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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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The Irish R.M. (1983)
Plot Summary:
The Irish R.M. refers to a series of books by the Anglo-Irish novelists Somerville and Ross, and the television comedy-drama series based on them. They are set in turn of the 20th century west of Ireland.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 264
Genere: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags: period drama
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Nerolio (1996)
Plot Summary:
This film depicts three episodes in the life of the highly eccentric, unabashedly homosexual Italian filmmaker Per Paolo Pasolini. Pasolini was best known to Americans for his film The Gospel According to St. Matthew. However, in his native Italy, he was at least as well known for his writing and poetry as for his filmmaking. In the first episode, Pasolini (Marco Cavicchioli) waxes poetic about the beauty of young men during a visit to Sicily. The second and more interesting segment concerns a meeting with a young man who visits Pasolini thinking that though he is an old has-been, Pasolini may be able to do him a favor. Pasolini twigs to the boy's intentions, and a sparring session ensues. The final episode shows him picking up a young man at Rome's train station and the events that led to his beating death in 1975.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: gay cinema
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The Youth Years of Karl Marx (1980)
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Soviet Union, East Germany
Duration: 455 min
Plot tags:
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The Charterhouse of Parma (1982)
Plot Summary:
Stendhal's epic tale of a young French officer in the Napoleonic wars, and his aunt - a duchess of legendary beauty and resourcefulness.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 64
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags:
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Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill (1974)
Plot Summary:
Lee Remick stars as Jennie Jerome, born in the United States in 1845, who eventually became Lady Randolph Churchill, and gave birth to Sir Winston Churchill in this seven-part, seven-hour biographical mini-series.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: period drama
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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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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
Plot tags:
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Disraeli (1978)
Plot Summary:
Disraeli is a British four part serial about the great statesman and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Benjamin Disraeli.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 258
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: spiritual, weird, period drama
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The Young Schiller (2005)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 400
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Karl May (1974)
Plot Summary:
This ethereal, three-hour biopic is the middle film in Hans-Jürgen Syberberg’s “German Trilogy” on the mythological foundations of the Third Reich. By fusing theater, music, and cinema, Syberberg conjures up Karl May (1842-1912), the immensely popular German author, who set many of his adventure novels in an idealized version of the American Wild West. His tales of the cowboy and the Ubermensch alike were beloved by many, including (Our) Hitler, who supposedly ordered his generals to read May works after defeats in the Russian campaign.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 166
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: West Germany
Duration: 187 min
Plot tags: surreal, visual, avant garde
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The Last Road (1986)
Plot Summary:
About the death and the 'last road' of Aleksandr Pushkin, the leading poet and writer of Russia, who was shot on a duel at age 37. Pushkin was defending the reputation of his wife and mother of his four children - Nataly. She was a center of public attention because of her stunning beauty, and she was accused of infidelity. Pushkin reacted by calling the accuser baron Dantes to fight a duel with guns. A deadly gunshot caused Pushkin's death after the duel. Around the dead poet gathered all the leading intellectuals and writers of St. Petersburg. They were helpless to undo the tragedy. Pushkin's home in St. Petersburg was the site where thousands came to see Pushkin on his 'last road'.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags:
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Tell the World (2016)
Plot Summary:
In 19th Century New England, the lives of a diverse group of people collide through interweaving stories of despair, identity, faith, hope and trust.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Australia
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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August (2007)
Plot Summary:
A portrait of Swedish writer August Strindberg.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 176
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 175 min
Plot tags:
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Dostoevsky (2011)
Plot Summary:
Biopic covering a large portion of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky's life, from the Petrashevsky Circle to the writing of The Brothers Karamazov.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 306
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: rough, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, factual
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Hollywood (2020)
Plot Summary:
A group of aspiring actors and filmmakers in post-World War II Hollywood try to make it big — no matter the cost.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 347 min
Plot tags: funny, social, colorful, feel good, political, entertaining, saga, historical drama, gay cinema, sexploitation film
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Arthur & George (2015)
Plot Summary:
Arthur & George is a three-part adaptation of Julian Barnes' novel about Sherlock Holmes creator Arthur Conan Doyle as played by actor Martin Clunes. Set in 1906 in Staffordshire, Hampshire and London the drama follows Sir Arthur and his trusted secretary, Alfred ‘Woodie’ Wood as they investigate the case of George Edalji, a young Anglo-Indian solicitor who was imprisoned for allegedly mutilating animals and writing obscene letters.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, clever, serious, enigmatic, realistic, disturbing, detective, historical drama, period piece, costume drama
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Man, Moment, Machine (2005)
Plot Summary:
