, Social Drama, crime film
In 1998, Sam Gold is a mild-mannered 20-year-old Orthodox Jewish man who lives with his large family in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn. Sam works in his father Mendel's fabric store while studying to be a rabbi. He and his family hop…
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Biographical picture, comedy drama, drama film
In Paris 1964, famed sculptor Alberto Giacometti bumps into his old friend James Lord, an American critic, and asks him to be a model for his latest portrait in his studio for a couple of days. Flattered by the request, Lord complies and i…
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biographical film, drama film, musical film
After the death of her gold prospector father, 25-year-old Marie-Louise leaves her life in the American West to join her mother in New York and pursue her heart's dream - becoming an actress. There was nothing in her background to prepare …
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Documentation, biographical film, documentary film
The film depicts a fictitious 24-hour period in the life of Australian musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter, composer, actor and model Nick Cave, prior to and during the recording of his 2013 album Push the Sky Away.
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Biographical documentary
biographical film, drama film
Biographical picture, Historie, drama film
Mary, Queen of Scots, awaits her execution by order of Queen Elizabeth I of England. Mary composes a letter to Elizabeth, to whom she feels a close kinship as her cousin and a fellow female monarch. Through flashback, Mary narrates to Eliz…
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American football film, Biographical picture, athletics film, biographical film
During a banquet, legendary football coach "Pop" Warner delivers a speech praising Jim Thorpe, which leads to a flashback. Young Jim Thorpe runs home before his first day at an Indian reservation school, but his father convinces him to ret…
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