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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 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 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 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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The Lady

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, Romance

Country: United Kingdom, France

Director: Luc Besson

Duration: 132 min

Year: 2011

Actors: Michelle Yeoh, David Thewlis, Jonathan Raggett

THE LADY is an epic love story about how an extraordinary couple and family sacrifice their happiness at great human cost for a higher cause. This is the story of Aung San Suu Kyi and her husband Michael Aris. Despite distance long separations and a dangerously hostile regime their love endures until the very end. A story of devotion and human understanding set against a background of...

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The Intouchables

Genres: Biography, Comedy, Drama

Country: France

Director: Olivier Nakache, Eric Toledano

Duration: 112 min

Year: 2011

Actors: François Cluzet, Omar Sy, Anne Le Ny

In Paris the aristocratic and intellectual Philippe is a quadriplegic millionaire who is interviewing candidates for the position of his carer with his red-haired secretary Magalie. Out of the blue the rude African Driss cuts the line of candidates and brings a document from the Social Security and asks Phillipe to sign it to prove that he is seeking a job position so he can receive his...

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Queen Margot

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, Romance

Country: France, Italy, Germany

Director: Patrice Chéreau

Duration: 174 min

Year: 1994

Actors: Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Hugues Anglade

The night of August 24 1572 is known as the Massacre of St. Bartholomew. In France a religious war is raging. In order to impose peace a forced wedding is arranged between Margot de Valois sister of the immature Catholic King Charles IX and the Hugenot King Henri of Navarre. Catherine of Medici maintains her behind-the-scenes power by ordering assaults poisonings and instigations to...

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Jfk

Genres: Drama, History, Thriller

Country: United States, France

Director: Oliver Stone

Duration: 189 min

Year: 1991

Actors: Kevin Costner, Gary Oldman, Jack Lemmon

On November 22 1963 president John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas. Lee Harvey Oswald is arrested for the crime and subsequently shot by Jack Ruby supposedly avenging the presidents death. An investigation concludes that Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby acted alone in their respective crimes but Louisiana district attorney Jim Garrison is skeptical. Assembling a trusted group of people...

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Jefferson In Paris

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, Romance

Country: France, United States

Director: James Ivory

Duration: 139 min

Year: 1995

Actors: Nick Nolte, Greta Scacchi, Gwyneth Paltrow

One of the obsessive speculations in American history is whether Thomas Jefferson in the years before he became president had an affair with and fathered a child with his 15-year-old slave Sally Hemings. JEFFERSON IN PARIS follows Jefferson to France as the U.S. ambassador to the court of Louis XVI following the death of his wife his friendships and flirtations with the French his...

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Hoffa

Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama

Country: France, United States

Director: Danny DeVito

Duration: 140 min

Year: 1992

Actors: Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Armand Assante

Jack Nicholsons portrait of Union leader James R. Hoffa as seen through the eyes of his friend Bobby Ciaro Danny DeVito. The film follows Hoffa through his countless battles with the RTA and President Roosevelt all the way to a conclusion that negates the theory that he disappeared in...

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Heaven & Earth

Genres: Action, Biography, Drama, History, ...

Country: France, United States

Director: Oliver Stone

Duration: 140 min

Year: 1993

Actors: Hiep Thi Le, Tommy Lee Jones, Haing S. Ngor

The final movie in Oliver Stones Vietnam trilogy follows the true story of a Vietnamese village girl who survives a life of suffering and hardship during and after the Vietnam war. As a freedom fighter a hustler young mother a sometime prostitute and the wife of a US. marine the girls relationships with men suggests an analogy of Vietnam as Woman and the U.S. as...

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Haute Cuisine

Genres: Biography, Comedy

Country: France

Director: Christian Vincent

Duration: 95 min

Year: 2012

Actors: Catherine Frot, Arthur Dupont, Jean d'Ormesson

Hortense Laborie is a celebrated chef living in the Perigord region. To her great surprise the President of the Republic appoints her as his personal cook. She accepts reluctantly but once she has accepted her nomination Hortense works her heart and soul to produce both a stylish and authentic cuisine. For a while she manages to impose herself thanks to her sturdy character and despite the...

