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biographical film, drama film
Following missionary work on the Amazon River in Brazil, Dr. Richard Douglass moved his family to the Oklahoma City area, becoming a well-respected Baptist minister to the large congregation of Putnam City Baptist Church. His wife Marilyn …
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Drama, Western, biographical film
Jesse and Frank James ride with their gang into Northfield, Minnesota for a raid. While robbing a bank, gun fighting breaks out and two of the gang are killed. The James brothers and another gang member head out of town and hide out while …
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Biographical picture, biographical film
World-class trumpeter Arturo Sandoval was a part of the jazz scene of Cuba. The film is the story of Sandoval's life, up to his defection to the United States.
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Documentation, Sport, documentary film
In 1997, Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Federation (WWF) is embroiled in a fierce corporate rivalry with Ted Turner's World Championship Wrestling (WCW), which will come to be known as "The Monday Night War" among wrestling fans. Amid thi…
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In 1960, moments before filming the final episode of The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz send scathing messages to each other through a pageboy. Co-stars Vivian Vance and William Frawley comment on the tense situation, b…
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biographical film, drama fiction, musical film
In 1964, a reluctant John Lennon is persuaded by manager Brian Epstein to meet his father Freddie, who abandoned him seventeen years earlier, with the press in attendance. The reunion does not go well; Lennon and his father get into an arg…
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Drama, biographical film, drama film
The film is a fictionalized chronicle of forty years in the life of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, from his earliest days in the FBI in the 1920s until his death in 1972. The film is also framed by an opening and closing vignette showing th…
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Biographical picture, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, drama television series, romance film
Anne Lister (Maxine Peake) is a young unmarried woman living in 19th-century Yorkshire, at Shibden Hall, with her aunt (Gemma Jones) and uncle (Alan David). The one thing she wants from life is to have someone to love and to share her life…
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Documentation, biographical film, documentary film
The film looks at the life and career of actor Leonard Nimoy, and his iconic character Mr. Spock. It includes interviews with cast, crew and people connected with Star Trek, fans at conventions, as well as personal memories.
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Documentation, biographical film, documentary film
Drama, biographical film, drama film
This art house film is presented in the format of a sequence of nearly two dozen often disassociated vignettes taken from the life of Gustav Klimt and visualized by him in his recollection. All of this occurs while he is being treated late…
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Political Thriller, biographical film, propaganda film
Igor Gouzenko (Dana Andrews), an expert at deciphering codes, comes to the Soviet embassy in Ottawa in 1943, along with a Soviet military colonel, Trigorin (Frederic Tozere), and a major, Kulin (Eduard Franz), to set up a base of operation…
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biographical film
The film begins in the mid-1940s with both men struggling to establish themselves in show business. Jerry Lewis, an anxious but ambitious young comic encouraged by his wife Patti and agent Abby Greshler, accepts work as master of ceremonie…
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Horror, biographical film, horror film
Sonia is the only known survivor of the serial killer Leonard Lake. She's paired up with a private investigator in the hopes of finding a lost woman and during their exploration of Lake's compound, she tells the investigator about how she …
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Crime, Drama, biographical film
The film focuses on the early life of the Krays before their downfall. In comparison with Legend it aims for a gritty authenticity with less glamorising, portraying The Twins as "horrible pieces of work".
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Drama, biographical film, drama film
It is 1922. Robert Elliott Burns is having flashbacks of the horrors of World War I and is on the streets protesting for himself angry at his inability to find a job and society's apathy towards veterans. The next day, he is at his parents…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, boxing film, drama film
In 1887 San Francisco, boxing is illegal. James J. Corbett (Errol Flynn), a brash young bank teller, attends a match with his friend Walter Lowrie (Jack Carson).
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biographical film, drama film
Alison Gertz (played by Molly Ringwald) is an affluent and self-assured Manhattanite. At the age of sixteen, Gertz meets a bartender named Darren and has a one-night stand with him. This results in her contracting HIV.
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Biographical documentary, documentary film
LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, drama film
The film recounts the events in the life of Colonel Margarethe Cammermeyer which led to her retirement from the Washington National Guard under the U.S. military's gay exclusion policy. It begins in 1988, when Cammermeyer, a decorated nurs…
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biographical film, drama film
The film is devoted to the journey of a young 26/27-year-old artist destined to become famous, Constantin Brâncuși, traveling through Europe. He leaves Romania, where he was born and began studying fine arts, to Paris, where he wishes to d…
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Biographical picture, LGBTQ-related film, Romance Film, biographical film, drama film
Biographical picture, Romance Film, Romantic Drama, biographical film, romance film
biographical film
The film shows ten years in the life of Anthony Fingleton, from when he was a young boy in the mid-1950s, to the day of the men's 100m backstroke final at the 1964 Summer Olympics. Growing up in Brisbane, Australia, Tony was the second of …
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