Million Dollar Arm (2014)
Biography | Drama | Sport
A sports agent stages an unconventional recruitment strategy to get talented Asian cricket players to play Major League Baseball.
Starring: Jon Hamm, Aasif Mandvi, Bill Paxton, Suraj Sharma, Madhur Mittal, Lake Bell
Director: Craig Gillespie
The Perfect Wave (2014)
Adventure | Biography | Drama | Romance
A love story, with four key pillars, a young mans love for surfing, adventure, a mothers love for her son, a young man falling in love for the first time, Gods love.
Starring: Scott Eastwood, Cheryl Ladd, Patrick Lyster, Rachel Hendrix
Director: Bruce Macdonald
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Little Dieter Needs to Fly / Flucht aus Laos (1997)
Biography | Documentary | Drama | War
In 1966, Dieter Dengler was shot down over Laos, captured, and, down to 85 pounds, escaped. Barefoot, surviving monsoons, leeches, and machete-wielding villagers, he was rescued. Now, near 60, living on Mt. Tamalpais, Dengler tells his story: a German lad surviving Allied bombings in World War II, postwar poverty, apprenticed to a smith, beaten regularly. At 18, he emigrates and peels potatoes in the U.S. Air Force. He leaves for California and college, then enlistment in the Navy to learn to fly. A quiet man of sorrows tells his story: war, capture, harrowing conditions, escape, and miraculous rescue. Where did he find the strength; how does he now live with his memories?
Starring: Dieter Dengler, Werner Herzog, Eugene Deatrick
Director: Werner Herzog
Violette (2013)
Biography | Drama
Violette Leduc, born a bastard at the beginning of last century, meets Simone de Beauvoir in the years after the war in St-Germain-des-Prés. Then begins an intense relationship between the two women that will last throughout their lives, relationship based on the quest for freedom by writing to Violet and conviction for Simone to have in their hands the fate of an extraordinary writer.
Starring: Emmanuelle Devos, Sandrine Kiberlain, Olivier Gourmet, Catherine Hiegel, Jacques Bonnaffé
Director: Martin Provost
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Cadillac Records (2008)
Biography | Drama | History | Music | Romance
In this tale of sex, violence, race and rock and roll in 1950's Chicago, 'Cadillac Records' follows the exciting but turbulent lives of some of America's musical legends, including Muddy Waters, Leonard Chess, Little Walter and Howlin' Wolf, Etta James and Chuck Berry.
Starring: Adrien Brody, Jeffrey Wright, Beyoncé Knowles, Cedric the Entertainer, Gabrielle Union, Columbus Short
Director: Darnell Martin
The Benny Goodman Story (1956)
Biography | Drama | Music
Steve Allen makes his dramatic film debut in The Benny Goodman Story. Outside of Goodman's conflicts with his parents over his career choice, and his early frustration over not being able to play his kind of music, the film tends to be more a series of musical highlights than a biography. The film features guest appearances by Gene Krupa, Lionel Hampton, Teddy Wilson, Harry James, Martha Tilton, Ziggy Elman, and Sammy Davis, Sr.
Starring: Steve Allen, Donna Reed
Director: Valentine Davies
Radio (2003)
Biography | Drama | Sport
The story of a high school coach and the developmentally challenged man whom he took under his wing.
Starring: Ed Harris, Debra Winger, Cuba Gooding Jr.
Director: Michael Tollin
The Railway Man (2013)
Biography | Drama
Eric Lomax was one of thousands of Allied prisoners of war forced to work on the construction of the Thai/Burma railway during WW2. His experiences, after the secret radio he built to bring news and hope to his colleagues was discovered, left him traumatised and shut off from the world. Years later, he met Patti, a beautiful woman, on a train and fell in love. Patti was determined to rid Eric of his demons. Discovering that the young Japanese officer who haunted her husband was still alive, she faced a terrible decision. Should Eric be given a chance to confront his tormentor? Would she stand by him, whatever he did?
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Stellan Skarsgård, Colin Firth, Jeremy Irvine, Hiroyuki Sanada, Sam Reid
Director: Jonathan Teplitzky
Invincible / Who's Nuts Invincible (2006)
Biography | Drama | Sport
'Invincible' is the inspiring true story of Vince Papale, an ordinary guy who, against extraordinary odds, gets a one-in-a-gazillion shot at living every sports fan’s wildest fantasy. Like the city he lives in and his beloved hometown NFL team, the down-and-out Vince (Mark Wahlberg, 'The Italian Job') has seen better days. But then the Philadelphia Eagles’ new coach Dick Vermeil (Greg Kinnear, 'Little Miss Sunshine') calls an unprecedented open tryout, and the 30-year-old bartender who never played college ball makes the cut. Now Vince needs every bit of his gritty, never-say-die attitude and enormous heart to survive in the high-stakes world of professional football.
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Greg Kinnear, Elizabeth Banks, Kevin Conway, Michael Rispoli, Michael Kelly
Director: Ericson Core
La reine Margot / Queen Margot (1994)
Biography | Drama | History | Romance
Young Queen Margot finds herself trapped in an arranged marriage amidst a religious war between Catholics and Protestants. She hopes to escape with a new lover, but finds herself imprisoned by her powerful and ruthless family.
Starring: Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Vincent Perez, Virna Lisi, Dominique Blanc, Pascal Greggory
Director: Patrice Chéreau
Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle / The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)
Biography | Drama
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser – The true and mysterious story of Kaspar Hauser, a young man who suddenly appeared in Nuremberg in 1828. He had been held captive in a dungeon for his entire life that he could remember, and had only just been released, for reasons unknown. Who is this man, and who would want him dead?
Starring: Bruno S., Walter Ladengast, Brigitte Mira, Volker Prechtel
Director: Werner Herzog
Decline of an Empire / Katherine of Alexandria (2014)
Biography | History
Katherine of Alexandria, brought up as a nomad and living in the desert, was aged just 11 when Emperor Maxentius saw her whilst out on patrol. Consumed by her beauty, impudence and uncanny talent for languages, he abducted the child, killing her family. The slaughter was witnessed by her young friend, Constantine, who would later become Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. He never lost hope of finding Katherine. As a young woman, Katherine refused to submit to Maxentius' offers of marriage and she continually denounced his brutal enforcement of pagan religion upon the masses. Still obsessed with her beauty, Maxentius brought Katherine before 50 of Rome's finest scholars in an open court in Alexandria, where she eloquently demolished their arguments. When Constantine learned of Katherine's whereabouts and imprisonment at the hands of Maxentius, he led his army from York in a desperate bid to save her.
Starring: Nicole Keniheart, Peter O'Toole, Joss Ackland, Steven Berkoff, Edward Fox, Jack Goddard
Director: Michael Redwood
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Frankie & Alice (2010)
Biography | Drama
Frankie is a go-go dancer struggling with two very different personalities: a seven-year-old girl named Genius, and a Southern white racist. Inspired by a remarkable true story.
Starring: Halle Berry, Stellan Skarsgård, Phylicia Rashad, Chandra Wilson
Director: Geoffrey Sax
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Jarhead (2005)
Biography | Drama | War
Set during the Gulf War, the episodic tale follows Anthony Swofford (a.k.a. "Swoff"), a third- generation enlistee, from his sobering stint in boot camp to active duty, where he's sporting a sniper's rifle and a hundred-pound ruck sack on his back, while moving through Middle East deserts with no cover from the intolerable heat. As well, he advances with no protection from the Iraqi soldiers–and there's always a potential enemy sighting, just over the next horizon. Swoff and his fellow Marines sustain themselves on humor and camaraderie as they tread the blazing desert fields in a country they don't understand, against an enemy they can't see, for a cause they don't fully fathom.
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard, Lucas Black, Jamie Foxx, Brian Geraghty, Jacob Vargas, Chris Cooper
Director: Sam Mendes
Documented (2013)
Biography | Documentary | Family | News
In 2011, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas outed himself as an undocumented immigrant in the New York Times Magazine. 'Documented' chronicles his journey to America from the Philippines as a child; his journey through America as an immigration reform activist/provocateur; and his journey inward as he re-connects with his mother, whom he hasn't seen in 20 years.
Starring: Emelie Salinas, Leonila Salinas, Jose Antonio Vargas
Director: Jose Antonio Vargas, Ann Raffaela Lupo
Il divo / Il divo: La spettacolare vita di Giulio Andreotti (2008)
Biography | Drama
For more than 50 years, he has been Italy's most powerful, feared and enigmatic politician. And as Giulio Andreotti begins his seventh term as Prime Minister, he and his hardliner faction take control of a country reeling from the brazen murders of several high-level bankers, judges and journalists, as well as the kidnapping and assassination of former Prime Minister Aldo Moro. But as the Christian Democrat party crumbles in a nationwide bribery scandal, suspicion begins to fall on Andreotti himself as the center of a shocking conspiracy involving the Vatican, the Mafia and the secret neo-Fascist Masonic Lodge P2. In what is called 'The Trial of the Century', Italy's legendary Senator for Life will stand accused of corruption, collusion and murder.
Starring: Toni Servillo, Anna Bonaiuto, Giulio Bosetti, Flavio Bucci, Carlo Buccirosso, Giorgio Colangeli
Director: Paolo Sorrentino
The Buddy Holly Story (1978)
Biography | Drama | Music
The story of one of rock ‘n’ roll’s first legends, Buddy Holly. Holly’s career is followed from his high school days in Lubbock, Texas and his rise above the disaproval of his music by the locals and his conservative family, through his meteoric success with his band the Crickets, to his untimely death in a plane crash when he was just twenty-two years old.
Starring: Gary Busey, Don Stroud, Charles Martin Smith, Conrad Janis, William Jordan, Dick O'Neill
Director: Steve Rash
El Cid (1961)
Adventure | Biography | Drama | History | Romance | War
Anthony Mann masterfully directs this classic tale of the 11th-century hero (Charlton Heston) who fought to unite Spain. Known as history's "compassionate warrior," the film follows El Cid's remarkable journey from peace-broker accused of treason to the King's fighting champion, and later from exiled hero to legendary martyr. Unequaled in scope, grandeur and adventure, EL CID is an essential part of any film lover's collection.
Starring: Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren, Raf Vallone, Geneviève Page, John Fraser, Gary Raymond
Director: Anthony Mann
Maria Larssons eviga ögonblick / Everlasting Moments (2008)
Biography | Drama
Swedish master Jan Troell ('The Emigrants', 'The New Land') returns triumphantly with 'Everlasting Moments', a vivid, heartrending story of a woman liberated through art at the beginning of the twentieth century. Though poor and abused by her alcoholic husband, Maria Larsson finds an outlet in photography, which opens up her world for the first time. With a burnished bronze tint that evokes faded photographs, and a broad empathetic palette, Everlasting Moments-based on a true story-is a miraculous tribute to the power of image making.
Starring: Maria Heiskanen, Mikael Persbrandt, Jesper Christensen, Callin Öhrvall, Ghita Nørby, Amanda Ooms
Director: Jan Troell
Shine (1996)
Biography | Drama | Music | Romance
Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.
Starring: Geoffrey Rush, Noah Taylor, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Lynn Redgrave, John Gielgud, Googie Withers
Director: Scott Hicks