Man, Moment, Machine was a television series which aired on The History Channel and was hosted by Hunter Ellis. It documented an important event in history and went into detail about, as the title suggests, the man and his background, the machine and how it was made, and the outcome.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Biography, History
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: light, thought provoking, captivating, entertaining
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The Borgias (1981)
Plot Summary:
Historical story of the ruthless Rodrigo Borgia a man who intends to become Pope and who will not let anything stand in his way.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: historical drama, costume drama, period drama
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Molière (1978)
Plot Summary:
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin is raised by his father and his grandfather because his mother dies when he's still very little. He works as a handyman, studies the law at a university and travels the country as an actor before he becomes the celebrated playwright Molière who impresses firstly the Duke of Orleans and then even King Louis XIV.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 877
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 260 min
Plot tags: weird, period drama
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Young Andersen (2005)
Plot Summary:
A powerful modern film narrative, set in a historical framework, about the crucial encounter between vulnerable eighteen-year-old Hans Christian Andersen, who rates himself so highly, and Mr. Meisling, the cynical school principal. An encounter that fundamentally transforms Hans Christian's life.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 533
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Denmark, Norway, Sweden
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: period piece
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The Demons of St. Petersburg (2008)
Plot Summary:
St. Petersburg, 1860. A member of the imperial family is assassinated. A few days later, the writer Fëdor Michajlovic Dostoevskij meets with Gusiev, a young man committed to a psychiatric hospital. Gusiev confesses that he took part in the terrorist plot and reveals that his fellow conspirators are planning to kill another of the Tsar’s relatives. The young man also gives Dostoevsky the address of Alexandra, their leader. The writer must find her and convince her to call off the new assassination attempt.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 333
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, historical drama
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The Bronte Sisters (1979)
Plot Summary:
In a small presbytery in Yorkshire, England, living under the watchful eyes of their aunt and father, a strict Anglican pastor, the Bronte sisters write their first works and quickly become literary sensations.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, period drama, gay cinema, beautiful
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Leopardi (2014)
Plot Summary:
A luminously beautiful biopic of the celebrated eighteenth-century Italian poet, essayist and philosopher Giacomo Leopardi, who created immortal verse whilst struggling with a debilitating illness.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, captivating, historical drama
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Anton Chekhov 1890 (2015)
Plot Summary:
Summer 1890. In order to make some money to feed his family, Anton Chekhov, modest physician, wrote short stories for newspapers to sign Antosha Tchékhonté. Important characters, writer and editor, just make him aware of his talent. His situation is improving and Anton Chekhov gets the Pushkin prices and admiration of Tolstoy. But when one of his brothers died of tuberculosis, Anton saw it as a personal failure and wants to escape his fame and his love.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 297
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, psychological, captivating, gloomy, costume drama
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I, Claudius (1976)
Plot Summary:
Tracing the lives of several Roman emperors, this is an epic of ruthless ambition, shocking debauchery and murderous intrigue set in one of history's most fascinating eras. Bearing witness to the saga is Claudius, whose stutter and limp have marked him a fool - yet whom prophecies have foretold will one day rule Rome.
IMDB Rating: 8.8
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 669 min
Plot tags: costume drama, political thriller, historical drama, clever, epic, spiritual, political, controversial, mind blowing, dark comedy
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Victoria (2016)
Plot Summary:
The story of Queen Victoria, who came to the throne at a time of great economic turbulence and resurgent republicanism – and died 64 years later the head of the largest empire the world had ever seen, having revitalised the throne’s public image and become “grandmother of Europe”.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: costume drama, romantic, historical drama, realistic, touching, period piece, factual, serious, light, educational
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The Diary of Anne Frank (2009)
Plot Summary:
Called the most accurate adaptation of Anne Frank’s moving diary, the film chronicles the Frank family as they flee from the Nazis in Amsterdam. Hiding behind a bookcase in a secret annex with random bombs exploding, Anne faces friction with her family, a desire for independence and the first stirrings of young love. It’s a remarkable record of a young woman’s first-hand observations of the Holocaust.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: touching, sincere, serious, realistic, historical drama, bleak, captivating, period drama
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Wolf Hall (2015)
Plot Summary:
England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the King dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn. The Pope and most of Europe oppose him. Into this impass steps Thomas Cromwell: a wholly original man, a charmer, and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, astute in reading people, and implacable in his ambition. But Henry is volatile: one day tender, one day murderous. Cromwell helps him break the opposition, but what will be the price of his triumph?.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 360 min
Plot tags: historical drama, serious, captivating, period piece, costume drama, stylized, suspense, factual, political, educational
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To Walk Invisible (2016)
Plot Summary:
To Walk Invisible takes a new look at the extraordinary Brontë family, telling the story of these remarkable women who, despite the obstacles they faced, came from obscurity to produce some of the greatest novels in the English language.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: captivating, dark, cult classic, historical drama, gothic, period drama