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Plot Summary:
Czechoslovakia's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1981.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: crying, freeze frame
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Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)
Plot Summary:
The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress, who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 59000
Genere: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK, France
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: inspirational, emotional, touching, melancholic, witty, stylized, feel good, sad, cult classic, historical drama
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The Kerosene Lamps (1971)
Plot Summary:
In 1900, Stepha, the vivacious 30 year old daughter of a wealthy couple, agrees to marry her cousin Paul, who has accumulated large debts as an Austrian army officer. Paul refuses to work or to consummate the marriage, and then his health steadily declines.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 390
Genere: Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: crying
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Concert at the End of Summer (1980)
Plot Summary:
A docudrama about four weeks in the life of famous Czech composer Antonin Dvorak. The drama - filled with many of Dvorak's compositions - begins when the composer suddenly decides to cut a concert in London and return home. While on the train, flashbacks reveal his relationship to his wife Anna and her sister Josefina. Both women gave him inspiration, yet Dvorak is clearly troubled in some way as musical excerpts come and go in his creative mind.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Biography
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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And Give My Love to the Swallows (1972)
Plot Summary:
This film, chronicling the last days of Czech resistance fighter Maruska Kuderikova (played by Magda Vasaryova), is based on her diaries. Though she was tortured and eventually executed by the Nazis, her diaries indicate that she was optimistic for the humanity of her captors and did not by any means hate them. Told with simple dignity, this film makes clear why Maruska became a national hero.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, freeze frame
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The Night Overtakes Me (1986)
Plot Summary:
A communist journalist from Prague is sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: crying, freeze frame
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Shirley (2011)
Plot Summary:
Shirley is the youngest of eight children from a mixed race marriage. By the time she is a toddler the family have moved to the all white area of Splott and by the time she is 12 Shirley has discovered she has an extraordinary voice and can earn money singing in pubs around the docks after her father if jailed for sexual crimes. As a young teenager she begins singing and dancing in 'coloured review shows'. But it is a chance meeting with struggling agent Mike Sullivan that changes her life forever. He promises to make her a star, but has no idea of the personal sacrifice that will mean for the teenaged Shirley.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 201
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, realistic
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Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story (1995)
Plot Summary:
After serving in the military for more than twenty years, including a tour of duty in Vietnam, Colonel Margarethe Cammermeyer (Glenn Close) had seen her share of battles. But nothing could prepare her for the fight ahead: an intensely personal struggle against the U.S. Army when she becomes the highest ranking officer ever to be discharged for being a lesbian. With the support of her partner Diane (Judy Davis), Cammermeyer undertakes an against-all-odds battle against the Army's policy. But to do so, she must risk everything – her career, her privacy and even the love of her family.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: cult classic, sincere, uplifting, thought provoking, touching, serious, realistic, disturbing, contemplative, crying
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Mahler (1974)
Plot Summary:
The film begins on a train journey with Gustav Mahler (Robert Powell) and his wife Alma (Georgina Hale) confronting their failing marriage. The story is then recounted in a series of flashbacks (some of which are surrealistic and nightmarish), taking one through Mahler's childhood, his brother's suicide, his experience with anti-semitism, his conversion from Judaism to Catholicism, his marital problems, and the death of his young daughter. The film also contains a surreal fantasy sequence involving the anti-Semitic Cosima Wagner (Antonia Ellis), widow of Richard Wagner, whose objections to his taking control of the Court Opera were supposedly removed by his conversion to Catholicism. In the process, the film explores Mahler's music and its relationship to his life.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: road movie, psychedelic, art house, historical drama, psychological, sincere, atmospheric, serious, realistic, stylized
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Il Divo (2008)
Plot Summary:
The narration spans the period since the seventh election of Andreotti as Prime Minister of Italy in 1992, until the trial in which he was accused of collusion with the Mafia.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: political, disturbing, enigmatic, serious, suspenseful, philosophical, cerebral, controversial, realistic, intense
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Valentino (1977)
Plot Summary:
In 1926 the tragic and untimely death of a silent screen actor caused female moviegoers to riot in the streets and in some cases to commit suicide.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: independent film, offbeat, serious, realistic, stylized, crying, period drama, campy
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We of the Never Never (1982)
