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Plot Summary:
The story of the personal lives and professional careers of the show-business family The Osmonds, and how the stresses and strains of their careers and the turbulent '70s and '80s affected their relationships with each other and their families.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 283
Genere: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
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My Brother's Keeper (1995)
Plot Summary:
A man and his HIV-positive twin take an insurance company to court over a possibly life-saving bone marrow transplant.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: crying, queer cinema
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Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story (2022)
Plot Summary:
Follows the successful career of Jackson as well as her unique friendship and devotion to Martin Luther King Jr. and her unsung contribution to the Civil Rights Movement.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 142
Genere: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
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Take Me Home: The John Denver Story (2000)
Plot Summary:
The story of the amazing life of John Denver.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 645
Genere: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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Shooting the Moon (1998)
Plot Summary:
Francesca Archibugi directed this Italian drama set in Rome where 14-year-old Siddhartha (Niccolo Senni) is forced to deal with his heroin-addicted mother Silvia (Valeria Golina). He occasionally gets a visit from his filmmaker father Massimo (Sergio Rubini), who left them years earlier. Silvia is involved with lawyer Roberto (Stefano Dionisi), and they have a child, four-year-old Domitilla (Francesca di Giovanni). She lives with her father but sometimes stays with Silvia and Siddhartha. One day Domitilla pricks her finger on a used needle belonging to her mother. Using the Internet to seek advice, Siddhartha is told to have Domitella tested for hepatitis and AIDS. Desperate, he sets forth but is soon stymied and frustrated by a medical bureaucracy. Shown at the 1998 Venice Film Festival.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 271
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
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Little Richard (2000)
Plot Summary:
The story of Little Richard Penniman, from his poor Southern upbringing to dealing with the trials and tribulations of being a Black singer in the 1950s, to his born-again phase and brief "retirement" from rock and roll.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 983
Genere: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sentimental, uplifting, touching, captivating, serious, realistic, entertaining, black cinema
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Britney Ever After (2017)
Plot Summary:
Biopic detailing the tumultuous story of pop icon Britney Spears' rise to fame, fall from grace and eventual triumphant resurrection, firmly securing her position as one of the world's greatest entertainers.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sexy, realistic, mumblecore, rough, psychological, inspirational, touching
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Maestro (2023)
Plot Summary:
This fearless love story chronicles the complicated lifelong relationship between music legend Leonard Bernstein and Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min
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Mae West (1982)
Plot Summary:
Biography of the curvaceous and sharp-witted actress who scandalized Broadway and Hollywood in the 1920s-30s with her frank approach to sex.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
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Destined for Blues (2005)
Plot Summary:
The life of Ryszard Riedel, former leader of cult Polish rock-blues band Dzem, including the history of his family relationships, music career and addiction to alcohol and drugs.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Poland
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, captivating
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Ordinary World (2016)
Plot Summary:
Perry is a happily married father of two living a comfortable but sedate life in the suburbs. On the occasion of his 40th birthday, he seeks to revisit his former life as the lead singer in a popular punk band though his middle-aged reality quickly (and hilariously) clashes with the indulgences of his youth.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: sentimental, light, feel good, humorous, suspenseful, interesting
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Ragamuffin (2014)
Plot Summary:
RAGAMUFFIN is based on the true story of Rich Mullins, a musical prodigy who rose to Christian music fame and fortune only to walk away and live on a Navajo reservation. An artistic genius raised on a tree farm in Indiana by a weathered, callous father, Rich wrestled all of his life with the brokenness and crippling insecurity born of his childhood. A lover of Jesus and a rebel in the church, Rich refused to let his struggles with alcoholism, addiction and women tear him away from a God he was determined to love. As he struggled with success in Nashville, depression in Wichita, and oblivion in the Four Corners, Rich became one of the first of his time to live honestly amidst a culture of religion and conformity.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic
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Life Is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story (2006)
Plot Summary:
In the LifetimeĀ® movie, THE FANTASIA BARRINO STORY: LIFE IS NOT A FAIRYTALE, a single teenage mother overcomes all odds - sexual abuse, poverty and illiteracy - by relying on her spectacular singing voice. She ultimately gains national prominence as the winner of a hit talent show. Fantasia Barrino plays herself in this modern true Cinderella story. Also starring Loretta Devine, Kadeem Hardison and Viola Davis.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 670
Genere: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: uplifting, touching, serious, realistic
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Shiba (1993)
Plot Summary:
A multi-lingual tour guide who owns multiple passports one day drives his wife and daughter to a desolate seashore town and checks in a secluded, spacious, ruins-like hotel. From that moment on, he throws himself into gambling, tossing the dice with local residents all day. Sometimes he wins big, but sometimes he loses all. Feeling neglected and uncomfortable, his wife and daughter soon leave him and return home. He stays and wanders in this fishing village and gradually immerses himself in the surroundingsāa place rife with immoral vagabonds, outlaws and weirdoes.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 104 min
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Daydream Believers: The Monkees' Story (2000)
Plot Summary:
In 2000, VH-1 produced the television biopic Daydream Believers: The Monkees' Story. In 2002, the movie was released on DVD, and featured both commentaries and interviews with Dolenz, Jones and Tork. The aired version did differ from the DVD release as the TV version had an extended scene with all four Monkees but with a shortened Cleveland concert segment. It was also available on VHS.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 982
Genere: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sentimental, realistic, semi serious, captivating
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My Way (2012)
Plot Summary:
A biopic of French pop star Claude Francois, most famous for co-writing the song 'My Way'. Tracing his life from his childhood in Egypt through his success in France to his untimely death in Paris in 1978.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 148 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, serious, realistic, tragic
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Blaze (2018)
Plot Summary:
A re-imagining of the life and times of Blaze Foley, the unsung songwriting legend of the Texas Outlaw Music movement.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, realistic, contemplative, sad
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Falling from Grace (1992)
Plot Summary:
Rock singer John Mellencamp makes his screen and directorial debut in this story by "Lonesome Dove" author, Larry McMurtry. The story, not too separated from Mellencamp's real life, finds him as a country music star whose meanderings and philandering has thrown his life into turmoil. Returning to his native Indiana to try to reestablish a normal life. Instead he takes up with an old lover (Lenz), ignoring his loving wife (Hemingway), and duplicating the lifestyle of his womanizing father (Akins).
