For the Love of Spock (2016)
Biography | Documentary
An examination of the enduring appeal of Leonard Nimoy and his portrayal of Spock in Star Trek (1966)
Starring: Chris Pine, Zoe Saldana, William Shatner, Karl Urban, Simon Pegg, Zachary Quinto
Director: Adam Nimoy
Crocodile Gennadiy / Almost Holy (2015)
Biography | Documentary | Drama | News
Gennadiy Mokhnenko has made a name for himself by forcibly abducting homeless drug-addicted kids from the streets of Mariupol, Ukraine. As his country leans towards a European Union inclusion, hopes of continued post-Soviet revitalization seem possible. In the meantime, Gennadiy's center has evolved into a more nebulous institution.
Starring: Gennadiy Mokhnenko
Director: Steve Hoover
Den unge Zlatan / Becoming Zlatan (2015)
Biography | Documentary | Sport
A documentary of Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
Starring: Zlatan Ibrahimovic
Director: Fredrik Gertten, Magnus Gertten
Patch Adams (1998)
Biography | Comedy | Drama | Romance
Patch Adams, a doctor who doesn't look, act or think like any doctor you've met before. For Patch, humor is the best medicine, and he's willing to do just about anything to make his patients laugh – even if it means risking his own career. Based on a true story.
Starring: Robin Williams, Daniel London, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Monica Potter, Frances Lee McCain, Irma P. Hall
Director: Tom Shadyac
All the Way (2016)
Biography | Drama | History
Lyndon Johnson becomes the President of the United States in the chaotic aftermath of JFK's assassination and spends his first year in office fighting to pass the Civil Rights Act.
Starring: Bryan Cranston, Anthony Mackie, Frank Langella, Melissa Leo, Bradley Whitford, Stephen Root
Director: Jay Roach
Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)
Biography | Comedy | Drama | Music | Romance
The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice.
Starring: Rebecca Ferguson, Meryl Streep, Hugh Grant, Simon Helberg, John Kavanagh, Nina Arianda
Director: Stephen Frears
Free State of Jones (2016)
Action | Biography | Drama | History | War
The story of defiant Southern farmer, Newt Knight, and his extraordinary armed rebellion against the Confederacy. Opposed to both slavery and secession, Knight launched an uprising of poor white farmers that led Jones County, Mississippi to itself secede from the Confederacy, creating a "Free State of Jones."
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Keri Russell, Mahershala Ali, Jacob Lofland, Christopher Berry
Director: Gary Ross
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Malcolm X (1992)
Biography | Drama | History | Romance
The life of the controversial black leader Malcolm X, who emerged from the streets to become a powerful voice for the black rights movement in America. The film follows X from his days as a Harlem pusher, through his conversion to Islam in prison, his pilgrimage to Mecca and finally to his assassination.
Starring: Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett, Albert Hall, Al Freeman Jr., Delroy Lindo, Spike Lee
Director: Spike Lee
The People vs. Fritz Bauer / Der Staat gegen Fritz Bauer (2015)
Biography | Drama | Thriller
The story of the man who brought high-ranking German Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann to justice.
Starring: Burghart Klaußner, Ronald Zehrfeld, Sebastian Blomberg, Michael Schenk, Jörg Schüttauf
Director: Lars Kraume
What Happened, Miss Simone? (2015)
Biography | Documentary | Music
On stage Nina Simone was known for her utterly free, uninhibited musical expression, which enthralled audiences and attracted life-long fans. But amid the violent, haunting, and senseless day-to-day of the civil rights era in 1960s America, Simone struggled to reconcile her artistic identity and ambition with her devotion to a movement. Culled from hours of autobiographical tapes, this new film unveils the unmitigated ego of a brilliant artist and the absurdities of her time. At the height of her fame Simone walked away from her family, country, career and fans, to move to Liberia and give up performing. The story of her life leading up to that event poses the question, 'how does royalty stomp around in the mud and still walk with grace?'
Starring: Nina Simone
Director: Liz Garbus
Remember the Titans (2000)
Biography | Drama | Sport
In Alexandria, Virginia, in 1971, African-American football coach Herman Boone is hired to guide an integrated but racially polarized high school football team. Boone faces a cool reception from the team's players as well as an awkward relationship with assistant coach Bill Yoast, a local white coach who was bypassed for the job. As the two men learn to overcome their ignorance and bigotry, they work together to transform a group of angry unfocused players into a dynamic winning team of responsible young men. Based on a true story.
