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Shine

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance

Country: Australia

Director: Scott Hicks

Duration: 105 min

Year: 1996

Actors: Geoffrey Rush, Justin Braine, Sonia Todd, Chris Haywood, Alex Rafalowicz, Gordon Poole, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Nicholas Bell, Danielle Cox, Rebecca Gooden, Marta Kaczmarek, John Cousins, Noah Taylor, Paul Linkson, Randall Berger

Storyline: Based on the true story of Australian pianist David Helfgott this delightful movie charts the traumatic early years through adulthood. Telling the story in flashback we see David as a child prodigy and as he grows up while his patriarchal father abuses him and his siblings with the memory of his childhood in Europe and the loss of his family in the concentration camps. David finally...

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Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Mat Whitecross

Duration: 115 min

Year: 2010

Actors: Andy Serkis, Tom Hughes, Clifford Samuel, Joseph Kennedy, Arthur Darvill, James Jagger, Shakraj Soornack, Mackenzie Crook, Olivia Williams, Sam Spruell, Julian Cox, Nick Rowson, Wesley Nelson, Ross Boatman, Msimisi Dlamini

Storyline: A biography of Ian Dury who was stricken with polio at a young age and defied expectations by becoming one of the founder of the punk-rock scene in Britain in the...

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Walk The Line

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance

Country: United States, Germany

Director: James Mangold

Duration: 153 min

Year: 2005

Actors: Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon, Ginnifer Goodwin, Robert Patrick, Dallas Roberts, Dan John Miller, Larry Bagby, Shelby Lynne, Tyler Hilton, Waylon Payne, Shooter Jennings, Sandra Ellis Lafferty, Dan Beene, Clay Steakley, Johnathan Rice

Storyline: While growing up in the Great Depression era Johnny Cash takes an interest in music and eventually moves out of his Arkansas town to join the air force in Germany. While there he buys his first guitar and writes his own music and proposes to Vivian. When they got married they settled in Tennessee and with a daughter he supported the family by being a salesman. He discovers a man...

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Control (2007)

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

Country: United Kingdom, United States, Australia, Japan

Director: Anton Corbijn

Duration: 122 min

Year: 2007

Actors: Sam Riley, Samantha Morton, Alexandra Maria Lara, Joe Anderson, James Anthony Pearson, Harry Treadaway, Craig Parkinson, Toby Kebbell, Andrew Sheridan, Robert Shelly, Richard Bremmer, Tanya Myers, Martha Myers Lowe, Matthew McNulty, David Whittington

Storyline: Ian Curtis is a quiet and rather sad lad who works for an employment agency and sings in a band called Warsaw. He meets a girl named Debbie whom he promptly marries and his band of which the name in the meantime has been changed to Joy Division gets more and more successful. Even though Debbie and he become parents their relationship is going downhill rapidly and Ian starts an...

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Hilary And Jackie

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Anand Tucker

Duration: 121 min

Year: 1998

Actors: Emily Watson, Rachel Griffiths, James Frain, David Morrissey, Charles Dance, Celia Imrie, Rupert Penry-Jones, Bill Paterson, Auriol Evans, Keylee Jade Flanders, Nyree Dawn Porter, Anthony Smee

Storyline: British sisters Hilary du Pré and Jacqueline du Pré are both talented musicians Hilary a flautist Jackie a cellist. With regard to their musical prowess they have always had a friendly competitive nature with each other fueled in large part by the want of their pianist mother Iris for them to achieve musical greatness. But underlying this friendliness is a deep desire to be...

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Bird

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

Country: United States

Director: Clint Eastwood

Duration: 161 min

Year: 1988

Actors: Forest Whitaker, Diane Venora, Michael Zelniker, Samuel E. Wright, Keith David, Michael McGuire, James Handy, Damon Whitaker, Morgan Nagler, Arlen Dean Snyder, Sam Robards, Penelope Windust, Glenn Wright

Storyline: Saxophone player Charlie Parker comes to New York in 1940. He is quickly noticed for his remarkable way of playing. He becomes a drug addict but his loving wife Chan tries to help...

