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Arnold Schwarzenegger

Sylvester Stallone

Arnold (2023) TV Show

7.9 257 votes

Genre: Documentary

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 3

Audience: TV-MA

Story: This intimate docuseries follows Arnold Schwarzenegger's multifaceted life and career, from bodybuilding champ to Hollywood icon to politician.

Plot: american way of life, biography, miniseries, life challenges

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Robin Williams

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Mark Rasmussen

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Stan Wilson

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Valerie Velardi

Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind (2018)

7.9 267 votes

Genre: Documentary

Country: United States of America

Duration: 116 min.

Story: A funny, intimate and heartbreaking portrait of one of the world’s most beloved and inventive comedians, Robin Williams, told largely through his own words. Celebrates what he brought to comedy and to the culture at large, from the wild days of late-1970s L.A. to his death in 2014.

Plot: comedian, biography, hollywood, archive footage, struggling actor, mental health, hollywood star, woman director, ...

Cast

Claire Danes

David Strathairn

Barry Tubb

Melissa Farman

Temple Grandin (2010)

7.9 565 votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: United States of America

Duration: 108 min.

Story: A biopic of Temple Grandin, an autistic American who has become one of the leading scientists in humane livestock handling.

Plot: boston, massachusetts, veterinarian, autism, biography, new hampshire, slaughterhouse, university, ...

Cast

Hugh Jackman

Zac Efron

Michelle Williams

Rebecca Ferguson

The Greatest Showman (2017)

7.9 10.1K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 105 min.

Audience: PG

Story: The story of American showman P.T. Barnum, founder of the circus that became the famous traveling Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

Style: absurd

Plot: adultery, circus, musical, biography, rags to riches, based on true story, outcast, singing, ...

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Derek Jacobi

I, Claudius (1976) TV Show

7.8 138 votes

Genre: Drama, War

Country: United Kingdom

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 12

Audience: TV-14

Story: Acclaimed blackly comic historical drama series. Set amidst a web of power, corruption and lies, it chronicles the reigns of the Roman emperors - Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula and finally Claudius.

Plot: rome, italy, based on novel or book, roman empire, emperor, manipulation, ambition, ancient rome, ...

Time: 1st century

Cast

Taylor Swift

Todrick Hall

Brendon Urie

Jack Antonoff

Miss Americana (2020)

7.8 649 votes

Genre: Documentary, Music

Country: United States of America

Duration: 85 min.

Audience: R

Story: A raw and emotionally revealing look at one of the most iconic artists of our time during a transformational period in her life as she learns to embrace her role not only as a songwriter and performer, but as a woman harnessing the full power of her voice.

Plot: pop star, pop culture, behind the scenes, pop music, portrait of an artist, life and career, women singer, biographical documentary

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Eddie Redmayne

Felicity Jones

Charlie Cox

Emily Watson

The Theory of Everything (2014)

7.8 11.2K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 123 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Once a healthy, active young man, Hawking received an earth-shattering diagnosis at 21 years of age. With Jane fighting tirelessly by his side, Stephen embarks on his most ambitious scientific work, studying the very thing he now has precious little of – time.

Plot: husband wife relationship, biography, based on true story, physicist, based on memoir or autobiography, fictional biography, medical drama, motor neuron disease, ...

Cast

Hideaki Anno

Hidetoshi Nishijima

Miori Takimoto

Masahiko Nishimura

The Wind Rises (2013)

7.8 3.4K votes

Genre: Animation, Drama, History

Country: Japan

Duration: 126 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A lifelong love of flight inspires Japanese aviation engineer Jiro Horikoshi, whose storied career includes the creation of the A-6M World War II fighter plane.

Plot: airplane, flying, earthquake, biography, pacific war, love, tuberculosis, adult animation, ...

Time: world war ii, great depression

Place: japan

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Adi Rukun

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M.Y. Basrun

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Amir Hasan

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Inong

The Look of Silence (2014)

7.8 314 votes

Genre: Documentary, History

Country: Denmark, Finland

Duration: 100 min.

Story: An Indonesian man with a communist background named Ramli was brutally murdered when the "Communist" purge occurred in 1965. His remaining family members lived in fear and silence until the making of this documentary. Adi, a brother of his, decided to revisit the horrific incident and visited the men who were responsible for the killings and one survivor of the purge. These meetings uncovered sadistic details of the murders and exposed raw emotions and reactions of the killers' family members about what happened in the past - much to Adi's disappointment.

Plot: loss of loved one, mass murder, biography, torture, murderer, genocide, guilt, death of brother, ...

Place: indonesia

Into the Wild (2007)

7.8 10.2K votes

Genre: Adventure, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 148 min.

Audience: R

Story: After graduating from Emory University in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity, and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness.

Plot: parent child relationship, self-discovery, camping, wilderness, biography, based on true story, road trip, questioning, ...

Place: alaska

Cast

Michael J. Fox

Tracy Pollan

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Sam Fox

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Aquinnah Fox

STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie (2023)

7.8 236 votes

Genre: Documentary

Country: United States of America

Duration: 95 min.

Audience: R

Story: A short kid from a Canadian army base becomes the international pop culture darling of the 1980s—only to find the course of his life altered by a stunning diagnosis. What happens when an incurable optimist confronts an incurable disease?

