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Country: United States
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music, Romance
Year: 1991
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...
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1991
130 min
The Josephine Baker Story
Genre: Biography, Drama
Year: 1980
The gaudy rise and dizzy fall of the last great Hollywood blonde bombshell: Jayne...
1980
100 min
The Jayne Mansfield Story
Country: France
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Year: 2011
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...
2011
112 min
The Intouchables
Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Year: 2012
A documentary centered on a young Frenchman who claims to a grieving Texas family that he is their 16-year-old son who has been missing for 3...
2012
99 min
The Imposter
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
In the 1960s Richard Kuklinski is working as a porn film lab tech until his mob bosses persuade him to change his career into that of a contract killer. For years Kuklinski gains a reputation for cold blooded professionalism even as he raises a family who are kept in the dark about his true career. Unfortunately mob politics ultimately forces him to secretly work independently with the...
106 min
The Iceman
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Year: 2005
After 31 years at-large detectives in Wichita Kansas hone in on the serial killer known as...
2005
82 min
The Hunt For The Btk Killer
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Year: 2010
THE HAMMER is a sports drama depicting the struggles and successes Matt Hamill faces on the way to becoming a champion. Raised among those with the ability to hear Matt later finds himself no less an outsider amidst the Deaf Community. Through sheer determination he uses his perceived disability as an asset and becomes both the first deaf wrestler to win a National Collegiate Championship and...
2010
108 min
Hamill
Country: United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Year: 2000
The infamous writer The Marquis de Sade of 18th Century France is imprisoned for unmentionable activities at Charanton Insane Asylum. He manages to befriend the young Abbe de Coulmier who runs the asylum along with a beautiful laundress named Madeline. Things go terribly wrong when the Abbe finds out that the Marquis books are being secretly published. Emperor Napoleon contemplates sending...
2000
124 min
Quills
Country: France, Italy, Germany
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Year: 1994
The night of August 24 1572 is known as the Massacre of St. Bartholomew. In France a religious war is raging. In order to impose peace a forced wedding is arranged between Margot de Valois sister of the immature Catholic King Charles IX and the Hugenot King Henri of Navarre. Catherine of Medici maintains her behind-the-scenes power by ordering assaults poisonings and instigations to...
1994
174 min
Queen Margot
A documentary about the true life story of world renowned martial artist Frank...
70 min
Put Up Your Dux
Year: 1987
This film is the story of the spectacular life and violent death of British playwright Joe Orton. In his teens Orton is befriended by the older more reserved Kenneth Halliwell and while the two begin a relationship its fairly obvious that its not all about sex. Orton loves the dangers of bath-houses and liaisons in public restrooms; Halliwell not as charming or attractive as Orton doesnt...
1987
111 min
Prick Up Your Ears
Year: 2009
In Prayers for Bobby Mary Griffith is a devout Christian who raises her children with the conservative teachings of the Presbyterian Church. However when her son Bobby confides to his older brother he may be gay life changes for the entire family after Mary learns about his secret. While Bobbys father and siblings slowly come to terms with his homosexuality Mary believes God can cure him...
2009
90 min
Prayers For Bobby
Genre: Documentary, Short, Biography, War
Apple pie cheerleader turned tough-as-nails machine gunner in the Iraq War Sgt. Robynn Murray comes home to face a new kind of battle she never...
38 min
Poster Girl
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Genre: Biography
Year: 1969
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1969
105 min
Pirosmani
Year: 1999
This is a semi-humorous biographical film about the men who made the world of technology what it is today their struggles during college the founding of their companies and the ingenious actions they took to build up the global corporate empires of Apple Computer Corporation and Microsoft...
1999
95 min
Pirates Of Silicon Valley
Country: United States, United Kingdom
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Albert Pierrepont delivered groceries - and was a hangman. Following in his fathers footsteps he quickly became known for his efficiency and compassion rising to become the best in the land. From early 1933 until the end of his career in 1955 he executed 608 people including the Beasts of Belsen war criminals for which he earned the gratitude of a nation. But by the time he hanged...
Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Year: 1981
Peter and Paul assume leadership of the Church as they struggle against violent opposition to the teachings of Christ and their own personal...
