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Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Year: 1944
In the inspired Olivier concept Shakespeares play begins as a performance in the Globe Theatre shifting in broad cinematic terms to an epic narrative of Henry V who had developed from a dissolute youth to a purposeful monarch. Proving his ability as a soldier and skillful leader he unites the dissident factions in the English army and goes on to crush the French against enormous odds at...
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1944
137 min
The Chronicle History Of King Henry The Fift With His Battell Fought At Agincourt In France
Country: United States, Canada, France
Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller
Year: 2010
The amazing true story of Frédéric Bourdin who after having plundered all the centers for runaway minors and deliquents in Europe even thought he has come of age now passes himself off as Nicholas Barclay a 13-year-old American who had vanished three years ago. To his astonishment Nicholass family welcomes him like their son leaving Interpol and the FBI aghast. It is the beginning of a...
2010
106 min
The Chameleon
Country: United States
Genre: Drama
Year: 2014
Based on the #1 New York Times best-selling book of the same name HEAVEN IS FOR REAL brings to the screen the true story of a small-town father who must find the courage and conviction to share his sons extraordinary life-changing experience with the world. The film stars Academy Award nominee and Emmy award winning actor Greg Kinnear as Todd Burpo and co-stars Kelly Reilly as Sonja Burpo the...
2014
100 min
Heaven Is For Real
Country: Germany, France, Czech Republic
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Year: 2008
Germany in the 1970s: Murderous bomb attacks the threat of terrorism and the fear of the enemy inside are rocking the very foundations of the yet fragile German democracy. The radicalised children of the Nazi generation lead by Andreas Baader Ulrike Meinhof and Gudrun Ensslin are fighting a violent war against what they perceive as the new face of fascism: American imperialism supported by the...
2008
150 min
The Baader Meinhof Complex
Country: United States, Canada
Genre: Biography, Drama
Year: 2000
Biographic made-for-TV movie of the life of one of Hollywoods most famous actreses: Audrey Hepburn spaning from her early childhood to the 1960s which details her life as Dutch overachieving ballerina coming to grips with her parents divorce and enduring five hard years of living in Nazi occupied Holland during World War II. Audrey then settles in the USA where she tries to make it big as a...
2000
133 min
The Audrey Hepburn Story
Country: United States, Mexico
Year: 2004
In 1974 Samuel Joseph Byck attempted to hijack a plane he intended to fly into the White House to kill Richard Nixon - possibly the first time an airliner was to be used as a flying bomb in a terrorist attack. Sam Bicke is a lonely ineffectual incompetent who feels wronged by his family friends employers and the world in general though his problems are largely of his own making and his...
2004
95 min
The Assassination Of Richard Nixon
Country: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Western
Year: 2007
The last months of Jesse Jamess life from meeting Robert Ford a 19-year-old who idolizes Jesse to the day Ford shoots him. Jesses a wanted man living under a pseudonym carrying out a train robbery disappearing to Kentucky and reappearing to plan a bank holdup with Robert and Roberts brother as his team. The rest of the gang is dead arrested or gone from Missouri. Whenever Jesses...
2007
160 min
The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Year: 1953
Former seaman Clinton Jones now works at a lowly job. His daughter Ruth wants to become an actress. Clinton gets fired and Ruth rejects the advances of Fred Whitmarsh. Her father gives her his seamans spyglass to sell as she heads for New York...
1953
90 min
The Actress
Biopic of Temple Grandin an autistic woman who overcame the limitations imposed on her by her condition to become a Ph.D. and expert in the field of animal husbandry. She developed an interest in cattle early in life while spending time at her Aunt and Uncles ranch. She did not speak until age four and had difficulty right through high school mostly in dealing with people. Her mother was very...
107 min
Temple Grandin
Country: United States, United Kingdom
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Year: 2002
Docu-drama based on the life of Ted Bundy a serial killer who killed at least 19 young women during the 1970s though some sources say as many as 30 to 35 were murdered. Set from his college student years to his first victims his capture escape from prison twice his final killing spree to his trial conviction and...
2002
99 min
Ted Bundy
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Year: 2003
In 1956 aspiring American poet Sylvia Plath meets fellow poet Edward Ted Hughes at Cambridge where she is studying. Enthralled with the genius of his writing Sylvia falls in love with him even before meeting him and he quickly falls in love with her. They eventually marry. Sylvia quickly learns that others are also enthralled with her husband for a combination of his good looks charisma...
2003
110 min
Sylvia
Year: 1976
The story tells of a young woman admitting to have blackouts fearing they are getting worse. She is believed to suffer from multiple personalities as a result of severe abuse at the hands of her mother whom the psychiatrist Cornelia B. Wilbur believes was schizophrenic. The movie Sibyl is based upon author Flora Rheta Schreiberthes novel and fictionalized version of the life story of...
1976
198 min
Sybil
Year: 1983
Paul Snider is a narcissistic small time hustler who fancies himself a ladies man. His life changes when he meets Dorothy Stratten working behind the counter of a Dairy Queen. Dorothy is a pretty but naive high school senior. Paul immediately falls for Dorothy who sees in Paul a wise worldly person unlike herself. Paul believes Dorothy is Playboy material the magazine he sees as only a...
1983
103 min
Star 80 - Tod Eines Playmates
Country: United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, South Africa
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama
In the early 1980s a white police officer Andres Stander played by Thomas Jane in Johannesburg suffers a crisis of conscience due to his involvement in apartheid and becomes a notorious bank robber on the run. Then from 1983 to 1984 the Stander gang Stander Alan Heyl & Patrick McCall rob as many as four banks a...