Plot: based on novel or book, based on true story, archive footage, hollywood star, parkinson's disease, celebrity interview, life and career, documentary, ...

Cast

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Leslie Odom Jr.

Renu00e9e Elise Goldsberry

Phillipa Soo

Hamilton (2025)

7.8 125 votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: United States of America

Duration: 160 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Presenting the tale of American founding father Alexander Hamilton, this filmed version of the original Broadway smash hit is the story of America then, told by America now.

Plot: adultery, immigrant, corruption, upper class, presidential election, blackmail, musical, biography, ...

Time: 18th century, 19th century

Cast

Priyanka Chopra Jonas

Zaira Wasim

Farhan Akhtar

Rohit Saraf

The Sky Is Pink (2019)

7.7 79 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Country: India, United Kingdom

Duration: 143 min.

Audience: 12A

Story: The 25-year-old love story of a couple is told through the lens of their teenage daughter after she is diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis.

Plot: biography, based on true story, family relationships, love story, pulmonary fibrosis

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Edward Snowden

Glenn Greenwald

Laura Poitras

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William Binney

Citizenfour (2014)

7.7 1.4K votes

Genre: Documentary

Country: Germany, United Kingdom

Duration: 113 min.

Audience: R

Story: In June 2013, Laura Poitras and reporter Glenn Greenwald flew to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden. She brought her camera with her.

Plot: biography, national security agency (nsa), woman director, investigative journalism, whistleblower, surveillance state, observational documentary, mass surveillance, ...

Cast

Colin Firth

Geoffrey Rush

Helena Bonham Carter

Guy Pearce

The King's Speech (2010)

7.7 9.4K votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 118 min.

Audience: R

Story: The King's Speech tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II. After his brother abdicates, George ('Bertie') reluctantly assumes the throne. Plagued by a dreaded stutter and considered unfit to be king, Bertie engages the help of an unorthodox speech therapist named Lionel Logue. Through a set of unexpected techniques, and as a result of an unlikely friendship, Bertie is able to find his voice and boldly lead the country into war.

Style: witty

Plot: marriage, stutter, monarchy, palace, radio, radio transmission, royal family, biography, ...

Time: world war ii, 1930s

Place: great britain

Cast

Jennifer Lopez

Jackie Guerra

Constance Marie

Alex Meneses

Selena (1997)

7.7 1.3K votes

Genre: Drama, History, Music

Country: United States of America

Duration: 127 min.

Audience: PG

Story: In this biographical drama, Selena Quintanilla is born into a musical Mexican-American family in Texas. Her father, Abraham, realizes that his young daughter is talented and begins performing with her at small venues. She finds success and falls for her guitarist, Chris Perez, who draws the ire of her father. Seeking mainstream stardom, Selena begins recording an English-language album which, tragically, she would never complete.

Plot: biography, elopement, bustier, fan club, portrait of an artist, corpus christi, women singer, biographical drama, ...

Place: texas

Cast

Robert McNamara

Errol Morris

Fidel Castro

Barry Goldwater

The Fog of War (2003)

7.7 299 votes

Genre: Documentary, TV Movie

Country: United States of America

Duration: 107 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Using archival footage, cabinet conversation recordings, and an interview of the 85-year-old Robert McNamara, The Fog of War depicts his life, from working as a WWII whiz-kid military officer, to being the Ford Motor Company's president, to managing the Vietnam War as defense secretary for presidents Kennedy and Johnson.

Plot: politics, biography, historical figure, historical society, secretary of defense, anti war protest, cuban missile crisis, cabinet position, ...

Place: vietnam

Cast

Jake Gyllenhaal

Chris Cooper

Chris Owen

Laura Dern

October Sky (1999)

7.7 1.5K votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: United States of America

Duration: 107 min.

Audience: PG

Story: The true story of Homer Hickam, a coal miner's son who was inspired by the first Sputnik launch to take up rocketry against his father's wishes.

Plot: small town, based on novel or book, parent child relationship, satellite, biography, based on true story, rocket, west virginia, ...

Time: 1950s

Cast

Paul Giamatti

Laura Linney

Stephen Dillane

Danny Huston

John Adams (2008) TV Show

7.7 336 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 7

Audience: TV-14

Story: Adapted from David McCullough's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, this lavish seven-part miniseries chronicles the life of Founding Father John Adams, starting with the Boston Massacre of 1770 through his years as an ambassador in Europe, then his terms as vice president and president of the United States, up to his death on July 4, 1826.

Plot: independence, biography, president, miniseries, usa history, founding fathers

Time: 18th century

Place: america

Cast

Toni Servillo

Anna Bonaiuto

Giulio Bosetti

Flavio Bucci

Il Divo (2008)

7.6 1.2K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Italy, France

Duration: 113 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Italy, early '90s. Calm, clever and inscrutable, politician Giulio Andreotti has been synonymous with power for decades. He has survived everything: electoral battles, terrorist massacres, loss of friends, slanderous accusations; but now certain repentant mobsters implicate him in the crimes of Cosa Nostra.

Plot: politics, vatican (holy see), prime minister, biography, mafia, italian history, state crimes, cosa nostra, ...

Time: 1970s, 1980s, 1990s

Place: italy

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