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Country: South Korea
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War
Year: 2004
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2004
120 min
Fighter In The Wind
Country: United States
Genre: Biography, Drama
Year: 2003
Based on the true story of the rise and fall of poker legend Stu The Kid...
2003
High Roller: The Stu Ungar Story
Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Two-part TV series documenting the stormy 38-year reign of King Henry...
193 min
Henry VIII
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War
Year: 1989
King Henry V of England is insulted by the King of France. As a result he leads his army into battle against France. Along the way the young king must struggle with the sinking morale of his troops and his own inner doubts. The war culminates at the bloody Battle of...
1989
137 min
Henry V
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Year: 1986
Henry likes to kill people in different ways each time. Henry shares an apartment with Otis. When Otis sister comes to stay we see both sides of Henry; the guy-next-door and the serial killer. Low budget movie with some graphic murder...
1986
83 min
Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer
Country: Brazil
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Year: 2011
The film about Heleno de Freitas 1920/1959 Santoro who was one of the greats of Brazilian football . An exceptional player but very temperamental while that displayed his enormous talent on the pitch showed her charm in the evenings locals . Beautiful elegant and arrogant and had lived in bohemian affairs constant drank heavily took drugs and not cared athletically living...
2011
116 min
Heleno
Country: France, United States
Year: 1993
The final movie in Oliver Stones Vietnam trilogy follows the true story of a Vietnamese village girl who survives a life of suffering and hardship during and after the Vietnam war. As a freedom fighter a hustler young mother a sometime prostitute and the wife of a US. marine the girls relationships with men suggests an analogy of Vietnam as Woman and the U.S. as...
1993
140 min
Heaven & Earth
A drama documenting the life and work of the theoretical physicist Professor Stephen Hawking who despite being diagnosed with motor neurone disease at the age of 21 has galvanized the scientific world with his ground-breaking work on the nature of the universe. Starring Benedict...
90 min
Hawking (2004)
Year: 1965
In this story Harlow starts in the movies as set dressing the pretty girl who is used for the glamour shots. Refusing to descend to the casting couch for work she finds that she is soon blacklisted from the industry. But an agent named Arthur sees something in Jean and begins representing her. For a long time the jobs are scarce and consist mostly of receiving the pie in the face in low...
1965
125 min
Harlow
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Musical
Based on the autobiography of Gypsy Rose Lee this made-for-TV movie-previously a Broadway smash and a 1962 film-depicts the life and times of a stripper and her domineering...
153 min
Gypsy (1993)
Year: 1962
Mama Rose lives to see her daughter June succeed on Broadway by way of vaudeville. When June marries and leaves Rose turns her hope and attention to her elder less obviously talented daughter Louise. However having her headlining as a stripper at Minskys Burlesque is not what she initially has in...
1962
143 min
Gypsy (1962)
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Drama
Year: 2012
Filmed over a decade Brief Encounters follows internationally renowned photographer Gregory Crewdsons quest to create his unique surreal and incredibly elaborate portraits of suburban life. He sets a house on fire builds 90 foot sets with crews of sixty shuts down city streets...all in the service of his haunted image of American life and his own anxieties dreams and inner desires. Brief...
2012
78 min
Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters
Country: United States, Spain
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Year: 2006
The painter Goya becomes involved with the Spanish Inquisition when his muse Ines is arrested by the church for heresy. Her father Thomas comes to him hoping that his connection with Brother Lorenzo whom he is painting can secure the release of his...
2006
113 min
Goya's Ghosts
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Year: 1990
Henry Hill is a small time gangster who takes part in a robbery with Jimmy Conway and Tommy De Vito two other gangsters who have set their sights a bit higher. His two partners kill off everyone else involved in the robbery and slowly start to climb up through the hierarchy of the Mob. Henry however is badly affected by his partners success but will he stoop low enough to bring about the...
1990
146 min
Goodfellas
Country: Germany, France, Belgium, South Africa, Italy, United Kingdom, Luxembourg
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Year: 2007
James Gregory once lived in a farm and had befriended a native youth Bafana and had even had a photograph taken with him. Years later now married to Gloria and father of three children Chris Brett and Natasha James has nothing but shame and regret as many South African Caucasians in the oppressive Apartheid-era ridiculed him leading him to hate Africans. He seeks to redeem himself by...
2007
118 min
Goodbye Bafana
Country: United States, United Kingdom
Year: 1998
The story of James Whale the director of Frankenstein 1931 and Frankensteins Braut 1935 in the time period following the Korean War. Whale is homosexual and develops a friendship with his gardener an...
