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Out Of Africa

Genres: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Romance

Country: United States

Director: Sydney Pollack

Duration: 161 min

Year: 1985

Actors: Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Michael Kitchen, Malick Bowens, Joseph Thiaka, Stephen Kinyanjui, Michael Gough, Suzanna Hamilton, Rachel Kempson, Graham Crowden

Storyline: Follows the life of Karen Blixen who establishes a plantation in Africa. Her life is Complicated by a husband of convenience Bror Blixen a true love Denys troubles on the plantation schooling of the natives war and catching VD from her...

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42

Genres: Biography, Drama, Sport

Country: United States

Director: Brian Helgeland

Duration: 128 min

Year: 2013

Actors: Chadwick Boseman, Harrison Ford, Nicole Beharie, Christopher Meloni, Ryan Merriman, Lucas Black, Andre Holland, Alan Tudyk, Hamish Linklater, T.R. Knight, John C. McGinley, Toby Huss

Storyline: The life story of Jackie Robinson and his history-making signing with the Brooklyn Dodgers under the guidance of team executive Branch...

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Lawrence Of Arabia

Genres: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, ...

Country: United Kingdom, United States

Director: David Lean

Duration: 216 min

Year: 1962

Actors: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Omar Sharif, José Ferrer, Anthony Quayle, Claude Rains, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Wolfit

Storyline: An inordinately complex man who has been labeled everything from hero to charlatan to sadist Thomas Edward Lawrence blazed his way to glory in the Arabian desert then sought anonymity as a common soldier under an assumed name. The story opens with the death of Lawrence in a motorcycle accident in Dorset at the age of 46 then flashbacks to recount his adventures: as a young...

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Into The Wild

Genres: Adventure, Biography, Drama

Country: United States

Director: Sean Penn

Duration: 148 min

Year: 2007

Actors: Emile Hirsch, Marcia Gay Harden, William Hurt, Jena Malone, Brian H. Dierker, Catherine Keener, Vince Vaughn, Kristen Stewart, Hal Holbrook

Storyline: Based on a true story. After graduating from Emory University top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandoned his possessions gave his entire $24000 savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way Christopher encounters a series of characters who shape his...

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Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid

Genres: Adventure, Biography, Crime, Western

Country: United States

Director: George Roy Hill

Duration: 110 min

Year: 1969

Actors: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Strother Martin, Henry Jones, Jeff Corey, George Furth, Cloris Leachman, Ted Cassidy, Kenneth Mars, Donnelly Rhodes

Storyline: Butch and Sundance are the two leaders of the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang. Butch is all ideas Sundance is all action and skill. The west is becoming civilized and when Butch and Sundance rob a train once too often a special posse begins trailing them no matter where they run. Over rock through towns across rivers the group is always just behind them. When they finally escape through...

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127 Hours

Genres: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States, United Kingdom

Director: Danny Boyle

Duration: 94 min

Year: 2010

Actors: James Franco, Kate Mara, Amber Tamblyn, Sean Bott, Koleman Stinger, Treat Williams, John Lawrence, Kate Burton, Bailee Michelle Johnson, Parker Hadley, Clémence Poésy, Fenton Quinn, Lizzy Caplan, Peter Joshua Hull, Pieter Jan Brugge

Storyline: 127 Hours is the true story of mountain climber Aron Ralstons remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated canyon in Utah. Over the next five days Ralston examines his life and survives the elements to finally discover he has the courage and the wherewithal to extricate himself by any means necessary scale a 65 foot wall...

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Hyde Park On Hudson

Genres: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Roger Michell

Duration: 94 min

Year: 2012

Actors: Bill Murray, Laura Linney, Samuel West, Olivia Colman, Elizabeth Marvel, Olivia Williams, Elizabeth Wilson, Martin McDougall, Andrew Havill, Eleanor Bron, Nancy Baldwin, Tim Beckmann

Storyline: The story of the love affair between FDR and his distant cousin Margaret Stuckley centered around the weekend in 1939 when the King and Queen of the UK visited upstate New...

