Keyword: biography

Gentleman Jim

7.6

1942

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As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert, Jim Corbett, uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the top of the boxing world.

Child of Rage

6.6

1992

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A priest and his wife adopt a brother and sister, but the girl has terrible outbursts of rage.

Topsy-Turvy

7.4

1999

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Set in the 1880s, the story of how, during a creative dry spell, the partnership of the legendary musical/theatrical writers Gilbert and Sullivan almost dissolves, before they turn it all around and write the Mikado.

Modigliani

7.4

2004

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The story of Amedeo Modiglianis bitter rivalry with Pablo Picasso, and his tragic romance with Jeanne Hebuterne.

Farinelli

6.3

1994

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The story of castrato opera singer Carlo Broschi, who enthralled 18th-century European audiences under his stage name Farinelli.

Heaven Adores You

6.9

2014

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Heaven Adores You is an intimate, meditative inquiry into the life and music of Elliott Smith. By threading the music of Elliott Smith through the dense, yet often isolating landscapes of the three major cities he lived in -- Portland, New York City, Los Angeles -- Heaven Adores You presents a visual journey and an earnest review of the singers prolific songwriting and the impact it continues to have on fans, friends, and fellow musicians.

Wittgenstein

6.9

1993

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A dramatization, in modern theatrical style, of the life and thought of the Viennese-born, Cambridge-educated philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), whose principal interest was the nature and limits of language. A series of sketches depict the unfolding of his life from boyhood, through the era of the first World War, to his eventual Cambridge professorship and association with Bertrand Russell and John Maynard Keynes. The emphasis in these sketches is on the exposition of the ideas of Wittgenstein, a homosexual, and an intuitive, moody, proud, and perfectionistic thinker generally regarded as a genius.

A Matador's Mistress

5.7

2008

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The film starts in the trip from Sevilla to Linares, where Manolete stops in Córdoba to see his mother. He will be remembering some passages of his life.

The Diplomat

6.6

2015

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The life and legacy of Richard Holbrooke, whose singular career spans fifty years of American foreign policy, is told in this documentary from Holbrookes eldest son David.

Armstrong

6.9

2019

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Dramatic, moving and deeply human, ARMSTRONG offers the definitive life story of Neil Armstrong: from his childhood in Ohio to his first steps on the Moon, and beyond.

The Pride of the Yankees

7.7

1942

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The story of the life and career of famed baseball player Lou Gehrig.

Scott of the Antarctic

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1948

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The story of British explorer Robert Falcon Scotts 1912 expedition and his quest to be the first to reach the South Pole.