Diana

Diana
Genres: Biography / Drama / Romance
Year: 2013
Language : Italian
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
Cast: Naomi Watts / Naveen Andrews / Douglas Hodge / Geraldine James / Charles Edwards / Daniel Pirrie / Cas Anvar / Juliet Stevenson / Jonathan Kerrigan / Laurence Belcher / Harry Holland / Leeanda Reddy / Art Malik / Michael Hadley / Rose O'Loughlin

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During the last two years of her life, Princess Diana embarks on a final rite of passage: a secret love affair with Pakistani heart surgeon Hasnat Khan.  

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The People vs. Larry Flynt

The People vs. Larry Flynt
Genres: Biography / Drama
Year: 1996
Language : English
Director: Milos Forman
Cast: Woody Harrelson / Courtney Love / Edward Norton / Brett Harrelson / Donna Hanover /  James Cromwell / Crispin Glover / Vincent Schiavelli / Miles Chapin /  James Carville / Richard Paul / Burt Neuborne / Jan Tríska / Cody Block / Ryan Post

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Larry Flynt is the hedonistically obnoxious, but indomitable, publisher of Hustler magazine. The film recounts his struggle to make an honest living publishing his porn magazine and how it changes into a battle to protect the freedom of speech for all people.  

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The Duchess

The Duchess

Genres: Biography / Drama / History
Year: 2008

Language : English
Director: Saul Dibb
Cast: Keira Knightley / Ralph Fiennes / Dominic Cooper / Charlotte Rampling / Hayley Atwell / Simon McBurney / Aidan McArdle / John Shrapnel / Alistair Petrie / Patrick Godfrey /Michael Medwin / Justin Edwards / Richard McCabe / Calvin Dean / Hannah Stokely  

Georgiana Spencer became Duchess of Devonshire on her marriage to the Duke in 1774, at the height of the Georgian period, a period of fashion, decadence, and political change. Spirited and adored by the public at large she quickly found her marriage to be a disappointment, defined by her duty to produce a male heir and the Duke's philandering and callous indifference to her. She befriends Lady Bess but finds she is once again betrayed by her husband who wields his power with the three eventually living uncomfortably together. Against this background, and with the pressures of an unfaithful husband, strict social pressures and constant public scrutiny, Georgiana falls passionately in love with Charles Grey, a rising young Whig politician. However, despite his ongoing liaison with Lady Bess, the Duke refuses to allow her to continue the affair and threatens to take her children from her. 

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The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing

The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing
Genres:Drama / Biography / Crime
Year: 1955
Director: Richard Fleischer
Cast: Ray Milland / Joan Collins / Farley Granger / Luther Adler / Cornelia Otis Skinner / Glenda Farrell / Frances Fuller / Gale Robbins / Phillip Reed / James Lorimer / John Hoyt / Robert F. Simon / Harvey Stephens / Emile Meyer

The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing is the true story of Evelyn Nesbit Shaw, a beautiful showgirl caught in a love triangle with elderly architect Stanford White and eccentric young millionaire Harry K. Thaw. 

My Week with Marilyn

My Week with Marilyn

Genres: Biography / Drama
Year: 2011
Director: Simon Curtis
Cast:Julia Ormond / Eddie Redmayne / Michelle Williams / Michael Kitchen / Geraldine Somerville / Pip Torrens / Kenneth Branagh  / Miranda Raison / Karl Moffatt / Simon Russell Beale / Toby Jones / Robert Portal / Philip Jackson / Jim Carter / Victor McGuire

Colin Clark, an employee of Sir Laurence Olivier's, documents the tense interaction between Olivier and Marilyn Monroe during production of The Prince and the Showgirl.

Lovalace

Lovalace
Genres:Biography / Drama
Year: 2013
Director: Rob Epstein / Jeffrey Friedman
Cast: James Franco /Amanda Seyfried /Adam Brody /Sharon Stone /Peter Sarsgaard / Robert Patrick / Juno Temple / Chris Noth / Bobby Cannavale / Hank Azaria / Chloë Sevigny /
Debi Mazar / Wes Bentley / Eric Roberts / Ron Pritchard

The story of Linda Lovelace, who is used and abused by the porn industry at the behest of her coercive husband, before taking control of her life.

Juan y Eva

Juan y Eva
Genres:Biography / Drama / Romance
Year:2011
Director: Paula de Luque
Cast: Osmar Núñez / Julieta Díaz / Alfredo Casero / Fernán Mirás / Sergio Boris / María Ucedo / Alberto Ajaka / Lorena Vega / Fabián Arenillas / Gustavo Garzón / Pompeyo Audivert

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La Bamba

La Bamba
Genres: Drama /  Music  / Biography
Year: 1987
Director:Luis Valdez
Cast: Lou Diamond Phillips / Esai Morales /  Rosanna DeSoto / Elizabeth Peña / Danielle von Zerneck / Joe Pantoliano / Rick Dees / Marshall Crenshaw / Howard Huntsberry / Brian Setzer
This is the true story of Ritchie Valens, a young rock and roll singer who tragically died in a plane crash at age 17. The film follows Ritchie from his days in Pacoima, California where he and his family make a meager living working on farms to his rise as a star. The film also focuses on Ritchie's friendship and rivalry with his older brother Bob Morales and his relationship with Donna Ludwig, his girlfriend.

