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Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History
Year: 2012
Storyline: The story of the love affair between FDR and his distant cousin Margaret Stuckley centered around the weekend in 1939 when the King and Queen of the UK visited upstate New...
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2012
94 min
Hyde Park On Hudson
Country: United States
Genre: Biography, Drama
Storyline: In 1959 Alfred Hitchcock and his wife Alma are at the top of their creative game as filmmakers amid disquieting insinuations about it being time to retire. To recapture his youths artistic daring Alfred decides his next film will adapt the lurid horror novel Psycho over everyones misgivings. Unfortunately as Alfred self-finances and labors on this film Alma finally loses...
98 min
Hitchcock
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Year: 2002
Storyline: Based on the true crime story of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer this movie tells the emotionally riveting story of a man who turned his darkest fantasies into a horrifying...
2002
101 min
Dahmer
Country: 150 min
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Storyline: In 1865 as the American Civil War winds inexorably toward conclusion U.S. president Abraham Lincoln endeavors to achieve passage of the landmark constitutional amendment which will forever ban slavery from the USA. However his task is a race against time for peace may come at any time and if it comes before the amendment is passed the returning southern states will stop it before...
DreamWorks Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox Film Co
Lincoln (2012)
Country: Canada, United Kingdom, Japan
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Year: 1991
Storyline: Not an adaptation of beat writer William S. Burroughs novel but a mix of biography and an interpretation of his drug- induced writing processes combined with elements of his work in this paranoid fantasy about Bill Lee a writer who accidentally shoots his wife whose typewriter transforms into a cockroach and who becomes involved in a mysterious plot in an Islamic port called...
1991
115 min
Naked Lunch
Country: Germany, France, United States
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Horror, Thriller
Year: 2009
Storyline: A 17th century Hungarian countess embarks on a murderous undertaking with the belief that bathing in the blood of virgins will preserve her...
2009
The Countess
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Biography
Year: 1982
Storyline: Carla Moran awakens one night to find herself being beaten and raped by an unseen presence. Terrified of whats happening to her and shunned by friends and family who think shes lost her mind she seeks help from parapsychologists. The researchers soon discover that evil spiritual force has been drawn to Carla and is responsible for the violent attacks. The question now however is...
1982
125 min
The Entity
Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller
Storyline: In 1979 the American embassy in Iran was invaded by Iranian revolutionaries and several Americans are taken hostage. However six manage to escape to the official residence of the Canadian Ambassador and the CIA is eventually ordered to get them out of the country. With few options exfiltration expert Tony Mendez devises a daring plan: to create a phony Canadian film project looking...
120 min
Argo
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Year: 1952
Storyline: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec frequently visits the Moulin Rouge where he drinks cognac and draws sketches of the dancers and singers. Though the son of a French count Henris legs were badly deformed by a childhood fall and his personal life is often unhappy as a result. While he is going home one night a spirited young woman of the streets Marie asks him for help. He falls in love...
1952
119 min
Moulin Rouge (1952)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Year: 1986
Storyline: Morbid biographical story of Sid Vicious bassist with British punk group the Sex Pistols and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen. When the Sex Pistols break up after their fateful US tour Vicious attempts a solo career while in the grip of heroin addiction. One morning Nancy is found stabbed to death and Sid is arrested for her...
1986
112 min
Sid And Nancy
Country: United Kingdom, United States, France
Storyline: In 2005 the only thing hurting Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez more than his face from a recent bike accident was his pressing need for story ideas. That is when he discovers Nathaniel Ayers a mentally ill homeless street musician who possesses extraordinary talent even through his half-broken instruments. Inspired by his story Lopez writes an acclaimed series of articles...
117 min
The Soloist
Storyline: NOTORIOUS is the story of Christopher Wallace. Through raw talent and sheer determination Wallace transforms himself from Brooklyn street hustler once selling crack to pregnant women to one of the greatest rappers of all time; THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G. Follow his meteoric rise to fame and his refusal to succumb to expectations - redefining our notion of The American...
