BIOGRAPHY Movies

Drift (2013) In the 70s two brothers battle killer waves, conservative society and ruthless bikers to kickstart the modern surf industry.

Florence Foster Jenkins (2016) Florence Foster Jenkins , an heiress form NYC always wanted to be a concert pianist and play Carnegie Hall. An injury in her youth deterred that dream. So she sets out to sing her way to Carnegie Hall knowing the only way to get there would be Practice Practice Practic

Hannah Arendt (2012) In 1961, the noted GermanAmerican philosopher, Hannah Arendt, gets to report on the trial of the notorious Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichmann. While observing the legal proceedings, the Holocaust survivor concludes that Eichmann was not a simple monster, but an ordinary man who h

12 OClock Boys (2013) Pug, a wisecracking 13 year old living on a dangerous Westside block, has one goal in mind: to join The Twelve OClock Boys; the notorious urban dirtbike gang of Baltimore. Converging from all parts of the inner city, they invade the streets and clash with police, who are forbid

The Unknown Known (2013) Former United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, discusses his career in Washington D.C. from his days as a congressman in the early 1960s to planning the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

The Look of Love (2013) After the untimely death of his daughter, Paul Raymond reflects on his life. Rising from a mindreading act, Raymond grew to have a fabulously successful career as an erotica magnate that would make him the richest man in Britain. However, for all his material success, Pauls a

Fire in the Sky (1993) This film recreates the strange events which happened on November 5, 1975 in the town Snowflake, Arizona. Travis Walton works as a logger in the White Mountains. When he and his colleagues drive home after work, they encounter a flying saucer. Travis gets out of the truck to l

The Imposter (2012) A documentary centered on a young man in Spain who claims to a grieving Texas family that he is their 16yearold son who has been missing for 3 years.

The Riverman (2004) A series of interviews are conducted with convicted serial killer Ted Bundy in hopes of gaining insight into the Green River Killer who is terrorizing Seattle.

Endgame (2015) Since he was 5 yrs old, Joses abuelita taught him to play chess like his grandfather who was a champion in Mexico. Now as part of the Brownsville school team, Jose has the chance to use his skills and for once in his life, finds himself in the spotlight, as he tries to help his team m

Hachi: A Dogs Tale (2009) In Bedridge, Professor Parker Wilson finds an abandoned dog at the train station and takes it home with the intention of returning the animal to its owner. He finds that the dog is an Akita and names it Hachiko. However, nobody claims the dog so his family decides to keep H

The First Grader (2010) Set in a mountain village in Kenya the film tells the remarkable true and uplifting story of a proud old Mau Mau veteran who is determined to seize his last chance to learn to read and write and so ends up joining a class alongside six yearolds. Together he and his young tea

Maos Last Dancer (2009) A drama based on the autobiography by Li Cunxin. At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Maos cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he fell in love with an American woman. Two year

Into the White (2012) In World War II, the German pilots Lieutenant Horst Schopis, Josef Schwartz and Wolfgang Strunk crash their airplane in the wilderness of Norway after shooting down a British airplane. They walk through a snow storm until they reach shelter in an abandoned hunter cabin. Soon th

I Saw the Light (2015) The story of the countrywestern singer Hank Williams, who in his brief life created one of the greatest bodies of work in American music. The film chronicles his rise to fame and its tragic effect on his health and personal life.

Chaplin (1992) The biography of Charlie Chaplin, filmmaker extraordinaire. From his formative years in England to his highest successes in America, Charlies life, work, and loves are followed. While his screen characters were extremely hilarious, the man behind

The Damned United (2009) Taking over Englands top football club Leeds United, previously successful manager Brian Cloughs abrasive approach and his clear dislike of the players dirty style of play make it certain there is going to be friction. Glimpses of his earlier career help explain both his hos

The Bronx Bull (2016) combination before the rage and after the rage of world middleweight boxing champion Jake LaMottas tumultuous life and times.

Hawking (TV Movie 2004) A drama documenting the life and work of the theoretical physicist Professor Stephen Hawking who, despite being diagnosed with motor neurone disease at the age of 21, has galvanized the scientific world with his ground-breaking work on the nature of the universe. Starring Ben

Papillon (1973) Henri Papillon Charierre is sentenced to life in prison and transported to the penal in French Guyana. Aboard ship on the voyage over, he meets Louis Dega, a forger. They form a bond that will last them a great many years. The conditions at the penal colony are horrific and Papillon

Agathe von Trapp, the eldest daughter of a wellknown musical family, overcomes many obstacles to pursue her musical career and move to the United States.