• English
• Spanish
• Italian

Dangerous Beauty

Dangerous Beauty
Genres: Biography / Drama / Romance
Year:1998
Director: Marshall Herskovitz
Cast: Catherine McCormack / Rufus Sewell / Oliver Platt /
Fred Ward / Naomi Watts / Moira Kelly / Jacqueline Bisset /
Jeroen Krabbé / Joanna Cassidy / Melina Kanakaredes
In 16th century Venice, courtesans enjoy unique privileges: dressed richly in red, they read, compose poetry and music, and discuss affairs of state with the men who govern the Republic. When Veronica Franco comes of age, she cannot marry Marco Venier, whom she loves, because she is well born but penniless. Her choice: cloister or courtesan. She steels her heart, and with beauty and intelligence becomes the best. She's a heroine when she helps convince France to aid Venice in war with Turkey, but when plague descends, the Church charges her with witchcraft. 

• English
• Italian

Sweet Dreams

Sweet Dreams
Genres : Biography / Drama / Music
Year : 1985
Director : Karel Reisz
Cast : Jessica Lange / Ed Harris  /  Ann Wedgeworth / David Clennon /  James Staley / Gary Basaraba / John Goodman
Lange stunningly portrays Patsy Cline, the velvet-voiced country singer who died in a tragic plane crash.

La Môme (La Vie en Rose)

La Môme (La Vie en Rose)
The life story of singer Édith Piaf. 
Genres: Biography / Drama / Music

Year:2007 

Director: Olivier Dahan
Cast:Marion Cotillard / Sylvie Testud / Pascal Greggory / Emmanuelle Seigner / Jean-Paul Rouve / Gérard Depardieu
An un-chronological look at the life of the Little Sparrow, Édith Piaf (1915-1963). Her mother is an alcoholic street singer, her father a circus performer, her paternal grandmother a madam. During childhood she lives with each of them. At 20, she's a street singer discovered by a club owner who's soon murdered, coached by a musician who brings her to concert halls, and then quickly famous. Constant companions are alcohol and heartache.

Amadeus

Amadeus

Genres: Music / Drama / Biography
Year: 1984 
Director: Milos Forman
Cast: Peter DiGesu / Milan Demjanenko / Roderick Cook / Martin Cavina / Barbara Bryne / Lisabeth Bartlett / Kenny Baker / Charles Kay / Jeffrey Jones / Christine Ebersole / Roy Dotrice / Simon Callow / Elizabeth Berridge / Tom Hulce / F. Murray Abraham

Antonio Salieri believes that Mozart's music is divine. He wishes he was himself as good a musician as Mozart so that he can praise the Lord through composing. But he can't understand why God favored Mozart, such a vulgar creature, to be his instrument. Salieri's envy has made him an enemy of God whose greatness was evident in Mozart. He is set to take revenge.

Evita

Evita

Genres: Drama / Biography / Musical
Year: 1996 
Director: Alan Parker
Cast: Antonio Banderas / Madonna /Andrea Corr / Servando Villamil / María Luján Hidalgo / Julia Worsley / Laura Pallas / Olga Merediz / Julian Littman / Victoria Sus / Jimmy Nail / Jonathan Pryce /  Peter Polycarpou / Gary Brooker / Maite Yerro
High-flying, adored! The film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical depicting the infamous real-life story of Eva "Evita" Duarte de Peron, the wife of President Juan Peron, who rose from poverty to become the most famous Argentine woman in history. Her huge political influence and constant charity works earned her scorn and fear from the military and upper classes but adoration and love from the workers and descamisados. Evita's legendary life is displayed before your eyes as the most hated and most beloved woman in Argentina.

 

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Geronimo

Geronimo 

Genres : Western / Action / Biography / History

Year : 1962

Director: Arnold Laven

Cast : Chuck Connors / Kamala Devi / Pat Conway / Armando Silvestre  / Adam West / Lawrence Dobkin / John Anderson / Enid Jaynes / Ross Martin / Denver Pyle / Nancy Rodman

An Apache warrior who defies U.S. attempts to bring the Indians under control grapples with an array of U.S. soldiers sent to subdue his revolt. Sympathetic scouts seek to bring Geronimo back to the reservation before he is hunted down. 

