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The 400 Blows
( 1959 )
A young boy, left without attention, delves into a life of petty crime.
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Enigma
( 2001 )
A young genius frantically races against time to crack an enemy code and solve the mystery surrounding the woman he loves.
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Queen of Katwe
( 2016 )
A Ugandan girl sees her world rapidly change after being introduced to the game of chess.
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Fermat's Room
( 2007 )
4 mathematicians are invited to solve an enigma. Once there, they're locked in a mechanically shrinking room and given 1 minute to solve each puzzle via cellphone while also figuring out why they're there.
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The Oxford Murders
( 2008 )
At Oxford University, a professor and a grad student work together to try to stop a potential series of murders seemingly linked by mathematical symbols.
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Harriet the Spy
( 1996 )
Harriet M. Welsch is a spy. But when her friends find her secret notebook, the tables are turned on her. Can she win them back and still keep on going with the spy business?
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I.Q.
( 1994 )
A mechanic romances the mathematician niece of physicist Albert Einstein, with help from Einstein and his friends.
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WarGames: The Dead Code
( 2008 )
The United State's Department of Homeland Security is led to believe an American teen hacker playing a terrorist-attack simulator game online is a real terrorist out to destroy the U.S.
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The Luzhin Defence
( 2000 )
Two worlds collide when an eccentric genius falls in love with a strong-willed society beauty.
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The Shaggy Dog
( 2006 )
A man tries to live a normal life despite the fact that he sometimes turns into a sheepdog.
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North
( 1994 )
Sick of the neglect he receives from his mom and dad, a young boy leaves home and travels the world in search of new parents.
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Basquiat
( 1996 )
The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame, drugs and his identity.
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Mr. Holland's Opus
( 1996 )
A frustrated composer finds fulfillment as a high school music teacher.
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Baby Geniuses
( 1999 )
Scientist hold talking, super-intelligent babies captive, but things take a turn for the worse when a mix-up occurs between a baby genius and its twin.
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Seraphine
( 2008 )
Based on the life of French painter Séraphine de Senlis.
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A Brief History of Time
( 1991 )
A film about the life and work of the cosmologist, Stephen Hawking, who despite his near total paralysis, was one of the great minds of all time.
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Copenhagen
( 2002 )
A television adaptation of Michael Frayn's celebrated and award-winning stage play about the meeting between physicists Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg in 1941 Copenhagen. At this time the young Heisenberg was leading a faltering German research program into nuclear...
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Like Stars on Earth
( 2007 )
An eight-year-old boy is thought to be a lazy trouble-maker, until the new art teacher has the patience and compassion to discover the real problem behind his struggles in school.
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Travelling Salesman
( 2012 )
Four mathematicians are hired by the US government to solve the most powerful problem in computer science history.
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Hitchcock
( 2012 )
The relationship between Sir Alfred Hitchcock (Sir Anthony Hopkins) and his wife Alma Reville (Dame Helen Mirren) during the filming of Psycho (1960) in 1959 is explored.
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Genius
( 1999 )
Charlie Boyle finds that even his high IQ can't solve all of his problems when he takes on a double life in order to make friends his own age.
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
( 2007 )
The true story of Elle editor Jean-Dominique Bauby who suffers a stroke and has to live with an almost totally paralyzed body; only his left eye isn't paralyzed.
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Max Manus: Man of War
( 2008 )
The true story about one of the most brilliant saboteurs during World War II and his battle to overcome his inner demons.
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Glass Garden
( 2017 )
Despite her disabled leg, Ph.D. student Jae-yeon is a brilliant researcher with a rare ability to communicate with nature. Having been hurt by her hypocrite colleague and lover, she turns her back to the world and goes deep into the forest to live alone in a glass garden.
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Moebius
( 1996 )
A train on the Buenos Aires subway system suddenly vanishes.