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Last Days

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

Country: United States

Director: Gus Van Sant

Duration: 97 min

Year: 2005

Actors: Michael Pitt, Lukas Haas, Asia Argento, Scott Patrick Green, Nicole Vicius, Ricky Jay, Ryan Orion, Harmony Korine, Rodrigo Lopresti, Kim Gordon, Adam Friberg, Andy Friberg

Storyline: Introspective artist Blake is buckling under the weight of fame professional obligations and a mounting feeling of isolation. Dwarfed by towering trees Blake slowly makes his way through dense woods. He scrambles down an embankment to a fresh spring and undresses for a short swim. The next morning he returns to his house an elegant if neglected stone mansion. Many people are...

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La Bamba

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

Country: United States

Director: Luis Valdez

Duration: 108 min

Year: 1987

Actors: Lou Diamond Phillips, Esai Morales, Rosanna DeSoto, Elizabeth Peña, Danielle von Zerneck, Joe Pantoliano, Rick Dees, Marshall Crenshaw, Howard Huntsberry, Brian Setzer, Daniel Valdez, Felipe Cantu, Eddie Frias, Mike Moroff, Geoffrey Rivas

Storyline: This is the true story of Ritchie Valens a young rock & roll singer who tragically died in a plane crash at the age of 17. The film follows Ritchie from his days in Pacoima California where he and his family make a meager living working on farms to his rise as a star. The film also focuses on Richies friendship and rivalry with his older brother Bob and his relationship with...

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Rockstar

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance

Country: India

Director: Imtiaz Ali

Duration: 136 min

Year: 2011

Actors: Ranbir Kapoor, Nargis Fakhri, Shammi Kapoor, Shikha Jain, Jaideep Ahlawat, Aditi Rao Hydari, Piyush Mishra, Moufid Aziz, Kumud Mishra, Shreya Narayan, Shernaz Patel, Paritosh Sand

Storyline: Dressed in Persian clothes chased by hooligans famous Indian-born Rockstar Jordan barely makes it to a Czech stadium to perform before a huge crowd. It was not too long ago that he was just an awkward uninhibited collegian wanna-be musician with a name of Janardhan Jakhar who was ridiculed everywhere. His family wanted him to be inducted in their business but he refuses. He is...

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Capone

Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama

Country: United States

Director: Steve Carver

Duration: 101 min

Year: 1975

Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Ben Gazzara, Harry Guardino, Susan Blakely, John Cassavetes, Frank Campanella, John Orchard, Carmen Argenziano

Storyline: The story of the rise and fall of the infamous Chicago gangster Al Capone and the control he exhibited over the city during the prohibition years. Unusually briefly covering the years after Capone was...

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Bloodsport

Genres: Action, Biography, Sport

Country: United States

Director: Newt Arnold

Duration: 92 min

Year: 1988

Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Donald Gibb, Leah Ayres, Norman Burton, Forest Whitaker, Roy Chiao, Philip Chan, Pierre Rafini

Storyline: Frank Dux has spent most his life being trained by Tanaka to participate in the Kumite the ultimate martial arts tournament where participants are seriously injured even killed. Frank decides to go despite being told by his superiors in the army that he cant because they need him. Two army officers are sent to get him and the trail leads to Hong Kong but Frank eludes them. While...

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The Iron Lady

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United Kingdom, France

Director: Phyllida Lloyd

Duration: 105 min

Year: 2011

Actors: Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent, Susan Brown, Alice da Cunha, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Iain Glen, Alexandra Roach, Victoria Bewick

Storyline: Tells the story of a woman who smashed through the barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male-dominated world. The story concerns power and the price that is paid for power and is a surprising and insightful portrait of an extraordinary and complex...

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Dark Prince The True Story Of Dracula

Genres: Biography, Horror, Thriller

Country: United States

Director: Joe Chappelle

Duration: 92 min

Year: 2000

Actors: Rudolf Martin, Jane March, Christopher Brand, Peter Weller, Roger Daltrey, Michael Sutton, Razvan Vasilescu, Radu Amzulescu, Maia Morgenstern, Claudiu Bleont, Claudiu Trandafir, Dan Bordeianu, Victor Ungureanu, Dan Badarau, Sebastian Lupea

Storyline: A warlord must fight a bloody battle in order to regain his...