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Hitchcock

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United States

Director: Sacha Gervasi

Duration: 98 min

Year: 2012

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, Scarlett Johansson, Danny Huston, Toni Collette, Michael Stuhlbarg, Michael Wincott, Jessica Biel, James D'Arcy, Richard Portnow

Storyline: In 1959 Alfred Hitchcock and his wife Alma are at the top of their creative game as filmmakers amid disquieting insinuations about it being time to retire. To recapture his youths artistic daring Alfred decides his next film will adapt the lurid horror novel Psycho over everyones misgivings. Unfortunately as Alfred self-finances and labors on this film Alma finally loses...

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Dahmer

Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror, ...

Country: United States

Director: David Jacobson

Duration: 101 min

Year: 2002

Actors: Jeremy Renner, Bruce Davison, Artel Great, Matt Newton, Dion Basco, Kate Williamson, Christina Payano, Tom'ya Bowden, Sean Blakemore, Mickey Swenson, Julius Branca, Pierson Blaetz

Storyline: Based on the true crime story of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer this movie tells the emotionally riveting story of a man who turned his darkest fantasies into a horrifying...

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Lincoln (2012)

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, War

Country: 150 min

Director: Steven Spielberg

Duration: DreamWorks Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox Film Co

Year: 2012

Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, James Spader, Hal Holbrook, Tommy Lee Jones, John Hawkes, Jackie Earle Haley, Bruce McGill, Tim Blake Nelson, Joseph Cross, Jared Harris, Lee Pace, Peter McRobbie

Storyline: In 1865 as the American Civil War winds inexorably toward conclusion U.S. president Abraham Lincoln endeavors to achieve passage of the landmark constitutional amendment which will forever ban slavery from the USA. However his task is a race against time for peace may come at any time and if it comes before the amendment is passed the returning southern states will stop it before...

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Naked Lunch

Genres: Biography, Comedy, Drama

Country: Canada, United Kingdom, Japan

Director: David Cronenberg

Duration: 115 min

Year: 1991

Actors: Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Julian Sands, Roy Scheider, Monique Mercure, Nicholas Campbell, Michael Zelniker, Robert A. Silverman, Joseph Scoren, Peter Boretski, Yuval Daniel, John Friesen, Sean McCann, Howard Jerome

Storyline: Not an adaptation of beat writer William S. Burroughs novel but a mix of biography and an interpretation of his drug- induced writing processes combined with elements of his work in this paranoid fantasy about Bill Lee a writer who accidentally shoots his wife whose typewriter transforms into a cockroach and who becomes involved in a mysterious plot in an Islamic port called...

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The Countess

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, Horror, ...

Country: Germany, France, United States

Director: Julie Delpy

Duration: 98 min

Year: 2009

Actors: Julie Delpy, Daniel Brühl, William Hurt, Anamaria Marinca, Sebastian Blomberg, Adriana Altaras, Charly Hübner, Andy Gatjen, Maria Simon, Frederick Lau, Katrin Pollitt, Anna Maria Mühe, Rolf Kanies, Christine Mayer, Henriette Confurius

Storyline: A 17th century Hungarian countess embarks on a murderous undertaking with the belief that bathing in the blood of virgins will preserve her...

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The Entity

Genres: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Biography

Country: United States

Director: Sidney J. Furie

Duration: 125 min

Year: 1982

Actors: Barbara Hershey, Ron Silver, David Labiosa, George Coe, Margaret Blye, Jacqueline Brookes, Richard Brestoff, Michael Alldredge, Raymond Singer, Allan Rich, Natasha Ryan, Melanie Gaffin, Alex Rocco, Sully Boyar, Tom Stern

Storyline: Carla Moran awakens one night to find herself being beaten and raped by an unseen presence. Terrified of whats happening to her and shunned by friends and family who think shes lost her mind she seeks help from parapsychologists. The researchers soon discover that evil spiritual force has been drawn to Carla and is responsible for the violent attacks. The question now however is...

