BIOGRAPHY Movies and Tvshows - Page 69

True Women (1997)

IMDb: 6.7
1997

Covering nearly fifty years of mid 19th century turmoil, from the tumultuous Texas Revolution to the early womens suffrage movement, True Women is a gripping tale of endurance, love, and above all, gritty female determination

Edith Walks (2017)

IMDb: 5.8
2017

Edith Walks is a 60 minute 66 second feature film inspired by a walk from Waltham Abbey in Essex via Battle Abbey to St Leonards on Sea in East Sussex The film documents a pilgrimage in memory of Edith Swan Neck Bits of King Harold

Resistance (2020)

IMDb: 6.4
2020

The story of mime Marcel Marceau as he works with a group of Jewish boy scouts and the French Resistance to save the lives of ten thousand orphans during World War II

Monica Z (2013)

IMDb: 6.9
2013

The world famous Swedish jazz singer, actress and icon Monica Zetterlunds life through stardom and hardship

Murder of Couriers (2012)

IMDb: 7.0
2012

Documents the lives of a group of bike messengers over a nearly three year span This film was made by couriers, about couriers, for a wide general audience

The Underground (2017)

IMDb: 5.2
2021

What has the government been hiding just beneath your feet

The Color of Pomegranates (1969)

IMDb: 7.7
1969

A surreal biopic of Armenian poet Sayat Nova, depicted through non narrative amalgamations of images, hailed as revolutionary by Mikhail Vartanov

Many Beautiful Things (2015)

IMDb: 7.9
2015

From Executive Producer Hisao Kurosawa, Dreams, Ran, comes the untold story of one of the worlds greatest women artists and why her name was nearly lost to history Many Beautiful Things plunges viewers into the complex age of Vic

The Whalebone Box (2020)

IMDb: 5.3
2019

RUNNING TIME 01 22 58 Ratio ACADEMY 1 33 1 Stereo Sound SUPER 8 and COLOURBW apps HD Pinhole Photographs 16mm ARCHIVE THE WHALEBONE BOX is a film about a whale bone box A box made of whale bone Entangled in a fishermans net

Nothing Is Truer than Truth (2018)

IMDb: 7.3
2018

NOTHING IS TRUER THAN TRUTH is a feature length documentary about Edward de Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, A list party boy on the continental circuit, who spent a year and a half in Venice and traveling in Europe, learning about

Houdini (1953)

IMDb: 6.8
1953

From his beginnings as a wildman carnival act to the internationally famous feat of escaping from a locked trunk in an ice jammed river, the great Harry Houdini emerged as the worlds most captivating magician and escape artist

Drawing Dead: The Highs & Lows of On

IMDb: 6.8
2013

Drawing Dead is a documentary film about the highs and lows of online poker from two very different perspectives a professional poker player worth millions, and a gambling addict

The Hunter (1980)

IMDb: 6.3
1980

Bounty hunter Ralph Papa Thorson is receiving death threats from a criminal he helped put away This while his girlfriend is about to give birth, an event he isnt looking forward to

Admiral (2015)

IMDb: 7.0
2015

When the young republic of The Netherlands is attacked by England, France, and Germany, and the country is on the brink of civil war, only one man can lead the countrys strongest weapon, the Dutch fleet Michiel de Ruyter Frank Lam

Esther (1999)

IMDb: 6.8
1999

The Bible story of Esther starring Louise Lombard, F Murray Abraham and Jurgen Prochnow

Harishchandrachi Factory (2009)

IMDb: 8.4
2009

In 1913 Indias cinema industry is born from Dadasaheb Phalkes efforts to make Raja Harishchandra 1913, Indias first feature length BampW silent film

Circus of Books (2019)

IMDb: 7.1
2019

In 1976, Karen and Barry Mason had fallen on hard times and were looking for a way to support their young family when they answered an ad in the Los Angeles Times Larry Flynt was seeking distributors for Hustler Magazine What was e

Everymans War (2009)

IMDb: 5.1
2009

The true story of Don Smiths heroic experience at the Battle of the Bulge while with the 94th Infantry

Mindbender (1996)

IMDb: 3.6
1996

Mindbender is the story of Uri Geller, probably the worlds most famous psychic The film shows his rise to fame from small shows in the middle east where he amazed audiences with his

Radioactive (2019)

IMDb: 6.2
2019

The incredible true story of Marie Sklodowska Curie and her Nobel Prize winning work that changed the world

Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten (2

IMDb: 7.6
2007

As the front man of the Clash from 1977, Joe Strummer changed peoples lives forever Four years after his death, his influence reaches out around the world, more strongly now than ever before

Through My Fathers Eyes (2017)

IMDb: 6.2
2019

The extraordinary story of MMAUFC super star Ronda Rousey

Quiz Show (1994)

IMDb: 7.5
1994

A young lawyer, Richard Goodwin, investigates a potentially fixed game show Charles Van Doren, a big time show winner, is under Goodwins investigation

No Longer Human (2019)

IMDb: 5.5
2019

Oguri Shun plays Dazai Osamu who is one of the more popular novelists in Japan Like most artists he has his vulnerabilities and exposures In this case, the man is an alcoholic and lustful nomad In other words, while being married

I Am Slave (2010)

IMDb: 6.7
2010

A thriller set in Londons slave trade and centered on a womans fight for freedom

The Jayne Mansfield Story (1980)

IMDb: 5.2
1980

The gaudy rise and dizzy fall of the last great Hollywood blonde bombshell Jayne Mansfield

The Straight Story (1999)

IMDb: 8.0
1999

An old man makes a long journey by lawnmower to mend his relationship with an ill brother

Mope (2019)

IMDb: 5.2
2019

The tragic true story of best friends Steve Driver and Tom Dong, two low end porn actors who sought fame but gained infamy

Cavedigger (2013)

IMDb: 7.1
2013

An unsung land artist who creates singular, cathedral like eighth wonder of the world sculptural caves with nothing but hand tools and passion struggles with unappreciative patrons, financial hardship, and his aging body

Mahler (1974)

IMDb: 7.0
1974

Composer Gustav Mahlers life, told in a series of flashbacks as he and his wife discuss their failing marriage during a train journey

El cantante (2006)

IMDb: 5.5
2006

The life story of Hector Lavoe who started the salsa movement in 1975 and brought it to the United States

Jerry Lewis: The Man Behind the Clown (2

IMDb: 8.0
2016

Jerry Lewis The Man Behind the Clown chronicles the remarkable life and genius work of one of the most iconic and incomparable comic performers and filmmakers of our time

Street Survivors: The True Story of the

IMDb: 5.1
2020

Drummer Artimus Pyles experience as a band member in Lynyrd Skynyrd and the tragically fateful day that the plane they rented crashed in the swamps of Gillsburg, MS on October 20th ,1977

Hollywoodland (2006)

IMDb: 6.5
2006

A detective examines the mysterious death of George Reeves, the star of the television series Adventures of Superman 1952

Cloud Capped Star (2013)

IMDb: 8.1
2013

To Ritwik Ghatak film was not merely a form of entertainment, but a weapon, a medium to portray struggle of common men He was successful neither in his career nor he could he become a good family man or husband Still he was an arti

The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960)

IMDb: 7.1
1960

A chronicle of Oscar Wildes libel suit against the Marquis of Queensberry and the tragic turn his life takes because of it