1998
105 min
Gods And Monsters
Country: Italy
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, War
In 54 B.C. Julius Caesar seeks to solidify his position in Rome by putting down a rebellion in Gaul led by a tribal chieftain named Vercingetorix. Vercingetorix has rallied many tribes to his cause including one led by the beautiful Queen Asterix and others whod once pledged allegiance to Rome. At first things go badly for the Romans complicated by the fact that Vercingetorix has captured and...
91 min
Giulio Cesare, Il Conquistatore Delle Gallie
Country: Portugal
Portugal 1920. Florbela Espanca a woman ahead of her time and a famous poet throws herself into a third marriage after two failed experiences... See full synopsis...
119 min
Florbela
Country: United Kingdom, Luxembourg
This film adapted from a work of fiction by author Tracy Chevalier tells a story about the events surrounding the creation of the painting Girl With a Pearl Earring by 17th century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer. Little is known about the girl in the painting it is speculated that she was a maid who lived in the house of the painter along with his family and other servants though there is no...
100 min
Girl With A Pearl Earring
Country: United States, Canada, Mexico
Year: 2002
Frida chronicles the life Frida Kahlo shared unflinchingly and openly with Diego Rivera as the young couple took the art world by storm. From her complex and enduring relationship with her mentor and husband to her illicit and controversial affair with Leon Trotsky to her provocative and romantic entanglements with women Frida Kahlo lived a bold and uncompromising life as a political...
2002
123 min
Frida
Country: United States, Germany
Year: 1999
Susanna is rushed to the hospital. Afterwards she discusses this with a psychiatrist. She had been having some delusions. She had also been having an affair with the husband of her parents friend. The doctor suggests that combining a bottle of aspirin and a bottle of vodka was a suicide attempt. This she denies. He recommends a short period of rest at Claymoore. Claymoore is a private mental...
1999
127 min
Girl, Interrupted
When Gia Carangi first arrives in New York City shes a beautiful drop-out from Philadelphia brashly bursting through the closed doors of top modeling agent Wilhelmina Cooper. Gias electrifying personality and potent sexuality soon find their way onto the covers of Americas top-selling magazines. But being loved by the world isnt the same as being love by one - an unfulfilled desire that can...
Gia
Country: India
Mohandas was born in the Gujarati speaking family had several brothers who jointly owned property in Rajkot. At the age of 13 Mohandas married Kasturba. On attaining maturity he re-located to England became a Barrister returned home and together with Kasturba re-located to South Africa. They returned to India for a few years and this is where they became parents of four sons: Harilal...
136 min
Gandhi, My Father
Wisconsin 1953. John Gacy Sr. forces his fat teenage son to have sexual relations with him during a fishing trip. Iowa 1968. The adult John Wayne Gacy Jr. is convicted of sodomy and after 18 months he is released and settles in Des Plains near Chicago. From 1972 John Wayne Gacy Jr. grows up as a respected family father and businessman even tipped for a political career with the Democrats....
88 min
Gacy
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Its 1994 in Long Beach California. Idealistic Erin Gruwell is just starting her first teaching job that as freshman and sophomore English teacher at Woodrow Wilson High School which two years earlier implemented a voluntary integration program. For many of the existing teachers the integration has ruined the school whose previously stellar academic standing has been replaced with many...
Freedom Writers
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Year: 2009
An unusual road trip movie about a mother driving her two sons from New York to Pittsburgh to St. Louis and eventually Hollywood in her quest to find a man to take care of them...
2009
108 min
My One And Only
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Year: 2010
Rizwan Khan a Muslim from the Borivali section of Mumbai suffers from Aspergers syndrome a form of high-functioning autism that complicates socialization. The adult Rizwan marries a Hindu single mother Mandira in San Francisco. After 9/11 Rizwan is detained by authorities at LAX who mistake his disability for suspicious behavior. Following his arrest he meets Radha a therapist who helps...
2010
165 min
My Name Is Khan
Country: France
Every holiday Marcel and his family go to their cottage in the Provence France. He likes the hills in this region. Before they arrive at the cottage they have to walk about 5 miles. With the co-operation of an ex-pupil of Marcels father whos a teacher they only have to walk 1 mile since they can take a shortcut along a canal through the backyards of some eccentric people. During one of...
98 min
My Mother's Castle
Country: United Kingdom, Ireland
Christy Brown is a spastic quadriplegic born to a large poor Irish family. His mother Mrs Brown recognizes the intelligence and humanity in the lad everyone else regards as a vegetable. Eventually Christy matures into a cantankerous writer who uses his only functional limb his left foot to write...
