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Genre: Biography | Drama
Year: 1982
An adaptation of George Buchners novella Lenz chronicling the poet Jakob Lenzs slide into insanity and madness. The setting is transposed from 18th century Germany to New York in the early...
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1982
Lenz
Country: N/A
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History, News
Year: 2011
A Documentary of the everyday life of a medical marijuana dispensary in Los Angeles...
2011
45 min
Green Guild
Country: United States
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Year: 2017
A feature documentary exploring NYC culture through the influence of nightlife legend Susanne...
2017
86 min
Susanne Bartsch: On Top
Country: United Kingdom, United States
Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller
Year: 2019
Inspired by real events in the life of French New Wave icon Jean Seberg. In the late 1960s Hoovers FBI targeted her because of her political and romantic involvement with civil rights activist Hakim...
2019
96 min
Seberg
Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Year: 1986
The death of King Henry VIII throws his kingdom into chaos because of succession disputes. His weak son King Edward VI is on his deathbed. Anxious to keep England true to the Reformation...
1986
136 min
Lady Jane
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Year: 2013
Four childhood friends learn to cheat dice games from a heroine addict. They soon learn that the game of dice isnt about how the dice roll its about the people you roll...
2013
84 min
Winnerz
Country: Italy, United Kingdom, France
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Year: 2020
A political family drama set in Florence in the early fifteenth century. Cosimo de Medici finds himself at the helm of his banking dynasty when his father Giovanni dies...
2020
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Medici: Season 3
Medici: Season 2
Country: France, Italy, Belgium, United Kingdom
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Year: 1994
Farinelli is the artistic name of Carlo Broschi a young singer in Handels time. He was castrated in his childhood in order to preserve his voice. During his life he becomes to be a very...
1994
111 min
Farinelli
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Crime
A TV series where individuals share their perspectives of loved ones who performed horrific acts of...
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Evil Lives Here: Season 7
Genre: Biography, Drama, Horror
Year: 2006
As depicted in the film Edgar Allan Poe was plagued with nightmares and the deaths of those he loved throughout his life. Those nightmares and his tragic life were many times the basis...
2006
93 min
Nightmares From The Mind Of Poe
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Sport
Year: 2010
An exploration of the fierce rivalry between NBA superstars Larry Bird and Magic Johnson during their decade of...
2010
85 min
Magic & Bird: A Courtship Of Rivals
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Year: 1955
A fictionalized account of the career of jazz singer Ruth Etting and her tempestuous marriage to gangster Marty Snyder who helped propel her to...
1955
122 min
Love Me Or Leave Me 1955
Country: Poland
Genre: Biography, Drama
Year: 2016
The story of a well-known artistic family: legendary painter Zdzislaw Beksinski his wife Zofia and their son Tomasz a highly-praised music critic and translator. Their lives were far from being...
2016
123 min
The Last Family
A documentary about how English actor Leon Vitali came to work as an assistant to American filmmaker Stanley Kubrick for over 30...
94 min
Filmworker
Country: United States, Canada, Israel
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Drama
Year: 2015
In 1943 Max Fronenberg spent one year digging a secret underground tunnel to escape out of a prison camp in Warsaw Poland during the Holocaust while saving fifteen other prisoners in the process and forced to leave behind the love of his life Rena in the...
2015
There Is Many Like Us
Country: Australia
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
The story of Michelle Payne the first female jockey to win the Melbourne...
98 min
Ride Like A Girl
Genre: Documentary, Adventure, Biography, Sport
An examination of the legacy one athlete left to the progression of his...
100 min
Mcconkey
Country: United States, Fiji
Year: 2014
A transgender Native Hawaiian teacher inspires a young girl to fulfill her destiny of leading the schools male hula troupe even as she struggles to find love and a committed relationship in her own...
2014
75 min
Kumu Hina
Country: United Kingdom, India
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Crime, Drama, History, News
The life and death of Jyoti Singh an Indian medical student whose violation and murder by gang rapists exposed the violent misogyny of Indian...
63 min
India's Daughter
Country: Hong Kong, China
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History
The Kung Fu master travels to the U.S. where his student has upset the local martial arts community by opening a Wing Chun...
105 min
Ip Man 4: The Finale
Country: United Kingdom, Italy, Argentina, United States
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Behind Vatican walls the conservative Pope Benedict and the liberal future Pope Francis must find common ground to forge a new path for the Catholic...
125 min
The Two Popes
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
A portrait of the artist L.S. Lowry and the relationship with his mother who tries to dissuade him from pursuing his...
91 min
Mrs. Lowry And Son
Country: Canada, United States
A group of women decide to take on Fox News head Roger Ailes and the toxic atmosphere he presided over at the...
108 min
Bombshell
The untold story of Charles Mansons obsession to become a rock star his rise in the LA music scene the celebrities who championed his music his tragic friendship with The Beach Boys...
104 min
Manson: Music From An Unsound Mind
Year: 1972
The second part My ain folk of Bill Douglas influential trilogy harks back to his impoverished upbringing in early-40s Scotland. Cinema was his only escape - he paid for it with the...
1972
46 min
My Childhood
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
With one of the most memorably stunning voices that has ever hit the airwaves Linda Ronstadt burst onto the 1960s folk rock music scene in her early...
