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Country: United States
Genre: Biography, Drama
Year: 2014
When seventeen year old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration- an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice - she becomes an obsessive follower of the site founder ButterflyAna. By the time Hannahs family realizes what is happening and get Hannah the help she needs the disease has fully taken hold and Hannah is refusing to eat. Will this family be able to exorcise the...
HD
2014
84 min
Thinspiration
Based on the life of Rich Mullins a musical prodigy who rose to Christian music fame and fortune only to walk away and live on a Navajo reservation. An artistic genius raised on a tree farm in Indiana by a callous father Rich wrestled all of his life with the brokenness and crippling insecurity born of his childhood. A lover of Jesus and a rebel in the church Rich refused to let his struggles...
Ragamuffin
Country: Australia
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Year: 2013
A young woman goes on a 1700 mile trek across the deserts of West Australia with her four camels and faithful...
2013
112 min
Spuren
Country: France
A look at the life of French designer Yves Saint Laurent from the beginning of his career in 1958 when he met his lover and business partner Pierre...
106 min
Yves Saint Laurent
Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Biography
With the release of her eighth studio album Britney is back and shes workin it! This documentary chronicles the career of international superstar from her more innocent years with the release of Baby One more Time to being the highest paid judge on US X Factor and collaborating with Will.i.am on her latest album. She is worldwide a pop icon who continues to grow and deliver to her fans....
60 min
Britney Spears: Workin' It
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Following two fatal aircraft accidents aboard an Aircraft Carrier a government agent is placed aboard the ship. His mission is to determine what may be at the root of these mishaps and prevent the inevitable third chain breaking accident which abruptly changes course when a sailor reports seeing one of the top ranking fighter pilots in a gay club. The aviator and three of his squadron mates and...
96 min
Burning Blue
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Drama, News
After the assassination of Dr. George Tiller in Kansas in 2009 there are a limited number of doctors left in the country who provide third-trimester abortions for women. AFTER TILLER moves between the rapidly unfolding stories of these doctors all of whom were close colleagues of Dr. Tiller and are fighting to keep this service available in the wake of his death. These four people have become...
85 min
After Tiller
Country: United States, Australia, Ecuador, French Polynesia, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, Panama, South Africa
Genre: Documentary, Adventure, Biography
14-year-old Laura Dekker sets out on a two-year voyage in pursuit of her dream to become the youngest person ever to sail around the world...
82 min
Maidentrip
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Life Itself recounts the surprising and entertaining life of world-renowned film critic and social commentator Roger Ebert - a story thats by turns personal wistful funny painful and transcendent. The film explores the impact and legacy of Roger Eberts life: from his Pulitzer Prize-winning film criticism and his nearly quarter-century run with Gene Siskel on their review show to becoming...
115 min
Life Itself
Country: Japan
Genre: Animation, Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War
Jiro dreams of flying and designing beautiful airplanes inspired by the famous Italian aeronautical designer Caproni. Nearsighted from a young age and unable to be a pilot Jiro joins a major Japanese engineering company in 1927 and becomes one of the worlds most innovative and accomplished airplane designers. The film chronicles much of his life depicting key historical events including the...
126 min
Wie Der Wind Sich Hebt
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Carlotta
Country: Poland
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery
This gripping spy thriller tells the true story of a man who dares to challenge the Soviet empire. While planning the maneuvers of the Warsaw Pact forces Polish army colonel Ryszard Kuklinski has access to top secrets. He gets to know that the American nuclear counterattack against Soviet forces is planned to be executed on Polish territory. Thanks to his determination he starts a long lonely...
128 min
Jack Strong
Country: English, French
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
The story of former Hollywood star Grace Kellys crisis of marriage and identity during a political dispute between Monacos Prince Rainier III and Frances Charles De Gaulle and a looming French invasion of Monaco in the early...
103 min
Grace Of Monaco
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Crime, News
The story of programming prodigy and information activist Aaron Swartz. From Swartzs help in the development of the basic internet protocol RSS to his co-founding of Reddit his fingerprints are all over the internet. But it was Swartzs groundbreaking work in social justice and political organizing combined with his aggressive approach to information access that ensnared him in a two year legal...
