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Country: United States
Genre: Biography
Year: 2012
A biography on the life of Amy...
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2012
Amy Winehouse: Fallen Star
Genre: Biography, Drama
Year: 2010
When a gunman killed five Amish children and injured five others in a Nickel Mines Pennsylvania schoolhouse shooting in October of 2006 the world media attention rapidly turned from the tragic events to the extraordinary forgiveness demonstrated by the Amish community. Through the eyes of a grieving mother Ida Graber and other devastated families this movie explores the Amishs astonishing...
2010
88 min
Amish Grace
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Year: 2003
Harvey Pekar is file clerk at the local VA hospital. His interactions with his co-workers offer some relief from the monotony and their discussions encompass everything from music to the decline of American culture to new flavors of jellybeans and life itself. At home Harvey fills his days with reading writing and listening to jazz. His apartment is filled with thousands of books and LPs and...
2003
101 min
American Splendor
Country: United States, Canada, Palestine, Israel, Lebanon
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History, Mystery, News, War
Year: 2009
A devoted son of Holocaust survivors and ardent critic of Israeli foreign policy the polarizing American political scientist and author Norman Finkelstein has been called a lunatic and self-hating Jew by some and an inspirational revolutionary by others. Exploring the deeply complex issues at the heart of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict American Radical is the insightful and enraging...
2009
84 min
American Radical: The Trials Of Norman Finkelstein (2009)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Romance
Year: 1992
This epic depiction of thirty years of Chicano gang life in Los Angeles focuses on a teen named Santana who with his friends Mundo and the Caucasian-but-acting-Hispanic J.D. form their own gang and are soon arrested for a break-in. Santana gets into trouble again and goes straight from reform school to prison spending eighteen year there and becoming leader of a powerful gang both inside and...
1992
125 min
American Me
Country: United States, Canada
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Romance
Amelia Earhart a Kansas girl discovers the thrill of aviation at age 23 and within 12 years has progressed to winning the Distinguished Flying Cross for being the first woman to pilot a plane solo across the Atlantic Ocean. At age 39 she sets out on an attempt to circumnavigate the globe an adventure that catapults her into aviation...
111 min
Amelia (2009)
Country: United States, United Kingdom
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Year: 2006
In 1797 William Wilberforce the great crusader for the British abolition of slavery is taking a vacation for his health even while he is sicker at heart for his frustrated cause. However meeting the charming Barbara Spooner Wilberforce finds a soulmate to share the story of his struggle. With few allies such as his mentor John Newton a slave ship captain turned repentant priest who penned...
2006
117 min
Amazing Grace (2006)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
1999 Claremont California. Middle-class kids in their 20s talk trash wave guns hang out in a pack. Johnny Truelove drug dealer and son of a underworld figure threatens Jake Mazursky an explosive head case who owes Johnny money; Jake responds by breaking into Johnnys house. On impulse Johnny and a couple pals kidnap Jakes 15-year-old brother Zach. Zachs okay with it figuring his...
118 min
Alpha Dog
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Year: 2001
In 1964 a brash new pro boxer fresh from his olympic gold medal victory explodes on to the scene Cassius Clay. Bold and outspoken he cuts an entirely new image for African Americans in sport with his proud public self confidence with his unapologetic belief that he is the greatest boxer of all time. To his credit he sets out to prove that with his highly agile and forceful style soon making...
2001
157 min
Ali (2001)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Year: 1956
An epic film that follows the life of Alexander the Great the macedonian king that united all ancient greek tribes and led them against the vast Persian Empire. Alexander conquered most of the then known world and created a greek empire that spanned all the way from the Balkans to...
1956
141 min
Alexander The Great
Year: 1930
Brief vignettes about Lincolns early life include his birth early jobs unsubstantiated affair with Ann Rutledge courtship of Mary Todd and the Lincoln-Douglas debates; his presidency and the Civil War are followed in somewhat more detail though without actual battle scenes; film concludes with the...
1930
96 min
Abraham Lincoln (1930)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Year: 2007
On January 23 2002 Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is to fly from Karachi to Dubai with his pregnant wife Mariane also a reporter. On the day before with great care he has arranged an interview in a café with an Islamic fundamentalist cleric. When Danny doesnt return Mariane initiates a search. Pakistani police American embassy personnel and the FBI examine witnesses phone...
2007
108 min
A Mighty Heart
Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Year: 1966
The story takes place in 16th century England. But men like Sir Thomas More who love life yet have the moral fiber to lay down their lives for their principles are found in every century. Concentrating on the last seven years of English chancellors life the struggle between More and his King Henry VIII hinges on Henrys determination to break with Rome so he can divorce his current wife and...
