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The Plainsman
Year: 1936
Country: USA
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Starring: Charles Bickford, Frank Albertson, Gary Cooper, John Miljan, Jean Arthur, James Ellison, Helen Burgess
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With the end of the North American Civil War, the manufacturers of repeating rifles find a profitable means of making money selling the weapons to the North American Indians, using the front man John Lattimer to sell the rifles to the Cheyenne. While traveling in a stagecoach with Calamity Jane and William "Buffalo Bill" Cody and his young wife Louisa Cody that want to settle down in Hays City managing a hotel, Wild Bill Hickok finds the guide Breezy wounded by arrows and telling that the Indians are attacking a fort using repeating rifles. Hickok meets Gen. George A. Custer that assigns Buffalo Bill to guide a troop with ammunition to help t...
The Insider
Genres: Thriller, Drama, Biography
Year: 1999
Country: USA
Director: Michael Mann
Starring: Stephen Tobolowsky, Philip Baker Hall, Colm Feore, Bruce McGill, Al Pacino, Christopher Plummer, Gina Gershon
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Balls-out "60 Minutes" producer Lowell Bergman sniffs a story when a former research biologist for Brown & Williamson, Jeff Wigand, won't talk to him. When the company leans hard on Wigand to honor a confidentiality agreement, he gets his back up. Trusting Bergman and despite a crumbling marriage, he goes on camera for a Mike Wallace interview and risks arrest for contempt of court. Westinghouse is negotiating to buy CBS, so CBS attorneys advise CBS News to shelve the interview and avoid a lawsuit. "60 Minutes" and CBS News bosses cave, Wigand's hung out to dry, Bergman is compromised, and the CEOs of Big Tobacco may get away with perjury. Ca...
Martin and Lewis
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Biography
Year: 2002
Country: USA
Director: John Gray
Starring: David Eisner, Sean Hayes, Bill Lake, Markus Parilo, Conrad Dunn, Jeremy Northam, Scott McCord
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Even at the start of his singing career, Dean Martin is an impressive gentleman, big, tall, handsome, exquisitely dressed, fitting his nightingale voice and naturally classy appeal, even though his womanizing costs him enough in alimony to declare bankruptcy. Jerry Lewis on the other hand is an unsightly schmuck, whose buffoon version of stand-up comedy is an agent's nightmare. When he accepts playing MC in a show with Dean, he tries interacting with him, and they hit gold judging by the audience's reactions. Initially Dean wants to walk off and stay a solo act, but success as a duo is irresistible, and they rocket together, even in Hollywood...
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
Year: 2005
Country: USA
Director: Jane Anderson
Starring: Woody Harrelson, Julianne Moore, Simon Reynolds, Trevor Morgan, Laura Dern, Erik Knudsen, Robert Clark
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Kelly and Evelyn Ryan live in Defiance, Ohio with their 10 children. At first glance their life seems idyllic; they call each other "Mother" and "Father" and seem to dote on the kids. But Kelly was a garage-band crooner whose voice was ruined in an auto accident. He's resigned to a dead-end factory job that barely pays the bills, and is given to fits of alcohol-induced rage. Evelyn, a stay-at-home wife and mother, deals with this abuse by appealing to her priest, who is no help at all. She deals with their poverty by entering the jingle contests that were the rage in the 50's and early 60's, even sending in multiple entries in the names of th...
The Assassination of Richard Nixon
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Year: 2004
Country: USA, Mexico
Director: Niels Mueller
Starring: Mykelti Williamson, Naomi Watts, Nick Searcy, Sean Penn, April Grace, Michael Wincott, Don Cheadle
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Fact-based story about a disturbed office furniture salesman who in 1972 concocted a plot to kill then-President Nixon by hi-jacking a plane to fly over the White House to drop a gas bomb. At the start of the movie, the man is separated from his wife and stressed in his job where he is made the butt of jokes and is an under-performer. Attempts to get his brother's old tire business resurrected with a black partner is rejected by the banks. When he is officially served with divorce papers, everything comes apart and Richard Nixon's broken promises comes to represent all the evils that have come down on him. A news story about a pilot that land...
