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Adventure, Biographical picture, LGBTQ-related film, Monumental Film, Swords and Sandals, action film, biographical film, drama film, sword-and-sandal film, war film
Around 285 BC, Ptolemy I Soter, basileus and pharaoh of Ptolemaic Egypt, narrates the life of Alexander. Alexander grows up with his mother Olympias and his tutor Aristotle, where he finds interest in love, honor, music, exploration, poetr…
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Martial-Arts, action film, biographical film, martial arts film
U.S. Army Captain Frank Dux, who has trained in the ways of ninjutsu since childhood under sensei Senzo Tanaka, receives an invitation to the Kumite, a three-day underground martial arts tournament in Hong Kong. Going absent without leave,…
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Drama, biographical film, drama film, prison film
Henri Charrière is a safecracker nicknamed "Papillon" because of the butterfly tattoo on his chest. In France, he is wrongly convicted of murdering a pimp in 1933 and is sentenced to life imprisonment in French Guiana. On the way, he meets…
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Biographical picture, Drama, Musical, Romance Film, biographical film, drama film, musical film, neo-noir, romance film
The Kid is the talented but troubled frontman of his Minneapolis-based band The Revolution. To escape his abusive home life, The Kid spends his days rehearsing and nights performing at the First Avenue nightclub. The Revolution, the flashy…
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Biographical documentary, Concert film, Documentation, biographical film, documentary film, musical film
Christian film, biographical film, drama film
MercyMe's "I Can Only Imagine" becomes the most-played song in the history of Christian radio. Bart Millard, the band's lead singer, wins for Song of the Year at the 33rd GMA Dove Awards in 2002. He is married to Shannon and has five young…
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Biographical picture, Historie, biographical film, drama film
In 1558, 42-year-old Catholic Queen Mary I of England, the daughter of Henry VIII and his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, dies, presumably from a cancerous tumor in her womb. Mary's heir presumptive and 25-year-old half sister, Lady Eliza…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
In 1984, the Apple Macintosh 128K's voice demo fails less than an hour before its unveiling at Flint Center. Apple co-founder Steve Jobs demands engineer Andy Hertzfeld to fix it, threatening to publicly implicate him in the presentation's…
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Biographical picture, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, drama film, romance film
In 1987, a nearly 70-year-old Leonard Bernstein plays a sequence on a piano from his opera A Quiet Place while being interviewed in his home. After he finishes, he shares brief details regarding the significant impact left on him by Felici…
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Crime, Family Drama, biographical film, crime film, drama film
In 2005, Korean War veteran and celebrated daylily horticulturalist Earl Stone misses his daughter Iris's wedding so he can receive a lifetime award celebrating his professional accomplishments. Enraged that her father once again chose his…
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Dark Comedy, Marital Tragedy, Psychodrama, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama, drama film
A Jewish man in a 19th-century Eastern European shtetl tells his wife that he was helped on his way home by Reb Groshkover, whom he has invited in for soup. She says Groshkover is dead and the man he invited must be a dybbuk. Groshkover ar…
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Biographical picture, Destiny, Romance Film, biographical film, drama film, historical film, melodrama, romance film
In 1963, Stephen Hawking, a postgraduate astrophysics student at the University of Cambridge, begins a relationship with literature student Jane Wilde. Although Stephen is intelligent, both his friends and fellow academics are worried abou…
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Biographical picture, Historie, biographical film, drama film, romance film, war film
In 1915, married journalist and suffragist Louise Bryant encounters the radical journalist John Reed for the first time at a lecture in Portland, Oregon, and is intrigued with his idealism. After meeting him for an interview on internation…
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Crime, Satire, Satire On Media, biographical film, black comedy film, comedy drama, comedy film, crime drama film, crime film, drama film
Rupert Pupkin is a delusional stand-up comedian unsuccessfully trying to launch his career. After meeting Jerry Langford, a successful comedian and talk-show host, Rupert believes that his "big break" has finally come. He attempts to book …
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Drama, Drama Documentary, Gangster Film, biographical film, crime film, drama film, teen film
In 1999, Johnny Truelove works as a young drug dealer while making a living in the San Gabriel Valley. Johnny's father, Sonny, supplies him with marijuana, which he distributes with his gang of friends: Frankie Ballenbacher, Johnny's right…
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Biographical picture, Crime, Drama, biographical film, crime film, drama film, prison film
George Jung and his parents Fred and Ermine live in Weymouth, Massachusetts. When George is 10 years old, Fred files for bankruptcy but tries to make George realize that money is not important. In the late 1960s, an adult George moves to L…
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Biographical picture, Destiny, Social Drama, biographical film, boxing film, drama film
James J. Braddock is an Irish-American boxer from New Jersey, formerly a light heavyweight contender, who is forced to give up boxing after breaking his hand in the ring. This is both a relief and a burden to his wife, Mae.
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Drama, Historie, biographical film, drama film, historical film
Abdul Karim, a young prison clerk from a Muslim, Urdu-speaking family in Agra, British India, is instructed to travel to Britain for Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee in 1888 to present her with a mohur, a gold coin that has been minted as a…
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Drama, Historie, Political Drama, Social Drama, Sport, biographical film, drama film, historical film, sport film
On 11 February 1990, Nelson Mandela is released from Victor Verster Prison after 27 years in captivity. Four years later, he is elected President of South Africa at a time of enormous challenges in the post-apartheid era, including rampant…
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Animation
At Orly Airport in Paris, Marjane "Marji" Satrapi prepares to board a plane to Tehran, but changes her mind at the last moment. She spends the whole day at the airport, reflecting on her life before her departure from France. During the 19…
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Biographical picture, drama film
Biographical picture, Drama, biographical film, children's film, coming-of-age film, drama film, family film, teen film
In October 1957, the Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite. Witnessing Sputnik as it passes over the mining community of Coalwood, West Virginia, 17-year-old Homer Hickam is inspired to build his own rockets. His …
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Biographical picture, Christmas film, Tragic Comedy Film, biographical film, comedy film, drama film
In 1990, Joy Mangano, an airline booking agent residing in Peconic, New York, struggles financially while juggling a complicated family life. Living with Joy are her two children and her single mother Terri, who spends all day in bed watch…
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, biographical film, crime film, drama film, trial film
In 1965, a pair of professional carnival workers named Lester and Betty Likens have two children, sixteen-year-old Sylvia Likens and Jenny, her disabled fifteen-year-old sister. Lester and Betty need to go on tour so they ask Gertrude Bani…
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