The Story of Adele H / L'histoire d'Adèle H. (1975)
Biography | Drama | History
Adèle Hugo's unrequited love for a lieutenant.
Starring: Isabelle Adjani, Bruce Robinson, Sylvia Marriott, Joseph Blatchley, Ivry Gitlis
Director: François Truffaut
Bleed for This (2016)
Biography | Drama | Sport
The inspirational story of World Champion Boxer Vinny Pazienza who, after a near fatal car crash which left him not knowing if he'd ever walk again, made one of sport's most incredible comebacks.
Starring: Miles Teller, Aaron Eckhart, Katey Sagal, Ciarán Hinds, Ted Levine, Kimberly Howe
Director: Ben Younger
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Yôkô: The Cherry Blossom / Yoko Sakura (2015)
Biography | Drama
In 1940, Masaaki Takaoka works as a teacher in the agricultural division at a youth training institute. All of his students are drafted into the war which is nearing its end. He makes everyone promise that they will all meet again under the cherry blossoms upon their safe return. His students soon perish in the war. Masaaki Takaoka is wracked with guilt over their deaths. To comfort the spirits of his dead students, Masaaki Takaoka attempts to develop a new species of cherry blossoms which can bloom under any environmental conditions from subtropical to Siberia cold weather (where his students died).
Starring: Takashi Sasano, Yuki Kazamatsuri, Kôji Matoba, Maki Miyamoto
Director: Gen Takahashi
Weeds on Fire / Dim ng bo (2016)
Action | Biography | Drama | History | Sport
The 1st FFFI Winning Film Projects Create Hong Kong (CreateHK) of the Commerce and Economic Development Bureau first launched the First Feature Film Initiative (FFFI) in March 2013 to identify new talents through a competition on screenplay and production proposals. In the year of 1984, Sino-British Joint Declaration was signed and the future of Hong Kong became unclear. In the stream of history, this story of a baseball team beneath the Lion Rock had gradually been forgotten: In that year, 'Shatin Martins', the first Hong Kong youth baseball team, was formed. The 10 young players were living an uneasy and restless life as Hong Kong. Being humiliated by one defeat after another, the faith of 'Shatin Mart their strong rival, the Japanese Buffalo ins' hanged in the balance. However, the hardship only brought out their bravery to surmount themselves and overcome the struggles. Living in the golden age, these players ignited their glory with every game as they grew together with their city. Eventually, it all comes to the final game facing.
Starring: Kai Chi Liu, Ka-Ki Sham, Yiu-Sing Lam, Tony Wu, Sin-San Tam
Director: Chi Fat Chan
Loving (2016)
Biography | Drama | Romance
The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple, whose challenge of their anti-miscegenation arrest for their marriage in Virginia led to a legal battle that would end at the US Supreme Court.
Starring: Joel Edgerton, Ruth Negga, Nick Kroll, Michael Shannon, Marton Csokas, Alano Miller
Director: Jeff Nichols
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El hombre de las mil caras / The Man with Thousand Faces (2016)
Biography | Thriller
The story of a man who fooled an entire country. A tale of cheats and impostors, taking its inspiration from true facts and from one of the most intriguing characters of recent decades: the spy Francisco Paesa.
Starring: José Coronado, Eduard Fernández, Jimmy Shaw, Craig Stevenson
Director: Alberto Rodríguez
A Street Cat Named Bob (2016)
Biography | Comedy | Drama | Family
Based on the international best selling book. The true feel good story of how James Bowen, a busker and recovering drug addict, had his life transformed when he met a stray ginger cat.
Starring: Bob the Cat, Luke Treadaway, Ruta Gedmintas, Joanne Froggatt, Anthony Head, Beth Goddard
Director: Roger Spottiswoode
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Flight of the Butterflies (2012)
Biography | Documentary | Drama | Family
A film of hundreds of millions of monarchs in their remote overwintering sanctuaries and along their migratory routes from Canada and across the U.S. to Mexico.
Starring: Gordon Pinsent, Patricia Phillips
Director: Mike Slee
Queen of Katwe (2016)
Biography | Drama | Sport
A Ugandan girl sees her world rapidly change after being introduced to the game of chess.