122 min
Notorious
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Music
Storyline: Manchester 1976: Cambridge educated Tony Wilson Granada TV presenter is at a Sex Pistols gig. Totally inspired by this pivotal moment in music history he and his friends set up a record label Factory Records signing first Joy Division who go on to become New Order then James and the Happy Mondays who all become seminal artists of their time. What ensues is a tale of music sex...
24 Hour Party People
Year: 2006
Storyline: The rise and fall of salsa singer Héctor Lavoe 1946-1993 as told from the perspective of his wife Puchi who looks back from 2002. In the early 1960s Héctor arrives in New York from Ponce Puerto Rico. Success comes quickly. The more he grew as an artist Puchi says the more he sank as a person. Its a tale of talent - creating salsa with Willie Colón with the Fania All...
2006
106 min
El Cantante
Country: Australia
Storyline: A drama based on the autobiography by Li Cunxin. At the age of 11 Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Maos cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979 during a cultural exchange to Texas he fell in love with an American woman. Two years later he managed to defect and went on to perform as a principal dancer for the Houston Ballet and as a...
Mao's Last Dancer
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music, Romance
Year: 2008
Storyline: In this tale of sex violence race and rock and roll in 1950s Chicago Cadillac Records follows the exciting but turbulent lives of some of Americas musical legends including Muddy Waters Leonard Chess Little Walter Howlin Wolf Etta James and Chuck...
2008
109 min
Cadillac Records
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Music
Year: 2005
Storyline: A tale of an inner city drug dealer who turns away from crime to pursue his passion rap...
2005
Get Rich Or Die Tryin'
Country: United Kingdom, Canada
Storyline: The story of John Lennons childhood and teenage years from 1944 to 1960 his relationship with his aunt Mimi and his mother Julia -the two dominant women in the first part of his life- his first meeting with Paul McCartney and George Harrison their friendship their love for music and the birth of The...
Nowhere Boy
Country: France
Storyline: Its late 17th century. The viola da gamba player Monsieur de Sainte Colombe comes home to find that his wife died while he was away. In his grief he builds a small house in his garden into wich he moves to dedicate his life to music and his two young daughters Madeleine and Toinette avoiding the outside world. Rumor about him and his music is widespread and even reaches to the court...
Tous Les Matins Du Monde
Country: United States, Germany, Hungary
Storyline: Vienna 1824. In the days before the first performance of the Ninth Symphony Beethoven needs help with copying out the charts so a promising student of composition Anna Holtz 23 is sent to assist him. She not only aids the transcription of the notes she provides guidance from the orchestra pit as Beethoven conducts the works debut. During the next two years the final ones of...
104 min
Copying Beethoven
Storyline: Oliver Stones homage to 1960s rock group The Doors also doubles as a biography of the groups late singer the Electric Poet Jim Morrison. The movie follows Morrison from his days as a film student in Los Angeles to his death in Paris in 1971 at the age of 27. The movie features a tour-de-force performance by Val Kilmer who not only looks like Jim Morrisons long-lost twin...
140 min
The Doors
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, War
Year: 1999
Storyline: In 1412 a young girl called Jeanne is born in Domrémy France. The times are hard: The Hunderd Years war with England has been going on since 1337 English knights and soldiers roam the country. Jeanne develops into a very religious young woman she confesses several times a day. At the age of 13 she has her first vision and finds a sword. When coming home with it she finds the...
1999
158 min
The Messenger: The Story Of Joan Of Arc
Country: United States, United Kingdom
Genre: Biography, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Year: 1989
Storyline: Whitley Strieber goes with his family and some friends to his holiday home in the forest. They experience some weird occurances are they UFO activity? Whitley is abducted and then faces a horrible dilema; was I abducted or am I going mad? He sees a psychiatrist who tries to use hypnotic regression to discover the...