105 min
The Internet's Own Boy: The Story Of Aaron Swartz
Year: 2010
A feature length documentary on the life and creations of Stan Lee. Stan Lee is the co-creator of Spider-Man Hulk X-Men Fantastic Four Iron Man and over 200 other characters that can be found in comic books movie screens and in retail stores around the...
2010
80 min
With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story
Genre: Documentary, Biography, War
78 min
Which Way Is The Front Line From Here? The Life And Time Of Tim Hetherington
Country: United Kingdom, Russia
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Crime, Music, News
Three young women face seven years in a Russian prison for a satirical performance in a Moscow cathedral. But who is really on trial in a case that has gripped the nation and the world beyond three young artists or the society they live...
88 min
Pokazatelnyy Protsess: Istoriya Pussy Riot
Country: France, Switzerland
Year: 1974
Ugandas dictator General Idi Amin Dada accepts a foreign crews request to interview and film him. He talks to the camera about his outreach to Arab nations his goal of eradicating Israel his views on economic policy and his views of Nixon Kissinger and other world leaders. We also see him dressing down his ministers at a cabinet meeting two weeks after this meeting the foreign...
1974
90 min
Général Idi Amin Dada: Autoportrait
Country: United Kingdom, Ireland
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Drama
Year: 2011
A filmmaker sets out to discover the life of Joyce Vincent who died in her bedsit in North London in 2003. Her body wasnt discovered for three years and newspaper reports offered few details of her life - not even a...
2011
95 min
Dreams Of A Life
Country: United States, United Kingdom, Sweden, Denmark, Germany
Dole Food Company wages a campaign to prevent a pair of Swedish filmmakers from showing their documentary about a lawsuit against the...
Big Boys Gone Bananas
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Comedy
Year: 2012
Raised in the Tennessee mountains Wayne White started his career as a cartoonist in NYC. He quickly found success as one of the creators of the Pee-wees Playhouse TV show which soon led to more work design some of the most arresting and iconic images in pop culture. Recently his word paintings featuring pithy and and often sarcastic text statements finely crafted onto vintage landscape...
2012
Beauty Is Embarrassing
Country: Canada
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Year: 2008
At 14 best friends Robb Reiner and Lips made a pact to rock together forever. Their band Anvil hailed as the demi-gods of Canadian metal influenced a musical generation that includes Metallica Slayer and Anthrax despite never hitting the big time. Following a calamitous European tour Lips and Robb now in their fifties set off to record their 13th album in one last attempt to fulfill...
2008
Anvil The Story Of Anvil
Before Bad Brains the Sex Pistols or even the Ramones there was a band called Death. Punk before punk existed three teenage brothers in the early 70s formed a band in their spare bedroom began playing a few local gigs and even pressed a single in the hoped of getting signed. But this was the era of Motown and emerging disco. Record companies found Deaths music - and band name - too...
A Band Called Death
Two feisty free-spirited women are connected by the brilliant charismatic poet who loves them both. The passion and pathos of legendary poet Dylan Thomas is told through the lives of two extraordinary women. Vera Phillips and Dylan were teenage loves; fast forward ten years and the two reconnect in London. Shes working as a singer whilst hes churning out scripts for government propaganda...
110 min
The Edge Of Love
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, History, War
Year: 1959
Based on Anne Franks diary and the stage play that was adapted from it: In Nazi-occupied Holland Otto Frank and his family have decided to go into hiding because of the increasing persecutions against Jews. The businessman Kraler and his assistant Miep prepare a hiding place in the rooms above their place of business and arrange for the Franks and another family the Van Daans to stay...
1959
152 min
The Diary Of Anne Frank
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Year: 1951
This biopic follows Rommels career after the Afrika Korps including his work on the defenses of Fortress Europe as well as his part in the assassination attempt on Hitler and his subsequent...
1951
The Desert Fox: The Story Of Rommel
Year: 1944
In the inspired Olivier concept Shakespeares play begins as a performance in the Globe Theatre shifting in broad cinematic terms to an epic narrative of Henry V who had developed from a dissolute youth to a purposeful monarch. Proving his ability as a soldier and skillful leader he unites the dissident factions in the English army and goes on to crush the French against enormous odds at...
