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12 Years A Slave

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Country: United States, United Kingdom

Director: Steve McQueen

Duration: 134 min

Year: 2013

Actors: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael K. Williams, Michael Fassbender

Based on an incredible true story of one mans fight for survival and freedom. In the pre-Civil War USA Solomon Northup Chiwetel Ejiofor a free black man from upstate New York is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty personified by a malevolent slave owner portrayed by Michael Fassbender as well as unexpected kindnesses Solomon struggles not only to stay alive but to retain...

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Rudy

Genres: Biography, Drama, Sport

Country: United States

Director: David Anspaugh

Duration: 114 min

Year: 1993

Actors: Sean Astin, Jon Favreau, Ned Beatty

Rudy grew up in a steel mill town where most people ended up working but wanted to play football at Notre Dame instead. There were only a couple of problems. His grades were a little low his athletic skills were poor and he was only half the size of the other players. But he had the drive and the spirit of 5 people and has set his sights upon joining the...

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Remember The Titans

Genres: Biography, Drama, Sport

Country: United States

Director: Boaz Yakin

Duration: 113 min

Year: 2000

Actors: Denzel Washington, Will Patton, Wood Harris

Suburban Virginia schools have been segregated for generations in sight of the Washington Monument over the river in the nations capital. One Black and one White high school are closed and the students sent to T.C. Williams High School under federal mandate to integrate. The year is seen through the eyes of the football team where the man hired to coach the Black school is made head coach over...

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Rebound: The Legend Of Earl The Goat Manigault

Genres: Biography, Drama, Sport

Country: United States

Director: Eriq La Salle

Duration: 120 min

Year: 1996

Actors: Don Cheadle, James Earl Jones, Michael Beach

A dramatization of the life of Earl The Goat Manigault Don Cheadle with a lot of factual based occurrences. A reformed junkie returns from prison to clean up his act and devote the rest of his life to the young kids of Harlem. 1996 was the 25th anniversary of the first tournament named after...

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Raging Bull

Genres: Biography, Drama, Sport

Country: United States

Director: Martin Scorsese

Duration: 129 min

Year: 1980

Actors: Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci

When Jake LaMotta steps into a boxing ring and obliterates his opponent hes a prizefighter. But when he treats his family and friends the same way hes a ticking time bomb ready to go off at any moment. Though LaMotta wants his familys love something always seems to come between them. Perhaps its his violent bouts of paranoia and jealousy. This kind of rage helped make him a champ but in...

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Phantom Punch

Genres: Biography, Drama, Sport

Country: Canada, United States

Director: Robert Townsend

Duration: 90 min

Year: 2008

Actors: Ving Rhames, Stacey Dash, Nicholas Turturro

The story of World heavyweight champion boxer Charles L. Sonny Liston who was knocked down 2 minutes into a championship fight by a seemingly harmless right hook from Muhammad Ali. It would forever be known as the Phantom Punch. Liston later died under mysterious...

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Paan Singh Tomar

Genres: Action, Biography, Crime, Sport, ...

Country: India

Director: Tigmanshu Dhulia

Duration: 135 min

Year: 2010

Actors: Irrfan Khan, Mahie Gill, Rajendra Gupta

Paan Singh Tomar is a Hindi-language film based on the true story of a runner employed by the Army and has won Gold medal at Indian National Games but forced to become notorious baaghi. It is directed by Tigmanshu...

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Mr Hockey: The Gordie Howe Story

Genres: Biography, Drama, Sport

Country: United States

Director: Andy Mikita

Duration: 90 min

Year: 2013

Actors: Michael Shanks, Kathleen Robertson, Martin Cummins

The story of the 1973 hockey season when aging legend Gordie Howe returned to the ice at the age of...

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Nina Simone: La Légende

Genres: Documentary, Biography, Music

Country: France, United Kingdom

Director: Frank Lords

Duration: 54 min

Year: 1992

Actors: Nina Simone, Edney Whiteside, John Waymon

In this up-close and personal portrait of vocalist and musician Nina Simone the singer herself and a number of friends relatives and connaisseurs tell excerpts of her path in music and life. Remarkably the documentary was able to follow Simone on a visit back to her childhood home and her mother and siblings are interviewed. Simone also discusses her participation in the civil rights movement...

