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Link | rowid | title | site | country | year_release | box_office | director | number_of_subjects | subject | type_of_subject ▼ | race_known | subject_race | person_of_color | subject_sex | lead_actor_actress |
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12 | 12 | A Beautiful Mind | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0268978/ | US | 2001 | $171M | Ron Howard | 1 | John Nash | Academic | Unknown | 0 | Male | Russell Crowe | |
13 | 13 | A Dangerous Method | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1571222/ | Canada/UK | 2011 | $5.7M | David Cronenberg | 3 | Carl Gustav Jung | Academic | Known | White | 0 | Male | Michael Fassbender |
14 | 14 | A Dangerous Method | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1571222/ | Canada/UK | 2011 | $5.7M | David Cronenberg | 3 | Sigmund Freud | Academic | Known | White | 0 | Male | Viggo Mortensen |
15 | 15 | A Dangerous Method | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1571222/ | Canada/UK | 2011 | $5.7M | David Cronenberg | 3 | Sabina Spielrein | Academic | Known | White | 0 | Female | Keira Knightley |
148 | 148 | Creation | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0974014/ | UK | 2009 | $341K | Jon Amiel | 1 | Charles Darwin | Academic | Unknown | 0 | Male | Paul Bettany | |
184 | 184 | Edison, the Man | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032432/ | US | 1940 | - | Clarence Brown | 1 | Thomas Edison | Academic | Known | White | 0 | Male | Spencer Tracy |
201 | 201 | Fat Man and Little Boy | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097336/ | US | 1989 | $3.56M | Roland JoffÌÄå© | 2 | Robert Oppenheimer | Academic | Known | White | 0 | Male | Dwight Schultz |
216 | 216 | Freud | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055998/ | US | 1962 | - | John Huston | 1 | Sigmund Freud | Academic | Known | White | 0 | Male | Montgomery Clift |
234 | 234 | Gorillas in the Mist | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095243/ | US | 1988 | $24.7M | Michael Apted | 1 | Dian Fossey | Academic | Unknown | 0 | Female | Sigourney Weaver | |
283 | 283 | Infinity | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116635/ | US | 1996 | $146K | Matthew Broderick | 1 | Richard Feynman | Academic | Unknown | 0 | Male | Matthew Broderick | |
320 | 320 | Kinsey | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0362269/ | US | 2004 | $10.2M | Bill Condon | 1 | Alfred Kinsey | Academic | Known | White | 0 | Male | Liam Neeson |
354 | 354 | Madame Curie | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036126/ | US | 1943 | - | Mervyn LeRoy | 2 | Pierre Curie | Academic | Known | White | 0 | Male | Walter Pidgeon |
355 | 355 | Madame Curie | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036126/ | US | 1943 | - | Mervyn LeRoy | 2 | Marie Curie | Academic | Known | White | 0 | Female | Greer Garson |
582 | 582 | The Great Debaters | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427309/ | US | 2007 | $30.2M | Denzel Washington | 1 | Melvin Tolson | Academic | Known | African American | 1 | Male | Denzel Washington |
596 | 596 | The Imitation Game | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2084970/ | US/UK | 2014 | $91.1M | Morten Tyldum | 1 | Alan Turing | Academic | Known | White | 0 | Male | Benedict Cumberbatch |
627 | 627 | The Man Who Saw Tomorrow | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081109/ | US | 1981 | - | Robert Guenette | 1 | Michel de Nostredame | Academic | Known | White | 0 | Male | Richard Butler |
668 | 668 | The Soul Keeper | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0349995/ | UK | 2002 | - | Roberto Faenza | 2 | Carl Gustav Jung | Academic | Known | White | 0 | Male | Iain Glen |
669 | 669 | The Soul Keeper | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0349995/ | UK | 2002 | - | Roberto Faenza | 2 | Sabina Spielrein | Academic | Known | White | 0 | Female | Emilia Fox |
672 | 672 | The Story of Alexander Graham Bell | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031981/ | US | 1939 | - | Irving Cummings | 1 | Alexander Graham Bell | Academic | Known | White | 0 | Male | Don Ameche |
