Genre: Biography
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Chuck 2016

Chuck Wepner, the "Bayonne Bleeder," he was the pride of Bayonne, New Jersey, a man who went fifteen rounds in the ring with Muhammad Ali, and the real life inspiration for Rocky Balboa. But before all that, Chuck Wepner was a liquor salesman and father with a modest prizefighting career whose life changed overnight when, in 1975, he was chosen to take on The Greatest in a highly publicized title match. It's the beginning of a wild ride through the exhilarating highs and humbling lows of sudden fame-but what happens when your fifteen minutes in the spotlight are up?

Category: Biography, Drama, Sport

Stars: Naomi Watts,Elisabeth Moss,Ron Perlman,Liev Schreiber

6.8 IMDB Rating 6,762 Views
Quiz Show 1994

An idealistic young lawyer working for a Congressional subcommittee in the late 1950s discovers that TV quiz shows are being fixed. His investigation focuses on two contestants on the show "Twenty-One": Herbert Stempel, a brash working-class Jew from Queens, and Charles Van Doren, the patrician scion of one of America's leading literary families. Based on a true story.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: John Turturro,Rob Morrow,Ralph Fiennes,Paul Scofield

7.5 IMDB Rating 3,882 Views
Nise: O Coração da Loucura 2016

Ett mirakel skedde i Brasilien på 1950-talet. Kända modern art museum öppnade sina dörrar för konstnärer som ingen hört talas om. Många kritiker har påpekat att dessa utställningar visade

Category: Biography, Drama, History

3,347 Views
Viceroys House 2017

Den slutliga Vicekung av Indien, Lord Mountbatten, som har till uppgift att övervaka övergången till det Brittiska Indien till självständighet, men möter konflikter som olika sidor konflikt i ansiktet av monumental förändring.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Gillian Anderson,Michael Gambon,Hugh Bonneville,Manish Dayal

6.7 IMDB Rating 4,882 Views
Prefontaine 1997

Life and times of Steve Prefontaine, a young long-distance runner from Oregon who pursued the dream of Olympic gold in Munich and became one of the biggest, yet most tragic sport stars in America.

Category: Biography, Drama, Romantic

Stars: Jared Leto,R. Lee Ermey,Ed O'Neill,Breckin Meyer

6.8 IMDB Rating 4,332 Views
Topsy-Turvy 1999

After their production "Princess Ida" meets with less-than-stunning reviews, the relationship between Gilbert and Sullivan is strained to breaking. Their friends and associates attempt to get the two to work together again, which opens the way to "The Mikado," one of the duo's greatest successes.

Category: Biography, Comedy, Drama

Stars: Allan Corduner,Dexter Fletcher,Sukie Smith,Roger Heathcott

7.4 IMDB Rating 3,751 Views
Pirates of Silicon Valley 1999

This is a semi-humorous biographical film about the men who made the world of technology what it is today, their struggles during college, the founding of their companies, and the ingenious actions they took to build up the global corporate empires of Apple Computer Corporation and Microsoft Inc.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Noah Wyle,Joey Slotnick,J.G. Hertzler,Anthony Michael Hall

7.3 IMDB Rating 6,448 Views
Bully 2001

After finding himself at the constant abuse of his best friend, Bobby, Marty has become fed up with his friend's twisted ways. His girlfriend, a victim of Bobby's often cruel ways, couldn't agree more and they strategize murdering Bobby, with a group of willing and unwilling participants in a small Florida town. In the midst of their plotting, they find themselves contemplating with the possible aftermath of what could happen.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama

Stars: Brad Renfro,Bijou Phillips,Rachel Miner,Nick Stahl

7.0 IMDB Rating 5,450 Views
Tommys Honour 2016

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.

Category: Biography, Drama, Romantic

3,834 Views
The Zookeepers Wife 2017

War brews over Warsaw in 1939, and while life is still running its course, the Germans are slowly beginning to make their presence felt, with Hitler secretly preparing for the German invasion of Poland. Under those circumstances, the young couple of Jan and Antonina Zabinski continue their daily routine as owners and keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, but soon, as German Luftwaffe's Stukas hammer the Polish capital, their life's work together with the city, will turn to ashes. However, with the zoo liquidated for the war effort and many of its animals tragically perished, what was once an animals' zoo, will now serve as a sanctuary where Antonina, the humanist veterinarian, and Jan can hide the persecuted Polish Jews in plain sight until safe houses are found. That was Jan and Antonina's formidable, yet perilous plan, who regardless of the consequences, refused to wither before the Nazi menace, took matters into their own hands and sheltered 300 Jews under the Germans' noses.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

7 IMDB Rating 5,520 Views
Sztuka kochania. Historia Michaliny Wislockiej 2017

Michalina Wislocka, the most famous and recognized sexologist of communist Poland, fights for the right to publish her book, which will change the sex life of Polish people forever.

