Keyword: biography

An American Rhapsody

6.9

2001

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A young Hungarian girl struggles to find her place in the world when shes reunited with her parents in the USA years after she was left behind during their flight from the communist country in the 1950s.

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.

Audrey

7.4

2020

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Filmmaker Helena Coan examines the remarkable life and career of actress, fashion icon and humanitarian Audrey Hepburn.

A Tale of Love and Darkness

6

2015

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The story of Amos Ozs youth, set against the backdrop of the end of the British Mandate for Palestine and the early years of the State of Israel. The film details the young mans relationship with his mother and his beginnings as a writer, while looking at what happens when the stories we tell become the stories we live.

King David

4.8

1985

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The Biblical story of Israels greatest King.

Beau James

10

1957

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Biopic of the political career of Jimmy Walker, flamboyant and somewhat corrupt Mayor of New York City from 1926-1932.

Garbo

7.4

2005

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An original documentary from Turner Classic Movies, narrated by Julie Christie

The I Don't Care Girl

6.5

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.

Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel

7.6

2011

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A documentary on DIY producer/director Roger Corman and his alternative approach to making movies in Hollywood.

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.

American Splendor

7.6

2003

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An original mix of fiction and reality illuminates the life of comic book hero everyman Harvey Pekar.

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.