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The 39 Steps
( 2008 )
Richard Hannay, a mining engineer on holiday from the African colonies, finds London socialite life terribly dull. Yet it's more than he bargained for when secret agent, Scudder, bursts into his room and entrusts him a coded notebook with map, concerning the impending start of World War I. In no time both German agents and the British law are chasing him, ruthlessly coveting the Roman numerals code, which Hannay believes he must crack himself. Masquerading as a liberal party pundit, Richard also gets stuck with parliamentary candidate Sir George Sinclair's sister Victoria. They must survive with the secrets and decide who they can trust and how to keep it from others.
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Little Man Tate
( 1991 )
A single mother raises a child prodigy on her own, struggling to give him every opportunity he needs to express his gift.
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Charly
( 1968 )
An intellectually disabled man undergoes an experiment that gives him the intelligence of a genius.
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Confucius
( 2010 )
The life story of the highly-influential Chinese philosopher, Confucius.
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Dark Matter
( 2008 )
Based on actual events, a Chinese university student responds violently when his chances for a Nobel Prize are dashed by school politics.
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Hoot
( 2006 )
The story of a young man moves from Montana to Florida with his family, where he's compelled to engage in a fight to protect a population of endangered owls, and that a tough girl at his school named Beatrice has some connection with the barefoot boy, who has some connection with vandalism at the construction site. When they realize that a population of endangered burrowing owls is threatened by new construction the kids decide to take on crooked politicians and bumbling cops in the hope of saving their new friends.
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The Mirror Has Two Faces
( 1996 )
A shy, middle-aged professor enters into a romantic but non-physical relationship with an unlucky-in-love colleague.
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Molly
( 1999 )
A bachelor becomes the unwilling guardian of his autistic, intellectually disabled sister; then an experimental treatment works a dramatic change in her brain and his attitude.
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The Power of One
( 1992 )
An English boy, living in Africa during World War II, through his boxing prowess, becomes a symbol of hope, in a time of war.
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10 Items or Less
( 2007 )
An actor (Freeman) prepping for an upcoming role meets a quirky grocery clerk (Vega), and the pair hit the road to show one another their respective worlds.
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Infinity
( 1996 )
Story of the early life of genius and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman.
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Little Buddha
( 1993 )
After the death of Lama Dorje, Tibetan Buddhist monks find three children - one American and two Nepalese - who may be the rebirth of their great teacher.
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Rebel in the Rye
( 2017 )
The life of celebrated but reclusive author, J.D. Salinger, who gained worldwide fame with the publication of his novel, "The Catcher in the Rye".
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The Secret of Roan Inish
( 1995 )
Young Fiona lives with her grandparents in a small fishing village where she takes an active role to unravel the mysterious secrets.
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Cold Comfort Farm
( 1996 )
A recently orphaned young woman goes to live with eccentric relatives in Sussex, where she sets about improving their gloomy lives.
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My Left Foot
( 1989 )
Christy Brown, born with cerebral palsy, learns to paint and write with his only controllable limb - his left foot.
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Magnus
( 2016 )
Magnus Carlsen, Norwegian chess prodigy, becomes a grandmaster at age 13 and world champion in 2013.
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Conceiving Ada
( 1999 )
Emmy Coer, a computer genius, devises a method of communicating with the past by tapping into undying information waves. She manages to reach the world of Ada Lovelace, founder of the idea of a computer language and proponent of the possibilities of the "difference engine." Ada's ideas were stifled and unfulfilled because of the reality of life as a woman in the nineteenth century. Emmy has a plan to defeat death and the past using her own DNA as a communicative agent to the past, bringing Ada to the present. But what are the possible ramifications?
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All That Jazz
( 1979 )
Director/choreographer Bob Fosse tells his own life story as he details the sordid life of Joe Gideon, a womanizing, drug-using dancer.
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Tim's Vermeer
( 2014 )
Inventor Tim Jenison seeks to understand the painting techniques used by Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer.
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Vitus
( 2006 )
A twelve-year-old piano prodigy who suffocates from his parent's big dreams for him decides to make his escape--and with the aid of his grandfather--chase his own dreams instead.
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The Agony and the Ecstasy
( 1965 )
The biographical story of Michelangelo's troubles while painting the Sistine Chapel at the urging of Pope Julius II.
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Whale Rider
( 2003 )
A contemporary story of love, rejection and triumph as a young Maori girl fights to fulfill a destiny her grandfather refuses to recognize.
