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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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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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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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A Wolf Teeth Necklace (1997)
Plot Summary:
Algimantas Puipa directed this 1997 drama about a painter wrestling with childhood memories of his father being exiled to Siberia.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Lithuania
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: dread
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The Sound of a Flower (2015)
Plot Summary:
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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Hitler: A Film from Germany (1977)
Plot Summary:
Documentary film that examines the rise and fall of the Third Reich, incorporating puppetry, rear-screen projection, and a Wagnerian score into a singular epic vision. The director, who grew up under Nazi tyranny, ruminates on good and evil and the rest of humanity's complicity in the horrors of the holocaust.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 891
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: West Germany, France, UK
Duration: 442 min
Plot tags: spiritual, political, surreal, art house, visual, experimental, rough, thought provoking, clever, offbeat
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Goldeneye (1989)
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
Plot tags:
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Coming Out of the Ice (1982)
Plot Summary:
Victor and his family moved to the USSR in the mid '30's. When he refused to sign his skydiving accomplishment as a citizen of the USSR, he was not tried but simply sent to prison. His horrific imprisonment, beating and torture culminated with his being sent to the Gulag for many years. He was in the Soviet Union, according to the film, for a total of 45 years.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 213
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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The Chronicles of Melanie (2016)
Plot Summary:
The 14th of June 1941, Soviet-occupied Latvia: Without warning, the authorities break into the house of Melanie and her husband Aleksandr and force them to leave everything behind. Together with more than 15 000 Latvians, Melanie and her son get deported to Siberia. In her fight against cold, famine and cruelty, she only gains new strength through the letters she writes to Aleksandr, full of hope for a free Latvia and a better tomorrow.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 912
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Latvia, Czech Republic, Finland
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, suspense, disturbing, black and white, period piece
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Hella W (2011)
Plot Summary:
The life of a heroine. The life and work of Hella Wuolijoki. A poet, spy and millionaire, she turned into an internationally acclaimed businesswoman, politician and playwright, who collaborated with Europe's leading writers such as Bertolt Brecht and Maxim Gorky, but faced the harshness of a changing world as the Finnish, Soviet and British secret services focus on her life, family and work.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 379
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Finland, Estonia
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: captivating, psychological, tense, factual
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The Silence of Joan (2011)
Plot Summary:
In 1430, Joan of Arc, the prisoner of a powerful lord of the north of France is sold to the English. As a captive awaiting her death, she is approached by different men for whom she is believed to be the embodiment of the infinite.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Biography
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, bleak, captivating, emotional, contemplative, gloomy
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Young Goethe in Love (2010)
Plot Summary:
After aspiring poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe fails his law exams, he's sent to a sleepy provincial court to reform. Instead, he falls for Lotte, a young woman who is promised to another man.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Biography, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sincere, realistic, serious, captivating, emotional, costume drama, intellectual, historical drama, crying, period drama
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Sagan (2008)
Plot Summary:
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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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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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How Strange to be Named Federico (2013)
Plot Summary:
On the 20th anniversary of Federico Fellini’s death, Ettore Scola, a devoted admirer of the incomparable maestro, commemorates the lesser-known aspects of Fellini’s personality, employing interviews, photographs, behind-the-scenes footage as well as Fellini’s drawings and film clips.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 742
Genere: Biography
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: realistic, sincere, serious, factual, captivating, touching, entertaining
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Taylor Swift: American Beauty (2012)
Plot Summary:
Biography - Taylor Alison Swift has evolved into one of the most popular names in modern music. Her strong voice and natural charm has made her the most successful country music artist in history. At the tender age of 21, she's already sold over 34 million digital tracks alone. However her success is no coincidence! Taylor Swift is one of the hardest working performers in music. This biography picture goes beyond the music and explores the challenges and triumphs of Taylor Swift, the American Beauty. - Kathie Bostian, Holly Burns, Reid Cox.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Biography
Country: USA
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, captivating, realistic
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Endless Poetry (2016)
Plot Summary:
A portrait of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s young adulthood, set in the 1940s and 50s, in the electric capital city of Santiago. There, he decides to become a poet and is introduced, by destiny, into the foremost bohemian and artistic circle of the time.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Chile, UK, France, Japan
