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The Countess

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, Horror, ...

Country: Germany, France, United States

Director: Julie Delpy

Duration: 98 min

Year: 2009

Actors: Julie Delpy, Daniel Brühl, William Hurt, Anamaria Marinca, Sebastian Blomberg, Adriana Altaras, Charly Hübner, Andy Gatjen, Maria Simon, Frederick Lau, Katrin Pollitt, Anna Maria Mühe, Rolf Kanies, Christine Mayer, Henriette Confurius

Storyline: A 17th century Hungarian countess embarks on a murderous undertaking with the belief that bathing in the blood of virgins will preserve her...

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The Entity

Genres: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Biography

Country: United States

Director: Sidney J. Furie

Duration: 125 min

Year: 1982

Actors: Barbara Hershey, Ron Silver, David Labiosa, George Coe, Margaret Blye, Jacqueline Brookes, Richard Brestoff, Michael Alldredge, Raymond Singer, Allan Rich, Natasha Ryan, Melanie Gaffin, Alex Rocco, Sully Boyar, Tom Stern

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...

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Argo

Genres: Biography, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States

Director: Ben Affleck

Duration: 120 min

Year: 2012

Actors: Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, Alan Arkin, John Goodman, Victor Garber, Tate Donovan, Clea DuVall, Scoot McNairy, Rory Cochrane, Christopher Denham

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...

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Moulin Rouge (1952)

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance

Country: United Kingdom

Director: John Huston

Duration: 119 min

Year: 1952

Actors: José Ferrer, Colette Marchand, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Suzanne Flon, Claude Nollier, Katherine Kath, Muriel Smith, Mary Clare, Walter Crisham, Harold Kasket, Georges Lannes, Lee Montague, Maureen Swanson, Tutte Lemkow, Jill Bennett

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...

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Sid And Nancy

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Alex Cox

Duration: 112 min

Year: 1986

Actors: Gary Oldman, Chloe Webb, David Hayman, Debby Bishop, Andrew Schofield, Xander Berkeley, Perry Benson, Tony London, Sandy Baron, Sy Richardson, Edward Tudor-Pole, Biff Yeager, Courtney Love, Rusty Blitz, John Spaceley

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...

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The Soloist

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

Country: United Kingdom, United States, France

Director: Joe Wright

Duration: 117 min

Year: 2009

Actors: Jamie Foxx, Robert Downey Jr., Catherine Keener, Tom Hollander, LisaGay Hamilton, Nelsan Ellis, Rachael Harris, Stephen Root, Lorraine Toussaint, Justin Martin , Kokayi Ampah, Patrick Tatten, Susane Lee, Marcos De Silvas, Ilia Volok

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...

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Notorious

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

Country: United States

Director: George Tillman Jr.

Duration: 122 min

Year: 2009

Actors: Jamal Woolard, Mohamed Dione, Derek Luke, Dennis L.A. White, Marc John Jefferies, Menyone DeVeaux, Christopher Jordan Wallace, Ricky Smith, Amanda Christopher, Angela Bassett, Jasper Briggs

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...

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24 Hour Party People

Genres: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Music

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Michael Winterbottom

Duration: 117 min

Year: 2002

Actors: Steve Coogan, John Thomson, Nigel Pivaro, Paul Popplewell, Lennie James, Shirley Henderson, Mark Windows, Paddy Considine, Raymond Waring, Ron Cook, John Simm, Danny Cunningham, Dave Gorman, Ralf Little, Andy Serkis

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...

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El Cantante

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

Country: United States

Director: Leon Ichaso

Duration: 106 min

Year: 2006

Actors: Marc Anthony, Jennifer Lopez, John Ortiz, Manny Perez, Vincent Laresca, Federico Castelluccio, Nelson Vasquez, Antone Pagan, Romi Dias, Jared Everleth, Bernard Hernandez, Christopher Becerra, Andrea Navedo, Ismael Miranda, Tito Allen

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...

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Mao's Last Dancer

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance

Country: Australia

Director: Bruce Beresford

Duration: 117 min

Year: 2009

Actors: Chi Cao, Bruce Greenwood, Penne Hackforth-Jones, Christopher Kirby, Suzie Steen, Madeleine Eastoe, Aden Young, Wen Bin Huang, Shu Guang Liang, Ye Wang, Neng Neng Zhang, Wan Shi Xu, Shao Wei Yi, Hui Cong Zhan, Ji Feng Sun

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...