103 min
My Left Foot (my Left Foot: The Story Of Christy Brown)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
A young boys life in turn-of-the-century France. Marcel witnesses the success of his teacher father as well as the success of his arrogant Uncle Jules. Marcel and family spend their summer vacation in a cottage in Provence and Marcel befriends a local boy who teaches him the secrets of the hills in...
My Father's Glory
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
English gentleman author Rudyard Kipling famous for the Jungle Book uses his considerable influence being on a War Office propaganda think tank to get his nearly 18 year-old son John Jack admitted for military service during World war I after he is repeatedly refused on account of his bad eyesight. He is enrolled in the Irish Guards: their patriotic dream but mother and sisters nightmare....
93 min
My Boy Jack
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Drama, Family
The grail is not the gold nor the books of ancient wisdom but the 3000 year old DNA of the mummies which may lead to a cure for...
Mummies: Secrets Of The Pharaohs
Country: United States, United Kingdom, Ireland
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Year: 1997
Queen Victoria is deeply depressed after the death of her husband disappearing from public. Her servant Brown who adores her through caress and admiration brings her back to life but that relationship creates scandalous situation and is likely to lead to monarchy...
1997
Mrs Brown
Country: Russia, Germany, Kazakhstan
The movie is an epic story of a young Genghis Khan and how events in his early life lead him to become a legendary conqueror. The 9-year-old Temüjin is taken on a trip by his father to select a girl as his future wife. He meets Börte who says she would like to be chosen which he does. He promises to return after five years to marry her. Temüjins father is poisoned on the trip and dies. As...
126 min
Mongol: The Rise Of Genghis Khan
Year: 1978
On October 6 1970 while boarding an international flight out of Istanbul Airport American Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle 2 kilos of hashish out of the country the drugs strapped to his body. He is told that he will be released if he cooperates with the authorities in identifying the person who actually sold him the hash. Billys troubles really begin when after that assistance he...
1978
121 min
Midnight Express
In 1979 Clive Sinclair British inventor of the pocket calculator frustrated by the lack of home investment in his projectthe electric car also opposes former assistant Chris Currys belief that he can successfully market a micro-chip for a home computer. A parting of the ways sees Curry in partnership with the Austrian Hermann Hauser and using whizz kid Cambridge students set up his own...
84 min
Micro Men
Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller, War
Year: 1996
Neil Jordans depiction of the controversial life and death of Michael Collins the Lion of Ireland who led the IRA against British rule and founded the Irish Free State Eire in...
1996
133 min
Michael Collins
Country: France, Canada
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Year: 2008
The story of Jacques Mesrine Frances public enemy No. 1 during the 1970s. After nearly two decades of legendary criminal feats -- from multiple bank robberies and to prison breaks -- Mesrine was gunned down by the French police in...
2008
Mesrine: Public Enemy #1
Year: 2000
The story ultimately revolves around two men of honor; their relationship their individual and joint failures and triumphs. Carl Brashear is determined to be the first African American Navy Diver in a time where racism is rife. Leslie Sunday is his embittered trainer determined to see him fail. Fate challenges and circumstances eventually draw these two men together in a tale of turbulence...
2000
129 min
Men Of Honor
Year: 1985
Rusty Dennis is the mother of Rocky a seriously deformed but extremely intelligent and emotionally warm teenager. Rusty is a no-nonsense mother whose wild lifestyle is often at odds with her tenderness and protectiveness towards Rocky. She is determined that Rocky be given the same chances and happiness that everyone else takes for...
1985
Mask (1985)
Country: United States, France, Japan
All eyes will be on you says the Austrian Empress Maria Theresa to her youngest daughter Marie Antoinette. The film marketed for a teen audience is an impressionistic retelling of Marie Antoinettes life as a young queen in the opulent and eccentric court at Versailles. The film focuses on Marie Antoinette as she matures from a teenage bride to a young woman and eventual queen of...
Marie Antoinette
Country: United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Japan
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Man on the Moon is a biographical movie on the late comedian Andy Kaufman. Kaufman along with his role on Taxi 1978 was famous for being the self-declared Intergender Wrestling Champion of the world. After beating women time and time again Jerry Lawler who plays himself in the movie a professional wrestler got tired of seeing all of this and decided to challenge Kaufman to a match. In...
Man On The Moon
Country: United States, Japan
Year: 1992
Biograpical epic of Malcolm X the legendary African American leader. Born Malcolm Little his father a Garveyite Baptist minister was killed by the Ku Klux Klan. Malcolm became a gangster and while in jail discovered the Nation of Islam writings of Elijah Muhammad. He preaches the teachings when let out of jail but later on goes on a pilgrimage to the city of Mecca there he converts to the...
