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Plot Summary:
During her Christmas holidays with the royal family at the Sandringham estate in Norfolk, England, Diana decides to leave her marriage to Prince Charles.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 75000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, USA, Chile
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: historical drama, philosophical, political, cerebral, visual, romantic, independent film, psychological, thought provoking, weird
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Diana: Her True Story (1993)
Plot Summary:
Television film telling the story of Diana, Princess of Wales, based on the publication of the same name by Andrew Morton.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 228
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 181 min
Plot tags:
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Charles and Diana: Unhappily Ever After (1992)
Plot Summary:
Biography - First telecast in 1982, this drama picks up the story of Prince Charles (Roger Rees) and Lady Diana (Catherine Oxenberg) as their marriage begins to fall apart and follows it through to the royal couple's very public divorce. Charles and Diana must struggle with the pressure of public life, the relentless paparazzi and brutal tabloid articles, not to mention Queen Elizabeth's (Amanda Walker) disapproval as they deal with their failing union. - Catherine Oxenberg, Roger Rees, Benedict Taylor.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Certain Women (2016)
Plot Summary:
The lives of four women intersect in small-town America, where each is imperfectly blazing a trail.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating, ironic, disturbing, poetic, indie film, heartfelt, profound, weird, queer cinema
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The Runaways (2010)
Plot Summary:
Joan Jett and Cherie Currie, two rebellious teenagers from Southern California, become the frontwomen for the Runaways -- the now-legendary group that paved the way for future generations of female rockers. Under the Svengalilike influence of impresario Kim Fowley, the band becomes a huge success.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 51000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: stylized, sexy, teen, emotional, captivating, independent film, aesthetic, erotic, scary, lgbt cinema
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Lizzie (2018)
Plot Summary:
A young woman goes on a notorious ax-murdering rampage in Massachusetts at the turn of the century.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, historical drama, queer horror, psychological, psychological thriller, social, art house, costume drama
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Diana (2013)
Plot Summary:
During the last two years of her life, Princess Diana (Naomi Watts) campaigns against the use of land mines and has a secret love affair with a Pakistani heart surgeon (Naveen Andrews).
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Sweden, Belgium
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: realistic, sentimental, captivating, emotional, political, romantic drama, historical drama, serious
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The Glass Castle (2017)
Plot Summary:
A young girl is raised in a dysfunctional family constantly on the run from the FBI. Living in poverty, she comes of age guided by her drunkard, ingenious father who distracts her with magical stories to keep her mind off the family's dire state, and her selfish, nonconformist mother who has no intention of raising a family, along with her younger brother and sister, and her other older sister. Together, they fend for each other as they mature in an unorthodox journey that is their family life.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: sentimental, thought provoking, emotional, sad, psychological, captivating, exciting, road movie, mind bending, dramatic
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Burton and Taylor (2013)
Plot Summary:
TV drama based on Richard Burton's diaries, about his last performance in 1983 with ex-wife Elizabeth Taylor. They meet after several years and he agrees to her suggestion that they star in a stage revival on Broadway of Noel Coward's comedy 'Private Lives', although Elizabeth Taylor has never before performed on stage. Burton soon regrets his agreement, however, when her pill-popping and lack of discipline causes problems already during the rehearsals. The play opens to a critical trashing, but is popular with audiences because they just want to see Taylor. After a two month troubled run, the curtain comes down and Taylor tells Burton she has always loved him and still does. A year later he is dead.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, captivating, stylized, cult classic, historical drama, crying
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Summer in February (2013)
Plot Summary:
The Newlyn School of artists flourished at the beginning of the 20th Century and the film focuses on the wild and bohemian Lamorna Group, which included Alfred Munnings and Laura and Harold Knight. The incendiary anti-Modernist Munnings, now regarded as one of Britain's most sought-after artists, is at the centre of the complex love triangle, involving aspiring artist Florence Carter-Wood and Gilbert Evans, the land agent in charge of the Lamorna Valley estate. True - and deeply moving - the story is played out against the timeless beauty of the Cornish coast, in the approaching shadow of The Great War.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, emotional, retro, historical drama, realistic, stylized, costume drama, period drama
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Being the Ricardos (2021)
Plot Summary:
Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz face a crisis that could end their careers and another that could end their marriage.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 44000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: satirical, historical drama, independent film
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When Did You Last See Your Father? (2007)
Plot Summary:
The story of a son's conflicting memories of his dying father.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sentimental, emotional, sincere, realistic, touching, captivating, independent film, serious, crying, light
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A Quiet Passion (2016)
Plot Summary:
The story of American poet Emily Dickinson from her early days as a young schoolgirl to her later years as a reclusive, unrecognized artist.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Belgium, Canada, USA
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: historical drama, costume drama, romantic drama, period drama, queer cinema
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55 Steps (2017)
Plot Summary:
55 Steps is based a the inspiring true story of Eleanor Riese, a mental illness patient herself, who brings a class action suit to give competent mental patients the right to have a say in their medication while they’re in a hospital, and Colette Hughes, the lawyer appointed to her case.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Germany, Belgium
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, sincere, captivating, suspense, disturbing, sentimental, inspirational, spiritual, deep
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The Madness of King George (1994)
Plot Summary:
King George III's erratic behaviour leads to a plot in Parliament to have him declared insane and removed from the throne.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: costume drama, period piece, political, clever, witty, talky, historical drama, inspirational, sincere, novela
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Same Kind of Different as Me (2017)
Plot Summary:
International art dealer Ron Hall must befriend a dangerous homeless man in order to save his struggling marriage to his wife, a woman whose dreams will lead all three of them on the journey of their lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: touching, christian film, inspirational, sincere, captivating, motivational, philosophical, depressing, spiritual, sad
