Country: United States
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Part documentary part narrative fiction part home movie and part acid trip. A psychedelic whirlwind of snapshots Super-8 home movies old answering machine messages video diaries early short films snippets of 80s pop culture and dramatic reenactments to create an epic portrait of an American family travesty. The story begins in 2003 when Jonathan learns that his schizophrenic mother...
Country: United States, United Kingdom
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Docu-drama based on the life of Ted Bundy a serial killer who killed at least 19 young women during the 1970s though some sources say as many as 30 to 35 were murdered. Set from his college student years to his first victims his capture escape from prison twice his final killing spree to his trial conviction and...
Country: United States
Genre: Biography, Drama
Biopic of Temple Grandin an autistic woman who overcame the limitations imposed on her by her condition to become a Ph.D. and expert in the field of animal husbandry. She developed an interest in cattle early in life while spending time at her Aunt and Uncles ranch. She did not speak until age four and had difficulty right through high school mostly in dealing with people. Her mother was very...
Country: United States
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Former seaman Clinton Jones now works at a lowly job. His daughter Ruth wants to become an actress. Clinton gets fired and Ruth rejects the advances of Fred Whitmarsh. Her father gives her his seamans spyglass to sell as she heads for New York...
Country: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Western
The last months of Jesse Jamess life from meeting Robert Ford a 19-year-old who idolizes Jesse to the day Ford shoots him. Jesses a wanted man living under a pseudonym carrying out a train robbery disappearing to Kentucky and reappearing to plan a bank holdup with Robert and Roberts brother as his team. The rest of the gang is dead arrested or gone from Missouri. Whenever Jesses...
Country: United States, Mexico
Genre: Biography, Drama
In 1974 Samuel Joseph Byck attempted to hijack a plane he intended to fly into the White House to kill Richard Nixon - possibly the first time an airliner was to be used as a flying bomb in a terrorist attack. Sam Bicke is a lonely ineffectual incompetent who feels wronged by his family friends employers and the world in general though his problems are largely of his own making and his...
Country: United States, Canada
Genre: Biography, Drama
Biographic made-for-TV movie of the life of one of Hollywoods most famous actreses: Audrey Hepburn spaning from her early childhood to the 1960s which details her life as Dutch overachieving ballerina coming to grips with her parents divorce and enduring five hard years of living in Nazi occupied Holland during World War II. Audrey then settles in the USA where she tries to make it big as a...
Country: Romania
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
During the summary trial that he and his wife were submitted to Nicolae Ceausescu is reviewing his long reign in power: 1965-1989. From a formal point of view The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu proves that it is possible to only use existing images to yield films focused on recent history yet with an epic vein similar to that of the historical fiction cinema. This is an eminently syntactic...
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