1989
Communion
Storyline: Fact-based story about the drug-addled and sordid life of The Rolling Stones founder Brian Jones. Unfortunately the story moves so quickly into the sensationalized decadence and drug-induced state of Jones that the unknowing viewer has to wonder why anyone would care. There are only a few framing sequences with members of The Stones particularly Keith Richards that show they had a...
102 min
Stoned
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance, War
Year: 2007
Storyline: The True Story Of Richard Pimentel A Brilliant Public Speaker With A Troubled Past Who Returns From Vietnam Severely Hearing-Impaired And Finds A New Purpose In His Landmark Efforts On The Behalf Of Americans With...
2007
Music Within
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History
Year: 2010
Storyline: It is about around Yip Mans resistance against invading foreigners along with his romantic relations while under the tutelage of three Wing Chun...
2010
100 min
The Legend Is Born: Ip Man
Year: 1998
Storyline: Patch Adams is determined to become a medical doctor because he enjoys helping people. Unfortunately the medical and scientific community does not appreciate his methods of healing the sick while the actual patients medical professors and hospital nurses all appreciate the work *he* can do because they are unable to do...
1998
Patch Adams
Year: 2000
Storyline: William Miller is a 15 year old kid hired by Rolling Stone magazine to tour with and write about Stillwater an up and coming rock band. This wonderfully witty coming of age film follows William as he falls face first to confront life love and...
2000
162 min
Almost Famous
Year: 1984
Storyline: Antonio Salieri believes that Mozarts music is divine. He wishes he was himself as good a musician as Mozart so that he can praise the Lord through composing. But he cant understand why God favored Mozart such a vulgar creature to be his instrument. Salieris envy has made him an enemy of God whose greatness was evident in Mozart. He is set to take...
1984
180 min
Amadeus
Country: United States, Germany
Storyline: Six incarnations of Bob Dylan: an actor a folk singer an electrified troubadour Rimbaud Billy the Kid and Woody Guthrie. Put Dylans music behind their adventures soliloquies interviews marriage and infidelity. Recreate 1960s documentaries in black and white. Put each at a crossroads the artist becoming someone else. Jack the son of Ramblin Jack Elliott finds Jesus;...
135 min
I'm Not There.
Storyline: 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
Country: United Kingdom, France
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Music, Romance
Storyline: Novelist George Sand Judy Davis falls in love with composer Frédéric Chopin Hugh Grant. She tries to profess her love for him at a weekend hosted by a pretentious artistically minded duchess for famous musicians artists and writers of the day. The gentle and sickly Chopin is wary of the outspoken Sand but finds himself strangely drawn to her as...
107 min
Impromptu
Country: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Musical
Year: 2004
Storyline: Consummate entertainer Bobby Darin 1936-1973 is making a movie about his life. Hes volatile driven by the love of performing ambition perfectionism and belief that hes living on borrowed time. He begins in the Bronx: a fatherless lad learning music and dance from his mom. His career starts slowly then Splish Splash puts him at the top of the charts and on Bandstand. He...
2004
118 min
Beyond The Sea
Country: France, United Kingdom, Czech Republic
Storyline: An un-chronological look at the life of the Little Sparrow Édith Piaf 1915-1963. Her mother is an alcoholic street singer her father a circus performer her paternal grandmother a madam. During childhood she lives with each of them. At 20 shes a street singer discovered by a club owner whos soon murdered coached by a musician who brings her to concert halls and then quickly...
La Vie En Rose
Storyline: The story of Jerry Lee Lewis arguably the greatest and certainly one of the wildest musicians of the 1950s. His arrogance remarkable talent and unconventional lifestyle often brought him into conflict with others in the industry and even earned him the scorn and condemnation of the...
108 min
Great Balls Of Fire!