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My Left Foot (1989)
Plot Summary:
In this true story told through flashbacks, Christy Brown is born with crippling cerebral palsy into a poor, working-class Irish family. Able only to control movement in his left foot and to speak in guttural sounds, he is mistakenly believed to be retarded for the first ten years of his life.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 79000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: touching, inspirational, sincere, unusual plot structure, dramatic, sentimental, motivational, sad, captivating, biting
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Clouds of Sils Maria (2014)
Plot Summary:
A veteran actress comes face-to-face with an uncomfortable reflection of herself when she agrees to take part in a revival of the play that launched her career 20 years earlier.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, melancholic, atmospheric, thought provoking, serious, cerebral, clever, talky, philosophical
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Prince William (2002)
Plot Summary:
Prince William is the elder son of Britain's Prince Charles and if the late Diana, Princess of Wales. After his father, he is next in line to the British throne. A biography of his journey so far.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, controversial, realistic
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Jackie (2016)
Plot Summary:
An account of the days of First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, in the immediate aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 83000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, France, Chile, China, Germany, UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: period piece, heartbreaking, emotional, suspense, disturbing, political, sad, cerebral, exciting, motivational
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The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)
Plot Summary:
A sumptuous and sensual tale of intrigue, romance and betrayal set against the backdrop of a defining moment in European history: two beautiful sisters, Anne and Mary Boleyn, driven by their family's blind ambition, compete for the love of the handsome and passionate King Henry VIII.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 119000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: romantic, sexy, costume drama, period piece, stylized, atmospheric, factual, historical drama, sexual, sad
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Marie Antoinette (2006)
Plot Summary:
The retelling of France's iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette. From her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at 15 to her reign as queen at 19 and ultimately the fall of Versailles.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 119000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA, France, Japan
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: costume drama, period piece, melancholic, visual, visually stunning, factual, colorful, historical drama, realistic, visually appealing
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Elizabeth (1998)
Plot Summary:
The story of the ascension to the throne and the early reign of Queen Elizabeth the First, the endless attempts by her council to marry her off, the Catholic hatred of her and her romance with Lord Robert Dudley.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 104000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: factual, costume drama, period piece, realistic, historical drama, stylized, political, visually stunning, epic, erotic
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The Lost Prince (2003)
Plot Summary:
The Lost Prince is an acclaimed British television drama about the life of Prince John – youngest child of Britain's King George V and Queen Mary – who died at the age of 13 in 1919. John suffered from epileptic seizures and an autism-like developmental disorder, and the Royal Family tried to shelter him from public view as much as possible; rather than presenting the Royal Family as unsympathetic to the Prince, the film instead shows how much this cost them emotionally (particularly John's mother, Queen Mary). Poliakoff explores the story of John, his relationship with his family, John's brother, Prince George, the political events going on at the time (like the fall of the House of Romanov in 1917) and the love and devotion shown to him by his nanny, Charlotte Bill (known as Lalla), played by Gina McKee.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, captivating, depressing, emotional, realistic, period drama
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Warm Springs (2005)
Plot Summary:
Franklin Roosevelt, left a paraplegic from polio at 39 years of age, seeks out a miracle cure in the backwoods of Georgia.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, uplifting, realistic, political, captivating, historical drama, historically accurate, touching, serious
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The Queen (2006)
Plot Summary:
The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Tony Blair during their struggle, following the death of Diana, to reach a compromise between what was a private tragedy for the Royal family and the public's demand for an overt display of mourning.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 115000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA, France, Italy
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: factual, political, emotional, compassionate, thought provoking, dramatic, period piece, realistic, talky, historical drama
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The End of the Tour (2015)
Plot Summary:
The story of the five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace, which took place right after the 1996 publication of Wallace's groundbreaking epic novel, 'Infinite Jest.'.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: philosophical, meditative, psychological, sincere, serious, talky, depressing, novela, aesthetic, twisted
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House of Gucci (2021)
Plot Summary:
The true story of how Patrizia Reggiani plotted to kill her husband Maurizio Gucci, the grandson of renowned fashion designer Guccio Gucci.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 154000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 158 min
Plot tags: serious, romantic, captivating, suspenseful, realistic, freeze frame, historical drama, inspirational, suspense, dramatic
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
Plot Summary:
The true story of 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.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 110000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: touching, inspirational, emotional, depressing, psychological, sincere, breathtaking, visual, motivational, sentimental
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Girl, Interrupted (1999)
Plot Summary:
Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line between normal and crazy. Susanna soon realizes how hard it is to get out once she has been committed, and she ultimately has to choose between the world of people who belong inside or the difficult world of reality outside.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 206000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: psychological, depressing, serious, crying, captivating, heartbreaking, touching, teen, gothic, gloomy
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The King's Speech (2010)
Plot Summary:
The King's Speech tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II. After his brother abdicates, George ('Bertie') reluctantly assumes the throne. Plagued by a dreaded stutter and considered unfit to be king, Bertie engages the help of an unorthodox speech therapist named Lionel Logue. Through a set of unexpected techniques, and as a result of an unlikely friendship, Bertie is able to find his voice and boldly lead the country into war.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 701000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: inspirational, sincere, period piece, uplifting, dramatic, realistic, serious, sentimental, costume drama, witty