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In September 2013, members of the cast, writers and crew gathered on Tyneside to reminisce and celebrate the show that captured the imagination of a generation and made it trendy to be a Geordie. Back With The Boys Again – The Story of Auf Wiedersehen Pet. Also on this DVD – Previously unseen footage from Sunday for Sammy 2000 featuring Tim Healy, Kevin Whately, Jimmy Nail and Brendan Healy. This sketch was the inspiration for Auf Wiedersehen Pet's return and has never been commercially released.
IMDB Rating: 9.2
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Biography
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
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Ernesto (2017)
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Freddy Maemura Hurtado, a second-generation Japanese-Bolivian, heads to Cuba to study medicine. He meets revolutionist Che Guevara. When civil war breaks out in Bolivia, he decides to join Guevara’s revolutionary army under the name of “Ernesto Medico”.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Biography
Country: Japan, Cuba
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, disturbing
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A Single oman (2008)
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A Single Woman is a distinct, lively portrait of Jeannette Rankin (the first American woman elected to Congress; also a suffragist, peace activist and reformer) that takes us from her childhood in 1880's Montana, to her last television interview in 1972. Deliciously political, occasionally chilling, ironic and idiosyncratic, A Single Woman illuminates the role of the individual in the American legislative process with a whimsical amalgamation of storytelling, high-powered discourse and communion. The program is a filmed version of the successful stage play.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Biography
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
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Blanca & Pepita (2017)
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A barely literate girl from a destitute village in the Peruvian Andes is employed by the matriarch of a wealthy family in Lima, 1944, leading to 60 years of an inseparable bond that survives family tragedies, a military coup, and social upheaval thanks to the extraordinary character and resilience of Blanca.
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Genere: Biography
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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Year One (1974)
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Rossellini’s biopic of the postwar Christian Democrat leader, Alcide De Gaspari (Vannucchi), who was responsible for keeping the Communists out of power in the years that followed the fall of fascism.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 188
Genere: Biography
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min
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L'Oriana (2015)
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The life of Italian journalist and writer Oriana Fallaci.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 129
Genere: Biography
Country: Italy
Duration: 200 min
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Sammy-Gate (2020)
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Equal parts "Dr. Strangelove," "Zelig," and "Network," "Sammy-Gate" takes you on a psychedelic trip into the 1970s polyester heart of darkness. On a USO tour of Vietnam, Sammy Davis Jr. stumbles upon a CIA-sponsored plot to smuggle heroin into the United States. Through comic ineptitude mixed with noble intentions, Davis triggers a chain of bizarre missteps by the FBI, the Mafia, and the Nixon administration that result in the Watergate scandal.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 24
Genere: Biography
Country: USA
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Not All Were Murderers (2006)
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Based on the childhood memories of actor Michael Degen, the movie deals with the everyday struggle to survive as a Jewish boy in Nazi Germany. As his father had died in 1940 after being released from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, Michael and his mother fear to be deported themselves. They manage to live in Berlin with false names and faked papers, hidden by several, often broken, people.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 448
Genere: Biography
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, suspenseful
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Paul VI: The Pope in the Tempest (2008)
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The service of Pope Paul VI presents tremendous challenges for humanity not only in the political, cultural and economic aspects of the world but also in the spiritual life of The Church. Pope Paul VI is the first Pope to be a Missionary Pope, to meet people where they are. To trust in God as he was asking The Church to do and he is given the opportunity to love that trust in its fullness.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Biography
Country: Italy
Duration: 200 min
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Gil Scott-Heron: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (2003)
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Gil Scott-Heron was one of the most influential musicians and poets of the last 50 years. In Don Letts's documentary, Gil tells his own story for the first time-from being one of the first black children to integrate an all white Southern state school to becoming the Godfather of Rap. There are contributions from Chuck D, Mos Def, Richi Havens and the Last Poets, among others. Filmed in October 2003, Gil performs live and recites poetry out on the streets of Harlem, which have inspired so much of his music.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Biography
Country: UK
Duration: 62 min
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Frankie Howerd: Rather You Than Me (2008)
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Candid and poignant drama about the comedian Frankie Howerd and the relationship with his long-term, long-suffering manager, and gay partner, Dennis Heymer. Despite his overtly camp persona, Howerd kept his companionship with Heymer under wraps for 35 years, until his death in 1992. Yet through career disaster, social stigma, illegality, numerous infidelities and Howerd's own deep-seated issues about his homosexuality, their love endured.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 167
Genere: Biography
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
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Stan (2006)
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Stanley Laurel's last visit to Oliver Hardy, as originally told in Neil Brand's radio play.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 267
Genere: Biography
Country: UK
Duration: 59 min
Plot tags: entertaining
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Rickover: The Birth of Nuclear Power (2014)
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Dive into the life of the father of the nuclear Navy: Hyman Rickover. Combative, provocative, and blunt, Admiral Hyman G. Rickover was a flamboyant maverick and a unique American hero. When few thought it possible, then-Captain Rickover harnessed the power of the atom to drive the first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, whose trip under the polar ice pack was one of the great adventure stories of the 1950s. Later, Rickover built the world's first nuclear aircraft carrier and the first commercial nuclear power plant at Shippingport, PA. Rickover's achievements made him into a national celebrity, and he appeared on the cover of Time magazine. Many wonder whether America can maintain its technological pre-eminence and whether we can still build and manage large-scale projects. To understand these issues, Rickover considers the story of the man who created the nuclear Navy as well as the civilian nuclear power industry: Hyman G. Rickover.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 133
Genere: Biography
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
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Gerry (2011)
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Born into a modest family, Gerry Boulet found fame with the Québec rock group Offenbach. After a life of drug and alcohol abuse and a great love story, Gerry died of cancer in 1990.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 398
Genere: Biography
Country: Canada
Duration: 131 min
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The Wolf from Royal Vineyard Street (2016)
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The film tells the life story of its director, Jan Nemec, one of the most known and important filmmakers of Czech New Wave.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Biography