Category: Biography, Comedy, Drama

3,430 Views
Burden 2016

A probing portrait of Chris Burden, an artist who took creative expression to the limits and risked his life in the name of art.

Category: Biography, Documentary

4,037 Views
Amen. 2002

In World War II, the sanitation engineer and family man Kurt Gerstein is assigned by SS to be the Head of the Institute for Hygiene to purify the water for the German Army in the front. Later, he is invited to participate in termination of plagues in the concentration camps and he develops the lethal gas Zyklon-B. When he witnesses that the SS is killing Jews instead, he decides to denounce the genocide to the Pope to expose to the world and save the Jewish families. The idealist Jesuit priest Riccardo Fontana from an influent Italian family gives his best efforts being the liaison of Gerstein and the leaders of the Vatican.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama

Stars: Mathieu Kassovitz,Ulrich Tukur,Ulrich Mühe,Michel Duchaussoy

7.3 IMDB Rating 4,554 Views
The Devils Mistress 2016

One of the greatest untold love stories of the 20th century, this is the story of Lída Baarová, a beautiful Czech actress, who conquered Germany's silver screen as well as the heart of one of the Third Reich's most powerful men: the Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels. How could Hitler's chief ideologist fall in love with a non-Aryan Slavonic beauty whose race had been designated as inferior by the Führer in "Mein Kampf" and whose country was soon to be occupied by the Nazis? How could one of Europe's most glamorous actresses reject offers of stardom from Hollywood in preference to a dangerous romance with the Nazi monster with a deformed leg?

Category: Biography, Drama, History

5,4 IMDB Rating 4,481 Views
Mar adentro 2004

Life story of Spaniard Ramón Sampedro, who fought a 30-year campaign to win the right to end his life with dignity. Film explores Ramón's relationships with two women: Julia, a lawyer who supports his cause, and Rosa, a local woman who wants to convince him that life is worth living. Through the gift of his love, these two women are inspired to accomplish things they never previously thought possible. Despite his wish to die, Ramón taught everyone he encountered the meaning, value and preciousness of life. Though he could not move himself, he had an uncanny ability to move others.

Category: Biography, Drama, Romantic

8 IMDB Rating 3,824 Views
Kid Cannabis 2014

An eighteen year old high school drop out and his twenty-seven year old friend start trafficking marijuana across the border of Canada in order to make money and their lives are changed forever.

Category: Biography, Comedy, Crime

Stars: Jonathan Daniel Brown,Kenny Wormald,Aaron Yoo,Ron Perlman

6.4 IMDB Rating 5,788 Views
When Did You Last See Your Father? 2007

The writer Blake Morrison has a non-resolved relationship with his bragger and wolf father Arthur Morrison. However, when Arthur is diagnosed with a terminal intestine cancer, Blake leaves his wife and children and travel to the village where he spent his childhood and adolescence to help his mother and his sister to take care of Arthur along his last days. The location brings recollections of his problematic relationship with his father.

Category: Biography, Drama

Stars: Bradley Johnson,Jim Broadbent,Juliet Stevenson,Alannah Barlow

6.9 IMDB Rating 3,886 Views
Pelé: Birth of a Legend 2016

Pele's meteoric rise from the slums of Sao Paulo to leading Brazil to its first World Cup victory at the age of 17 is chronicled in this biographical drama.

Category: Biography, Drama, Sport

Stars: Kevin de Paula,Leonardo Lima Carvalho,Seu Jorge,Mariana Nunes

7.3 IMDB Rating 8,401 Views
Selma 2014

The unforgettable true story chronicles the tumultuous three-month period in 1965, when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led a dangerous campaign to secure equal voting rights in the face of violent opposition. The epic march from Selma to Montgomery culminated in President Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the most significant victories for the civil rights movement. Director Ava DuVernay's "Selma" tells the story of how the revered leader and visionary Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr and his brothers and sisters in the movement prompted change that forever altered history.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: David Oyelowo,Carmen Ejogo,Jim France,Trinity Simone

7.5 IMDB Rating 6,390 Views
Amelia 2009

Amelia Earhart, a Kansas girl, discovers the thrill of aviation at age 23, and within 12 years has progressed to winning the Distinguished Flying Cross for being the first woman to pilot a plane solo across the Atlantic Ocean. At age 39, she sets out on an attempt to circumnavigate the globe, an adventure that catapults her into aviation myth.

Category: Adventure, Biography, Drama

Stars: Hilary Swank,Richard Gere,Ewan McGregor,Christopher Eccleston

5.8 IMDB Rating 4,319 Views