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Bhakta Kumbara (1974)
, 2h30Directed by Hunsur Krishnamurthy
Genres Biography
Actors Rajkumar, Leelavathi, T. N. Balakrishna, Vajramuni, Dwarakish, Thoogudeepa Srinivas
Edvard Munch (1974)
, 3h30Directed by Peter Watkins
Origin Suede
Genres Drama, Biography, Documentary, Fantasy, Historical
Themes Peinture
Actors Peter Watkins
Edvard Munch, la danse de la vie, présenté comme un documentaire d'époque, retrace les débuts de la carrière artistique du peintre expressioniste norvégien Edvard Munch (1887-1901). De ses recherches picturales à la réception de son œuvre par le public et les critiques, des drames amoureux à la peur de la maladie qui s'abat sur sa famille telle une malédiction, de son rejet de la société bourgeoise à son accueil par des groupes anarchistes ou d’artistes révolutionnaires, le film brosse un portrait subjectif et intime de Munch tout en liant l’artiste à son époque et aux grands mouvements culturels et sociaux qui agitent cette fin du XIX siècle.
Ligabue (1978)
Genres Biography
Actors Flavio Bucci, Andréa Ferréol, Alessandro Haber, Pamela Villoresi, Giuseppe Pambieri, Renzo Palmer
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
, 2h59Directed by Martin Scorsese
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Crime
Themes Films about films, Medical-themed films, Seafaring films, Films about drugs, Transport films
Actors Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Matthew McConaughey, Jean Dujardin, Jon Bernthal, Jon Favreau
In 1987, Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio) loses his job as a Wall Street stockbroker employed by a man named Mark Hanna (Matthew McConaughey) due to Black Monday. He takes a job at a boiler room brokerage firm on Long Island that specializes in penny stocks. Thanks to his aggressive pitching style and the high commissions, Belfort makes a small fortune.
Santha Shishunala Sharif (1990)
, 1h59Directed by T. S. Nagabharana
Genres Biography
Actors Shridhar, Girish Karnad, Suman Ranganathan, H. G. Dattatreya
, 10h30Directed by Renato Castellani
Origin France
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Ronald Pickup, Omero Antonutti, Eva Christian, Giampiero Albertini, Daria Nicolodi, Adriana Innocenti
, 2h19Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Actors Judy Davis, Tammy Blanchard, Victor Garber, Hugh Laurie, John Benjamin Hickey, Alison Pill
Christmas 1924: Two-year-old Frances Gumm performs in public for the first time, singing "Jingle Bells". Her mother, Ethel, watches from the audience while her father, Frank, watches from backstage. Ethel is unhappy with her marriage because of her husband's homosexuality. To help herself cope, she moves the family to Hollywood with the hope that her daughters will break into the movie business.
The Life of Reilly (2006)
, 1h24Origin USA
Genres Biography, Comedy, Documentary
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Charles Nelson Reilly
The film begins with Reilly recounting his childhood and his parents in New York City and Connecticut. We meet his family—an institutionalized father, a racist, baseball bat-wielding mother, and a lobotomized aunt, amongst others. "Eugene O’Neill would never get near this family," Reilly declares.
Dhyaas Parva (1999)
Directed by Amol Palekar
Genres Biography
Actors Seema Biswas, Atul Kulkarni, Kishor Kadam, Sachin Khedekar, Varsha Usgaonkar, Mohan Gokhale
Lion (2016)
, 1h58Directed by Garth Davis
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman, Rooney Mara, David Wenham, Priyanka Bose, Deepti Naval
Saroo, un enfant indien de cinq ans très pauvre qui habite avec sa mère, son grand frère et sa petite sœur dans le quartier de Ganesh Talai à Khandwa dans l'État du Madhya Pradesh, va aider son grand frère Guddu à la gare de Khandwa. De là, ils prennent un train pour une autre ville. Saroo, fatigué du trajet, s'endort. À l'arrivée, Guddu dit à son petit frère qu'il va travailler et lui demande de venir l'aider, mais Saroo, encore endormi, le supplie de lui permettre de dormir encore ; son frère le laisse tout seul sur un banc dans la gare en lui disant d'attendre son retour.
A Woman Called Moses (1978)
, 4hDirected by Paul Wendkos
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Films about slavery, Films about racism
Actors Cicely Tyson, Orson Welles, Will Geer, Robert Hooks, Jason Bernard, Clifford David
The Imitation Game (2014)
, 1h54Directed by Morten Tyldum
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Biography, Historical
Themes Films about computing, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Political films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Mark Strong, Matthew Goode, Charles Dance, Allen Leech
In 1951, two policemen, Nock and Staehl, investigate mathematician Alan Turing after an apparent break-in at his home. Turing's suspicious behaviour and lack of war records triggers Nock's suspicion that he might be a Soviet spy. During his interrogation by Nock, Turing tells of his time working at Bletchley Park.
Prayers for Bobby (2009)
, 1h29Directed by Russell Mulcahy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Themes Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Films about suicide, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films about religion, LGBT-related film
Actors Sigourney Weaver, Henry Czerny, Ryan Kelley, Dan Butler, Austin Nichols, Carly Schroeder
Mary Griffith (Sigourney Weaver) is a devout Christian who raises her children according to the evangelical teachings of her local Presbyterian church in the late 1970s and early 1980s in Walnut Creek, California. Her son Bobby (Ryan Kelley) confides to his older brother that he may be gay. Life changes for the entire family after Mary learns about his secret. Bobby's father and siblings slowly come to terms with his homosexuality, but Mary believes that God can cure him. She takes him to a psychiatrist and persuades Bobby to pray harder and seek solace in Church activities in hopes of changing him. Desperate for his mother's approval, Bobby does what is asked of him, but through it all, the Church's disapproval of homosexuality and his mother's attempts to suppress his growing behaviors in public causes him to grow increasingly withdrawn and depressed.
G Kutta Se (2017)
, 1h43Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)
, 1h57Directed by Gabriele Muccino
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about alcoholism, Films about children, La précarité
Actors Will Smith, Jaden Smith, Thandie Newton, Brian Howe, Dan Castellaneta, Kurt Fuller
In 1981, San Francisco salesman Chris Gardner (Will Smith) invests his entire life savings in portable bone-density scanners, which he demonstrates to doctors and pitches as a handy quantum leap over standard X-rays. The scanners play a vital role in Chris' life. While he is able to sell most of them, the time lag between the sales and his growing financial demands enrage his already bitter and alienated wife Linda (Thandie Newton), who works as a hotel maid. The financial instability increasingly erodes their marriage, in spite of them caring for their five-year-old son, Christopher (Jaden Smith).