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Goodbye Bafana

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Country: Germany, France, Belgium, South Africa, Italy, United Kingdom, Luxembourg

Director: Bille August

Duration: 118 min

Year: 2007

Actors: Joseph Fiennes, Dennis Haysbert, Diane Kruger

James Gregory once lived in a farm and had befriended a native youth Bafana and had even had a photograph taken with him. Years later now married to Gloria and father of three children Chris Brett and Natasha James has nothing but shame and regret as many South African Caucasians in the oppressive Apartheid-era ridiculed him leading him to hate Africans. He seeks to redeem himself by...

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General Idi Amin Dada

Genres: Documentary, Biography, War

Country: France, Switzerland

Director: Barbet Schroeder

Duration: 90 min

Year: 1974

Actors: Idi Amin, Fidel Castro, Golda Meir

Ugandas dictator General Idi Amin Dada accepts a foreign crews request to interview and film him. He talks to the camera about his outreach to Arab nations his goal of eradicating Israel his views on economic policy and his views of Nixon Kissinger and other world leaders. We also see him dressing down his ministers at a cabinet meeting two weeks after this meeting the foreign...

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My Mother's Castle

Genres: Adventure, Biography, Comedy, Drama, ...

Country: France

Director: Yves Robert

Duration: 98 min

Year: 1990

Actors: Julien Ciamaca, Philippe Caubère, Nathalie Roussel

Every holiday Marcel and his family go to their cottage in the Provence France. He likes the hills in this region. Before they arrive at the cottage they have to walk about 5 miles. With the co-operation of an ex-pupil of Marcels father whos a teacher they only have to walk 1 mile since they can take a shortcut along a canal through the backyards of some eccentric people. During one of...

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My Father's Glory

Genres: Adventure, Biography, Drama

Country: France

Director: Yves Robert

Duration: 105 min

Year: 1990

Actors: Philippe Caubère, Nathalie Roussel, Didier Pain

A young boys life in turn-of-the-century France. Marcel witnesses the success of his teacher father as well as the success of his arrogant Uncle Jules. Marcel and family spend their summer vacation in a cottage in Provence and Marcel befriends a local boy who teaches him the secrets of the hills in...

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Mesrine: Public Enemy #1

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

Country: France, Canada

Director: Jean-François Richet

Duration: 133 min

Year: 2008

Actors: Vincent Cassel, Ludivine Sagnier, Mathieu Amalric

The story of Jacques Mesrine Frances public enemy No. 1 during the 1970s. After nearly two decades of legendary criminal feats -- from multiple bank robberies and to prison breaks -- Mesrine was gunned down by the French police in...

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Marie Antoinette

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Country: United States, France, Japan

Director: Sofia Coppola

Duration: 123 min

Year: 2006

Actors: Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman, Rip Torn

All eyes will be on you says the Austrian Empress Maria Theresa to her youngest daughter Marie Antoinette. The film marketed for a teen audience is an impressionistic retelling of Marie Antoinettes life as a young queen in the opulent and eccentric court at Versailles. The film focuses on Marie Antoinette as she matures from a teenage bride to a young woman and eventual queen of...

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Machuca

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United Kingdom, Chile, Spain, France

Director: Andrés Wood

Duration: 121 min

Year: 2004

Actors: Matías Quer, Ariel Mateluna, Manuela Martelli

Santiago capital of Chile during the Marxist government of elected highly controversial president Salvador Allende. Father McEnroe supports his leftist views by introducing a program at the prestigious collegio Catholic prep school St. Patrick to allow free admission of some proletarian kids. One of them is Pedro Machuca slum-raised son of the cleaning lady in Gonzalo Infantes...

