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Focus: A Documentary

Genres: Documentary, Biography, Sport

Country: United States

Director: Steve Hwang

Duration: 71 min

Year: 2010

Actors: Ryan Gutierrez, Eliver Ling, Jonathan Ross

FOCUS is a documentary about Mike Ross an average 26-year-old African-American unemployed college graduate who happens to be one of the worlds best video game players. The documentary is a portrait of his summer as he travels around the country competing in events to prepare for the biggest tournament of his life while revealing the origins hardships and misconceptions of his...

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Good Vibrations

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

Country: United Kingdom, Ireland

Director: Lisa Barros D'Sa, Glenn Leyburn

Duration: 103 min

Year: 2012

Actors: Liam Cunningham, Jodie Whittaker, Dylan Moran

A chronicle of Terri Hooleys life a record-store owner instrumental in developing Belfasts punk-rock...

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Good Ol' Freda

Genres: Documentary, Biography, History, Music

Country: United States, United Kingdom

Director: Ryan White

Duration: 86 min

Year: 2013

Actors: Freda Kelly, Paul McCartney, John Lennon

Good Ol Freda tells the story of Freda Kelly a shy Liverpudlian teenager asked to work for a young local band hoping to make it big: the Beatles. As the Beatles fame multiplies Freda bears witness to music and cultural history but never exploits her insider access. Their loyal secretary from beginning to end Freda finally tells her tales for the first time in 50...

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Fearless

Genres: Action, Kung Fu, Biography, ...

Country: China, Hong Kong, United States

Director: Ronny Yu

Duration: 104 min

Year: 2006

Actors: Jet Li, Shidô Nakamura, Betty Sun

Martial arts legend Huo Yuanjia became the most famous fighter in all of China at the turn of the 20th Century. Huo faced personal tragedy but ultimately fought his way out of darkness and into history defining the true spirit of martial arts. His self-discovery and the choices he made inspired his nation. The son of a great fighter who did not wish for his child to follow in his footsteps...

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God Bless Ozzy Osbourne

Genres: Documentary, Biography, Music

Country: United States

Director: Mike Fleiss, Mike Piscitelli

Duration: 120 min

Year: 2011

Actors: Blasko, Brandon Boyd, Mike Brodin

Ozzy Osbournes four decade track record as a culturally relevant artist is unprecedented but his personal struggles have been shrouded in secrecy until now. Featuring never before seen footage uncovered from the archives and interviews with Paul McCartney Tommy Lee and others God Bless Ozzy Osbourne is the first documentary to take viewers inside the complex mind of rocks great icon....

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George Harrison: Living In The Material World

Genres: Documentary, Biography, Music

Country: United States

Director: Martin Scorsese

Duration: 208 min

Year: 2011

Actors: George Harrison, Paul McCartney, John Lennon

George Harrison first became known to the world as The Quiet Beatle of the Fab Four but there was far more to his life than simply being a part of The Beatles. This film explores the life and career of this seminal musician philanthropist film producer and amateur race car driver who grew to make his own mark on the world. Through his music archival footage and the memories of friends and...

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Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

Country: France

Director: Joann Sfar

Duration: 130 min

Year: 2010

Actors: Eric Elmosnino, Lucy Gordon, Laetitia Casta

Lucien Ginsburg a rebellious French Jewish boy with a grotesque imagination hates playing the piano like his father a bar professional and manages to be admitted to Montmartre Academy as painter where he befriends an SS officer who helps him survive he occupation. After the war he chooses to become a performing artist and adopts the stage name Serge Gainsbourg. His unorthodox songs bring...

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Fab Five: The Texas Cheerleader Scandal

Genres: Biography, Drama, Sport

Country: United States

Director: Tom McLoughlin

Duration: 88 min

Year: 2008

Actors: Jenna Dewan-Tatum, Ashley Benson, Aimee Spring Fortier

Five high school cheerleaders including the daughter of the school principal run amok -- and teachers parents and administrators allow them to get away with a wide range of scandalous behavior. Know as the fab five the girls disregard school rules drink alcohol and post suggestive pictures on the Internet. But when the new cheerleading coach attempts to discipline them her superiors ask...

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Freddie Mercury, The Untold Story

Genres: Documentary, Biography, Music

Country: United Kingdom, Germany

Director: Rudi Dolezal, Hannes Rossacher

Duration: 59 min

Year: 2000

Actors: Freddie Mercury, Jer Bulsara, Kashmira Cooke

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Endurance

Genres: Biography, Drama, Sport

Country: United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Director: Leslie Woodhead, Bud Greenspan

Duration: 83 min

Year: 1999

Actors: Haile Gebrsellasie, Shawananness Gebrselassie, Yonas Zergaw

The gold medal for the mens 10000-meter race in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics is won by Ethiopian Haile...

