Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.Explore biographical films about the lives of notable people.
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Drama, biographical film, war film
Seventeen year-old Ira Hamilton Hayes has never been off the Pima reservation in Arizona until he enlists in the United States Marine Corps. Hayes is shunned and mocked by his fellow Marines, except for Jim Sorenson. By chance, Hayes and S…
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Drama, Psychological Thriller, Thriller, Vampirfilm, biographical film
Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula tells the story of Vlad Dracula, the historical figure who gave Bram Stoker's Dracula his name. Vlad is a dispossessed noble and a patriot who fights the occupation forces of the Turks hoping to aveng…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
Fourteen-year-old Diana Barrymore is being raised by her domineering mother, a poet. Her father, the famed actor John Barrymore, has not laid eyes on Diana for 10 years, but they share an evening on his boat before John abandons her again.…
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Pirate Film, biographical film, pirate film, swashbuckler film
thumb|thumbtime=5|upright=1.5|left|Captain Kidd complete movie In 1699, pirate William Kidd loots and destroys the English galleon The Twelve Apostles near Madagascar. He and his confederates bury the stolen treasure on a remote island. He…
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Documentation, biographical film, documentary film, drama film
Drama, Historie, biographical film, drama film
Moses's mother, Jochebed, saves her baby from the edict of the Pharaoh that all newborn male Hebrew children must die by placing him in a basket on the Nile River. He is found by Pharaoh's daughter Bithia and adopted into the royal house. …
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Western, biographical film
Set in Belmont-Gonzales, Texas in 1901. After a misunderstanding, a Mexican-American farmer kills a sheriff. He eludes capture and becomes a folk hero.
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War Film, action film, war film
During the 1941 Italian manned torpedo raid on Alexandria, two British battleships, and , are severely damaged. The British are worried that this new tactic will afford the Italians naval supremacy in the Mediterranean and the ability to s…
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Biographical picture, biographical film
High Roller is told in flashback. Ungar (Michael Imperioli), in a motel room on the last night of his life, relates his personal story to a stranger (Michael Pasternak). He speaks of growing up as the son of a bookie, his career as a tourn…
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Biographical picture, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, trial film
Biographical picture, drama film
Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
At the start of the Great War in 1914, Lawrence and his new wife Frieda are living a bohemian life in rural Cornwall. There is great hostility towards Frieda because she is a German, and Lawrence feels persecuted by the authorities, who cl…
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Biographical documentary, boxing film, documentary film
LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, documentary film
Documentation, Sport, biographical film, documentary film, sport film
Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
The plot involves Gurdjieff and his companions' search for truth in a series of dialogues and vignettes, much as in the book. Unlike the book, these result in a definite climax—Gurdjieff's initiation into the mysterious Sarmoung Brotherhoo…
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Documentation, Musical, documentary film, rockumentary
Meeting People Is Easy takes place during the promotion of Radiohead's 1997 release OK Computer, containing a collage of video clips, sound bites, and dialogue going behind the scenes with the band on their world tour, showing the eventual…
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Biographical picture, Drama, Romance Film, biographical film, drama film, romance film
Edna Kahly and her adopted sister Charlotte are both to be married. However, when Charlotte's mother-in-law-to-be discovers that Charlotte was a foundling, she declares the wedding must not occur, and Charlotte kills herself from shame. Me…
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biographical film
King Henry VIII, denied permission by the Pope to divorce his wife, orders the aristocracy of England to recognize him as head of the English church and renounce their Catholic faith. Sir Thomas More, a devout Catholic and Henry's chief mi…
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Western, Western film, war film
With no better offers to be had, famous American Civil War upstart officer George Armstrong Custer takes over the Western Cavalry maintaining the peace in the Dakotas. He soon learns that the U.S. treaties are a sham, that Indian lands are…
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Documentation, biographical film, documentary film
The major portion of the documentary is spent addressing excerpts from the countless memos, nicknamed "Yellow Perils" by his first Pentagon staff and "Snowflakes" by the second, that Rumsfeld wrote during his time as a congressman and advi…
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Biographical picture, Drama, Musical
Biographical picture, Drama Documentary, docudrama
Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film, romance film
The story chronicles the life of Gaby Brimmer, the child of Austrian Jewish refugees living in Mexico, who is born with cerebral palsy. Though most of her body is completely paralyzed, her mind and left foot are unaffected, so that she bec…
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