Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.Explore biographical films about the lives of notable people.
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Biographical picture, biographical film
Jill Kinmont, now recovered, goes to Southern California, where she meets and falls in love with a man named John Boothe. They later learn that they have more to deal with than just a new romance.
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Documentation, Sport, documentary film
The film documents the 25-year history of Eric Bana's first car, a 1974 Ford XB Falcon Hardtop that he purchased at the age of fifteen for A$1100. In this film, Eric explores the central role that fixing and racing this car has played in h…
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biographical film, crime film, drama film, historical film
Taking place from the 1940s to the 1980s and primarily set in France, the plot is freely inspired by the life of Paris-based Spanish anarchist, bricklayer, and bank robber Lucio Urtubia, known for forging a large-scale scam aimed at the Ci…
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Biographical picture, Historical drama, biographical film, drama film, thriller film
Biographical documentary
Director Matt Riddlehoover traces the romantic and dizzying journey of Vivian Liberto, Johnny Cash's first wife and the mother of his four daughters.
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biographical film
In 1965, Donald Lang is 19-year old African–American man of Chicago, Illinois who was born deaf. He has a loving mother who struggles to give him as normal an upbringing as possible and a brother and sister, Julius and Genettia, who are su…
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Biographical picture, drama film
Jesco White is the last of the West Virginia mountain dancers. He is the son of D. Ray White, the greatest mountain dancer of all time.
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Biographical picture, Drama, Musical, Romance Film
Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
Eleanor Marx, the youngest daughter of Karl Marx, emerges as a prominent figure in the socialistic movement in the United Kingdom. A committed activist, she dedicates her life to workers’ rights, women’s emancipation, and the abolition…
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biographical film, drama film
The film chronicles the life of Jesus of Nazareth through the retelling of the political, social, and historical conflicts during the Roman Empire that ultimately led to his crucifixion.
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Biographical picture, association football film, biographical film, drama film
Biographical picture, biographical film
Based on true events, the film attempts to investigate the mysterious disappearance of Aimee Semple McPherson in 1926 and the court case that followed her safe return after she was missing for four weeks.
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Western, biographical film, revisionist Western
Bob Ford of the Jesse James gang is wounded during a bank robbery. He mends at Jesse's home in St. Joseph, Missouri for six months, although Jesse's wife Zee doesn't trust him.
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Adventure, Biographical picture, Drama, Drama Documentary, War Film, docudrama, sword-and-sandal film
Documentation, biographical film, documentary film
biographical film
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, child vaudevillian Buster Keaton stays in boarding houses, rides in train boxcars, and performs with his mother and father in a knock-about (physical comedy) act called The Three Keatons. As a you…
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Biographical picture, Drama, Musical, Romance Film, biographical film, musical film
"Schani" is dismissed from his job in a bank. He puts together a group of unemployed musicians who wangle a performance at Dommayer's cafe. The audience is minimal, but when two opera singers, Carla Donner and Fritz Schiller, visit whilst …
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biographical film, musical film
In 1840s Vienna, Johann Strauss I (Nigel Patrick) is conducting an orchestra in a ballroom full of dancers, when he is interrupted by his furious estranged wife, who confronts him about the fact that his notorious mistress is planning to n…
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biographical film, drama film
After abdicating her throne and converting to Catholicism, Queen Christina arrives in Rome, where Cardinal Azzolino is appointed to evaluate her and to help her to adapt to life in Rome. They fall in love, but after the Pope's death, Azzol…
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Biographical documentary, documentary film
The documentary explores what led up to Dolezal's fall from being a respected university instructor and activist, the circumstances surrounding it, and the aftermath of the scandal. The film states that Joshua Dolezal was accused by his si…
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Biographical picture, biographical film
Part 1: (December 4, 2005) The miniseries opens in 1981 with the Pope John Paul II assassination attempt, then flashes back to the young Karol "Lolek" Wojtyla who survives World War II by working in Kraków's Zakrzowek quarry and Solvay's c…
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biographical film, drama film
Noticing Jean Harlow in the background of a Laurel and Hardy film, actor Marc Peters tips off studio mogul Jonathan Martin, who arranges a screen test. Harlow becomes an overnight success. She is not a trained actor and is mocked by experi…
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Biographical picture
biographical film, drama film
Elizabeth Barrett is the disabled, adult daughter of Edward Moulton-Barrett of Wimpole Street, and she has an intense interest in poetry. However, she lives under the obsessive rule of her father, and his domination severely limits her abi…
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