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Love Is The Devil: Study For A Portrait Of Francis Bacon

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United Kingdom, France, Japan

Director: John Maybury

Duration: 90 min

Year: 1998

Actors: Derek Jacobi, Daniel Craig, Tilda Swinton

In the 1960s British painter Francis Bacon 1909-1992 surprises a burglar and invites him to share his bed. The burglar a working class man named George Dyer 30 years Bacons junior accepts. Bacon finds Dyers amorality and innocence attractive introducing him to his Soho pals. In their sex life Dyer dominates Bacon is the masochist. Dyers bouts with depression his drinking and pill...

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Elizabeth - Das Goldene Königreich

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Country: United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany

Director: Shekhar Kapur

Duration: 114 min

Year: 2007

Actors: Cate Blanchett, Clive Owen, Geoffrey Rush

Two faiths two empires two rulers - colliding in 1588. Papist Spain wants to bring down the heretic Elizabeth. Philip is building an armada but needs a rationale to attack. With covert intrigue Spain sets a trap for the Queen and her principal secretary Walsingham using as a pawn Elizabeths cousin Mary Stuart whos under house arrest in the North. The trap springs and the armada sets...

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Domino

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

Country: United States, United Kingdom, France

Director: Tony Scott

Duration: 127 min

Year: 2005

Actors: Keira Knightley, Mickey Rourke, Édgar Ramírez

The daughter of an actor father and a social-climber mother Domino Harvey bored with her life decides to join the team of Ed Moseby and becomes a bounty hunter. But she gets in trouble when the Mafias money is stolen from an armored truck while Moseby and his crew are participating in a reality show produced by Mark Heiss. The situation gets out of control when the sons of a rival mobster...

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Danton

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Country: France, Poland

Director: Andrzej Wajda

Duration: 136 min

Year: 1983

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Wojciech Pszoniak, Anne Alvaro

Action opens in November of 1793 with Danton returning to Paris from his country retreat upon learning that the Committee for Public Safety under Robespierres incitement has begun a series of massive executions The Terror. Confident in the peoples support Danton clashes with his former ally but calculating Robespierre soon rounds up Danton and his followers tries them before a...

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Coco Before Chanel (coco Avant Chanel)

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: France, Belgium

Director: Anne Fontaine

Duration: 105 min

Year: 2009

Actors: Audrey Tautou, Benoît Poelvoorde, Alessandro Nivola

Several years after leaving the orphanage to which her father never returned for her Gabrielle Chanel finds herself working in a provincial bar. Shes both a seamstress for the performers and a singer earning the nickname Coco from the song she sings nightly with her sister. A liaison with Baron Balsan gives her an entrée into French society and a chance to develop her gift for designing...

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Catch A Fire

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Country: United States, United Kingdom, France, South Africa

Director: Phillip Noyce

Duration: 101 min

Year: 2006

Actors: Derek Luke, Tim Robbins, Bonnie Henna

A political thriller: the real-life story of a South African heros journey to freedom. In the countrys turbulent and divided times in the 1980s Patrick Chamusso is an oil refinery foreman and soccer coach who is apolitical - until he and his wife Precious are jailed. Patrick is stunned into action against the countrys oppressive reigning system even as police Colonel Nic Vos further...

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Carrington

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United Kingdom, France

Director: Christopher Hampton

Duration: 121 min

Year: 1995

Actors: Emma Thompson, Jonathan Pryce, Steven Waddington

The story of the relationship between painter Dora Carrington and author Lytton Strachey in a World War One England of cottages and countryside. Although platonic due to Stracheys homosexuality the relationship was nevertheless a deep and complicated one. When Carrington did develop a more physical relationship with soldier Ralph Partridge Strachey was able to welcome him as a friend although...

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Bright Star

Genres: Biography, Drama, Romance

Country: United Kingdom, Australia, France

Director: Jane Campion

Duration: 119 min

Year: 2009

Actors: Abbie Cornish, Ben Whishaw, Paul Schneider

Its 1818 in Hampstead Village on the outskirts of London. Poet Charles Brown lives in one half of a house the Dilkes family who live in the other half. Through their association with the Dilkes the fatherless Brawne family know Mr. Brown. The Brawnes eldest daughter Fanny Brawne and Mr. Brown dont like each other. She thinks hes arrogant and rude and he feels that she is pretentious...

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