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J. Edgar

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United States

Director: Clint Eastwood

Duration: 137 min

Year: 2011

Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Josh Hamilton, Geoff Pierson, Cheryl Lawson, Kaitlyn Dever, Brady Matthews, Gunner Wright, David A. Cooper, Ed Westwick, Naomi Watts

Storyline: As the face of law enforcement in America for almost 50 years J. Edgar Hoover was feared and admired reviled and revered. But behind closed doors he held secrets that would have destroyed his image his career and his...

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There Be Dragons

Genres: Biography, Drama, War

Country: United States, Argentina, Spain

Director: Roland Joffe

Duration: 122 min

Year: 2011

Actors: Charlie Cox, Wes Bentley, Dougray Scott, Unax Ugalde, Olga Kurylenko, Pablo Lapadula, Golshifteh Farahani, Rusty Lemorande

Storyline: A young journalist long ago rejected by his now aged and dying father finds himself investigating one of his fathers former friends a candidate for canonization. Uncovering the two mens complicated relationship from childhood through the horrors of the Spanish Civil War unveils a compelling drama filled with passion betrayal love and religion. An action packed story set during a...

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Moneyball

Genres: Biography, Drama, Sport

Country: United States

Director: Bennett Miller

Duration: 133 min

Year: 2011

Actors: Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Robin Wright, Chris Pratt, Stephen Bishop, Brent Jennings, Ken Medlock, Tammy Blanchard

Storyline: Oakland As GM Billy Beane is handicapped with the lowest salary constraint in baseball. If he ever wants to win the World Series Billy must find a competitive advantage. Billy is about to turn baseball on its ear when he uses statistical data to analyze and place value on the players he picks for the...

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Senna

Genres: Documentary, Biography, Sport

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Asif Kapadia

Duration: 106 min

Year: 2010

Actors: Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost, Frank Williams, Ron Dennis, Viviane Senna, Milton da Silva, Neide Senna, Jackie Stewart

Storyline: The story of the monumental life and tragic death of legendary Brazilian motor-racing Champion Ayrton Senna. Spanning the decade from his arrival in Formula One in the mid 80s the film follows Sennas struggles both on track against his nemesis French World Champion Alain Prost and off it against the politics which infest the sport. Sublime spiritual yet on occasion ruthless -...

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Soul Surfer

Genres: Action, Biography, Drama, Sport

Country: United States

Director: Sean McNamara

Duration: 106 min

Year: 2011

Actors: AnnaSophia Robb, Helen Hunt, Dennis Quaid, Lorraine Nicholson, Kevin Sorbo, Carrie Underwood, Ross Thomas, Chris Brochu, Sonya Balmores, Jeremy Sumpter

Storyline: 13 year-old Bethany Hamilton is a champion surfer who was born to be in the water. But after a fun night out night surfing and what should be a fun day in the water she is attacked by a shark and loses her arm. Rushed to the hospital she remains calm and maintains her faith in God. Now she has to re-learn how to do everything with only one arm - including how to surf. It will take...

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Once Upon A Time In China 3

Genres: Kung Fu, Action, Adventure, ...

Country: Hong Kong

Director: Hark Tsui

Duration: 112 min

Year: 1993

Actors: Jet Li, Cunzhuang Ge, Rosamund Kwan, Shun Lau, Siu Chung Mok, John Wakefield, Xin Xin Xiong

Storyline: Wong Fei-Hung and sidekick Chung arrive in Peking just as the Empress announces a Lion Dance martial arts contest. Also accompanying him is cousin Yee his young Westernized aunt-by-adoption to whom Wong is secretly betrothed. Wong faces a possible romantic rival in a Russian diplomat Tumanovsky whom Aunt Yee knew back in school and a martial arts rival in the brutal Club Foot...

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Once Upon A Time In China 2

Genres: Kung Fu, Action, Adventure, ...

Country: Hong Kong

Director: Hark Tsui

Duration: 113 min

Year: 1992

Actors: Jet Li, Rosamund Kwan, Donnie Yen, Siu Chung Mok, David Chiang, Xin Xin Xiong, Paul Fonoroff, Ho Chi-Moon, Ka-Kui Ho

Storyline: In the sequel to the Tsui Hark classic Wong Fei-Hung faces The White Lotus society a fanatical cult seeking to drive the Europeans out of China through violence even attacking Chinese who follow Western ways. Wong must also defend Dr. Sun Yat Sen a revolutionary from the military. With his friends loved ones and the future of China itself at stake Wong must once again use his...