Storyline: In 1975 San Fernando Valley teen Joan Larkin reinvents herself as Joan Jett a guitarist who wants to form an all-girl punk band. She pitches the idea to a sleazy manager Kim Fowley who pairs her with a drummer and then searches for a face: he finds Cherie Currie at 15 the perfect jailbait image for his purpose; by luck she can sing. Two others round out the band The Runaways....
The Runaways
Year: 1980
Storyline: At only thirteen years of age Loretta Webb marries Doolittle Lynn and is soon responsible for a sizeable family. Loretta appears destined to a life of homemaking but Doolittle recognises his wifes musical talent and buys her a guitar as an anniversary present one year. This gift sets Loretta Lynn on the gruelling tumultuous path to country music...
1980
Coal Miner's Daughter
Country: United Kingdom, United States
Year: 1994
Storyline: The life and death of the legendary Ludwig van Beethoven. Beside all the work he is known for the composer once wrote a famous love letter to a nameless beloved and the movie tries to find out who this beloved was. Not easy as Beethoven has had many women in his...
1994
121 min
Immortal Beloved
Storyline: Ray Charles has the distinction of being both a national treasure and an international phenomenon. By the early 1960s Ray Charles had accomplished his dream. Hed come of age musically. Hed made it to Carnegie Hall. The hit records Georgia Born to Lose successively kept climbing to the top of the charts. Hed made his first triumphant European concert tour in 1960 a feat which...
152 min
Ray
Year: 1996
Storyline: Based on the true story of Australian pianist David Helfgott this delightful movie charts the traumatic early years through adulthood. Telling the story in flashback we see David as a child prodigy and as he grows up while his patriarchal father abuses him and his siblings with the memory of his childhood in Europe and the loss of his family in the concentration camps. David finally...
1996
105 min
Shine
Storyline: A biography of Ian Dury who was stricken with polio at a young age and defied expectations by becoming one of the founder of the punk-rock scene in Britain in the...
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
Storyline: While growing up in the Great Depression era Johnny Cash takes an interest in music and eventually moves out of his Arkansas town to join the air force in Germany. While there he buys his first guitar and writes his own music and proposes to Vivian. When they got married they settled in Tennessee and with a daughter he supported the family by being a salesman. He discovers a man...
153 min
Walk The Line
Country: United Kingdom, United States, Australia, Japan
Storyline: Ian Curtis is a quiet and rather sad lad who works for an employment agency and sings in a band called Warsaw. He meets a girl named Debbie whom he promptly marries and his band of which the name in the meantime has been changed to Joy Division gets more and more successful. Even though Debbie and he become parents their relationship is going downhill rapidly and Ian starts an...
Control (2007)
Storyline: British sisters Hilary du Pré and Jacqueline du Pré are both talented musicians Hilary a flautist Jackie a cellist. With regard to their musical prowess they have always had a friendly competitive nature with each other fueled in large part by the want of their pianist mother Iris for them to achieve musical greatness. But underlying this friendliness is a deep desire to be...
Hilary And Jackie
Year: 1988
Storyline: Saxophone player Charlie Parker comes to New York in 1940. He is quickly noticed for his remarkable way of playing. He becomes a drug addict but his loving wife Chan tries to help...
1988
161 min
Bird
Storyline: Introspective artist Blake is buckling under the weight of fame professional obligations and a mounting feeling of isolation. Dwarfed by towering trees Blake slowly makes his way through dense woods. He scrambles down an embankment to a fresh spring and undresses for a short swim. The next morning he returns to his house an elegant if neglected stone mansion. Many people are...
97 min
Last Days
Year: 1987
Storyline: This is the true story of Ritchie Valens a young rock & roll singer who tragically died in a plane crash at the age of 17. The film follows Ritchie from his days in Pacoima California where he and his family make a meager living working on farms to his rise as a star. The film also focuses on Richies friendship and rivalry with his older brother Bob and his relationship with...
