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Finding Altamira (2016)
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Finding Altamira (2016)
Original name: Altamira
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The story of nine-year old Maria and her father Marcelino who, in 1879, found the first pre-historic cave paintings at the now world famous Altamira cave.
Style: touching, suspenseful, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, period piece
Plot: cave, discovery, love triangle, faith, painter, artist, art, real life, buffalo, sea, mountain, puzzle, beach, cemetery, church, bible, maid, father daughter relationship, mansion, imagination, hallucination, media, fever, tree, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 19th century, prehistory, victorian era, 1880s
Place: spain

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Genius (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Spain
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Country: Ireland, Switzerland, UK, France, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Famed but tormented artist Vincent van Gogh spends his final years in Arles, France, painting masterworks of the natural world that surrounds him.
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