The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)
Biography | Drama
A partially idealized film of the controversial pornography publisher and how he became a defender of free speech for all people.
Starring: Woody Harrelson, Courtney Love, Edward Norton, James Cromwell, Crispin Glover, Brett Harrelson
Director: Milos Forman
Antwone Fisher (2002)
Biography | Drama
Antwone Fisher, a young navy man, is forced to see a psychiatrist after a violent outburst against a fellow crewman. During the course of treatment a painful past is revealed and a new hope begins.
Starring: Derek Luke, Joy Bryant, Denzel Washington, Salli Richardson, Earl Billings, Kevin Connolly
Director: Denzel Washington
A Quiet Passion (2016)
Biography | Drama
The story of American poet Emily Dickinson from her early days as a young schoolgirl to her later years as a reclusive, unrecognized artist.
Starring: Cynthia Nixon, Jennifer Ehle, Duncan Duff, Keith Carradine, Jodhi May, Joanna Bacon
Director: Terence Davies
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The Lost City of Z (2016)
Action | Adventure | Biography | Drama | History
A true-life drama, centering on British explorer Col. Percival Fawcett, who disappeared while searching for a mysterious city in the Amazon in the 1920s.
Starring: Charlie Hunnam, Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, Sienna Miller, Angus Macfadyen, Daniel Huttlestone
Director: James Gray
The Zookeeper's Wife (2017)
Biography | Drama | History | War
The Zookeeper's Wife tells the account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Antonina and Jan Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the German invasion.
Starring: Jessica Chastain, Daniel Brühl, Iddo Goldberg, Michael McElhatton, Anna Rust, Johan Heldenbergh
Director: Niki Caro
Tommy's Honour (2016)
Biography | Drama | Romance | Sport
In every generation, a torch passes from father to son. And that timeless dynamic is the beating heart of Tommy's Honour – an intimate, powerfully moving tale of the real-life founders of the modern game of golf.
Starring: Ophelia Lovibond, Sam Neill, Peter Mullan, Jack Lowden, Max Deacon, Peter Ferdinando
Director: Jason Connery
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Mary Kom (2014)
Biography | Drama | Sport
A chronicle of the life of Indian boxer Mary Kom, who went through several hardships before audaciously accomplishing her ultimate dream.
Starring: Priyanka Chopra
Director: Omung Kumar
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel (2009)
Biography | Documentary
A look at the battles Hugh Hefner fought over the years against the U.S. government, the religious right, and militant feminists.
Starring: Hugh M. Hefner, Joan Baez, Tony Bennett, Larry Adler, Count Basie, Pat Boone, Ray Bradbury, Jim Brown
Director: Brigitte Berman
A United Kingdom (2016)
Biography | Drama | Romance
Prince Seretse Khama of Botswana causes an international stir when he marries a white woman from London in the late 1940s.
Starring: David Oyelowo, Rosamund Pike, Tom Felton, Jack Davenport, Laura Carmichael, Terry Pheto, Jessica Oyelowo
Director: Amma Asante
Dangal (2016)
Action | Biography | Drama | Sport
Former wrestler Mahavir Singh Phogat and his two wrestler daughters struggle towards glory at the Commonwealth Games in the face of societal oppression.
Starring: Aamir Khan, Sakshi Tanwar, Fatima Sana Shaikh, Sanya Malhotra, Aparshakti Khurana, Zaira Wasim, Suhani Bhatnagar, Ritwik Sahore, Girish Kulkarni
Director: Nitesh Tiwari
For Grace (2015)
Biography | Documentary | Family
Curtis Duffy, one of the country's most renowned chefs, is building his dream restaurant despite the nightmarish state of his personal life. The recipient of two coveted Michelin stars, Duffy has a laser focus on his cooking career that cost him his marriage and two young daughters. His ambition is to make his Chicago restaurant, Grace, the best in the country. FOR GRACE follows the building of the restaurant from concrete box to its opening night. It also revisits Duffy's turbulent childhood: how a teacher recognized talent in a troubled teenager; how an unimaginable family tragedy made Duffy seek refuge in the kitchen; and how cooking took from him as much as it gave.