1992
202 min
Malcolm X
An inspiring look at JK Rowlings rise to become one of the most influential writers-from her humble beginnings as an imaginative young girl and awkward teenager to the loss of her mother and the genesis of the Harry Potter...
Magic Beyond Words: The Jk Rowling Story
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History
In 1968 the Ford auto factory in Dagenham was one of the largest single private employers in the UK. In addition to the thousands of male employees there are also 187 underpaid women machinists who primarily assemble the car seat upholstery in poor working conditions. Dissatisfied the women represented by the shop steward and Rita OGrady work with union rep Albert Passingham for a better...
Made In Dagenham
Country: United Kingdom, Chile, Spain, France
Santiago capital of Chile during the Marxist government of elected highly controversial president Salvador Allende. Father McEnroe supports his leftist views by introducing a program at the prestigious collegio Catholic prep school St. Patrick to allow free admission of some proletarian kids. One of them is Pedro Machuca slum-raised son of the cleaning lady in Gonzalo Infantes...
Machuca
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama
In Pittsburgh Pennsylvania addicted gang biker Sam Childers is released from prison and learns that his wife Lynn is no longer a stripper but has converted to Christianity. One night Sam and his best friend Donnie give a ride to a hitchhiker who threatens Donnie with a pocketknife; however Sam reacts and turns the tables on the stranger. Sam is affected by the incident and is convinced by Lynn...
Machine Gun Preacher
Year: 1977
The story of General of the Army Douglas MacArthur Supreme Allied Commander during World War II and United Nations Commander for the Korean War. MacArthur begins in 1942 following the fall of Phillipines and covers the remarkable career of this military legend up through and including the Korean War and into MacArthurs days of forced retirement after being dismissed from his post by...
1977
130 min
Macarthur
Country: Australia
Mabo tells the story of one of Australias national heroes - Eddie Koiki Mabo the Torres Strait Islander who left school at age 15 yet spearheaded the High Court challenge that overthrew the fiction of terra...
Mabo
Biography of Martin Luther the 16th-century priest who led the Christian Reformation and opened up new possibilities in exploration of faith. The film begins with his vow to become a monk and continues through his struggles to reconcile his desire for sanctification with his increasing abhorrence of the corruption and hypocrisy pervading the Churchs hierarchy. He is ultimately charged with...
Luther
Country: United Kingdom, France, Japan
In the 1960s British painter Francis Bacon 1909-1992 surprises a burglar and invites him to share his bed. The burglar a working class man named George Dyer 30 years Bacons junior accepts. Bacon finds Dyers amorality and innocence attractive introducing him to his Soho pals. In their sex life Dyer dominates Bacon is the masochist. Dyers bouts with depression his drinking and pill...
Love Is The Devil: Study For A Portrait Of Francis Bacon
On the set of Cleopatra Hollywoods most beautiful star Elizabeth Taylor fell into the arms of one of the worlds greatest actors Richard Burton - and she didnt leave. Their subsequent white-hot scandalous love affair gave rise to the paparazzi and they became the most hunted and photographed couple on earth. Their rocky passionate relationship born in front of the cameras was...
Liz & Dick
Country: United Kingdom, Spain
In 1922 Madrid is wavering on the edge of change as traditional values are challenged by the dangerous new influences of Jazz Freud and the avant-garde. Salvador Dali arrives at the university; 18 years old and determined to become a great artist. His bizarre blend of shyness and rampant exhibitionism attracts the attention of two of the universitys social elite - Federico Garcia Lorca and...
112 min
Little Ashes
Genre: Biography, Drama, Musical
Year: 1940
Life story of the musical star from her discovery in 1890 by band leader Tony Pastor till her retirement in 1912 when she married newspaperman Alexander...
1940
Lillian Russell
Year: 1974
Interview-style biography of controversial and pioneering stand-up comedian Lenny Bruce. The film traces Bruce from his beginnings as a Catskills comic to his later underground popularity based on his anti-establishment politics and his scatological...
1974
111 min
Lenny
Country: United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany
Two faiths two empires two rulers - colliding in 1588. Papist Spain wants to bring down the heretic Elizabeth. Philip is building an armada but needs a rationale to attack. With covert intrigue Spain sets a trap for the Queen and her principal secretary Walsingham using as a pawn Elizabeths cousin Mary Stuart whos under house arrest in the North. The trap springs and the armada sets...
114 min
Elizabeth - Das Goldene Königreich
This film details the ascension to the throne and the early reign of Queen Elizabeth the First as played by Cate Blanchett. The main focus is the endless attempts by her council to marry her off the Catholic hatred of her and her romance with Lord Robert...
124 min
Elizabeth
Country: Philippines
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, Thriller, War
El Presidente
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
Ed Wood
