Movies: Portrait
- 1990
Echoes from a Sombre Empire (1990)
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Documentary examining Bokassa's rule in the Central African Republic using the testimony of witnesses and visits to key sites....
- 2017
Belmondo, le magnifique (2017)
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With more than 70 films and 160 million cumulative tickets in France, Jean-Paul Belmondo is one of the essential stars of French cinema....
- 1939
Straight Shooter (1939)
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Before he was killed, Martin hid a half million dollars worth of bonds on his ranch. Brainard, who killed him, Inspector Carson posing as Sam Brown, and Martin's niece Margaret all want the ranch, and it's being sold at auction....
- 2024
Home Again (2024)
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Rolland, a 70 year-old man, exiled by his family due to his sexual orientation, makes peace with the past by finding himself in a small ghost town in the western part of Jalisco, San Sebastián del Oeste. Almost 40 years later, he wants to go back to ...
- 2020
The Lives of Albert Camus (2020)
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Albert Camus died at 46 years old on January 4, 1960, two years after his Nobel Prize in literature. Author of “L'Etranger”, one of the most widely read novels in the world, philosopher of the absurd and of revolt, resistant, journalist, playwright, ...
- 1966
Never a Backward Step (1966)
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This feature documentary is a profile of Canadian press tycoon Roy Thomson, whose single-minded attention to business brought him riches, power, and even a baronetcy in England. A native of Timmins, Ontario, Thomson had a tremendous career as publish...
- 2022
Salvatore Adamo, ma vie, la vraie (2022)
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He has sold 120 million albums since 1960, that is to say more than 60 years of career and more than 7000 concerts all over the world, but Salvatore Adamo remains humble, concerned about others, his family and his public. Can one write a story with s...
- 2011
François Mitterrand, à bout portant : 1993-1996 (2011)
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"What could be more unsettling than a man close to death whose profound arrogance drives him relentlessly to hang onto both his power and his writing, to the bitter end?" In the twilight of his second seven-year term, François Mitterrand was alone. ...
- 2014
Ivan the Terrible (2014)
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Ivan, first tsar of Russia. History will remember him as "the Terrible. Russian people love him for centuries. He liberates Russia from foreign oppressors, demands absolute obedience and loyalty in order to radically modernise Russia? Ivan IV, Grand ...
- 1963
Stop for Bud (1963)
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Stop for Bud is Jørgen Leth's first film and the first in his long collaboration with Ole John. […] they wanted to "blow up cinematic conventions and invent cinematic language from scratch". The jazz pianist Bud Powell moves around Copenhagen -- thro...
- 2024
The Three Michaels (2024)
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Desperate to become as rich and successful as their idol, a trio of Michael Jackson impersonators hustle their way into Hollywood agencies, are accosted by paparazzi, and cross paths with Grammy-winning musicians as the American dream seems tantalisi...
- 1953
Paul Tomkowicz: Street Railway Switchman (1953)
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In this film, Paul Tomkowicz, Polish-born Canadian, talks about his job and his life in Canada. He compares his new life in the city of Winnipeg to the life he knew in Poland, marvelling at the freedom Canadians enjoy. In winter the rail-switches on ...
- 2021
The New World of Xi Jinping (2021)
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Behind his polite exterior lies a formidable leader with a ruthless character, ready to do anything to make China the world's leading power by the People’s Republic’s centenary in 2049. This well-documented portrait of the Chinese president gives an ...
- 2010
La Meilleure Façon de tracer (2010)
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- 2010
Katka (2010)
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“You bet on someone in the beginning of the process and then you wait and see what life does with them.” This is how Czech director Helena Trestikova explains her long-term documentaries. Following on from the European Film Academy Award winning RENE...
- 2022
GXZ-319 (2022)
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- 2013
Show! (2013)
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A surprisingly intimate portrait of how the dream of running one’s own business can take on monstrous contours. Managed by the father of one of the singers, over the course of five years the girl band 5Angels had reached the gates of pop fame. But it...
- 1992
Thor Modéen: Strålande tider, härliga tider! (1992)
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Portrait documentary of the Swedish comedic actor Thor Modéen full of clips from his greatest roles....
- 2017
Le Dernier Voyage de Patrick Edlinger (2017)
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- 2022
Igor Levit: No Fear (2022)
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Follows the artist over two years as he explores his „life after Beethoven“, as he searches for his next challenge, his identity as an artist....