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Jack (2013)

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: Canada

Director: Jeff Woolnough

Duration: 89 min

Year: 2013

Actors: Rick Roberts, Sook-Yin Lee, Zachary Bennett

NDP Leader Jack Layton was fluently bilingual glib sometimes flashy full of energy and always media-friendly. He loved to entertain and uplift his co-workers with a strum on his guitar and spirit in his voice which wasnt particularly good but he sang with gusto. Growing up in a political family Layton was a left-wing Toronto city councillor for 17 years and spent a year as head of the...

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Isteve

Genres: Biography, Comedy

Country: United States

Director: Ryan Perez

Duration: 79 min

Year: 2013

Actors: Justin Long, Art Evans, Juzo Yoshida

A comedic look at the life of Steve...

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Why Do Fools Fall In Love

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

Country: United States

Director: Gregory Nava

Duration: 116 min

Year: 1998

Actors: Halle Berry, Vivica A. Fox, Lela Rochon

In the mid-1980s three women each with an attorney arrive at the office of New York entertainment manager Morris Levy. One is a singer from Los Angeles formerly of the Platters; one is a petty thief from Philadelphia; one teaches high school in a small Georgia town. Each claims to be the widow of long-dead doo-wop singer-songwriter Frankie Lyman and each wants years of royalties due to his...

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What's Love Got To Do With It?

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

Country: United States

Director: Brian Gibson

Duration: 118 min

Year: 1993

Actors: Angela Bassett, Laurence Fishburne, Rae'Ven Larrymore Kelly

Anna Mae Bullock always had a special voice. Soon after arriving in St. Louis to live with the mother who had walked out when she was small the now teenage Anna Mae soon attracts the attention of pop group leader Ike Turner. She becomes the bands singer his wife and mother to his children - not all hers. In love with Ike and determined not to leave in the way her mother had she finds herself...

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Fruitvale Station

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United States

Director: Ryan Coogler

Duration: 85 min

Year: 2013

Actors: Michael B. Jordan, Melonie Diaz, Octavia Spencer

This is the true story of Oscar a 22-year-old Bay Area resident who wakes up on the morning of December 31 2008 and feels something in the air. Not sure what it is he takes it as a sign to get a head start on his resolutions: being a better son to his mother whose birthday falls on New Years Eve being a better partner to his girlfriend who he hasnt been completely honest with as of late...

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Crazy Sexy Cool: The Tlc Story

Genres: Biography

Country: United States

Director: Charles Stone III

Duration: 90 min

Year: 2013

Actors: Keke Palmer, Evan Ross, Rochelle Aytes

The story of Legendary hip hop/r&b/pop trio TLC. The group rose to fame in 1991 when they signed to LaFace Records releasing their multi-platinum debut. Their 1994 follow-up CrazySexyCool sold over 22 million copies and Fanmail sold over 10 million copies in 1999. This group experienced bankruptcy illness group fights and death. All the way dominating the charts and the music...

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Cliffy

Genres: Biography

Country: Australia

Director: Dean Murphy

Duration: 92 min

Year: 2013

Actors: Kevin Harrington, Roy Billing, Krew Boylan

Set against the backdrop of the early eighties Cliffy retraces his extraordinary journey from famously training in gumboots among cow paddocks through the epic six-day period of the ultra marathon and his emergence as Australias most unlikely sporting...

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Burton And Taylor

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Richard Laxton

Duration: 83 min

Year: 2013

Actors: Dominic West, Helena Bonham Carter, Greg Hicks

Film star Elizabeth Taylor invites her ex-husband - twice over - Richard Burton to her fiftieth birthday party where as a recovering alcoholic he refuses to get drunk with her. He does however consider her suggestion that they star in a stage revival of the play Private Lives. As they announce the project the press speculate on a romantic reconciliation. With a new girlfriend and the prospect...

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Betty And Coretta

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United States, Canada

Director: Yves Simoneau

Duration: 90 min

Year: 2013

Actors: Angela Bassett, Mary J. Blige, Malik Yoba

The widows of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X and how they carry on as single mothers after the assassination of their...

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Behind The Candelabra

Genres: Biography, Drama, Romance

Country: United States

Director: Steven Soderbergh

Duration: 118 min

Year: 2013

Actors: Matt Damon, Scott Bakula, Eric Zuckerman

Scott Thorson a young bisexual man raised in foster homes is introduced to flamboyant entertainment giant Liberace and quickly finds himself in a romantic relationship with the legendary pianist. Swaddled in wealth and excess Scott and Liberace have a long affair one that eventually Scott begins to find suffocating. Kept away from the outside world by the flashily effeminate yet deeply...

