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Dominican Rep. Take the Tour: "Biopics"
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United States - 1984- Director:
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- In a lavish 18th Century parlor in Austria, an elderly man is found, by his servant, with his throat slashed. The wound is self-inflicted, and the man is the little-known ...
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United States - 1994- Director:
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- Johnny Depp, Martin Landau ...
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- Acclaimed filmmaker Tim Burton brings to life the true and hilarious story of Ed Wood (Johnny Depp), the wackiest and worst movie director of all time. When Ed Wood pulls ...
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United States - 2013- Director:
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- Young middle-class Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio), a hard-partying, drug addicted New York stockbroker and owner of the company Stratton Oakmont, refuses to cooperate ...
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United States - 1988- Director:
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- This film is a tribute to the life and genius of saxophonist great Charlie Parker. Bird is a collage of passages from Parker's remarkable life, from his childhood in ...
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United States - 2001- Director:
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- Obsessed with finding a truly original mathematical idea, the brilliant student John Forbes Nash (Russell Crowe) arrives at Princeton in 1947 for graduate study – as an ...
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United Kingdom - 1962- Director:
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- Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif ...
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- While working on the staff of the British Intelligence in Cairo in 1916, Lawrence (Peter O'Toole) is sent to a mission to establish contact with Prince Feisal (Alec ...
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United States - 1995- Director:
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- Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau ...
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- Based on the life of legendary 13th century Scottish hero William Wallace. Returning to his homeland following the death of an heirless king, Wallace (Mel Gibson) finds ...
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United Kingdom - 1982- Director:
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- Ben Kingsley, Roshan Seth ...
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- Richard Attenborough's award-winning epic recounts the life and times of Mahatma Gandhi. In South Africa, a young Indian lawyer is booted off a train for refusing to ride ...
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United States - 1953- Director:
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- The grandeur of the Roman world and powerful jealousy thunder together in Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s adaptation of William Shakespeare’s famous JULIUS CAESAR. Scheming ...
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France - 1928- Director:
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- Year 1431. Young french Joan of Arc is put on trial for alleged treason. Once glorified as her nation’s saviour, she has become a mere pawn in a game of political ...
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Spain - 2004- Director:
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- Javier Bardem, Belén Rueda ...
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- Ramon Sampedro has been laid up in bed for thirty years, being taken care of by his family. His bedroom window is his only window to the world, overlooking the sea he so ...
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France - 1927- Director:
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- A biopic of Napoleon which spans approximately 16 years. It covers Napoleon's childhood, his first strategic victory (a schoolyard snowball fight), his rise through the ...
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United States - 2012- Director:
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- In 1865, as the American Civil War winds inexorably toward conclusion, U.S. president Abraham Lincoln endeavors to achieve passage of the landmark constitutional ...
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United States - 2005- Director:
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- Immensely gifted actor Philip Seymour Hoffman channels the spirit of Truman Capote in this deeply engaging portrait of a great American writer. Director Bennett Miller's ...
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United Kingdom - 2006- Director:
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- The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Tony Blair during their struggle, following the death of ...
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United Kingdom - 2010- Director:
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- This is the story of King George VI. When his older brother abdicates the throne, nervous-mannered successor George "Bertie" VI (Colin Firth) reluctantly dons the crown. ...
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France - 2007- Director:
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- At 43, Jean-Dominique Bauby, the rakishly successful and charismatic editor in chief of French Elle was a man defined by his passion for life. On December 1995, he ...
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France - 2007- Director:
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- She was tiny and tender, but her private life was marked by extraordinary tragedy. Edith Piaf (1915-1963) conveyed French identity to the rest of the world as had no ...
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United States - 2010- Director:
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- A story about the founders of the social-networking website, Facebook, especially his most famous creator: Mark Zuckerberg. On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and ...
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United States - 1980- Director:
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- Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt ...
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- John Merrick (John Hurt) is a hideously deformed individual dubbed the Elephant Man during his years in a circus freak show in Victorian England. After suffering for ...
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United Kingdom - 2011- Director:
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- Year 1956. Young actress stars Marilyn Monroe (Michelle Williams) arrives in England to act with Sir Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh) in the film "The Prince And The ...
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United States - 2013- Director:
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- The extraordinary story of Steve Jobs' (1955-2011) ascension from college dropout into one of the most revered creative entrepreneurs of the 20th century. Jobs was an ...
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United Kingdom - 2013- Director:
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- Rush tells the extraordinary story of the F1 season when British driver James Hunt was pitted against Niki Lauda for the world championship.A biography of Formula 1 ...
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United States - 1974- Director:
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- Interview-style biography of controversial and pioneering stand-up comedian Lenny Bruce. The film traces Bruce from his beginnings as a Catskills comic to his later ...
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Israel - 2008- Director:
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- Animation
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- One night at a bar, an old friend tells director Ari about a recurring nightmare in which he is chased by 26 vicious dogs. Every night, the same number of beasts. The two ...
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United States - 2009- Director:
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- Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon ...
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- A look at life for Nelson Mandela after the fall of apartheid in South Africa during his first term as president when campaigned to host the 1995 Rugby World Cup event as ...
