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Plot Summary:
Biographical film about French writer Jean-Paul Sartre, concentrating on his passionate affairs with women.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 142
Genere: Biography
Country: Switzerland, France, Italy, Belgium
Duration: 165 min
Plot tags: intellectual
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Goldeneye (1989)
Plot Summary:
Fact-based biography of James Bond author, Ian Fleming. The film focuses on his wartime exploits and romantic adventures which ultimately led to his creation of the super-spy.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 452
Genere: Biography
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Call Me Francesco (2015)
Plot Summary:
A biopic of the rise of father Jorge Mario Bergoglio SJ from a teacher in a Jesuit High School in Argentina to archbishop and cardinal of Buenos Aires to Pope of the Roman Catholic Church. The story touches on his relation with his fellow Jesuits in Argentina and Europe, to his relation with laureate writer Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine dictator Jorge Rafael Videla, and archbishops Laghi (nuncio to Argentina) and Quarracino (cardinal of Buenos Aires), up to the moment where he is elected Pope in 2013.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 304
Genere: Biography
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
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Verdi (1982)
Plot Summary:
Giuseppe Verdi was born in 1813 and lived until 1901, his life spanning nearly a century of political turmoil and considerable personal turmoil. This 1982 biographical television miniseries, as seen on PBS's Great Performances, dramatizes the life of this classic Italian composer known for operas including La Traviata, Rigoletto, and Aida and his Requiem.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 308
Genere: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Italy, France, West Germany, UK, Sweden
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: historical drama
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My Heart Is Mine Alone (1997)
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Helma Sanders-Brahms directs this inventive film that uses the verse of Jewish poet Else Lasker-Schüler and Nazi poet Gottfried Benn to dramatize the passionate, real-life affair between the two unlikely lovers. Forced out of Germany, Lasker-Schüler makes her way to Jerusalem even as Benn discovers the true nature of the Nazi ideology he had once championed. Lena Stolze and Cornelius Obonya star.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: art house, expressionism
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Kharms (2017)
Plot Summary:
He considers himself a genius but the publishers refuse to print his works. He loves women but they don’t always understand him. Constantly without money and out of touch with reality. The elegant fop Daniil Yuvachov names himself Kharms- a name just as effective as his appearance. An habitué of unending literary get-togethers and a lover of scandal. Living in society he is completely separate from it. Kharms throws down a gauntlet to his time, audaciously hurling himself into the vortex of reality, just as vague and arbitrary, with the same contradictions, as represented by his spirit.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Biography
Country: Russia, Lithuania
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: avant garde, absurd, psychological, rough, thought provoking, sincere, bleak
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The Brontes of Haworth (1973)
Plot Summary:
Dramatized biography of the Brontë sisters Charlotte, Anne and Emily.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 120
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: costume drama, period drama
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Olivia Newton-John: Hopelessly Devoted to You (2018)
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The hugely popular Australian singer Olivia Newton-John is the subject of this moving drama about her brilliant career. The two-part series charts the astonishing personal life of Australia’s sweetheart.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 457
Genere: Biography
Country: Australia
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing, iconic
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Wojaczek (1999)
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IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 443
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 90 min
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Dickens of London (1976)
Plot Summary:
Dickens of London is a 1976 television miniseries from Yorkshire Television based on the life of English novelist Charles Dickens. Both Dickens and his father John were played by British actor Roy Dotrice. The series was written by Wolf Mankowitz and Marc Miller. In the United States, the series was shown in 1977. The series of 13 episodes of 60 minutes was directed by Michael Ferguson and Marc Miller, who was also the series' producer, with David Cunliffe as executive producer. Mankowitz's book, Dickens of London, published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson in 1976, was based on the detailed research he made while writing the screenplay.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: costume drama, period drama
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August Strindberg: Ett liv (1985)
Plot Summary:
A mini-series about the life of Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter, August Strindberg. He is portrayed as a misogynous, selfish and racial. And he loses everything, for the sake of the art.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Sweden, Austria, West Germany, Denmark
Duration: 383 min
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Becoming Colette (1991)
Plot Summary:
Erotic French author Colette during her formative years in Paris at the turn of the century, married to a hedonistic bounder who publishes her writings under his name until she leaves him to embark on her own career.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Germany, UK, France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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Bharat Ka Veer Putra – Maharana Pratap (2013)
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Bharat Ka Veer Putra – Maharana Pratap is an Indian television series produced by Abhimanyu Singh of Contiloe Entertainment, based on the life of 16th century Rajput ruler of Mewar, Maharana Pratap Singh. The series premiered on Sony TV on May 27, 2013. The series is introduced by Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 476
Genere: Biography
Country: India
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, saga
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The Dreamer of Oz (1990)
Plot Summary:
The film is the biography of Frank Baum, the children's book author and creator of the fantasy world Oz.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 576
Genere: Biography, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Oscar (1985)
Plot Summary:
In the summer of 1891, Oscar Wilde first met Lord Alfred Douglas — an encounter that will dramatically and tragically change both of their lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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A Season in Hell (1971)
Plot Summary:
Biopic about the life of the French poet Arthur Rimbaud.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags:
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Zorn (1994)
Plot Summary:
Dramatised biography of Swedish painter Anders Zorn.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 321
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Sweden, Finland, Norway
Duration: 126 min
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Sagan (2008)
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IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 883
Genere: Biography
Country: France
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: realistic, captivating, psychological, atmospheric, serious, sexual, sexy
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The Patricia Neal Story (1981)
Plot Summary:
The actress (Glenda Jackson) recovers from a 1966 stroke with help from friends and her husband, author Roald Dahl (Dirk Bogarde).