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Grey Owl

Genres: Biography, Drama, Western

Country: United Kingdom, Canada

Director: Richard Attenborough

Duration: 118 min

Year: 1999

Actors: Pierce Brosnan, Stewart Bick, Vlasta Vrana

Archie Grey Owl is a trapper in Canada in the early 1930s when a young Iroquois woman from town asks him to teach her Indian ways. They live in the woods where she is appalled at how trapped animals die. She adopts two orphaned beaver kits and helps Archie see his way to stop trapping. Instead he works as a guide a naturalist writer and then the Canadian government hires him to save the...

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Without Limits

Genres: Biography, Drama, Sport

Country: United States

Director: Robert Towne

Duration: 117 min

Year: 1998

Actors: Billy Crudup, Donald Sutherland, Monica Potter

The film follows the life of famous 1970s runner Steve Prefontaine from his youth days in Oregon to the University of Oregon where he worked with the legendary coach Bill Bowerman later to Olympics in Munich and his early death at 24 in a car...

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Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

Country: Canada, Netherlands, Portugal, Finland

Director: François Girard

Duration: 98 min

Year: 1993

Actors: Colm Feore, Derek Keurvorst, Katya Ladan

As the title suggests this dramatised documentary about the eccentric Canadian pianist Glenn Gould is broken up into thirty-two short films mirroring the thirty-two part structure of Bachs Goldberg Variations the recording that Gould made famous each giving us an insight into some aspect of Goulds life and career. Out of respect for the music lead actor Colm Feore is never seen playing...

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Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey

Genres: Documentary, Biography, History, Music

Country: United States, United Kingdom

Director: Steven M. Martin

Duration: 83 min

Year: 1994

Actors: Leon Theremin, Robert Moog, Clara Rockmore

A documentary about the amazing life of Leon Theremin inventor of the theremin the electronic musical instrument so beloved of 50s sci-fi movie music. Theremin amazed America with his instrument until his kidnapping by Soviet agents in the mid-30s. Upon his release from a labor camp he worked on surveillance devices for the KGB. Almost 60 years later he is brought back to America for a...

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Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser

Genres: Documentary, Biography, Music

Country: United States

Director: Charlotte Zwerin

Duration: 90 min

Year: 1988

Actors: Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Jimmy Cleveland

A documentary film about the life of pianist and jazz great Thelonious Monk. Features live performances by Monk and his band and interviews with friends and family about the offbeat...

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Carl Panzram: The Spirit Of Hatred And Revenge

Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror

Country: United States

Director: John Borowski

Duration: 90 min

Year: 2011

Actors: John DiMaggio, Tom Lodewyck, David Salmonson

Carl Panzram: The Spirit of Hatred and Revenge examines the life of serial killer and rapist Carl Panzram who lived from 1891 to 1930. It examines how his life hardened him into a psychotic murderer. It also examines how a prison guard Henry Lesser forged a friendship with him and encouraged him to write an...

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Tyson (1995)

Genres: Biography, Drama, Sport

Country: United States

Director: Uli Edel

Duration: 104 min

Year: 1995

Actors: George C. Scott, Paul Winfield, Michael Jai White

The story of Mike Tyson. From his early days as a 12 year old amateur with a powerful punch to the undisputed title of Heavyweight Champion of the World and ultimately to his conviction for rape. The story of his turbulent life moves quickly never focusing for long on anything in...

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Triumph Of The Spirit

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, Sport, ...

Country: United States

Director: Robert M. Young

Duration: 120 min

Year: 1989

Actors: Willem Dafoe, Edward James Olmos, Robert Loggia

Fact based story about a former Greek Olympic boxer who was taken as a prisoner during World war II and placed in the Auschwitz prison camp. There he was permitted to survive as long as he fought for the amusement of his captors. His father and brother were also held as insurance that he would continue to...

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Joseph: King Of Dreams

Genres: Animation, Adventure, Biography, Drama, ...

Country: United States

Director: Rob LaDuca, Robert C. Ramirez

Duration: 75 min

Year: 2000

Actors: Ben Affleck, Mark Hamill, Richard Herd

When Joseph receives a beautiful coat from his parents his eleven brothers hate him even more and are driven to sell him to desert merchants who take him to Egypt! There he is made the servant of a wealthy Egyptian who misunderstands him and has him thrown into prison! He shows his God-given gift by interpreting the dreams of two other prisoners. Eventually the Pharaoh begins to be plagued by...