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United States - 2004- Director:
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- The Aviator, directed by Martin Scorsese and written by John Logan, tells the story of aviation pioneer Howard Hughes (Leonardo DiCaprio), the eccentric billionaire ...
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United States - 2004- Director:
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- Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet ...
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- A tale of magic and fantasy inspired by the life of James Barrie, the real-life author of the children's classic "Peter Pan". Set in London in 1904, the film follows ...
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United States - 2009- Director:
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- The Feds try to take down notorious American gangsters John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy Floyd during a booming crime wave in the 1930s. No one could stop ...
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United States - 1985- Director:
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- Ken Ogata, Kenji Sawada ...
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- Divided into four sections titled "Beauty," "Art," "Action" and "Harmony of Pen and Sword," Mishima is based -- in a fascinating creative choice -- not only on Mishima's ...
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France - 2007- Director:
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- Animation, Voice: Chiara Mastroianni ...
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- Tehran 1978: An eight year old Marjane, dreams of being a future prophet, intent on saving the world. Cherished by her modern and cultivated parents and adored by her ...
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United States - 2011- Director:
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- Biopic on FBI director J. Edgar Hoover (Leonardo DiCaprio), focusing on his controversial career and rumored private life as a homosexual in love with his Assistant ...
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United States - 1933- Director:
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- Greta Garbo, John Gilbert ...
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- Young Christina ascends to the Swedish throne at age 5. While she is queen, Sweden becomes a dominant European power at the end of the Thirty Years War. Like England's ...
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United States - 2004- Director:
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- The Life Story of Ray Charles. Soul singer Ray Charles' life transpires on-screen, from his humble beginnings in Georgia, where he went blind at the age of seven, to his ...
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United States - 2001- Director:
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- Will Smith, Jon Voight ...
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- Muhammad Ali thrilled the world with his ground-breaking boxing victories in the '60s and '70s. But the man behind the legend is grappling with a tumultuous romantic ...
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United States - 2008- Director:
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- Sean Penn, James Franco ...
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- The story of California's first openly gay elected official, Harvey Milk, a San Francisco supervisor who was assassinated along with Mayor George Moscone by San Francisco ...
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United Kingdom - 2014- Director:
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- Renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking (Eddie Redmayne) and his wife Jane (Felicity Jones) struggle with Stephen’s debilitating illness as he embarks on his ...
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United States - 1930- Director:
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- Walter Huston, Una Merkel ...
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- D.W. Griffith's first talking movie is the biography of Lincoln from his birth in a log cabin to his entry into politics and his years of power before his assassination ...
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Ireland - 1996- Director:
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- Liam Neeson, Aidan Quinn ...
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- Starting with Ireland's bloody Easter Rebellion of 1916 and ending with his untimely death, this epic film tells the charged story of Michael "Mickey" Collins. An IRA ...
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United States - 1999- Director:
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- Jim Carrey, Danny DeVito ...
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- Man on the Moon is a biographical movie on the late comedian Andy Kaufman. Kaufman, along with his role on "Taxi," was famous for being the self-declared Intergender ...
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United States - 2006- Director:
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- Based on Antonia Fraser's biography of Marie Antoinette, a naive, 14 year old Austrian and Queen of France. At a young age, she was arranged to marry Louis XVI and was ...
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Spain - 2006- Director:
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- On 2 March 1974, the young militant of the Movimiento Ibérico de Liberación (Iberian Liberation Movement), Salvador Puig Antich, became the last political prisoner to be ...
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United States - 1999- Director:
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- In June 1966, Rubin Hurricane Carter was a strong contender for the middleweight boxing title. When three people were murdered in a New Jersey bar, Carter's dreams were ...
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United States - 2013- Director:
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- Based on the true-life tale of Ron Woodroof, a drug taking, women loving, homophobic man who, in 1986 was diagnosed with full blown HIV/AIDS and given thirty days to ...
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United States - 1992- Director:
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- Partly based on Charlie Chaplin's My Autobiography, this humorous and dramatic biopic features an all-star cast including Oscar nominee Robert Downey Jr., Dan Aykroyd, ...
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Hong Kong - 1991- Director:
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- Maggie Cheung, Chin Han ...
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- Biopic of 1930's Chinese actress Ruan Ling Yu.
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United States - 2006- Director:
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- Ed Harris, Diane Kruger ...
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- Anna Holtz is a 23-year-old aspiring composer lacking in wherewithal struggling to find inspiration and prosper in the music capital of the world, Vienna. Anna, a ...
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United Kingdom - 1998- Director:
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- When catholic Queen Mary dies the succession goes to Elizabeth, the protestant half-sister Mary was not prepared to execute. The new queen finds herself surrounded by ...
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United States - 2013- Director:
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- Emma Thompson, Tom Hanks ...
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- A behind-the-scenes look at how the popular Disney film "Mary Poppins" came to be. When Walt Disney (Tom Hanks) buys the rights to her novel, "Mary Poppins," to make into ...
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United Kingdom - 2010- Director:
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- Documentary, Self: Ayrton Senna ...
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- The story of the monumental life and tragic death of legendary Brazilian motor-racing Champion Ayrton Senna (1960-1994). Spanning the decade from his arrival in Formula ...
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