Educazione siberiana / Siberian Education / Deadly Code (2013)
Biography | Crime | Drama | Thriller
A drama based on a memoir about growing up as a member of the Urka community in the small republic of Transnistria.
Starring: Eleanor Tomlinson, John Malkovich, Peter Stormare, Arnas Fedaravicius, Mindaugas Papinigis
Director: Gabriele Salvatores
Rescue Dawn (2006)
Adventure | Biography | Drama | War
American pilot Dieter Dengler is shot down during a top secret mission to destroy Viet Cong strongholds in Laos at the beginning of the Vietnam War. Taken hostage, he endures unimaginable conditions at the hands of cruel captors in a makeshift POW camp. Dengler's iron will to survive guides him and his fellow prisoners in a meticulously-planned, death-defying escape, only to discover the harsh realities of an unforgiving jungle beyond the camp's walls.
Starring: Christian Bale, Steve Zahn, Jeremy Davies, Zach Grenier, Marshall Bell, Pat Healy
Director: Werner Herzog
Self Medicated (2005)
Biography | Drama
Based on true events. On the edges of Las Vegas, 17-year-old Andrew's life is spiraling out of control. Unable to cope with the loss of his father, Andrew's descent into drugs and violence is gaining momentum, and the once promising young man is now headed for self-destruction. Andrew's mother, helpless to control her son and fighting an addiction of her own, refuses to watch idly as her only child destroys himself. As a last resort, she hires a private company to forcibly kidnap and confine him in a locked-down and corrupt psychiatric hospital. As Andrew is subjected to the secret physical and emotional abuses of the program something inside him is re-awakened. He must somehow get free to save what's left of his life, but to do that, he knows he must first face his own demons head-on.
Starring: Diane Venora, Monty Lapica, Michael Bowen
Director: Monty Lapica
Good Vibrations (2012)
Biography | Drama | Music
Biopic chronicling the life of the Northern Irish music promoter Terri Hooley, who championed the emerging Belfast punk music scene during the 1970s. Eager to shift thoughts away from those of the Troubles, music fanatic Terri (Richard Dormer) opens a record store, 'Good Vibrations', in the heart of one of Belfast's roughest districts. As the shop gains a loyal following, Terri, operating on a shoestring, decides to start a small record label with the aim of launching some of the local bands he's discovered, notably The Undertones. In it strictly for the music, Terri's naivety in business soon causes conflict, particularly at home, but the impassioned support for the Undertones first single, 'Teenage Kicks', by Radio 1 DJ John Peel, soon helps to justify Terri's overarching vision for an alternative Ulster.
Starring: Jodie Whittaker, Liam Cunningham, Dylan Moran, Mark Ryder, Richard Dormer
Director: Lisa Barros D'Sa, Glenn Leyburn
Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp (2012)
Biography | Documentary
The film examines the life of the notorious pimp and author of seven ground-breaking books. It includes insightful interviews with well-known artists, scholars, friends and family members that create a riveting tapestry as colorful as the subject himself. The autobiographical work of Iceberg Slim is considered to be the genesis of blaxploitation films and gangster rap and it continues to influence artists today.
Starring: Betty Beck, Camille Beck, Diane Beck, Misty Beck, Robert Beck, Mathieu Bitton, Snoop Dogg, Bill Duke
Director: Jorge Hinojosa
Bloodsport (1988)
Action | Biography | Drama | Sport
Inside a hidden Hong Kong arena, elite combatants clash in the Kumite, the little-known but hotly contested world championship of full-contact fighting. No Westerner had ever won this titanic tournament – until iron-willed American Frank Dux entered it.
Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Forest Whitaker, Bolo Yeung, Norman Burton, Leah Ayres, Donald Gibb
Director: Newt Arnold
ReGeneration (2010)
Action | Biography | Documentary | Drama
ReGENERATION explores the inherent cynicism found in many of today's youth and young adults, and the influences that perpetuate our culture's apathetic approach to social and political causes. The film features three intersecting stories of students, parents, and artists all looking for their place in society. Together they capture the thoughts and feelings of today's struggling generation as some of the worlds leading scholars, activists, and media personalities provide their insight into the ideas and movements that can inspire change. /p>
Starring: Noam Chomsky, Ryan Gosling, Talib Kweli, Jay Walker, Howard Zinn
Director: Phillip Montgomery
The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)
Adventure | Biography | Drama | History
Biography of Charles Lindburgh from his days of precarious mail runs in aviation's infancy to his design of a small transatlantic plane and the vicissitudes of its takeoff and epochal flight from New York to Paris in 1927.
Starring: James Stewart, Murray Hamilton, Patricia Smith, Bartlett Robinson, Marc Connelly, Arthur Space, Charles Watts
Director: Billy Wilder
The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
Biography | Drama | Family | Romance | Sport
Biopic traces the life of Lou Gehrig, famous baseball player who played in 2130 consecutive games before falling at age 37 to ALS, a deadly nerve disease which now bears his name. Gehrig is followed from his childhood in New York until his famous 'Luckiest Man' speech at his farewell day in 1939.
Starring: Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, Babe Ruth, Walter Brennan, Dan Duryea
Director: Sam Wood
Centre Stage / Ruan Lingyu (1992)
Biography | Drama | Romance
Biopic of 1930's Chinese actress Ruan Ling Yu.
Starring: Maggie Cheung, Han Chin, Tony Leung, Carina Lau
Director: Stanley Kwan
The Gallant Hours (1960)
Biography | Drama | War
A semi-documentary dramatization of five weeks in the life of Vice Admiral William F. "Bull" Halsey, Jr., from his assignment to command the U.S. naval operations in the South Pacific to the Allied victory at Guadalcanal.
Starring: James Cagney, Dennis Weaver, Ward Costello, Vaughn Taylor, Richard Jaeckel
Director: Robert Montgomery
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (2005)
Biography | Documentary | History | Music | Romance
Portrait of an artist as a young man. Roughly chronological, using archival footage intercut with recent interviews, a story takes shape of Bob Dylan's (b. 1941) coming of age from 1961 to 1966 as a singer, songwriter, performer, and star. He takes from others: singing styles, chord changes, and rare records. He keeps moving: on stage, around New York City and on tour, from Suze Rotolo to Joan Baez and on, from songs of topical witness to songs of raucous independence, from folk to rock. He drops the past. He refuses, usually with humor and charm, to be simplified, classified, categorized, or finalized: always becoming, we see a shapeshifter on a journey with no direction home.
Starring: Bob Dylan, B.J. Rolfzen, Dick Kangas, Liam Clancy, Tony Glover, Paul Nelson, Allen Ginsberg
Director: Martin Scorsese
The Left Handed Gun (1958)
Biography | Western
William Bonney – Billy the Kid – gets a job with a cattleman known as 'The Englishman,' and is befriended by the peaceful, religious man. But when a crooked sheriff and his men murder the Englishman because he plans to supply the local Army fort with his beef, Billy decides to avenge the death by killing the four men responsible, throwing the lives of everyone around him – Tom and Charlie, two hands he worked with; Pat Garrett, who is about to be married; and the kindly Mexican couple who take him in when he's in trouble – into turmoil, and endangering the General Amnesty set up by Governor Wallace to bring peace to the New Mexico Territory.
Starring: Paul Newman, Lita Milan, John Dehner, Hurd Hatfield, James Congdon, James Best, Colin Keith-Johnston
Director: Arthur Penn
Where the Buffalo Roam (1980)
Biography | Comedy
The deranged adventures of Gonzo journalist Hunter Thompson and his attorney Oscar Acosta, referred to in the movie as "Laslow". Thompson attempts to cover the Super Bowl and the 1972 Presidential election in his typical drug-crazed state, but it continually and comically sidetracked by his even more twisted friend Laslow. Allegedly based on actual events.
