The Hunter (1980)
Action | Biography | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
The story of professional bounty hunter Ralph "Papa" Thorson.
Starring: Steve McQueen, Ben Johnson, Eli Wallach, Kathryn Harrold, LeVar Burton, Richard Venture
Director: Buzz Kulik
The Terry Fox Story (1983)
Biography | Drama | Sport
The true story about the Canadian cancer amputee hero who decided to run across Canada on only one leg to raise money for cancer research.
Starring: Robert Duvall, Chris Makepeace, Rosalind Chao, Elva Mai Hoover, Matt Craven, Saul Rubinek
Director: Ralph L. Thomas
The Most Hated Woman in America (2017)
Biography | Drama | History
The life of Madelyn Murray O'Hair, the outspoken activist and founder of American Atheists.
Starring: Melissa Leo, Josh Lucas, Vincent Kartheiser, Juno Temple, Adam Scott, Peter Fonda, Sally Kirkland, Rory Cochrane
Director: Tommy O'Haver
The Glorias / The Glorias: A Life on the Road (2020)
Biography | Drama | History
The story of feminist icon Gloria Steinem's itinerant childhood's influence on her life as a writer, activist and organizer for women's rights worldwide.
Starring: Julianne Moore, Alicia Vikander, Janelle Monáe, Bette Midler, Lulu Wilson, Timothy Hutton, Lorraine Toussaint
Director: Julie Taymor
My One and Only (2009)
Adventure | Biography | Comedy | Drama | Romance
After leaving her philandering husband, an elegant socialite takes her two sons on a road trip across America in search of a better life.
Starring: Renée Zellweger, Logan Lerman, Kevin Bacon, Eric McCormack, Chris Noth, Nick Stahl, Steven Weber
Director: Richard Loncraine
Stealing Sinatra (2003)
Biography | Comedy | Drama | Thriller
In need of a grubstake, a young man convinces a couple of friends to help him kidnap Frank Sinatra Jr. It's a true story.
Starring: David Arquette, William H. Macy, Thomas Ian Nicholas, James Russo, Ryan Browning
Director: Ron Underwood
Cross Creek (1983)
Biography | Drama | Romance
In 1930's Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings moves to Florida's backwaters to write in peace. She feels bothered by affectionate men, editor and confused neighbors, but soon she connects and writes The Yearling, a classic of American literature.
Starring: Mary Steenburgen, Rip Torn, Peter Coyote, Dana Hill, Alfre Woodard, Joanna Miles
Director: Martin Ritt
Crimes of the Mind (2014)
Biography | Crime | Thriller
A woman spends five years trying to get her brainwashed daughter back from a cult.
Starring: Christina Cox, Paula Trickey, Tina Ivlev
Director: John Murlowski
Target Number One / Most Wanted (2020)
Biography | Crime | Thriller
In 1989, a Canadian journalist investigates the circumstances surrounding the suspicious arrest of a heroin addict imprisoned in a Thai jail.
Starring: Josh Hartnett, Stephen McHattie, Jim Gaffigan, J.C. MacKenzie, Antoine-Olivier Pilon, Don McKellar, Amanda Crew
Director: Daniel Roby
Rudy (1993)
Biography | Drama | Sport
Rudy has always been told that he was too small to play college football. But he is determined to overcome the odds and fulfill his dream of playing for Notre Dame.
Starring: Sean Astin, Ned Beatty, Charles S. Dutton, Jason Miller, Lili Taylor, Robert Prosky
Director: David Anspaugh
Variações / Variações: Guardian Angel (2019)
Biography | Drama | Music | Romance
A biopic about António Variações, a famous Portuguese pop rock singer from the 80s who died from AIDS-related complications in 1984.
Starring: Sérgio Praia, Filipe Duarte, Victoria Guerra, Augusto Madeira, Teresa Madruga
Director: João Maia
Wish Man / An American Hero (2019)
Biography
One boy's wish changed a man. One man's wish changed the world.
