Country: United States, United Kingdom
Genre: Biography, Drama
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...
Country: Germany, France, Belgium, South Africa, Italy, United Kingdom, Luxembourg
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
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...
Country: United States
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
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...
Country: United States, Spain
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
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...
Country: United States
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Drama
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...
Country: United States
Genre: Documentary, Biography
A docudrama that centers on amateur grizzly bear expert Timothy Treadwell. He periodically journeyed to Alaska to study and live with the bears. He was killed along with his girlfriend Amie Huguenard by a rogue bear in October 2003. The films explores their compassionate lives as they found solace among these endangered...
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...
Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War
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...
Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Two-part TV series documenting the stormy 38-year reign of King Henry...
Country: United States
Genre: Biography, Drama
Based on the true story of the rise and fall of poker legend Stu The Kid...
Country: South Korea
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War
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Country: Canada, United States
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
The movie describes the life of Adolf Hitler from childhood to manhood and how he became so powerful. It describes his poor childhood in Austria it describes the first world war from his point of view and how he became the strongest man in Germany. The movie show us how Hitler turned from a poor soldier into the leader of the Nazis and how he survived the attempts to kill him. It describes...
Country: France, United States
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Jack Nicholsons portrait of Union leader James R. Hoffa as seen through the eyes of his friend Bobby Ciaro Danny DeVito. The film follows Hoffa through his countless battles with the RTA and President Roosevelt all the way to a conclusion that negates the theory that he disappeared in...
Country: United States, Italy
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Casanova is a libertine collecting seductions and sexual feats. But he is really interested in someone and is he really an interesting person ? Is he really alive...
Country: United States, Australia
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama
Based on a true story Fatal Honeymoon tells the shocking story and controversy surrounding a newlywed who tragically dies on her dream honeymoon and the subsequent investigation as to whether or not her husband was guilty of killing her. In the film Alabama couple Gabe Watson and his new bride 26 year-old Tina Watson married just 11 days go on their dream honeymoon to scuba dive near...
Country: United States
Genre: Biography, Drama
A beautiful wealthy young party girl drops out of Radcliffe in 1965 and heads to New York to become Holly Golightly. When she meets a hungry young artist named Andy Warhol he promises to make her the star she always wanted to be. And like a super nova she explodes on the New York scene only to find herself slowly lose grip on...
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Germany
Genre: Biography, Drama
Sweden early 1900s - an era of social change and unrest war and poverty. A young working class woman Maria wins a camera in a lottery. The camera grants her the eyes to view the world and empowers her over several decades to raise and nurture her family of six children and an alcoholic womanizing and sometimes violent although ultimately loving...