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The story of Lady Jane Grey, who was Queen of England for only nine days.
Tag: Biography
The United States vs. Billie Holiday 2021 • Movie
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Follows Holiday during her career as she is targeted by the Federal Department of Narcotics with an undercover sting operation led by black Federal Agent Jimmy Fletcher, with whom she has a tumultuous affair.
Can You Ever Forgive Me? 2018 • Movie
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When Lee Israel falls out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception.
Rosewater 2014 • Movie
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Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari is detained by Iranian forces who brutally interrogate him under suspicion that he is a spy.
Behind the Lines 1998 • Movie
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Based on Pat Barker’s novel of the same name, “Regeneration” tells the story of soldiers of World War One sent to an asylum for emotional troubles. Two of those soldiers are England’s most important WW1 poets.
American Murderer 2023 • Movie
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Charismatic con man Jason Derek Brown becomes wanted by the FBI after hatching his most elaborate scheme yet.
The Man Who Saved the World 2015 • Movie
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Retired Soviet Lt. Col. Stanislav Petrov, who saved the world from WW3, talks about his life as retiree and shares his opinions on the Cold War with actor Kevin Costner in this melancholic mixture of documentary and reenacted footage.
In the Name of the Father 1994 • Movie
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An Irish man’s coerced confession to an I.R.A. bombing he did not commit results in the imprisonment of his father as well. Meanwhile, a British lawyer fights to clear their names and free them.
My One and Only 2009 • Movie
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After leaving her philandering husband, an elegant socialite takes her two sons on a road trip across America in search of a better life.
I Am a Girl 2014 • Movie
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Six girls coming of age, ready to become something extraordinary.
The Last Man on the Moon 2016 • Movie
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When Apollo astronaut Gene Cernan stepped off the moon in December 1972 he left his footprints and his daughter’s initials in the lunar dust. Only now is he ready to share his epic but deeply personal story of fulfillment, love, and loss.
A World Not Ours 2014 • Movie
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An intimate, and often humorous, portrait of three generations of exile in the refugee camp of Ein el-Helweh, in southern Lebanon. Based on a wealth of personal recordings, family archives, and historical footage, the film is a sensitive, and illuminating study of belonging, friendship, and family in the lives of those for whom dispossession is the norm, and yearning their daily lives.
The Long Riders 1980 • Movie
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The origins, exploits and the ultimate fate of the Jesse James gang is told in a sympathetic portrayal of the bank robbers made up of brothers who begin their legendary bank raids because of revenge.
Main Aur Charles 2015 • Movie
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After escaping from prison, a notorious serial killer and conman becomes the target of a nationwide manhunt led by an honest police officer determined to catch him.
Born to Be Blue 2016 • Movie
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A re-imagining of jazz legend Chet Baker’s musical comeback in the late ’60s.
Rose Island 2020 • Movie
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An idealistic engineer builds his own island off the Italian coast and declares it a nation, drawing the world’s attention. Values are tested when the Italian Government declares him an enemy, but to change the world risks must be taken.
Ivan the Terrible, Part I 1947 • Movie
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During the early part of his reign, Ivan the Terrible faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian people.
A Cry in the Dark 1988 • Movie
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A mother whose child was killed in a dingo attack in the Australian Outback fights to prove her innocence when she is accused of murder.
Cinderella Man 2005 • Movie
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The true story of James J. Braddock, a supposedly washed-up boxer, who returned to the spotlight to win the heavyweight championship of the world.
Savage Messiah 1972 • Movie
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Biographical movie of the French sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska.
The Lady in the Van 2016 • Movie
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A man forms an unexpected bond with a transient woman living in her van that’s parked in his driveway.
Woman in Gold 2015 • Movie
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Maria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, takes on the Austrian government to recover artwork she believes rightfully belongs to her family.
The Bling Ring 2013 • Movie
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Inspired by actual events, a group of fame-obsessed teenagers use the internet to track celebrities’ whereabouts in order to rob their homes.
Bang Bang Baby 2022 • TvSeries
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Alice is a teenage girl who finds herself involved in the Milan’s criminal underbelly for the love of her father. To cope, Alice will use her imagination, influenced by music, TV and pop culture of her time: the 80s.
The Return of Martin Guerre 1983 • Movie
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In medieval France, some villagers challenge a man’s claim of identity when he (as he says) returns home from some time in the army.
Out of Africa 1985 • Movie
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In 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter.
My Way Home 1982 • Movie
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Jamie leaves the children’s home to live with his paternal grandmother. After working in a mine and in a tailor’s shop, he is conscripted into the RAF, and goes to Egypt, where he is befriended by Robert, whose undemanding companionship releases Jamie from self-pity.