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The World's Fastest Indian

Genres: Biography, Drama, Sport

Country: New Zealand, United States, Switzerland, Japan

Director: Roger Donaldson

Duration: 127 min

Year: 2005

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Diane Ladd, Iain Rea

For 25 years in Invercargill at the south end of New Zealand Burt Munro 1899-1978 has been working on increasing the speed of his motorcycle a 1920 Indian. He dreams of taking it to the Bonneville Salt Flats to see how fast it will go. By the early 1960s heart disease threatens his life so he mortgages his house and takes a boat to Los Angeles buys an old car builds a makeshift trailer...

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The Rocket: The Legend Of Rocket Richard

Genres: Biography, Drama, Sport

Country: Canada

Director: Charles Binamé

Duration: 124 min

Year: 2005

Actors: Roy Dupuis, Stephen McHattie, Julie LeBreton

In the late 1930s a young machinist named Maurice Richard distinguished himself as an ice hockey player of preternatural talent. Although that was enough to get him into the Montreal Canadiens his frequent injuries cost him the confidence of his team and the fans. In the face of these doubts Richard eventually shows the kind of aggressive and skillful play that would make him one of the...

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The Last Ride (2012)

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

Country: United States

Director: Harry Thomason

Duration: 102 min

Year: 2012

Actors: Henry Thomas, Jesse James, Fred Dalton Thompson

At the end of 1952 with the best years of Hank Williamss career behind him he hires a local kid to drive him through the Appalachian countryside for a pair of New Years shows in West Virginia and...

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The Pride Of The Yankees

Genres: Biography, Drama, Family, Romance, ...

Country: United States

Director: Sam Wood

Duration: 87 min

Year: 1942

Actors: Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, Babe Ruth

Biopic traces the life of Lou Gehrig famous baseball player who played in 2130 consecutive games before falling at age 37 to ALS a deadly nerve disease which now bears his name. Gehrig is followed from his childhood in New York until his famous Luckiest Man speech at his farewell day in...

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The Idolmaker

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance

Country: United States

Director: Taylor Hackford

Duration: 117 min

Year: 1980

Actors: Ray Sharkey, Tovah Feldshuh, Peter Gallagher

Based on the life of rock promoter/producer Bob Marcucci who discovered among others Frankie Avalon and...

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The Great Caruso

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

Country: United States

Director: Richard Thorpe

Duration: 109 min

Year: 1951

Actors: Mario Lanza, Ann Blyth, Dorothy Kirsten

Loosely traces the life of tenor Enrico Caruso 1873-1921. He loves Musetta in his home town of Naples and then Dorothy the daughter of one of the Metropolitan Operas patrons. Caruso is unacceptable to both womens fathers: to one because he sings; to Dorothys because he is a peasant. To New York patricians Caruso is short barrel chested loud emotional unrefined. Their appreciation...

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The Glenn Miller Story

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music, Musical, ...

Country: United States

Director: Anthony Mann

Duration: 115 min

Year: 1954

Actors: James Stewart, June Allyson, Harry Morgan

The biography of the Bandleader Glenn Miller from his beginnings to his death over the English Channel in December 1944 with a lot of his arangements partly in an authentic...

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Chisum

Genres: Biography, Western

Country: United States

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen

Duration: 111 min

Year: 1970

Actors: John Wayne, Forrest Tucker, Christopher George

As one of the founders of the town of Lincoln John Chisum is increasingly worried as Lawrence Murphy moves in on the local stores bank and land by questionable means. Chisum and fellow honest ranch owner Henry Tunstall try and use the law but Murphy owns that too. Confrontation threatens and Tunstalls man Billy Bonney is not slow to get...

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The Gene Krupa Story

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

Country: United States

Director: Don Weis

Duration: 101 min

Year: 1959

Actors: Sal Mineo, Susan Kohner, James Darren

The story of legendary jazz drummer Gene Krupa. Since his youth all Gene ever wanted to do is play the drums and make music. This is something his parents would not approve of- they want him to be a priest. When Genes father dies he promises to enter the priesthood. He soon realizes that he doesnt belong there and leaves to join his friend Eddies band. Ethel Eddies girlfriend convinces...

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The Longshots

Genres: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Family, ...

Country: United States

Director: Fred Durst

Duration: 94 min

Year: 2008

Actors: Ice Cube, Keke Palmer, Tasha Smith

The true story of Jasmine Plummer who at the age of eleven became the first female to play in Pop Warner football tournament in its 56-year...

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