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Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows
2001 television film directed by Robert Allan Ackerman
Olga
2004 film by Jayme Monjardim
Al sur de Granada
2003 film by Fernando Colomo
Steal This Movie!
2000 film directed by Robert Greenwald
In Like Flynn
2018 film by Russell Mulcahy
All Our Desires
2011 film by Philippe Lioret
Macadam Stories
2015 film by Samuel Benchetrit
My Six Convicts
1952 film by Hugo Fregonese
Nambugun
Nambugun: North Korean Partisan in South Korea () is a 1990 South Korean war drama film directed by Chung Ji-young. It is based upon the experiences of Lee Tae, a war correspondent and pro-North Korean Partisan during the Korean War.
Ali's Wedding
2016 film by Jeffrey Walker
Gie
Gie is a 2005 Indonesian biopic film directed by Riri Riza. The film tells the story of Soe Hok Gie, a graduate from University of Indonesia who is known as an activist and nature lover. The film is based on the diary Catatan Seorang Demonstran written by Soe himself. The plot of this film is an interpretation of the filmmakers, and scenes portraying Soe's private life may be partly fictionalised for dramatisation.
Memoirs of Prison
1984 film by Nelson Pereira dos Santos
The Phantom of the Open
2021 film directed by Craig Roberts
Fidel
2002 television film directed by David Attwood
Crazy
2000 film directed by Hans-Christian Schmid
Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B
2014 made for television biographical film directed by Bradley Walsh
The Passion of Ayn Rand
1999 film by Christopher Menaul
Wild Life
2014 film directed by Cédric Kahn
The Kid
2010 film by Nick Moran
Fear Strikes Out
1957 film by Robert Mulligan
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
1987 film directed by Charles Jarrott
Chico Xavier
2010 film by Daniel Filho
The Last Descent
2016 film
The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band
1968 film by Michael O'Herlihy
Gypsy
1993 film directed by Emile Ardolino
Meetings with Remarkable Men
1979 film by Peter Brook
Odd Little Man
2000 Norwegian film directed by Stein Leikanger
God Is My Co-Pilot
1945 film by Robert Florey
The Three Stooges
ABC TV docudrama
Vera
1986 film by Sérgio Toledo
The Great Moment
1944 film by Preston Sturges
Blue Like Jazz
2012 film by Steve Taylor
Roughly Speaking
1945 film by Michael Curtiz
Cazuza – O Tempo Não Pára
2004 film directed by Sandra Werneck and Walter Carvalho
Little Richard
2000 biographical mini-series
Ich bin dann mal weg
2015 film by Julia Heinz
Bicho de Sete Cabeças
2000 film by Laís Bodanzky
Rainbow
1978 television film about Judy Garland directed by Jackie Cooper
Rhodes of Africa
1936 film by Berthold Viertel
VIPs
2010 film
Queen of the Ring
2024 film directed by Ash Avildsen
Spy for Germany
1956 film by Werner Klingler
Heart Beat
1980 film by John Byrum
Diamond Jim
1935 film by A. Edward Sutherland
Daphne
2007 television film
Lucio Flavio
1977 film by Héctor Babenco
Follow the Sun
1951 film by Sidney Lanfield