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One of the most controversial, original and loved figures of Italian cinema. The most censored director of all time. An anarchist of the film, a gifted experimenter, an inventor of dreams. A truly great artist.
Tag: Biography
Birdman of Alcatraz 1962 • Movie
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A surly convicted murderer held in permanent isolation redeems himself when he becomes a renowned bird expert.
Danny Collins 2015 • Movie
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An aging rock star decides to change his life when he discovers a 40-year-old letter written to him by John Lennon.
The Little Queen 2014 • Movie
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Julie, star of cycling, is two races to win the World Cup. It is the culmination of years of effort. Julie loves the spotlight. His entourage too. Encouraged by her coach and doctor, she dope since the age of 14. When her doctor denounces, she managed to hush up the case, but the magnitude of the measurement mess … Abuse. Lie. Treason. Caught in a gear that goes beyond, will she succeed in finding a way out?
Ted K 2022 • Movie
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An exploration of Ted Kaczynski’s life in Lincoln, Montana in the years leading up to his arrest as The Unabomber.
The Look of Silence 2015 • Movie
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A family that survived the genocide in Indonesia confronts the men who killed one of their brothers.
Tiny Tim: King for a Day 2020 • Movie
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The story about the outcast, Herbert Khaury’s rise to stardom as Tiny Tim. Either considered a freak or a genius Tiny Tim left no one unaffected.
Swimming Upstream 2003 • Movie
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The inspirational life story of Australian swimmer Tony Fingleton.
Frida Kahlo 2020 • Movie
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Delving deeper than any film has done before, engaging with world-renowned Kahlo experts, exploring how great an artist she was, discover the real Frida Kahlo.
The Featherweight 2023 • Movie
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Set in 1964, a camera crew follows Willie Pep, retired featherweight boxing champion. Down and out in Hartford CT, married to a woman half his age and with a drug-addled son and mounting debts, Pep decides to make a return to the ring.
8 Seconds 1994 • Movie
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This movie chronicles the life of Lane Frost, 1987 PRCA Bull Riding World Champion, his marriage and his friendships with Tuff Hedeman (three-time World Champion) and Cody Lambert.
Holding the Man 2015 • Movie
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The warm, funny and achingly sad story of the 15-year-long love affair between Timothy Conigrave and the boy he fell in love with at high school, John Caleo.
Nicholas and Alexandra 1971 • Movie
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Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.
Freddie Mercury – The Final Act 2022 • TvMovie
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The story of the extraordinary final chapter of Freddie Mercury’s life and how, after his death, Queen staged one of the biggest concerts in history, to celebrate his life and challenge the prejudices around HIV/AIDS.
Honest Man: The Life of R. Budd Dwyer 2010 • Movie
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Honest Man: the Life of R. Budd Dwyer is a movie about politics and corruption, suicide and survival. Four years in the making, it explores the scandal that led an honest, hard-working man to take his own life. This independently produced feature-length documentary follows Budd Dwyer, a Pennsylvania politician who infamously committed suicide at a televised press conference. The film chronicles Dwyer’s meteoric rise to political power and examines the bribery scandal and subsequent trial that pushed him to his breaking point. Honest Man also delves into the controversy and consequences of the uncensored airing of Dwyer’s death on television stations worldwide. Honest Man reveals a story that has remained untold for over 24 years. The film features exclusive new interviews, including William Smith, the man whose testimony convicted Dwyer, and Dwyer’s widow Joanne–her last interview before her death in 2009. Was Dwyer venal, or a victim? Did he kill himself because he couldn’t live with being guilty, or because he couldn’t live with being innocent? Honest Man allows audiences to judge for themselves.
Another Mother’s Son 2017 • Movie
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Lou lives on the Nazi-occupied Island of Jersey during World War 2. She accepts to hide a young Russian POW at her house at the risk of being imprisoned herself and takes care of him as if he was her own son.
The Whole Wide World 1996 • Movie
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In 1933 Texas, a schoolteacher and aspiring writer meets a pulp fiction writer, and a relationship soon develops between the two, but it is doomed by his slavishly devotion to his ailing mother and insistence on his freedom.
Entre Nous 1983 • Movie
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A Jewish refugee marries a soldier to escape deportation to Germany. Meanwhile a wealthy art student loses her first husband to a stray Resistance bullet; at the Liberation she meets an actor, gets pregnant, and marries him.
Be Here Now 2017 • Movie
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As though life is imitating art, actor and sex-symbol, Andy Whitfield, had just become a star as the lead in the hit television series,’Spartacus,’ when he is faced with his biggest personal challenge – life-threatening cancer. ‘Be Here Now’ is a feature documentary that follows him on his dramatic journey to cure himself. Confirmed in matching affirmative tattoos, he and his charismatic wife and their two children, commit to taking Andy’s healing into their own hands and living life fully, not in the shadows of the disease. Each step tests their limits and strength of character, while revealing their tenderness, humor and determination. And, as each person goes through their own transformations, the film becomes an inspiring and universal story of courage, love and resilience.
Break Every Chain 2023 • Movie
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A true account of how God forever changed the life of a police officer who was battling alcoholism, depression, and devastating loss.
The Craigslist Killer 2011 • TvMovie
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On the surface, Philip Markoff appears to be the ideal med student, fiancé and future son-in-law – but there’s something seriously wrong with him.
SUGA: Road to D-DAY 2023 • Movie
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Follows BTS star SUGA as he travels across the globe in search of musical inspiration for his next album D-DAY, from Seoul to Tokyo, Las Vegas, and beyond.
Tom of Finland 2017 • Movie
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Award-winning filmmaker Dome Karukoski brings to screen the life and work of artist Touko Valio Laaksonen (aka Tom of Finland), one of the most influential and celebrated figures of 20th-century gay culture.
Padma Shri Kaur Singh 2022 • Movie
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The story of Padma Shri Kaur Singh starts out as a simpleton to becoming a boxing champion. From a army officer to a man who was promised a prize by the State government, waited for 37 years to receive it.
Miss Hokusai 2015 • Movie
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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.
Triumph of the Spirit 1989 • Movie
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In Greece during World War II, a young Jewish boxer, meets regularly with girlfriend Allegra until they and their families are sent to Auschwitz. When the Nazis learn of his boxing, they force him to participate in weekly boxing matches.