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, France
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, touching, captivating, suspense
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Felix Manalo (2015)
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Felix Yzagun Manalo is a sprawling historical epic that traces the origin of Iglesia Ni Cristo (The Church of Christ) which is established in the Philippines from its humble beginnings in 1914 through the present day.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Biography
Country: Philippines
Duration: 178 min
Plot tags: political
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The Sound of a Flower (2015)
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During the Joseon Dynasty, lowborn Chae-sun challenges the rule that states only men allowed to sing while navigating devotion to her teacher and the demands of the king's father.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Biography
Country: South Korea
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Loro 2 (2018)
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"Loro", in two parts, is a period movie that chronicles, as a fiction story, events likely happened in Italy (or even made up) between 2006 and 2010. "Loro" wants to suggest in portraits and glimps, through a composite constellation of characters, a moment in history, now definitively ended, which can be described in a very summary picture of the events as amoral, decadent but extraordinarily alive. Additionally, "Loro" wishes to tell the story of some Italians, fresh and ancient people at the same time: souls from a modern imaginary Purgatory who, moved by heterogeneous intents like ambition, admiration, affection, curiosity, personal interests, establish to try and orbit around the walking Paradise that is the man named Silvio Berlusconi.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Biography
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: captivating, cult classic, controversial
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Cotolay (1965)
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The plot is loosely based on the legend from Galicia in north-west Spain of the founding by St Francis of Assisi (1182-1226) of the Convent of San Francisco near Santiago de Compostela in 1214 with the help of a poor charcoal burner named Cotolay, who found a buried treasure which paid for the construction. This slow moving but engaging film opens with St Francis arriving in Santiago with two other monks - Juan of Florence and Bernardo de Quintavalle - during a pilgrimage there to visit the tomb of St James the Apostle in the cathedral. He receives a divine revelation to tarry there until the meaning of his vision becomes clear. Faint with hunger he meets Cotolay (the 14-year-old Didier Haudepin) who gives the monks (stolen) figs to eat and leads them to the nearby Mount Pedroso where logging-master Tarna gives them food and lodging in return for work during their stay. While praying on the mountain St Francis believes he has been divinely instructed that his order of mendicant friars.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Biography
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic
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Concert at the End of Summer (1980)
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A docudrama about four weeks in the life of famous Czech composer Antonin Dvorak. The drama - filled with many of Dvorak's compositions - begins when the composer suddenly decides to cut a concert in London and return home. While on the train, flashbacks reveal his relationship to his wife Anna and her sister Josefina. Both women gave him inspiration, yet Dvorak is clearly troubled in some way as musical excerpts come and go in his creative mind.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Biography
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 102 min
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Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald (1993)
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The story of the widow of Lee Harvey Oswald, the man accused of shooting President Kennedy. Via flashbacks, the story traces the woman's life from her days in Russia, the turmoil following the assassination, raising her family, and coming to grips with the fact that she too may have been a pawn in a grand conspiracy.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 225
Genere: Biography
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: political
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Under the Roman Sky (2010)
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Rome, 1943. The city is occupied by the Nazis. The lives of thousands of Jews are in danger, and in Vatican City, a neutral state within the borders of Rome, Pope Pius XII is struggling to save the city from hunger and destruction.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 322
Genere: Biography
Country: Italy, Germany
Duration: 200 min
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Goldeneye (1989)
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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
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Call Me Francesco (2015)
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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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Kharms (2017)
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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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Mary: The Making of a Princess (2015)
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This is the story of a fateful encounter and the life-changing choices that led to one of Australia's and the world's most recognisable and romantic love stories.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 329
Genere: Biography
Country: Australia
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing
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Howard W. Hunter: The Modern Prophets (2004)
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Four days before his wedding, Howard William Hunter, 24, played his last engagement as a professional musician. From then on, whether as a successful corporate attorney, church leader in the Los Angeles ares or apostle of the Lord, Howard's life was dedicated to serving others. His focus on temple service began as a young bishop and carried through to his presidency as he challenged the Church membership to increase temple worthiness and attendance. His tenure as the 14th President of the Church lasted only nine months, but he left a wonderful legacy that blesses us today.
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Genere: Biography
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
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Anthony, Warrior of God (2006)
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The life of Anthony of Padua (1195-1231) from his arrival on Sicily's shores via shipwreck in 1221 to his death. He's a Portuguese monk who, once in Italy, seeks out St. Francis. Anthony's gift as a great preacher is discovered by happenstance. He spends much of his life in and near Padua, a city run by usurers. Anthony offers protection and friendship to Folco, at one time a petty criminal and acolyte to the usurers, later falsely accused of murder. Anthony's teaching and his spiritual strength lead to changes in the character of Padua and an end to usury. He became its patron Saint soon after his death, and 32 years later, his casket is opened and his tongue remains intact.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 200
Genere: Biography
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, stylized, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, realistic
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Bruce Lee in G.O.D. (2000)
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Bruce Lee in G.O.D. is a "docudrama" about the filming of Game of Death. The first 40 minutes of the film is a dramitisation of events before Lee dropped filming for GOD to do Enter the Dragon, interspersed with interviews with people associated with the film. The remainder of the movie is an alternate cut of the found Game of Death footage.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Biography
Country: Japan, Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, realistic
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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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Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This (2014)
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The life and times of Tommy Cooper.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 490
Genere: Biography
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, stylized
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