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Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Biography, Drama
Year: 1965
Biographical drama based on the early life of playwright Sean OCasey depicting his rise from the 1910 Dublin slums to the celebrated openings of his early plays. Johnny Cassidy an impoverished idealist whose ambitions are restricted by the demands of looking after his family journeys through the social injustices of Dublin life - involving himself with the rowdy tramway-men strike dawdling...
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1965
105 min
Young Cassidy
Country: United States
Year: 2010
Dr. Jack Kevorkian 1928 - 2011 in the 1990s when he defies Michigan law assisting the suicide of terminally-ill persons. Support comes from his sister a lab tech the Hemlock Society president and a lawyer. The child of survivors of the Armenian genocide interviews applicants: his sister video tapes them. He assembles a device allowing a person to initiate a three-chemical intravenous drip....
2010
134 min
You Don't Know Jack
Genre: Biography, Drama, Musical
Year: 1942
A musical portrait of composer/singer/dancer George M. Cohan. From his early days as a child-star in his familys vaudeville show up to the time of his comeback at which he received a medal from the president for his special contributions to the US this is the life- story of George M. Cohan who produced directed wrote and starred in his own musical shows for which he composed his famous...
1942
126 min
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Year: 2012
Iconic writer director actor comedian and musician Woody Allen allowed his life and creative process to be documented on-camera for the first time. With this unprecedented access Emmy-winning Oscar-nominated filmmaker Robert Weide followed the notoriously private film legend over a year and a half to create the ultimate film biography. Woody Allen: A Documentary chronicles Allens career -...
2012
113 min
Woody Allen: A Documentary
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Year: 2008
A drama centered around Patty Montanari the widowed mother of two who went to work for her lover Frank Russo a captain in a Brooklyn crime...
2008
Wisegal
Country: United Kingdom, Germany, Japan
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Year: 1997
The story of Oscar Wilde genius poet playwright and the First Modern Man. The self-realization of his homosexuality caused Wilde enormous torment as he juggled marriage fatherhood and responsibility with his obsessive love for Lord Alfred Douglas nicknamed Bosie. After legal action instigated by Bosies father the enraged Marquise of Queensberry Wilde refused to flee the country and was...
1997
118 min
Wilde
Genre: Action, Biography, Western
Year: 1995
Wild Bill Hickok famed lawman and gunman of the Old West is haunted by his past and his reputation. He is loved by but cannot love Calamity Jane. Dogging his trail is young Jack McCall who blames Bill for abandoning the boys mother and destroying her life. McCall has sworn to kill Bill and Bills ghosts his failing eyesight and his fondness for opium may make McCalls task...
1995
98 min
Wild Bill
Genre: Biography, Comedy
Year: 1980
The deranged adventures of Gonzo journalist Hunter Thompson and his attorney Oscar Acosta referred to in the movie as Laslow. Thompson attempts to cover the Super Bowl and the 1972 Presidential election in his typical drug-crazed state but is continually and comically sidetracked by his even more twisted friend Laslow. Allegedly based on actual...
1980
96 min
Where The Buffalo Roam
Country: United States, Israel, France, Germany, Finland, Switzerland, Belgium, Australia
Genre: Documentary, Animation, Biography, Drama, War
One night at a bar an old friend tells director Ari about a recurring nightmare in which he is chased by 26 vicious dogs. Every night the same number of beasts. The two men conclude that theres a connection to their Israeli Army mission in the first Lebanon War of the early eighties. Ari is surprised that he cant remember a thing anymore about that period of his life. Intrigued by this...
90 min
Waltz With Bashir
Genre: Biography, Western
Year: 1956
Indian Agent sent to try new approach to peace with Apaches based on respect for automomy rather than submission to Army. Wins over reservation chiefs and the Indian widow Bancroft given to him as housekeeper. Through use of diplomacy and demonstrations of faith in Apache leaders reservation is put on the road to automomy. Conflicts arise between Apache widow and Eastern wife but latter has a...
