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The Iron Lady
2011 film directed by Phyllida Lloyd
The Favourite
2018 film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos
Midnight Express
1978 film directed by Alan Parker
Napoleon
2023 film directed by Ridley Scott
Chaplin
1992 film by Richard Attenborough
Florence Foster Jenkins
2016 film by Stephen Frears
Legend
2015 film by Brian Helgeland
Domino
2005 film directed by Tony Scott
Genghis Khan
1965 film by Henry Levin
Eddie the Eagle
2016 film directed by Dexter Fletcher
Man on Wire
2008 documentary film directed by James Marsh
Mrs Henderson Presents
2005 film by Stephen Frears
Stan and Ollie
2018 film by Jon S. Baird
Tetris
2023 film directed by Jon S. Baird
Bronson
2008 film directed by Nicolas Winding Refn
Young Winston
1972 film directed by Richard Attenborough
Hilary and Jackie
1998 film directed by Anand Tucker
Ted Bundy
2002 American serial killer film directed by Matthew Bright
The Fixer
1968 film by John Frankenheimer
Sylvia
2003 film by Christine Jeffs
24 Hour Party People
2002 film by Michael Winterbottom
The Lady
2011 film by Luc Besson
Jinnah
1998 film by Jamil Dehlavi
Seberg
Seberg is a 2019 political thriller film directed by Benedict Andrews, from a screenplay by Joe Shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse based on the life of Jean Seberg. It stars Kristen Stewart, Jack O'Connell, Margaret Qualley, Zazie Beetz, Anthony Mackie, and Vince Vaughn.
Waltzes from Vienna
1934 film by Alfred Hitchcock
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
2004 television film directed by Stephen Hopkins
Christopher Columbus: The Discovery
1992 film by John Glen
Better Man
2024 film directed by Michael Gracey
Buster
1988 film by David Green
One Chance
2013 film
Countess Dracula
1971 Hammer horror film directed by Peter Sasdy
Lisztomania
1975 film by Ken Russell
Hyde Park on Hudson
2012 film directed by Roger Michell
Lords of Chaos
2018 film by Jonas Åkerlund
Rise and Fall of Idi Amin
1981 Nigerian film by Sharad Patel
Rasputin, the Mad Monk
1966 film by Don Sharp
Scott of the Antarctic
1948 film by Charles Frend
Mahler
1974 film by Ken Russell
Alfred the Great
1969 film by Clive Donner
Jew Suss
1934 film by Lothar Mendes
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
1998 television film directed by John Maybury
Isn't She Great
2000 film by Andrew Bergman
Boudica
2003 film directed by Bill Anderson
The Greatest
1977 film about Muhammad Ali
Savage Messiah
1972 film by Ken Russell
In the Light of the Moon
2001 film directed by Chuck Parello
Stoned
2005 film by Stephen Woolley
Beau Brummell
1954 film by Curtis Bernhardt
Rembrandt
1936 film by Alexander Korda
My Boy Jack
2007 television film directed by Brian Kirk
Wagner
1983 film directed by Tony Palmer
A Brief History of Time
1991 American documentary film directed by Errol Morris
All Is True
2018 film by Kenneth Branagh
The One That Got Away
1957 British film directed by Roy Ward Baker
Driven
2018 film directed by Nick Hamm
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
2010 film directed by Mat Whitecross
Bank of Dave
2023 film directed by Chris Foggin
The Six Wives of Henry VIII
1972 film by Waris Hussein
Eichmann
2007 film by Robert Young
Personal Services
1987 film directed by Terry Jones