1987
La Bamba
Country: India
Year: 2011
Storyline: Dressed in Persian clothes chased by hooligans famous Indian-born Rockstar Jordan barely makes it to a Czech stadium to perform before a huge crowd. It was not too long ago that he was just an awkward uninhibited collegian wanna-be musician with a name of Janardhan Jakhar who was ridiculed everywhere. His family wanted him to be inducted in their business but he refuses. He is...
2011
136 min
Rockstar
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Year: 1975
Storyline: The story of the rise and fall of the infamous Chicago gangster Al Capone and the control he exhibited over the city during the prohibition years. Unusually briefly covering the years after Capone was...
1975
Capone
Genre: Action, Biography, Sport
Storyline: Frank Dux has spent most his life being trained by Tanaka to participate in the Kumite the ultimate martial arts tournament where participants are seriously injured even killed. Frank decides to go despite being told by his superiors in the army that he cant because they need him. Two army officers are sent to get him and the trail leads to Hong Kong but Frank eludes them. While...
92 min
Bloodsport
Storyline: Tells the story of a woman who smashed through the barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male-dominated world. The story concerns power and the price that is paid for power and is a surprising and insightful portrait of an extraordinary and complex...
The Iron Lady
Genre: Biography, Horror, Thriller
Storyline: A warlord must fight a bloody battle in order to regain his...
Dark Prince The True Story Of Dracula
Storyline: As the face of law enforcement in America for almost 50 years J. Edgar Hoover was feared and admired reviled and revered. But behind closed doors he held secrets that would have destroyed his image his career and his...
137 min
J. Edgar
Country: United States, Argentina, Spain
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Storyline: A young journalist long ago rejected by his now aged and dying father finds himself investigating one of his fathers former friends a candidate for canonization. Uncovering the two mens complicated relationship from childhood through the horrors of the Spanish Civil War unveils a compelling drama filled with passion betrayal love and religion. An action packed story set during a...
There Be Dragons
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Storyline: Oakland As GM Billy Beane is handicapped with the lowest salary constraint in baseball. If he ever wants to win the World Series Billy must find a competitive advantage. Billy is about to turn baseball on its ear when he uses statistical data to analyze and place value on the players he picks for the...
133 min
Moneyball
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Sport
Storyline: The story of the monumental life and tragic death of legendary Brazilian motor-racing Champion Ayrton Senna. Spanning the decade from his arrival in Formula One in the mid 80s the film follows Sennas struggles both on track against his nemesis French World Champion Alain Prost and off it against the politics which infest the sport. Sublime spiritual yet on occasion ruthless -...
Senna
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, Sport
Storyline: 13 year-old Bethany Hamilton is a champion surfer who was born to be in the water. But after a fun night out night surfing and what should be a fun day in the water she is attacked by a shark and loses her arm. Rushed to the hospital she remains calm and maintains her faith in God. Now she has to re-learn how to do everything with only one arm - including how to surf. It will take...
Soul Surfer
Genre: Kung Fu, Action, Adventure, Biography, History
Year: 1993
Storyline: Wong Fei-Hung and sidekick Chung arrive in Peking just as the Empress announces a Lion Dance martial arts contest. Also accompanying him is cousin Yee his young Westernized aunt-by-adoption to whom Wong is secretly betrothed. Wong faces a possible romantic rival in a Russian diplomat Tumanovsky whom Aunt Yee knew back in school and a martial arts rival in the brutal Club Foot...
1993
Once Upon A Time In China 3
Genre: Kung Fu, Action, Adventure, Biography, History, Romance
Year: 1992
Storyline: In the sequel to the Tsui Hark classic Wong Fei-Hung faces The White Lotus society a fanatical cult seeking to drive the Europeans out of China through violence even attacking Chinese who follow Western ways. Wong must also defend Dr. Sun Yat Sen a revolutionary from the military. With his friends loved ones and the future of China itself at stake Wong must once again use his...
1992
113 min
Once Upon A Time In China 2
