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Country: United States
Genre: Short, Biography
Year: 1909
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1909
Edgar Allan Poe (1909)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Year: 1994
The life of Edward D. Wood Jr. hailed as the worst director of Plan 9 aus dem Weltall 1959 Glen or Glenda 1953 and Die Rache des Würgers 1955 of all...
1994
127 min
Ed Wood
Country: United States, Portugal
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Year: 2000
The true story of Edward Gein the farmer whose horrific crimes inspired Psycho The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Silence of the Lambs. This is the first film to Geins tormented upbringing his adored but domineering mother and the 1957 arrest uncovered the most bizarre series of murders America has ever...
2000
89 min
Ed Gein (in The Light Of The Moon)
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Year: 2011
The husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames were Americas most influential and important industrial designers. Admired for their creations and fascinating as individuals they have risen to iconic status in American culture. Eames: The Architect & The Painter draws from a treasure trove of archival material as well as new interviews with friends colleague and experts to capture the...
2011
85 min
Eames: The Architect & The Painter
Year: 2008
A documentary on speculative fiction writer and essayist Harlan...
2008
96 min
Dreams With Sharp Teeth
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama
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
Dragon - Die Bruce Lee Story
Country: United States, United Kingdom, France
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Year: 2005
The daughter of an actor father and a social-climber mother Domino Harvey bored with her life decides to join the team of Ed Moseby and becomes a bounty hunter. But she gets in trouble when the Mafias money is stolen from an armored truck while Moseby and his crew are participating in a reality show produced by Mark Heiss. The situation gets out of control when the sons of a rival mobster...
2005
Domino
Year: 2010
Alexander Sasha Shulgin is the scientist behind more than 200 psychedelic compounds including MDMA more commonly known as Esctasy. Considered to be one of the the greatest chemists of the twentieth century Sashas vast array of discoveries have had a profound impact in the field of psychedelic research. Dirty Pictures delves into the lifework of Dr. Shulgin and scientists alike explores...
2010
90 min
Dirty Pictures
For decades Diana Vreeland was one of the leading authorities in fashion through eccentric self-taught skill and a bold stylistic audacity. This film guides you through this fashion pioneers long career from her youth in Paris until she became a leading magazine fashion columnist and editor. In this medium Vreeland challenged its preconceptions to present a new definition of beauty and...
86 min
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel
Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Biography, Drama
180 min
Diana: Her True Story
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Year: 1954
In Marseilles France in 1794 Desiree Clary a young millinery clerk becomes infatuated with Napoleon Bonaparte but winds up wedding Genaral Jean-Baptiste Berandotte an aid to Napoleon who later joins the forces that bring about the Emperors downfall. Josephine Beauharnais a worldly courtesan marries Napoleon and becomes Empress of France but is then cast aside by her spouse when she...
1954
110 min
Desirée
Country: Soviet Union, Japan
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Year: 1975
A Russian army explorer who is rescued in Siberia by a rugged Asian hunter renews his friendship with the woodsman years later when he returns as the head of a larger expedition. The hunter finds that all of his nature lore is of no help when he accompanies the explorer back to...
1975
144 min
Dersu Uzala
Year: 1978
1978
100 min
Deadman's Curve
Country: United States, Italy, Germany
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Year: 1997
The tribes of Israel need to defeat the superior might of the Philistines: Now appoint a king to lead us such as all the other nations have. I Samuel 8:5. And so the prophet Samuel gives the Hebrews their first king Saul a simple farmer who with Gods help becomes a brave and mighty warlord who leads the united tribes of Israel against their enemies. Saul however has incessant doubts...
1997
190 min
David
Genre: Biography, Horror, Thriller
A warlord must fight a bloody battle in order to regain his...
92 min
Dark Prince: The True Story Of Dracula
Country: France, Poland
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Year: 1983
Action opens in November of 1793 with Danton returning to Paris from his country retreat upon learning that the Committee for Public Safety under Robespierres incitement has begun a series of massive executions The Terror. Confident in the peoples support Danton clashes with his former ally but calculating Robespierre soon rounds up Danton and his followers tries them before a...
1983
136 min
Danton
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Year: 1995
Louanne Johnson is an ex-marine hired as a teacher in a high-school in a poor area of the city. She has recently separated from her husband. Her friend also teacher in the school got the temporary job for her. After a terrible reception from the students she tries unconventional methods of teaching using karate Bob Dylan lyrics etc to gain the trust of the...
