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Sylvia

Genres: Biography, Drama, Romance

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Christine Jeffs

Duration: 110 min

Year: 2003

Actors: Gwyneth Paltrow, Daniel Craig, Lucy Davenport

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...

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Stander

Genres: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama

Country: United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, South Africa

Director: Bronwen Hughes

Duration: 111 min

Year: 2003

Actors: Thomas Jane, David O'Hara, Dexter Fletcher

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...

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Shadowlands - Ein Geschenk Des Augenblicks

Genres: Biography, Drama, Romance

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Richard Attenborough

Duration: 131 min

Year: 1993

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Debra Winger, Julian Fellowes

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...

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Robert Mugabe... What Happened?

Genres: Documentary, Biography, History, News

Country: United Kingdom, France, South Africa

Director: Simon Bright

Duration: 84 min

Year: 2011

Actors: Guy de Lancey

Robert Mugabe... what happened? charts the Shakespearean rise and fall of the man who led a very successful African country and then ruined it. Mugabe was damned as a terrorist then knighted by Queen Elizabeth and is still in power more than 30 years later. The film explores what happened through interviews with some of his closest comrades. It assembles a unique collection of southern...

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Citizen Kane - Die Hollywood-legende

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United States, United Kingdom

Director: Benjamin Ross

Duration: 83 min

Year: 1999

Actors: Liev Schreiber, James Cromwell, Melanie Griffith

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...

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Rise Of The Footsoldier

Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Julian Gilbey

Duration: 119 min

Year: 2007

Actors: Ricci Harnett, Terry Stone, Craig Fairbrass

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...

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Reversal Of Fortune

Genres: Biography, Drama, Mystery

Country: United States, United Kingdom, Japan

Director: Barbet Schroeder

Duration: 111 min

Year: 1990

Actors: Jeremy Irons, Glenn Close, Ron Silver

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...

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Rasputin: The Mad Monk

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Don Sharp

Duration: 91 min

Year: 1966

Actors: Christopher Lee, Barbara Shelley, Richard Pasco

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...

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Young Winston

Genres: Biography, Drama, War

Country: United States, United Kingdom

Director: Richard Attenborough

Duration: 157 min

Year: 1972

Actors: Simon Ward, Robert Shaw, Anne Bancroft

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...

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Young Cassidy

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Jack Cardiff, John Ford (uncredited)

Duration: 105 min

Year: 1965

Actors: Rod Taylor, Julie Christie, Maggie Smith

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...

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Wilde

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Country: United Kingdom, Germany, Japan

Director: Brian Gilbert

Duration: 118 min

Year: 1997

Actors: Stephen Fry, Jude Law, Vanessa Redgrave

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...

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Vincent & Theo

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United Kingdom, Netherlands, France, Italy, Germany

Director: Robert Altman

Duration: 138 min

Year: 1990

Actors: Tim Roth, Paul Rhys, Adrian Brine

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...

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Vatel

Genres: Biography, Drama, Romance

Country: United Kingdom, France, Belgium

Director: Roland Joffé

Duration: 103 min

Year: 2000

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Uma Thurman, Tim Roth

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...

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Total Eclipse

Genres: Biography, Drama, Romance

Country: United Kingdom, France, Belgium

Director: Agnieszka Holland

Duration: 111 min

Year: 1995

Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, David Thewlis, Romane Bohringer

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...

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Topsy-turvy - Auf Den Kopf Gestellt

Genres: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Music, ...

Country: United States, United Kingdom

Director: Mike Leigh

Duration: 160 min

Year: 1999

Actors: Jim Broadbent, Allan Corduner, Dexter Fletcher

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...

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To Walk With Lions

Genres: Adventure, Biography, Drama

Country: United Kingdom, Canada, Kenya

Director: Carl Schultz

Duration: 105 min

Year: 1999

Actors: Richard Harris, John Michie, Kerry Fox

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...

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The Young Victoria

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, Romance

Country: United States, United Kingdom

Director: Jean-Marc Vallée

Duration: 105 min

Year: 2009

Actors: Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Paul Bettany

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...