1981
198 min
Peter And Paul
Country: United States, Philippines
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Comedy, Musical
A documentary about legendary songwriter and 70s icon Paul...
87 min
Paul Williams Still Alive
Country: Australia
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
An intimate portrait of Paul Kelly Australias foremost singer-songwriter. In a career spanning more than thirty years he has documented the history of our country described its landscapes and cities and captured the lives and loves of its citizens. Kelly has written over 350 songs penned lyrics for many other singers co-authored songs and written for film. But like all great artists Paul...
Paul Kelly - Stories Of Me
Country: United States, Netherlands
Year: 2003
Set in the New York club scene of the late 1980s thru the 1990s a tale which chronicles the rise and fall of club-kid promoter Michael Alig a party organizer whose extravagant life was sent spiralling downward when he boasted on television that he had killed his friend roommate and drug dealer Angel Melendez. Originally from Indiana Alig moved to New York and came to be an underground...
2003
98 min
Party Monster
Country: United States, Hong Kong
Genre: Documentary, Short, Biography, Drama, History
On a rooftop high above the bustling streets of Hong Kong a woman practices the ancient art of tai chi as her daughter watches from the shadows. Invisible from below they share their hidden promontory with 30 other families. All live in shanties perched precariously on top of a nine-story building. This film is a porthole to an intimate view of life in these illegal rooftop tenements that exist...
31 min
Once Upon A Rooftop
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
In a 1950s mining town called Coalwood Homer Hickam is a kid with only one future in sight to work in the local coal mine like his father. However in October 1957 everything changes when the first artificial satellite Sputnik goes into orbit. With that event Homer becomes inspired to learn how to build rockets. With his friends and the local nerd Homer sets to do just that by trial and a...
October Sky
Year:
Charles Darwin is taken aback when he receives a manuscript from a colleague Alfred Wallace which contains many of the same conclusions as he on evolution and the development of various species. Darwins theory was developed over a great many years and in flashbacks the manner in which it developed is shown. He had many supporters and likely more critics. He knew that his ideas were radical...
104 min
Nova Darwin's Darkest Hour
Dec. 26 2004...
54 min
Nova Wave That Shook The World
Secrets Of Lost Empires: China Bridge
NOVA investigates the furious scientific debate raging over what Hobbit bones...
Nova Alien From Earth
Year: 1995
Director Oliver Stones exploration of former president Richard Nixons strict Quaker upbringing his nascent political strivings in law school and his strangely self-effacing courtship of his wife Pat. The contradictions in his character are revealed early in the vicious campaign against Helen Gahagan Douglas and the oddly masochistic Checkers speech. His defeat at the hands of the hated and...
1995
192 min
Nixon
Country: United States, United Kingdom, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Israel, Cambodia
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Drama, History
Nicholas Winton an Englishman today 102 years old organized the rescue of 669 Czech and Slovak children just before the outbreak of World War II. Winton now 102 years old did not speak about these events with anyone for more than half a century. His exploits would have probably been forgotten if his wife fifty years later hadnt found a suitcase in the attic full of documents and...
96 min
Nicky's Family
Country: Switzerland, Netherlands, Malaysia, Italy, United States, Germany, Finland, Venezuela, China, Taiwan, Singapore, Russia
Genre: Documentary, Adventure, Biography, Family
For twenty years filmmaker Jennifer Fox has been following the high Tibetan master Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche and his Italian born son Yeshi with her camera. The result is the astounding feature length documentary MY REINCARNATION which tells the rare inside story of one of the last reincarnate teachers to be trained in Tibet and his sons stubborn reluctance to follow in his fathers...
My Reincarnation
Country: Japan
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
140 min
Isoroku Yamamoto, The Commander-in-chief Of The Combined Fleet
Country: United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Japan
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Romance
An unsuccessful over-the-top actress becomes a successful over-the-top authoress in this biography of Jacqueline Susann the famed writer of The Valley Of The Dolls and other trashy novels. Facing a failing career Susann meets a successful promoter who becomes her husband. After several failures to place her in commercials and a TV quiz show he hits upon the idea for her to become a writer....
