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Country: France, China, Germany
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Year: 2009
A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200000 Chinese during the Nanjing massacre in...
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2009
134 min
John Rabe
Country: United States
Genre: Biography
Year: 1993
Forty year old documentary filmmaker Ross McElwee has a penchant for filming everything around him. Following the announcement of his impending marriage to his film-making partner Marilyn...
1993
114 min
Time Indefinite
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Genre: Biography | Documentary | Short
Year: 2020
John Shepherd spent 30 years trying to contact extraterrestrials by broadcasting music millions of miles into space. After giving up the search he makes a different connection here on...
2020
John Was Trying To Contact Aliens
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Year: 1933
Queen Christina of Sweden is a popular monarch who is loyal to her country. However when she falls in love with a Spanish envoy she must choose between the throne and the man she...
1933
99 min
Queen Christina
Country: Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Year: 2019
The first abstract artist was a woman misjudged and concealed Hilma Klint rocks the art world with her mind-blowing...
2019
94 min
Beyond The Visible - Hilma Af Klint
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Year: 1967
After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family two drifters elude police in the end coming to terms with their own mortality and the repercussions of their vile...
1967
In Cold Blood
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Year: 1970
Crusading minister gets involved in the lives of members of a New York City street...
1970
106 min
The Cross And The Switchblade
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Year: 2004
Defiant young activists take the womens suffrage movement by storm putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to...
2004
123 min
Iron Jawed Angels
Country: United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, France
Genre: Biography, Drama
Waris Dirie born 1965 in Somalia flees at 13 when sold as 4th wife. Shes maid at the Somalian embassy in London then McDonalds where shes discovered and becomes intl top model. 1997 she speaks up against female genital...
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Desert Rose
Country: United Kingdom, United States
Year: 1971
During the sixteenth century the Catholic Mary Queen of Scots engages in over two decades of religious and political conflict with her cousin the Protestant Queen Elizabeth I of England amidst political intrigue in her native...
1971
128 min
Mary, Queen Of Scots
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Year: 1998
A comedy writer struggles to overcome his addiction to...
1998
88 min
Permanent Midnight
Country: Canada
Year: 2007
The shocking heart-wrenching story of British-Canadian engineer William Sampson who lived a privileged life in Riyadh Saudi Arabia until he was kidnapped locked up and tortured by Saudi thugs for almost three...
2007
90 min
Confessions Of An Innocent Man
A freewheeling take on visionary inventor Nikola Tesla his interactions with Thomas Edison and J.P. Morgans daughter Anne and his breakthroughs in transmitting electrical power and...
96 min
Tesla 2020
Country: United Kingdom
Year: 1969
King Henry VIII of England discards one wife Catharine of Aragon who has failed to produce a male heir in favor of the young and beautiful Anne...
1969
145 min
Anne Of The Thousand Days
Year: 2010
Inspired by the true story of teenagers at Gloucester Mass. High School who agreed to get pregnant at the same...
2010
87 min
Pregnancy Pact
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
The true story of Don Smiths heroic experience at the Battle of the Bulge while with the 94th...
104 min
Everyman's War
Country: France, Canada
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Year: 2008
The story of the notorious French gangster Jacques Mesrine with the focus on his life and death as Frances Public Enemy No. 1 in the...
2008
133 min
Mesrine Part 2: Public Enemy #1
Country: Canada, United States
Based on the true story of the enduring but troubled love between Lois Wilson co-founder of Al-Anon and her alcoholic husband Bill Wilson co-founder of Alcoholics...
92 min
When Love Is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story
The Murrow Polk and IDA Award-winning documentary Boogie Man is about Lee Atwater a blues-playing rogue whose rise from the South to Chairman of the GOP made him a political rock star....
86 min
Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
The story of Boy George the famous androgynous lead singer of the band Culture...
Worried About The Boy
Country: Germany, United States
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller
Year: 2006
Based on the true story two homicide detectives track Martha Beck and Raymond Martinez Fernandez a murderous pair known as the Lonely Hearts Killers who lured their victims through the...
2006
108 min
Lonely Hearts 2006
A look at the life of 19th century Yorkshire landowner Anne Lister 1791-1840 who lived openly as a lesbian and kept diaries chronicling the details of her daily...
The Secret Diaries Of Miss Anne Lister
Country: Germany
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History
Year: 2018
Dramatised origin story of one of Germanys most beloved contemporary...
2018
Bab Mook Ja
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Year: 2005
Two people come to the end of a spear in order to realize that the divisions between them are not...
2005
End Of The Spear
Called the longest running con in FBI history Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter the man that people knew as Clark Rockefeller McCormack had brilliantly impersonated numerous people...
95 min
Who Is Clark Rockefeller?
A dramatization that traces former UK prime minister Tony Blairs relationships with Bill Clinton and George W....
93 min
The Special Relationship
Genre: Biography, Crime, History
After the deaths of Biggie and Pac Master P takes over the game adding Fiend Mystikal and Snoop to No Limits expanding roster creating an unstoppable hip-hop...
E5
No Limit Chronicles: Season 1
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History, Music, Musical
Year: 1999
Set in the 1880s the story of how during a creative dry spell the partnership of the legendary musical/theatrical writers Gilbert and Sullivan almost dissolves before they turn it all around and write the...
