Biography movies

Salvador (1986)

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Genres: Biography | Drama | Thriller | War
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Woods, James | Belushi, James | Murphy, Michael | Savage, John | Carrillo, Elpidia | Plana, Tony | Chester, Colby | Gibb, Cynthia | MacMillan, Will | Wildman, Valerie | Ruiz, José Carlos | Luke, Jorge | Fernández, Juan | Sánchez, Salvador | Zúñiga, Rosario
Directors: Stone, Oliver
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A journalist, down on his luck in the US, drives to El Salvador to chronicle the events of the 1980 military dictatorship, including the assasination of Archbishop Oscar Romero. He forms an uneasy alliance with both guerillas in the countryside who want him to get pictures out to the US press, and the right-wing military, who want him to bring them photographs of the rebels. Meanwhile he has to find a way of protecting his Salvadorean girlfriend and getting her out of the country.

My Brilliant Career (1979)

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Genres: Biography | Drama | Romance
Countries: Australia
Actors: Davis, Judy | Neill, Sam | Hughes, Wendy | Grubb, Robert | Cullen, Max | Britton, Aileen | Whitford, Peter | Kennedy, Patricia | Hopgood, Alan | Blake, Julia | Franklin, David | Shad, Marion | Wood, Aaron | Davies, Sue | Piper, Gordon
Directors: Armstrong, Gillian
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The heroine, Sybylla (Davis), a headstrong girl growing up in early 20th century Australia, has the opportunity of marriage to a wealthy young man (Harry played by Niel) whom she loves, but rejects it in order to maintain her independence, preferring to take a job as governess/housekeeper to the family of an illiterate neighbor to whom her father owes money.

American Me (1992)

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Lopez, Sal | Montes, Vira | Martín Márquez, Roberto | Ortelli, Dyana | Aubel, Joe | Garrett, Rob | August, Lance | Glenn, Cody | Pugsley, Don | Gómez, Panchito | Medina Jr., Albert Joe | Solís, Alex | Amezquita, Raymond | Wilcox, Steve | Coca, Richard
Directors: Olmos, Edward James
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This epic depiction of thirty years of Chicano gang life in Los Angeles focuses on a teen named Santana who, with his friends Mundo and the Caucasian-but-acting-Hispanic J.D., form their own gang and are soon arrested for a break-in. Santana gets into trouble again and goes straight from reform school to prison, spending eighteen year there, and becoming leader of a powerful gang, both inside and outside the prison, while there. When he is finally released, he tries to make sense of the violence in his life, in a world much changed from when last he was in it.

Waltz with Bashir (2008)

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Genres: Animation | Biography | Drama | War
Countries: Australia | Belgium | Finland | France | Germany | Israel | Switzerland | USA
Actors: Ben-Yishai, Ron | Dayag, Ronny | Harazi, Dror | Lazarov, Yehezkel | Leon, Mickey | Sivan, Ori | Solomon, Zahava
Directors: Folman, Ari
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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 men conclude that there’s a connection to their Israeli Army mission in the first Lebanon War of the early eighties. Ari is surprised that he can’t remember a thing anymore about that period of his life. Intrigued by this riddle, he decides to meet and interview old friends and comrades around the world. He needs to discover the truth about that time and about himself. As Ari delves deeper and deeper into the mystery, his memory begins to creep up in surreal images.

Dreams with Sharp Teeth (2008)

Saturday, February 27th, 2010
Genres: Biography | Documentary
Countries: USA
Actors: Ellison, Harlan | Williams, Robin | Gaiman, Neil | David, Peter | Moore, Ronald D. | Olson, Josh | Snyder, Tom
Directors: Nelson, Erik
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A documentary on speculative fiction writer and essayist Harlan Ellison.