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Ip Man 2

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

Country: Hong Kong

Director: Wilson Yip

Duration: 108 min

Year: 2010

Actors: Donnie Yen, Lynn Hung, Simon Yam, Sammo Hung Kam-Bo, Xiaoming Huang, Siu-Wong Fan, Kent Cheng, Darren Shahlavi

Storyline: Ip Man 2 is a 2010 Hong Kong biographical martial arts film loosely based on the life of Ip Man a grandmaster of the martial art Wing Chun. A sequel to the 2008 film Ip Man the film was directed by Wilson Yip and stars Donnie Yen who reprises the leading role. Continuing after the events of the earlier film the sequel centers on Ips movements in Hong Kong which is under British...

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Casino Jack

Genres: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama

Country: Canada

Director: George Hickenlooper

Duration: 108 min

Year: 2010

Actors: Kevin Spacey, Ruth Marshall, Graham Greene, Hannah Endicott-Douglas, Barry Pepper, John Robinson, Jason Weinberg, Spencer Garrett, Yok Come Ho, Anna Hardwick, John David Whalen, Matt Gordon

Storyline: A hot shot Washington DC lobbyist and his protégé go down hard as their schemes to peddle influence lead to corruption and...

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Papillon

Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama

Country: United States, France

Director: Franklin J. Schaffner

Duration: 151 min

Year: 1973

Actors: Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Victor Jory, Don Gordon, Anthony Zerbe, Robert Deman, Woodrow Parfrey, Bill Mumy

Storyline: Based on the true story of Henri Charriere also known as Papillon which is French for butterfly the character even sports a large tattoo of a butterfly. A petty criminal Papillon is wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to life in a French penal colony in Guiane French Guiana South America. Papillon is determined to escape but attempt after attempt meets with...

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The Damned United

Genres: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Sport

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Tom Hooper

Duration: 98 min

Year: 2009

Actors: Colm Meaney, Henry Goodman, David Roper, Jimmy Reddington, Oliver Stokes, Ryan Day, Michael Sheen

Storyline: Taking over Englands top football club Leeds United previously successful manager Brian Cloughs abrasive approach and his clear dislike of the players dirty style of play make it certain there is going to be friction. Glimpses of his earlier career help explain both his hostility to previous manager Don Revie and how much he is missing right-hand man Peter Taylor who has loyally...

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Public Enemies

Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama, History

Country: United States

Director: Michael Mann

Duration: 140 min

Year: 2009

Actors: James Russo, David Wenham, Christian Stolte, Jason Clarke, Johnny Depp, John Judd, Stephen Dorff, Michael Vieau

Storyline: This is the story of the last few years of the notorious bank robber John Dillinger. He loved what he did and could imagine little else that would make him happier. Living openly in 1930s Chicago he had the run of the city with little fear of reprisals from the authorities. Its there that he meets Billie Frechette with whom he falls deeply in love. In parallel we meet Melvin Purvis...

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The Devil's Double

Genres: Action, Biography, Drama

Country: Belgium

Director: Lee Tamahori

Duration: 109 min

Year: 2011

Actors: Dominic Cooper, Ludivine Sagnier, Raad Rawi, Philip Quast, Khalid Laith, Dar Salim,

Storyline: Baghdad the playground for the rich and infamous where anything can be bought - but for a price. This is Uday Husseins world and with his depraved lust for debauchery and immorality he helps himself to whatever turns him on. When army lieutenant Latif Yahia is summoned to Saddams palace he is faced with an impossible request - to be Udays fiday - his body double or have his...

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Braveheart

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

Country: United States

Director: Mel Gibson

Duration: 177 min

Year: 1995

Actors: James Robinson, Sean Lawlor, Sandy Nelson, James Cosmo, Sean McGinley, Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau and Patrick McGoohan

Storyline: William Wallace is a Scottish rebel who leads an uprising against the cruel English ruler Edward the Longshanks who wishes to inherit the crown of Scotland for himself. When he was a young boy William Wallaces father and brother along with many others lost their lives trying to free Scotland. Once he loses another of his loved ones William Wallace begins his long quest to make...

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