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Till The Clouds Roll By

Genres: Biography, Musical

Country: United States

Director: Richard Whorf, Vincente Minnelli (uncredited)

Duration: 132 min

Year: 1946

Actors: Robert Walker, Van Heflin, Lucille Bremer

Light bio-pic of American Broadway pioneer Jerome Kern featuring renditions of the famous songs from his musical plays by contemporary stage artists including a condensed production of his most famous:...

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This Boy's Life

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United States

Director: Michael Caton-Jones

Duration: 115 min

Year: 1993

Actors: Robert De Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ellen Barkin

In 1957 a son and mother flee the East and an abusive boyfriend to find a new life and end up in Seattle where the mother meets a polite garage mechanic. The boy continually gets into trouble by hanging out with the wrong crowd. The mom marries the mechanic but they soon find out that hes an abusive and unreasoning alcoholic and they struggle to maintain hope in an impossible situation as...

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Thirteen

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United States

Director: Catherine Hardwicke

Duration: 100 min

Year: 2003

Actors: Evan Rachel Wood, Holly Hunter, Nikki Reed

At the edge of adolescence Tracy is a smart straight-A student--if not a little naive it seems...she smokes and she cuts to alleviate the emotional pain she suffers from having a broken home and hating her moms boyfriend Brady. When she befriends Evie the most popular and beautiful girl in school Evie leads Tracy down a path of sex drugs and petty crime like stealing money from purses...

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The Young Victoria

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, Romance

Country: United States, United Kingdom

Director: Jean-Marc Vallée

Duration: 105 min

Year: 2009

Actors: Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Paul Bettany

Dominated by her possessive mother and her bullying consort Conroy since childhood teen-aged Victoria refuses to allow them the power of acting as her regent in the last days of her uncle William IVs rule. Her German cousin Albert is encouraged to court her for solely political motives but following her accession at age eighteen finds he is falling for her and is dismayed at her reliance...

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The Woodmans

Genres: Documentary, Biography

Country: United States, China, Italy

Director: Scott Willis

Duration: 82 min

Year: 2010

Actors: Catherine Chermayeff, Edwin Frank, Robert Kushner

The story of a family that suffers a tragedy but perseveres and finds redemption through each other and their work - making...

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The Wildest Dream

Genres: Documentary, Adventure, Biography

Country: United States

Director: Anthony Geffen

Duration: 94 min

Year: 2010

Actors: Conrad Anker, Susan Robertson, Robert Macfarlane

Uses astonishing visuals to tell the intersecting stories of George Mallory the first man to attempt a summit of Mount Everest and Conrad Anker the mountaineer who finds Mallorys frozen remains 75 years...

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The White Diamond

Genres: Documentary, Biography

Country: United Kingdom, Germany, Japan

Director: Werner Herzog

Duration: 88 min

Year: 2004

Actors: Werner Herzog, Graham Dorrington, Dieter Plage

About the daring adventure of exploring rainforest canopy with a novel flying device-the Jungle Airship. Airship engineer Dr. Graham Dorrington embarks on a trip to the giant Kaieteur Falls in the heart of Guyana hoping to fly his helium-filled invention above the tree-tops. But this logistic effort will not be without risk. Twelve years ago a similar expedition into the unique habitat of the...

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The Whistleblower (2010)

Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States, Germany, Canada

Director: Larysa Kondracki

Duration: 112 min

Year: 2010

Actors: Rachel Weisz, Monica Bellucci, Vanessa Redgrave

Inspired by true events Kathy Rachel Weisz is an American police officer who takes a job working as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia. Her expectations of helping to rebuild a devastated country are dashed when she uncovers a dangerous reality of corruption cover-up and intrigue amid a world of private contractors and multinational diplomatic...

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The Unsinkable Molly Brown

Genres: Biography, Comedy, Musical, Romance, ...

Country: United States

Director: Charles Walters

Duration: 128 min

Year: 1964

Actors: Debbie Reynolds, Harve Presnell, Ed Begley

Majestic mountains are in the background and a waterfall in the foreground. Is that a canoe on the river? No its a cradle with a baby. The buoyant Molly Brown has survived the first crisis of her life -- a flood. Sixteen years later she sets out to make her way in the world. Can she sing and play the piano? She assures the Leadville saloon keeper that she can and learns quickly. Soon she is the...

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The True Story Of Jesse James

Genres: Action, Biography, Crime, Western

Country: United States

Director: Nicholas Ray

Duration: 92 min

Year: 1957

Actors: Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Hope Lange

The last eighteen years in the life of Jesse James showing his home life in Missouri his experiences with Quantrills raiders his career of banditry with his brother Frank and the Younger brothers and his attempt to lead a peaceful life after the disastrous attempt to rob the bank at Northfield...

