Genre: Biography
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Brad Pitt, la revanche d’un blond 2022

Brad Pitt is a singular actor in Hollywood's glamorous world, breaking through his "playboy image" and embodying American cinema's renewal. At the beginning there was a humble Midwestern aware of being a smokescreen for the illusi...

Category: Biography, Documentary

Stars: Brad Pitt, Sarah-Jane Sauvegrain, Gabi Franke

6.7 IMDB Rating 1,552 Views
Exposing Muybridge 2021

Exposing Muybridge tells the story of trailblazing 19th-century photographer Eadweard Muybridge, who changed the world with his camera. Muybridge set the course for the development of cinema when he became the first photographer to capture something moving faster than the human eye can see--Leland Stanford's galloping horses.

Category: Biography, Documentary, History

Stars: Gary Oldman, Marta Braun, Philip Brookman

6.8 IMDB Rating 1,322 Views
John Ford: The Man Who Invented America 2019

This documentary follows the life of the renowned American director, author of more than 150 works and winner of more Oscar awards than any other, and shed light on the significance of his most outstanding films.

Category: Biography, Documentary, History

Stars: Paul Bandey, John Ford, Joseph McBride

5.7 IMDB Rating 1,268 Views
Lords of Dogtown 2005

The film follows the surf and skateboarding trends that originated in Venice, California during the 1970s.

Category: Biography, Drama, Sport

Stars: Heath Ledger, Emile Hirsch, Victor Rasuk

7.1 IMDB Rating 8,860 Views
Trotskiy 2017

A flashback to earlier episodes in the life of Leon Trotsky, the Marxist revolutionary, framed by events during his asylum in Mexico City 1939-1940

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Konstantin Khabenskiy, Mikhail Porechenkov, Maksim Matveev

7.1 IMDB Rating 1,959 Views
Joyce Carol Oates: A Body in the Service of Mind 2021

Joyce Carol Oates has written over one hundred novels in a variety of genres over an award-winning career. Years of friendship and tireless research gave director Stig Björkman unprecedented access to the writer's solitude.

Category: Biography, Documentary, History

Stars: Joyce Carol Oates, Laura Dern

6.4 IMDB Rating 1,235 Views
Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot 2018

On the rocky path to sobriety after a life-changing accident, John Callahan discovers the healing power of art, willing his injured hands into drawing hilarious, often controversial cartoons, which bring him a new lease on life.

Category: Biography, Comedy, Drama

Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Jonah Hill, Rooney Mara

6.8 IMDB Rating 6,095 Views
Censored 2019

This is a metaphorical story about the tragic and mysterious death of the most powerful poet of 1960's, human rights activist, hero of Ukraine Vasyl Stus and his struggle with the Soviet system. The events of the film unfold during the last attempt by the KGB to seduce the poet with a whimsical "freedom".

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Dmytro Yaroshenko, Diana Rozovlyan, Evgeniya Gladiy

7.4 IMDB Rating 1,548 Views
Dans les yeux de Johnny Depp 2022

It is by selling pens by telephone at the turn of the eighties that Johnny Depp, young punk rocker in galley in the City of the Angels, affirms to have begun his "training" of actor, inventing at the end of the wire of the different characters to deceive the boredom.

Category: Biography, Documentary

Stars: Johnny Depp, Céline Sallette, Annette Wunsch

7.3 IMDB Rating 1,695 Views
Ali
Ali 2001

A biography of sports legend Muhammad Ali, focusing on his triumphs and controversies between 1964 and 1974.

Category: Biography, Drama, Sport

Stars: Will Smith, Jamie Foxx, Jon Voight

6.7 IMDB Rating 8,572 Views
Generalens hemlighet 2024

Gunilla Boëthius is 73 years old when her life history and identity suddenly change. Through a DNA test, she gets a brand new father - the Finnish war hero and General Paavo Talvela. Those who have withheld the truth for her have ...

Category: Biography, Documentary

Stars: Gunilla Boëthius, Klaus Talvela, Marianne Bollström-Huttunen

1,190 Views
Einár 2002-2021 2022

Category: Biography, Documentary

Stars: Johannes Cakar, Dilly D., Nils 'Einár' Grönberg

1,437 Views
Barnen från Camp Ashraf 2024

As children, they were taken from their parents and sent to Sweden with the aim of one day returning as warriors to overthrow the current regime in Iran.

Category: Biography, Documentary

Stars: Amir Vafa,Parwin Hoseinia,Hanif Bali

5.9 IMDB Rating 1,126 Views
The Fencer 2015

Fleeing from the Russian secret police, a young Estonian fencer is forced to return to his homeland, where he becomes a physical education teacher at a local school. The past however catches up and puts him in front of a difficult choice.

Category: Biography, Drama, History, Sport

Stars: Märt Avandi, Ursula Ratasepp, Hendrik Toompere Jr.

7.1 IMDB Rating 6,599 Views
Son Of The South 2020

The true story of one young white Southerner in the Summer of 1961, caught in a place and time where he had to choose which side he was on.

Category: Biography, Drama

Stars: Lucas Till, Jim Klock, Michael Sirow

6.2 IMDB Rating 3,221 Views
Orlando 1992

After Queen Elizabeth I commands him not to grow old, a young nobleman struggles with love and his place in the world.

Category: Biography, Drama, Fantasy, Romantic, Romantic

Stars: Tilda Swinton, Billy Zane, Quentin Crisp

7.1 IMDB Rating 1,914 Views
Spector 2022

In 2003, a 911 call reported the fatal shooting of a woman at the home of one of the most important figures in pop music in 20th century, the legendary music producer, Phil Spector.

Category: Biography, Crime, Documentary, Music

Stars: Jeff Barry, Nicole Spector, Mick Brown

7.1 IMDB Rating 2,538 Views
More Than a Game 2008

This documentary follows NBA superstar LeBron James and four of his talented teammates through the trials and tribulations of high school basketball in Ohio and James' journey to fame.

Category: Biography, Documentary, Sport

Stars: LeBron James, Dru Joyce, Romeo Travis

7.6 IMDB Rating 1,480 Views
La Vie en Rose 2007

Biopic of the iconic French singer Édith Piaf. Raised by her grandmother in a brothel, she was discovered while singing on a street corner at the age of 19. Despite her success, Piaf's life was filled with tragedy.

Category: Biography, Drama, Music

Stars: Marion Cotillard, Sylvie Testud, Pascal Greggory

7.6 IMDB Rating 6,234 Views
La promesse de l’aube 2017

A man recounts his life, from his childhood through his experiences in World War II, and the story of his self-sacrificing mother, who raised him alone.

Category: Biography, Drama, Romantic

Stars: Pierre Niney, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Didier Bourdon

7.1 IMDB Rating 6,328 Views