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IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Soviet Union, USA
Duration: 102 min
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Defence Counsel Sedov (1988)
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Late one evening in Moscow in 1937, Defence Counsel Sedov hears a knock at the door. Three women whose agronomist husbands have been sentenced to death for alleged sabotage beg him to take on the seemingly hopeless task of saving them. Sedov embarks upon a succession of encounters with increasingly powerful officials, gradually persuading them to look at the case anew. But the highest authorities are not so easily outmanoeuvered, and Sedov becomes canonised as a Stalinist zealot, with the film building inexorably to its chilling triple climax.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 139
Genere: Short, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 42 min
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John and the Missus (1987)
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A small Canadian town is devasted when a local mine--the town's only source of income--is closed. One man incurs the wrath of the townsmen when he stubbornly refuses the small amount of settlement money offered by the government.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Choice of Purpose (1975)
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A story of the creation of the atomic bomb in America, Germany and the USSR.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 158 min
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A Time for Miracles (1980)
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Elizabeth Bayley Seton, America's first native-born saint and founder of the Sisters of Charity, is the subject of this inspiring biopic. After the tragic death of her husband, Seton converts to Catholicism. Once again, she suffers terrible loss when two of her children die, but goes on to found the American Sisters of Charity and the first American Catholic schools. Seton died in 1826 and was canonized by Pope Paul VI in 1975.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 109
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
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Inspired by the life and times of Caribbean war hero, judge and diplomat Ulric Cross whose amazing life spanned key moments of the 20th Century like WW2, African independence movements, Black Power, the rise of a new brand of Black leadership around the world, events that define our present reality.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 134
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Trinidad and Tobago, Canada
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating
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Curtin (2007)
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1941. A country in crisis. A new man in power. Leadership demands and personal demons are set to collide. The story of John Curtin as he faces his first six months as Prime Minister, confronting in quick succession, the tragedy of Pearl Harbour, the fall of Singapore, the bombing of Darwin and a furious battle with Churchill over the deployment of Australian troops. This is a raw and intimate story of a driven and inspirational leader - a man who struggles to battle his own personal demons while serving and protecting a country at war.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min
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Enslavement: The True Story Of Fanny Kemble (2000)
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Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble fictionalized made-for-TV movie adapted from her Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839, starring Jane Seymour and Keith Carradine.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, disturbing, period drama
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The take-down of an infamous leader of a small polygamous Mormon fundamentalist group, who ordered assassinations of his opponents.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 275
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
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Darrow (1991)
Plot Summary:
A film about Clarence Darrow - based on a true story.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 450
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, serious, captivating, realistic, contemplative
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IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 57000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 157 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, captivating, realistic, disturbing, cult classic, extraordinary
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The story of the life of the actress Elizabeth Taylor.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 526
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 210 min
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The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson (1990)
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A film about the early life of the baseball star in the army, particulary his court-martial for insubordination regarding segragation.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 241
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sincere, uplifting, thought provoking, clever, serious, captivating, realistic, disturbing, contemplative, talky
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Born Again (1978)
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Having been imprisoned for his part in the Watergate scandal, Charles Colson undergoes a religious conversion.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Son of the South (2020)
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Based on a true story, Bob Zellner, grandson of a Klansman, comes of age in the Deep South and eventually joins the Civil Rights Movement.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing, inspirational
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Roe vs. Wade (1989)
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Holly Hunter plays a lonely, single, poorly educated Texan who finds herself pregnant with no means to support a child. To avoid giving up the child, she seeks an abortion. Denied an abortion in Texas the young woman hires a novice lawyer to plead her case in the US supreme court. Eventually the law is changed, but for the character it takes longer than nine months.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 362
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
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Rosewater (2014)
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In 2009, Iranian Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari was covering Iran's volatile elections for Newsweek. One of the few reporters living in the country with access to US media, he made an appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, in a taped interview with comedian Jason Jones. The interview was intended as satire, but if the Tehran authorities got the joke they didn't like it - and it would quickly came back to haunt Bahari when he was rousted from his family home and thrown into prison. Making his directorial debut, Jon Stewart tells the tale of Bahari's months-long imprisonment and interrogation in this powerful and affecting docudrama featuring a potent and performance by Gael García Bernal recounting Bahari's efforts to maintain his hope and his sanity in the face of isolation and persecution-through memories of his family, recollections of the music he loves, and thoughts of his wife and unborn child.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: brutal, suspense, suspenseful, surreal, tense, captivating, political, social, novela, powerful
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The Last Days of Patton (1986)
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IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 146 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating, disturbing, factual
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IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, thought provoking, realistic, talky, independent film
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: depressing, emotional, realistic, thought provoking, disturbing, factual, compassionate, dark
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The Wronged Man (2010)
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IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: emotional, serious, captivating, realistic, sincere, rough, bleak, disturbing
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A Cry in the Dark (1988)
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IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Australia, UK, USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: realistic, disturbing, tense, emotional, suspense, thought provoking, serious, sincere, sad, compassionate
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Sully (2016)
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On 15 January 2009, the world witnessed the 'Miracle on the Hudson' when Captain 'Sully' Sullenberger glided his disabled plane onto the frigid waters of the Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 aboard. However, even as Sully was being heralded by the public and the media for his unprecedented feat of aviation skill, an investigation was unfolding that threatened to destroy his reputation and career.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 293000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
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Acclaimed writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt must battle for historical truth to prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving, a renowned denier, sues her for libel.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 109 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 124000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min
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Young lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg teams with her husband Marty to bring a groundbreaking case before the U.S. Court of Appeals and overturn a century of gender discrimination.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 38000
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Country: USA, China, Canada
Duration: 120 min
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IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 100000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
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IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 214000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
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