In the 1930s, Jesse Owens is a young man who is the first in his family to go to college. Going to Ohio State to train under its track and field coach, Larry Snyder, the young African American athlete quickly impresses with his tremendous potential that suggests Olympic material. However, as Owens s

Only the Dead is a war story unlike any ever seen. A story of what happens when one ordinary man, Time magazine war correspondent Michael Ware, transplanted into the Middle East by the reverberations of 9/11, butts into history. Ware handpicked and given a shattering video tape by the most feared, m

In the Golden Age of Piracy, at the dawn of the 18th century, Blackbeard stood out among the lawless rogues as the most fearsome and notorious seafarer of them all. He killed for the reputation, and his reputation has become legend. Now, for the first time, comes the true story of pirate Edward Teac

In the Golden Age of Piracy, at the dawn of the 18th century, Blackbeard stood out among the lawless rogues as the most fearsome and notorious seafarer of them all. He killed for the reputation, and his reputation has become legend. Now, for the first time, comes the true story of pirate Edward Teac

In todays media, the status quo can flip so abruptly that news outlets are forced to reshape themselves. On January 1, 2014 as recreational marijuana explodes off the shelves of Colorado dispensaries, The Denver Post is telling the story. The Cannabist is the first pot section of a major newspaper a

The story of the late jazz musician and classical pianist Nina Simone including her rise to fame and relationship with her manager Clifton Henderson.

"The Masked Saint" is based on a true story about one pastor's mission to help his community by risking his identity and returns to his former life as a wrestler. The triumphant story follows one man's journey and struggle between helping others and the consequences he faces doing this.

Based on the book Walt Before Mickey covers the early years of Walt Disneys career

Near the turn of the twentieth century, young Harry Vardon becomes a champion golfer but learns that his amazing skill is no match for the class boundaries that exclude him from

Based on a true story. After graduating from Emory University, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandoned his possessions, gave his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters

This is the story of the decadeslong love affair between June Carter and her husband, Johnny Cash, a love that was stretched to the breaking point by Johnnys addiction to pills.

A convicted murderer who has spent 23 years on Death Row tells his story.

The life story of R&B singersongwriter and producer, Toni Braxton.

An Irish sports journalist becomes convinced that Lance Armstrongs performances during the Tour de France victories are fueled by banned substances. With this conviction, he starts hunting for evidence that will expose Armstrong.

A musical portrait of composer/singer/dancer George M. Cohan. From his early days as a childstar in his familys vaudeville show up to the time of his comeback at which he received a medal from the president for his special contributions to the US, this is the life story of George M. Cohan, who produ

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In this factbased thriller, a single mother struggling with drug addiction is randomly taken hostage in her own apartment by a man on the run from the law for breaking out of jail and murdering the judge assigned to his case only to realize before the climactic finish that they have actually saved

Three separate but parallel stories of the mid 2000s mortgage housing crisis in the US are told. Its 2005. Eccentric exphysician turned oneeyed Scion Capital hedge fund manager Michael Burry, who tosses traditional office attire for shorts, bare feet and a Supercuts haircut, believes, based on resea

Set during the PhilippineAmerican war, Heneral Luna follows the life of one of Philippine Historys most brilliant military men, General Antonio Luna, as he tries to lead his countrymen against colonial masters new and old, and to rise above their own raging disputes to fulfill the promise of the Phi

JOY is the wild true story of Joy Mangano and her ItalianAmerican family across four generations centered on the girl who becomes the woman who founds a business dynasty by inventing the Miracle Mop and becomes a matriarch in her own right. Betrayal, treachery, the loss of innocence and the scars of

During the last two years of her life, Princess Diana embarks on a final rite of passage: a secret love affair with Pakistani heart surgeon Hasnat Khan.

Sir Laurence Olivier is making a movie in London. Young Colin Clark, an eager film student, wants to be involved and he navigates himself a job on the set. When film star Marilyn Monroe arrives for the start of shooting, all of London is excited to see the blonde bombshell, while Olivier is struggli

In this new comedy adventure, celebrated travel writer, Bill Bryson, instead of retiring to enjoy his loving and beautiful wife, and large and happy family, challenges himself to hike the Appalachian Trail 2,200 miles of Americas most unspoiled, spectacular and rugged countryside from Georgia to Ma

An enigmatic young woman in conflict torn between reason and passion; between her womans body and being raised as a prince; between the ancient and modern worlds and between the brilliance of her educated mind and the conservative forces around her. Crowned Queen at the age of six, Kristina of Swed

At only thirteen years of age, Loretta Webb marries Doolittle Lynn and is soon responsible for a sizeable family. Loretta appears destined to a life of homemaking, but Doolittle recognises his wifes musical talent, and buys her a guitar as an anniversary present one year. At eighteen, the mother of

A snapshot in timethe film chronicles the story behind the 1955 LIFE magazine photo thread by Dennis Stock of thenrising star, James Dean, and gives us an inside look at some of Hollywoods most iconic images and into the life of a gifted, but troubled man.

Gale Sayers joins the Chicago Bears and is befriended by Brian Piccolo, an overachieving running back. Although they compete for the same spot on the team, and despite the fact that Sayers is black and Piccolo white, they become roommates on the road and very close friends, especially when Sayers is