Moneyball (2011)
Biography | Drama | Sport
The story of Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to put together a baseball club on a budget by employing computer-generated analysis to draft his players.
Starring: Brad Pitt, Robin Wright, Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman
Director: Bennett Miller
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Frida / Frida Kahlo (2002)
Biography | Drama | Romance
"Frida" chronicles the life Frida Kahlo shared unflinchingly and openly with Diego Rivera, as the young couple took the art world by storm. From her complex and enduring relationship with her mentor and husband to her illicit and controversial affair with Leon Trotsky, to her provocative and romantic entanglements with women, Frida Kahlo lived a bold and uncompromising life as a political, artistic, and sexual revolutionary.
Starring: Salma Hayek, Alfred Molina, Geoffrey Rush, Mía Maestro, Antonio Banderas, Valeria Golino
Director: Julie Taymor
Senna / Ayrton Senna: Beyond the Speed of Sound (2010)
Biography | Documentary | Sport
The story of the monumental life and tragic death of legendary Brazilian motor-racing Champion, Ayrton Senna. Spanning the decade from his arrival in Formula One in the mid 80's, the film follows Senna's struggles both on track against his nemesis, French World Champion Alain Prost, and off it, against the politics which infest the sport. Sublime, spiritual yet, on occasion, ruthless – Senna conquers and transcends Formula One to become a global superstar. Privately, he is humble, almost shy, and fiercely patriotic, donating millions to his native Brasil and contemplating a life beyond motor-racing. Yet he is struck down in his prime on the blackest weekend in the history of the sport, watched live on television by 300 million people. Years on he is revered in Formula One as the greatest motor racing driver of all time – and in Brasil as a Saint.
Starring: Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost, Frank Williams, Ron Dennis, Viviane Senna, Milton da Silva, Neide Senna, Jackie Stewart, Sid Watkins, Galvão Bueno, Reginaldo Leme, Gerhard Berger, Nelson Piquet, Nigel Mansell, Jean-Marie Balestre
Director: Asif Kapadia
The Devil's Double (2011)
Action | Biography | Drama
Summoned from the frontline to Saddam Hussein's palace, Iraqi army lieutenant Latif Yahia is thrust into the highest echelons of the "royal family" when he's ordered to become the 'fiday' — or body double — to Saddam's son, the notorious "Black Prince" Uday Hussein, a reckless, sadistic party-boy with a rabid hunger for sex and brutality. With his and his family's lives at stake, Latif must surrender his former self forever as he learns to walk, talk and act like Uday. But nothing could have prepared him for the horror of the Black Prince's psychotic, drug-addled life of fast cars, easy women and impulsive violence.
Starring: Dominic Cooper, Ludivine Sagnier, Raad Rawi
Director: Lee Tamahori
Blow (2001)
Biography | Crime | Drama
Based on the true story of how powder cocaine turned into the United States' biggest drug problem and how one man from the blue-collar suburbs became the 35 billion-dollar-a-year conduit to the Colombian cartels. George Jung pursued what he thought was the American Dream. Rather than become just another construction worker like his father, George moves to California where he discovers the profitable pleasures of selling marijuana. A spell in prison introduces him to big-time Colombian dealers, and soon George is involved with their plan to export tons of cocaine to US shores. Becoming fabulously wealthy, he will take a dizzying fall that will knock him out of the underworld.
Starring: Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz, Jordi Mollà, Franka Potente, Rachel Griffiths
Director: Ted Demme
Desert Flower (2009)
Biography | Drama
Based on the world best-selling book DESERT FLOWER by Waris Dirie – the autobiography of a Somalian nomad circumcised at 3, sold in marriage at 13, who became an American supermodel and is now at the age of 38, the UN spokeswoman against female circumcision.
Starring: Liya Kebede, Sally Hawkins, Craig Parkinson, Meera Syal, Anthony Mackie, Juliet Stevenson, Timothy Spall, Soraya Omar-Scego
Director: Sherry Horman
Boys Don't Cry (1999)
Biography | Crime | Drama | Romance
In Falls City, Nebraska, Brandon Teena arrives to start a new future for himself. The local community falls for his charms and everyone becomes drawn to his innocence and wit. However, behind the charming persona is a totally different person – Brandon is actually a woman. After falling for a local karaoke singer, Brandon moves in with her family and wins them over. But when Brandon's secret is finally out, the rest of the family all turn against him, branding him sick and evil.
Starring: Hilary Swank, Chloë Sevigny, Peter Sarsgaard, Brendan Sexton III, Alison Folland, Alicia Goranson
Director: Kimberly Peirce
Gia (1998)
Biography | Drama | Romance
Fact-based story of top fashion model Gia Marie Carangi follows her life from a rebel working in her father's diner at age 17 to her death in 1986 at age 26 from AIDS, one of the first women in the U.S. whose death was attributed to the disease. In between, she followed a downward spiral of drug abuse and failed relationships.
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Faye Dunaway, Elizabeth Mitchell, Eric Michael Cole, Kylie Travis, Louis Giambalvo, John Considine
Director: Michael Cristofer
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Becoming Jane (2007)
Biography | Drama | Romance
Author Jane Austen eventually became famous for writing epic novels like Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, but as a young woman in the 18th century, writing was not a respectible goal for a young woman. With the entire world telling her she can't achieve her dreams, Jane meets and falls in love with a charming rogue, Tom Lefroy, who inspires her to write the books generations have come to know and love.