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Experimenter
( 2015 )
In 1961, famed social psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted a series of radical behavior experiments that tested ordinary humans' willingness to obey authority.
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Billy Elliot
( 2014 )
A talented young dancer has to learn to fight for his dream despite social and parental disapproval.
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Yves Saint Laurent
( 2014 )
A look at the life of French designer Yves Saint-Laurent from the beginning of his career in 1958 when he met his lover and business partner, Pierre Bergé.
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Shine
( 1997 )
As a child piano prodigy, David Helfgott's musical ambitions generate friction with his overbearing father, Peter. When Helfgott travels to London on a musical scholarship, his career as a pianist blossoms. However, the pressures of his newfound fame, coupled with the echoes of his tumultuous childhood, conspire to bring Helfgott's latent schizophrenia boiling to the surface, and he spends years in and out of various mental institutions.
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Creation
( 2009 )
What happens when a world-renowned scientist, crushed by the loss of his eldest daughter, formulates a theory in conflict with religious dogma? This is the story of Charles Darwin and his master-work "The Origin of Species". It tells of a global revolution played out within the confines of a small English village; a passionate marriage torn apart by the most dangerous idea in history; and a theory saved from extinction by the logic of a child.
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Bessie
( 2015 )
The story of legendary blues performer Bessie Smith, who rose to fame during the 1920s and '30s.
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A Little Romance
( 1979 )
A French boy (Daniel) and an American girl (Lauren), who go to school in Paris, meet and begin a little romance. They befriend Julius, who enchants them with his storytelling. In an attempt to ensure the teens' love forever, the three journey to Venice.
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The Kindergarten Teacher
( 2018 )
A kindergarten teacher in New York becomes obsessed with one of her students whom she believes is a child prodigy.
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The Boys & Girl from County Clare
( 2006 )
It's the mid 1960s. With a long tradition of Irish music in their blood, middle-aged John Joe McMahon and younger Jimmy McMahon, two of three brothers, grew up in County Clare, Ireland. They have long been estranged, their falling out over a woman. John Joe, still living in County Clare, has never married, while Jimmy, who long ago left County Clare to live in Liverpool, is on wife number five and probably counting. As fiddlers, they each lead their own ceili band, following those strict musical conventions in which they were raised. As such, Jimmy's talented flautist, Teddy, exasperates him if only because of Teddy's being musically influenced by, among others, The Beatles. John Joe's band has won the best ceili band competition at the prestigious annual Irish music festival three years running. This year, Jimmy's band will also be in attendance for the first time. John Joe and Jimmy do not want to see each other and do whatever they can to ensure the other does not make it to the festival. Theirs is not the only estrangement: John Joe's pianist, Maisie, and Jimmy also broke up on bad terms, Maisie's bitterness and resentment of men solely resting on Jimmy's shoulders. Maisie raised her daughter Anne, a fiddler herself and arguably the best musician in John Joe's band, as a single mother, trying to shield her from men, whom she sees as all being like Jimmy. Beyond the music competition itself, they will all have a fight on their hands when Teddy and Anne meet and start to fall for each other.
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The Fountainhead
( 1949 )
An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards.
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Uncanny
( 2016 )
The world's first "perfect" Artificial Intelligence begins to exhibit startling and unnerving emergent behavior when a reporter begins a relationship with the scientist who created it.
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Pete's Christmas
( 2013 )
A put-upon teen finds himself reliving the same miserable Christmas day over and over again.
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Pollock
( 2001 )
A film about the life and career of the American painter, Jackson Pollock.
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Mr. Turner
( 2014 )
An exploration of the last quarter century of the great, if eccentric, British painter J.M.W. Turner's life.
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Mozart and the Whale
( 2006 )
A love story between two savants with Asperger's syndrome, a kind of autism, whose conditions sabotage their budding relationship.
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Genius
( 2018 )
An orphan, with a brilliant mind, joins RAW and is burdened by the killing of his entire team. Until he doesn't avenge their death, he can't live in peace with his love. So, he hatches a genius plan.