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Elvis

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

Country: United States, Germany

Director: James Steven Sadwith

Duration: 173 min

Year: 2005

Actors: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Randy Quaid, Rose McGowan

A chronicle of the life of Elvis Presley Rhys Meyers from his humble beginnings to his rise to international...

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Counterpunch

Genres: Action, Biography, Drama, Sport

Country: United States

Director: Kenneth Castillo

Duration: 97 min

Year: 2013

Actors: Danny Trejo, Steven Bauer, Alvaro Orlando

Based on a true story. A young boxer Emilio from the wrong side of the tracks with big dreams of winning the Golden Gloves boxing championship finds himself at a cross roads after being locked up. As he fights his way back into the winning circle he gets a second shot at the championship title. As he is toe to toe in the ring with his competitor hell throw all the punches and be the last man...

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Bobby Fischer Against The World

Genres: Biography, History, Sport

Country: United States, United Kingdom, Iceland

Director: Liz Garbus

Duration: 93 min

Year: 2011

Actors: Bobby Fischer, David Edmonds, Anthony Saidy

Bobby Fischer Against the World is a documentary feature exploring the tragic and bizarre life of the late chess master Bobby Fischer. The drama of Bobby Fischers career was undeniable from his troubled childhood to his rock star status as World Champion and Cold War icon to his life as a fugitive on the run. This film explores one of the most infamous and mysterious characters of the 20th...

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Captain Phillips

Genres: Action, Adventure, Biography, Crime, ...

Country: United States

Director: Paul Greengrass

Duration: 134 min

Year: 2013

Actors: Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi, Barkhad Abdirahman

Captain Phillips is a multi-layered examination of the 2009 hijacking of the U.S. container ship Maersk Alabama by a crew of Somali pirates. It is - through director Paul Greengrasss distinctive lens - simultaneously a pulse-pounding thriller and a complex portrait of the myriad effects of globalization. The film focuses on the relationship between the Alabamas commanding officer Captain...

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Cinderella Man

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, ...

Country: United States

Director: Ron Howard

Duration: 144 min

Year: 2005

Actors: Russell Crowe, Renée Zellweger, Craig Bierko

During the Great Depression a common-man hero James J. Braddock--a.k.a. the Cinderella Man--was to become one of the most surprising sports legends in history. By the early 1930s the impoverished ex-prizefighter was seemingly as broken-down beaten-up and out-of-luck as much of the rest of the American populace who had hit rock bottom. His career appeared to be finished he was unable to pay...

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De Lovely

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music, Musical

Country: United States, United Kingdom

Director: Irwin Winkler

Duration: 125 min

Year: 2004

Actors: Kevin Kline, Ashley Judd, Jonathan Pryce

De-Lovely is an original musical portrait of American composer Cole Porter filled with his unforgettable songs. In the film Porter is looking back on his life as if it was one of his spectacular stage shows with the people and events of his life becoming the actors and action onstage. Through elaborate production numbers and popular hits like Anything Goes Its De-Lovely and Night and...

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Crossfire Hurricane

Genres: Documentary, Biography, Music

Country: United Kingdom, United States

Director: Brett Morgen

Duration: 111 min

Year: 2012

Actors: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts

A mostly chronological look at the Rolling Stones with archive footage and recent off-camera commentary by Jagger Richards Watts Wyman Taylor and Wood. Topics include virtually instant success and fans dangerous antics becoming songwriters press coverage as the anti-Beatles Richards and Jaggers drug arrest and trial Brian Jones decline and death fleeing the tax man to the south of...

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Alive 1993

Genres: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, ...

Country: United States, Canada

Director: Frank Marshall

Duration: 120 min

Year: 1993

Actors: Ethan Hawke, Vincent Spano, Josh Hamilton

The amazing true story of a Uruguayan rugby teams plane that crashed in the middle of the Andes mountains and their immense will to survive and pull through alive forced to do anything and everything they could to stay alive on meager rations and through the freezing cold. The only thing the team has riding on after losing so many of their good friends and family members is the slim chance of...

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Cloclo

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

Country: France, Belgium

Director: Florent-Emilio Siri

Duration: 148 min

Year: 2012

Actors: Jérémie Renier, Benoît Magimel, Monica Scattini

A biopic of French pop star Claude Francois most famous for co-writing the song My Way. Tracing his life from childhood in Egypt through success in France to his untimely death in Paris in...

