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Anvil The Story Of Anvil

Genres: Documentary, Biography, Music

Country: Canada

Director: Sacha Gervasi

Duration: 80 min

Year: 2008

Actors: Robb Reiner, Steve 'Lips' Kudlow, Tiziana Arrigoni

At 14 best friends Robb Reiner and Lips made a pact to rock together forever. Their band Anvil hailed as the demi-gods of Canadian metal influenced a musical generation that includes Metallica Slayer and Anthrax despite never hitting the big time. Following a calamitous European tour Lips and Robb now in their fifties set off to record their 13th album in one last attempt to fulfill...

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A Band Called Death

Genres: Documentary, Biography, Music

Country: United States

Director: Mark Christopher Covino (as Mark Covino), Jeff Howlett

Duration: 96 min

Year: 2012

Actors: Bobby Hackney, David Hackney, Dannis Hackney

Before Bad Brains the Sex Pistols or even the Ramones there was a band called Death. Punk before punk existed three teenage brothers in the early 70s formed a band in their spare bedroom began playing a few local gigs and even pressed a single in the hoped of getting signed. But this was the era of Motown and emerging disco. Record companies found Deaths music - and band name - too...

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The Edge Of Love

Genres: Biography, Drama, Romance, War

Country: United Kingdom

Director: John Maybury

Duration: 110 min

Year: 2008

Actors: Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller, Matthew Rhys

Two feisty free-spirited women are connected by the brilliant charismatic poet who loves them both. The passion and pathos of legendary poet Dylan Thomas is told through the lives of two extraordinary women. Vera Phillips and Dylan were teenage loves; fast forward ten years and the two reconnect in London. Shes working as a singer whilst hes churning out scripts for government propaganda...

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The Diary Of Anne Frank

Genres: Biography, Drama, Family, History, ...

Country: United States

Director: George Stevens

Duration: 152 min

Year: 1959

Actors: Millie Perkins, Shelley Winters, Joseph Schildkraut

Based on Anne Franks diary and the stage play that was adapted from it: In Nazi-occupied Holland Otto Frank and his family have decided to go into hiding because of the increasing persecutions against Jews. The businessman Kraler and his assistant Miep prepare a hiding place in the rooms above their place of business and arrange for the Franks and another family the Van Daans to stay...

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The Desert Fox: The Story Of Rommel

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, War

Country: United States

Director: Henry Hathaway

Duration: 88 min

Year: 1951

Actors: James Mason, Cedric Hardwicke, Jessica Tandy

This biopic follows Rommels career after the Afrika Korps including his work on the defenses of Fortress Europe as well as his part in the assassination attempt on Hitler and his subsequent...

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The Chronicle History Of King Henry The Fift With His Battell Fought At Agincourt In France

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, War

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Laurence Olivier

Duration: 137 min

Year: 1944

Actors: Laurence Olivier, Robert Newton, Leslie Banks

In the inspired Olivier concept Shakespeares play begins as a performance in the Globe Theatre shifting in broad cinematic terms to an epic narrative of Henry V who had developed from a dissolute youth to a purposeful monarch. Proving his ability as a soldier and skillful leader he unites the dissident factions in the English army and goes on to crush the French against enormous odds at...

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The Chameleon

Genres: Biography, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States, Canada, France

Director: Jean-Paul Salomé

Duration: 106 min

Year: 2010

Actors: Marc-André Grondin, Ellen Barkin, Famke Janssen

The amazing true story of Frédéric Bourdin who after having plundered all the centers for runaway minors and deliquents in Europe even thought he has come of age now passes himself off as Nicholas Barclay a 13-year-old American who had vanished three years ago. To his astonishment Nicholass family welcomes him like their son leaving Interpol and the FBI aghast. It is the beginning of a...

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The Best Of Men

Genres: Biography

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Tim Whitby

Duration: 90 min

Year: 2012

Actors: George MacKay, Bee Bee Sanders, Leigh Quinn

Towards the end of the second world war Dr Ludwig Guttmann a brisk refugee from Nazi Germany arrives at Stoke Mandeville hospital in Buckinghamshire and is appalled to find the partially paralysed spinal patients heavily sedated and left to rot with bed sores. He immediately begins a new regimedisposing of old equipment and sedatives bringing him into conflict with stern Sister Edwards and...

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The Baader Meinhof Complex

Genres: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, ...

Country: Germany, France, Czech Republic

Director: Uli Edel

Duration: 150 min

Year: 2008

Actors: Martina Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu, Johanna Wokalek

Germany in the 1970s: Murderous bomb attacks the threat of terrorism and the fear of the enemy inside are rocking the very foundations of the yet fragile German democracy. The radicalised children of the Nazi generation lead by Andreas Baader Ulrike Meinhof and Gudrun Ensslin are fighting a violent war against what they perceive as the new face of fascism: American imperialism supported by the...