1966
120 min
A Man For All Seasons
Country: France, Spain
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Big budget account of Christopher Columbus discovery of the Americas. Released in 1992 to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the discovery. Shows the disastrous effects the Europeans had on the original inhabitants and Columbus struggle to civilize the New...
154 min
1492: Conquest Of Paradise
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Year: 1987
When a humorous script-reader in her New York apartment sees an ad in the Saturday Review of Literature for a bookstore in London that does mail order she begins a very special correspondence and friendship with Frank Doel the bookseller who works at Marks & Co. 84 Charing Cross...
1987
100 min
84 Charing Cross Road
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Sport
Summer 1961: Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle are on pace to break the most hallowed record in U.S. sports Babe Ruths single-season 60 home runs. Its a big story and the intense plain-spoken Maris is the bad guy: sports writers bait him and minimize his talent fans cheer Mantle the leagues golden boy and baseballs commissioner announces that Ruths record stands unless its broken within...
129 min
61
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Year: 2013
In the early 1940s Alan Ginsberg is an English major in Columbia University only to learn more than he bargained for. Dissatisfied by the orthodox attitudes of the school Alan finds himself drawn to iconoclastic colleagues like Lucien Carr William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac. Together this gang would explore bold new literary ideas that would challenge the sensibilities of their time as...
2013
104 min
Kill Your Darlings
Country: Slovakia, United Kingdom, Hungary
Genre: Biography, Drama, Fantasy, History
Year: 2008
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...
2008
Bathory
Country: France, United States
Genre: Animation, Biography, Drama, War
In 1970s Iran Marjane Marji Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shahs defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However as Marji grows up she witnesses first hand how the new Iran now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists has become a repressive tyranny on its own. With Marji dangerously refusing to remain silent...
Persepolis
Year: 2014
The story follows the childhood and teen years of Gabby Douglas the first black gymnast in Olympic history to become the Individual All-Around Champion and the first American gymnast to win gold in both the individual all-around and team competitions at the same...
2014
The Gabby Douglas Story
Country: United States, Germany
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, War
Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on an unlikely World War II platoon tasked by FDR with going into Germany to rescue artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and returning them to their rightful owners. It would be an impossible mission: with the art trapped behind enemy lines and with the German army under orders to...
The Monuments Men
Country: United Kingdom, France, Sweden, Belgium
During the last two years of her life Princess Diana embarks on a final rite of passage: a secret love affair with Pakistani heart surgeon Hasnat...
113 min
Diana (2013)
Genre: Documentary, Biography
For years Ushio Shinohara has been one of the leading and most underappreciated alternative artists in Japan and New York City with an wildly esoteric style. For many of those years his wife Noriko has been a faithful companion to this idiosyncratic man but grew want to be more. This film covers the relationship of these special couple as Ushio struggles for commercial success on his own...
82 min
Cutie And The Boxer
What happens when a world-renowned scientist crushed by the loss of his eldest daughter formulates a theory in conflict with religious dogma? This is the story of Charles Darwin and his master-work The Origin of Species. It tells of a global revolution played out within the confines of a small English village; a passionate marriage torn apart by the most dangerous idea in history; and a...
Creation
After the untimely death of his daughter Paul Raymond reflects on his life. Rising from a mind-reading act Raymond grew to have a fabulously successful career as an erotica magnate that would make him the richest man in Britain. However for all his material success Pauls appetites mess up his personal life such as alienating his wife with his philandering. Furthermore even as he challenged...
The Look Of Love
Country: United States, Belgium
Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller
The story begins as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange Benedict Cumberbatch and his colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg Daniel Brühl team up to become underground watchdogs of the privileged and powerful. On a shoestring they create a platform that allows whistle-blowers to anonymously leak covert data shining a light on the dark recesses of government secrets and corporate crimes. Soon they...
128 min
The Fifth Estate
The Newlyn School of artists flourished at the beginning of the 20th Century and the film focuses on the wild and bohemian Lamorna Group which included Alfred Munnings and Laura and Harold Knight. The incendiary anti-Modernist Munnings now regarded as one of Britains most sought-after artists is at the centre of the complex love triangle involving aspiring artist Florence Carter-Wood and...
Summer In February
Country: United States, New Zealand, South Africa, United Kingdom, Lithuania
Genre: Documentary, Action, Biography, Drama
Each year 60000 people from around the globe gather in a dusty windswept Nevada desert to build a temporary city collaborating on large-scale art and partying for a week before burning a giant effigy in a ritual frenzy. Rooted in principles of self-expression self-reliance and community effort Burning Man has grown famous for stirring ordinary people to shed their nine-to-five existence and...
