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 62.
Crime, Dark Comedy, Drama, Historie, Thriller, biographical film, crime film
The Hour of the Pig is set in 15th-century France and is based upon the career and case files of Bartholomew Chassenee, an actual lawyer of the time who served as an advocate for animals who were accused of crimes. At the time, animal tria…
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biographical film, coming-of-age film, teen film
The movie begins with Ernest Green explaining how every morning on his ride to Horace Mann, the school for African-Americans, he would pass Little Rock Central High School, which would soon open its doors to nine African-American students.…
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War Film, biographical film, drama film
Col. Paul W. Tibbets Jr.
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Documentation, biographical film, documentary film
Biographical picture, biographical film, sport film
thumb|The Jackie Robinson Story thumb|alt=|Screenplay cover thumb|Photo from 1950 Lobby card promoting The Jackie Robinson Story, showing Jackie Robinson (as himself) The film begins with Robinson as a boy. He is given a worn-out baseball …
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Biographical documentary, Musical, biographical film, music documentary film
Gaga: Five Foot Two is a documentary that follows a year in the life of American singer Lady Gaga at age 30 as she records, releases, and promotes her fifth studio album, Joanne. The film presents an intimate portrait of Gaga's personal an…
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musical film
The film starts in 1959, when the Silver Beatles (as they were then called) consisted of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Stuart Sutcliffe. They need a drummer and a manager, and although Sutcliffe can sing, he cannot play …
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Documentation, documentary film
Based on a feature article written by Sewell, Mad Hot Ballroom looks inside the lives of 11-year-old New York City public school kids who journey into the world of ballroom dancing and reveal pieces of themselves along the way. Told from t…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
Joe Albany was an accomplished jazz pianist during the 1960s through the 1980s, performing with the likes of Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, and Charles Mingus before his descent into heroin addiction. The film tells the story of Albany's lif…
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Biographical documentary, documentary film
The film explores the life and career of Faye Dunaway. Dunaway also for the first time reveals her bipolar disorder diagnosis and discusses her reputation for being "difficult". Actors Sharon Stone and Mickey Rourke, director James Gray, a…
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Biographical picture, Documentation, documentary film
Biographical picture, Tragic Comedy Film, biographical film, comedy film
The film covers Susann's entire life, focusing on her early struggles as an aspiring actress relentlessly hungry for fame, her relationship with press agent husband Irving Mansfield (Nathan Lane), with whom she had an institutionalized aut…
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Biographical documentary, documentary film
The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling features "interviews from nearly four dozen friends, family and colleagues; four decades’ worth of television appearances; and a lifetime of personal journals, private letters and home audio and video foo…
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Biographical picture, Historical drama, biographical film, drama film
Biographical picture, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, drama film, musical film
The film suggests Nijinsky was driven into madness by both his consuming ambition and self-enforced heterosexuality. He became involved with Romola de Pulszky, a society girl who joined impresario Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes specific…
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Biographical documentary, Concert film, documentary film, rockumentary
Biographical picture, drama film
Emmett Foley is an American hero of the Korean War who attempts to commit suicide, first by provoking local police and then by shooting himself in the chest. After his recovery, he is sent to the Florida State Hospital, an institution in C…
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Documentation, biographical film, documentary film
The official synopsis as released by Apple TV+, "After years in the limelight, Selena Gomez achieves unimaginable stardom. But just as she reaches a new peak, an unexpected turn pulls her into darkness. This uniquely raw and intimate docum…
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Drama, Sport, biographical film, drama film, sport film
This drama follows Ned Hanlan, who is known to be a Canadian competitive rowing champion. Ned Hanlan is adopted by a gambler named Bill, who promotes the boy on the sculling circuit for his own monetary gain. As a young man, Ned is very tr…
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Drama, biographical film, drama film, prison film
David Marshall "Marsh" Williams of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company company takes leave to tend to family matters. His embittered young son David has been teased in school and Marsh decides that the time has come to inform his son abo…
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Biographical picture, Romance Film, biographical film, drama film, romance film
Harvard Law School student Barack Obama, while working as a summer associate at a Chicago law firm in 1989, arranges to meet Michelle Robinson, a young lawyer and his supervisor at the firm ostensibly to go to a community organizing meetin…
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Biographical documentary, biographical film, documentary film, drama film
Using film made at American prisons, Leuchter talks about his upbringing where his father was a corrections officer. Through his family associations, young Leuchter claimed he was able to witness an execution performed in an electric chair…
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Biographical picture, Western, Western film, biographical film, drama film, romance film
In frontier-town Nauvoo, Illinois, in 1844, the main body of the church are forced to leave Illinois, choosing to settle temporarily in Nebraska. They then travel by wagon train to the Great Basin.
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Biographical picture, Historie, biographical film, drama film
In 1561, Mary Stuart, the young widow of Francis II of France, sets sail for her native Scotland to re-establish herself as monarch. In spite of attempts by her politically insecure cousin, Queen Elizabeth of England, to prevent her from r…
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