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Argo

Genres: Biography, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States

Director: Ben Affleck

Duration: 120 min

Year: 2012

Actors: Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, Alan Arkin, John Goodman, Victor Garber, Tate Donovan, Clea DuVall, Scoot McNairy, Rory Cochrane, Christopher Denham

Storyline: In 1979 the American embassy in Iran was invaded by Iranian revolutionaries and several Americans are taken hostage. However six manage to escape to the official residence of the Canadian Ambassador and the CIA is eventually ordered to get them out of the country. With few options exfiltration expert Tony Mendez devises a daring plan: to create a phony Canadian film project looking...

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Moulin Rouge (1952)

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance

Country: United Kingdom

Director: John Huston

Duration: 119 min

Year: 1952

Actors: José Ferrer, Colette Marchand, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Suzanne Flon, Claude Nollier, Katherine Kath, Muriel Smith, Mary Clare, Walter Crisham, Harold Kasket, Georges Lannes, Lee Montague, Maureen Swanson, Tutte Lemkow, Jill Bennett

Storyline: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec frequently visits the Moulin Rouge where he drinks cognac and draws sketches of the dancers and singers. Though the son of a French count Henris legs were badly deformed by a childhood fall and his personal life is often unhappy as a result. While he is going home one night a spirited young woman of the streets Marie asks him for help. He falls in love...

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Sid And Nancy

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Alex Cox

Duration: 112 min

Year: 1986

Actors: Gary Oldman, Chloe Webb, David Hayman, Debby Bishop, Andrew Schofield, Xander Berkeley, Perry Benson, Tony London, Sandy Baron, Sy Richardson, Edward Tudor-Pole, Biff Yeager, Courtney Love, Rusty Blitz, John Spaceley

Storyline: Morbid biographical story of Sid Vicious bassist with British punk group the Sex Pistols and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen. When the Sex Pistols break up after their fateful US tour Vicious attempts a solo career while in the grip of heroin addiction. One morning Nancy is found stabbed to death and Sid is arrested for her...

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The Soloist

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

Country: United Kingdom, United States, France

Director: Joe Wright

Duration: 117 min

Year: 2009

Actors: Jamie Foxx, Robert Downey Jr., Catherine Keener, Tom Hollander, LisaGay Hamilton, Nelsan Ellis, Rachael Harris, Stephen Root, Lorraine Toussaint, Justin Martin , Kokayi Ampah, Patrick Tatten, Susane Lee, Marcos De Silvas, Ilia Volok

Storyline: In 2005 the only thing hurting Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez more than his face from a recent bike accident was his pressing need for story ideas. That is when he discovers Nathaniel Ayers a mentally ill homeless street musician who possesses extraordinary talent even through his half-broken instruments. Inspired by his story Lopez writes an acclaimed series of articles...

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Notorious

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

Country: United States

Director: George Tillman Jr.

Duration: 122 min

Year: 2009

Actors: Jamal Woolard, Mohamed Dione, Derek Luke, Dennis L.A. White, Marc John Jefferies, Menyone DeVeaux, Christopher Jordan Wallace, Ricky Smith, Amanda Christopher, Angela Bassett, Jasper Briggs

Storyline: NOTORIOUS is the story of Christopher Wallace. Through raw talent and sheer determination Wallace transforms himself from Brooklyn street hustler once selling crack to pregnant women to one of the greatest rappers of all time; THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G. Follow his meteoric rise to fame and his refusal to succumb to expectations - redefining our notion of The American...