673 | 673 | The Story of Louis Pasteur | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028313/ | US | 1936 | - | William Dieterle | 1 | Louis Pasteur | Academic | Known | White | 0 | Male | Paul Muni |
679 | 679 | The Theory of Everything | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2980516/ | UK | 2014 | $35.9M | James Marsh | 1 | Steven Hawking | Academic | Known | White | 0 | Male | Eddie Redmayne |
750 | 750 | Wittgenstein | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108583/ | UK | 1993 | - | Derek Jarman | 1 | Ludwig Wittgenstein | Academic (Philosopher) | Known | White | 0 | Male | Clancy Chassay |
65 | 65 | Before Night Falls | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0247196/ | US | 2000 | $4.22M | Julian Schnabel | 1 | Reinaldo Arenas | Activist | Known | Hispanic (Latin American) | 1 | Male | Javier Bardem |
122 | 122 | Catch a Fire | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0437232/ | US/UK | 2006 | $4.29M | Phillip Noyce | 1 | Patrick Chamusso | Activist | Known | African | 1 | Male | Derek Luke |
124 | 124 | Cesar Chavez | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1621046/ | US | 2014 | $5.55M | Diego Luna | 1 | Cesar Chavez | Activist | Known | Hispanic (Latino) | 1 | Male | Michael Pe̱a |
129 | 129 | Che: Part One | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0892255/ | US | 2008 | $1.73M | Steven Soderbergh | 1 | Che Guevara | Activist | Known | Hispanic (Latin American) | 0 | Male | Benicio Del Toro |
130 | 130 | Che: Part Two | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0374569/ | US | 2008 | - | Steven Soderbergh | 1 | Che Guevara | Activist | Known | Hispanic (Latin American) | 0 | Male | DemiÌÁn Bichir |
131 | 131 | Che! | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064158/ | US | 1969 | $2M | Richard Fleischer | 1 | Che Guevara | Activist | Known | Hispanic (Latin American) | 0 | Male | Omar Sharif |
152 | 152 | Cry Freedom | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092804/ | UK | 1987 | $5.9M | Richard Attenborough | 1 | Steve Biko | Activist | Known | African | 1 | Male | Denzel Washington |
155 | 155 | Dallas Buyers Club | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0790636/ | US | 2013 | $27.3M | Jean-Marc VallÌÄå©e | 1 | Ron Woodroof | Activist | Unknown | 0 | Male | Matthew McConaughey | |
162 | 162 | Desert Flower | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1054580/ | UK | 2009 | $44.3K | Sherry Hormann | 1 | Waris Dirie | Activist | Known | African | 1 | Female | Soraya Omar-Scego (young) and Liya Kebede (older) |
190 | 190 | Erin Brockovich | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0195685/ | US | 2000 | $126M | Steven Soderbergh | 1 | Erin Brockovich | Activist | Unknown | 0 | Female | Julia Roberts | |
221 | 221 | Gandhi | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083987/ | UK | 1982 | - | Richard Attenborough | 1 | Mahatma Gandhi | Activist | Known | Indian | 1 | Male | Ben Kingsley |
261 | 261 | Hoffa | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104427/ | US | 1992 | $24.3M | Danny DeVito | 1 | Jimmy Hoffa | Activist | Known | White | 0 | Male | Jack Nicholson |
265 | 265 | Hunger | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0986233/ | UK | 2008 | $154K | Steve McQueen | 1 | Bobby Sands | Activist | Known | White | 0 | Male | Michael Fassbender |
270 | 270 | I Shot Andy Warhol | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116594/ | US/UK | 1996 | $1.81M | Mary Harron | 1 | Valerie Solanas | Activist | Known | Hispanic (White) | 0 | Female | Lil Taylor |
324 | 324 | Kundun | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119485/ | US | 1997 | $5.53M | Martin Scorsese | 1 | Dalai Lama | Activist | Known | Asian | 1 | Male | Tenzin Thuthob Tsarong |
334 | 334 | Lion of the Desert | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081059/ | US | 1981 | - | Moustapha Akkad | 1 | Omar Mukhtar | Activist | Known | Middle Eastern | 1 | Male | Anthony Quinn |
358 | 358 | Malcolm X | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104797/ | US | 1992 | $48.2M | Spike Lee | 1 | Malcolm X | Activist | Known | African American | 1 | Male | Denzel Washington |
372 | 372 | Michael Collins | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117039/ | US/UK | 1996 | $11M | Neil Jordan | 1 | Michael Collins | Activist | Known | White | 0 | Male | Liam Neeson |