Enid (2009)

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: UK
Actors: Lawson, Denis | Macfadyen, Matthew | Richardson, Laurence | Bonham Carter, Helena
Directors: Hawes, James
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Edwardian child Enid Blyton begins to tell stories to her brothers as an escape from their parents’ rows before the father deserts the family…

Margot (2009)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Genres: Biography
Countries: UK
Actors: Huisman, Michiel | Jacobi, Derek | O'Neill, Con | Wolf-La'Moy, Christian | Duff, Anne-Marie | Duncan, Lindsay | Wilton, Penelope
Directors: Bathurst, Otto
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Margot examines the glamorous and turbulent life of Britain’s first international ballet superstar. At the age of 40, Dame Margot Fonteyn (Anne-Marie Duff – The Virgin Queen; Shameless) was seemingly at her creative peak and under mounting pressure to retire gracefully. Her unexpected pairing with young Russian émigré Rudolph Nureyev (Michiel Huisman – The Young Victoria, De Co-assistant) caused a worldwide sensation. Whilst Margot’s marriage to Panamanian diplomat Roberto de Arias (Con O’Neill – Telstar, Criminal Justice) was put under immense strain, her passionate and vibrant relationship with Nureyev created one of the most enduring and celebrated ballet partnerships of all time. This is a timeless drama about love, passion and performance also starring Lindsay Duncan, Derek Jacobi and Penelope Wilton.

Gods and Monsters (1998)

Monday, February 15th, 2010
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: McKellen, Ian | Fraser, Brendan | Redgrave, Lynn | Davidovich, Lolita | Dukes, David | O'Connor, Kevin J. | Kiely, Mark | Plotnick, Jack | Ayres, Rosalind | Betts, Jack | McKenzie, Matt | Babcock, Todd | O'Herlihy, Cornelia Hayes | Kleyla, Brandon | Salem, Pamela
Directors: Condon, Bill
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Set in 1957, ‘James Whale (I)’ (qv), the director of _Show Boat (1936)_ (qv), _Invisible Man, The (1933)_ (qv), _Frankenstein (1931)_ (qv), and _Bride of Frankenstein (1935)_ (qv), had long since stepped back from the glamor and glitz of Hollywood. A stroke triggers once buried flashes of memory of his life in Dudley, his film career, and, most influentially, the trenches during the Great War. Haunted and lonely, he recounts many of his experiences to his musclebound gardener, Clay Boone. Despite the divide that exists between them, their friendship develops. Reliant on his sternly disapproving housemaid, Hannah, the flamboyant director whose time has passed sees himself slipping away, unable to stop the decline, and indulges his fantasies by coaxing Boone to model for him.

Creation (2009)

Thursday, February 4th, 2010
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: UK
Actors: Bettany, Paul | Carter, Jim | Cumberbatch, Benedict | Davies, Zak | Dunkin, Christopher | Jones, Toby | Northam, Jeremy | Sansostri, Harrison | Churcher, Teresa | Connelly, Jennifer | Stone, Pauline | West, Martha
Directors: Amiel, Jon
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What happens when a world-renowned scientist, crushed by the loss of his eldest daughter, formulates a theory in conflict with religious dogma? This is the story of Charles Darwin and his master-work “The Origin of Species”. It tells of a global revolution played out the confines of a small English village; a passionate marriage torn apart by the most dangerous idea in history; and a theory saved from extinction by the logic of a child.

Amelia (2009)

Thursday, January 21st, 2010
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Knight, Keir | Li, Chun Hong | Martin, Bernard | Shipley-Holmes, Jason | Smith, Billy | Boardman, Andrea | Crowley, Nancy | Hemingway, Mistaya | Stikeman, Naomi | Tujaka, Zophia
Directors: Lock, Édouard
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Amelia Earhart, a Kansas girl, discovers the thrill of aviation at age 23, and within 12 years has progressed to winning the Distinguished Flying Cross for being the first woman to pilot a plane solo across the Atlantic Ocean. At age 39, she sets out on an attempt to circumnavigate the globe, an adventure that catapults her into aviation myth.