Isn't She Great
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama
Year: 2013
In postwar Hong Kong legendary Wing Chun grandmaster Ip Man is reluctantly called into action once more when what begin as simple challenges from rival kung fu styles soon draw him into the dark and dangerous underworld of the Triads. Now to defend life and honor he has no choice but to fight one last time...
2013
Ip Man: The Final Fight
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Winston Churchill is named Prime Minister on the very day the Nazis launch their invasion of the low countries and France. The immediate concern is the fate of the British Expeditionary Force now trapped with their back to the sea. The evacuation at Dunquerque saved most of them. Churchill formed a unified government with the Labour party and was steadfast in refusing to negotiate with the...
Into The Storm
Year: 2006
On November 16 1959 Truman Capote reads about the murder of a Kansas family. There are no suspects. With Harper Lee he visits the town: he wants to write about their response. First he must get locals to talk then after arrests he must gain access to the prisoners. One talks constantly; the other Perry Smith says little. Capote is implacable wanting the story believing this book will...
2006
110 min
Infamous
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Year: 1996
Reporter Ernest Hemingway is an ambulance driver in Italy during World War I. While bravely risking his life in the line of duty he is injured and ends up in the hospital where he falls in love with his nurse Agnes von...
1996
113 min
In Love And War
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Crime, Drama, History, News, Thriller
IF A TREE FALLS is a rare behind-the-curtain look at the Earth Liberation Front the radical environmental group that the FBI calls Americas number one domestic terrorist threat. With unprecedented access and a nuanced point of view the documentary tells the story of Daniel McGowan an ELF member who faced life in prison for two multi-million dollar arsons against Oregon timber companies. The...
85 min
If A Tree Falls: A Story Of The Earth Liberation Front
Genre: Documentary, Biography, War
Examines the tumultuous life of legendary Chicago pimp Iceberg Slim 1918-1992 and how he reinvented himself from pimp to author of 7 groundbreaking books. These books were the birth of Street Lit and explored the world of the ghetto in gritty and poetic detail and have made him a cultural icon. Interviews with Iceberg Slim Chris Rock Henry Rollins Ice-T Snoop Dogg and Quincy...
89 min
Iceberg Slim: Portrait Of A Pimp
Year: 1993
Based on the life and career of Martial Arts superstar Bruce Lee. Haunted by demons. Bruce was taught Martial arts at childhood. Bruce then was told by his father to flee to the USA. There he opened up a Martial Arts school then was chosen to be the Green Hornets sidekick Kato. Then his big movie career that included The Big Boss and Enter the Dragon. Fighting many enemies along the...
1993
120 min
I Am Bruce Lee (1993)
In the moments before his third marriage Caveh Zahedi looks into the camera and flashes back to a vividly disturbing yet poignant story of his long obsession with prostitutes and how that obsession has served to destroy his previous marriages and relationships. Can Caveh overcome his addiction and finally succeed in a...
I Am A Sex Addict
Country: United Kingdom, Ireland
Year: 2008
Hunger follows life in the Maze Prison Northern Ireland with an interpretation of the highly emotive events surrounding the 1981 IRA Hunger Strike led by Bobby Sands. With an epic eye for detail the film provides a timely exploration of what happens when body and mind are pushed to the uttermost...
2008
Hunger
Country: United States, Germany
Year: 2004
Called Prok as an adult short for Professor Kinsey Alfred Kinsey has been interested in biology since he was a child growing up in the early twentieth century despite the criticisms of such being nonsense from his overbearing and devoutly Christian father professor Alfred Seguine Kinsey. Prok goes on to become a biology professor at Indiana University initially focusing on the study of gall...
2004
118 min
Kinsey
Year: 1961
The story of the life of Jesus Christ from his birth in Bethlehem to his crucifixion and subsequent resurrection. Filmed on a relatively grand scale the film includes all of the major events referred to in the New Testament; his baptism by John the Baptist; the miracles - cripples walking blind men seeing; the fishes and the loaves; and so on. The film actually begins with the Roman invasion by...
1961
168 min
King Of Kings
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, War
Year: 1985
This is a movie about the life of Israels king...
