Keyword: biography

Dick Johnson Is Dead

7.6

2020

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A daughter helps her father prepare for the end of his life.

Angela Carter: Of Wolves & Women

7.5

2018

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A dark and delicious foray into Angela Carters extraordinary life.

Mike Wallace Is Here

7.2

2019

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For over half a century, 60 Minutes fearsome newsman Mike Wallace went head-to-head with the worlds most influential figures. Relying exclusively on archival footage, the film interrogates the interrogator, tracking Wallaces storied career and troubled personal life while unpacking how broadcast journalism evolved to today’s precarious tipping point.

Meat Loaf: To Hell and Back

6.6

2000

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Meat Loaf Aday is an overgrown Texas youngster, the son of a gentle woman dying of cancer and an alcoholic, abusive father. Tormented by his father and schoolmates over his size, he strikes out on his own after his mothers death, in an impossible task to prove himself to the world and to himself. A chance audition for a musical leads him to join forces with composer Jim Steinman, and together the two make music history with the operatic rock album Bat Out of Hell. But the demons that drive Meat Loaf arent assuaged by success, and eventually he must come to terms with them.

The Maestro

6.7

2018

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After the Second World War, budding film composer Jerry Herst moves to Hollywood to study with infamous master teacher Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco.

By Player

6.8

2000

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Film inspired by the life of Japanese actor Taiji Tonoyama, with whom Kaneto Shindo had worked on many occasions, with the help of archive images and fragments of the most famous films of the director. The actress Nobuko Otowa adds dialogues facing the camera, as if she was talking to Tonoyama and remembering together old episodes of the interpreter, a past marked by alcoholism and a hectic sex life.

The LEGO® Story

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2012

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The animated history of the LEGO company.

Gleason

6.6

2002

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The story begins at the height of Gleasons career. He has it all: women, wealth, and extraordinary power. But he is haunted by memories of his childhood. Gleason spends his formative years entering amateur contests, performing in sleazy night spots. Along the way, he steals gags from the best comics in town and finds love with Genevieve, a dancer whom he marries. But Gleason isnt the ideal husband or even a responsible father as he abandons his family to answer the call of Hollywood. Brash, arrogant, and egotistical, he alienates his directors and the man who discovers him. When he ends up back in New York, Gleason gets one of those rare second chances in the new medium of television, creating some of its most unforgettable characters. But even as Gleason becomes the talk of the tube, his life - ruled by demons of rage, booze, and insecurity - unravels.

Louis Cyr : The Strongest Man in the World

7.5

2013

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Biopic of Louis Cyr, strongest man in the world at the end of the 19th Century.

Margot

6.2

2009

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At the age of forty Dame Margot Fonteyn is considered to be past her best as a prima ballerina and Ninette de Valois is reducing her roles at the Royal Ballet. Then the exciting young Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev, a recent defector to the West, comes into her life and her bed and revitalizes her career. Frederick Aashton creates a new ballet for them and they become the golden couple of the ballet world. However, Margot is married to Roberto Tito Arias, a Panamanian politician of dubious repute who is not sympathetic to her calling and is probably faithless. When he is shot and paralyzed for life Margot must carry on dancing well into her sixties in order to pay for his costly treatment though she still collaborates with Rudolf in the occasional ballet.

Livin' for Love: The Natalie Cole Story

6.7

2000

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Ru0026B singer Natalie Cole narrates this docudrama about her life, adapted from her autobiography.

Free Lunch Express

3.6

2020

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From the creators who watched Airplane too many times, comes the surreal story of Bernie Sanders. This farcical tale takes us from childhood to political icon with battles against the Clintons, Drinks with AOC and weed with Ben and Jerry along the way.