1956
89 min
Walk The Proud Land
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War, Western
Year: 1952
In 1909 Emiliano Zapata a well-born but penniless Mexican Indian from a remote province Morelos comes to Mexico City to complain that their arable land has been enclosed leaving them only in the barren hills. His expressed dissatisfaction with the response of the President Diaz puts him in danger and when he rashly rescues a prisoner from the local militia he becomes an outlaw. Urged on by...
1952
104 min
Viva Zapata
Country: Italy, France
Year: 2009
The story of Mussolinis secret lover Ida Dalser and their son...
2009
128 min
Vincere
Country: United Kingdom, Netherlands, France, Italy, Germany
Year: 1990
The familiar tragic story of Vincent van Gogh is broadened by focusing as well on his brother Theodore who helped support Vincent. The movie also provides a nice view of the locations which Vincent...
1990
138 min
Vincent & Theo
Country: United Kingdom, France, Belgium
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Year: 2000
In 1671 with war brewing with Holland a penniless prince invites Louis XIV to three days of festivities at a chateau in Chantilly. The prince wants a commission as a general so the extravagances are to impress the king. In charge of all is the steward Vatel a man of honor talent and low birth. The prince is craven in his longing for stature: no task is too menial or dishonorable for him to...
2000
103 min
Vatel
Country: France
Year: 1991
In late spring 1890 Vincent moves to Auvers-sur-Oise near Paris under the care of Dr. Gachet living in a humble inn. Fewer than 70 days later Vincent dies from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. We see Vincent at work painting landscapes and portraits. His brother Theo wife Johanna and their baby visit Auvers. Vincent is playful and charming engaging the attentions of Gachets daughter...
1991
158 min
Van Gogh
Year: 1999
Mitch became caught up with his career as a sport commentator and journalist. He ignored his girlfriend and did not make time to do things in life that are of the most value to a human being. Morrie was one of Mitchs professors in college and a famous scholar. One day Mitch was watching television and saw Morrie giving an interview stating that he is dying of Lou Gehrig disease or...
1999
Tuesdays With Morrie
Year: 1988
Based on a true story. Shortly after World War II Preston Tucker is a grandiose schemer with a new dream to produce the best cars ever made. With the assistance of Abe Karatz and some impressive salesmanship on his own part he obtains funding and begins to build his factory. The whole movie also has many parallels with director Coppolas own efforts to build a new movie studio of his...
1988
110 min
Tucker: The Man And His Dream
In 1871 Paul Verlaine 1844-1896 an established poet invites boy genius Arthur Rimbaud 1854-1891 to live with Paul and his young pregnant wife Mathiltde in her fathers home in Paris. Rimbauds uncouth behavior disrupts the household as well as the insular society of French poets but Verlaine finds the youth invigorating. Stewed in absinthe and resentment Verlaine abuses Mathiltde; he...
111 min
Total Eclipse
Country: United States, United Kingdom
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Music, Musical
After their production Princess Ida meets with less-than-stunning reviews the relationship between Gilbert and Sullivan is strained to breaking. Their friends and associates attempt to get the two to work together again which opens the way to The Mikado one of the duos greatest...
160 min
Topsy-turvy - Auf Den Kopf Gestellt
Country: United Kingdom, Canada, Kenya
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
George Adamson fights to save Kenyas wildlife. Together with his young assistant Tony Fitzjohn Adamson battles to keep the animals on his game reserve Kora from dangerous...
To Walk With Lions
Genre: Biography, Musical
Year: 1946
Light bio-pic of American Broadway pioneer Jerome Kern featuring renditions of the famous songs from his musical plays by contemporary stage artists including a condensed production of his most famous:...
1946
132 min
Till The Clouds Roll By
Year: 1993
In 1957 a son and mother flee the East and an abusive boyfriend to find a new life and end up in Seattle where the mother meets a polite garage mechanic. The boy continually gets into trouble by hanging out with the wrong crowd. The mom marries the mechanic but they soon find out that hes an abusive and unreasoning alcoholic and they struggle to maintain hope in an impossible situation as...