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 695
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, contemplative
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Hysteria: The Def Leppard Story (2001)
Plot Summary:
A dramatization of the early years of the hard rock band, Def Leppard, the group faces both success and personal tragedies such as drummer, Rick Allen losing his arm in a car accident and guitarist Steve Clark's alcohol addiction.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing
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Low Down (2014)
Plot Summary:
The daughter of jazz pianist Joe Albany witnesses her beloved father's struggle -- and failure -- to kick his heroin habit.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, historical drama, aesthetic, touching, independent film, crying, freeze frame
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Love & Mercy (2014)
Plot Summary:
The life of reclusive and eccentric Beach Boys songwriter and musician Brian Wilson.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: emotional, factual, melancholic, talky, intense, serious, touching, inspirational, philosophical, intellectual
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Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody (2022)
Plot Summary:
The joyous, emotional, heartbreaking celebration of the life and music of Whitney Houston, the greatest female R&B pop vocalist of all time. Tracking her journey from obscurity to musical superstardom.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min
Plot tags: spiritual, historical drama, iconic
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Lennon Naked (2010)
Plot Summary:
A profile of John Lennon in the late 1960s as the Beatles are set to fall apart.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: realistic, sentimental, sincere, touching, serious, period piece, gloomy, iconic
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La Bamba (1987)
Plot Summary:
Biographical story of the rise from nowhere of singer Ritchie Valens whose life was cut short by a plane crash.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: inspirational, touching, hispanic, intense, suspense, sentimental, serious, sincere, captivating, emotional
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To Olivia (2021)
Plot Summary:
In 1962, Patricia Neal and Roald Dahl retreat to the English countryside to bring up their young family. The seemingly unlikely pair find their relationship put to the test by a tragic loss.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, disturbing, depressing
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Mark Twain and Me (1991)
Plot Summary:
Dorothy Quick, A young girl befriends the famous writer, Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemans during the final years of his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 191
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min
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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
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Elvis (2022)
Plot Summary:
The life story of Elvis Presley as seen through the complicated relationship with his enigmatic manager, Colonel Tom Parker.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 221000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 159 min
Plot tags: touching, historical drama, thought provoking, captivating, realistic, disturbing, semi autobiographical, inspirational, meta, costume drama
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Walt Before Mickey (2015)
Plot Summary:
Based on the book "Walt Before Mickey" covers the early years of Walt Disney's career. The legendary Walt Disney had a tumultuous childhood, yet he was determined to overcome obstacles in his path, before the creation of his first iconic character: Mickey Mouse.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: motivational, factual, feel good, serious
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Cadillac Records (2008)
Plot Summary:
The story of sex, violence, race and rock and roll in 1950s Chicago, and the exciting but turbulent lives of some of America's musical legends, including Muddy Waters, Leonard Chess, Little Walter, Howlin' Wolf, Etta James and Chuck Berry.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: realistic, inspirational, talky, stylized, intense, sincere, sentimental, serious, captivating, social
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Selena (1997)
Plot Summary:
In this biographical drama, Selena Quintanilla is born into a musical Mexican-American family in Texas. Her father, Abraham, realizes that his young daughter is talented and begins performing with her at small venues. She finds success and falls for her guitarist, Chris Perez, who draws the ire of her father. Seeking mainstream stardom, Selena begins recording an English-language album which, tragically, she would never complete.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: touching, sad, factual, sincere, emotional, hispanic, sentimental, historical drama, informative, uplifting