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The White Diamond

Genres: Documentary, Biography

Country: United Kingdom, Germany, Japan

Director: Werner Herzog

Duration: 88 min

Year: 2004

Actors: Werner Herzog, Graham Dorrington, Dieter Plage

About the daring adventure of exploring rainforest canopy with a novel flying device-the Jungle Airship. Airship engineer Dr. Graham Dorrington embarks on a trip to the giant Kaieteur Falls in the heart of Guyana hoping to fly his helium-filled invention above the tree-tops. But this logistic effort will not be without risk. Twelve years ago a similar expedition into the unique habitat of the...

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The Soul Keeper

Genres: Biography, Drama, Romance, War

Country: United Kingdom, Italy, France

Director: Roberto Faenza

Duration: 90 min

Year: 2002

Actors: Iain Glen, Emilia Fox, Craig Ferguson

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...

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The Queen

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United States, United Kingdom, France, Italy

Director: Stephen Frears

Duration: 103 min

Year: 2006

Actors: Helen Mirren, Michael Sheen, James Cromwell

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...

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The New World

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, Romance

Country: United States, United Kingdom

Director: Terrence Malick

Duration: 135 min

Year: 2005

Actors: Colin Farrell, Q'orianka Kilcher, Christopher Plummer

Captain Smith is spared his mutinous hanging sentence after captain Newports ship arrives in 1607 to found Jamestown an English colony in Virginia. The initially friendly natives who have no personal property concept turn hostile after a theft is punished violently on the spot. During an armed exploration Smith is captured but spared when the chiefs favorite daughter Pocahontas pleads...

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The Railway Man

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: Australia, United Kingdom

Director: Jonathan Teplitzky

Duration: 116 min

Year: 2013

Actors: Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Stellan Skarsgård

Eric Lomax was one of thousands of Allied prisoners of war forced to work on the construction of the Thai/Burma railway during WW2. His experiences after the secret radio he built to bring news and hope to his colleagues was discovered left him traumatised and shut off from the world. Years later he met Patti a beautiful woman on a train and fell in love. Patti was determined to rid Eric of...

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After The Wedding

Genres: Drama

Country: Denmark, Sweden, United Kingdom, Norway

Director: Susanne Bier

Duration: 120 min

Year: 2006

Actors: Mads Mikkelsen, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Rolf Lassgård

Jacob Pederson lives in shanty surroundings in Bombay India and assists in the running of Anand Orphanage and School. He had attempted a number of projects to assist orphans including child prostitutes - all quite in vain. He has adopted a young male orphan Pramod and takes special care of him. With growing pressure on the facilities which is on the verge bankruptcy the orphanage receives...

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The Madness Of King George

Genres: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Nicholas Hytner

Duration: 107 min

Year: 1994

Actors: Nigel Hawthorne, Helen Mirren, Ian Holm

A meditation on power and the metaphor of the body of state based on the real episode of dementia experienced by George III [now suspected a victim of porphyria a blood disorder]. As he loses his senses he becomes both more alive and more politically marginalized; neither effect desirable to his lieutenants who jimmy the rules to avoid a challenge to regal authority raising the question of...

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The Lover

Genres: Biography, Drama, Romance

Country: United Kingdom, France, Vietnam

Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud

Duration: 115 min

Year: 1992

Actors: Jane March, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Frédérique Meininger

It is French Colonial Vietnam in 1929. A young French girl from a family that is having some monetary difficulties is returning to boarding school. She is alone on public transportation when she catches the eye of a wealthy Chinese businessman. He offers her a ride into town in the back of his chauffeured sedan and sparks fly. Can the torrid affair that ensues between them overcome the class...

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The Long Day Closes

Genres: Biography, Drama, Family

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Terence Davies

Duration: 85 min

Year: 1992

Actors: Leigh McCormack, Marjorie Yates, Anthony Watson

The Long Day Closes is the story of eleven-year-old Bud. A sad and lonely boy Bud struggles through his days. With cinema as his main source of solace he haunts the local movie-house. All the while his family looms large in our peripheral vision as do the menacing bullies of his school but Bud is the center of attention both from the cameras angle and from his doting family. With a gray...

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The Lady

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, Romance

Country: United Kingdom, France

Director: Luc Besson

Duration: 132 min

Year: 2011

Actors: Michelle Yeoh, David Thewlis, Jonathan Raggett

THE LADY is an epic love story about how an extraordinary couple and family sacrifice their happiness at great human cost for a higher cause. This is the story of Aung San Suu Kyi and her husband Michael Aris. Despite distance long separations and a dangerously hostile regime their love endures until the very end. A story of devotion and human understanding set against a background of...

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