1944
137 min
The Chronicle History Of King Henry The Fift With His Battell Fought At Agincourt In France
Country: United States, Canada, France
Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller
The amazing true story of Frédéric Bourdin who after having plundered all the centers for runaway minors and deliquents in Europe even thought he has come of age now passes himself off as Nicholas Barclay a 13-year-old American who had vanished three years ago. To his astonishment Nicholass family welcomes him like their son leaving Interpol and the FBI aghast. It is the beginning of a...
The Chameleon
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...
The Best Of Men
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...
150 min
The Baader Meinhof Complex
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...
180 min
The Autobiography Of Nicolae Ceausescu
Country: United States, Canada
Year: 2000
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...
2000
133 min
The Audrey Hepburn Story
Country: United States, Mexico
Year: 2004
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...
2004
The Assassination Of Richard Nixon
Country: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Western
Year: 2007
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...
2007
160 min
The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Year: 1953
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...
1953
The Actress
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...
107 min
Temple Grandin
Country: United States, United Kingdom
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Year: 2002
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...
2002
99 min
Ted Bundy
Year: 2003
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...
2003
Tarnation
In 1956 aspiring American poet Sylvia Plath meets fellow poet Edward Ted Hughes at Cambridge where she is studying. Enthralled with the genius of his writing Sylvia falls in love with him even before meeting him and he quickly falls in love with her. They eventually marry. Sylvia quickly learns that others are also enthralled with her husband for a combination of his good looks charisma...
Sylvia
Year: 1976
The story tells of a young woman admitting to have blackouts fearing they are getting worse. She is believed to suffer from multiple personalities as a result of severe abuse at the hands of her mother whom the psychiatrist Cornelia B. Wilbur believes was schizophrenic. The movie Sibyl is based upon author Flora Rheta Schreiberthes novel and fictionalized version of the life story of...
1976
198 min
Sybil
Year: 1983
Paul Snider is a narcissistic small time hustler who fancies himself a ladies man. His life changes when he meets Dorothy Stratten working behind the counter of a Dairy Queen. Dorothy is a pretty but naive high school senior. Paul immediately falls for Dorothy who sees in Paul a wise worldly person unlike herself. Paul believes Dorothy is Playboy material the magazine he sees as only a...
1983
Star 80 - Tod Eines Playmates
Country: United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, South Africa
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama
In the early 1980s a white police officer Andres Stander played by Thomas Jane in Johannesburg suffers a crisis of conscience due to his involvement in apartheid and becomes a notorious bank robber on the run. Then from 1983 to 1984 the Stander gang Stander Alan Heyl & Patrick McCall rob as many as four banks a...
111 min
Stander
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller
Year: 1960
In 73 BCE a Thracian slave leads a revolt at a gladiatorial school run by Lentulus Batiatus. The uprising soon spreads across the Italian Peninsula involving thousand of slaves. The plan is to acquire sufficient funds to acquire ships from Silesian pirates who could then transport them to other lands from Brandisium in the south. The Roman Senator Gracchus schemes to have Marcus Publius Glabrus...
1960
197 min
Spartacus
Country: Germany
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Year: 2005
The Final Days is the true story of Germanys most famous anti-Nazi heroine brought to life. Sophie Scholl is the fearless activist of the underground student resistance group The White Rose. Using historical records of her incarceration the film re-creates the last six days of Sophie Scholls life: a journey from arrest to interrogation trial and sentence in 1943 Munich. Unwavering in her...
2005
120 min
Sophie Scholl - Die Letzten Tage
Country: Italy
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
A drama based on a memoir about growing up as a member of the Urka community in the small republic of...
Siberian Education
Year: 1993
CS Lewis is the author of the Narnia books - The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe. Known as Jack he teaches at an Oxford College during the 1930s. An American fan Joy Gresham arrives to meet him for tea in Oxford. It is the beginning of a love affair. Tragically Joy becomes terminally unwell and their lives become...
1993
131 min
Shadowlands - Ein Geschenk Des Augenblicks
Country: United States, Italy
Year: 1973
Serpico is a cop in the 1960s-early 1970s. Unlike all his colleagues he refuses a share of the money that the cops routinely extort from local criminals. Nobody wants to work with Serpico and hes in constant danger of being placed in life threatening positions by his partners. Nothing seems to get done even when he goes to the highest of authorities. Despite the dangers he finds himself in...