374 | 374 | Milk | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1013753/ | US | 2008 | $31.8M | Gus Van Sant | 1 | Harvey Milk | Activist | Known | White | 0 | Male | Sean Penn |
393 | 393 | Music Within | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0422783/ | US | 2007 | $153K | Steven Sawalich | 1 | Richard Pimentel | Activist | Known | Multi racial | 1 | Male | Ron Livingston |
427 | 427 | Persepolis | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0808417/ | US | 2007 | $4.44M | Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi | 1 | Marjane 'Marji' Satrapi | Activist | Known | Middle Eastern | 1 | Female | Chiara Mastroianni |
481 | 481 | Selma | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1020072/ | US/UK | 2014 | $52.1M | Ava DuVernay | 1 | Martin Luther King, Jr | Activist | Known | African American | 1 | Male | David Oyelowo |
491 | 491 | Silkwood | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086312/ | US | 1983 | $35.6M | Mike Nichols | 1 | Karen Silkwood | Activist | Unknown | 0 | Female | Meryl Streep | |
505 | 505 | Steal This Movie | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0161216/ | US | 2000 | $76.1K | Robert Greenwald | 1 | Abbie Hoffman | Activist | Known | White | 0 | Male | Vincent D'Onofrio |
520 | 520 | Talk to Me | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0796368/ | US | 2007 | $4.47M | Kasi Lemmons | 1 | Ralph "Petey" Greene | Activist | Known | African American | 1 | Male | Don Cheadle |
531 | 531 | The Assassination of Trotsky | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068226/ | UK | 1972 | - | Joseph Losey | 1 | Leon Trotsky | Activist | Known | White | 0 | Male | Richard Burton |
598 | 598 | The Insider | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0140352/ | US | 1999 | $29M | Michael Mann | 1 | Jeffrey Wigand | Activist | Unknown | 0 | Male | Russell Crowe | |
609 | 609 | The Lady | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1802197/ | UK | 2011 | - | Luc Besson | 1 | Aung San Suu Kyi | Activist | Known | Asian | 1 | Female | Michelle Yeoh |
632 | 632 | The Motorcycle Diaries | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0318462/ | US/UK | 2004 | $16.8M | Walter Salles | 1 | Che Guevara | Activist | Known | Hispanic (Latin American) | 0 | Male | Gael GarcÌ_a Bernal |
641 | 641 | The People vs. Larry Flynt | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117318/ | US | 1996 | $20.2M | Milos Forman | 1 | Larry Flynt | Activist | Known | White | 0 | Male | Woody Harrelson |
729 | 729 | Viva Zapata! | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045296/ | US | 1952 | - | Elia Kazan | 1 | Emiliano Zapata | Activist | Known | Hispanic (Latin American) | 1 | Male | Marlon Brando |
50 | 50 | Auto Focus | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0298744/ | US | 2002 | $2.06M | Paul Schrader | 1 | Robert Edward "Bob" Crane | Actor | Known | White | 0 | Male | Greg Kinnear |
52 | 52 | Baadasssss! | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367790/ | US | 2003 | $365K | Mario Van Peebles | 1 | Melvin Van Peebles | Actor | Known | African American | 1 | Male | Mario Van Peebles |
143 | 143 | Confessions of a Dangerous Mind | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0270288/ | US/Canada | 2002 | - | George Clooney | 1 | Chuck Barris | Actor | Unknown | 0 | Male | Sam Rockwell | |
151 | 151 | Crutch | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0422029/ | US | 2004 | - | Rob Moretti | 1 | Rob Moretti | Actor | Unknown | 0 | Male | Eben Gordon | |
262 | 262 | Hollywoodland | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427969/ | US | 2006 | $14.4M | Allen Coulter | 1 | George Reeves | Actor | Unknown | 0 | Male | Ben Affleck | |
268 | 268 | I Am a Sex Addict | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0428649/ | US | 2005 | $113K | Caveh Zahedi | 1 | Caveh Zahedi | Actor | Known | Middle Eastern | 1 | Male | Caveh Zahedi |
359 | 359 | Man of a Thousand Faces | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050681/ | US | 1957 | - | Joseph Pevney | 1 | Lon Chaney | Actor | Known | White | 0 | Male | James Cagney |