1999
160 min
Topsy-turvy
Country: Australia
The Film adaptation of Erik Jensens award-winning biography of Adam Cullen is the story of the biographer and his subject as it descends into a dependent and abusive...
Acute Misfortune
Country: India
The extraordinary story of Shakuntala Devi the world-renowned mathematician who lived her life on her own terms. While the film pays tribute to her genius as a mathematician it also...
127 min
Shakuntala Devi
Country: Russia
Biographical film about the inventor and designer of small arms Mikhail Timofeevich Kalashnikov. Today it is difficult to find a person who does not know this name. However not everyone...
110 min
Kalashnikov
Country: Brazil
The true story of João Guilherme Estrella Johnny a young middle-class bon vivant who became a big-time cocaine dealer in Rio de Janeiro in the early...
124 min
My Name Ain't Johnny
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
An intimate and compassionate observational documentary from the perspective of a 10-year-old Aboriginal boy in Alice Springs Australia struggling to balance his traditional Arrernte/Garrwa upbringing with a state...
84 min
In My Blood It Runs
After being physically attacked by his loving wife Carmen a series of unsettling incidents lead her husband Pat to question just what is happening to her. Its only when Carmen cant find...
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Ice Cream In The Cupboard
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Todd Mcfarlane: Like Hell I Won't
Country: Germany, Tanzania
More than 20 years ago Dr. Jane Goodall now 75 decided to give up her career as a primatologist as well as her private life in order to devote all her energy to saving our endangered...
107 min
Jane's Journey
Genre: Biography, Crime, Thriller
In 1989 a Canadian journalist investigates the circumstances surrounding the suspicious arrest of a heroin addict imprisoned in a Thai...
135 min
Most Wanted 2020
Genre: Biography, Drama, Musical, Sport
Year: 1952
Biopic of Australian swimming champ and entertainer Annette Kellerman. After overcoming polio Kellerman achieves fame and creates a scandal when her one-piece bathing suit is considered...
1952
115 min
Million Dollar Mermaid
Year: 2002
Renowned writer F. Scott Fitzgerald is living the last months of his life with his youthful secretary confidant and protégé who later wrote a memoir of their time...
2002
Last Call 2002
Year: 1986
Tony Danza stars in this riveting drama based on the true story of Jerry Rosenberg - the worlds first convict turned attorney. When two cops are dead and hes the chief suspect Jerry...
1986
100 min
Doing Life
Documentary on the life and works of comic genius Buster Keaton directed by Peter...
102 min
The Great Buster
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama
Year: 1976
1976
83 min
He's A Legend, He's A Hero
On June 20 2009 Neda Agha-Soltan was shot and killed on the streets of Tehran during the turmoil that followed the Iranian presidential contest. Within hours images of her dying...
67 min
For Neda
Country: United States, United Kingdom
Year: 1980
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade there is revealed a person of kindness intelligence and...
1980
The Elephant Man
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Based on the real-life relationship between teammates Brian Piccolo and Gale Sayers and the bond established when Piccolo discovers that he is...
73 min
Brian's Song 1971
A desperate teenager is forced into the dangerous world of underground fighting to win enough money to save his ailing mother. He finds out what hes made of in the face of these violent hungry...
98 min
American Fighter
Country: Germany, France, United States
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
The iconic Merce Cunningham and the last generation of his dance company is stunningly profiled in Alla Kovgans 3D documentary through recreations of his landmark works and archival footage of Cunningham John Cage and Robert...
Cunningham
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Drama
Boy Interrupted looks at the life of Evan Perry a 15-year-old boy from New York who committed suicide in 2005. The film made by his parents Dana and Hart examines how Evans bipolar...
Boy Interrupted
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Year: 2011
The Craigslist Killer follows the dark mysterious life Philip Markoff Jake McDorman conducted online while preparing for a promising future as a doctor and a life of happiness with...
2011
The Craigslist Killer
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama
Its 1972 and the Mafia crime families are at war but that isnt enough to stop a young unknown John Gotti who has big ideas and even bigger ambitions. In order to put an end to a two...
Sinatra Club
Country: Cambodia, United States
Year: 2017
Cambodian author and human rights activist Loung Ung recounts the horrors she suffered as a child under the rule of the deadly Khmer...
2017
136 min
First They Killed My Father
How real-life British-American author Christopher Isherwood and his German boyfriend Heinz met and fell in love during the 1930s and the rise of...
Christopher And His Kind
Country: Italy
A look at the relationship between renowned scientist Albert Einstein and his first wife Mileva...
180 min
Einstein
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Year: 2000
This film is based on the story of the capture of computer hacker Kevin...
2000
Takedown
Country: Italy, West Germany, Spain, Liechtenstein
Genre: Biography, Horror
Sir Christopher Lee plays the Lord Chief Justice of seventeenth century England who condemns women as witches to further his political and sexual...
The Bloody Judge
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
The ultimate nostalgia trip through everything edible in 1960s...
Toast
This feature documentary chronicles the incredible career of the late artist with classic performance footage home movies and photographs. Featuring interviews with Bruce Springsteen...
In Dreams: The Roy Orbison Story
Genre: Biography, Family
Based on a true story this film by JCFilms follows the path of the Jonah Family in remembrance of the loss of their son Jack to a heroin overdose. The film brings awareness to the...
82 min
Jack Jonah
Country: United States, Canada
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
The story of the 10-year rocky relationship between Dean Martin and Jerry...
Martin And Lewis