Starring: Anne Hathaway, James McAvoy, Julie Walters, James Cromwell, Maggie Smith
Director: Julian Jarrold
The Conquest / La conquête (2011)
Biography
A look at French president Nicolas Sarkozy's rise to power.
Starring: Denis Podalydès, Florence Pernel, Bernard Le Coq
Director: Xavier Durringer
Awakenings (1990)
Biography | Drama
A passionate and unorthodox doctor struggles to cure patients of the after-effects of encephalitis, a neurological disorder which struck many victims in the 1920s, rendering some survivors motionless and seemingly thoughtless. Based on a true story.
Starring: Robin Williams, Robert De Niro, Julie Kavner, Ruth Nelson, John Heard, Penelope Ann Miller
Director: Penny Marshall
Band of Brothers (TV mini-series 2001)
Action | Adventure | Biography | Drama | History | War
Executive produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks for HBO, Band of Brothers is a ten-part miniseries based on the book Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne From Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest by Steven E. Ambrose. The Series dramatically re-creates the path of Easy Company, an elite paratrooper unit, from their basic training at Camp Toccoa in Georgia in 1942, to D-Day, to their critical involvement in the Battle of the Bulge, through their triumph at the close of the war.
Starring: Scott Grimes, Damian Lewis, Ron Livingston, Shane Taylor, Donnie Wahlberg, Peter Youngblood Hills
Creator: Erik Jendresen
Spartacus: Gods of the Arena (TV mini-series 2011)
Action | Adventure | Biography | Drama | History
Before Spartacus struck down his first opponent in the arena, there were many gladiators who passed though the gates onto the sand.'Spartacus: Gods of the Arena' tells the story of the original Champion of the House of Batiatus: Gannicus in a more ruthless time before Spartacus' arrival where honor was just finding it's way into the arena.
Starring: John Hannah, Manu Bennett, Peter Mensah, Dustin Clare, Nick Tarabay, Lucy Lawless, Craig Walsh Wrightson
Creater: Steven S. DeKnight
Spartacus: Blood and Sand (TV Series 2010-2013)
Action | Adventure | Biography | Drama | History
Torn from his homeland and the woman he loves, Spartacus, a Thracian warrior captured by Romans, is enslaved into a gladiator training school owned by Batiatus and his wife Lucretia. He is forced to fight daily for his life against deadly foes, under the brutal whip of trainer Doctore. Against all odds, Spartacus' rebellious instincts, his intense love for his wife Sura and his powerful fighting skills drive him to win a series of near-impossible battles – setting in motion a revolution against the tyranny of Rome. To survive, he must become more than a man, more than a gladiator. He must become a legend.
Starring: Andy Whitfield, Liam McIntyre, Lucy Lawless, Manu Bennett, John Hannah, Peter Mensah, Nick Tarabay, Viva Bianca
Creator: Steven S. DeKnight
Mr. Nice (2010)
Biography | Comedy | Drama
The true story of Howard Marks, an Oxford grad who became a major marijuana importer in the 1960s in the U.K. and managed to escape jail time by posing as an agent for MI5.
Starring: Rhys Ifans, Chloë Sevigny, David Thewlis, Elsa Pataky, Crispin Glover, Andrew Tiernan, Omid Djalili
Director: Bernard Rose
The Legend Is Born: Ip Man / Yip Man chinchyun (2010)
Action | Biography | Drama
It is about around Yip Man's resistance against invading foreigners, along with his romantic relations while under the tutelage of three Wing Chun masters.
Starring: Yu-Hang To, Siu-Wong Fan, Sammo Hung Kam-Bo, Huang Yi, Rose Chan, Ip Chun
Director: Herman Yau
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Ip Man 2 / Yip Man 2 (2010)
Action | Biography | History
Centering on Ip Man's migration to Hong Kong in 1949 as he attempts to propagate his discipline of Wing Chun martial arts.
Starring: Donnie Yen, Lynn Hung, Simon Yam, Sammo Hung, Xiaoming Huang, Siu-Wong Fan, Kent Cheng, Darren Shahlavi
Director: Wilson Yip
Ip Man / Yip Man (2008)
Action | Biography | Drama | History
Adapted from the life story of Ip Man – the grand master of the Wing Chun style of kung fu and sifu of legendary kung fu superstar Bruce Lee. This movie will be the first important record of the master's life. Ip's persistent devotion to Wing Chun is a classic example of the love and respect shown to wushu and the freedom and spirit it represents. Ip Man is a concept, a spirit, a way of thinking – and it exemplifies a new peak in Hong Kong's wushu movies.
Starring: Donnie Yen, Simon Yam, Siu-Wong Fan, Ka Tung Lam, Yu Xing, You-Nam Wong, Chen Zhi Hui, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi, Lynn Hung
Director: Wilson Yip
Kundun (1997)
Biography | Drama | History | War
The incredible true story of one of the world's most fascinating leaders – Tibet's Dalai Lama – and his daring struggle to rule a nation at one of the most challenging times in its history.
Starring: Tenzin Thuthob Tsarong, Gyurme Tethong, Tulku Jamyang Kunga Tenzin, Tenzin Yeshi Paichang
Director: Martin Scorsese
The Social Network (2010)
Biography | Drama | History
A story about the founders of the social-networking website, Facebook.
Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake, Armie Hammer Jr., Max Minghella
Director: David Fincher