395 | 395 | My Dinner with Andre | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082783/ | US | 1981 | $5.07K | Louis Malle | 2 | Andre Gregory | Actor | Known | White | 0 | Male | Andre Gregory |
396 | 396 | My Dinner with Andre | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082783/ | US | 1981 | $5.07K | Louis Malle | 2 | Wallace Shawn | Actor | Known | White | 0 | Male | Wallace Shawn |
431 | 431 | Pi̱ero | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0261066/ | US | 2001 | $1.42M | Leon Ichaso | 1 | Miguel Pi̱ero | Actor | Known | Hispanic (Latin American) | 1 | Male | Benjamin Bratt |
612 | 612 | The Last of Robin Hood | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2450440/ | US | 2013 | $270K | Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland | 1 | Errol Flynn | Actor | Known | White | 0 | Male | Kevin Kline |
618 | 618 | The Life and Death of Peter Sellers | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0352520/ | US | 2004 | - | Stephen Hopkins | 1 | Peter Sellers | Actor | Known | White | 0 | Male | Geoffrey Rush |
662 | 662 | The Seven Little Foys | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048604/ | US | 1955 | - | Melville Shavelson | 1 | Eddie Foy, Sr. | Actor | Known | White | 0 | Male | Bob Hope |
721 | 721 | Valentino | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076868/ | US/UK | 1977 | - | Ken Russell | 1 | Rudolph Valentino | Actor | Known | White | 0 | Male | Rudolf Nureyev |
134 | 134 | Ciao Manhattan | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068379/ | US | 1972 | - | John Palmer, David Weisman | 1 | Edie Sedgwick | Actress | Known | White | 0 | Female | Edie Sedgwick |
198 | 198 | Factory Girl | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0432402/ | US | 2006 | $1.65M | George Hickenlooper | 1 | Edie Sedgwick | Actress | Known | White | 0 | Female | Sienna Miller |
210 | 210 | Frances | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083967/ | US | 1982 | $5M | Graeme Clifford | 1 | Frances Farmer | Actress | Known | White | 0 | Female | Jessica Lange |
219 | 219 | Funny Girl | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062994/ | US | 1968 | $223K | William Wyler | 1 | Fanny Brice | Actress | Known | White | 0 | Female | Barbra Streisand |
236 | 236 | Grace of Monaco | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2095649/ | US | 2014 | - | Olivier Dahan | 1 | Grace Kelly | Actress | Known | White | 0 | Male | Nicole Kidman |
244 | 244 | Harlow | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059252/ | US | 1965 | - | Gordon Douglas | 1 | Jean Harlow | Actress | Known | White | 0 | Female | Carroll Baker |
272 | 272 | I'll Cry Tomorrow | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048191/ | US | 1955 | - | Daniel Mann | 1 | Lillian Roth | Actress | Known | White | 0 | Female | Susan Hayward |
346 | 346 | Lovelace | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1426329/ | US | 2013 | $355K | Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman | 1 | Linda Lovelace | Actress | Known | White | 0 | Female | Amanda Seyfried |
382 | 382 | Mommie Dearest | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082766/ | US | 1981 | - | Frank Perry | 1 | Joan Crawford | Actress | Known | White | 0 | Female | Faye Dunaway |
400 | 400 | My Week with Marilyn | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1655420/ | US/UK | 2011 | $14.6M | Simon Curtis | 1 | Marilyn Monroe | Actress | Unknown | 0 | Female | Michelle Williams | |
502 | 502 | Star 80 | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086355/ | US | 1983 | $6.5M | Bob Fosse | 1 | Dorothy Stratten | Actress | Known | White | 0 | Female | Mariel Hemingway |
503 | 503 | Star! | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063642/ | US | 1968 | $4M | Robert Wise | 1 | Gertrude Lawrence | Actress | Known | White | 0 | Female | Julie Andrews |
525 | 525 | The Actress | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045471/ | US | 1953 | - | George Cukor | 1 | Ruth Gordon Jones | Actress | Unknown | 0 | Female | Jean Simmons | |
548 | 548 | The Brittany Murphy Story | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3957278/ | US | 2014 | - | Joe Menendez | 1 | Brittany Murphy | Actress | Known | White | 0 | Female | Amanda Fuller |