Starring: Peter Boyle, Bill Murray, Bruno Kirby, Rene Auberjonois, R.G. Armstrong
Director: Art Linson
24 Hour Party People (2002)
Biography | Comedy | Drama | Music
Manchester 1976: Cambridge educated Tony Wilson, Granada TV presenter, is at a Sex Pistols gig. Totally inspired by this pivotal moment in music history, he and his friends set up a record label, Factory Records, signing first Joy Division (who go on to become New Order) then James and the Happy Mondays, who all become seminal artists of their time. What ensues is a tale of music, sex, drugs, larger-than-life characters, and the birth of one of the most famous dance clubs in the world, The Hacienda – a mecca for clubbers as famous as the likes of Studio 54. Graphically depicting the music and dance heritage of Manchester from the late 70's to the early 90's, this comedy documents the vibrancy that made Mad-chester the place in the world that you would most like to be.
Starring: Steve Coogan, John Thomson, Paul Popplewell, Lennie James, Shirley Henderson, Mark Windows, Paddy Considine
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Fitzcarraldo (1982)
Adventure | Biography | Drama
Fitzcarraldo is an obsessed opera lover who wants to build an opera in the jungle. To accomplish this he first has to make a fortune in the rubber business, and his cunning plan involves hauling an enormous river boat across a small mountain with aid from the local Indians.
Starring: Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale, Jose Lewgoy, Miguel Ángel Fuentes
Director: Werner Herzog
Chasing Ice (2012)
Biography | Documentary
Documentary showing the impact of climate change on the world's ice caps. The film follows National Geographic photojournalist James Balog, a former skeptic about climate change, as he uses time-lapse cameras to capture a record of the world's changing ice landscapes over a period of several years. Making his expedition by helicopter, canoe and dog sled across three continents, Balog gathers his seemingly irrefutable evidence of the melting ice caps in an attempt to convince those who continue to deny the effects of climate change.
Starring: James Balog, Svavar Jonatansson, Adam LeWinter
Director: Jeff Orlowski
Quills (2000)
Biography | Drama
The infamous writer, The Marquis de Sade of 18th Century France, is imprisoned for unmentionable activities at Charanton Insane Asylum. He manages to befriend the young Abbe de Coulmier, who runs the asylum, along with a beautiful laundress named Madeline. Things go terribly wrong when the Abbe finds out that the Marquis' books are being secretly published. Emperor Napoleon contemplates sending Dr. Royer-Collard to oversee the asylum, a man famed for his torturous punishments. It could mean the end of Charanton and possibly the Marquis himself.
Starring: Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet, Joaquin Phoenix, Michael Caine, Billie Whitelaw
Director: Philip Kaufman
Saving General Yang / Zhong Lie Yang Jia Jiang / Yang jia jiang (2013)
Action | Adventure | Biography | History | Thriller
The story of the Yang's has been eulogized for hundreds of years in the Chinese society. It details the exploits of the Yang military family, recounting the unflinching loyalty of the Yang family heirs. The plot places focus on how the seven sons of the Yang family fought as one to rescue their father.
Starring: Adam Cheng, Ekin Cheng, Vic Chow, Xin Bo Fu, Raymond Lam, Chen Li, Chun Wu, Fan Xu, Bo Yu, Ady An, Vivi Lee, Bryan Leung, Bing Shao, Apple Wang
Director: Ronny Yu
The Last Ride: A Story of Hank Williams / The Last Ride (2012)
Biography | Drama | Music
Based on the controversial life story of singer-songwriter, Hank Williams, THE LAST RIDE tells the powerful tale of country music's original bad boy. The man, the myth and the music come together when Williams travels from Alabama to a series of New Years shows in West Virginia and Ohio. This remarkable journey leads straight into the heart and soul of the legendary performer…as he takes one last shot at redemption. Featuring all-new versions of Hank Williams' greatest songs, this emotional tale of hope and truth is one you'll never forget.
Starring: Henry Thomas, Jesse James, Fred Dalton Thompson, Kaley Cuoco, Stephen Tobolowsky, Ray McKinnon
Director: Harry Thomason
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