111 min
Stander
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller
Year: 1960
In 73 BCE a Thracian slave leads a revolt at a gladiatorial school run by Lentulus Batiatus. The uprising soon spreads across the Italian Peninsula involving thousand of slaves. The plan is to acquire sufficient funds to acquire ships from Silesian pirates who could then transport them to other lands from Brandisium in the south. The Roman Senator Gracchus schemes to have Marcus Publius Glabrus...
1960
197 min
Spartacus
Country: Germany
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Year: 2005
The Final Days is the true story of Germanys most famous anti-Nazi heroine brought to life. Sophie Scholl is the fearless activist of the underground student resistance group The White Rose. Using historical records of her incarceration the film re-creates the last six days of Sophie Scholls life: a journey from arrest to interrogation trial and sentence in 1943 Munich. Unwavering in her...
2005
120 min
Sophie Scholl - Die Letzten Tage
Country: Italy
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Year: 2013
A drama based on a memoir about growing up as a member of the Urka community in the small republic of...
2013
Siberian Education
Year: 1993
CS Lewis is the author of the Narnia books - The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe. Known as Jack he teaches at an Oxford College during the 1930s. An American fan Joy Gresham arrives to meet him for tea in Oxford. It is the beginning of a love affair. Tragically Joy becomes terminally unwell and their lives become...
1993
131 min
Shadowlands - Ein Geschenk Des Augenblicks
Country: United States, Italy
Year: 1973
Serpico is a cop in the 1960s-early 1970s. Unlike all his colleagues he refuses a share of the money that the cops routinely extort from local criminals. Nobody wants to work with Serpico and hes in constant danger of being placed in life threatening positions by his partners. Nothing seems to get done even when he goes to the highest of authorities. Despite the dangers he finds himself in...
1973
130 min
Serpico
Based on true events. On the edges of Las Vegas 17-year-old Andrews life is spiraling out of control. Unable to cope with the loss of his father Andrews descent into drugs and violence is gaining momentum and the once promising young man is now headed for self-destruction. Andrews mother helpless to control her son and fighting an addiction of her own refuses to watch idly as her only...
Self Medicated
Country: Japan
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Year: 1956
A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. Hes sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun Japans most powerful clan leader. Hes also challenged to fight by the supremely confident and skillful Sasaki Kojiro. Takezo agrees to fight Kojiro in a years time but rejects Shoguns patronage choosing instead to live on the edge of a village raising vegetables. Hes followed...
1956
105 min
Samurai Iii: Duel At Ganryu Island
Year: 1999
Coming to Hollywood as a celebrated boy genius featuring a spectacular career arc in New York including his War of the Worlds radio hoax Orson Welles is stymied on the subject for his first film. After a dinner party at Hearst Castle during which he has a verbal altercation with Hearst Welles decides to do a movie about Hearst. It takes him some time to convince co-writer Herman Mankiewicz...
1999
83 min
Citizen Kane - Die Hollywood-legende
Rise of the Footsoldier follows the inexorable rise of Carlton Leach from one of the most feared generals of the football terraces to becoming a member of a notorious gang of criminals who rampaged their way through London and Essex in the late eighties and early nineties. It is three decades of his life following him from football hooliganism through to his burgeoning career as a bouncer his...
119 min
Rise Of The Footsoldier
Year: 2001
Seriocomic story based on the memoir by Beverly Donofrio the movie follows a young woman who finds her life radically altered by an event from her teen years. Born in 1950 Beverly grew up bright and ambitious in a working-class neighborhood in Connecticut; her father was a tough but good-hearted cop who listened to his daughters problems and her mother was a nervous woman eager to imagine the...
2001
132 min
Riding In Cars With Boys
Country: United States, United Kingdom, Japan
Genre: Biography, Drama, Mystery
Year: 1990
Alan Dershowitz a brilliant professor of law is hired by wealthy socialite Claus von Bulow to attempt to overturn his two convictions for attempted murder of his extremely wealthy wife. Based on a true story the film concentrates not on the trial like other legal thrillers but on the preparatory work that Dershowitz and his students put in as they attempt to disprove the prosecutions case and...
1990
Reversal Of Fortune
Genre: Documentary, Action, Biography, Drama
ReGENERATION explores the inherent cynicism found in many of todays youth and young adults and the influences that perpetuate our cultures apathetic approach to social and political causes. The film features three intersecting stories of students parents and artists all looking for their place in society. Together they capture the thoughts and feelings of todays struggling generation as...
81 min
Regeneration
Year: 1966
The movie chronicles the events of historys man of mystery Rasputin. Although not quite historically accurate and little emphasis is put on the politics of the day Rasputins rise to power and eventual assassination are depicted in an attempt to explain his extraordinary power and...
1966
91 min
Rasputin: The Mad Monk
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Year: 1972
This historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill Simon Ward including his childhood years his time as a war correspondent in Africa and culminating with his first election to...
1972
157 min
Young Winston
Year: 1939
Ten years in the life of Abraham Lincoln before he became known to his nation and the world. He moves from a Kentucky cabin to Springfield Illinois to begin his law practice. He defends two men accused of murder in a political brawl suffers the death of his girlfriend Ann courts his future wife Mary Todd and agrees to go into...
1939
Young Mr. Lincoln
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...
1965
Young Cassidy
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....
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
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...
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
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...
Waltz With Bashir
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
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...
138 min
Vincent & Theo
Country: United Kingdom, France, Belgium
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...
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
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...
89 min
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
Tucker: The Man And His Dream
Year: 1995
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...
1995
Total Eclipse
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...
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
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...
115 min
This Boy's Life
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...
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, Germany, Canada
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)
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
96 min
The Story Of Adele H
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Year: 1957
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...
1957
135 min
The Spirit Of St. Louis
Country: United Kingdom, Italy, France
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
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...
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...
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...
The Outlaw
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...
113 min
The Other Side Of Heaven
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...
The Notorious Bettie Page