Starring: Lupita Nyong'o, David Oyelowo, Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, Russel Savadier
Director: Mira Nair
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I'm Not Ashamed (2016)
Biography | Drama
Based on the inspiring and powerful true story and journal entries of Rachel Joy Scott – the first student killed in the Columbine high school shooting in 1999.
Starring: Masey McLain, Ben Davies, Cameron McKendry, Sadie Robertson, Korie Robertson
Director: Brian Baugh
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Christine (2016)
Biography | Drama
The story of Christine Chubbuck, a 1970s TV reporter struggling with depression and professional frustrations as she tries to advance her career.
Starring: Rebecca Hall, Michael C. Hall, Lindsay Ayliffe, John Cullum, Kimberley Drummond, Maria Dizzia
Director: Antonio Campos
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Denial (2016)
Biography | Drama
Acclaimed writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt must battle for historical truth to prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving, a renowned denier, sues her for libel.
Starring: Rachel Weisz, Andrew Scott, Timothy Spall, Tom Wilkinson, Mark Gatiss, Harriet Walter
Director: Mick Jackson
M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story (2016)
Biography | Drama | Sport
The untold story of Mahendra Singh Dhoni's journey from ticket collector to trophy collector – the world-cup-winning captain of the Indian Cricket Team.
Starring: Disha Patani, Anupam Kher, Sushant Singh Rajput, Kiara Advani, Bhoomika Chawla, Kumud Mishra, Rajesh Sharma, Brijendra Kala
Director: Neeraj Pandey
Snowden (2016)
Biography | Drama | Thriller
CIA employee Edward Snowden leaks thousands of classified documents to the press.
Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley, Scott Eastwood, Nicolas Cage, Timothy Olyphant, Zachary Quinto
Director: Oliver Stone
Gandhi (1982)
Biography | Drama | History
Ben Kingsley stars as Mahatma Gandhi, who rose from small-time lawyer to India's spiritual leader by using his philosophy of non-violent but direct-action protest that helped end British rule in India.
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox, John Gielgud, Trevor Howard, John Mills
Director: Richard Attenborough
Goodfellas (1990)
Biography | Crime | Drama
The life and times of Henry Hill, who grew up idolizing the wise guys in his neighborhood and eventually became one of them. With his friends Jimmy Conway and Tommy De Vito, Henry lived the dream life of taking whatever he wanted and answering to no one – until everything caught up with him.
Starring: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco, Paul Sorvino, Frank Sivero
Director: Martin Scorsese
The Birth of a Nation (2016)
Biography | Drama | History
Nat Turner, a literate slave and preacher in the antebellum South, orchestrates an uprising.
Starring: Nate Parker, Armie Hammer, Jackie Earle Haley, Aja Naomi King, Mark Boone Junior, Penelope Ann Miller
Director: Nate Parker
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Greater (2016)
Biography | Family | Sport
The story of Brandon Burlsworth, possibly the greatest walk-on in the history of college football.
Starring: Christopher Severio, Neal McDonough, Leslie Easterbrook, Michael Parks, Nick Searcy, Quinton Aaron
Director: David Hunt
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Camille Claudel 1915 (2013)
Biography | Drama
Winter, 1915. Confined by her family to an asylum in the South of France – where she will never sculpt again – the chronicle of Camille Claudel's reclusive life, as she waits for a visit from her brother, Paul Claudel.
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Jean-Luc Vincent
Director: Bruno Dumont
Sully (2016)
Biography | Drama
On January 15, 2009, the world witnessed the "Miracle on the Hudson" when Captain "Sully" Sullenberger glided his disabled plane onto the frigid waters of the Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 aboard. However, even as Sully was being heralded by the public and the media for his unprecedented feat of aviation skill, an investigation was unfolding that threatened to destroy his reputation and his career.
Starring: Tom Hanks, Anna Gunn, Laura Linney, Autumn Reeser, Aaron Eckhart, Chris Bauer
Director: Clint Eastwood