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: surreal, sexy, mind bending, psychedelic, captivating, light, sincere, touching, funny, intellectual
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Jump! (2007)
Plot Summary:
JUMP is a psychological drama revealing for the first time the extraordinary circumstances behind the unjust murder trial of the young Jew, Philippe Halsman, who would later become the most sought after celebrity portrait photographer of his generation.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 648
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: serious, disturbing, contemplative, thought provoking, bleak, realistic, political
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Vysotsky: Thank God I'm Alive (2011)
Plot Summary:
Russian poet, singer and actor Vladimir Vysotsky was an idol of the 1970s and '80s. In 1980, at the age of 42, he passed away during the Moscow Olympic Games. This is the story of his last great love as handed down to his son from a family friend. Written by nitorch.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, captivating, dramatic, emotional, suspenseful, gloomy
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From a Far Country (1981)
Plot Summary:
The film is a biography of Pope John Paul II. It starts in 1926 when the boy Karol Wojtila was celebrating Christmas with his father in Poland. Some years later Nazi Germany attacks Poland and invades the country while Wojtila seeks refuge at the house of Cardinal Wyszynski. Also appear all the other important stations of the life of the Pope.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 199
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy, UK, Poland
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: uplifting, thought provoking, bleak, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, disturbing, contemplative, gloomy
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The Happy Prince (2018)
Plot Summary:
THE HAPPY PRINCE tells the story of the last days of Oscar Wilde. This great man of letters, once one of the most famous authors in England, is now a superstar on the skids. As Oscar lies on his death bed, the past comes flooding back to him, transporting him to other times and places.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Belgium, Italy, Germany
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: touching, suspenseful, depressing, captivating, suspense, melancholic, sad, art film, costume drama, fairy tale
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Brecht (2019)
Plot Summary:
Bertolt Brecht, a theatre revolutionary, poet of the state, outsider, looks back on his life in 1956, the year of his death, in East Berlin: adolescent provocations in Augsburg during the First World War, early poetic and amorous flights of fancy in the Munich and Berlin of the 1920s, his escape from Hitler, returning from the US exile, followed by his later years caught in a dilemma between timeless classic and a failing GDR class fighter, an indefatigable free spirit and compromised artist.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 388
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Germany, Austria, Czech Republic
Duration: 187 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, thought provoking, disturbing, humorous, visually appealing, fun
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Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe (2016)
Plot Summary:
Before Dawn charts the years of exile in the life of famous Jewish Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, his inner struggle for the "right attitude" towards the events in war torn Europe and his search for a new home.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Austria, Germany, France
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: exciting, thought provoking, captivating, sincere, touching, visually appealing
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Within the Whirlwind (2009)
Plot Summary:
During Stalin's reign of terror, Evgenia Ginzburg, a literature professor, was sent to 10 years hard labor in a gulag in Siberia. Having lost everything, and no longer wishing to live, she meets the camp doctor and begins to come back to life.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Germany, Poland, Belgium
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, historical drama
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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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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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Mirror (1975)
Plot Summary:
A dying man in his forties remembers his past. His childhood, his mother, the war, personal moments and things that tell of the recent history of all the Russian nation.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 51000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: surreal, cerebral, atmospheric, avant garde, art house, enigmatic, serious, philosophical, psychological, thought provoking
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The Diary of Anne Frank (1980)
Plot Summary:
The story of a 13-year-old Jewish girl and her family who are forced into hiding by the Nazis during World War II.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 629
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: sincere, uplifting, touching, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, gloomy
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The Last Sentence (2012)
Plot Summary:
Renowned journalist Torgny Segerstedt declares war against Hitler as he criticizes Swedish politicians who tried to look away from the tyranny of the Nazis with the good excuse of “neutralism”. His only weapon is his pen and his life is full of gossip such as an affair with his boss’ wife, a love scandal with a secretary younger than his daughter, and the suicide of his wife. However, he continues to fight a one man battle against Hitler and the Nazi regime until his death, throwing the question “Can one person really change history?” to the audience.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 839
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Sweden, Norway
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, touching, serious, uplifting, bleak, realistic, gloomy, period drama
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The End of the Tour (2015)
Plot Summary:
The story of the five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace, which took place right after the 1996 publication of Wallace's groundbreaking epic novel, 'Infinite Jest.'.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: philosophical, meditative, psychological, sincere, serious, talky, depressing, novela, aesthetic, twisted