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Genre: Biography

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Invictus

Nelson Mandela (Morgan Freeman) is released from prison after 27 years, and 5 years later is ...

USA

Bully

Bobby is murdered. Life goes on for everyone involved. However, in the end, someone cracks and ...

The Blind Side

Michael's protective instincts make him an unstoppable force on the football field with the aid and ...

USA

Inn of the Sixth Happiness

Young and determined Gladys Aylward (Ingrid Bergman), rejected by the London mission board as unqualified to ...

USA

Great Balls of Fire!

In 1956, Jerry Lee Lewis (Dennis Quaid) comes to Memphis to live with his cousin J.W. ...

USA

The Soloist

Steve's (Robert Downey Jr.'s) ex-wife Mary (Catherine Keener) makes him realize that he can't really do ...

Sid and Nancy

In 1977, the punk rock movement was spreading throughout England, and the most popular punk band ...

UK

Soldier’s Girl

The harrassment Private Winchell (Troy Garity) saw himself subjected to, thanks to the ongoing provocation from ...

The Buddy Holly Story

Charles "Buddy" Holly (Gary Busey) is a teenager in 1956 Lubbock, Texas. He and his two ...

USA

Pride of the Yankees

The movie opens prior to World War I, where a young Lou Gehrig dreams of becoming ...

USA

Brian’s Song

In the fall of 1965, the Chicago Bears sign running backs Gale Sayers (Billy Dee Williams) ...

USA

Mishima

The story of the Japanese writer Yukio Mishima is interspersed with synopses of three of his ...

The Lion in Winter

Academy Award for Best Actress - Katharine Hepburn (Tied with Barbra Streisand for Funny Girl) Hepburn became ...

UK, USA

The Insider

(1999)Despite threats against his family, the divorce of his wife and the possibility of incarceration, Dr. ...

USA

The Young Victoria

The movie charts Victoria's (Emily Blunt) life from a year or so before she became queen; ...

UK, USA

Rabbit-Proof Fence

Western Australia 1931 For 100 years the Aboriginal Peoples have resisted the invasion of their lands by ...

Stuck

Brandi (Mena Suvari) is a nurse who, on the way home from a party, hits Tom ...

Dear Zachary

A very moving documentary. This pooper doesn't give it justice, as it is filled with the testimonies ...

USA

Frost/Nixon

The movie essentially follows the events of the play "Frost/Nixon", which had its first performance exactly ...

Milk

Harvey Milk (Sean Penn), becomes the first openly gay man elected city supervisor in San Francisco ...

USA

The Falcon and the Snowman

In 1974, Christopher Boyce (Timothy Hutton) gets a job with a civilian defense contractor working in ...

Mongol

Temudjin (Tadanobu Asano) and Jamukha (Honglei Sun) -and their respective men- face each other in a ...

W.

George W. Bush (Josh Brolin) goes from a drunken Yale frat boy to numerous unsuccessful ventures ...

The Express

Ernie Davis (Rob Brown) eventually leads his team to win against Texas in the Cotton Bowl. ...

Boys Town

Father Flanagan (Spencer Tracy) has been running a home for skid row bums.  He becomes disillusioned, ...

USA

To Kill a King

Lord Fairfax (Dougray Scott) spearheads a successful rebellion against the king (Rupert Everett) in response to ...

Pirates of Silicon Valley

Steve Jobs (Noah Wyle) had little success selling early Apple computers to businesses and the general ...

USA

Moliere

Moliere confesses to Mr. Jourdain that it is he that is having an affair with his ...

Mrs Brown

Queen Victoria (Judy Dench) remains in deep mourning for her late husband until a Scottish servant named ...

El Cid

Spain is divided into Christian and Moorish strongholds. The young Rodrigo (Charlton Heston), shows mercy to ...