Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.Explore biographical films about the lives of notable people.
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biographical film
Starting when Hank Jr. was eight-years-old his mother Audrey had him on concert stages singing his famous father’s songs. When Hank became a young man Audrey continued to control his life, so he became estranged from her, but continued tou…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
Eben Frost is seen heading through the snow to the farmhouse of William Morton's aging widow Lizzie. On the way he stops at a pawn shop and redeems a medal once awarded to Morton inscribed: "To the benefactor of mankind. With the gratitude…
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Biographical picture, Coming Of Age, Drama, Political Drama
The film portrays the early life of the director in his home city, Alexandria.
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Biographical documentary, Musical, biographical film, documentary film, musical film
Nothing Compares is the story of Sinéad O'Connor's phenomenal rise to worldwide fame and how her iconoclastic personality resulted in her exile from the pop mainstream. Focusing on her prophetic words and deeds from 1987–1993, the film ref…
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Biographical documentary, Essayfilm, biographical film, documentary film
The documentary follows Czech photographer Libuše Jarcovjáková through several decades of her life and career. Using her personal photographs, diaries, and narration, the film recounts her experiences in Czechoslovakia during the period of…
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Drama, Historie, biographical film, drama film, historical drama
Towards the conclusion of the Second World War, Japan nears defeat as Emperor Hirohito reminisces about the final war years. He is depicted as still surrounded by his attentive staff who look after his every bodily need. When Hirohito rece…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
LGBTQ-related film, documentary film
This documentary intimately follows the lives of six subjects for about five years starting in 1999. Through their experiences, the documentary explores gender, sexuality, race, and class. The aggressives are young, queer, masculine presen…
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biographical film, drama film
Monumental Film, biographical film, drama film, silent film
thumb|left|thumbtime=15|Joan the Woman (1916) A British officer in World War I has a dream of the life of Joan of Arc. The officer pulls a sword out of the wall of the trench he is in, the sword used to belong to Joan of Arc. Removing the …
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biographical film, documentary film, sport film
Biographical picture, Coming Of Age, biographical film, coming-of-age film, drama film
biographical film
The film is presented in the style of a Laurel and Hardy comedy, with Nixon in the Oliver Hardy role, and Agnew in the Stan Laurel role.
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documentary film
The film follows the life of Bill Withers, from his roots in West Virginia to his career in the United States Navy, to his famed musical career and post-retirement family life.
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Biographical picture, Crime, biographical film, crime film, trial film
In late 1910, Crippen is portrayed as a downtrodden cuckold continually humiliated by his coarse, overbearing wife. There is a strong suggestion in the story that he may have been innocent of murder, possibly killing his wife by accident, …
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Biographical picture, Crime, Gangster Film, biographical film, crime film, drama film
The film tells the story of three teenagers, based on real life gangsters Charles "Lucky" Luciano , Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel and Michael Lasker , growing up in New York's ghettos during the early 1900s to their rise though organized crime.
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biographical film, drama film
Secret Agent, biographical film
The film presents the life of Richard Sorge (Iain Glen), a German spy for the Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) of the Soviet Army in Japan. Sorge and his contact Hotsumi Ozaki (Masahiro Motoki) are arrested by the Tokubetsu Kōtō Keisats…
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Biographical picture, Drama, Komödie
Shortly after graduating from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, Geralyn Lucas lands her dream job working for 20/20. Lucas is then diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 27 and has a dilemma — whether to have a lumpe…
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Western, biographical film
Kit Carson and his two saddle pals, Ape and Lopez are attacked by Indians. They manage to escape unscathed and make their way to Fort Bridger, where Captain John Fremont hires Carson to guide a wagon train westward to California south alon…
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Documentation, documentary film
Trouble the Water opens with the filmmakers meeting 24-year-old aspiring rap artist Kimberly Rivers Roberts and her husband Scott at a Red Cross shelter in Central Louisiana, then flashes back two weeks, with Kimberly turning her new video…
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Biographical picture, Historie
biographical film, drama film
Biographical picture, Sport, biographical film
The film shows Maravich's efforts to make the D. W. Daniel High School varsity team as an eighth grader as he deals with racially charged issues in the Deep South of the 1950s.
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