1993
115 min
This Boy's Life
Year: 2003
At the edge of adolescence Tracy is a smart straight-A student--if not a little naive it seems...she smokes and she cuts to alleviate the emotional pain she suffers from having a broken home and hating her moms boyfriend Brady. When she befriends Evie the most popular and beautiful girl in school Evie leads Tracy down a path of sex drugs and petty crime like stealing money from purses...
2003
100 min
Thirteen
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Dominated by her possessive mother and her bullying consort Conroy since childhood teen-aged Victoria refuses to allow them the power of acting as her regent in the last days of her uncle William IVs rule. Her German cousin Albert is encouraged to court her for solely political motives but following her accession at age eighteen finds he is falling for her and is dismayed at her reliance...
The Young Victoria
Country: United States, China, Italy
The story of a family that suffers a tragedy but perseveres and finds redemption through each other and their work - making...
82 min
The Woodmans
Genre: Documentary, Adventure, Biography
Uses astonishing visuals to tell the intersecting stories of George Mallory the first man to attempt a summit of Mount Everest and Conrad Anker the mountaineer who finds Mallorys frozen remains 75 years...
94 min
The Wildest Dream
Year: 2004
About the daring adventure of exploring rainforest canopy with a novel flying device-the Jungle Airship. Airship engineer Dr. Graham Dorrington embarks on a trip to the giant Kaieteur Falls in the heart of Guyana hoping to fly his helium-filled invention above the tree-tops. But this logistic effort will not be without risk. Twelve years ago a similar expedition into the unique habitat of the...
2004
88 min
The White Diamond
Country: United States, Germany, Canada
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Inspired by true events Kathy Rachel Weisz is an American police officer who takes a job working as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia. Her expectations of helping to rebuild a devastated country are dashed when she uncovers a dangerous reality of corruption cover-up and intrigue amid a world of private contractors and multinational diplomatic...
112 min
The Whistleblower (2010)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Musical, Romance, Western
Year: 1964
Majestic mountains are in the background and a waterfall in the foreground. Is that a canoe on the river? No its a cradle with a baby. The buoyant Molly Brown has survived the first crisis of her life -- a flood. Sixteen years later she sets out to make her way in the world. Can she sing and play the piano? She assures the Leadville saloon keeper that she can and learns quickly. Soon she is the...
1964
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Western
Year: 1957
The last eighteen years in the life of Jesse James showing his home life in Missouri his experiences with Quantrills raiders his career of banditry with his brother Frank and the Younger brothers and his attempt to lead a peaceful life after the disastrous attempt to rob the bank at Northfield...
1957
92 min
The True Story Of Jesse James
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Year: 1984
Member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors Harvey Milk and San Francisco Mayor George Moscone were assassinated by Supervisor Dan White on November 27 1978. Milks life leading up to his election his successful efforts to politically represent San Franciscos gay community and the citys reaction to the assassinations are documented with extensive news film and personal...
1984
The Times Of Harvey Milk
Year: 1975
Halifax 1863. A young woman Miss Lewly comes to Halifax to search for Lt Pinson with whom she is madly in love. Actually she is Adèle Hugo the second daughter of the great French literary figure and statesman. The Lt Pinson does not answer to her love and makes her understand it is hopeless. But as her obsession grows she keeps chasing and harassing him. This film about passionate yet...
1975
The Story Of Adele H
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Biography of Charles Lindburgh from his days of precarious mail runs in aviations infancy to his design of a small transatlantic plane and the vicissitudes of its takeoff and epochal flight from New York to Paris in...
135 min
The Spirit Of St. Louis
Country: United Kingdom, Italy, France
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Year: 2002
Seduced by Jung killed by hate redeemed by history. In 1905 a 19-year-old Russian girl suffering from severe hysteria is admitted into a psychiatric hospital in Zurich. A young doctor Carl Gustav Jung takes her under his care and for the first time experiments with the psychoanalytical method of his teacher Sigmund Freud. Based on recently exposed secret correspondence between Jung Freud...
2002
The Soul Keeper
On a fall night in 2003 Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming what begins in his dorm room soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication. A mere six years and 500 million friends later Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in...