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The Times Of Harvey Milk

Genres: Documentary, Biography, History

Country: United States

Director: Rob Epstein (as Robert Epstein)

Duration: 90 min

Year: 1984

Actors: Harvey Fierstein, Harvey Milk, Anne Kronenberg

Member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors Harvey Milk and San Francisco Mayor George Moscone were assassinated by Supervisor Dan White on November 27 1978. Milks life leading up to his election his successful efforts to politically represent San Franciscos gay community and the citys reaction to the assassinations are documented with extensive news film and personal...

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The Story Of Adele H

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Country: France

Director: François Truffaut

Duration: 96 min

Year: 1975

Actors: Isabelle Adjani, Bruce Robinson, Sylvia Marriott

Halifax 1863. A young woman Miss Lewly comes to Halifax to search for Lt Pinson with whom she is madly in love. Actually she is Adèle Hugo the second daughter of the great French literary figure and statesman. The Lt Pinson does not answer to her love and makes her understand it is hopeless. But as her obsession grows she keeps chasing and harassing him. This film about passionate yet...

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The Spirit Of St. Louis

Genres: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History

Country: United States

Director: Billy Wilder

Duration: 135 min

Year: 1957

Actors: James Stewart, Murray Hamilton, Patricia Smith

Biography of Charles Lindburgh from his days of precarious mail runs in aviations infancy to his design of a small transatlantic plane and the vicissitudes of its takeoff and epochal flight from New York to Paris in...

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The Soul Keeper

Genres: Biography, Drama, Romance, War

Country: United Kingdom, Italy, France

Director: Roberto Faenza

Duration: 90 min

Year: 2002

Actors: Iain Glen, Emilia Fox, Craig Ferguson

Seduced by Jung killed by hate redeemed by history. In 1905 a 19-year-old Russian girl suffering from severe hysteria is admitted into a psychiatric hospital in Zurich. A young doctor Carl Gustav Jung takes her under his care and for the first time experiments with the psychoanalytical method of his teacher Sigmund Freud. Based on recently exposed secret correspondence between Jung Freud...

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The Social Network

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United States

Director: David Fincher

Duration: 120 min

Year: 2010

Actors: Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake

On a fall night in 2003 Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming what begins in his dorm room soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication. A mere six years and 500 million friends later Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in...

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The Return Of Martin Guerre

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

Country: France

Director: Daniel Vigne

Duration: 122 min

Year: 1982

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Nathalie Baye, Maurice Barrier

During the middle of the 16th century Martin Guerre returns to his village in southwestern France after being away in the war for almost a decade. The villagers who knew him as a young man suspect he is not Martin but he seems to know all about his friends his family and his wife even the most unusual things. Is this man really Martin...

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The Queen

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United States, United Kingdom, France, Italy

Director: Stephen Frears

Duration: 103 min

Year: 2006

Actors: Helen Mirren, Michael Sheen, James Cromwell

Diana the Peoples Princess has died in a car accident in Paris. The Queen and her family decide that for the best they should remain hidden behind the closed doors of Balmoral Castle. The heartbroken public do not understand and request that the Queen comforts her people. This also puts pressure on newly elected Tony Blair who constantly tries to convince the monarchy to address the...

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The Passion Of Joan Of Arc (la Passion De Jeanne D'arc)

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Country: France

Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer (as Carl Th. Dreyer)

Duration: 110 min

Year: 1928

Actors: Maria Falconetti, Eugene Silvain, André Berley

The sufferings of a martyr Jeanne DArc 1412-1431. Jeanne appears in court where Cauchon questions her and dEstivet spits on her. She predicts her rescue is taken to her cell and judges forge evidence against her. In her cell priests interrogate her and judges deny her the Mass. Threatened first in a torture chamber and then offered communion if she will recant she refuses. At a cemetery...

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The Outlaw

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Country: Spain, Brazil

Director: Andrucha Waddington

Duration: 106 min

Year: 2010

Actors: Alberto Ammann, Leonor Watling, Pilar López de Ayala

A chronicle of the life of Lope de Vega the Spanish playwright who dominated Spains early Golden Age of...

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The Other Side Of Heaven

Genres: Adventure, Biography, Drama

Country: United States

Director: Mitch Davis

Duration: 113 min

Year: 2001

Actors: Christopher Gorham, Anne Hathaway, Joe Folau

John H. Groberg a middle class kid from Idaho Falls crosses the Pacific to become a Mormon missionary in the remote and exotic Tongan island kingdom during the 1950s. He leaves behind a loving family and the true love of his life Jean. Through letters and musings across the miles John shares his humbling and sometimes hilarious adventures with the girl back home and her letters buoy up...