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 209
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
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Zelda (1993)
Plot Summary:
Biopic about Zelda Fitzgerald, as played by Natasha Richardson.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 141
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration:
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Lovers of the Café Flore (2006)
Plot Summary:
In 1924, Simone de Beauvoir, a girl with polished appearance, prepares for her final examination in philosophy and meets Jean-Paul Sartre. He seems to know her true personality and considers her the only woman worthy of his intellect. Their chaotic love serves as the premise for her magnum opus The Second Sex.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 629
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, emotional, sexy, captivating, factual, sincere, serious, realistic, sexual
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The Manns (2001)
Plot Summary:
Chronicle about Germany's most extraodinary literary family.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 706
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Germany, Austria, Switzerland
Duration: 312 min
Plot tags: family saga, captivating, serious, realistic, epic, saga
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The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe (2015)
Plot Summary:
A chronicle of Marilyn Monroe's family life and how she succeeded in hiding her most intimate secrets from the press and an invasive world.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: emotional, sexy, realistic, touching, serious, captivating, costume drama, period drama
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Frida, naturaleza viva (1983)
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This film is a chronicle of painter Frida Kahlo, and her encounter with the personalities of her time. Despite being confied to a wheelchair as a result of polio, operations and amputations, she faces and traces some of the most colorful and controversial aspects of Mexican history, during the dominant time of Mexican muralism.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 531
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: visual
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El Greco (1966)
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Greek painter Domenikos Theotokopoulos (Mel Ferrer) woos a beauty (Rosanna Schiaffino) and faces the Inquisition in 16th-century Spain.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 196
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 95 min
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Voltaire in Love (2021)
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Explore the early life and evolution of the philosopher and visionary Voltaire, from his love stories, his father's issues to the discovery of his vocation, his commitments against religious fanaticism and the arbitrary misuse of justice and politics. Explore a life of pain, passion, and the growth of an epic and talented hero, the origins of the young François Arouet, his childhood suffering, his entourage, his talent, his years of imprisonment in the Bastille, his ambiguous relations with the French court or his return in France after his exile.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France
Duration:
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating, disturbing
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Cezanne and I (2016)
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They loved each other with the ardor of thirteen-year-old boys. Rebellion and curiosity, hopes and doubts, girls and dreams of glory – they shared it all. Paul was rich, Emile poor. They went skinny-dipping, drank absinthe, starved, only to overeat. Sketched models by day, caressed them by night... Now, Paul is a painter and Emile a writer. Glory has passed Paul by. But Emile has it all: fame, money, the perfect wife, whom Paul once loved. They judge each other, admire each other, confront each other. They lose touch, meet up again, like a couple who cannot stop loving each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: exciting, atmospheric, captivating, realistic, contemplative, factual, artsy
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Bright Star (2009)
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In 1818, high-spirited young Fanny Brawne finds herself increasingly intrigued by the handsome but aloof poet John Keats, who lives next door to her family friends the Dilkes. After reading a book of his poetry, she finds herself even more drawn to the taciturn Keats. Although he agrees to teach her about poetry, Keats cannot act on his reciprocated feelings for Fanny, since as a struggling poet he has no money to support a wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, UK, France
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: heartbreaking, period piece, romantic, touching, sad, costume drama, emotional, colorful, sentimental, witty
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Genius (2016)
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New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, literary editor at Scribner’s Sons is the first to sign such subsequent literary greats as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. When a sprawling, chaotic 1,000-page manuscript by an unknown writer named Thomas Wolfe falls into his hands, Perkins is convinced he has discovered a literary genius. Together the two men set out to work on a version for publication and a seemingly endless struggle over every single phrase ensues. During this process, Perkins the gentle family man and Wolfe the eccentric author become close – a relationship eyed with suspicion by their wives. When ‘Look Homeward, Angel’ becomes a resounding success, the writer grows increasingly paranoid.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: period piece, talky, touching, intellectual, informative, inspirational, melancholic, sexy, thought provoking, enigmatic
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Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012)
Plot Summary:
Writer Ernest Hemingway begins a romance with fellow scribe Martha Gellhorn.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 155 min
Plot tags: serious, stylized, psychological, captivating, intellectual, heartbreaking, political, sex comedy, grindhouse, period piece
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The Life of Leonardo Da Vinci (1971)
Plot Summary:
La Vita di Leonardo Da Vinci — in English, The Life of Leonardo da Vinci — is a 1971 Italian television miniseries dramatizing the life of the Italian Renaissance polymath Leonardo da Vinci. The Golden Globe-winning miniseries was directed by Renato Castellani, and produced by RAI and distributed in the United States by CBS, which aired it from August 13, 1972 to September 10, 1972. Castellani wrote the screenplay. It was filmed entirely on location in Italy and France. The total runtime of the five episodes is nearly five hours.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 429
Genere: Biography, History
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 300 min
Plot tags: educational, inspirational, uplifting, intellectual, enigmatic, mind bending