Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.Explore biographical films about the lives of notable people.
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biographical film, drama film, historical film
Inge Sargent, an Austrian student and Sao Kya Seng, a young mining student from Burma fall in love. But it is only at the lavish wedding ceremony that Inge discovers her husband is the ruling prince of Hsipaw, a princely state in Burma. Af…
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Documentation, Musical, biographical film, documentary film
Biographical picture, drama film
In 1939, a funeral procession is held for Norman Bethune in China while journalist Chester Rice reads about his death in Canada. Rice recounts the research he conducted into Bethune. Bethune comes to Hankou, China in 1938, during the Secon…
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biographical film, drama film, historical film
In 1955, a Jewish man named Nyiszli comes to the Japan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in search of Chiune "Senbo" Sugihara, a man who once saved his life. An officer named Ichiro Sekimitsu, who acommondates Nyiszli, replies that "There is no…
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biographical film, drama film
In 1982, Theresa Saldana is an American actress living in West Hollywood. When her mother calls from New York City and tells Theresa that she got a call from director Martin Scorsese's assistant about a film role in Europe, her husband, Fr…
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Biographical documentary, documentary film
Biographical documentary, documentary film
documentary film
In Citizen Kane, Welles plays Charles Foster Kane, whose fictional life partially mirrors that of Hearst's, as well as Hearst's longtime rival, Joseph Pulitzer. However, Chicago inventor and utilities magnate Samuel Insull, Chicago Tribune…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film, musical film, romance film
The partially fictionalized film is set in 1977, the year in which Callas died, and centers on the making of a movie of Georges Bizet's Carmen. The diva, whose now-ragged voice is well past its prime, is persuaded to star in it by longtime…
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American football film, biographical film
biographical film, drama film
In pre-Revolutionary France, Voltaire champions the oppressed commoners and tries to warn King Louis XV about the growing unrest among his subjects. The writer has a powerful ally in Madame Pompadour, Louis' mistress, but the Count de Sarn…
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Biographical documentary, Musical
The film explores Capaldi's musical career starting from his adolescence and his teen years, up to the release of his debut studio album, Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent, as well as his mental health struggles, Tourette's diagnosis…
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Biographical documentary, documentary film
documentary film
The documentary begins without narration as a plane lands down in the remote part of the desert where Chicken Ranch is situated while a number from the Broadway musical based on the Texas situated Ranch is played. Before the documentary sc…
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Drama, Musical, biographical film, rockumentary
The story focuses on the Turtles in the days leading up to and following the success of their single "Happy Together". Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman receive their draft cards and Frank Zappa tells them to seek advice from Herb Cohen, Zappa…
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biographical film, drama film, family film, historical film, war film
It is 1943 and Colette Cohen, a beautiful young Belgian-Jewish woman, is imprisoned in Auschwitz -Birkenau where she meets a fellow prisoner, Vili Feld, a Slovak-Jew, and they fall in love. They both experience the daily torture and slave …
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Biographical picture, Komödie, biographical film
Biographical picture, Sport, biographical film
A scout for the St. Louis Cardinals comes to a small town in the Ozarks to assess pitcher Jerome Herman Dean (Dailey). Dean, with an over-abundance of self-confidence, is certain that the club wants him to start immediately and is surprise…
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Biographical documentary, biographical film, documentary film
In chronological order, the documentary explores the work of Charlie Chaplin and sheds light on the controversies related to his personal life.
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biographical film, drama film
A young Errol Flynn leaves Sydney and has various adventures in New Guinea. He returns to Australia and starts acting in movies.
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biographical film, drama film
Saul of Tarsus persecutes those who spread the teachings of Jesus, and witnesses the stoning of Stephen. However, he reevaluates his beliefs, converting to Christianity and being baptized as Paul.
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Historie, Komödie, biographical film, drama film, romance film
The palace of the demanding and iron-fisted Russian czarina Catherine the Great is full of intrigue. Devoted chancellor Nicolai Ilyitch conducts delicate negotiations for a treaty with France while surreptitiously stealing from the imperia…
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Biographical documentary
biographical film
This is a biographical drama about Louisiana politician Huey Long, whose nickname was The Kingfish. He served as the 40th governor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1932 and as a member of the United States Senate from 1932 until his assassination…
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