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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
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The Secret Life of Ian Fleming (1990)
Plot Summary:
The Secret Life of Ian Fleming follows the exciting life of a dashing young Ian Fleming, the mastermind behind the highly successful James Bond books and movies.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 643
Genere: Adventure, Biography, War
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Not All Were Murderers (2006)
Plot Summary:
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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Gil Scott-Heron: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (2003)
Plot Summary:
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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Stan (2006)
Plot Summary:
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)
Plot Summary:
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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Kardec (2019)
Plot Summary:
The story of Allan Kardec, from his days as an educator to his contribution to the spiritist codification.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography
Country: Brazil
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, mystical, gothic horror
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Felix Manalo (2015)
Plot Summary:
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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Loro 2 (2018)
Plot Summary:
"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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Fleming (2014)
Plot Summary:
A look at the 007 creator, Ian Fleming, and his early life set against the permissive society of war-torn WWII London.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: serious, stylized, dramatic, period piece, exciting, realistic, suspenseful, sexy, period drama
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F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood (1975)
Plot Summary:
The story of author F. Scott Fitzgerald's two stays in Hollywood to write for films, once in 1927 at the height of his acclaim, and again in 1937 when he arrived with little money, enormous expenses and an ill wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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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)
Plot Summary:
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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My Heart Is Mine Alone (1997)
Plot Summary:
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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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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The Young Schiller (2005)
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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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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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Apasionado Pancho Villa (2014)
Plot Summary:
The assassination of Pancho Villa, on the outskirts of Parral, Chihuahua, plunged the city into mourning, and a wake for the revolutionary hero was held by his closest collaborators. Conspicuous among the mourners were the four women with whom Villa was having intimate relationships at the time of his death. Now that Villa is no longer around to mediate and keep them apart, tensions between the women grow and intensify, with unexpected consequences. An intimate and human portrait of the Centaur of the North.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Biography
Country: Mexico
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Antonia. (2015)
Plot Summary:
Distinguished Italian poet Antonia Pozzi (1912–1938) was among those women who were at odds with the times in which they lived. Her poems record her inability to adapt to social norms and her desire to live fully, and in poetry she sought an escape from reality and from her own complex soul and emotional life.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 292
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy, Greece
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Sagan (2008)
Plot Summary:
No overview found.
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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Doll (2013)
Plot Summary:
The rise and fall of the most distinguished Polish-Gypsy poetess Bronislawa Wajs, widely known as Papusza, and her relationship with her discoverer, writer Jerzy Ficowski.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: non-linear, realistic, atmospheric, serious, contemplative, stylized, gloomy
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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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Sartre, Years of Passion (2006)
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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Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story (2002)
Plot Summary:
Drama. TV Movie.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 428
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 200 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, contemplative
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Enid (2009)
Plot Summary:
Edwardian child Enid Blyton begins to tell stories to her brothers as an escape from their parents' rows before the father deserts the family.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, costume drama, cult classic, period drama, weird
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Sophia Loren: Her Own Story (1980)
Plot Summary:
Dramatization of the life of Italian actress Sophia Loren who plays herself during adulthood and also that of her mother Romilda Villani.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 187
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags:
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Set Fire to the Stars (2014)
Plot Summary:
An aspiring poet in 1950s New York has his ordered world shaken when he embarks on a week-long retreat to save his hell raising hero, Dylan Thomas.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, atmospheric, realistic, psychological, captivating, black and white, serious, stylized, gloomy
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Saint-Ex (1996)
Plot Summary:
Poetic biography of author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 221
Genere: Biography, Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags:
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Genius (2016)
Plot Summary:
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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Breaking the Code (1996)
Plot Summary:
A biography of the English mathematician Alan Turing, who was one of the inventors of the digital computer and one of the key figures in the breaking of the Enigma code, used by the Germans to send secret orders to their U-boats in World War II. Turing was also a homosexual in Britain at a time when this was illegal, besides being a security risk.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 668
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, captivating, realistic, contemplative