1995
99 min
Dangerous Minds
Year: 1998
In 16th century Venice courtesans enjoy unique privileges: dressed richly in red they read compose poetry and music and discuss affairs of state with the men who govern the Republic. When Veronica Franco comes of age she cannot marry Marco Venier whom she loves because she is well born but penniless. Her choice: cloister or courtesan. She steels her heart and with beauty and intelligence...
1998
111 min
Dangerous Beauty
Year: 1987
Donald Woods is chief editor of the liberal newspaper Daily Dispatch in South Africa. He has written several editorials critical of the views of Steve Biko. But after having met him for the first time he changes his opinion. They meet several times and this means that Woods and his family get attention from the security police. When Steve Biko dies in police custody he writes a book about...
1987
157 min
Cry Freedom
This movie chronicles the life and times of R. Crumb. Robert Crumb is the cartoonist/artist who drew Keep On Truckin Fritz the Cat and played a major pioneering role in the genesis of underground comix. Through interviews with his mother two brothers wife and ex-girlfriends as well as selections from his vast quantity of graphic art we are treated to a darkly comic ride through one mans...
119 min
Crumb
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Year: 1970
Disgusted with the policies of King Charles I Oliver Cromwell plans to take his family to the New World. But on the eve of their departure Cromwell is drawn into the tangled web of religion and politics that will result in the English Civil...
1970
139 min
Cromwell
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Crime, News
The story of the battle to free Debbie Peagler an incarcerated survivor of brutal domestic violence. Over 26 years in prison cannot crush the spirit of this determined African-American woman despite the injustices she has experienced first at the hands of a duplicitous boyfriend who beat her and forced her into prostitution and later by prosecutors who cornered her into a life behind bars for...
95 min
Crime After Crime
Betty Anne Waters Swank is a high school dropout who spent nearly two decades working as a single mother while putting herself through law school tirelessly trying to beat the system and overturn her brothers Rockwell unjust murder...
107 min
Conviction (2010)
Country: China
The life story of the highly-influential Chinese philosopher...
125 min
Confucius
Country: France, Belgium
Year: 2009
Several years after leaving the orphanage to which her father never returned for her Gabrielle Chanel finds herself working in a provincial bar. Shes both a seamstress for the performers and a singer earning the nickname Coco from the song she sings nightly with her sister. A liaison with Baron Balsan gives her an entrée into French society and a chance to develop her gift for designing...
2009
105 min
Coco Before Chanel (coco Avant Chanel)
Country: United States, Germany
Year: 1999
Cleopatra the famed Egyptian Queen born in 69 B.C. is shown to have been brought by Roman ruler Julius Caesar at age 18. Caesar becomes sexually obsessed by the 18 year old queen beds her and eventually has a son by her. However his Roman followers and his wife are not pleased by the union. In fact as Caesar has only a daughter by his wife he had picked Octavian as his successor. The...
1999
177 min
Cleopatra (1999)
Country: United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Year: 1963
In 48 B.C. Caesar pursues Pompey from Pharsalia to Egypt. Ptolemy now supreme ruler after deposing his older sister Cleopatra attempts to gain favor with Caesar by presenting the conquerer with the head of Pompey borne by his governors Pothinos and Achillas. To win Caesars support from her brother Cleopatra hides herself in a rug which Apollodorus her servant presents to Caesar. The...
1963
192 min
Cleopatra (1963)
Year: 1934
In 48 BC Cleopatra facing palace revolt in her kingdom of Egypt welcomes the arrival of Julius Caesar as a way of solidifying her power under Rome. When Caesar whom she has led astray is killed she transfers her affections to Marc Antony and dazzles him on a barge full of DeMillean splendor. But the trick may not work a third...
1934
Cleopatra (1934)
Country: United States, United Kingdom, Spain
Year: 1992
Genoan navigator Christopher Columbus has a dream to find an alternative route to sail to the Indies by traveling west instead of east across the unchartered Ocean sea. After failing to find backing from the Portugese he goes to the Spanish court to ask Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand for help. After surviving a grilling from the Head of the Spanish Inquisition Tomas de Torquemada he...
1992
Christopher Columbus: The Discovery
Country: West Germany
Year: 1981
This movie portrays the drug scene in Berlin in the 1970s following tape recordings of Christiane F. 14-year-old Christiane lives with her mother and little sister in a typical multi-story apartment building in Berlin. Shes fascinated by The Sound a new disco with the most modern equipment. Although legally shes too young she asks a friend to take her. There she meets Detlef whos in a...