120 min
The Social Network
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Romance
Year: 1982
During the middle of the 16th century Martin Guerre returns to his village in southwestern France after being away in the war for almost a decade. The villagers who knew him as a young man suspect he is not Martin but he seems to know all about his friends his family and his wife even the most unusual things. Is this man really Martin...
1982
122 min
The Return Of Martin Guerre
Country: United States, United Kingdom, France, Italy
Year: 2006
Diana the Peoples Princess has died in a car accident in Paris. The Queen and her family decide that for the best they should remain hidden behind the closed doors of Balmoral Castle. The heartbroken public do not understand and request that the Queen comforts her people. This also puts pressure on newly elected Tony Blair who constantly tries to convince the monarchy to address the...
2006
The Queen
Year: 1928
The sufferings of a martyr Jeanne DArc 1412-1431. Jeanne appears in court where Cauchon questions her and dEstivet spits on her. She predicts her rescue is taken to her cell and judges forge evidence against her. In her cell priests interrogate her and judges deny her the Mass. Threatened first in a torture chamber and then offered communion if she will recant she refuses. At a cemetery...
1928
The Passion Of Joan Of Arc (la Passion De Jeanne D'arc)
Country: Spain, Brazil
A chronicle of the life of Lope de Vega the Spanish playwright who dominated Spains early Golden Age of...
106 min
The Outlaw
Year: 2001
John H. Groberg a middle class kid from Idaho Falls crosses the Pacific to become a Mormon missionary in the remote and exotic Tongan island kingdom during the 1950s. He leaves behind a loving family and the true love of his life Jean. Through letters and musings across the miles John shares his humbling and sometimes hilarious adventures with the girl back home and her letters buoy up...
2001
The Other Side Of Heaven
Year: 2005
Portrait of an American innocent. In 1955 Bettie Page 1923-2008 waits to testify before a Senate subcommittee investigating the effects of pornographic material on American adolescents and juveniles. In flashbacks we see her childhood in Tennessee a brief marriage a gang rape and her going to New York City in 1949. There she takes acting lessons models for photos and acts in short films...
2005
91 min
The Notorious Bettie Page
Captain Smith is spared his mutinous hanging sentence after captain Newports ship arrives in 1607 to found Jamestown an English colony in Virginia. The initially friendly natives who have no personal property concept turn hostile after a theft is punished violently on the spot. During an armed exploration Smith is captured but spared when the chiefs favorite daughter Pocahontas pleads...
The New World
Year: 1962
Young Helen Keller blind deaf and mute since infancy is in danger of being sent to an institution. Her inability to communicate has left her frustrated and violent. In desperation her parents seek help from the Perkins Institute which sends them a half-blind Yankee schoolgirl named Annie Sullivan to tutor their daughter. Through persistence and love and sheer stubbornness Annie breaks...
1962
The Miracle Worker
Country: Italy
Year: 1972
Enrico Mattei helped change Italys future first as freedom-fighter against the Nazis then as an investor in methane gas through a public company A.G.I.P. and ultimately as the head of ENI a state body formed for the development of oil resources. October 27 1962 he died when his private airplane crashed one minute before it should land at Milan airport. Officially he died of a flight...
1972
116 min
The Mattei Affair (il Caso Mattei)
Country: Australia, United Kingdom
Year: 2013
Eric Lomax was one of thousands of Allied prisoners of war forced to work on the construction of the Thai/Burma railway during WW2. His experiences after the secret radio he built to bring news and hope to his colleagues was discovered left him traumatised and shut off from the world. Years later he met Patti a beautiful woman on a train and fell in love. Patti was determined to rid Eric of...
2013
The Railway Man
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History, War
Year: 2011
A sons riveting look at a father whose life seemed straight out of a spy thriller. The secret world of a legendary CIA spymaster. Told by William Colbys son Carl the story is at once a probing history of the CIA a personal memoir of a family living in clandestine shadows and an inquiry into the hard costs of a nations most cloaked...
