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Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Fictional account of French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
Starring:
José Ferrer, Zsa Zsa Gabor, and Colette Marchand
Directors: John Huston
Flickometer:
10.0
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(3069 votes)
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Biography, Drama, History
The biopic of the controversial and influential Black Nationalist leader.
Starring:
Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett, and Delroy Lindo
Director: Spike Lee Writer: Spike Lee
Flickometer:
10.0
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(824 votes)
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Biography, Drama, Music
A chronicle of the sordid life and suspicious death of Rolling Stones co-founder Brian Jones, who was found in the bottom of his swimming pool weeks after being let go from the band.
Starring:
Leo Gregory, Paddy Considine, and David Morrissey
Director: Stephen Woolley Writer: Stephen Woolley
Flickometer:
10.0
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(730 votes)
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Biography, Comedy, Drama
A single mother, with dreams of becoming a writer, has a son at the age of 15 in 1965, and goes through a failed marriage with the drug-addicted father.
Starring:
Drew Barrymore, Steve Zahn, and Adam Garcia
Director: Penny Marshall Writer: Penny Marshall
Flickometer:
10.0
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(692 votes)
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Biography, Drama, Music
A film about the singer Tina Turner and how she rose to stardom with her abusive husband Ike Turner and how she gained the courage to break free.
Starring:
Angela Bassett, Laurence Fishburne, and Rae'Ven Larrymore Kelly
Directors: Brian Gibson
Flickometer:
10.0
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(599 votes)
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Biography, Drama, Music
The troubled life and career of the jazz musician, Charlie "Bird" Parker.
Starring:
Forest Whitaker, Diane Venora, and Michael Zelniker
Director: Clint Eastwood Writer: Clint Eastwood
Flickometer:
10.0
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(509 votes)
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Biography, Drama, History
A man in his forties is going to die and remembers his past. His childhood, his mother, the war, personal moments but things that also tell the story of all the Russian nation...
Starring:
Margarita Terekhova, Filipp Yankovsky, and Ignat Daniltsev
Director: Andrey Tarkovskiy Writer: Andrey Tarkovskiy
Flickometer:
10.0
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(454 votes)
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Biography, Crime, Drama
A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.
Starring:
Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, and Victor Jory
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner Writer: Franklin J. Schaffner
Flickometer:
10.0
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(453 votes)
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Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Story of a man who is caught smuggling drugs out of Turkey and thrown into prison.
Starring:
Brad Davis, Irene Miracle, and Bo Hopkins
Director: Alan Parker Writer: Alan Parker
Flickometer:
10.0
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(343 votes)
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Biography, Drama, History, Romance
The life of Marie Antoinette (1755-1793) from betrothal and marriage in 1770 to her beheading. At first...
Starring:
Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power, and John Barrymore
Directors: W.S. Van Dyke and Julien Duvivier Writers: W.S. Van Dyke and Julien Duvivier
Flickometer:
10.0
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(317 votes)
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