Plot Summary:
Based on the well-loved Australian classic by Mrs. Aeneas Gunn, this is the remarkable true story of Jeannie Gunn, a woman who fought to overcome sexual and racial prejudice amid the harsh beauties of the outback. Leaving her Melbourne existence for a new life on her husband's isolated ranch, Jeannie's feisty, good-natured attitude soon wins over the misogynistic stockmen, but she faces a much tougher challenge in trying to change their racist attitudes towards the indigenous aboriginal population.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 456
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: independent film, sentimental, sincere, uplifting, touching, serious, realistic, crying, period piece, period drama
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Leonie (2010)
Plot Summary:
In the lush tradition of the glorious films of Merchant and Ivory, comes the true life story of Leonie Gilmour (Emily Mortimer), whose life crossed continents, wars and cultures, embodied with courage and passion in search of art and freedom. A tender and inspiring story of a remarkable woman who nurtures the amazing artistic talent of her son who has only one way to succeed and one person to guide him, as he grows into the world renown artist, Isamu Noguchi.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 573
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: France, UK, Australia, Germany, Belgium, USA, Japan, Netherlands
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: uplifting, serious, realistic, stylized, retro, crying, period piece, period drama
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Havel (2020)
Plot Summary:
It's the summer of '68 and the young Czech playwright Vaclav Havel is enjoying the heady atmosphere of new- found freedom as the iron grip of Soviet repression gradually loosens throughout Central Europe. In Havel's Prague, politics are as exciting as theatre, sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. Havel, though, is a comfortable and acclaimed playwright, and he's determined to avoid conflict that might upset his world. He resists confrontation with the political authorities - led by the celebrated politician Alexander Dubcek - and he tries to carry out his romantic escapades without undermining his marriage to his beloved Olga. Havel's fling with freedom comes to an abrupt and violent end when Soviet Russia invades Czechoslovakia. When Havel refuses to sign a regime-sponsored document approving of the Russian occupation, the government removes him from his theater and from his prestigious position at the pinnacle of Czech cultural life. The now-banned author retreats from the limelight to his.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 492
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: non-linear, serious, captivating, realistic
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The Case for Christ (2017)
Plot Summary:
Based on the true story of an award-winning investigative journalist -- and avowed atheist -- who applies his well-honed journalistic and legal skills to disprove the newfound Christian faith of his wife... with unexpected, life-altering results.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: christian film, biblical, disturbing, psychological, thought provoking, captivating, inspirational, spiritual
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The Glass Castle (2017)
Plot Summary:
A young girl is raised in a dysfunctional family constantly on the run from the FBI. Living in poverty, she comes of age guided by her drunkard, ingenious father who distracts her with magical stories to keep her mind off the family's dire state, and her selfish, nonconformist mother who has no intention of raising a family, along with her younger brother and sister, and her other older sister. Together, they fend for each other as they mature in an unorthodox journey that is their family life.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: sentimental, thought provoking, emotional, sad, psychological, captivating, exciting, road movie, mind bending, dramatic
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Burton and Taylor (2013)
Plot Summary:
TV drama based on Richard Burton's diaries, about his last performance in 1983 with ex-wife Elizabeth Taylor. They meet after several years and he agrees to her suggestion that they star in a stage revival on Broadway of Noel Coward's comedy 'Private Lives', although Elizabeth Taylor has never before performed on stage. Burton soon regrets his agreement, however, when her pill-popping and lack of discipline causes problems already during the rehearsals. The play opens to a critical trashing, but is popular with audiences because they just want to see Taylor. After a two month troubled run, the curtain comes down and Taylor tells Burton she has always loved him and still does. A year later he is dead.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, captivating, stylized, cult classic, historical drama, crying
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Amadeus (1984)
Plot Summary:
The incredible story of genius musician Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, told in flashback by his peer and secret rival Antonio Salieri – now confined to an insane asylum.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 421000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA, France
Duration: 160 min
Plot tags: inspirational, epic, costume drama, clever, period piece, visual, atmospheric, visually appealing, historical drama, captivating
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A Quiet Passion (2016)
Plot Summary:
The story of American poet Emily Dickinson from her early days as a young schoolgirl to her later years as a reclusive, unrecognized artist.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Belgium, Canada, USA
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: historical drama, costume drama, romantic drama, period drama, queer cinema
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Milada (2017)
Plot Summary:
The story of communist show-trial victim Milada Horáková. Horáková was one of the first victims of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia. She opposed the communist coup in 1948 but did not leave the country. She was arrested and tried for treason on fabricated charges in a show trial that was broadcast on the radio and shown in film clips. The film focuses on the time from 1945 to 1950 when the communists took over, but also goes back a little further in Horáková's life into the late 1930s.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Czech Republic, USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, tense, touching, captivating
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55 Steps (2017)
Plot Summary:
55 Steps is based a the inspiring true story of Eleanor Riese, a mental illness patient herself, who brings a class action suit to give competent mental patients the right to have a say in their medication while they’re in a hospital, and Colette Hughes, the lawyer appointed to her case.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Germany, Belgium
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, sincere, captivating, suspense, disturbing, sentimental, inspirational, spiritual, deep
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The Vernon Johns Story (1994)
Plot Summary:
In 1948, Johns served as the outspoken spiritual leader of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Incensed at the racial injustice that pervaded the South, he was determined to fight for equality for all African Americans.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 335
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, serious, captivating, realistic, disturbing
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Act One (1963)
Plot Summary:
Story of the life of writer/playwright Moss Hart.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 281
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sincere, uplifting, touching, serious, realistic, sexual, sexy
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Seraphine (2008)
Plot Summary:
The tragic story of French naïve painter Séraphine Louis aka Séraphine de Senlis (1864-1942), a humble servant who becomes a gifted self-taught painter. Discovered by prominent critic and collector William Uhde, she came to prominence between the wars grouped with other naïve painters like Henri Rouseau only to descend into madness and obscurity with the onset of Great Depression and World War II.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: touching, sincere, sentimental, surprise ending, heartbreaking, avant garde, independent film, art film, visual, visually stunning
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Vincent & Theo (1990)
Plot Summary:
The tragic story of Vincent van Gogh broadened by focusing as well on his brother Theodore, who helped support Vincent. Based on the letters written between the two.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: France, Netherlands, UK, Germany, Italy, USA
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, scenic, sexy, cult classic, independent film, atmospheric, serious, realistic, gloomy
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Angela's Ashes (1999)
Plot Summary:
Based on the best selling autobiography by Irish expat Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes follows the experiences of young Frankie and his family as they try against all odds to escape the poverty endemic in the slums of pre-war Limerick. The film opens with the family in Brooklyn, but following the death of one of Frankie's siblings, they return home, only to find the situation there even worse. Prejudice against Frankie's Northern Irish father makes his search for employment in the Republic difficult despite his having fought for the IRA, and when he does find money, he spends the money on drink.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, UK, Ireland
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: emotional, touching, depressing, sad, compassionate, serious, melancholic, sincere, gothic, epic
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Joy (2015)
Plot Summary:
A story based on the life of a struggling Long Island single mom who became one of the country's most successful entrepreneurs.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 143000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: inspirational, stylized, emotional, sentimental, intense, serious, realistic, feel good, motivational, clever
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Devil's Mistress (2016)
Plot Summary:
A film about the black-and-white era actress Lída Baarová and her doomed love affair.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: captivating, touching, suspense, disturbing, meta, crying, freeze frame
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Anthropoid (2016)
Plot Summary:
In December 1941, Czech soldier Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš parachute into their occupied homeland to assassinate Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 53000
Genere: Action, Biography, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK, France, USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: factual, clever, emotional, realistic, slasher, social, visually stunning, intense, crying, freeze frame
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Mr. Jones (2019)
Plot Summary:
In 1933, Welsh journalist Gareth Jones travels to Ukraine, where he experiences the horrors of a famine. Everywhere he goes he meets henchmen of the Soviet secret service who are determined to prevent news about the catastrophe from getting out. Stalin’s forced collectivisation of agriculture has resulted in misery and ruin—the policy is tantamount to mass murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland, UK, Ukraine
Duration: 141 min
Plot tags: period piece, cult classic
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Warm Springs (2005)
Plot Summary:
Franklin Roosevelt, left a paraplegic from polio at 39 years of age, seeks out a miracle cure in the backwoods of Georgia.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, uplifting, realistic, political, captivating, historical drama, historically accurate, touching, serious
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