95 min
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound Of My Voice
Revealing new look at Judy Garland fifty years after her tragic untimely death. Fusing the unpublished recollections of producer manager and third husband Sid Luft with film clips rare concert footage and Judys own inimitable...
Sid & Judy
Year: 2005
In 1964 to explore the adage Give me a child until he is seven and I will give you the man World in Action filmed seven-year-olds. Every seven years Michael Apted visits them. At 49...
2005
180 min
49 Up
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
This is the story of Father Divine and the Peace Mission...
Father's Kingdom
Country: Germany
Year: 2018
Dramatised origin story of one of Germanys most beloved contemporary...
2018
All About Me
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Western
A movie based on the true life story of Bass Reeves a legendary tough African American cowboy in the Wild West. Bass Reeves was the first black deputy U.S. marshal west of the Mississippi...
N/A
Hell On The Border
Country: Mexico, Spain, United States
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History, Music
The life of pioneering singer Chavela Vargas from her birth in Costa Rica in 1919 to her death in Mexico in...
Chavela
The story of four-time World Champion Panamanian boxer Roberto Durán. A one man wrecking-ball who took on the world transcended his sport and helped inspire a nation to rise up against...
I Am Durán
Year: 1998
Director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born adults after a 7 year wait. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during the last seven...
1998
139 min
42 Up
Year: 1977
Director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born adults after a seven-year wait. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during the...
1977
21 Up
For all the shame we hide For all the blame assigned Its time we have our say On how we are...
The Rise Of Eve
A portrait of the extraordinary life and career of actor Anton...
92 min
Love, Antosha
Country: Colombia, Ecuador
Genre: Animation, Biography, Drama
Paola is born in a traditional Colombian family or at least that is what they try to be. Her father is a priest her mother is a psychic and her sisters are not what their parents...
97 min
Virus Tropical
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Comedy, Musical
After inhabiting dozens of comical alter-egos over the course of her award-winning career Tracey Ullman finally takes on the one role that spawned all of her characters--herself. This...
Tracey Ullman: Live And Exposed
A feature-length documentary about Star Treks iconic Green Girl Susan Oliver: Prolific actress of the 50s - 80s original member of the AFI Directing Workshop for Women record-setting...
The Green Girl
Country: United States, Italy
Genre: Biography
Professor Irwin Corey is now 101 years old and he is a well known comedian entertainer and political satirist. Fran is 95 and his wife of 71 years. Dick Gregory shares Irwins contribution and family friend Susan Sarandon...
83 min
Irwin & Fran
Country: Ireland, United Kingdom
In the spring of 1981 Irish Republican Bobby Sands 66-day hunger strike brought the attention of the world to his cause. Drawing on an Irish Republican tradition of martyrdom Sands...
Bobby Sands: 66 Days
Country: United States, United Kingdom
Genre: Short, Biography, Drama
Year: 2009
Delphinium is a stylized and lyrical coming-of-age portrait of Derek Jarmans artistic sexual and political awakening in post-War England. Part biographical narrative part experimental...
2009
12 min
Delphinium: A Childhood Portrait Of Derek Jarman
A corporate defense attorney takes on an environmental lawsuit against a chemical company that exposes a lengthy history of...
126 min
Dark Waters (2019)
A mob hitman recalls his possible involvement with the slaying of Jimmy...
209 min
The Irishman
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Family, History, Sport
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119 min
Shelby American
Year: 1957
The life and career of vaudevillian and silent screen horror star Lon Chaney including his contentious relationship with his neurotic wife and his premature...
1957
Man Of A Thousand Faces
Country: Italy
S Is For Stanley is the story of Emilio DAlessandro Stanley Kubricks personal driver. A Friendship that lasted through 30 years of their lives helped create four cinema masterpieces...
78 min
S Is For Stanley
Country: United States, China
Based on the true story of a real-life friendship between Fred Rogers and journalist Tom...
A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood
America in Color showcases all the key moments from the 1920s to 1960s in high definition improved...
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America In Color: Season 3
America In Color: Season 2
E5
America In Color: Season 1
Year: 1993
A prepubescent chess prodigy refuses to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Bobby...
1993
109 min
Searching For Bobby Fischer
Country: Germany, Israel
Jonathan Agassi one of the worlds most successful gay porn stars splits his time between Berlin and Israel. Agassi built his fame and success on what is considered a global taboo but...
106 min
Jonathan Agassi Saved My Life
This year marks the 38th anniversary of the seminal music documentary HEARTWORN HIGHWAYS a film that explored and captured the nascent roots of the Outlaw Country movement in the...
Heartworn Highways Revisited
Country: United States, France
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, Sport
American car designer Carroll Shelby and driver Ken Miles battle corporate interference the laws of physics and their own personal demons to build a revolutionary race car for Ford and challenge Ferrari at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in...
152 min
Ford V Ferrari
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, Sport
Year: 2004
Jim Caviezel stars as golf legend Bobby Jones the icon who retired from competition at the tender age of...
2004
120 min
Bobby Jones: Stroke Of Genius
Country: Japan
Year: 1969
Two interwoven stories. The first is a biography of anarchist Sakae Osugi which follows his relationship with three women in the 1920s. The second centers around two 1960s students researching Osugis...
1969
202 min
Eros + Massacre