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My Paparotti

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

Country: South Korea

Director: Jong-chan Yun

Duration: 127 min

Year: 2013

Actors: Lee Do-Yeon, Suk-kyu Han, Cho Jin-Woong

Based on the true story of Kim Ho-Joong who first appeared on Korean TV show STARKING on July 18 2009. During the program Kim Ho-Joong surprised people with his vocal abilities and also made people cry because of his background story. He grew up as a troubled kid who joined gangs but because of his grandmother he began to sing in...

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Michael Jordan: His Airness

Genres: Documentary, Biography, Sport

Country: United States

Director:

Duration: 90 min

Year: 1999

Actors: Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley, Larry Bird

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Mission To Lars

Genres: Documentary, Adventure, Biography, Music

Country: United Kingdom, United States

Director: James Moore, William Spicer

Duration: 74 min

Year: 2012

Actors: Kate Spicer, Tom Spicer, William Spicer

Kate and Will Spicers brother Tom has Fragile X Syndrome the most common form of inherited learning disability. He is also a massive fan of Lars Ulrich from Metallica. They made a promise to Tom that they would get him to meet Lars. Toms dream is their promise. Together they went on a Mission to...

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Marley

Genres: Documentary, Biography, Music

Country: United States, United Kingdom

Director: Kevin Macdonald

Duration: 144 min

Year: 2012

Actors: Bob Marley, Ziggy Marley, Jimmy Cliff

Bob Marleys universal appeal impact on music history and role as a social and political prophet is both unique and unparalleled. The definitive life story of the musician revolutionary and legend from his early days to his rise to international super-stardom. Made with the support of the Marley family there is rare footage incredible performances and revelatory interviews with the people...

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Lords Of Dogtown

Genres: Biography, Drama, Sport

Country: United States, Germany

Director: Catherine Hardwicke

Duration: 107 min

Year: 2005

Actors: Heath Ledger, Emile Hirsch, Victor Rasuk

A fictionalized take on the group of brilliant young skateboarders raised in the mean streets of Dogtown in Santa Monica California. The Z-Boys as they come to be known perfect their craft in the empty swimming pools of unsuspecting suburban homeowners pioneering a thrilling new sport and eventually moving into...

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Little Richard

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

Country: United States

Director: Robert Townsend

Duration: 86 min

Year: 2000

Actors: Leon, Jenifer Lewis, Carl Lumbly

A revealing movie about the tumultuous life of Little Richard Penniman whose groundbreaking music revolutionized rock and roll. Growing up a social misfit in poverty Little Richards passion talent and flamboyance catapulted him into the limelight of rock music. His career was rocked by his homosexuality his fundamental beliefs and the pervasive discrimination within the music industry. We go...

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Klitschko

Genres: Documentary, Biography, Sport

Country: Germany

Director: Sebastian Dehnhardt

Duration: 118 min

Year: 2011

Actors: Lamon Brewster, Chris Byrd, Bernd Bönte

A documentary encompassing the lives of world heavyweight boxing champions Vitali & Wladimir Klitschko. The first time in history two brothers have shared all the heavyweight world titles this film explores their humble beginnings in the Ukraine to their rise to stardom and domination of heavyweight prize...

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Lemmy

Genres: Documentary, Biography, Music

Country: United States

Director: Greg Olliver, Wes Orshoski

Duration: 116 min

Year: 2010

Actors: Lemmy, Phil Campbell, Mikkey Dee

A documentary on the life and career of revered heavy-metal musician Lemmy...

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Invincible (2006)

Genres: Biography, Drama, Sport

Country: United States

Director: Ericson Core

Duration: 105 min

Year: 2006

Actors: Mark Wahlberg, Greg Kinnear, Elizabeth Banks

In the sumer of 1976 30-year old Vince Papale is having a tough run of luck. Hes been working as a supply teacher for two days a week but has just found out that his job has been eliminated because of budget cuts. His wife gives up on him saying hell never amount to anything and asks for a divorce. He works as a bartender and plays football with his friends. When the the new coach of the...

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Kurt & Courtney

Genres: Documentary, Biography, Music

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Nick Broomfield

Duration: 95 min

Year: 1998

Actors: Courtney Love, Nick Broomfield, Kurt Cobain

After rocker Kurt Cobains death ruled a suicide a film crew arrives in Seattle to make a documentary. Director Nick Broomfield talks to lots of people: Cobains aunt who provides home movies and recordings the estranged father of Cobains widow Courtney Love an L.A. private investigator who worked for Love a nanny for Kurt and Courtneys child friends and lovers of both and others....

