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The Soloist
Genres: Drama, Biography, Music
Year: 2009
Country: USA, UK, France
Director: Joe Wright
Starring: Stephen Root, Tom Hollander, Catherine Keener, Robert Downey Jr., Nelsan Ellis, Justin Martin, Jamie Foxx
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In 2005, the only thing hurting Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez more than his face from a recent bike accident was his pressing need for story ideas. That is when he discovers Nathaniel Ayers, a mentally ill, homeless street musician who possesses extraordinary talent, even through his half-broken instruments. Inspired by his story, Lopez writes an acclaimed series of articles about Ayers and attempts to do more to help both him and the rest of the underclass of LA have a better life. However, Lopez's good intentions run headlong in the hard realities of the strength of Ayers' personal demons and the larger social injustices facing th...
Coco Before Chanel
Year: 2009
Country: France
Director: Anne Fontaine
Starring: Alessandro Nivola, Vincent Nemeth, Audrey Tautou, Roch Leibovici, Benoit Poelvoorde, Marie Gillain, Emmanuelle Devos
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Several years after leaving the orphanage to which her father never returned for her, Gabrielle Chanel finds herself working in a provincial bar both. She's both a seamstress for the performers and a singer, earning the nickname Coco from the song she sings nightly with her sister. A liaison with Baron Balsan gives her an entree into French society and a chance to develop her gift for designing increasingly popular hats. When she falls in love with English businessman Arthur Capel further opportunities open up, though life becomes ever more complicated.
Public Enemies
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Year: 2009
Country: USA
Director: Michael Mann
Starring: Christian Bale, David Wenham, Johnny Depp, James Russo, Stephen Dorff, Channing Tatum, Christian Stolte
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This is the story of the last few years of the notorious bank robber John Dillinger. He loved what he did and could imagine little else that would make him happier. Living openly in 1930s Chicago, he had the run of the city with little fear of reprisals from the authorities. It's there that he meets Billie Frechette with whom he falls deeply in love. In parallel we meet Melvin Purvis, the FBI agent who would eventually track Dillinger down. The FBI was is in its early days and Director J. Edgar Hoover was keen to promote the clean cut image that so dominated the organization through his lifetime. Purvis realizes that if he is going to get Dil...
The Blind Side
Genres: Drama, Sport, Biography
Year: 2009
Country: USA
Director: John Lee Hancock
Starring: Kim Dickens, Kathy Bates, Sandra Bullock, Ray McKinnon, Tom Nowicki, Andy Stahl, Jae Head
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A poor, oversized and under-educated teenager is recruited by a major college football program where he is groomed into an athletically and academically successful NFL prospect.
Amelia
Year: 2009
Country: USA, Canada
Director: Mira Nair
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Hilary Swank, Aaron Abrams, Richard Gere, Christopher Eccleston, Joe Anderson, Cherry Jones
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Amelia Earhart, a Kansas girl, discovers the thrill of aviation at age 23, and within 12 years has progressed to winning the Distinguished Flying Cross for being the first woman to pilot a plane solo across the Atlantic Ocean. At age 39, she sets out on an attempt to circumnavigate the globe, an adventure that catapults her into aviation myth.
Prayers for Bobby
Year: 2009
Country: USA
Director: Russell Mulcahy
Starring: Dan Butler, Sigourney Weaver, Henry Czerny, Ryan Kelley, Carly Schroeder, Austin Nichols, Shannon Eagen
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In "Prayers for Bobby," Mary Griffith is a devout Christian who raises her children with the conservative teachings of the Presbyterian Church. However, when her son Bobby confides to his older brother he may be gay, life changes for the entire family after Mary learns about his secret. While Bobby's father and siblings slowly come to terms with his homosexuality, Mary believes God can cure him of what she considers his 'sin' and persuades Bobby to pray harder and seek solace in church activities in hopes of changing him. Desperate for his mother's approval, Bobby does what is asked of him, but through it all, the church's apparent disapprova...
