Keyword: biography

Norma Jean & Marilyn

6.1

1996

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This film follows Norma Jean from her simple, ambitious youth to her superstar pinnacle and back down. She moves from lover to lover in order to further her career. She finds fame but never happiness, only knowing seduction but not love.

Miss Hokusai

6.7

2015

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The life and works of Japanese artist and ukiyo-e painter Katsushika Hokusai, as seen from the eyes of his daughter, Katsushika O-Ei.

De Gaulle

5.9

2020

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Paris, June 1940. The de Gaulle couple is confronted with the military and political collapse of France. Charles de Gaulle joins London while Yvonne, his wife, finds herself with her three children on the road of the exodus.

Georgia O'Keeffe

6.6

2009

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Biopic of American artist Georgia OKeeffe and her husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz.

Oscar Wilde

5.8

1960

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Playwright Oscar Wildes homosexuality is exposed when he brings a libel action against his lovers father, leading to his own prosecution.

A Bigger Splash

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1973

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Semi-fictionalized documentary biopic of British artist David Hockney. After a difficult break-up, Hockney is left unable to paint, much to the concern of his friends. Titled after Hockneys pop-art painting A Bigger Splash..

Pariah: The Lives and Deaths of Sonny Liston

7.3

2019

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Overcoming the seemingly insurmountable odds that life threw his way, Liston became heavyweight champion of the world when he knocked out Floyd Patterson in 1962. Eight years later, he died but friends questioned the cause of his death.

Goltzius and the Pelican Company

6.7

2012

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Hendrik Goltzius, a late-16th-century Dutch printer and engraver of erotic prints, seduces the Margrave of Alsace into paying for a printing press to make and publish illustrated books.

Nureyev: An Orgy Of One

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2018

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This striking and moving documentary from BAFTA nominated directors Jacqui and David Morris traces the extraordinary life of Rudolf Nureyev. From his birth in the 5th class carriage of a trans-Siberian train, to his dramatic leap to freedom in the West at the height of the Cold War, and unprecedented adulation as the most famous dancer in the world. The film highlights Nureyevs unlikely yet legendary partnership with Margot Fonteyn and charts his meteoric rise to the status of global cultural phenomenon. Nureyevs life plays out like the sweeping plot of a classic Russian novel. His story is Russias story. Blending never-before-seen footage, with an original score by award-winning composer Alex Baranowski and spellbinding newly choreographed dance tableaux directed by Royal Ballet alumnus, Russell Maliphant, Nureyev is a theatrical and cinematic experience like no other. This is a portrayal as unique as the man himself. There will never be another Nureyev.

Photographer

6.2

2015

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The life and work of internationally renown provocative Czech photographer Jan Saudek.

Too Macabre: The Making of Elvira, Mistress of the Dark

7.1

2018

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This documentary fills in the backstories of the making of Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988), as well as much of Cassandra Petersons career. It also provides a lot of insight into the workings of Hollywood production.

Rasputin: The Mad Monk

6.3

1966

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Thrown out of his monastery for licentious and drunken behaviour, Rasputin travels to St Petersburg to try his luck. Through a dalliance with one of the czarinas ladies in waiting he soon gains influence at court with his powers of healing and of hypnotism. But he also makes enemies who wish to see him dead.