2011
The Man Nobody Knew: In Search Of My Father, Cia Spymaster William Colby
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History
Year: 1994
A meditation on power and the metaphor of the body of state based on the real episode of dementia experienced by George III [now suspected a victim of porphyria a blood disorder]. As he loses his senses he becomes both more alive and more politically marginalized; neither effect desirable to his lieutenants who jimmy the rules to avoid a challenge to regal authority raising the question of...
1994
107 min
The Madness Of King George
Based upon the true story of Jim Jones a self proclaimed prophet. Jim Jones had a loyal following of about 1000 people who had donated their entire life savings to him to join his commune. When possible illegal activities came to the attention of the authorities they started to investigate. Rather that faces the charges Jim Jones committed suicide and convinced virtually All of his followers...
192 min
The Mad Messiah (guyana Tragedy: The Story Of Jim Jones)
Country: United Kingdom, France, Vietnam
Year: 1992
It is French Colonial Vietnam in 1929. A young French girl from a family that is having some monetary difficulties is returning to boarding school. She is alone on public transportation when she catches the eye of a wealthy Chinese businessman. He offers her a ride into town in the back of his chauffeured sedan and sparks fly. Can the torrid affair that ensues between them overcome the class...
1992
The Lover
Country: China, Hong Kong
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History
This historical martial arts film adapted from the story of Guan Yu crossing five passes and slaying six generals in Luo Guanzhongs historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms. In AD 200 during the late Eastern Han Dynasty Cao Cao eliminates his political opponents Dong Cheng and others before turning his attention towards rival warlords Liu Bei and Yuan Shao. To avoid fighting a war on two...
109 min
The Lost Bladesman (guan Yun Chang)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
The Long Day Closes is the story of eleven-year-old Bud. A sad and lonely boy Bud struggles through his days. With cinema as his main source of solace he haunts the local movie-house. All the while his family looms large in our peripheral vision as do the menacing bullies of his school but Bud is the center of attention both from the cameras angle and from his doting family. With a gray...
85 min
The Long Day Closes
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Western
Year: 1958
William Bonney - Billy the Kid - gets a job with a cattleman known as The Englishman and is befriended by the peaceful religious man. But when a crooked sheriff and his men murder the Englishman because he plans to supply the local Army fort with his beef Billy decides to avenge the death by killing the four men responsible throwing the lives of everyone around him - Tom and Charlie two...
1958
102 min
The Left Handed Gun
Country: United Kingdom, France
THE LADY is an epic love story about how an extraordinary couple and family sacrifice their happiness at great human cost for a higher cause. This is the story of Aung San Suu Kyi and her husband Michael Aris. Despite distance long separations and a dangerously hostile regime their love endures until the very end. A story of devotion and human understanding set against a background of...
The Lady
The life of a pair of twins Ronald and Reginald Kray who were born in London in 1934 and when they grew up became gangsters selling...
119 min
The Krays
This documentary captures the life story of legendary Hollywood producer and studio chief Robert Evans. The first actor to ever to run a film studio Robert Evans film career started in 1956 poolside at the Beverly Hills Hotel. His good looks charm and overwhelming confidence captured the eye of screen legend Norma Shearer who offered him a film role. After a glamorous--but...
93 min
The Kid Stays In The Picture
Country: Canada
Year: 1996
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1996
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The Ken & Barbie Killers
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music, Romance
Born in St. Louis Missouri Josephine Baker was born poor but achieved fame and fortune through her sizzling erotic performances. Starting life on the American Vaudeville circuit success takes Josephine to Paris where her semi-nude dancing causes an international sensation. Through her marriages to an Italian count and orchestra leader to her bond with army officer Sydney Williams...
130 min
The Josephine Baker Story
The gaudy rise and dizzy fall of the last great Hollywood blonde bombshell: Jayne...
The Jayne Mansfield Story
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
In Paris the aristocratic and intellectual Philippe is a quadriplegic millionaire who is interviewing candidates for the position of his carer with his red-haired secretary Magalie. Out of the blue the rude African Driss cuts the line of candidates and brings a document from the Social Security and asks Phillipe to sign it to prove that he is seeking a job position so he can receive his...
The Intouchables
