Riding in Cars with Boys (2001)
Biography | Comedy | Drama
A single mother, with dreams of becoming a writer, has a son at the age of 15 in 1965, and goes through a failed marriage with the drug-addicted father.
Starring: Drew Barrymore, Adam Garcia, Steve Zahn, Brittany Murphy, Lorraine Bracco, James Woods
Director: Penny Marshall
Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)
Biography | Drama | History
Offered a plea deal by the FBI, William O'Neal infiltrates the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party to gather intelligence on Chairman Fred Hampton.
Starring: Daniel Kaluuya, Lakeith Stanfield, Martin Sheen, Dominique Thorne, Jesse Plemons, Lil Rel Howery
Director: Shaka King
Son of the South (2020)
Biography | Drama
In this poignant true story set in Montgomery, Alabama, a Klansman's grandson must choose which side of history to be on during the Civil Rights Movement. Defying his family and white Southern norms, he fought against social injustice, repression and violence to change the world around him. SON OF THE SOUTH is from executive producer Spike Lee and based on Bob Zellner's autobiography, "The Wrong Side of Murder Creek."
Starring: Lucas Till, Lex Scott Davis, Lucy Hale, Jake Abel, Shamier Anderson, Julia Ormond, Brian Dennehy, Cedric the Entertainer
Director: Barry Alexander Brown
Ip Man: Kung Fu Master / Zong shi ye wen (2019)
Action | Biography | Drama
During his time as a police captain in Foshan, Ip Man is targeted by a vengeful gangster just as the Japanese army invades the region.
Starring: Yu-Hang To, Wanli Ruoxin, Xiaohu Tong, Dongfeng Yue, Qinyuan Chang, Michael Wong
Director: Liming Li
Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry (2021)
Biography | Documentary | Music
An intimate look at the singer-songwriter's journey, navigating life on the road, on stage, and at home, while creating her debut album.
Starring: Billie Eilish
Director: R.J. Cutler
The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021)
Biography | Drama | Music
Follows Holiday during her career as she is targeted by the Federal Department of Narcotics with an undercover sting operation led by black Federal Agent Jimmy Fletcher, with whom she had a tumultuous affair.
Starring: Andra Day, Leslie Jordan, Natasha Lyonne, Trevante Rhodes, Garrett Hedlund
Director: Lee Daniels
RKO 281 (1999)
Biography | Drama
Orson Welles produces his greatest film, Citizen Kane (1941), despite the opposition of the film's de facto subject, William Randolph Hearst.
Starring: Liev Schreiber, James Cromwell, Melanie Griffith, John Malkovich, Brenda Blethyn, Roy Scheider
Director: Benjamin Ross
Pelé (2021)
Biography | Documentary | Sport
Looks back at the extraordinary 12-year period in which Pelé, the only man to win three World Cup titles, went from young superstar in 1958 to national hero in 1970; a radical yet turbulent era in Brazil’s history.
Starring: Pelé
Director: Ben Nicholas, David Tryhorn
A Call to Spy (2019)
Biography | Crime | Drama | Thriller | War
In the beginning of WWII, with Britain becoming desperate, Churchill orders his new spy agency – SOE – to recruit and train women as spies.
Starring: Sarah Megan Thomas, Stana Katic, Radhika Apte, Linus Roache, Rossif Sutherland, Marc Rissmann
Director: Lydia Dean Pilcher
The Dig (2021)
Biography | Drama | History
An archaeologist embarks on the historically important excavation of Sutton Hoo in 1938.
Starring: Carey Mulligan, Ralph Fiennes, Lily James, Johnny Flynn, Ben Chaplin, Ken Stott, Archie Barnes, Monica Dolan
Director: Simon Stone
Seberg (2019)
Biography | Drama | Thriller
Inspired by real events in the life of French New Wave icon Jean Seberg. In the late 1960s, Hoover's FBI targeted her because of her political and romantic involvement with civil rights activist Hakim Jamal.
Starring: Kristen Stewart, Jack O'Connell, Margaret Qualley, Zazie Beetz, Vince Vaughn, Anthony Mackie
Director: Benedict Andrews
Ammonite (2020)
Biography | Drama | Romance
1840s England, acclaimed but overlooked fossil hunter Mary Anning and a young woman sent to convalesce by the sea develop an intense relationship, altering both of their lives forever.
Starring: Kate Winslet, Saoirse Ronan, Gemma Jones, James McArdle, Alec Secareanu, Fiona Shaw
Director: Francis Lee
Amazing Grace (2006)
Biography | Drama | History | Romance
The idealist William Wilberforce maneuvers his way through Parliament, endeavoring to end the British transatlantic slave trade.
Starring: Ioan Gruffudd, Romola Garai, Benedict Cumberbatch, Albert Finney, Michael Gambon, Rufus Sewell, Youssou N'Dour, Ciarán Hinds
Director: Michael Apted
Shirley (2020)
Biography | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
A famous horror writer finds inspiration for her next book after she and her husband take in a young couple.
Starring: Elisabeth Moss, Logan Lerman, Michael Stuhlbarg, Odessa Young, Steve Vinovich, Ryan Spahn
Director: Josephine Decker
Fire in the Sky (1993)
Biography | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Sci-Fi
An Arizona logger mysteriously disappears for five days in an alleged encounter with a flying saucer in 1975. His co-workers endure ridicule and contempt as they are wrongly accused of murder.
Starring: D.B. Sweeney, Robert Patrick, Craig Sheffer, Peter Berg, Henry Thomas, Bradley Gregg
Director: Robert Lieberman
Tesla (2020)
Biography | Drama
A freewheeling take on visionary inventor Nikola Tesla, his interactions with Thomas Edison and J.P. Morgan's daughter Anne, and his breakthroughs in transmitting electrical power and light.
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Eve Hewson, Kyle MacLachlan, Josh Hamilton, Jim Gaffigan, Lucy Walters
Director: Michael Almereyda
The Queen (2006)
Biography | Drama | History
After the death of Princess Diana, Queen Elizabeth II struggles with her reaction to a sequence of events nobody could have predicted.
Starring: Helen Mirren, Michael Sheen, James Cromwell, Helen McCrory, Alex Jennings, Roger Allam
Director: Stephen Frears
Radioactive (2019)
Biography | Drama | Romance
The incredible true story of Marie Sklodowska-Curie and her Nobel Prize-winning work that changed the world.
Starring: Rosamund Pike, Anya Taylor-Joy, Aneurin Barnard, Sam Riley, Simon Russell Beale, Jonathan Aris
Director: Marjane Satrapi
The Banker (2020)
Biography | Drama
In the 1960s two African-American entrepreneurs hire a working-class white man to pretend to be the head of their business empire while they pose as a janitor and chauffeur.
Starring: Anthony Mackie, Samuel L. Jackson, Nicholas Hoult, Nia Long, Colm Meaney, Jessie T. Usher
Director: George Nolfi
Safety (2020)
Biography | Drama | Sport
The story of Ray-Ray McElrathbey, a freshman football player for Clemson University, who secretly raised his younger brother on campus after his home life became too unsteady.
Starring: Jay Reeves, Thaddeus J. Mixson, Corinne Foxx, Luke Tennie, Matthew Glave
Director: Reginald Hudlin
