Biography movies

The Sound of Music (1965)

Friday, March 12th, 2010
Genres: Biography | Drama | Family | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Julie Andrews | Christopher Plummer | Richard Haydn | Peggy Wood | Anna Lee | Portia Nelson | Ben Wright | Daniel Truhitte | Norma Varden | Marni Nixon | Gilchrist Stuart | Evadne Baker | Doris Lloyd | Charmian Carr | Nicholas Hammond
Directors: Robert Wise
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Captain Baron von Trapp is a widowed ex-naval officer with seven children who serve only to remind him of his deceased wife. The Von Trapp home is thus turned into a gloomy place of order and discipline, until the arrival of a new governess: Frauline Marie who is from a nearby Salzburg abbey. Marie shows the Von Trapp children the miracle of the Sound of Music, and teaches them how to sing. Captain von Trapp’s heart opens up to feelings he had forgotten and he and Marie fall in love. Marie and Georg von Trapp are married, only to have their world brought down around them by the 1938 Anschluss of Austria, where Nazi Germany takes control of the country and demands that Captain von Trapp assume a position in the German Navy.

Dreams with Sharp Teeth (2008)

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

Salvador (1986)

Thursday, February 25th, 2010
Genres: Biography | Drama | Thriller | War
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: James Woods | James Belushi | Michael Murphy | John Savage | Elpidia Carrillo | Tony Plana | Colby Chester | Cynthia Gibb | Will MacMillan | Valerie Wildman | José Carlos Ruiz | Jorge Luke | Juan Fernández | Salvador Sánchez | Rosario Zúñiga
Directors: Oliver Stone
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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.

Enid (2009)

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: UK
Actors: Denis Lawson | Matthew Macfadyen | Laurence Richardson | Helena Bonham Carter
Directors: James Hawes
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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: Michiel Huisman | Derek Jacobi | Con O'Neill | Christian Wolf-La'Moy | Anne-Marie Duff | Lindsay Duncan | Penelope Wilton
Directors: Otto Bathurst
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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: Ian McKellen | Brendan Fraser | Lynn Redgrave | Lolita Davidovich | David Dukes | Kevin J. O'Connor | Mark Kiely | Jack Plotnick | Rosalind Ayres | Jack Betts | Matt McKenzie | Todd Babcock | Cornelia Hayes O'Herlihy | Brandon Kleyla | Pamela Salem
Directors: Bill Condon
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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)

Monday, January 25th, 2010
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: UK
Actors: Paul Bettany | Jim Carter | Benedict Cumberbatch | Zak Davies | Christopher Dunkin | Toby Jones | Jeremy Northam | Harrison Sansostri | Teresa Churcher | Jennifer Connelly | Pauline Stone | Martha West
Directors: Jon Amiel
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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: Keir Knight | Chun Hong Li | Bernard Martin | Jason Shipley-Holmes | Billy Smith | Andrea Boardman | Nancy Crowley | Mistaya Hemingway | Naomi Stikeman | Zophia Tujaka
Directors: Édouard Lock
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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.

Bright Star (2009)

Thursday, January 14th, 2010
Genres: Biography | Drama | Romance
Countries: Australia | France | UK
Actors: Ben Whishaw | Abbie Cornish | Kerry Fox | Paul Schneider | Edie Martin | Thomas Sangster | Gerard Monaco | Antonia Campbell-Hughes | Samuel Roukin | Amanda Hale | Lucinda Raikes | Samuel Barnett | Jonathan Aris | Olly Alexander | Theresa Watson
Directors: Jane Campion
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The drama based on the three-year romance between 19th century poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne, which was cut short by Keats’ untimely death at age 25.

Sid and Nancy (1986)

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
Genres: Biography | Drama | Music
Countries: UK
Actors: Gary Oldman | Chloe Webb | David Hayman | Debby Bishop | Andrew Schofield | Xander Berkeley | Perry Benson | Tony London | Sandy Baron | Sy Richardson | Edward Tudor-Pole | Biff Yeager | Courtney Love | Rusty Blitz | John Spaceley
Directors: Alex Cox
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Based on the true story of Sid Vicious, bass player for the legendary punk rock band “The Sex Pistols”, and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen. Their the music of the Sex Pistols, their relationship was always volatile.