Party Monster
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Year: 2003
Country: USA, Netherlands
Director: Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato
Starring: Macaulay Culkin, Mia Kirshner, Seth Green, Dylan McDermott, Diana Scarwid, Dillon Woolley, Marilyn Manson
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Set in the New York club scene of the late 1980's thru the 1990's, a tale which chronicles the rise and fall of club-kid promoter Michael Alig, a party organizer, whose extravagant life was sent spiralling downward when he boasted on television that he had killed his friend, roommate, and drug dealer, Angel Melendez. Originally from Indiana, Alig moved to New York, and came to be an underground legend, known for his excessive drug use and outrageous behavior in the club world. At his peak, he had his own record label, and magazine, and hosted Disco 2000, one of the biggest club nights in New York in the '90s. He was doing a lot of drugs, and ...
The Duchess
Genres: Romance, Drama, History
Year: 2008
Country: UK, Italy, France
Director: Saul Dibb
Starring: Richard McCabe, John Shrapnel, Ralph Fiennes, Simon McBurney, Keira Knightley, Justin Edwards, Michael Medwin
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At the age of 17, Georgiana Spencer is married to the Duke of Devonshire. She soon realizes that hers is to be a loveless marriage and her only purpose in the arrangement is to provide her husband with a male heir. She hasn't much good fortune on that front, producing two daughters and having several miscarriages as well and it is many years before she succeeds. What relationship she does have with her husband breaks down completely when he begins what proves to be a lifelong affair with her best friend, Bess Foster. She does make a life for herself, becoming quite active in politics and the fashion icon of her day.
Girl, Interrupted
Year: 1999
Country: Germany, USA
Director: James Mangold
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Brittany Murphy, Winona Ryder, Jared Leto, Vanessa Redgrave, Jeffrey Tambor, Clea DuVall
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Susanna is rushed to the hospital. Afterwards she discusses this with a psychiatrist. She had been having some delusions. She had also been having an affair with the husband of her parents' friend. The doctor suggests that combining a bottle of aspirin and a bottle of vodka was a suicide attempt. This she denies. He recommends a short period of rest at Claymoore. Claymoore is a private mental hospital full of noisy, crazy people. Georgina is a pathological liar. Polly has been badly scarred by fire. Daisy won't eat in the presence of other people. Lisa is a sociopath, the biggest exasperation for the staff - like Nurse Valerie - and the bigge...
Hans Christian Andersen
Genres: Family, Musical, Romance
Year: 1952
Country: USA
Director: Charles Vidor
Starring: Farley Granger, John Brown, John Qualen, George Chandler, Danny Kaye, Zizi Jeanmaire, Joseph Walsh
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A completely fabricated biography of the famous Danish fairytale writer Hans Christian Andersen featuring several of his stories and a ballet performance of "The Little Mermaid".
Julius Caesar
Year: 2002
Country: Germany, USA, Netherlands, Italy
Director: Uli Edel
Starring: Christopher Walken, Sean Pertwee, Chris Noth, Jeremy Sisto, Ian Duncan, Valeria Golino, Richard Harris
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The story of the rise and fall of the Roman Emperor Gaius Julius Caesar, born July 13, 100 B.C., and starting his career as a young Roman with visions of greatness for the Eternal City. When Sulla conquers Rome with his troops, Caesar is one of the very few to stand up against the despotic dictator. This impresses Pompeius, Sulla's general, and he protects the young man, who is a nephew of Marius, a well known veteran, against the wrath of Sulla. After Sulla's death, Caesar returns from exile and starts his political career. Caesar's daughter Julia marries general and senator Pompeius, and Caesar takes Pompeius' troops in order to simply safe...
Elvis
Genres: Drama, Biography, Music
Year: 2005
Country: Germany, USA
Director: James Steven Sadwith
Starring: Rose McGowan, Jack Noseworthy, Camryn Manheim, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Robert C. Treveiler, Randy Quaid, Tim Guinee
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A chronicle of the life of Elvis Presley (Rhys Meyers), from his humble beginnings to his rise to international stardom.
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Year: 2007
Country: USA, France
Director: Julian Schnabel
Starring: Mathieu Amalric, Max von Sydow, Emmanuelle Seigner, Anne Consigny, Patrick Chesnais, Niels Arestrup, Jean-Pierre Cassel
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Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind.
