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Plot Summary:
A biographical account of Mei Lanfang, China's greatest opera star.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, stylized, epic
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Wagner (1983)
Plot Summary:
A huge panorama of Wagner's life and work, from before the 1848 Revolution, through his exile in Switzerland, his rescue by the besotted King Ludwig II of Bavaria to the final triumph at Bayreuth.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 605
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, Music
Country: UK, Austria, Hungary
Duration: 300 min
Plot tags: historical drama, sentimental, epic, serious, emotional, realistic, period drama
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Harem Suare (1999)
Plot Summary:
A story of the impossible love between one of the Sultan's concubines and one of his eunuchs in a harem at the end of the Ottoman Empire.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Italy, France, Turkey
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, sexual, sexy, queer cinema
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Song of Norway (1970)
Plot Summary:
Like the play from which it derived, the film tells of the early struggles of composer Edvard Grieg and his attempts to develop an authentic Norwegian national music. It stars Toralv Maurstad as Grieg and features an international cast including Florence Henderson, Christina Schollin, Robert Morley, Harry Secombe, Oskar Homolka, Edward G. Robinson and Frank Porretta (as Rikard Nordraak). Filmed in Super Panavision 70 by Davis Boulton and presented in single-camera Cinerama in some countries, it was an attempt to capitalise on the success of The Sound of Music.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 506
Genere: Biography, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: independent film, sentimental, serious, captivating, realistic, 70mm film
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A Woman's Revenge (2012)
Plot Summary:
Roberto is one of those men to whom simulation has become the greatest art. He is an unmoved, inscrutable, mysterious man. But the truth is that Robert feels an intimate, deep tedium. The boredom of those who have already exhausted all the pleasures of life. The only thing still surprising him is the fact that nothing surprises him anymore. One evening he has an overwhelming encounter with a woman. For his own bewilderment, he discovers the sublime horrors in which the woman has sank.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 343
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, psychological, atmospheric, stylized
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Caught in the Web (2012)
Plot Summary:
The story of three women whose worlds collide - a social commentary about the 'sound bite' society we are becoming, where perception becomes reality and judgments based on limited facts quickly spread, without regard for the truth or the damage they could cause.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, offbeat, biting, fast, suspense
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Purple Butterfly (2003)
Plot Summary:
Ding Hui is a member of Purple Butterfly, a powerful resistance group in Japanese occupied Shanghai. An unexpected encounter reunites her with Itami, an ex-lover... and officer with a secret police unit tasked with dismantling Purple Butterfly.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: China, France
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, serious, realistic, bleak, captivating, suspenseful, tense, atmospheric, non-linear
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Beginning of the Great Revival (2011)
Plot Summary:
A chronicle of the events that led to the founding of the Chinese Communist Party.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: China
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, factual, banned
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The Soong Sisters (1997)
Plot Summary:
The Soong family was a political dynasty in China that reached the highest levels of power. This film follows the lives of the three Soong daughters, who were educated in America and returned to China. Ai-ling (the oldest) married a wealthy and powerful businessman. Ching-ling married Sun Yat-sen, the revolutionary founder of modern China. Mei-ling (the youngest) married Chiang Kai-shek, China's l.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, Japan, China
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, epic, serious, captivating, realistic, stylized
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Kano (2014)
Plot Summary:
A Taiwanese high school baseball team travels to Japan in 1931 to compete in a national tournament.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, Sport
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 185 min
Plot tags: uplifting, sincere, captivating, sentimental, serious, realistic, banned
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The Golden Era (2014)
Plot Summary:
The story of writer Xiao Hong comes alive through memories of her great love affair, literary influence and escape from China during World War II.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 177 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, psychological, captivating, romantic drama, touching, realistic, stylized
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Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This (2014)
Plot Summary:
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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The Outlaw (2010)
Plot Summary:
A chronicle of the life of Spanish playwright and poet Lope de Vega, who dominated Spain’s early Golden Age of Theatre in the 16th Century. Lope returns home from war and enters the theatre world when a producer’s beautiful daughter takes a shine to him. They embark on a passionate affair as his plays begin to win popular acclaim.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Spain, Brazil, France
