Country: United States
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Musical
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...
Country: United States
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...
Country: United States
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
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...
Country: France
Genre: Biography, Comedy
Hortense Laborie is a celebrated chef living in the Perigord region. To her great surprise the President of the Republic appoints her as his personal cook. She accepts reluctantly but once she has accepted her nomination Hortense works her heart and soul to produce both a stylish and authentic cuisine. For a while she manages to impose herself thanks to her sturdy character and despite the...
Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Biography, Drama
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...
Country: France, United States
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War
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...
Country: Brazil
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
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...
Country: United States
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
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...
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