Country: United States
Genre: Biography, Drama
Paul Snider is a narcissistic small time hustler who fancies himself a ladies man. His life changes when he meets Dorothy Stratten working behind the counter of a Dairy Queen. Dorothy is a pretty but naive high school senior. Paul immediately falls for Dorothy who sees in Paul a wise worldly person unlike herself. Paul believes Dorothy is Playboy material the magazine he sees as only a...
Country: United States
Genre: Biography, Drama
The story tells of a young woman admitting to have blackouts fearing they are getting worse. She is believed to suffer from multiple personalities as a result of severe abuse at the hands of her mother whom the psychiatrist Cornelia B. Wilbur believes was schizophrenic. The movie Sibyl is based upon author Flora Rheta Schreiberthes novel and fictionalized version of the life story of...
Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
In 1956 aspiring American poet Sylvia Plath meets fellow poet Edward Ted Hughes at Cambridge where she is studying. Enthralled with the genius of his writing Sylvia falls in love with him even before meeting him and he quickly falls in love with her. They eventually marry. Sylvia quickly learns that others are also enthralled with her husband for a combination of his good looks charisma...
Country: United States
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Part documentary part narrative fiction part home movie and part acid trip. A psychedelic whirlwind of snapshots Super-8 home movies old answering machine messages video diaries early short films snippets of 80s pop culture and dramatic reenactments to create an epic portrait of an American family travesty. The story begins in 2003 when Jonathan learns that his schizophrenic mother...
Country: United States, United Kingdom
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Docu-drama based on the life of Ted Bundy a serial killer who killed at least 19 young women during the 1970s though some sources say as many as 30 to 35 were murdered. Set from his college student years to his first victims his capture escape from prison twice his final killing spree to his trial conviction and...
Country: United States
Genre: Biography, Drama
Biopic of Temple Grandin an autistic woman who overcame the limitations imposed on her by her condition to become a Ph.D. and expert in the field of animal husbandry. She developed an interest in cattle early in life while spending time at her Aunt and Uncles ranch. She did not speak until age four and had difficulty right through high school mostly in dealing with people. Her mother was very...
Country: United States
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Former seaman Clinton Jones now works at a lowly job. His daughter Ruth wants to become an actress. Clinton gets fired and Ruth rejects the advances of Fred Whitmarsh. Her father gives her his seamans spyglass to sell as she heads for New York...
Country: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Western
The last months of Jesse Jamess life from meeting Robert Ford a 19-year-old who idolizes Jesse to the day Ford shoots him. Jesses a wanted man living under a pseudonym carrying out a train robbery disappearing to Kentucky and reappearing to plan a bank holdup with Robert and Roberts brother as his team. The rest of the gang is dead arrested or gone from Missouri. Whenever Jesses...
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