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, clever, realistic, stylized, baroque, weird
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Louis Cyr : The Strongest Man in the World (2013)
Plot Summary:
Biopic of Louis Cyr, strongest man in the world at the end of the 19th Century.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Canada
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, captivating, realistic
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The Overture (2004)
Plot Summary:
Based on the life of Luang Pradit Pairoh (Sorn Silapabanleng) the most revered traditional Thai music master who lived during the reigns of Kings Rama V to VIII, the movie traces the life of Sorn, who picked up the ra-nad ek (Thai xylophone) mallets as a small child and played all his life. The backdrop to Sorn's life tale is the story of Thailand's classical music from its golden age during the reign of King Rama V to near extinction after the end of the absolute monarchy when the government banned it as uncivilised in the 1930s -- a time when Field Marshall Plaek Pibulsongkram tried to push the Kingdom into the modern era.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, Music
Country: Thailand
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, captivating, emotional, serious, realistic, stylized
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P.T. Barnum (1999)
Plot Summary:
This series illustrates the life and career of P.T. Barnum, America's greatest showman and promoter. Starting as a young man who managed an old woman who was supposedly George Washington's nursemaid, we see his career as he finds success promoting curiosities and attractions with panache and a judicious mix of truth and creativity, whether it be promoting his museum or characters like the midget General Tom Thumb. Yet because the demands of his businesses, his family life is troubled and marred by tragedy. All the while, events lead to his greatest creation, the Ringling Brothers/Barnum & Bailey Circus.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: humorous, serious, captivating, realistic
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The Woman Knight of Mirror Lake (2011)
Plot Summary:
When the women of her time had their feet bound to please men, Qiu Jin was already questioning the sexual inequality of feudal traditions. Free-spirited and well-educated, she grew up practicing martial arts and was as well versed in poetry as she was in sword-fighting. When this rebellious girl moved to Beijing with her husband, she witnessed how her country was raided and ravaged by foreign powers. With the encouragement of her neighbor Wu Zhiying, the wife of righteous magistrate Li Zhongyue, Qiu Jin left her family behind to pursue study in Japan. There, she met some like-minded schoolmates who shared her ideals, including revolutionary leader Xu Xilin, and secretly joined his anti-Qing cause. After returning to China, Qiu Jin participated in the uprisings staged by Xu Xilin, leading a small group of hot-blooded students against the armed forces of the corrupt Qing government.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 403
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, stylized, rough, captivating, emotional, realistic
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Two Sons of Francisco (2005)
Plot Summary:
The story of Francisco, a very simple and poor man whose dream was to see his children become country music stars, and who made all the efforts to make it happen.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Music, Western
Country: Brazil
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, stylized
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Polanski Unauthorized (2009)
Plot Summary:
An unauthorized chronicle of the life of Roman Polanski.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, serious, realistic, captivating, sexual, independent film, sexy
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Bruce Lee, My Brother (2010)
Plot Summary:
Bruce Lee, My Brother is an action-dramatic biopic of the eponymous martial arts legend as told by his younger brother, Robert Lee. It revolves around Bruce Lee's life as a rebellious adolescent in Hong Kong before he sets off for the USA and conquers the world at the age of 18 with only US$100 in his pocket.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, realistic, mind blowing
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Margot (2009)
Plot Summary:
At the age of forty Dame Margot Fonteyn is considered to be past her best as a prima ballerina and Ninette de Valois is reducing her roles at the Royal Ballet. Then the exciting young Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev, a recent defector to the West, comes into her life and her bed and revitalizes her career. Frederick Aashton creates a new ballet for them and they become the golden couple of the ballet world. However, Margot is married to Roberto 'Tito' Arias, a Panamanian politician of dubious repute who is not sympathetic to her calling and is probably faithless. When he is shot and paralyzed for life Margot must carry on dancing well into her sixties in order to pay for his costly treatment though she still collaborates with Rudolf in the occasional ballet.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, stylized
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Paradise Found (2003)
Plot Summary:
Paradise Found is a biography about the painter Paul Gauguin. Focusing on his personal conflict between citizen life and his family life and the art scene in Frane. In an incredible imagery montage Gauguin manages to make a successful living in the South Pacific, while being in opposition to France.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 670
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, France, Germany, Australia, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, scenic, contemplative
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El Greco (2007)
Plot Summary:
The story of the uncompromising artist and fighter for freedom, Domenicos Theotokopoulos, known to the world as "El Greco".