1981
138 min
Christiane F. - Wir Kinder Vom Bahnhof Zoo
Country: Australia
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Chopper tells the intense story of Mark Chopper Read a legendary criminal who wrote his autobiography while serving a murder sentence in prison. His book From the Inside upon which the film is based was a...
94 min
Chopper
Year: 2012
National Geographic photographer James Balog was once a skeptic about climate change. But through his Extreme Ice Survey he discovers undeniable evidence of our changing planet. In Chasing Ice we follow Balog across the Arctic as he deploys revolutionary time-lapse cameras designed for one purpose: to capture a multi-year record of the worlds changing glaciers. Balogs hauntingly beautiful...
2012
75 min
Chasing Ice
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History
Year: 2007
In the early 1980s Charlie Wilson is a womanizing US congressional representative from Texas who seemed to be in the minor leagues except for the fact that he is a member of two major foreign policy and covert-ops committees. However prodded by his major conservative supporter Houston Socialite Joanne Herring Wilson learns about the plight the people are suffering in the brutal Soviet...
2007
102 min
Charlie Wilson's War
Country: United States, Canada
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Year: 2002
An FBI agent hunts down a young con artist who successfully impersonated an airline pilot doctor and assistant attorney general cashing more than $2.5 million in fraudulent checks in 26...
2002
141 min
Catch Me If You Can
Country: United States, United Kingdom, France, South Africa
Year: 2006
A political thriller: the real-life story of a South African heros journey to freedom. In the countrys turbulent and divided times in the 1980s Patrick Chamusso is an oil refinery foreman and soccer coach who is apolitical - until he and his wife Precious are jailed. Patrick is stunned into action against the countrys oppressive reigning system even as police Colonel Nic Vos further...
2006
101 min
Catch A Fire
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Year: 1958
Violette Bushell is the daughter of an English father and a French mother living in London in the early years of World War 2. She meets a handsome young French soldier in the park and takes him back for the family Bastille day celebrations. They fall in love marry and have a baby girl when Violette Szabo receives the dreaded telegram informing her of his death in North Africa. Shortly...
1958
Carve Her Name With Pride
Country: United Kingdom, France
The story of the relationship between painter Dora Carrington and author Lytton Strachey in a World War One England of cottages and countryside. Although platonic due to Stracheys homosexuality the relationship was nevertheless a deep and complicated one. When Carrington did develop a more physical relationship with soldier Ralph Partridge Strachey was able to welcome him as a friend although...
121 min
Carrington
Year: 2003
In the late 1980s the Friedmans - father and respected computer and music teacher Arnold Friedman mother and housewife Elaine Friedman and their three grown sons David Friedman Seth Friedman and Jesse Friedman - of Great Neck Long Island are seemingly your typical middle class American family. They all admit that the marriage was by no means close to being harmonious - Arnold and Elaine...
2003
Capturing The Friedmans
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Year: 1991
New York gangster Ben Bugsy Siegel takes a brief business trip to Los Angeles. A sharp-dressing womaniser with a foul temper Siegel doesnt hesitate to kill or maim anyone crossing him. In L.A. the life the movies and most of all strong-willed Virginia Hill detain him while his family wait back home. Then a trip to a run-down gambling joint at a spot in the desert known as Las Vegas gives...
1991
Bugsy
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Biography
Year: 1976
A highly fictionalized biography of the famous Bruce Lee this movie traces his college life his marriage to Linda Lee his relationship with his master and his untimely...
1976
Bruce Lee: The Man, The Myth
70 min
Bruce Lee: The Legend Lives On
Country: Hong Kong, China
The life story of martial arts icon and actor Bruce...
129 min
Bruce Lee, My Brother
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama
In 1974 a hot-headed 19 year old named Michael Peterson decided he wanted to make a name for himself and so with a homemade sawn-off shotgun and a head full of dreams he attempted to rob a post office. Swiftly apprehended and originally sentenced to 7 years in jail Peterson has subsequently been behind bars for 34 years 30 of which have been spent in solitary confinement. During that time...
Bronson
Country: United Kingdom, Australia, France
Its 1818 in Hampstead Village on the outskirts of London. Poet Charles Brown lives in one half of a house the Dilkes family who live in the other half. Through their association with the Dilkes the fatherless Brawne family know Mr. Brown. The Brawnes eldest daughter Fanny Brawne and Mr. Brown dont like each other. She thinks hes arrogant and rude and he feels that she is pretentious...
