Keyword: biography

The Miracle Worker

6.2

1979

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Devoted teacher Anne Sullivan leads deaf and blind Helen Keller into the light of learnedness.

Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans

6.8

2015

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This Cannes-selected documentary reveals the true story behind the infamously troubled film shoot that nearly destroyed the career of Hollywood icon Steve McQueen.

Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan

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2020

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A look at the life of Irish singer/songwriter and Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan.

Isadora

7.5

1968

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A biography of the 1920s dancer Isadora Duncan, who forever changed peoples ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance projects as well as her attitude and lifestyle shocked the public of her time.

The Life and Death of Peter Sellers

6.9

2004

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The feature adaptation of Roger Lewis book about the actor best remembered as Inspector Clouseau in the Pink Panther movies.

What We Do Is Secret

6.6

2007

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The true-life story of Darby Crash, who became an L.A. punk icon after getting kicked out of high school and forming The Germs with a collection of friends who have little experience with their instruments or playing music.

Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus

6.5

2006

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Turning her back on her wealthy, established family, Diane Arbus falls in love with Lionel Sweeney, an enigmatic mentor who introduces Arbus to the marginalized people who help her become one of the most revered photographers of the twentieth century.

Blaze

6.9

2018

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A reimagining of the life and times of Blaze Foley, the unsung songwriting legend of the Texas Outlaw Music movement.

RKO 281

7.1

1999

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Orson Welles produces his greatest film, Citizen Kane (1941), despite the opposition of the films de facto subject, William Randolph Hearst.

The Buddy Holly Story

7.2

1978

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The story of the life and career of the early rock and roll singer, from his meteoric rise to stardom, to his marriage and untimely death.

Frankie & Alice

6.5

2010

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A drama centered on a go-go dancer with multiple personality disorder who struggles to remain her true self and begins working with a psychotherapist to uncover the mystery of the inner ghosts that haunt her.

The I Don't Care Girl

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1953

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This semi-film within a film opens in the office of producer George Jessel, who never saw a camera he couldnt get in front of, who is holding a story conference to determine the screen treatment for the life of Eva Tanguay, and Jessel is unhappy with what the writers present him.He tells them to look up Eddie McCoy, Evas one-time partner, for the real inside story on the lusty and vital Eva. Eddies version is that he discovered her working as a waitress in an Indianapolis restaurant in 1912, wherein singer Larry Woods and his partner Charles Bennett get into a fight over her and both land in the hospital, and McCoy convinces the manager to put Eva on as a single to fill their spot. She flopped, but McCoy arranges for Bennett to be her accompanist, and she went out of his life. The writers look up Bennett, now head of a music publishing company, who says McCoys story is phony, and it was Flo Zigfeld who discovered Eva for his Follies.