Hotel Rwanda

Hotel Rwanda

Genres: History / Drama / Biography
Year: 2004
Director: Terry George
Cast: Leleti Khumalo / Antonio David Lyons / Lebo Mashile / Sophie Okonedo / Jeremiah Ndlovu / Fana Mokoena / Nick Nolte / Mabutho 'Kid' Sithole / Neil McCarthy / Rosie Motene / Tony Kgoroge / Hakeem Kae-Kazim / Desmond Dube / Don Cheadle

Ten years ago some of the worst atrocities in the history of mankind took place in the country of Rwanda--and in an era of high-speed communication and round the clock news, the events went almost unnoticed by the rest of the world. In only three months, one million people were brutally murdered. In the face of these unspeakable actions, inspired by his love for his family, an ordinary man summons extraordinary courage to save the lives of over a thousand helpless refugees, by granting them shelter in the hotel he manages.

Piaf

Piaf

Genres:Biography / Drama / Music
Year: 1974
Director:Guy Casaril
Cast: Brigitte Ariel / Pascale Christophe / Guy Tréjan / Pierre Vernier / Jacques Duby /Anouk Ferjac / Sylvie Joly / Yvan Varco / Michel Bedetti / François Dyrek 

Édith Giovanna Gassion is born in 1915. As a young girl she sings on the streets of Paris until a nightclub owner, Louis Leplée, discovers her. When he is murdered the composer Raymond Asso takes care of her and lets her perform at the ABC theatre, which leads to her breakthrough. 

The Other Side of Heaven

The Other Side of Heaven

Genres: Adventure / Biography / Drama
Year: 2001
Director:Mitch Davis
Cast: Christopher Gorham / Anne Hathaway / Joe Folau / Nathaniel Lees /  Miriama Smith / Alvin Fitisemanu / Peter Sa'ena-Brown / Whetu Fala  / Apii McKinley

John H. Groberg, a middle class kid from Idaho Falls, crosses the Pacific to become a Mormon missionary in the remote and exotic Tongan island kingdom during the 1950's. He leaves behind a loving family and the true love of his life, Jean. Through letters and musings across the miles, John shares his humbling and sometimes hilarious adventures with "the girl back home", and her letters buoy up his spirits in difficult times. John must struggle to overcome language barriers, physical hardship and deep-rooted suspicion to earn the trust and love of the Tongan people he has come to serve. Throughout his adventure-filled three years on the islands, he discovers friends and wisdom in the most unlikely places. John H. Groberg's Tongan odyssey will change his life forever. 

The Red Baron

The Red Baron

Genres: Biography / Adventure / Action
Year: 2008
Director: Nikolai Müllerschön
Cast: Iveta Jirícková / Jirí Wohanka / Ondrej Volejník / Lena Headey / Lukás Príkazký / Steffen Schroeder / Joseph Fiennes / Richard Krajco / Til Schweiger / Hanno Koffler / Maxim Mehmet / Matthias Schweighöfer / Albert Franc / Tomás Ibl / Tomás Koutník

Baron Manfred von Richthofen is the most feared and celebrated pilot of the German air force in World War I. To him and his companions, air combats are events of sporty nature, technical challenge and honorable acting, ignoring the terrible extent of war. But after falling in love with the nurse Käte, Manfred realizes he is only used for propaganda means. Caught between his disgust for the war, and the responsibility for his fighter wing, von Richthofen sets out to fly again.

Out of Africa

Out of Africa

Genres: Biography / Adventure / Drama
Year: 1985
Language : Spanish
Director: Sydney Pollack
Cast:Robert Redford / Meryl Streep / Leslie Phillips / Graham Crowden / Rachel Kempson / Suzanna Hamilton / Michael Gough / Stephen Kinyanjui / Joseph Thiaka / Malick Bowens / Michael Kitchen / Klaus Maria Brandauer  / Shane Rimmer / Mike Bugara / Job Seda
Follows the life of Karen Blixen, who establishes a plantation in Africa. Her life is Complicated by a husband of convenience (Bror Blixen), a true love (Denys), troubles on the plantation, schooling of the natives, war, and catching VD from her husband.

Braveheart

Braveheart

Genres: Action / Biography / Drama
Year: 1995
Director: Mel Gibson
Cast:Mel Gibson / James Robinson / Sean Lawlor / Sandy Nelson / James Cosmo / Sean McGinley / Alan Tall / Andrew Weir / Gerda Stevenson / Ralph Riach / Mhairi Calvey / Brian Cox / Patrick McGoohan / Peter Hanly / Sophie Marceau / Stephen Billington

William Wallace is a Scottish rebel who leads an uprising against the cruel English ruler Edward the Longshanks, who wishes to inherit the crown of Scotland for himself. When he was a young boy, William Wallace's father and brother, along with many others, lost their lives trying to free Scotland. Once he loses another of his loved ones, William Wallace begins his long quest to make Scotland free once and for all, along with the assistance of Robert the Bruce.