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Anton Chekhov 1890 (2015)
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Anton Chekhov 1890 (2015)
Original name: Anton Tchekhov 1890
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Summer 1890. In order to make some money to feed his family, Anton Chekhov, modest physician, wrote short stories for newspapers to sign Antosha Tchékhonté. Important characters, writer and editor, just make him aware of his talent. His situation is improving and Anton Chekhov gets the Pushkin prices and admiration of Tolstoy. But when one of his brothers died of tuberculosis, Anton saw it as a personal failure and wants to escape his fame and his love.
Style: serious, realistic, psychological, captivating, gloomy, costume drama
Plot: literature, writers, writer's life, biopic, family relations, tuberculosis, obsession, life is a bitch, couple relations, siblings relations, artists and showbiz, infidelity, convict, death, adultery, death of brother, nude, poet, philosophy, art history, playwright, anton chekhov, female nudity, island, teacher ...
Time: 19th century
Place: russia

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Measuring the World (2012)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Germany in the early 19th century. "Die Vermessung der Welt" follows the two brilliant and eccentric scientists Alexander von Humboldt and Carl Friedrich Gauss on their life paths.
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Plot: scientist, mathematics, science, inventions and discoveries, biopic, explorer, exploration, society, rivalry, friendship, naturalist, monkey ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: germany
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Leopardi (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 143 min.
Story: A luminously beautiful biopic of the celebrated eighteenth-century Italian poet, essayist and philosopher Giacomo Leopardi, who created immortal verse whilst struggling with a debilitating illness.
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The Bronte Sisters (1979)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In a small presbytery in Yorkshire, England, living under the watchful eyes of their aunt and father, a strict Anglican pastor, the Bronte sisters write their first works and quickly become literary sensations.
Style: realistic, serious, gloomy, contemplative, period drama ...
Plot: writers, art, women, biopic, writer's life, winter, disease, tuberculosis, fire, historical event, painting, poet ...
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Duration: 89 min.
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The Outlaw (2010)
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Country: Spain, Brazil, France
Duration: 106 min.
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Place: spain, europe, portugal
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Russian poet, singer and actor Vladimir Vysotsky was an idol of the 1970s and '80s. In 1980, at the age of 42, he passed away during the Moscow Olympic Games. This is the story of his last great love as handed down to his son from a family ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story: To Walk Invisible takes a new look at the extraordinary Brontë family, telling the story of these remarkable women who, despite the obstacles they faced, came from obscurity to produce some of the greatest novels in the English language.
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Set Fire to the Stars (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
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Duration: 82 min.
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Style: realistic, captivating, touching, serious
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 138 min.
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Style: serious, sincere, captivating, realistic, touching ...
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Duration: 102 min.
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Duration: 111 min.
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Style: serious, costume drama, cult classic, erotic, sexual ...
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The Pact (2021)
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Country: Denmark, Belgium, Norway, Finland
Duration: 115 min.
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Genre: Biography, Drama
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Duration: 100 min.
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The Professor and the Madman (2019)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA, Mexico, UK, France, Belgium, Iceland, Ireland, Hong Kong
Duration: 124 min.
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Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1870s
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