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Invictus

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, Sport

Country: United States

Director: Clint Eastwood

Duration: 134 min

Year: 2009

Actors: Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon, Tony Kgoroge

The film tells the inspiring true story of how Nelson Mandela joined forces with the captain of South Africas rugby team to help unite their country. Newly elected President Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport Mandela rallies South Africas rugby team as...

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Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child

Genres: Documentary, Biography, Music

Country: United States

Director: Bob Smeaton

Duration: 91 min

Year: 2010

Actors: Bootsy Collins, Jimi Hendrix, Noel Redding

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Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet

Genres: Documentary, Biography, Music

Country: United Kingdom, United States

Director: Jesse Vile

Duration: 87 min

Year: 2012

Actors: Jason Becker, Ehren Becker, Gary Becker

A documentary film about the extraordinary life of a famous musical prodigy who has been battling against Lou Gehrigs Disease for 22 years. A paralyzing terminal illness with no real treatment or cure it has trapped Jason inside of his body for over 15 years; unable to move unable to speak and unable to play the instrument which propelled him to international stardom at just 19 years of...

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It's About You

Genres: Documentary, Biography, Music

Country: United States

Director: Ian Markus, Kurt Markus

Duration: 86 min

Year: 2010

Actors: Kurt Markus, John Mellencamp

This is a personal journey film about singer/songwriter John Mellencamp. It was made during his summer 2009 tour with Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson; Mellencamp also recorded his new album in three historical locations during the month and a half tour. The story is told through the eyes of the father/son film making team of Kurt and Ian Markus neither of whom had ever made a film before. The entire...

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Greased Lightning

Genres: Action, Biography, Comedy, Drama, ...

Country: United States

Director: Michael Schultz

Duration: 96 min

Year: 1977

Actors: Richard Pryor, Beau Bridges, Pam Grier

The true life story of Wendell Scott the first black stock car racing driver to win an upper tier NASCAR...

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I'll Sing For You

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

Country: France, Mali

Director: Jacques Sarasin

Duration: 76 min

Year: 2001

Actors: Haruna Barry, Dèmba-Kane Niang, Madieye Niang

In the sixties the people of Mali awoke each morning to the sound of Boubacar KarKar Traorés voice on the radio singing of independence. Everyone in Mali remembers having danced to his hits. But since his music was only played on the radio he didnt earn enough money to live on and he had to stop playing music to work as a tailor and a salesman to feed his family. A few years later he is...

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Gracie

Genres: Biography, Drama, Sport

Country: United States

Director: Davis Guggenheim

Duration: 95 min

Year: 2007

Actors: Carly Schroeder, Andrew Shue, Elisabeth Shue

This is the story of a teenager named Gracie Bowen who lives in South Orange New Jersey is crazy about soccer as are her three brothers and former soccer star father. Although Gracie wants to join her brothers and father in the nightly practices she is discouraged by everyone except her elder brother Johnny. Her father does not believe that girls should play soccer and tells her that she is...

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Hit So Hard

Genres: Documentary, Biography, Music

Country: United States

Director: P. David Ebersole

Duration: 103 min

Year: 2011

Actors: Patty Schemel, Courtney Love, Eric Erlandson

HIT SO HARD follows the journey of Patty Schemel the openly gay drummer of Courtney Loves seminal rock band Hole. As a young girl who always knew she was different from the other kids in her farm town home outside of Seattle Patty never dreamed she would one day have her picture on the cover of Rolling Stone. But she also never fathomed that she could lose it all. A true survivor of what...

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Alien Origin

Genres: Biography, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Country: United States

Director: Mark Atkins

Duration: 88 min

Year: 2012

Actors: Chelsea Vincent, Peter Pedrero, Philip Coc

A movie created from found footage of a lost military expedition that exposes the origins of life on...

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Hated: Gg Allin & The Murder Junkies

Genres: Documentary, Biography, Music

Country: United States

Director: Todd Phillips

Duration: 90 min

Year: 1993

Actors: GG Allin, Merle Allin, Shireen Kadivar

Documentary about the life and death of the notorious underground punk icon GG Allin the foul mouthed heroin shooting lead singer of the Murder Junkies who would throw excrement at the crowd start fights with the biggest guys in the audience and threatened to kill himself onstage. He was considered the lowest common denominator of our society by some an avant-garde artist by others. He died...

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