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 93.
Biographical documentary, documentary film
The film tells the story of Kurt Vonnegut's life and work. At the same time, it explores the process of making this film, which started 40 years earlier.
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Biographical documentary, documentary film
Biographical picture, Drama
Biographical documentary, biographical film, documentary film
Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
Writer Mitch Albom is asked to write the eulogy for his childhood rabbi but is reluctant to do so.
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biographical film
This film follows the life of basketball legend Eric "Hank" Gathers, from his growing up in the ghettos of Philadelphia to his freshman year at USC through his brief career playing basketball for Loyola Marymount University, where he colla…
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Biographical documentary
Biographical documentary, LGBTQ-related film, documentary film
Chris & Don tells the story of a romance that began on the beaches of Santa Monica in the 1950s, when Christopher Isherwood at age 48 met Don Bachardy who then was eighteen years old. Isherwood, an established author with works such as The…
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biographical film
biographical film, comedy television program
Biopicture about Mary Kay Ash, cosmetics queen and business woman. She tells her story of her rise to fame to the inquiring reporter Annika Kern. Her powerful position is threatened by the much younger Jinger Heath.
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Biographical picture, Drama
Simon Jackson is an awkward high school teenager who befriends a white bear that saves his life. He learns that the bear is endangered by the destruction of its habitat from logging and grows out of his shell to launch a campaign to the go…
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Biographical picture, Crime, biographical film, crime film, drama film, heist film, romance film
The rogue who would later call himself Eugène François Vidocq is born in a prison cell, the twelfth child of a woman who steals a loaf of bread each time she needs shelter to give birth. As the boy grows into a man, he is constantly in and…
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biographical film, independent film, rockumentary
The film details the history of both the New York Dolls and one of its members, Arthur "Killer" Kane. The film narrates the history of the band from its formation in 1972, through its drug problems and the deaths of several of its members.…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
An imaginative, curious—and clumsy—boy Tom continually gets into mischief and causes accidents with his inventions and experiments. The townspeople regard him as a troublemaker and figure of fun. The schoolmistress expels him for daydreami…
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Biographical documentary
Using archival footage (ranging from past interviews with people who worked with him to the director's own home movies) and rare audio interviews of the filmmaker explaining his own interpretations on his own works.
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biographical film, documentary film
P. K. Nair's fascination with cinema began as a child and he watched his first few films lying on the white sand floor of a cinema in Trivandrum.
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Biographical picture, biographical film
Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
biographical film, boxing film, drama film
In the 1930s, boxer Barney Ross wins the welterweight championship, then meets chorus girl Cathy Holland as he celebrates. Sam Pian, his trainer, learns that Barney placed a $10,000 bet on himself to win the fight. Barney's love interest i…
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Biographical documentary, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, documentary film, historical film
biographical film, musical film, romantic comedy
In New York, George Petty tries to convince auto manufacturer B. J. Manton to feature pretty women in advertisements for his dreary new car model.
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Biographical documentary, documentary film
The film follows the life and career of Jacques Cousteau, who tried to warn the world for decades about environmental issues.
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Documentation, documentary film
Shot primarily during a two-day period surrounding the University of Alabama integration crisis on June 11, 1963, the film follows President John F. Kennedy, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, Governor George Wallace of Alabama, Deputy At…
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War Film, drama film
In the aviation establishment of the 1930s, well-known aviator Tonie Carter is fighting the prejudice against women pilots. One of her rivals, pilot Randy Britton, is attracted to her. After setting flight records flying for her former men…
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