Control
Genres: Drama, Biography, Music
Year: 2007
Country: USA, UK, Australia, Japan
Director: Anton Corbijn
Starring: Sam Riley, Toby Kebbell, Joe Anderson, Samantha Morton, Matthew McNulty, Alexandra Maria Lara, Harry Treadaway
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Ian Curtis is a quiet and rather sad lad who works for an employment agency and sings in a band called Warsaw. He meets a girl named Debbie whom he promptly marries and his band, of which the name in the meantime has been changed to Joy Division, gets more and more successful. Even though Debbie and he become parents, their relationship is going downhill rapidly and Ian starts an affair with Belgium Annik whom he met after one of the gigs and he's almost never at home. Ian also suffers from epilepsy and has no-good medication for it. He doesn't know how to handle the feelings he has for Debbie and Annik and the pressure the popularity of Joy ...
Cry Freedom
Year: 1987
Country: UK
Director: Richard Attenborough
Starring: Denzel Washington, Kevin McNally, Kevin Kline, Penelope Wilton, John Matshikiza, Josette Simon, Wabei Siyolwe
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Donald Woods is chief editor at the liberal newspaper Daily Dispatch in South Africa. He has written several editorials critical of the views of Steve Biko. But after having met him for the first time, he changes his views. They meet several times, and this means that Woods and his family get attention from the security police. When Steve Biko dies in police custody, he writes a book about Biko. The only way to get it published is for Woods himself to illegally escape the country.
Get Rich or Die Tryin'
Genres: Crime, Drama, Biography
Year: 2005
Country: USA
Director: Jim Sheridan
Starring: Viola Davis, Marc John Jefferies, Joy Bryant, Terrence Howard, Omar Benson Miller, Tory Kittles, Bill Duke
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A tale of an inner city drug dealer who turns away from crime to pursue his passion, rap music.
Milk
Genres: Romance, Drama, History
Year: 2008
Country: USA
Director: Gus Van Sant
Starring: Denis O'Hare, Josh Brolin, James Franco, Joseph Cross, Kelvin Yu, Diego Luna, Sean Penn
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Upon moving to San Francisco from New York City in 1972, forty year old Harvey Milk gains focus in his life as a gay activist in the city's Castro district. Gay rights activism turns to political activism as Milk decides he can be a more effective voice for the gay community as a politician, elected or not. Through several elections and losses both for a city seat and a state assembly seat, Milk becomes the first openly gay man in the United States to be elected to political office when he wins a San Francisco supervisor seat in 1977. His many political battlefronts include one with the national anti-gay Save the Children crusade, led and fro...
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Genres: Romance, Drama, History
Year: 2007
Country: Germany, UK, France
Director: Shekhar Kapur
Starring: Jordi Mollà , Rhys Ifans, John Shrapnel, Cate Blanchett, Eddie Redmayne, Geoffrey Rush, Clive Owen
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Two faiths, two empires, two rulers - colliding in 1588. Papist Spain wants to bring down the heretic Elizabeth. Philip is building an armada but needs a rationale to attack. With covert intrigue, Spain sets a trap for the Queen and her principal secretary, Walsingham, using as a pawn Elizabeth's cousin Mary Stuart, who's under house arrest in the North. The trap springs, and the armada sets sail, to rendezvous with French ground forces and to attack. During these months, the Virgin Queen falls in love with Walter Raleigh, keeping him close to court and away from the sea and America. Is treachery or heroism at his heart? Does loneliness await...
Phantom Punch
Genres: Drama, Sport, Biography
Year: 2009
Country: USA, Canada
Director: Robert Townsend
Starring: Ving Rhames, David Proval, Nicholas Turturro, Bridgette Wilson, Gord Rand, Phillip Jarrett, Alan Van Sprang
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From a Missouri jail cell to the heights of the world heavyweight boxing championship, Phantom Punch traces the turbulent life of Sonny Liston, chronicling his ties to the mob, run ins with the law, and the circumstances surrounding his mysterious death.
Lawrence of Arabia
Year: 1962
Country: UK
Director: David Lean
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Omar Sharif, Anthony Quayle, Claude Rains
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An inordinately complex man who has been labeled everything from hero, to charlatan, to sadist, Thomas Edward Lawrence blazed his way to glory in the Arabian desert, then sought anonymity as a common soldier under an assumed name. The story opens with the death of Lawrence in a motorcycle accident in London at the age of 47, then flashbacks to recount his adventures: as a young intelligence officer in Cairo in 1916, he is given leave to investigate the progress of the Arab revolt against the Turks in World War I. In the desert, he organizes a guerrilla army and--for two years--leads the Arabs in harassing the Turks with desert raids, train-wr...