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Charles Bradley: Soul Of America

Genres: Documentary, Biography, Music

Country: United States

Director: Poull Brien

Duration: 75 min

Year: 2012

Actors: Charles Bradley, Alex Everett, Sharon Jones

Starting off on his 62nd birthday Charles Bradley: Soul of America follows the extraordinary journey of singer Charles Bradley during the electrifying and transformative months leading up to the release of his debut album No Time for Dreaming. The 74-minute documentary feature will premiere at the SXSW 2012 Film Festival in Austin Texas. Despite being abandoned as a child a period of...

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8 Seconds

Genres: Biography, Drama, Sport, Western

Country: United States

Director: John G. Avildsen

Duration: 105 min

Year: 1994

Actors: Luke Perry, Stephen Baldwin, James Rebhorn

This film chronicles the life of Lane Frost 1987 PRCA Bull Riding World Champion his marriage and his friendships with Tuff Hedeman three-time World Champion and Cody...

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Birth Of The Beatles

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

Country: United States

Director: Richard Marquand

Duration: 104 min

Year: 1979

Actors: Stephen MacKenna, Rod Culbertson, John Altman

An account of The Beatles during the Hamburg years their signing with Brian Epstein and their inevitable rise during the early...

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Backbeat

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

Country: United Kingdom, Germany

Director: Iain Softley

Duration: 100 min

Year: 1994

Actors: Stephen Dorff, Sheryl Lee, Ian Hart

A pre-fame Beatles head for the seedy clubs of Hamburg in search of success. The band meet up with a group of trendy German beatniks one of whom Astrid Kircherr bass guitarist Stuart Sutcliffe falls in love with. Whilst best friend John Lennon can only watch Sutcliffe has to choose between rock n roll and a new life in...

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Anvil: The Story Of Anvil

Genres: Biography, Music

Country: Canada

Director: Sacha Gervasi

Duration: 80 min

Year: 2008

Actors: Robb Reiner, Steve 'Lips' Kudlow, Tiziana Arrigoni

At 14 best friends Robb Reiner and Lips made a pact to rock together forever. Their band Anvil hailed as the demi-gods of Canadian metal influenced a musical generation that includes Metallica Slayer and Anthrax despite never hitting the big time. Following a calamitous European tour Lips and Robb now in their fifties set off to record their 13th album in one last attempt to fulfill...

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Air Guitar Nation

Genres: Documentary, Biography, Music

Country: United States

Director: Alexandra Lipsitz

Duration: 81 min

Year: 2006

Actors: Dan Crane, David S. Jung, Hadia Ackerman

Its time to rock and roll - air guitar style. AIR GUITAR NATION is the feature documentary about the year that air guitar swept America - from New York to Los Angeles and then all the way to northern Finland. AIR GUITAR NATION chronicles the birth of the US Air Guitar Championships and the personal journeys of those talented contestants who are vying to become the first World Air Guitar Champion...

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Bhaag Milkha Bhaag

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, Sport

Country: India

Director: Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra

Duration: 186 min

Year: 2013

Actors: Farhan Akhtar, Sonam Kapoor, Pavan Malhotra

The true story of the Flying Sikh - world champion runner and Olympian Milkha Singh -- who overcame the massacre of his family civil war during the India-Pakistan partition and homelessness to become one of Indias most iconic...

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Ali

Genres: Biography, Drama, Sport

Country: United States

Director: Michael Mann

Duration: 157 min

Year: 2001

Actors: Will Smith, Jamie Foxx, Jon Voight

In 1964 a brash new pro boxer fresh from his olympic gold medal victory explodes on to the scene Cassius Clay. Bold and outspoken he cuts an entirely new image for African Americans in sport with his proud public self confidence with his unapologetic belief that he is the greatest boxer of all time. To his credit he sets out to prove that with his highly agile and forceful style soon making...

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Against The Ropes

Genres: Biography, Drama, Romance, Sport

Country: United States, Germany

Director: Charles S. Dutton

Duration: 111 min

Year: 2004

Actors: Meg Ryan, Omar Epps, Charles S. Dutton

A Jewish woman from Detroit who became a boxing manager guiding several major careers. This film focuses on her relationship with one boxer Epps whos reportedly a composite of several including Toney McKart and Hearns. Kallen eventually left her husband of 30 years and moved to Los Angeles becoming the commissioner of the International Female Boxers...

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A Song To Remember

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

Country: United States

Director: Charles Vidor

Duration: 113 min

Year: 1945

Actors: Paul Muni, Merle Oberon, Cornel Wilde

Prof. Joseph Elsner guides his protégé Frydryk Chopin through his formative years to early adulthood in Poland. At a recital in a dukes home Chopin insults the new Russian-installed governor and must flee the country. The professor takes him to Paris where he eventually comes under the wing and influence of novelist George Sand and rises to prominence in the music world to the exclusion of...

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