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24 Hour Party People

Genres: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Music

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Michael Winterbottom

Duration: 117 min

Year: 2002

Actors: Steve Coogan, John Thomson, Nigel Pivaro, Paul Popplewell, Lennie James, Shirley Henderson, Mark Windows, Paddy Considine, Raymond Waring, Ron Cook, John Simm, Danny Cunningham, Dave Gorman, Ralf Little, Andy Serkis

Storyline: Manchester 1976: Cambridge educated Tony Wilson Granada TV presenter is at a Sex Pistols gig. Totally inspired by this pivotal moment in music history he and his friends set up a record label Factory Records signing first Joy Division who go on to become New Order then James and the Happy Mondays who all become seminal artists of their time. What ensues is a tale of music sex...

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El Cantante

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

Country: United States

Director: Leon Ichaso

Duration: 106 min

Year: 2006

Actors: Marc Anthony, Jennifer Lopez, John Ortiz, Manny Perez, Vincent Laresca, Federico Castelluccio, Nelson Vasquez, Antone Pagan, Romi Dias, Jared Everleth, Bernard Hernandez, Christopher Becerra, Andrea Navedo, Ismael Miranda, Tito Allen

Storyline: The rise and fall of salsa singer Héctor Lavoe 1946-1993 as told from the perspective of his wife Puchi who looks back from 2002. In the early 1960s Héctor arrives in New York from Ponce Puerto Rico. Success comes quickly. The more he grew as an artist Puchi says the more he sank as a person. Its a tale of talent - creating salsa with Willie Colón with the Fania All...

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Mao's Last Dancer

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance

Country: Australia

Director: Bruce Beresford

Duration: 117 min

Year: 2009

Actors: Chi Cao, Bruce Greenwood, Penne Hackforth-Jones, Christopher Kirby, Suzie Steen, Madeleine Eastoe, Aden Young, Wen Bin Huang, Shu Guang Liang, Ye Wang, Neng Neng Zhang, Wan Shi Xu, Shao Wei Yi, Hui Cong Zhan, Ji Feng Sun

Storyline: A drama based on the autobiography by Li Cunxin. At the age of 11 Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Maos cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979 during a cultural exchange to Texas he fell in love with an American woman. Two years later he managed to defect and went on to perform as a principal dancer for the Houston Ballet and as a...

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Cadillac Records

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, Music, ...

Country: United States

Director: Darnell Martin

Duration: 109 min

Year: 2008

Actors: Beyoncé, Joshua Alscher, Tim Bellow, Tony Bentley, Tammy Blanchard, Eric Bogosian, Marc Bonan, Adrien Brody, Cedric the Entertainer, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Douglas Crosby, Dexter Darden, Veronika Dash

Storyline: In this tale of sex violence race and rock and roll in 1950s Chicago Cadillac Records follows the exciting but turbulent lives of some of Americas musical legends including Muddy Waters Leonard Chess Little Walter Howlin Wolf Etta James and Chuck...

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Get Rich Or Die Tryin'

Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama, Music

Country: United States

Director: Jim Sheridan

Duration: 117 min

Year: 2005

Actors: 50 Cent, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Joy Bryant, Omar Benson Miller, Tory Kittles, Terrence Howard, Ashley Walters, Marc John Jefferies, Viola Davis, Sullivan Walker, Serena Reeder, Bill Duke, Mpho Koaho

Storyline: A tale of an inner city drug dealer who turns away from crime to pursue his passion rap...

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Nowhere Boy

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

Country: United Kingdom, Canada

Director: Sam Taylor-Wood

Duration: 98 min

Year: 2009

Actors: Aaron Johnson, Kristin Scott Thomas, David Threlfall, Josh Bolt, Ophelia Lovibond, Kerrie Hayes, Angela Walsh, Paul Ritter, Richard Syms, Anne-Marie Duff, James Johnson

Storyline: The story of John Lennons childhood and teenage years from 1944 to 1960 his relationship with his aunt Mimi and his mother Julia -the two dominant women in the first part of his life- his first meeting with Paul McCartney and George Harrison their friendship their love for music and the birth of The...

