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Biographical picture, Historie, LGBTQ-related film, Political Drama, Political Satire, biographical film, comedy drama, drama film, political film
Vice is narrated by Kurt, a fictitious veteran of the Afghan and Iraq wars. In 1963, Dick Cheney works as a lineman in Wyoming after dropping out of Yale University. After Cheney is caught driving while intoxicated, his wife Lynne threaten…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, crime film, drama film, prison film
Michael Peterson narrates his early life with self-deprecating humour. Initially, he addresses the camera dressed in prison garb. Other times, he tells his tale in a vaudeville-style theatre with a live audience.
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Biographical documentary, Concert film, documentary film
Biographical picture, Blaxploitation, Justice Drama, Political Drama, biographical film, drama film
One night shortly before Malcolm Little is born, a party of Klansmen surround the Little family home in Omaha, Nebraska, break all the windows, and ride off into the night. Malcolm has a Grenadian mother and African-American father. His fa…
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Biographical picture, drama film
In 1940, Orson Welles is given complete creative freedom for his next project by RKO. For the screenplay, Welles recruits Herman J. Mankiewicz, who is in Victorville, California, recovering from a broken leg he sustained in a car crash.
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Biographical picture, Historie, biographical film, drama film, romance film
In 1774, the young Georgiana Spencer is contracted in marriage to William Cavendish, Duke of Devonshire, with the expectation that she produce his male heir. She is quickly disillusioned by her husband, especially when Charlotte, William’s…
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Action, Biographical picture, Crime, Drama, Gangster Film, Historie, Thriller, action film, adventure film, biographical film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, gangster film, heist film, historical drama film, historical film, mystery film, period drama film, thriller film
In 1933, John Dillinger infiltrates Indiana State Penitentiary, jailbreaking his crew. During the firefight, his mentor Walter Dietrich is shot and killed. Dillinger and company change clothes and eat at a nearby farm before driving to a s…
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Biographical picture, Forensic, biographical film, drama film
In 1989, Harvard law graduate Bryan Stevenson travels to Alabama, intending to help defend poor people who cannot afford proper legal representation. Teaming with Eva Ansley, he forms the Equal Justice Initiative in the state capital, Mont…
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Biographical picture, Computeranimation, Drama Documentary, Musical, biographical film, comedy drama, musical film
thumb|The opening of the film depicts the Williams' former home, a Burslem pub called the Red Lion. In 1982, in Stoke-on-Trent, eight-year-old Robert Williams is shamed as a loser in the playground. At home, he eagerly emulates his father,…
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Biographical picture, LGBTQ-related film, Musical, biographical film, drama film, musical comedy, musical film
Dressed in a flamboyant devil's outfit, Elton John enters an addiction rehabilitation session, recounting his life in a series of flashbacks ("The Bitch Is Back"). Shy boy Reginald Dwight grows up in the suburbs of 1950s Britain, raised by…
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American football film, Drama, Sport, biographical film, comedy film, drama film
In the 1970s, James Robert "Radio" Kennedy, a 23-year-old intellectually disabled man, lives alone with his mother, who, as a nurse, spends much of the day at work. Radio spends much of his day roaming the town and pushing a shopping cart,…
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Fugitive Drama, Social Drama, War Film, biographical film, drama film
In April 1994, Rwanda is engulfed in a civil war between the Hutu-controlled government and Tutsi rebels. In Kigali, Paul Rusesabagina manages the Belgian-owned Hôtel des Mille Collines and lives with his Tutsi wife Tatiana. The Tutsi are …
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Drama, Historie, biographical film, drama film, political drama, prison film, trial film
In 1974, a Belfast burglar named Gerry Conlon is mistaken for an IRA sniper by British security forces and pursued until a riot breaks out. Gerry is sent to London by his father Giuseppe to discourage an IRA reprisal against him. While tak…
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Biographical picture, Tragic Comedy Film, biographical film, comedy drama, comedy film, drama film
Keith Gill is a middle-class man working as a financial analyst in Brockton, Massachusetts. During his spare time, he regularly frequents the stock market subreddit r/WallStreetBets, posting his opinions via YouTube live streams under the …
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Biographical picture, biographical film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
In 1986 in Atlanta, Georgia, Richard Jewell is working as an office supply clerk at the Small Business Administration, where he builds a rapport with attorney Watson Bryant before leaving to pursue a law enforcement career. He is hired as …
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Biographical picture, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, drama film, romance film
In 1920s Copenhagen, portrait artist Gerda Wegener is attending an art show to support her husband, popular landscape artist and closeted trans woman Einar Wegener. Though Gerda is talented, she hasn't quite received the same success Einar…
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Action, Drama, Pseudohistorical Fantasy, action film, adventure film, biographical film, drama film, historical film, survival film
In 1850, author Herman Melville visits innkeeper Thomas Nickerson, the last survivor of the sunk whaleship Essex, offering money for his story. Nickerson initially refuses, then agrees after his wife intervenes. In 1820, a Nantucket whalin…
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Anti-War Film, Drama, Social Drama, biographical film, drama film, war film
In 1956 Massapequa, 10-year-old Ron Kovic plays with his friends in a forest. On his Fourth of July birthday, he attends an Independence Day parade with his family and best friend Donna. In 1961, President John F.
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Biographical picture, Sport, biographical film, drama film, sport film
Richard Williams lives in Compton, California, with his wife Brandy, his three step-daughters Tunde, Isha and Lyndrea, and his two daughters, Venus and Serena. Richard aspires to turn Venus and Serena into professional tennis players. Rich…
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Action, Biographical picture, Drama, biographical film, boxing film, drama film
Micky Ward is an American welterweight boxer from Lowell, Massachusetts. Managed by his mother Alice, Micky is trained by his older half-brother Dicky Eklund, a former boxer whose peak of success was going the distance with Sugar Ray Leona…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, crime film, drama film, hood film, musical film
In 1986, Compton, California, Eazy-E narrowly evades a police raid at a crack house. The following day, Dr. Dre is struggling with what he wants to do in life and is confronted by his mother for missing a job interview.
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Biographical picture, Thriller, biographical film, crime film, drama film, independent film, prison film
"The following is based on a true story. It began October 6, 1970 in Istanbul, Turkey." On vacation in Istanbul, American college student Billy Hayes straps of hashish bricks to his chest. As he and his girlfriend Susan are about to board …
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Biographical picture, Komödie, biographical film, comedy film, parody film
Young Alfred "Al" Yankovic becomes interested in parodying songs despite his father's disapproval. Al's mother secretly purchases an accordion for him, but his father destroys it when Al is caught at an illicit polka party, thus straining …
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Forensic, Thriller, biographical film, drama film, historical film
In 1998, Robert Bilott, from Cincinnati, is a corporate defense lawyer at law firm Taft Stettinius & Hollister. Wilbur Tennant, a farmer and friend of Bilott's grandmother, asks him to investigate the deaths of numerous dairy cattle at his…
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