90 min
Spark: A Burning Man Story
This is the story of the decades-long love affair between June Carter and her husband Johnny Cash a love that was stretched to the breaking point by Johnnys addiction to...
89 min
Ring Of Fire
A sex scandal that shook Massachusetts prep school Milton Academy in 2004-05 school...
Restless Virgins
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama
In The Wolf of Wall Street DiCaprio plays Belfort a Long Island penny stockbroker who served 36 months in prison for defrauding investors in a massive 1990s securities scam that involved widespread corruption on Wall Street and in the corporate banking world including shoe designer Steve...
180 min
The Wolf Of Wall Street
Dallas 1985. Electrician and sometimes rodeo bull rider Ron Woodroof lives hard which includes heavy smoking drinking drug use primarily cocaine and casual sex. He is a stereotypical redneck: racist and homophobic. While in the hospital on a work related injury the doctors discover and inform him that he is HIV+ and that he will most-likely die within thirty days. Ron is initially in angry...
Dallas Buyers Club
Record producer Phil Spector hires Bruce Cutler to defend him when hes accused of murder. Cutler persuades Linda Kenney Baden to advise him. While the prosecutions story is contradicted by facts in the case there is convincing circumstantial evidence against Spector not the least of which is his appearance. As Baden gradually takes over the defense even as she is ill with pneumonia she must...
92 min
Der Fall Phil Spector
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, Thriller, War
Based on the failed mission Operation Red Wings which tasked four members of SEAL Team 10 on June 28 2005 to kill Taliban leader Ahmad Shah. They were quickly compromised and under...
121 min
Lone Survivor
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Storyline: Never before seen Super 8 home movies filmed by Richard Nixons closest aides - and convicted Watergate conspirators - offer a surprising and intimate new look into his...
Our Nixon
Country: United States, United Kingdom, Australia
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Family, History, Music
When Walt Disneys daughters begged him to make a movie of their favorite book P.L. Travers Mary Poppins he made them a promise - one that he didnt realize would take 20 years to keep. In his quest to obtain the rights Walt comes up against a curmudgeonly uncompromising writer who has absolutely no intention of letting her beloved magical nanny get mauled by the Hollywood machine. But as...
Saving Mr. Banks
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History, Music
Located alongside the Tennessee River Muscle Shoals Alabama is the unlikely breeding ground for some of Americas most creative and defiant music. Under the spiritual influence of the Singing River as Native Americans called it the music of Muscle Shoals changed the world and sold millions upon millions of copies. At its heart is Rick Hall who founded FAME Studios. Overcoming crushing...
Muscle Shoals
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Western
Year: 1939
The railroads are squeezing farmers off their land. When a railroad agent kills their mother Frank and Jesse James take up robbing banks and trains. The public regard them as heroes. When Jesse retires his erstwhile friend Robert Ford shoots him in the back to get the...
1939
106 min
Jesse James
The story of Linda Lovelace who is used and abused by the porn industry at the behest of her coercive husband before taking control of her...
93 min
Lovelace
Based on The New York Times best-selling novel Killing Lincoln is the suspenseful eye-opening story of the events surrounding the assassination of U.S. President Abraham...
Killing Lincoln
Country: Poland
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
The process of creating Polish hip-hop group Paktofonika its highs and lows and very last days of life of its frontman and co-founder Piotr Magik...
110 min
You Are God
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Year: 2011
After a lifetime of hiding Chely Wright becomes the first commercial country music singer to come out as gay shattering cultural stereotypes within Nashville her conservative heartland family and most importantly within herself. With unprecedented access over a two-year period including her private video diaries the film layers Chelys rise to fame while hiding in the late 90s with the...
2011
Wish Me Away
Country: Canada
NDP Leader Jack Layton was fluently bilingual glib sometimes flashy full of energy and always media-friendly. He loved to entertain and uplift his co-workers with a strum on his guitar and spirit in his voice which wasnt particularly good but he sang with gusto. Growing up in a political family Layton was a left-wing Toronto city councillor for 17 years and spent a year as head of the...
Jack (2013)
Genre: Biography, Comedy
A comedic look at the life of Steve...
79 min
Isteve
Year: 1998
In the mid-1980s three women each with an attorney arrive at the office of New York entertainment manager Morris Levy. One is a singer from Los Angeles formerly of the Platters; one is a petty thief from Philadelphia; one teaches high school in a small Georgia town. Each claims to be the widow of long-dead doo-wop singer-songwriter Frankie Lyman and each wants years of royalties due to his...