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Homage
( 1996 )
In New Mexico, the widow and former teacher Katherine Samuel reluctantly hires the lonely mathematician and genius Archie Landrum to be her gardener and soon they become good friends. When her estranged daughter Lucille "Lucy" Samuel, who left the college to become a television star in New York, decides to spend a couple of days with her mother, Archie becomes obsessed for her. Lucy and her mother reconciled to each other and Lucy decides to quit her...
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The Humbling
( 2015 )
A stage actor who is slowly losing his mind engages in a relationship with a sexually confused younger woman.
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1:54
( 2017 )
Tim is a grade 11 student dealing with loss of his mother several years ago and his own sexuality at 16 going on 17. He was a star runner as a 12 year old with his mother as his coach. With his mother's death he gave up running and him and his friend are chemistry nerds who are bullied and harassed by the jocks at school. Tim eventually returns to running and expands his group of friends. HIs main competitor on the track, Jeff, continues his harassment and resorts to blackmail to hurt Tim's performance on the track with disastrous results.
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American Splendor
( 2003 )
An original mix of fiction and reality illuminates the life of comic book hero everyman Harvey Pekar.
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My Mother's Castle
( 1990 )
Every holiday Marcel and his family go to their cottage near Marseilles. During one of these holidays he meets Isabelle, a pretty but conceited girl... Adapted from the cult classic novel from Marcel Pagnol.
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Einstein and Eddington
( 2008 )
Drama about the development of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity, and Einstein's relationship with British scientist Sir Arthur Eddington, the first physicist to experimentally prove his ideas.
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Written by Mrs Bach: Broken Silence
( 2018 )
An investigation into whether some of Johann Sebastian Bach's most famous works might actually have been composed by his second wife, Anna Magdalena. Accomplished academic, musician and forensic document examiner, Professor Martin Jarvis, comes up against significant resistance from the Bach orthodoxy when he presents his evidence supporting this theory.
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Flowers for Algernon
( 2000 )
Charlie Gordon is mentally handicapped and all he wants in life is to be a genius. Charlie takes the chance, but he must adjust emotionally when a laboratory experiment raises his IQ to amazing levels.
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Anne of Green Gables
( 2016 )
A retelling of L.M. Montgomery's story of Anne Shirley, an orphan who is accidentally sent to a couple looking to adopt a boy instead
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The Caveman's Valentine
( 2001 )
A cave-dwelling man sets out to track down the killer of a homeless boy, and bring him to justice.
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Modigliani
( 2004 )
The story of Amedeo Modigliani's bitter rivalry with Pablo Picasso, and his tragic romance with Jeanne Hebuterne.
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Kim Possible: A Sitch in Time
( 2003 )
The new school year starts off terrible for Kim. In her ordinary life her best friend is moving away, and in her heroic crime-fighting life, three of the most notorious villains in her world plan to use time travel as a weapon against her.
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Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story
( 2003 )
Based on a true story. Liz Murray is a young girl who is taken care of by her loving, but drug-addicted parents. Liz becomes homeless at 15 and after a tragedy comes upon her, she begins her work to finish high school.
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Carrie Pilby
( 2017 )
A person of high intelligence struggles to make sense of the world as it relates to morality, relationships, sex and leaving her apartment.
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Angus
( 1995 )
A miserable fat teenager secretly has a crush on the class beauty, ends up becoming the surprising participant to dance with her at a high school dance, meaning he's got to get his act together with the help of his best friend.
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Black
( 2005 )
The cathartic tale of a young woman who can't see, hear, or speak, and the teacher who brings a ray of light into her dark world.
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Shakuntala Devi
( 2020 )
The extraordinary story of Shakuntala Devi, the world-renowned mathematician who lived her life on her own terms. While the film pays tribute to her genius as a mathematician, it also humanizes her as a woman and mother, in trying to capture her indomitable spirit. Told through the lens of her relationship with her daughter Anu, the film highlights their very different struggles and aspirations.
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An Invisible Sign
( 2010 )
Mona Gray is a 20-year-old loner who, as a child, turned to math for salvation after her father became ill. As an adult, Mona now teaches the subject and must help her students through their own crises.