Starring: Denzel Washington, Will Patton, Wood Harris, Ryan Hurst, Donald Faison, Craig Kirkwood
Director: Boaz Yakin
Chasing Mavericks (2012)
Biography | Drama | Sport
Gerard Butler stars in this surfing drama. Santa Cruz teenager Jay Moriarty (Jonny Weston) discovers that the Mavericks surf break, one of the biggest waves on Earth, exists only a few miles from his home. Instantly gripped by the dream of surfing the wave, he begs local surfing legend Frosty Hesson (Butler) to help him achieve his goal. But with tide patterns dictating that the Mavericks is due to reappear in just 12 weeks, has Jay got what it takes to conquer this epic wave?
Starring: Gerard Butler, Elisabeth Shue, Abigail Spencer, Leven Rambin, Taylor Handley, Jonny Weston
Director: Michael Apted, Curtis Hanson
Genius (2016)
Biography | Drama
From Academy Award-nominated screenwriter JOHN LOGAN (Gladiator, The Aviator, Hugo, Skyfall) and acclaimed, Tony Award-winning director MICHAEL GRANDAGE in his feature film debut, comes Genius, a stirring drama about the complex friendship and transformative professional relationship between the world-renowned book editor Maxwell Perkins (who discovered F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway) and the larger-than-life literary giant Thomas Wolfe. Based on the biography "Max Perkins: Editor of Genius" by A. SCOTT BERG.
Starring: Guy Pearce, Nicole Kidman, Colin Firth, Jude Law, Laura Linney, Dominic West
Director: Michael Grandage
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The Man Who Knew Infinity (2015)
Biography | Drama
Written and directed by Matthew Brown, The Man Who Knew Infinity is the true story of friendship that forever changed mathematics. In 1913, Ramanujan (Dev Patel), a self-taught Indian mathematics genius traveled to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he forged a bond with his mentor, the eccentric professor GH Hardy (Jeremy Irons), and fought against prejudice to reveal his mathematic genius to the world.
Starring: Jeremy Irons, Dev Patel, Toby Jones, Stephen Fry, Jeremy Northam, Kevin McNally
Director: Matt Brown
Pelé: Birth of a Legend / Pelé (2016)
Biography | Drama | Sport
The life story of Brazilian football legend, Pele.
Starring: Vincent D'Onofrio, Rodrigo Santoro, Diego Boneta, Colm Meaney, Seu Jorge
Director: Jeff Zimbalist, Michael Zimbalist
Sarbjit (2016)
Biography | Drama | History | Musical
Biopic of Sarabjit Singh, a farmer residing at Bhikiwind, Punjab, near the Indo-Pak border, crossed the border after having a couple of drinks. However, he was mistaken to be an Indian spy and was sentenced to capital punishment. The film Sarabjit however will present the struggle that Dalbir went through while fighting for justice for her brother. Dalbir was very close to her brother and considered him like a son. All her efforts to free him went futile and her brother Sarabjit was killed by his jail inmates when Afzal Guru was killed in India.
Starring: Randeep Hooda, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Richa Chadha, Darshan Kumar, Shiwani Saini, Ankita Shrivastav, Ankur Bhatia
Director: Omung Kumar
Endgame (2015)
Biography | Drama
Since he was 5 yrs old, Jose's 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 make it to the Texas state finals. As their coach, Mr. Alvarado, teaches his students the meaning of perseverance and team effort in the face of adversity, Jose discovers his own strengths and uses them to bring his broken family together.
Starring: Rico Rodriguez, Efren Ramirez, Ivonne Coll, Justina Machado
Director: Carmen Marron
Ingrid Bergman in Her Own Words / Jag är Ingrid (2015)
Biography | Documentary
A captivating look behind the scenes of the remarkable life of a young Swedish girl who became one of the most celebrated actresses of American and World cinema.
Starring: Ingrid Bergman, Pia Lindström, Roberto Rossellini, Isotta Rossellini, Isabella Rossellini, Fiorella Mariani
Director: Stig Björkman
Queen of the Desert (2015)
Biography | Drama | History
A chronicle of Gertrude Bell's life, a traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attaché for the British Empire at the dawn of the twentieth century.
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Robert Pattinson, James Franco, Damian Lewis
Director: Werner Herzog
Azhar (2016)
Biography | Drama | Sport
Indian biographical sports film directed by Tony D'Souza based on the life of the former Indian international cricketer, Mohammad Azharuddin. It will star Emraan Hashmi in the lead role alongside Prachi Desai , Nargis Fakhri and Lara Dutta.
Starring: Nausheen Ahmed, Saunvedan Aparanti, Varun Badola, Gurpal Bhogal, Mohit Chhabra, Roy Christian, Prachi Desai, Lara Dutta
Director: Anthony D'Souza