1973
130 min
Serpico
Based on true events. On the edges of Las Vegas 17-year-old Andrews life is spiraling out of control. Unable to cope with the loss of his father Andrews descent into drugs and violence is gaining momentum and the once promising young man is now headed for self-destruction. Andrews mother helpless to control her son and fighting an addiction of her own refuses to watch idly as her only...
Self Medicated
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Year: 1956
A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. Hes sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun Japans most powerful clan leader. Hes also challenged to fight by the supremely confident and skillful Sasaki Kojiro. Takezo agrees to fight Kojiro in a years time but rejects Shoguns patronage choosing instead to live on the edge of a village raising vegetables. Hes followed...
1956
Samurai Iii: Duel At Ganryu Island
Country: United Kingdom, France, South Africa
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History, News
Robert Mugabe... what happened? charts the Shakespearean rise and fall of the man who led a very successful African country and then ruined it. Mugabe was damned as a terrorist then knighted by Queen Elizabeth and is still in power more than 30 years later. The film explores what happened through interviews with some of his closest comrades. It assembles a unique collection of southern...
Robert Mugabe... What Happened?
Year: 1999
Coming to Hollywood as a celebrated boy genius featuring a spectacular career arc in New York including his War of the Worlds radio hoax Orson Welles is stymied on the subject for his first film. After a dinner party at Hearst Castle during which he has a verbal altercation with Hearst Welles decides to do a movie about Hearst. It takes him some time to convince co-writer Herman Mankiewicz...
1999
83 min
Citizen Kane - Die Hollywood-legende
Rise of the Footsoldier follows the inexorable rise of Carlton Leach from one of the most feared generals of the football terraces to becoming a member of a notorious gang of criminals who rampaged their way through London and Essex in the late eighties and early nineties. It is three decades of his life following him from football hooliganism through to his burgeoning career as a bouncer his...
119 min
Rise Of The Footsoldier
Good Girl Bad Girl tells the story of Rihanna and her triumphant journey from poverty and obscurity on the Caribbean island of Barbados to becoming a worldwide pop...
55 min
Rihanna: Good Girl, Bad Girl
Year: 2001
Seriocomic story based on the memoir by Beverly Donofrio the movie follows a young woman who finds her life radically altered by an event from her teen years. Born in 1950 Beverly grew up bright and ambitious in a working-class neighborhood in Connecticut; her father was a tough but good-hearted cop who listened to his daughters problems and her mother was a nervous woman eager to imagine the...
2001
132 min
Riding In Cars With Boys
Country: United States, United Kingdom, Japan
Genre: Biography, Drama, Mystery
Year: 1990
Alan Dershowitz a brilliant professor of law is hired by wealthy socialite Claus von Bulow to attempt to overturn his two convictions for attempted murder of his extremely wealthy wife. Based on a true story the film concentrates not on the trial like other legal thrillers but on the preparatory work that Dershowitz and his students put in as they attempt to disprove the prosecutions case and...
1990
Reversal Of Fortune
Genre: Documentary, Action, Biography, Drama
ReGENERATION explores the inherent cynicism found in many of todays youth and young adults and the influences that perpetuate our cultures apathetic approach to social and political causes. The film features three intersecting stories of students parents and artists all looking for their place in society. Together they capture the thoughts and feelings of todays struggling generation as...
81 min
Regeneration
Year: 1966
The movie chronicles the events of historys man of mystery Rasputin. Although not quite historically accurate and little emphasis is put on the politics of the day Rasputins rise to power and eventual assassination are depicted in an attempt to explain his extraordinary power and...
1966
91 min
Rasputin: The Mad Monk
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Year: 1972
This historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill Simon Ward including his childhood years his time as a war correspondent in Africa and culminating with his first election to...
1972
157 min
Young Winston
Year: 1939
Ten years in the life of Abraham Lincoln before he became known to his nation and the world. He moves from a Kentucky cabin to Springfield Illinois to begin his law practice. He defends two men accused of murder in a political brawl suffers the death of his girlfriend Ann courts his future wife Mary Todd and agrees to go into...
1939
100 min
Young Mr. Lincoln
