Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.Explore biographical films about the lives of notable people.
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Musical, biographical film, comedy film, musical film
In the late 1800s, young Paul Dresser runs away from his parents' home in Indiana to become a musician against the wishes of his strict father, who wants Paul to become a minister instead. In his first foray as an entertainer, Paul is unkn…
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Drama, biographical film, drama film
Therapist Lena Canada tries a novel approach with a girl named Karen Brown, who is dealing with cerebral palsy and depression. She encourages Karen to write to her favorite singer Elvis Presley. Karen eventually receives a reply, and they …
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The film chronicles the life of Whina Cooper as a Māori leader, wife and mother. These are interspersed with flashbacks of her leadership of the 1975 Māori Land March. The film begins with Whina and her family being embroiled in a land dis…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
The film depicts the life and times of model, actress, and 1980 Playboy Playmate of the year Dorothy Stratten, who was killed at age 20 in a murder–suicide committed by her estranged husband Paul Snider.
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Biographical picture, Komödie, Musical, biographical film, musical film, romance film
Waltzes from Vienna begins with the sound of a fire brigade horn and the clip-clop of horses’ hooves, as the firemen race towards a fire at Ebezeder's Café. Upstairs from the café, Resi and Schani are oblivious to the danger, lost in a lov…
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Biographical picture, drama film, thriller film
biographical film, family film, historical film
In Israel, then known as Judea (Roman province) of the Roman Empire, Jesus Christ of Nazareth travels around the country with His disciples preaching to the people about God and salvation of their souls. As prophesied in the Old Testament …
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Romance Film, Romantic Drama, biographical film, historical film, romance film
Peter Abelard is a famous teacher of philosophy at the cathedral school of Notre Dame, and a champion of reason. At a time when academics are required to observe chastity, he falls in love with one of his students, Héloïse d'Argenteuil, a …
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biographical film
Aboard the cargo ship MC Ruby, docked in New York City, six stowaways burst from one of the containers being unloaded. They flee from the ship, but are apprehended by dock workers and the New York police. The MC Ruby's Ukrainian crew watch…
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The film is about the poet Laurie Lee's childhood and youth, between the ages of four and twenty-one, growing up in the Cotswold village of Slad, Gloucestershire, in the years following the First World War. It follows the ending of the tra…
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Biographical picture, drama film
In 1934, then clerk for Texas Congressman Richard Kleberg, Lyndon Johnson (Randy Quaid) runs up the steps of the Capitol to meet with future Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn (Pat Hingle), who is sure he will work beside Johnson in the futu…
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Biographical picture, Sport
Biographical picture, Sport, biographical film, boxing film, drama film
Lenny McLean is a 27 year old undefeated bare-knuckle boxer who competes in unsanctioned street fights in the East End of London in the late 1970s. During one morning, Lenny spots a poster of undefeated boxer Roy Shaw, dubbed 'the Guv'Nor'…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film, musical film
The young Gene Krupa brings home a set of drums and puts them in the family room. His mother and three of his brothers stand by as his father makes it clear, as he has many times before, that he abhors the idea of Gene playing jazz drums. …
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Drama Documentary, biographical film, documentary film
Award-winning director Clio Barnard's faux-documentary portrayal of the late Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar.
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Biographical picture, Sport, biographical film, drama film, sport film
The Hammer follows Matt Hamill, who was born deaf, in his youth and mostly in 1997, when Hamill is a sophomore walk-on at Rochester Institute of Technology and wins the first of three collegiate wrestling championships.
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biographical film
Drama, Film Noir, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, drama film
Cadet Staff Sergeant Jocko De Paris is a senior at the fictional Southern Military College. Using the authority of his own rank, his father's connections with the school, and the college's tradition of allowing upperclassmen to bully new c…
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Biographical picture, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, docudrama, drama film
The film begins with a plot structure based on a progression of chapters titled as "Voyages" in Hart Crane's life loosely related to Crane's lyric poem of the same name. In the first "Voyages", a depiction is made of an early attempt by Cr…
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biographical film, crime drama film
Biographical picture, Musical, biographical film, musical film, war film
The film tells of novice American dancer Irene Foote, who convinces New York-based British vaudeville comic Vernon Castle to give up slapstick comedy in favor of sophisticated ballroom dancing. Their big break comes when they are stranded …
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Biographical picture, Romance Film, biographical film, coming-of-age film, drama film, romance film
Based on the novel of the same name by Alan Marshall, the film is set in the early 1900s in a small town in the Western District of Victoria, centring around a young Alan Marshall and the people in his town. Crippled by polio, Alan tries t…
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Biographical picture, Drama, drama film
A young Kiwi surfer named Ian is on his OE (overseas experience) in Mauritius, an island off the coast of Africa. While night diving with friends, he is stung by 5 deadly box jellyfish and takes a dramatic journey to hospital, helped and h…
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