Starring: Andrew Steel, Kirby Bliss Blanton, Bruce Davison, Danny Trejo
Director: Theo Davies
The Price of Desire (2015)
Biography | Drama
The Price of Desire tells the controversial story of how Le Corbusier effaced and defaced Eileen Gray's moral right to be recognized as the author of her work and as one of the most forceful and influential inspirations of a century of modern architecture and design.
Starring: Orla Brady, Vincent Perez, Francesco Scianna, Alanis Morissette, Dominique Pinon, Caitriona Balfe
Director: Mary McGuckian
Evel Knievel (2004)
Biography | Drama | Romance
Since boyhood, orphan Bobby 'Evel' Knievel never could resist risks or keep out of trouble. He's determined to leave the mining town Butte, willing to try any job or scam. Linda Bork agrees to join his adventurous life. Slowly he makes a name for himself using his gift with motorbikes – as an original, traveling stunt-rider. A nearly fatal jump and fall at Caesar's Palace bring national fame. An unprecedented manned rocket canyon jump proves a nightmare challenge.
Starring: George Eads, Lance Henriksen, Jaime Pressly, Fred Thompson, Beau Bridges
Director: John Badham
The Twentieth Century / The 20th Century (2019)
Biography | Comedy | Drama
Determined to become the leader of the Dominion of Canada, a young W.L. Mackenzie King rises to power.
Starring: Dan Beirne, Sarianne Cormier, Catherine St-Laurent, Mikhaïl Ahooja, Brent Skagford, Seán Cullen, Louis Negin
Director: Matthew Rankin
A Woman's Revenge / A Vingança de Uma Mulher (2012)
Biography | Drama
Roberto is a dandy!An unmoved, inscrutable and thus enigmatic man. He enjoys the aristocratic amusement of astonishment.Women, whom he knows full well in all sorts of styles and races, can no longer surprise him.The truth is that Roberto feels the intimate tedium of those who have exhausted all the delights and pleasures of this life.Yet… One evening,he is intrigued by a woman who reminds him of someone.That night, of descent into heaven and rising to hell, this woman discloses the peculiarity of the life that has become hers.And amidst the terrible overwhelming, Roberto witnesses the sublime horror into which that woman has dropped.He leaves closed within himself,unsettled by the glimpse of a certain love that,after all,he never has lived.
Starring: Rita Durão, Fernando Rodrigues, Hugo Tourita, Duarte Martins, Isabel Ruth, João Pedro Bénard
Director: Rita Azevedo Gomes
Hilary and Jackie (1998)
Biography | Drama | Music
The tragic story of world renowned classic cellist Jacqueline du Pré, as told from the point of view of her sister, flautist Hilary du Pré-Finzi.
Starring: Emily Watson, Rachel Griffiths, James Frain, David Morrissey, Charles Dance, Celia Imrie
Director: Anand Tucker
Resistance (2020)
Biography | Drama | History | War
The story of a group of Jewish Boy Scouts who worked with the French Resistance to save the lives of ten thousand orphans during World War II.
Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Clémence Poésy, Ed Harris, Bella Ramsey, Alicia von Rittberg, Matthias Schweighöfer
Director: Jonathan Jakubowicz
The Girl (2012)
Biography | Drama
The turbulent relationship between filmmaker Sir Alfred Hitchcock and actress Tippi Hedren.
Starring: Sienna Miller, Toby Jones, Imelda Staunton, Conrad Kemp, Penelope Wilton, Angelina Ingpen, Candice D'Arcy
Director: Julian Jarrold
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Jack Jonah (2019)
Biography | Family
Based on a true story, this film by JCFilms follows the path of the Jonah Family in remembrance of the loss of their son, Jack, to a heroin overdose. The film brings awareness to the drug/opioid crisis in Massachusetts and the world itself. Focusing on Jack's Family and people they meet along the way, "Jack Jonah" teaches it's audience the multiple ways of grieving, the signs of an addiction that we may miss and how we can make courage contagious.
Starring: Braxton Michael, Michael Sigler, Kathy Sanders, Jordan Cohen, Karlye Jonah, Dean Cain
Director: Jason Campbell, Gary Lee Vincent