1985
114 min
King David
Carl Panzram is sent to Leavenworth Prison for burglary. While there he is brutally beaten by a guard. Neophyte guard Henry Lesser feels sympathy for Panzram befriends him and gets him to write his life story. Lesser learns that Panzrams past is much more violent than he thought but also that hes capable of being a much better person than the rest of the prison staff believes - or so Lesser...
91 min
Killer: A Journal Of Murder
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
50 min
John Wayne Gacy: A Monster In Disguise
The full story of this groundbreaking dance company from their founding in 1956 to the present. The Joffrey is considered the first truly American ballet company and was the first to perform at the White House and the first company to be featured on the cover of Time Magazine. Narrated by Mandy Patinkin the film shows how the Joffrey transformed American dance by combining modern dance with...
Joffrey: Mavericks Of American Dance
Country: France, United States
One of the obsessive speculations in American history is whether Thomas Jefferson in the years before he became president had an affair with and fathered a child with his 15-year-old slave Sally Hemings. JEFFERSON IN PARIS follows Jefferson to France as the U.S. ambassador to the court of Louis XVI following the death of his wife his friendships and flirtations with the French his...
139 min
Jefferson In Paris
Country: Germany, United States
Anthony Swoff Swofford a Camus-reading kid from Sacramento enlists in the Marines in the late 1980s. He malingers during boot camp but makes it through as a sniper paired with the usually-reliable Troy. The Gulf War breaks out and his unit goes to Saudi Arabia for Desert Shield. After 175 days of boredom adrenaline heat worry about his girlfriend finding someone else losing it and...
125 min
Jarhead
Year: 2001
A biopic about the actor James Dean whose stardom of the ultimate teenage rebel as well as the premature death made him a legend. His roles are depicted having much in common with his personal life most notably the difficult relationship with his...
2001
92 min
James Dean
Inspired by a true story of a young Hasidic man who was lured into the world of international drug trafficking in the late...
Holy Rollers
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Germany
Sweden early 1900s - an era of social change and unrest war and poverty. A young working class woman Maria wins a camera in a lottery. The camera grants her the eyes to view the world and empowers her over several decades to raise and nurture her family of six children and an alcoholic womanizing and sometimes violent although ultimately loving...
131 min
Everlasting Moments
A beautiful wealthy young party girl drops out of Radcliffe in 1965 and heads to New York to become Holly Golightly. When she meets a hungry young artist named Andy Warhol he promises to make her the star she always wanted to be. And like a super nova she explodes on the New York scene only to find herself slowly lose grip on...
Factory Girl
Country: United States, Australia
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama
Based on a true story Fatal Honeymoon tells the shocking story and controversy surrounding a newlywed who tragically dies on her dream honeymoon and the subsequent investigation as to whether or not her husband was guilty of killing her. In the film Alabama couple Gabe Watson and his new bride 26 year-old Tina Watson married just 11 days go on their dream honeymoon to scuba dive near...
Fatal Honeymoon
Country: United States, Italy
Year: 1976
Casanova is a libertine collecting seductions and sexual feats. But he is really interested in someone and is he really an interesting person ? Is he really alive...
1976
155 min
Fellinis Casanova
Year: 1992
Jack Nicholsons portrait of Union leader James R. Hoffa as seen through the eyes of his friend Bobby Ciaro Danny DeVito. The film follows Hoffa through his countless battles with the RTA and President Roosevelt all the way to a conclusion that negates the theory that he disappeared in...
1992
Hoffa
Country: Canada, United States
The movie describes the life of Adolf Hitler from childhood to manhood and how he became so powerful. It describes his poor childhood in Austria it describes the first world war from his point of view and how he became the strongest man in Germany. The movie show us how Hitler turned from a poor soldier into the leader of the Nazis and how he survived the attempts to kill him. It describes...
Hitler: The Rise Of Evil
Country: South Korea
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War
Fighter In The Wind
Based on the true story of the rise and fall of poker legend Stu The Kid...
High Roller: The Stu Ungar Story
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Two-part TV series documenting the stormy 38-year reign of King Henry...
193 min
Henry VIII
