Keyword: biography

The Final Year

5.8

2017

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A chronicle of the Barack Obama administrations foreign policy team and the events of Obamas final year in office.

Vincent & Theo

7.1

1990

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The familiar tragic story of Vincent van Gogh is broadened by focusing as well on his brother Theodore, who helped support Vincent. The movie also provides a nice view of the locations which Vincent painted.

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.

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.

Frank Serpico

6.7

2017

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In his own words, Frank Serpico tells the story of his one-man crusade for police reform in the NYPD during the early 1970s.

I Am Michael

5.7

2015

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Based on the fascinating true-life story of Michael Glatze, a gay activist who becomes a Christian pastor after identifying as a heterosexual.

Black Journal

6.4

1977

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Lea, a mature Neapolitan woman who runs a box office in the Lotto in a northern city, has had thirteen children, but all but one have died from abortion or after a few months of life. The only survivor, Michele, is taken care of by her with morbid affection: she is convinced that she has stolen it from death by negotiating with her, so she is not willing to give it away either to her country or to another woman. When Michele gets engaged with a pretty dance teacher, the mother, to avert her detachment, makes a new sacrifice to Death, suppressing three spinster friends, from which she obtains soap and biscuits. His call to arms comes for his son: to get him back, Lea wants to multiply his sacrificial rites, targeting, this time, a silent maid and the hated girl of Michael. The carabinieri will stop it in time.

My Dinner with Hervé

7

2018

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A look at the life of French actor Hervé Villechaize, co-star of the hit 70s TV series Fantasy Island (1977), who took his own life in 1993 at the age of 50.

One Foot in Heaven

6.8

1941

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Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.

Center Stage

7.5

1991

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Biopic of 1930s Chinese actress Lingyu Ruan.

Nureyev: An Orgy Of One

7

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.

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.