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Filmed in homage to his original TV series, this factual drama follows Dave Allen from childhood to becoming one of the Ireland’s comedy greats, with just a whiskey, a cigarette and nine-and-a-half fingers. Dave Allen is played by Aidan Gillen (Game of Thrones).
Tag: Biography
Mamonas Pra Sempre 2009 • Movie
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Documentary about the story of Dinho, Bento, Julio, Samuel and Sergio, who started making dark songs in a band called Utopia and reached national fame in Brazil in 1995 as the comedy rock band Mamonas Assassinas.
Keith Haring: Street Art Boy 2020 • TvMovie
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The story of international art sensation Keith Haring, told using previously unheard interviews.
Jim: The James Foley Story 2016 • Movie
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An in-depth look at the life and work of American journalist James Foley, who was killed by ISIS terrorists in 2014.
Helmut Newton: Frames from the Edge 1989 • Movie
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A camera crew follows Helmut Newton, the fashion and ad photographer whose images of tall, blond, big-breasted women are part of the iconography of twentieth-century erotic fantasy. He’s on the go from L.A., to Paris, to Monte-Carlo, to Berlin, where he was a youth until he escaped from the Nazis in 1936. We see him on shoots, interviewing models, and discussing his work. It’s not art and it’s not good taste, he tells students. We meet June, his Australian-born wife, whom he married in 1948. Three actresses talk about working with Newton and how posing is different from acting. A heart attack in 1973 helps Newton re-focus, resulting in more personal photographic projects.
My Mother’s Castle 1991 • Movie
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Every holiday Marcel and his family go to their cottage near Marseilles. During one of these holidays he meets Isabelle, a pretty but conceited girl… Adapted from the cult classic novel from Marcel Pagnol.
Judy Blume Forever 2023 • Movie
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Judy Blume and the generations of readers who have sparked to her work. Examines her impact on pop culture and the occasional controversies over her frankness about puberty and sex.
Zwinglis Erbe 2018 • Movie
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When Huldrych Zwingli starts out as a priest in Zurich in 1519, the Plague affects him. As he looks death in the face, God’s Word carries him through and he survives. Encouraged, he turns Zurich upside-down with the Bible in his hand.
Dare to Be Wild 2015 • Movie
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Irishwoman Mary Reynold’s journey from rank outsider to winner of a Gold Medal at the Chelsea Flower Show.
Lifemark 2022 • Movie
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David’s comfortable world is turned upside down when his birthmother unexpectedly reaches out to him, longing to meet the 18-year-old son she’s only held once.
Bunker77 2017 • Movie
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A chronicle of the wild and brief life of the 1970s’ most controversial surf star and international playboy from Los Angeles, Bunker Spreckels.
Comandante 2023 • Movie
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Salvatore Todaro is the captain of the Cappellini. He leads in his own way. The bow is reinforced with steel in the off chance an opportunity to ram a ship arises and his crew is armed with daggers should a hand-to-hand battle occur.
Wyszynski – zemsta czy przebaczenie 2021 • Movie
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This film tells the story lieutenant Stefan Wyszynski (Ksawery Szlenkier) – the future Primate of Poland, unknown to a wider audience. It is 1944, in the heat of war, we meet a young priest Wyszynski, who has recently been appointed chaplain of the branch in the Kampinos Forest. It is also active in the insurgent hospital. Everyone knows him there under the pseudonym “Radwan III”. The reality of the war is for Fr. Wyszynski, a forge of character, a fight for hope and love, especially against enemies. How are we to forgive in everyday warfare? The hero asks, turning to the Source of his vocation.
Felix Austria! 2013 • Movie
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Compelled by the inheritance of a mysterious box of letters, American aesthete Felix Pfeifle begins the journey of a lifetime to reach the source of the correspondence: the last heir of the Holy Roman Emperors, aging Archduke Otto von Habsburg. The quest takes Felix across America , over the Atlantic and beyond. But time is running out on another end–Felix’s father is dying of Huntington’s Disease, an incurable genetic disease that Felix has a fifty percent chance of developing. Ultimately, FELIX AUSTRIA! is a universal story about a person’s life-defining passions, fears, and triumphs when one dares to dream.
Hyde Park on Hudson 2013 • Movie
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The story of the love affair between FDR and his distant cousin Margaret “Daisy” Suckley, centered around the weekend in 1939 when the King and Queen of the United Kingdom visited upstate New York.
Boy Interrupted 2009 • Movie
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Filmmaker Dana Perry documents the life of her son, Evan, a 15-year-old who committed suicide.
Counterpunch 2019 • Movie
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A young boxer, Emilio, from the wrong side of the tracks with big dreams of winning the Golden Gloves boxing championship, finds himself at a cross roads after being locked up.
House of the Rising Sons 2018 • Movie
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The musical biography of the 1970s Hong Kong rock band The Wynners. Starting with their humble beginnings as band causing noise in the neighborhood, through to their career of massive stars throughout Asia.
Sunday’s Children 1992 • Movie
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The film switches back and forth between the adventures of Pu on a summer holiday in Norrland in Sweden and and the adult Pu visiting his father who lives in an old people’s home. Little Pu spends a summer in Norrland in the 1920s with all his relatives. He and his brother get to hear the story about the watchmaker who hung himself, learns to shoot with a bow and follow his father on a bicycle trip.
Leil Khargi 2018 • Movie
The Last Waltz 1978 • Movie
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A film account and presentation of the final concert of The Band.
Eadweard 2015 • Movie
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Photographer Eadweard Muybridge launches his pioneering movement studies while attempting to keep his marriage intact and staving off morality forces that view the images he captures as degenerate.
Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude 1998 • TvMovie
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18th century British clock maker and carpenter John Harrison invents a marine chronometer that allows ships to calculate longitude while at sea, preventing numerous shipwrecks, some of them involving the British Navy.
Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami 2018 • Movie
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Electrifying concert performances and intimate, personal footage showcase the life and talent of singer and actress Grace Jones.
Namath 2012 • TvMovie
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A documentary featuring “Broadway” Joe Namath of the New York Jets. A chronicle of his life and career as one of the most iconic quarterbacks to ever play the game of football.
Mr Calzaghe 2015 • Movie
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The story of the rise to glory of boxer Joe Calzaghe.
Life for Life: Maximilian Kolbe 1991 • Movie
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The story of Catholic saint Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941), who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz.