Rise of the Legend / Huang feihong zhi yingxiong you meng (2014)
Action | Biography | Drama
An orphan, whose father has been killed by dark power, attempts to bring justice back to the town.
Starring: Eddie Peng, Boran Jing, Luodan Wang, Sammo Hung, Angelababy
Director: Roy Chow
The Last of Robin Hood (2013)
Biography | Drama
The true story of Beverly Aadland, a teen starlet who became the last girlfriend of legendary swashbuckler Errol Flynn.
Starring: Kevin Kline, Susan Sarandon, Dakota Fanning
Director: Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland
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The Better Angels / Green Blade Rising (2014)
Biography | Drama | History
In rural Indiana, Abraham Lincoln comes of age, enduring hardships and forming bonds which transform him into the man who became an iconic president.
Starring: Brit Marling, Jason Clarke, Wes Bentley, Diane Kruger, Braydon Denney
Director: A.J. Edwards
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Rosewater (2014)
Biography | Drama
A journalist is detained in Iran for more than 100 days and brutally interrogated in prison.
Starring: Gael García Bernal, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Dimitri Leonidas, Jason Jones, Haluk Bilginer
Director: Jon Stewart
Rengô kantai shirei chôkan: Yamamoto Isoroku / Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet (2011)
Biography | Drama | War
Admiral Yamamoto was the mastermind behind the attack on Pearl Harbor 1941. The strategy was crystal clear – to strike as hard and as unexpectedly as possible. With the element of surprise as their primary weapon, they succeeded in doing the impossible, taking the U.S. by surprise and knocking out one of the world's most powerful navies. Yamamoto was marked for death by radical Japanese nationalists for his outspoken opposition to any attack on the United States. What dramatic turn of events could have possibly compelled him to orchestrate the infamous early morning raid?
Starring: Kôji Yakusho, Hiroshi Abe, Shûichi Azumaya, Mitsugorô Bandô, Akira Emoto
Director: Izuru Narushima
The Golden Era / Huang jin shi dai (2014)
Biography | Drama | Romance
The life of Chinese writer Xiao Hong, from her childhood in the Heilongjiang Province to her final days in Hong Kong's Repulse Bay. The love of the author's life, newspaper editor Xiao Jun and the inspiration she drew from him as well as the surrounding literary scene in creating some of China's most enduring masterpieces is explored against the backdrop of a turbulent time that included the formation of the Chinese Communist government and World War II.
Starring: Wei Tang, Shaofeng Feng, Zhiwen Wang, Yawen Zhu, Xuan Huang, Lei Hao, Quan Yuan
Director: Ann Hui
Low Down (2014)
Biography | Drama | Music
Teenager Amy-Jo comes of age in the turbulent world of her gifted, tormented and frequently absent musician father, Joe Albany, a bebop-jazz pianist who played with Lester Young and Charlie Parker. She watches with tender concern as he fights to find gigs, maintain his heroin addiction, and stay out of jail.
Starring: John Hawkes, Elle Fanning, Glenn Close, Lena Headey, Flea, Caleb Landry Jones
Director: Jeff Preiss
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Kill the Messenger (2014)
Biography | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
A reporter becomes the target of a vicious smear campaign that drives him to the point of suicide after he exposes the CIA's role in arming Contra rebels in Nicaragua and importing cocaine into California. Based on the true story of journalist Gary Webb.
Starring: Jeremy Renner, Robert Patrick, Jena Sims, Robert Pralgo, Hajji Golightly, Ted Huckabee
Director: Michael Cuesta
Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993)
Action | Biography | Drama
The true story of martial arts superstar Bruce Lee that dwells not on his mysterious death but his inspirational life and improbable rise to stardom from the streets of Hong Kong.
Starring: Jason Scott Lee, Lauren Holly, Robert Wagner
Director: Rob Cohen
My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown / My Left Foot (1989)
Biography | Drama
The true story of the artist, writer and cerebral palsy sufferer Christy Brown, based on his own book. It recounts the many problems he faced growing up in his native Ireland, and charts the ways in which he developed the use of his left foot – the only limb over which he had any control – to achieve success as an artist. Oscars were won by Daniel Day-Lewis (playing the adult Brown) and Brenda Fricker (playing Brown's mother).
Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker, Ray McAnally, Fiona Shaw, Hugh O'Conor, Kirsten Sheridan
Director: Jim Sheridan
Monica Z / Waltz for Monica (2013)
Biography | Drama | Music
"Monica Z" is a biopic about the Swedish singer and actress Monica Zetterlund focusing on her journey from a job as a telephone operator in a small town in Sweden to stardom in the clubs of New York and Stockholm. During her career, Zetterlund recorded numerous jazz albums and appeared in 10 films.
Starring: Edda Magnason, Sverrir Gudnason, Kjell Bergqvist, Vera Vitali, Oskar Thunberg, Johannes Wanselow
Director: Per Fly
Kano (2014)
Biography | Drama | History | Sport
In 1928, Taiwan was under Japanese rule. The Kagi Agriculture and Forestry Public School (a.k.a KANO) was established to help develop the local agricultural. The KANO baseball team started out as a sports club to improve students’ physique. It never thought that the arrival of Coach Kondo would completely transform them to become legend…
Starring: Masatoshi Nagase, Takao Ohsawa, Maki Sakai, Togo Igawa
Director: Chih-Hsiang Ma
Get on Up (2014)
Biography | Drama | Music
A chronicle of James Brown's rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history.
Starring: Chadwick Boseman, Nelsan Ellis, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, Dan Aykroyd, Lennie James
Director: Tate Taylor
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Paan Singh Tomar (2012)
Action | Biography | Crime | Sport | Thriller
Paan Singh Tomar is a Hindi-language film, based on the true story of a runner employed by the Army and has won Gold medal at Indian National Games but forced to become notorious baaghi. It is directed by Tigmanshu Dhulia.
Starring: Irrfan Khan, Ravi Bhushan Bhartiya, Mahie Gill, Rajendra Gupta, Jhakkad Guru
Director: Tigmanshu Dhulia
The Aviator (2004)
Biography | Drama
A biopic depicting the early years of legendary director and aviator Howard Hughes' career, from the late 1920s to the mid-1940s.
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale, John C. Reilly, Alec Baldwin, Alan Alda
Director: Martin Scorsese
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958)
Biography | Drama | War
The true story of an English missionary (Ingrid Bergman) who led a hundred children over enemy territory in pre-WWII China. Robert Donat plays a Chinese mandarin in his final screen performance and North Wales stands in for the Chinese countryside.
Starring: Ingrid Bergman, Curd Jürgens, Robert Donat, Athene Seyler, Moultrie Kelsall, Ronald Squire
Director: Mark Robson
Jersey Boys (2014)
Biography | Drama | Music
Jersey Boys is a musical biography of the Four Seasons-the rise, the tough times and personal clashes, and the ultimate triumph of a group of friends whose music became symbolic of a generation. Far from a mere tribute concert (though it does include numbers from the popular Four Seasons songbook), Jersey Boys gets to the heart of the relationships at the center of the group-with a special focus on frontman Frankie Valli, the small kid with the big falsetto. In addition to following the quartet's coming of age as performers, the core of the show is how an allegiance to a code of honor learned in the streets of their native New Jersey got them through a multitude of challenges: gambling debts, Mafia threats and family disasters.
Starring: Christopher Walken, John Lloyd Young, Erich Bergen, Michael Lomenda, Vincent Piazza, Steve Schirripa
Director: Clint Eastwood
The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden (2013)
Biography | Crime | Documentary | History | Mystery
About a series of unsolved disappearances on the Galapagos Island of Floreana in the 1930s.
Starring: Cate Blanchett, Sebastian Koch, Thomas Kretschmann, Diane Kruger, Connie Nielsen, Josh Radnor, Gustaf Skarsgård
Director: Daniel Geller, Dayna Goldfine
La petite reine / The Little Queen (2014)
Biography | Drama | Sport
Julie, star of cycling, is two races to win the World Cup. It is the culmination of years of effort. Julie loves the spotlight. His entourage too. Encouraged by her coach and doctor, she dope since the age of 14. When her doctor denounces, she managed to hush up the case, but the magnitude of the measurement mess … Abuse. Lie. Treason. Caught in a gear that goes beyond, will she succeed in finding a way out?
Starring: Laurence Leboeuf, Patrice Robitaille, Denis Bouchard, Josée Deschênes, René-Daniel Dubois
Director: Alexis Durand-Brault
The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
Biography | Drama | Family | History | War
In 1942, a family of Dutch Jews hides in an attic from the Nazis, but just before the war ends they're found out and sent to concentration camps–an experience recorded in the famous diary of a little girl.
Starring: Millie Perkins, Joseph Schildkraut, Shelley Winters, Richard Beymer, Gusti Huber, Lou Jacobi
Director: George Stevens