Bright Star
Year: 1938
Against all odds Father Flanagan starts Boys Town after hearing a convicts story. Whitey Marsh comes there. He runs away but hungry returns. He runs away again but when friend Pee Wee is hit by a car returns. He runs away and joins his brothers gang. Flanagan and the boys capture the crooks and the reward saves the...
1938
Boys Town
Year: 1989
The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought...
1989
145 min
Born On The Fourth Of July
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Romance
Year: 1967
A bored small-town girl and a small-time bank robber leave in their wake a string of violent robberies and newspaper headlines that catch the imagination of the Depression-struck Mid-West in this take on the legendary crime spree of these archetypal lovers on the...
1967
Bonnie And Clyde
This movie tells the story of the latter years of Earl Long a flamboyant governor of Louisiana. The aging Earl an unapologetic habitue of strip joints falls in love with young stripper Blaze Starr. When Earl and Blaze move in together Earls opponents use this to attack his controversial political program which included civil rights for blacks in the 1950s. Can Earl keep Blaze and retain...
Blaze
Country: United States, France
Chronicles a man who is obsessively interested in only one thingthe pictures he takes that document the way people dress. The 80-year-old New York Times photographer has two columns in the papers Style section yet nobody knows who he...
84 min
Bill Cunningham New York
Country: United Kingdom, Ireland
The year is 1795 and young Jane Austen is a feisty 20-year-old and emerging writer who already sees a world beyond class and commerce beyond pride and prejudice and dreams of doing what was then nearly unthinkable - marrying for love. Naturally her parents are searching for a wealthy well-appointed husband to assure their daughters future social standing. They are eyeing Mr. Wisley nephew...
Becoming Jane
Country: United Kingdom, Slovakia, Hungary, Czech Republic
Genre: Biography, Drama, Fantasy, History
Bathory is based on the legends surrounding the life and deeds of Countess Elizabeth Bathory known as the greatest murderess in the history of mankind. Contrary to popular belief Elizabeth Bathory was a modern Renaissance woman who ultimately fell victim to mens aspirations for power and...
Bathory: Countess Of Blood
F. Ross Johnson the CEO of RJR Nabisco decides that the time is ripe to take over his own company and enlists American Express. This kicks off a tide of other firms swarming in to tender offers. The outline of the film follows the actual takeover of the RJR Nabisco empire in a tongue in cheek...
Barbarians At The Gate
Genre: Biography, Thriller
82 min
B.t.k. Killer
Country: Italy
Genre: Biography, History
Year: 1972
1972
Augustine Of Hippo
Country: France, West Germany, Italy
In 1944 upper class boy Julien Quentin and his brother François travel to Catholic boarding school in the countryside after vacations. Julien is a leader and good student and when the new student Jean Bonnet arrives in the school they have friction in their relationship. However Julien learns to respect Jean and discovers that he is Jewish and the priests are hiding him from the Nazis. They...
104 min
Au Revoir Les Enfants
Country: United States, Germany, Ethiopia
Running the streets of Rome in 1960 an unknown barefooted Ethiopian man stunned the world by winning Olympic gold in the marathon. Overnight Abebe Bikila became a sports legend. A hero in his own country and to the continent Bikila was the first African to win a gold medal and four years later in Tokyo would become the first person in history to win consecutive Olympic gold medals in the...
Atletu
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War
War feasts upon death. Its greedy appetite carries away many a life on the battlefield and soldiers must be ready to die at any time. Yet all these sacrifices can be given meaning and reason with honor. A weathered witness of wars insatiable appetite Guzidi Captain of the Ninth Company will struggle his entire life to return honor to his forty six men and their self-sacrifice. The year 1948...
124 min
Assembly (ji Jie Hao)
Country: Italy, France, Germany
Artemisia Gentileschi 1593-1653 was one of the first well-known female painters. The movie tells the story of her youth when she was guided and protected by her father the painter Orazio Gentileschi. Her professional curiosity about the male anatomy forbidden for her eyes led her to the knowledge of sexual pleasure. But she was also well known because in 1612 she had to appear in a...
98 min
Artemisia
Country: Soviet Union
Year: 1966
Andreiv Rublev charts the life of the great icon painter through a turbulent period of 15th Century Russian history a period marked by endless fighting between rival Princes and by Tatar...
1966
205 min
Andrei Rublev (andrey Rublev)
