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...
Country: Germany, France, Czech Republic
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Germany in the 1970s: Murderous bomb attacks the threat of terrorism and the fear of the enemy inside are rocking the very foundations of the yet fragile German democracy. The radicalised children of the Nazi generation lead by Andreas Baader Ulrike Meinhof and Gudrun Ensslin are fighting a violent war against what they perceive as the new face of fascism: American imperialism supported by the...
Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Biography
Towards the end of the second world war Dr Ludwig Guttmann a brisk refugee from Nazi Germany arrives at Stoke Mandeville hospital in Buckinghamshire and is appalled to find the partially paralysed spinal patients heavily sedated and left to rot with bed sores. He immediately begins a new regimedisposing of old equipment and sedatives bringing him into conflict with stern Sister Edwards and...
Country: United States
Genre: Drama
Based on the #1 New York Times best-selling book of the same name HEAVEN IS FOR REAL brings to the screen the true story of a small-town father who must find the courage and conviction to share his sons extraordinary life-changing experience with the world. The film stars Academy Award nominee and Emmy award winning actor Greg Kinnear as Todd Burpo and co-stars Kelly Reilly as Sonja Burpo the...
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