1998
116 min
Why Do Fools Fall In Love
Year: 1993
Anna Mae Bullock always had a special voice. Soon after arriving in St. Louis to live with the mother who had walked out when she was small the now teenage Anna Mae soon attracts the attention of pop group leader Ike Turner. She becomes the bands singer his wife and mother to his children - not all hers. In love with Ike and determined not to leave in the way her mother had she finds herself...
1993
What's Love Got To Do With It?
This is the true story of Oscar a 22-year-old Bay Area resident who wakes up on the morning of December 31 2008 and feels something in the air. Not sure what it is he takes it as a sign to get a head start on his resolutions: being a better son to his mother whose birthday falls on New Years Eve being a better partner to his girlfriend who he hasnt been completely honest with as of late...
85 min
Fruitvale Station
The story of Legendary hip hop/r&b/pop trio TLC. The group rose to fame in 1991 when they signed to LaFace Records releasing their multi-platinum debut. Their 1994 follow-up CrazySexyCool sold over 22 million copies and Fanmail sold over 10 million copies in 1999. This group experienced bankruptcy illness group fights and death. All the way dominating the charts and the music...
Crazy Sexy Cool: The Tlc Story
Country: Australia
Set against the backdrop of the early eighties Cliffy retraces his extraordinary journey from famously training in gumboots among cow paddocks through the epic six-day period of the ultra marathon and his emergence as Australias most unlikely sporting...
Cliffy
Film star Elizabeth Taylor invites her ex-husband - twice over - Richard Burton to her fiftieth birthday party where as a recovering alcoholic he refuses to get drunk with her. He does however consider her suggestion that they star in a stage revival of the play Private Lives. As they announce the project the press speculate on a romantic reconciliation. With a new girlfriend and the prospect...
83 min
Burton And Taylor
The widows of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X and how they carry on as single mothers after the assassination of their...
Betty And Coretta
Scott Thorson a young bisexual man raised in foster homes is introduced to flamboyant entertainment giant Liberace and quickly finds himself in a romantic relationship with the legendary pianist. Swaddled in wealth and excess Scott and Liberace have a long affair one that eventually Scott begins to find suffocating. Kept away from the outside world by the flashily effeminate yet deeply...
Behind The Candelabra
Country: United Kingdom, Canada
Genre: Biography, Drama, Western
Year: 1999
Archie Grey Owl is a trapper in Canada in the early 1930s when a young Iroquois woman from town asks him to teach her Indian ways. They live in the woods where she is appalled at how trapped animals die. She adopts two orphaned beaver kits and helps Archie see his way to stop trapping. Instead he works as a guide a naturalist writer and then the Canadian government hires him to save the...
1999
Grey Owl
The film follows the life of famous 1970s runner Steve Prefontaine from his youth days in Oregon to the University of Oregon where he worked with the legendary coach Bill Bowerman later to Olympics in Munich and his early death at 24 in a car...
Without Limits
Country: Canada, Netherlands, Portugal, Finland
As the title suggests this dramatised documentary about the eccentric Canadian pianist Glenn Gould is broken up into thirty-two short films mirroring the thirty-two part structure of Bachs Goldberg Variations the recording that Gould made famous each giving us an insight into some aspect of Goulds life and career. Out of respect for the music lead actor Colm Feore is never seen playing...
98 min
Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
Year: 1994
A documentary about the amazing life of Leon Theremin inventor of the theremin the electronic musical instrument so beloved of 50s sci-fi movie music. Theremin amazed America with his instrument until his kidnapping by Soviet agents in the mid-30s. Upon his release from a labor camp he worked on surveillance devices for the KGB. Almost 60 years later he is brought back to America for a...
1994
Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey
Year: 1988
A documentary film about the life of pianist and jazz great Thelonious Monk. Features live performances by Monk and his band and interviews with friends and family about the offbeat...
1988
Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror
Carl Panzram: The Spirit of Hatred and Revenge examines the life of serial killer and rapist Carl Panzram who lived from 1891 to 1930. It examines how his life hardened him into a psychotic murderer. It also examines how a prison guard Henry Lesser forged a friendship with him and encouraged him to write an...
Carl Panzram: The Spirit Of Hatred And Revenge
Year: 1995
The story of Mike Tyson. From his early days as a 12 year old amateur with a powerful punch to the undisputed title of Heavyweight Champion of the World and ultimately to his conviction for rape. The story of his turbulent life moves quickly never focusing for long on anything in...
1995
Tyson (1995)