Rudy
Genres: Drama, Sport, Biography
Year: 1993
Country: USA
Director: David Anspaugh
Starring: Sean Astin, Ned Beatty, Charles S. Dutton, Jon Favreau, Lili Taylor, Robert J. Steinmiller Jr., Greta Lind
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Rudy grew up in a steel mill town where most people ended up working, but wanted to play football at Notre Dame instead. There were only a couple of problems. His grades were a little low, his athletic skills were poor, and he was only half the size of the other players. But he had the drive and the spirit of 5 people and has set his sights upon joining the team.
Beyond the Sea
Genres: Musical, Drama, Biography
Year: 2004
Country: Germany, USA, UK
Director: Kevin Spacey
Starring: Kate Bosworth, Kevin Spacey, Brenda Blethyn, John Goodman, Michael Byrne, Caroline Aaron, Bob Hoskins
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Consummate entertainer Bobby Darin (1936-1973) is making a movie about his life. He's volatile, driven by the love of performing, ambition, perfectionism, and belief that he's living on borrowed time. He begins in the Bronx: a fatherless lad learning music and dance from his mom. His career starts slowly, then "Splish Splash" puts him at the top of the charts and on "Bandstand." He wants to be an entertainer, not a pop star, so he aims for the Copacabana; then it's on to the movies, where he meets and marries Sandra Dee. After, it's balancing career, health, marriage and family life, balances he doesn't always keep. Throughout, conversations ...
Lady Sings the Blues
Genres: Romance, Drama, Biography
Year: 1972
Country: USA
Director: Sidney J. Furie
Starring: Richard Pryor, Billy Dee Williams, James T. Callahan, Ned Glass, Virginia Capers, Isabel Sanford, Diana Ross
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Chronicles the rise and fall of legendary blues singer Billie Holiday. Her late childhood, stint as a prostitute, early tours, marriages and drug addiction are featured.
Seven Years in Tibet
Genres: Adventure, Drama, History
Year: 1997
Country: USA, UK
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Starring: Victor Wong, David Thewlis, Brad Pitt, Ric Young, Mako, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, B.D. Wong
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Heinrich Harrer runs from trouble at home in WWII Austria to climb Mt. Nanga Parbat. After meeting unforseen obstacles, he comes into contact with the forbidden city of Lhasa.
Blow
Genres: Crime, Drama, Biography
Year: 2001
Country: USA
Director: Ted Demme
Starring: Jordi Mollà , Paul Reubens, Johnny Depp, Miguel Sandoval, Cliff Curtis, Ray Liotta, Max Perlich
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George Jung is the son of a struggling small business owner. Seeing his family struggle to make ends meet and failing, George vows never to share a similar fate. Moving to California, he starts his own pot pushing operation in which he finds both success and imprisonment. In prison, he meets a cellmate who introduces him into a partnership to the lucrative new market in cocaine. Upon release, George Jung quickly becomes instrumental in establishing the exploding US market for cocaine in which he claimed that he handled about 85% of the supply in the 1970's. However, for all the fabulous wealth and power he gained, the true costs of his danger...
The Express
Genres: Drama, Sport, Biography
Year: 2008
Country: Germany, USA
Director: Gary Fleder
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Charles S. Dutton, Rob Brown, Chelcie Ross, Clancy Brown, Omar Benson Miller, Darrin Dewitt Henson
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This biopic focuses on the relationship of Ernie Davis (1939-1963), a gifted African-American athlete, and his coach from 1958 to 1962 at Syracuse University, Ben Schwartzwalder (1909-1993). Schwartzwalder recruits Davis with the help of All-American running back, Jim Brown. The civil rights movement is gaining steam; Davis experiences prejudice on campus, in town, and on the field, sometimes from teammates. How he handles it and how he challenges Schwartzwalder to stand up for his players provide a counterpoint to several great seasons that lead first to a national championship and then to the Heismann Trophy.
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Year: 2002
Country: Germany, USA, UK
Director: George Clooney
Starring: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Drew Barrymore, Sam Rockwell, Michael Cera, Jennifer Hall, David Julian Hirsh, Dick Clark
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Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind" is the story of a legendary showman's double life - television producer by day, CIA assassin by night. At the height of his TV career, Chuck Barris was recruited by the CIA and trained to become a covert operative. Or so Barris said.