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The Autobiography Of Nicolae Ceausescu

Genres: Documentary, Biography, History

Country: Romania

Director: Andrei Ujica

Duration: 180 min

Year: 2010

Actors: Nicolae Ceausescu, Elena Ceausescu, Leonid Brezhnev

During the summary trial that he and his wife were submitted to Nicolae Ceausescu is reviewing his long reign in power: 1965-1989. From a formal point of view The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu proves that it is possible to only use existing images to yield films focused on recent history yet with an epic vein similar to that of the historical fiction cinema. This is an eminently syntactic...

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The Audrey Hepburn Story

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United States, Canada

Director: Steven Robman

Duration: 133 min

Year: 2000

Actors: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Frances Fisher, Keir Dullea

Biographic made-for-TV movie of the life of one of Hollywoods most famous actreses: Audrey Hepburn spaning from her early childhood to the 1960s which details her life as Dutch overachieving ballerina coming to grips with her parents divorce and enduring five hard years of living in Nazi occupied Holland during World War II. Audrey then settles in the USA where she tries to make it big as a...

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The Assassination Of Richard Nixon

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United States, Mexico

Director: Niels Mueller

Duration: 95 min

Year: 2004

Actors: Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Don Cheadle

In 1974 Samuel Joseph Byck attempted to hijack a plane he intended to fly into the White House to kill Richard Nixon - possibly the first time an airliner was to be used as a flying bomb in a terrorist attack. Sam Bicke is a lonely ineffectual incompetent who feels wronged by his family friends employers and the world in general though his problems are largely of his own making and his...

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The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford

Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, ...

Country: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Director: Andrew Dominik

Duration: 160 min

Year: 2007

Actors: Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, Sam Shepard

The last months of Jesse Jamess life from meeting Robert Ford a 19-year-old who idolizes Jesse to the day Ford shoots him. Jesses a wanted man living under a pseudonym carrying out a train robbery disappearing to Kentucky and reappearing to plan a bank holdup with Robert and Roberts brother as his team. The rest of the gang is dead arrested or gone from Missouri. Whenever Jesses...

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The Actress

Genres: Biography, Comedy, Drama

Country: United States

Director: George Cukor

Duration: 90 min

Year: 1953

Actors: Spencer Tracy, Jean Simmons, Teresa Wright

Former seaman Clinton Jones now works at a lowly job. His daughter Ruth wants to become an actress. Clinton gets fired and Ruth rejects the advances of Fred Whitmarsh. Her father gives her his seamans spyglass to sell as she heads for New York...

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Temple Grandin

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United States

Director: Mick Jackson

Duration: 107 min

Year: 2010

Actors: Claire Danes, Julia Ormond, David Strathairn

Biopic of Temple Grandin an autistic woman who overcame the limitations imposed on her by her condition to become a Ph.D. and expert in the field of animal husbandry. She developed an interest in cattle early in life while spending time at her Aunt and Uncles ranch. She did not speak until age four and had difficulty right through high school mostly in dealing with people. Her mother was very...

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Ted Bundy

Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States, United Kingdom

Director: Matthew Bright

Duration: 99 min

Year: 2002

Actors: Michael Reilly Burke, Boti Bliss, Julianna McCarthy

Docu-drama based on the life of Ted Bundy a serial killer who killed at least 19 young women during the 1970s though some sources say as many as 30 to 35 were murdered. Set from his college student years to his first victims his capture escape from prison twice his final killing spree to his trial conviction and...

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Tarnation

Genres: Documentary, Biography

Country: United States

Director: Jonathan Caouette

Duration: 88 min

Year: 2003

Actors: Jonathan Caouette, Renee Leblanc, Adolph Davis

Part documentary part narrative fiction part home movie and part acid trip. A psychedelic whirlwind of snapshots Super-8 home movies old answering machine messages video diaries early short films snippets of 80s pop culture and dramatic reenactments to create an epic portrait of an American family travesty. The story begins in 2003 when Jonathan learns that his schizophrenic mother...

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Sylvia

Genres: Biography, Drama, Romance

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Christine Jeffs

Duration: 110 min

Year: 2003

Actors: Gwyneth Paltrow, Daniel Craig, Lucy Davenport

In 1956 aspiring American poet Sylvia Plath meets fellow poet Edward Ted Hughes at Cambridge where she is studying. Enthralled with the genius of his writing Sylvia falls in love with him even before meeting him and he quickly falls in love with her. They eventually marry. Sylvia quickly learns that others are also enthralled with her husband for a combination of his good looks charisma...

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Sybil

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United States

Director:

Duration: 198 min

Year: 1976

Actors: Joanne Woodward, Sally Field, Brad Davis

The story tells of a young woman admitting to have blackouts fearing they are getting worse. She is believed to suffer from multiple personalities as a result of severe abuse at the hands of her mother whom the psychiatrist Cornelia B. Wilbur believes was schizophrenic. The movie Sibyl is based upon author Flora Rheta Schreiberthes novel and fictionalized version of the life story of...