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Greece, Spain, Hungary
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, stylized, captivating, disgusting, epic, realistic, non-linear, light, period piece
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My Nikifor (2004)
Plot Summary:
From his birth in 1895 through his death in 1968, the gifted Polish naïve artist Nikifor Krynicki (AKA Epifan Drowniak) lived his life and eked out a career cloaked in obscurity - a casualty of both his extreme speech impediment (his tongue was attached to the roof of his mouth, which prompted others to errantly tag him as mentally incapacitated) and his self-effacing decision to sell the majority of his work for meager amounts. Krzysztof Krauze's biopic My Nikifor travels to the tail end of Krynicki's (Krystyna Feldman) life journey, dramatizing the period that surrounded his interaction with the well-established artist Marian Wlosinski (Roman Gancarczyk).
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 866
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, captivating, realistic, gloomy
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Stretch (2011)
Plot Summary:
Christophe, a young horse racing jockey from Paris, is filled with hope and ambition. Yet after a race, he tests positive for illegal substances and is subsequently suspended from racing. He decides to move to Macau, in Asia. There his circumstances change very quickly: he wins one race after another, earning himself large amounts of money and success with women. But, his new life also brings him an ever-increasing sense of solitude. Macau has its own unspoken rules that Christophe thinks he can ignore. But events start to gain momentum as the net tightens around him. Motivated by love for an intriguing young Chinese woman, Christophe ends up gambling with his own destiny, but this time on the card tables.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Thailand, Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, exciting, suspenseful, stylized
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America's Prince: The John F. Kennedy Jr. Story (2003)
Plot Summary:
A look inside the life of John F. Kennedy Jr.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 337
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, captivating
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King of Salsa (2006)
Plot Summary:
The rise and fall of salsa singer, Héctor Lavoe (1946-1993), as told from the perspective of his wife Puchi, who looks back from 2002.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, disturbing, informative, sentimental, vintage
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Sakuran (2006)
Plot Summary:
A young girl is sold into the red-light district Yoshiwara and is put under the care of the oiran (lead prostitute) of the Tamakiku house. The girl is rebellious, but the more experienced people in the household begin to think that she will be one day a great oiran, since an oiran needs not only beauty and talent, but she should also have the tenacity to maintain the position.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: epic, captivating, emotional, stylized, sweet, manga, artsy, costume drama, realistic, semi serious
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Confucius (2010)
Plot Summary:
In 500 B.C., during Chinas famed 'Spring and Autumn Period', Kong Ze (Confucius), a commoner reverred for his outstanding wisdom, is made Minister of Law in the ancient Kingdom of Lu. Under his inspired leadership, Lu ascends to new heights but becomes a target of conquest for the warlike nation of Qi. Threatened with annihilation by their powerful neighbour, a desperate people turn to their greatest teacher to lead their most powerful army. When Confucius delivers a stunning victory against all odds, a jealous aristocracy sets out to destroy him, but they should never under-estimate a remarkable man whose wisdom is more powerful than the sword.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: China
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: contemplative, atmospheric, epic, serious, captivating, realistic, inspirational, art film
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Last Call (2002)
Plot Summary:
Renowned writer F. Scott Fitzgerald is living the last months of his life with his youthful secretary, confidant, and protégé who later wrote a memoir of their time together.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 963
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: clever, serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, spiritual, masterpiece
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Castles in the Sky (2014)
Plot Summary:
It is the mid-1930s and the storm clouds of WWII were forming in Germany. This films charts the work of Robert Watson Watt - the pioneer of Radar - and his hand-picked team of eccentric yet brilliant meteorologists as they struggle to turn the concept of Radar into a workable reality. Hamstrung by a tiny budget, seemingly insurmountable technical problems and even a spy in the camp, Watson Watt also has to deal with marital problems as he chases his dream. By 1939, Watson Watt and his team have developed the world's first Radar system along the south east coast of England. A system that, in 1940, proved pivotal in winning the Battle of Britain.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: clever, serious, captivating, realistic, contemplative, stylized