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The Notorious Bettie Page

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United States

Director: Mary Harron

Duration: 91 min

Year: 2005

Actors: Gretchen Mol, Lili Taylor, Chris Bauer

Portrait of an American innocent. In 1955 Bettie Page 1923-2008 waits to testify before a Senate subcommittee investigating the effects of pornographic material on American adolescents and juveniles. In flashbacks we see her childhood in Tennessee a brief marriage a gang rape and her going to New York City in 1949. There she takes acting lessons models for photos and acts in short films...

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The New World

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, Romance

Country: United States, United Kingdom

Director: Terrence Malick

Duration: 135 min

Year: 2005

Actors: Colin Farrell, Q'orianka Kilcher, Christopher Plummer

Captain Smith is spared his mutinous hanging sentence after captain Newports ship arrives in 1607 to found Jamestown an English colony in Virginia. The initially friendly natives who have no personal property concept turn hostile after a theft is punished violently on the spot. During an armed exploration Smith is captured but spared when the chiefs favorite daughter Pocahontas pleads...

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The Miracle Worker

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United States

Director: Arthur Penn

Duration: 106 min

Year: 1962

Actors: Anne Bancroft, Patty Duke, Victor Jory

Young Helen Keller blind deaf and mute since infancy is in danger of being sent to an institution. Her inability to communicate has left her frustrated and violent. In desperation her parents seek help from the Perkins Institute which sends them a half-blind Yankee schoolgirl named Annie Sullivan to tutor their daughter. Through persistence and love and sheer stubbornness Annie breaks...

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The Mattei Affair (il Caso Mattei)

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: Italy

Director: Francesco Rosi

Duration: 116 min

Year: 1972

Actors: Gian Maria Volonté, Luigi Squarzina, Gianfranco Ombuen

Enrico Mattei helped change Italys future first as freedom-fighter against the Nazis then as an investor in methane gas through a public company A.G.I.P. and ultimately as the head of ENI a state body formed for the development of oil resources. October 27 1962 he died when his private airplane crashed one minute before it should land at Milan airport. Officially he died of a flight...

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The Railway Man

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: Australia, United Kingdom

Director: Jonathan Teplitzky

Duration: 116 min

Year: 2013

Actors: Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Stellan Skarsgård

Eric Lomax was one of thousands of Allied prisoners of war forced to work on the construction of the Thai/Burma railway during WW2. His experiences after the secret radio he built to bring news and hope to his colleagues was discovered left him traumatised and shut off from the world. Years later he met Patti a beautiful woman on a train and fell in love. Patti was determined to rid Eric of...

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The Man Nobody Knew: In Search Of My Father, Cia Spymaster William Colby

Genres: Documentary, Biography, History, War

Country: United States

Director: Carl Colby

Duration: 104 min

Year: 2011

Actors:

A sons riveting look at a father whose life seemed straight out of a spy thriller. The secret world of a legendary CIA spymaster. Told by William Colbys son Carl the story is at once a probing history of the CIA a personal memoir of a family living in clandestine shadows and an inquiry into the hard costs of a nations most cloaked...

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The Madness Of King George

Genres: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Nicholas Hytner

Duration: 107 min

Year: 1994

Actors: Nigel Hawthorne, Helen Mirren, Ian Holm

A meditation on power and the metaphor of the body of state based on the real episode of dementia experienced by George III [now suspected a victim of porphyria a blood disorder]. As he loses his senses he becomes both more alive and more politically marginalized; neither effect desirable to his lieutenants who jimmy the rules to avoid a challenge to regal authority raising the question of...

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The Mad Messiah (guyana Tragedy: The Story Of Jim Jones)

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United States

Director: William A. Graham

Duration: 192 min

Year: 1980

Actors: Powers Boothe, Ned Beatty, Irene Cara

Based upon the true story of Jim Jones a self proclaimed prophet. Jim Jones had a loyal following of about 1000 people who had donated their entire life savings to him to join his commune. When possible illegal activities came to the attention of the authorities they started to investigate. Rather that faces the charges Jim Jones committed suicide and convinced virtually All of his followers...

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The Lover

Genres: Biography, Drama, Romance

Country: United Kingdom, France, Vietnam

Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud

Duration: 115 min

Year: 1992

Actors: Jane March, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Frédérique Meininger

It is French Colonial Vietnam in 1929. A young French girl from a family that is having some monetary difficulties is returning to boarding school. She is alone on public transportation when she catches the eye of a wealthy Chinese businessman. He offers her a ride into town in the back of his chauffeured sedan and sparks fly. Can the torrid affair that ensues between them overcome the class...

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