579 | 579 | The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048119/ | US | 1955 | - | Richard Fleischer | 1 | Evelyn Nesbit (Thaw) | Actress | Known | White | 0 | Female | Joan Collins |
642 | 642 | The Perils of Pauline | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039698/ | US | 1947 | - | George Marshall | 1 | Pearl White | Actress | Unknown | 0 | Female | Betty Hutton | |
19 | 19 | A Matador's Mistress | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0491046/ | US/UK | 2008 | - | Menno Meyjes | 2 | Lupe Sino | Actress | Known | Hispanic (White) | 0 | Female | Pen̩lope Cruz |
196 | 196 | Evita | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116250/ | US | 1996 | $50M | Alan Parker | 1 | Eva "Evita" Duarte de Peron | Actress / activist | Known | Hispanic (Latin American) | 0 | Female | Madonna |
58 | 58 | Basquiat | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115632/ | US | 1996 | $2.96M | Julian Schnabel | 1 | Jean-Michel Basquiat | Artist | Known | Multi racial | 1 | Male | Jeffrey Wright |
72 | 72 | Big Eyes | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1126590/ | US/Canada | 2014 | $14.5M | Tim Burton | 1 | Margaret Keane | Artist | Known | White | 0 | Female | Amy Adams |
114 | 114 | Caravaggio | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090798/ | UK | 1986 | $3.15K | Derek Jarman | 1 | Michelangelo Merisi de Caravaggio | Artist | Known | White | 0 | Male | Multiple |
117 | 117 | Carrington | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112637/ | UK | 1995 | $3.24M | Christopher Hampton | 2 | Dora Carrington | Artist | Known | White | 0 | Female | Emma Thompson |
161 | 161 | Desert Dancer | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2403393/ | UK | 2014 | $144K | Richard Raymond | 1 | Afshin Ghaffarian | Artist | Known | Middle Eastern | 1 | Male | Reece Ritchie |
178 | 178 | Downtown 81 | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0208993/ | US | 1981 | $100K | Edo Bertoglio | 1 | Jean-Michel Basquiat | Artist | Known | Multi racial | 1 | Male | Jean Michel Basquiat |
217 | 217 | Frida | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120679/ | US/Canada | 2002 | $25.8M | Julie Taymor | 1 | Frida Kahlo | Artist | Known | Hispanic (Latin American) | 1 | Female | Salma Hayek |
226 | 226 | Girl with a Pearl Earring | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0335119/ | UK | 2003 | $11.6M | Peter Webber | 1 | Johannes Vermeer | Artist | Known | White | 0 | Male | Colin Firth |
230 | 230 | Goltzius and the Pelican Company | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1851006/ | UK | 2012 | - | Peter Greenaway | 1 | Hendrik Goltzius | Artist | Known | White | 0 | Male | Ramsey Nasr |
235 | 235 | Goya's Ghosts | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0455957/ | US | 2006 | $1M | Milos Forman | 1 | Francisco Goya | Artist | Known | Hispanic (White) | 0 | Male | Stellan SkarsgÌ´rd |
241 | 241 | Gypsy | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056048/ | US | 1962 | - | Mervyn LeRoy | 2 | Gypsy Rose Lee | Artist | Known | White | 0 | Female | Natalie Wood |
290 | 290 | Isadora | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063141/ | UK | 1968 | - | Karel Reisz | 1 | Isadora Duncan | Artist | Unknown | 0 | Female | Vanessa Redgrave | |
321 | 321 | Klimt | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417871/ | UK | 2006 | - | Raoul Ruiz | 1 | Gustav Klimt | Artist | Known | White | 0 | Male | John Malkovich |
336 | 336 | Little Ashes | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1104083/ | UK | 2008 | $480K | Paul Morrison | 1 | Salvador DalÌ_ | Artist | Known | Multi racial | 1 | Male | Robert Pattinson |
344 | 344 | Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119577/ | US/UK | 1998 | $343K | John Maybury | 1 | Francis Bacon | Artist | Known | White | 0 | Male | Derek Jacobi |
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CREATE TABLE "biopics/biopics" ( "title" TEXT, "site" TEXT, "country" TEXT, "year_release" INTEGER, "box_office" TEXT, "director" TEXT, "number_of_subjects" INTEGER, "subject" TEXT, "type_of_subject" TEXT, "race_known" TEXT, "subject_race" TEXT, "person_of_color" INTEGER, "subject_sex" TEXT, "lead_actor_actress" TEXT );