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Tous Les Matins Du Monde

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

Country: France

Director: Alain Corneau

Duration: 115 min

Year: 1991

Actors: Jean-Pierre Marielle, Gérard Depardieu, Anne Brochet, Guillaume Depardieu, Carole Richert, Michel Bouquet, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Yves Gasc, Yves Lambrecht, Jean-Marie Poirier, Myriam Boyer, Violaine Lacroix, Nadège Teron , Caroline Sihol, Philippe Duclos

Storyline: Its late 17th century. The viola da gamba player Monsieur de Sainte Colombe comes home to find that his wife died while he was away. In his grief he builds a small house in his garden into wich he moves to dedicate his life to music and his two young daughters Madeleine and Toinette avoiding the outside world. Rumor about him and his music is widespread and even reaches to the court...

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Copying Beethoven

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

Country: United States, Germany, Hungary

Director: Agnieszka Holland

Duration: 104 min

Year: 2006

Actors: Diane Kruger, Ralph Riach, Matyelok Gibbs, Ed Harris, Bill Stewart, Angus Barnett, Viktoria Dihen, Phyllida Law, Matthew Goode, Joe Anderson, David Kennedy, Nicholas Jones, Karl Johnson

Storyline: Vienna 1824. In the days before the first performance of the Ninth Symphony Beethoven needs help with copying out the charts so a promising student of composition Anna Holtz 23 is sent to assist him. She not only aids the transcription of the notes she provides guidance from the orchestra pit as Beethoven conducts the works debut. During the next two years the final ones of...

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The Doors

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

Country: United States

Director: Oliver Stone

Duration: 140 min

Year: 1991

Actors: Val Kilmer, Meg Ryan, Kyle MacLachlan, Frank Whaley, Kevin Dillon, Michael Wincott, Michael Madsen, Josh Evans, Dennis Burkley, Billy Idol, Kathleen Quinlan, John Densmore, Gretchen Becker, Jerry Sturm, Sean Stone

Storyline: Oliver Stones homage to 1960s rock group The Doors also doubles as a biography of the groups late singer the Electric Poet Jim Morrison. The movie follows Morrison from his days as a film student in Los Angeles to his death in Paris in 1971 at the age of 27. The movie features a tour-de-force performance by Val Kilmer who not only looks like Jim Morrisons long-lost twin...

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The Messenger: The Story Of Joan Of Arc

Genres: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, ...

Country: France

Director: Luc Besson

Duration: 158 min

Year: 1999

Actors: Rab Affleck, Stéphane Algoud, Edwin Apps, David Bailie, David Barber, Christian Barbier, Timothy Bateson, David Begg, Christian Bergner, Andrew Birkin, Dominic Borrelli, John Boswall, Matthew Bowyer, Paul Brooke, Bruce Byron

Storyline: In 1412 a young girl called Jeanne is born in Domrémy France. The times are hard: The Hunderd Years war with England has been going on since 1337 English knights and soldiers roam the country. Jeanne develops into a very religious young woman she confesses several times a day. At the age of 13 she has her first vision and finds a sword. When coming home with it she finds the...

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Communion

Genres: Biography, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, ...

Country: United States, United Kingdom

Director: Philippe Mora

Duration: 101 min

Year: 1989

Actors: Christopher Walken, Lindsay Crouse, Frances Sternhagen, Andreas Katsulas, Terri Hanauer, Joel Carlson, John Dennis Johnston, Dee Dee Rescher, Aileen Fitzpatrick, R.J. Miller, Holly Fields, Paula Shaw, Juliet Sorci, Tifni Twitchell, Joshua Miller

Storyline: Whitley Strieber goes with his family and some friends to his holiday home in the forest. They experience some weird occurances are they UFO activity? Whitley is abducted and then faces a horrible dilema; was I abducted or am I going mad? He sees a psychiatrist who tries to use hypnotic regression to discover the...

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