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Biographical picture, LGBTQ-related film, drama film, romance film
Savannah Knoop spends six years masquerading as writer Laura Albert's literary persona JT LeRoy, the author credited for the novels Sarah and The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things.
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Family Drama, biographical film, children's film, drama film
In 1835, a ship crewed by Russian fur hunters and Aleuts come to an island off the coast of Southern California to hunt sea otters. They make a deal with the Nicoleño people living in the village of Ghalas-at for permission to hunt on thei…
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Adventure, adventure film, biographical film, coming-of-age film, drama film
The film tells of real-life Robin Lee Graham, a 16-year-old boy who sets sail in a 23-foot sloop in attempt to be the youngest person to circumnavigate the globe solo. He had planned the trip with his sailor father Lyle Graham for years. O…
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biographical film, comedy film, parody film
biographical film, documentary film
Clarence Avant, known as "the godfather of black music", is perhaps not well known by the general public, but very famous in the music industry. Starting as a manager to pianist-composer Lalo Schifrin, he later founded record labels, serve…
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biographical film
Solomon Northup's Odyssey is based on the true story of Solomon Northup, a free black man in Saratoga, New York, who was kidnapped in 1841 and sold into slavery (see slavery in the United States). Northup was intelligent, skilled in carpen…
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Political Drama, biographical drama film
In 2015, following Syriza's victory in that year's Greek parliamentary election, Minister of Finance Yanis Varoufakis is tasked by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to negotiate a new deal on the memorandum of understanding signed by previous …
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Biographical picture, Drama, biographical film, drama film
Historie, biographical film, drama film, epic film, historical drama, silent film
In Imperial Russia, Tsar Paul I rules through fear, paranoia, and erratic cruelty. A tyrant haunted by dread, Paul lives in constant suspicion of everyone around him, believing that he, like some of his ancestors, is doomed to be assassina…
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War Film, biographical film, war film
In Depression-era Los Angeles, Guy Gabaldon gets into a fight at school when another boy snitches about his breaking into a grocery store. After Japanese-American Kaz Une (the brother of Guy's physical education teacher and friend George) …
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Biographical documentary, documentary film
Biographical picture, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, comedy film
In her teens, Emily Dickinson befriends Susan Gilbert during a recitation of the Amherst Shakespeare Society, and during a scene in which they play lovers, a romance blossoms. On a stroll afterward, they kiss. Emily's family leaves for a m…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film, musical film
In 1991, a young Jeff Buckley rehearses for his public singing debut at a Brooklyn tribute show for his father, the late folk singer Tim Buckley. Struggling with the legacy of a man he barely knew, Jeff forms a friendship with an enigmatic…
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Drama, biographical film, drama film
Henry Miller, a writer from New York whose money has run out, lives in Paris on the generosity of American friends who give him food and a space to sleep. His wife Mona crosses the Atlantic to see him, but soon leaves when she realises the…
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Drama, Komödie, biographical film, comedy drama
In 1976, Frank Pesce Jr. is a lucky man. His father, Frank Sr., is very unlucky.
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Biographical documentary, Musical
The film follows Luther Vandross' nearly 40 years in the entertainment industry and highlights his career highs as well as battles with negative media attention focused on his weight and sexuality. Footage from his performances and archive…
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Biographical picture, Komödie
The movie is told in non-chronological order, switching between the pre-production of Around the World in 80 Days in 1955 and scenes in Cantinflas' life between 1931 and 1955. In 1955 Mike Todd is trying to court famous actors and performe…
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Biographical picture, Drama, biographical film, drama film
While Blake Morrison, his mother, and younger sister Gillian tend to his father, Arthur, on his deathbed in his Yorkshire home, Blake has a series of flashbacks of moments he shared with his father. Despite Blake's success as a writer, poe…
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Historie, biographical film, drama film, historical film
Exiled from the Soviet Union in 1929, Leon Trotsky travels from Turkey to France to Norway, before arriving in Mexico in January 1937. The film begins in Mexico City in 1940, during a May Day celebration. Trotsky has not escaped the attent…
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Biographical documentary, documentary film, rockumentary
Secret Agent, Sexploitation Film, biographical film, erotic film, romance film, thriller film, war film
The film's convoluted plot is anchored by a fictitious love triangle between Mata Hari and two military intelligence officers, the French Georges Ladoux (Oliver Tobias) and the German Karl von Bayerling (Christopher Cazenove). Ladoux and B…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
The different parts of Pulitzer Prize winner C.K. Williams' life told through his poems. Flashbacks of his childhood, his teens, college years, to when he meets and marries his wife, Catherine (Kunis) and the birth of his children and pare…
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Biographical picture, political thriller film
In the mid 1970s, Marie Ragghianti leaves an abusive marriage and moves back home with her mother Virginia Fajardo in Tennessee to eke out a better life for herself and her three young children; Marie waited tables while also completing th…
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Biographical picture, War Film, action film, drama film, war film
thumb|Law in a publicity still thumb|Don Stroud at Lynn Garrison's aviation facility in Ireland. Manfred von Richthofen is an average pilot in a German air squadron under the command of Oswald Boelcke. Richthofen, who believes in a gentlem…
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