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 90.
Biographical picture, Crime, crime film
The film details the events surrounding the death of Las Vegas casino owner Ted Binion. It follows the ensuing investigation of Binion's life and the people in it, such as Binion's sister Becky, his girlfriend Sandy Murphy, and Sandy's lov…
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Adventure, Drama, drama film
The film follows a ten-year-old boy with terminal cancer who is fascinated by butterflies. His final wish is to find the rare blue morpho butterfly, which lives in tropical rainforests. After his mother persuades an entomologist to help, t…
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Biographical documentary, documentary film
Drama, Film Noir, biographical film, comedy drama, prison film
Prison psychologist Doc attempts to help his incarcerated patients.
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Biographical documentary, Musical
The film is narrated by Tomlinson himself and paired with archival footage from the past. It also includes interviews with his family members. The film primarily covers the timeframe between the indefinite hiatus of One Direction and the c…
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Biographical picture
In the early 1980s, Pierre Durand, Jr. resigns from his career as a lawyer and becomes a professional equestrian, focusing on show jumping. He purchases Jappeloup de Luze (1975–1991) from .
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
Beginning in 1863, the film dramatises events in the personal life and career of Sarah Bernhardt, through her unsteady beginnings, through her job as a nurse in the Franco-Prussian War, to becoming the star of Parisian theatre.
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biographical film
Marva Collins is a teacher in the Chicago Public School System. She expresses her dissatisfaction to how the schools are currently run, and believes that the system prevents children from reaching their full potential. She convinces her hu…
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Biographical documentary, biographical film, music documentary film
biographical film, romantic comedy
Giacomo Casanova has to give up law studies because he sleeps with his teacher's daughters. He tries the priesthood but seduces a young widow. He feuds with an Austrian noble, Razetta, after stealing the latter's mistress.
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Biographical documentary
documentary film
The film depicts Tommy Chong of Cheech & Chong and his legal problems with the Department of Justice. Filmmaker Josh Gilbert follows the tale of Chong as he becomes a target in a government sting, code named "Operation Pipe Dreams". Tommy …
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documentary film
The film argues that persistent infection with Lyme disease is responsible for a variety of debilitating symptoms. It presents advocates of the position, including "chronic Lyme" pressure group International Lyme and Associated Diseases So…
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Western, biographical film
Nathaniel Reed (Trace Adkins) is a retired outlaw living a quiet life as a rancher under an alias. His peace is shattered when U.S. Marshal Woody Calhoun (Kim Coates) resurfaces, seeking revenge for a past robbery that left him maimed.
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Documentation, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, documentary film
The film follows the singing and acting career of Tally Brown, a classically trained opera and blues singer who became a star of the New York underground scene in the late 1960s. In this documentary, von Praunheim draws on extensive interv…
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documentary film
The film uses interviews shot by the filmmakers, footage of Derrida's lectures and speaking engagements, and personal footage of Derrida at home with his friends and family. In several scenes, Ziering Kofman also reads excerpts from Derrid…
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Documentation, biographical film, documentary film
50 years after her death, two boxes of Marilyn Monroe's writings—diaries, poems and letters—were discovered in the home of Lee Strasberg, her acting coach. The film features dramatic readings of Monroe's writings by actors, film critics, j…
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Biographical documentary, documentary film, political film
Adventure, drama film
Tony Fitzjohn (John Michie) has just come to work on Kora, a lion preserve, for two elderly brothers, George and Terrence Adamson (Ian Bannen). On his first day, Fitzjohn ignores George's advice not to run and is nearly mauled. Being infor…
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biographical film, drama fiction, drama film, mystery film, science fiction film
The movie begins in Aiken, South Carolina in 1975. Dannion Brinkley is a Vietnam veteran who works as a deliveryman in his parents store. A young man with a dark side, he is unfaithful to his loving wife Casey and bullies everyone else aro…
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biographical film, drama film
biographical film, crime film, film noir
Chicago mob boss Rocca manages to get Lester Gillis sprung from jail in Joliet. His motive is to have Gillis kill a labor organizer, but Gillis refuses, preferring to work with Rocca's gang on robberies instead. He meets mob moll Sue Nelso…
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Drama, biographical film, drama film
In the late eighteenth century a young widow is wooed by Aaron Burr and James Madison. At first, she prefers the charming Burr, but when he reveals his ambitions to rule the United States as a tyrant, she decides to marry Madison. After Bu…
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Biographical documentary