Starring: Curtis Duffy
Director: Mark Helenowski, Kevin Pang
To a Brighter Place / Akarui hô e akarui hô e: Dôyô shijin Kaneko Misuzu (2001)
Biography | Drama
With an elder brother and an adopted younger brother who doesn't know it, Teru grows up in her father's bookstore. After she has graduated from girls school at the age of 17, her younger brother, Masahiro, suggests that she write about her observations in life. She begins to write poetry under the pen name of Misuzu Kaneko and her life as a poet begins making her famous. But what follows is a failed arranged marriage, Masahiro's broken heart, and a debilitating illness.
Starring: Takako Matsu, Ken Miyake, Hironobu Nomura, Yoshiko Nakada, Kyôko Kagawa, Atsuro Watabe
Director: Makoto Kiyohiro
Dalida (2016)
Biography
Based on the true story of acclaimed music icon "Dalida" born in Cairo, who gained celebrity in the 50s, singing in French, Spanish, Arabic, Hebrew, German, Italian, playing in awarded Youssef Chahine's picture "Le Sixième Jour", and who later committed suicide in 1987 in Paris, after selling more than 130 million records worldwide.
Starring: Sveva Alviti, Riccardo Scamarcio, Jean-Paul Rouve, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Alessandro Borghi
Director: Lisa Azuelos
The Hollywood Complex (2011)
Biography | Comedy | Documentary | Family
We follow several kids with families with a dream of their offspring becoming a TV- or movie star, who for three months live in an apartment complex, where the management host a variety of events and trains them towards such a career.
Starring: Andrew Manley, Rosie Forti, Toni Casala, John McCarthy, Lynne Murphy Badgley, Paul Petersen, Carol Nicholson, Angie Peiris
Director: Dylan Nelson, Dan Sturman
The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara (2003)
Biography | Documentary | History | War
The story of America as seen through the eyes of the former Secretary of Defense under President John F. Kennedy and President Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara.
Starring: Robert McNamara, John F. Kennedy, Fidel Castro, Barry Goldwater, Lyndon Johnson
Director: Errol Morris
The Desert of Forbidden Art (2010)
Adventure | Biography | Documentary | Drama | History | War
Risking being denounced as an 'enemy of the people,' Igor Savitsky rescues 40,000 forbidden fellow artists' works and creates in a far desert of Soviet Uzbekistan a museum now worth millions.
Starring: Edward Asner, Sally Field, Ben Kingsley
Director: Tchavdar Georgiev, Amanda Pope
Becoming Bond (2017)
Biography | Comedy
The stranger-than-fiction true story of George Lazenby, a poor Australian car mechanic who, through an unbelievable set of circumstances, landed the role of James Bond in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), despite having never acted a day in his life. Then after being offered the next seven Bond films and a $1 million signing bonus, he turned it all down…
Starring: Josh Lawson, Kassandra Clementi, Jane Seymour
Director: Josh Greenbaum
Joy (2015)
Biography | Comedy | Drama
A story based on the life of a struggling Long Island single mom who became one of the country's most successful entrepreneurs.
Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro, Édgar Ramírez, Drena De Niro, Isabella Rossellini
Director: David O. Russell
The King's Choice / Kongens nei (2016)
Biography | Drama | History | War
On the 9th of April 1940, the German war machine arrive in the city of Oslo. The Norwegian King faces a choice that will change his country forever.
Starring: Jesper Christensen, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Karl Markovics, Tuva Novotny, Katharina Schüttler
Director: Erik Poppe
The Last Princess / Deokhyeongju (2016)
Biography | Drama
Princess Deokhye was the last princess of Korea. Under Japanese colonial rule, she is taken to Japan as a hostage. With the era's harsh conditions, she struggles to maintain the hope of the Korean people. Jang-Han is a fighter for Korean independence. His mission is to bring Princess Deokhye back to South Korea and he also loves her.
Starring: Ye-jin Son, Hae-il Park, Mi-ran Ra, Sang-hun Jeong, Je-mun Yun, Joo-mi Park
Director: Jin-ho Hur
