Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.Explore biographical films about the lives of notable people.
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biographical film, drama film
The film is almost documentary in its portrayal of facts. It claims to be based strongly on facts, apart from some adaptations like merging various characters into one. After two hours the movie changes dramatically.
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Bible Film, Monumental Film, biographical film, drama film
The film depicts Jeremiah's journey as a young man chosen by God to deliver a message of repentance to the people of the Kingdom of Judah. Despite facing persecution and rejection from Judean laymen and leaders, Jeremiah remains faithful t…
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Biographical picture, Documentation, Drama, Horror, Thriller, documentary film
The film tells the true story of a sadomasochistic cannibal, child molester, and serial killer, who lured children to their deaths in Depression-era New York City. Elderly but still deadly, Fish was inspired by biblical tales as he took th…
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Biographical picture, Musical, biographical film
Shown as a flashback, Tommy Steele lives with his mother and father in their London home. He works with a bellboy until he injures his spine doing judo. In hospital he is given a guitar to help with his therapy and he starts to play to ent…
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biographical film, drama film, musical film
The film follows notorious musician Serge Gainsbourg's exploits from his upbringing in Nazi occupied France through his rise to fame and love affairs with Juliette Gréco, Brigitte Bardot and Jane Birkin to his later experimentation with re…
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biographical film, war film
Hannah Senesh was a Hungarian schoolgirl with poetic aspirations. In the face of rising anti-Semitic tensions in Budapest, Hanna leaves her mother Katalin and family behind to work on a kibbutz in British Mandated Palestine. There she is r…
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biographical film
Toni Braxton is one of five daughters raised in a devoutly Methodist household by their mother, Evelyn, and reverend father, Michael. Evelyn dreams of her daughters becoming famous singers. After the sisters audition as a group for record …
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Biographical picture, Drama, biographical film
The Menno Meyjes directed drama stars Adrien Brody as Spanish bullfighter Manolete, in a film that covers his late life love affair with actress Lupe Sino (Penélope Cruz) before he was gored to death in the bull ring. Sino's communist poli…
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Biographical picture, Drama, Sport, biographical film, sport film
A chestnut Thoroughbred horse called Phar Lap, known as Bobby by his strapper Tommy Woodcock (Tom Burlinson), collapses and dies in Tommy's arms at Menlo Park in California in 1932. The news is greeted with great sadness in Australia. The …
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
Abraham Lincoln leaves home for the first time, having been hired along with two of his friends by Denton Offutt to take a load of pigs by water to New Orleans. When the boat becomes stuck at a dam at the settlement of New Salem, Abe sees …
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Biographical documentary
Biographical picture, War Film, biographical film, drama film
Philadelphia steel worker Al Schmid has no intention of marriage until he meets Ruth Hartley. Al is impressed by Ruth and the couple fall in love. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Al joins the Marines.
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biographical film, drama film, horror film
The story follows Countess Erzsébet Báthory, who reappears in present‑day Vienna and searches for a mysterious book believed to have the power to eradicate evil. Accompanied by her maid Hermine and her melancholic nephew Rudi Bubi, she mov…
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Anti-War Film, Biographical picture, Drama, Historie, War Film, biographical film, drama film, war film
Pirate Film, biographical film, pirate film
In the first quarter of the 18th century, Blackbeard, otherwise known as Edward Teach, was seen as the most notorious and dangerous seafaring pirate of all. Plying his trade around the West Indies and the eastern coast of England’s North A…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
The film begins in 1921, where British inventor William Friese-Greene, in severe financial distress, attends a London film industry conference. The story unfolds through a series of flashbacks. The first is told from the perspective of Edi…
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biographical film, drama film
documentary film
The documentary painted a hopeless and pessimistic view of the violence in the city. At the time Little Rock was one of the most dangerous cities in the country. Sitting at the intersection of two major interstates from Los Angeles and New…
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Documentation, Event Documentary, Social Study, documentary film
The title of the film was inspired by conservative commentator Laura Ingraham, who coined the phrase "shut up and sing" in such context earlier; it was the title of her 2003 book Shut Up & Sing: How Elites from Hollywood, Politics, and the…
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Drama, biographical film, drama film
In 1962 Portland, Oregon, widowed, charismatic con artist Ray Weiler is raising his two daughters, teenaged Sonya and young Greta. His wife, Valery, died several years prior after a protracted battle with cancer. Ray spends his time constr…
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Biographical picture, Drama, Musical, biographical film, drama film, musical film
Early one morning, Marjorie Lawrence leaves her family sheep farm in Winchelsea, Australia to catch a train and attend an operatic singing competition in Geelong. The next morning, Marjorie's father Bill learns from the newspaper she had w…
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Crime, biographical film, crime film, film noir
In the 1920s, ambitious but smalltime thief Jack Diamond and his sickly brother Eddie Diamond move to New York City. Jack meets dance instructor Alice Shiffer, lies to her to date her and to steal a necklace from a jewelry store. After bei…
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Melodrama, biographical film, drama film
The film opens with Michael Landon Jr. as a child (Shawn Pyfrom) living a comfortable and happy life with his family: his father, Bonanza star Michael Landon (John Schneider); his mother, Lynn Noe Landon (Cheryl Ladd); and his elder sister…
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Biographical picture, Crime, biographical film, crime film, drama film
Eddie Dodson borrows money from the bank to finance a stylish furniture shop that doubles as a nightclub. When he is unable to pay back the loans, he turns to loan shark Roy Fortune. After his upper-class girlfriend, Charlotte, dumps him, …
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