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Star 80 - Tod Eines Playmates

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United States

Director: Bob Fosse

Duration: 103 min

Year: 1983

Actors: Mariel Hemingway, Eric Roberts, Cliff Robertson

Paul Snider is a narcissistic small time hustler who fancies himself a ladies man. His life changes when he meets Dorothy Stratten working behind the counter of a Dairy Queen. Dorothy is a pretty but naive high school senior. Paul immediately falls for Dorothy who sees in Paul a wise worldly person unlike herself. Paul believes Dorothy is Playboy material the magazine he sees as only a...

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Stander

Genres: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama

Country: United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, South Africa

Director: Bronwen Hughes

Duration: 111 min

Year: 2003

Actors: Thomas Jane, David O'Hara, Dexter Fletcher

In the early 1980s a white police officer Andres Stander played by Thomas Jane in Johannesburg suffers a crisis of conscience due to his involvement in apartheid and becomes a notorious bank robber on the run. Then from 1983 to 1984 the Stander gang Stander Alan Heyl & Patrick McCall rob as many as four banks a...

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Spartacus

Genres: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, ...

Country: United States

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Duration: 197 min

Year: 1960

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons

In 73 BCE a Thracian slave leads a revolt at a gladiatorial school run by Lentulus Batiatus. The uprising soon spreads across the Italian Peninsula involving thousand of slaves. The plan is to acquire sufficient funds to acquire ships from Silesian pirates who could then transport them to other lands from Brandisium in the south. The Roman Senator Gracchus schemes to have Marcus Publius Glabrus...

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Sophie Scholl - Die Letzten Tage

Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, ...

Country: Germany

Director: Marc Rothemund

Duration: 120 min

Year: 2005

Actors: Julia Jentsch, Fabian Hinrichs, Gerald Alexander Held

The Final Days is the true story of Germanys most famous anti-Nazi heroine brought to life. Sophie Scholl is the fearless activist of the underground student resistance group The White Rose. Using historical records of her incarceration the film re-creates the last six days of Sophie Scholls life: a journey from arrest to interrogation trial and sentence in 1943 Munich. Unwavering in her...

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Siberian Education

Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama

Country: Italy

Director: Gabriele Salvatores

Duration: 110 min

Year: 2013

Actors: Arnas Fedaravicius, Vilius Tumalavicius, Eleanor Tomlinson

A drama based on a memoir about growing up as a member of the Urka community in the small republic of...

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Shadowlands - Ein Geschenk Des Augenblicks

Genres: Biography, Drama, Romance

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Richard Attenborough

Duration: 131 min

Year: 1993

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Debra Winger, Julian Fellowes

CS Lewis is the author of the Narnia books - The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe. Known as Jack he teaches at an Oxford College during the 1930s. An American fan Joy Gresham arrives to meet him for tea in Oxford. It is the beginning of a love affair. Tragically Joy becomes terminally unwell and their lives become...

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Serpico

Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama

Country: United States, Italy

Director: Sidney Lumet

Duration: 130 min

Year: 1973

Actors: Al Pacino, John Randolph, Jack Kehoe

Serpico is a cop in the 1960s-early 1970s. Unlike all his colleagues he refuses a share of the money that the cops routinely extort from local criminals. Nobody wants to work with Serpico and hes in constant danger of being placed in life threatening positions by his partners. Nothing seems to get done even when he goes to the highest of authorities. Despite the dangers he finds himself in...

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Self Medicated

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United States

Director: Monty Lapica

Duration: 107 min

Year: 2005

Actors: Monty Lapica, Diane Venora, Michael Bowen

Based on true events. On the edges of Las Vegas 17-year-old Andrews life is spiraling out of control. Unable to cope with the loss of his father Andrews descent into drugs and violence is gaining momentum and the once promising young man is now headed for self-destruction. Andrews mother helpless to control her son and fighting an addiction of her own refuses to watch idly as her only...

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Samurai Iii: Duel At Ganryu Island

Genres: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, ...

Country: Japan

Director: Hiroshi Inagaki

Duration: 105 min

Year: 1956

Actors: Toshirô Mifune, Mariko Okada, Kôji Tsuruta

A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. Hes sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun Japans most powerful clan leader. Hes also challenged to fight by the supremely confident and skillful Sasaki Kojiro. Takezo agrees to fight Kojiro in a years time but rejects Shoguns patronage choosing instead to live on the edge of a village raising vegetables. Hes followed...

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Robert Mugabe... What Happened?

Genres: Documentary, Biography, History, News

Country: United Kingdom, France, South Africa

Director: Simon Bright

Duration: 84 min

Year: 2011

Actors: Guy de Lancey

Robert Mugabe... what happened? charts the Shakespearean rise and fall of the man who led a very successful African country and then ruined it. Mugabe was damned as a terrorist then knighted by Queen Elizabeth and is still in power more than 30 years later. The film explores what happened through interviews with some of his closest comrades. It assembles a unique collection of southern...

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