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Antonia's Line
( 1996 )
A Dutch matron establishes and, for several generations, oversees a close-knit, matriarchal community where feminism and liberalism thrive.
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Raising Genius
( 2004 )
The film is about a boy who locks himself in the bathroom to work out math equations on the shower wall. The boy has obsessive compulsive parents. The boy is obsessed with a cheerleader named Lacy, who lives across the street from.
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Final Portrait
( 2017 )
The story of Swiss painter and sculptor Alberto Giacometti.
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Max Headroom
( 1985 )
In the dystopic near future, a crusading TV reporter investigates news stories with the help of a wisecracking computer version of himself.
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Hilary and Jackie
( 1999 )
British sisters Hilary du Pré and Jacqueline du Pré are both talented musicians, Hilary a flautist, Jackie a cellist. With regard to their musical prowess, they have always had a friendly competitive nature with each other, fueled in large part by the want of their pianist mother, Iris, for them to achieve musical greatness. But underlying this friendliness is a deep desire to be truly better than the other. Despite or perhaps in part because of her flamboyant performance style, the younger Jackie emerges from the shadows of older Hilary's more triumphant childhood successes to become the renowned musician in the family. Although both continue with their music and both end up marrying (Hilary to Kiffer Finzi, and Jackie to pianist Daniel Barenboim), Hilary focuses on her home life, whereas Jackie focuses on her career. A seemingly odd request by Jackie to Hilary is later understood, but Hilary's agreement to that request demonstrates the true nature of their loving but unusual sisterly relationship.
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Like Sunday, Like Rain
( 2014 )
LIKE SUNDAY, LIKE RAIN tells the story of Reggie, a 12 year old rich prodigy who lives in a castle in New York, surrounded by wealth but living a lonely life as his parents are frequently absent. Eleanor is a young musician going through the pains of growing up, who is having problems with her boyfriend and was recently fired from her job. This is a beautiful story about discovery and acceptance.
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Beautiful Ohio
( 2006 )
An entire family comes of age during the early 1970s.
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The Concert
( 2009 )
Thirty years ago Bolshoi Orchestra conductor Andreï Filipov was fired for hiring Jewish musicians. Now a lowly janitor, an opportunity arises to gather his old musicians to go and pose as the official Buolshoi orchestra in Paris.
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Amazing Grace and Chuck
( 1987 )
A little league player named Chuck refuses to ever pitch again until nuclear weapons are disarmed. Basketball star "Amazing Grace" Smith follows the boy's example, and starts a trend.
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The Devil's Violinist
( 2013 )
19th Century violinist and composer Niccolò Paganini incurs the wrath of his diabolical manager while preparing for his debut performance in London, and falling for the daughter of an English impresario.
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American Symphony
( 2023 )
In this deeply intimate documentary, musician Jon Batiste attempts to compose a symphony as his wife, writer Suleika Jaouad, undergoes cancer treatment.
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Hawking
( 2004 )
Theoretical physicist/cosmologist Stephen Hawking's life and search for the beginning of time (1963-6).
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Spellbound
( 2003 )
Spellbound follows eight teenagers on their quest to win the 1999 National Spelling Bee.
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Codebreaker
( 2011 )
The highs and lows of Alan Turing's life, tracking his extraordinary accomplishments, his government persecution through to his tragic death in 1954. In the last 18 months of his short life, Turing visited a psychiatrist, Dr. Franz Greenbaum, who tried to help him. Each therapy session in this drama documentary is based on real events. The conversations between Turing and Greenbaum explore the pivotal moments in his controversial life and examine the pressures that may have contributed to his early death. The film also includes the testimony of people who actually knew and remember Turing. Plus, this film features interviews with contemporary experts from the world of technology and high science including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. These contributors bring Turing's exciting impact up to the present day, explaining why, in many ways, modern technology has only just begun to explore the potential of Turing's ideas.
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Four Minutes
( 2008 )
An elderly piano teacher trains a young convict at a women's penitentiary.
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tardisrider : is there gonna be a s4? been "to be determined" for a long time now