Walking Tall
Genres: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Year: 2004
Country: USA
Director: Kevin Bray
Starring: Michael Bowen, Neal McDonough, Ashley Scott, Dwayne Johnson, Patrick Gallagher, Kevin Durand, Johnny Knoxville
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When a former member of the U.S. Army Special Forces returns to his small hometown in rural Washington State hoping to realise a childhood dream of working in the local lumber mill, he discovers that much has changed, as the normally tranquil town is now besieged by drugs, outbreaks of violence and a general feeling of malaise and terror, with many pointing a finger at the influence of a crooked casino where his ex-girlfriend now works as a dancer. Seeking to wreak vengeance, with a four-foot-long 4-by-4 in his hand, and righteousness in his heart, the highly-trained soldier, now the county's sheriff, and his deputy, realizes it's time to bus...
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Year: 2007
Country: USA, Canada
Director: Andrew Dominik
Starring: Casey Affleck, Sam Shepard, Garret Dillahunt, Sam Rockwell, Brad Pitt, Mary-Louise Parker, Paul Schneider
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The last months of Jesse James's life, from meeting Robert Ford, a 19-year-old who idolizes Jesse, to the day Ford shoots him. Jesse's a wanted man, living under a pseudonym, carrying out a train robbery, disappearing to Kentucky, and reappearing to plan a bank holdup with Robert and Robert's brother as his team. The rest of the gang is dead, arrested, or gone from Missouri. Whenever Jesse's around, there's tension: he's murderous, quixotic, depressed, and cautious. Ford wants to be somebody and wants the reward. On April 3, 1882, things come to a head: Jesse is 34, Robert 20. Ford becomes famous, reenacting the shooting on stage, facing down...
Becoming Jane
Genres: Romance, Drama, Biography
Year: 2007
Country: UK
Director: Julian Jarrold
Starring: James Cromwell, Julie Walters, Maggie Smith, Anne Hathaway, James McAvoy, Ian Richardson, Joe Anderson
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The year is 1795 and young Jane Austen is a feisty 20-year-old and emerging writer who already sees a world beyond class and commerce, beyond pride and prejudice, and dreams of doing what was then nearly unthinkable - marrying for love. Naturally, her parents are searching for a wealthy, well-appointed husband to assure their daughter's future social standing. They are eyeing Mr. Wisley, nephew to the very formidable, not to mention very rich, local aristocrat Lady Gresham, as a prospective match. But when Jane meets the roguish and decidedly non-aristocratic Tom Lefroy, sparks soon fly along with the sharp repartee. His intellect and arrogan...
Nightwatching
Genres: Drama, History, Mystery
Year: 2007
Country: UK, Canada, Netherlands, France, Poland
Director: Peter Greenaway
Starring: Martin Freeman, Toby Jones, Fiona O'Shaughnessy, Kevin McNulty, Michael Teigen, Eva Birthistle, Emily Holmes
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The year 1642 marks the turning point in the life of the famous Dutch painter, Rembrandt, turning him from a wealthy respected celebrity into a discredited pauper. At the insistence of his pregnant wife Saskia, Rembrandt has reluctantly agreed to paint the Amsterdam Musketeer Militia in a group portrait that will later become to be known as The Nightwatch. He soon discovers that there is a conspiracy afoot with the Amsterdam merchants playing at soldiers maneuvering for financial advantage and personal power in, that time, the richest city in the Western World. Rembrandt stumbles on a foul murder. Confident in the birth of a longed-for son an...
Faith of My Fathers
Year: 2005
Country: USA
Director: Peter Markle
Starring: Thomas Madell
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The story of John McCain's experience as a Vietnam War POW. Base on the memoir of the same title.
Iris
Genres: Romance, Drama, Biography
Year: 2001
Country: USA, UK
Director: Richard Eyre
Starring: Jim Broadbent, Kate Winslet, Judi Dench, Kris Marshall, Penelope Wilton, Eleanor Bron, Hugh Bonneville
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A moving and tender depiction of the novelist Iris Murdoch's descent into Alzheimer's Disease, covering the period from just before her marriage to intellectual John Bayley until her death. The film is based on the two books by John Bayley (Iris, Iris & The Friends).
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.