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Cadillac Records

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, Music, ...

Country: United States

Director: Darnell Martin

Duration: 109 min

Year: 2008

Actors: Beyoncé, Joshua Alscher, Tim Bellow, Tony Bentley, Tammy Blanchard, Eric Bogosian, Marc Bonan, Adrien Brody, Cedric the Entertainer, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Douglas Crosby, Dexter Darden, Veronika Dash

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...

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Get Rich Or Die Tryin'

Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama, Music

Country: United States

Director: Jim Sheridan

Duration: 117 min

Year: 2005

Actors: 50 Cent, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Joy Bryant, Omar Benson Miller, Tory Kittles, Terrence Howard, Ashley Walters, Marc John Jefferies, Viola Davis, Sullivan Walker, Serena Reeder, Bill Duke, Mpho Koaho

Storyline: A tale of an inner city drug dealer who turns away from crime to pursue his passion rap...

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Nowhere Boy

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

Country: United Kingdom, Canada

Director: Sam Taylor-Wood

Duration: 98 min

Year: 2009

Actors: Aaron Johnson, Kristin Scott Thomas, David Threlfall, Josh Bolt, Ophelia Lovibond, Kerrie Hayes, Angela Walsh, Paul Ritter, Richard Syms, Anne-Marie Duff, James Johnson

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...

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Tous Les Matins Du Monde

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

Country: France

Director: Alain Corneau

Duration: 115 min

Year: 1991

Actors: Jean-Pierre Marielle, Gérard Depardieu, Anne Brochet, Guillaume Depardieu, Carole Richert, Michel Bouquet, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Yves Gasc, Yves Lambrecht, Jean-Marie Poirier, Myriam Boyer, Violaine Lacroix, Nadège Teron , Caroline Sihol, Philippe Duclos

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...

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Copying Beethoven

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

Country: United States, Germany, Hungary

Director: Agnieszka Holland

Duration: 104 min

Year: 2006

Actors: Diane Kruger, Ralph Riach, Matyelok Gibbs, Ed Harris, Bill Stewart, Angus Barnett, Viktoria Dihen, Phyllida Law, Matthew Goode, Joe Anderson, David Kennedy, Nicholas Jones, Karl Johnson

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...

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The Doors

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

Country: United States

Director: Oliver Stone

Duration: 140 min

Year: 1991

Actors: Val Kilmer, Meg Ryan, Kyle MacLachlan, Frank Whaley, Kevin Dillon, Michael Wincott, Michael Madsen, Josh Evans, Dennis Burkley, Billy Idol, Kathleen Quinlan, John Densmore, Gretchen Becker, Jerry Sturm, Sean Stone

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...

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The Messenger: The Story Of Joan Of Arc

Genres: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, ...

Country: France

Director: Luc Besson

Duration: 158 min

Year: 1999

Actors: Rab Affleck, Stéphane Algoud, Edwin Apps, David Bailie, David Barber, Christian Barbier, Timothy Bateson, David Begg, Christian Bergner, Andrew Birkin, Dominic Borrelli, John Boswall, Matthew Bowyer, Paul Brooke, Bruce Byron

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...

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Communion

Genres: Biography, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, ...

Country: United States, United Kingdom

Director: Philippe Mora

Duration: 101 min

Year: 1989

Actors: Christopher Walken, Lindsay Crouse, Frances Sternhagen, Andreas Katsulas, Terri Hanauer, Joel Carlson, John Dennis Johnston, Dee Dee Rescher, Aileen Fitzpatrick, R.J. Miller, Holly Fields, Paula Shaw, Juliet Sorci, Tifni Twitchell, Joshua Miller

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...

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Stoned

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Stephen Woolley

Duration: 102 min

Year: 2005

Actors: Leo Gregory, Paddy Considine, David Morrissey, Ben Whishaw, Tuva Novotny, Amelia Warner, Monet Mazur, Luke de Woolfson, David Walliams, David Williams, Gary Love, Ralph Brown

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...

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Music Within

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

Country: United States

Director: Steven Sawalich

Duration: 94 min

Year: 2007

Actors: Clint Jung, Melissa George, Marion Ross, Rebecca De Mornay, Janssen Van De Yacht, Ridge Canipe, Paul Michael, John Livingston, TyZhaun Lewis, Ron Livingston, Arlene Ancheta, Linda Burden-Williams, Hector Elizondo, Joel Bryant, Kevin Sage

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...

