Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.Explore biographical films about the lives of notable people.
Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 3,019 films · Page 89.
biographical film, drama film
In the 1980s, televangelist and PTL Club founder Jim Bakker and his wife Tammy decide to expand their PTL television ministry to include a village resort with an amusement park, which they christen Heritage USA. However, during this time, …
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Historical drama, biographical film, drama film
Documentation, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, documentary film, musical film
Biographical picture, biographical film
Georgia O'Keeffe (Joan Allen) is a young painter in the 1910s, while Alfred Stieglitz (Jeremy Irons) is New York-based photographer and art impresario, who discovers her works. Later, when O'Keeffe discovers that her works are displayed at…
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biographical film
biographical film, drama film, musical film
biographical film, drama film
American football film, Biographical picture, Sport, biographical film, drama film
Elroy Hirsch's life is told from his days in a school in Wisconsin and then at the University of Wisconsin where he already excelled in sports. After military service, Elroy becomes a professional athlete and earns the nickname of Crazyleg…
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Biographical picture, drama film
The film traces Duke’s rise to fame, beginning with her early years under the management of John and Ethel Ross, who changed her name from Anna Marie Duke to Patty Duke. It highlights her breakthrough role as Helen Keller in The Miracle Wo…
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Biographical documentary, biographical film, documentary film, historical film
Western film, biographical film
In the early 1900s, Will Rogers returns to his hometown in Oklahoma after two years of drifting. He meets and falls in love with Betty Blake, a friend of his sister's, but is unwilling to settle down on the ranch because he is happier meet…
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Drama, biographical film
The film focuses on the lives of Ephraim Hanks and Thomas Dobson, telling their stories in parallel. Hanks, a rebellious young man, joins the U.S. Navy after a violent confrontation with his father.
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biographical film
Biographical picture, drama film
Italy signed the Armistice of Cassibile on September 3, 1943. Davide proposes to Miriam, but she declines to marry him. The Jewish community in Rome acquiesces to give the Nazi troops 50 kilograms of gold.
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Biographical picture, Drama
biographical film, boxing film
Tiger is inspired by the true story of Pardeep Singh Nagra, a practicing Sikh man who was banned from the sport of boxing due to his religious beliefs. Pardeep fights back with the support of his coach and mentor (Mickey Rourke) and a comm…
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Documentation, biographical film, documentary film
The young composer Arthur Sullivan is encouraged by his friends and fiancée, Grace, to pursue the creation of "serious" works, such as his cantata The Prodigal Son, but he is pleased by the acclaim that he receives for the music to the sho…
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biographical film, drama film, historical film
Biographical documentary, biographical film, documentary film
The film opens with rare family footage in which Richard Williams asks his young daughters Venus and Serena Williams, years before they would become successful tennis players, if they feel a part of the ghetto, and what they like about it.…
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The film is based on the letters Giuseppe Conlon wrote from prison to his wife Sarah after he was wrongfully convicted in 1976 along with seven members of the Maguire family of running an IRA bomb factory in North London. Conlon received t…
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documentary film
The first experience follows Jeffrey and his brother Clifford Azize to the streets of The Big Apple, where the boys live with the homeless for a week in one of the coldest winters on record. The brothers are the children of divorced parent…
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Drama, drama film
As a young man, Emile went to England on a university scholarship, leaving behind his brutal older brother Carl and his creative younger brother Freddy to run the family farm in Saskatchewan. Despite promising Freddy that he would return, …
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