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The Legend Is Born: Ip Man

Genres: Action, Biography, Drama, History

Country: Hong Kong

Director: Herman Yau

Duration: 100 min

Year: 2010

Actors: Yu-Hang To, Siu-Wong Fan, Sammo Hung Kam-Bo, Huang Yi, Rose Chan, Rose Chan, Ip Chun, Hins Cheung, Chen Zhi Hui, Suet Lam, Sire Ma, Kenya Sawada, Andy Taylor, Biao Yuen

Storyline: It is about around Yip Mans resistance against invading foreigners along with his romantic relations while under the tutelage of three Wing Chun...

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Patch Adams

Genres: Biography, Comedy, Drama

Country: United States

Director: Tom Shadyac

Duration: 115 min

Year: 1998

Actors: Robin Williams, Daniel London, Monica Potter, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bob Gunton, Josef Sommer, Irma P. Hall, Frances Lee McCain, Harve Presnell, Daniella Kuhn, Peter Coyote, James Greene , Michael Jeter, Harold Gould, Bruce Bohne

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...

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Almost Famous

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

Country: United States

Director: Cameron Crowe

Duration: 162 min

Year: 2000

Actors: Billy Crudup, Frances McDormand, Kate Hudson, Jason Lee, Patrick Fugit, Zooey Deschanel, Michael Angarano, Anna Paquin, Fairuza Balk, Noah Taylor, John Fedevich, Mark Kozelek, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Liz Stauber, Jimmy Fallon

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...

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Amadeus

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

Country: United States

Director: Milos Forman

Duration: 180 min

Year: 1984

Actors: F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge, Simon Callow, Roy Dotrice, Christine Ebersole, Jeffrey Jones, Charles Kay, Kenny Baker, Lisabeth Bartlett, Barbara Bryne, Martin Cavina, Roderick Cook, Milan Demjanenko, Peter DiGesu

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...

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I'm Not There.

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

Country: United States, Germany

Director: Todd Haynes

Duration: 135 min

Year: 2007

Actors: Cate Blanchett, Ben Whishaw, Christian Bale, Richard Gere, Marcus Carl Franklin, Heath Ledger, Kris Kristofferson, Don Francks, Roc LaFortune, Larry Day, Paul Cagelet, Brian R.C. Wilmes, Pierre-Alexandre Fortin, Richie Havens, Tyrone Benskin

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;...

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Topsy Turvy

Genres: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Music

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Mike Leigh

Duration: 160 min

Year: 1999

Actors: Allan Corduner, Dexter Fletcher, Sukie Smith, Roger Heathcott, Wendy Nottingham, Stefan Bednarczyk, Geoffrey Hutchings, Timothy Spall, Francis Lee, William Neenan, Adam Searle, Martin Savage, Jim Broadbent, Lesley Manville, Kate Doherty

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...

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Impromptu

Genres: Biography, Comedy, Music, Romance

Country: United Kingdom, France

Director: James Lapine

Duration: 107 min

Year: 1991

Actors: Judy Davis, Hugh Grant, Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters, Julian Sands, Ralph Brown, Georges Corraface, Anton Rodgers, Emma Thompson, Anna Massey, David Birkin, Nimer Rashed, Fiona Vincente, John Savident, Lucy Speed

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...

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Beyond The Sea

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music, Musical

Country: United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Director: Kevin Spacey

Duration: 118 min

Year: 2004

Actors: Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth, John Goodman, Bob Hoskins, Brenda Blethyn, Greta Scacchi, Caroline Aaron, Peter Cincotti, William Ullrich, Michael Byrne, Matt Rippy, Gary Whelan, Jake Broder, Tayfun Bademsoy, Tomas Spencer

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...

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La Vie En Rose

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

Country: France, United Kingdom, Czech Republic

Director: Olivier Dahan

Duration: 140 min

Year: 2007

Actors: Marion Cotillard, Sylvie Testud, Pascal Greggory, Emmanuelle Seigner, Jean-Paul Rouve, Gérard Depardieu, Clotilde Courau, Jean-Pierre Martins, Catherine Allégret, Marc Barbé, Caroline Sihol, Manon Chevallier, Pauline Burlet, Elisabeth Commelin, Marc Ga

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...

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