Category Archives: Biography
Judy
Release 2019
Genre Biography, Drama, Romance
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Director: Rupert Goold
Writers: Tom Edge, Peter Quilter
Stars: Renée Zellweger, Rufus Sewell, Jessie Buckley
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7549996/
Legendary performer Judy Garland arrives in London in the winter of 1968 to perform a series of sold-out concerts.
The Irishman
Release 2019
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Director: Martin Scorsese
Writers: Charles Brandt, Steven Zaillian
Stars: Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1302006/
A mob hitman recalls his possible involvement with the slaying of Jimmy Hoffa.
Official Secrets
Release 2019
Genre Biography, Drama, Romance
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Director: Gavin Hood
Writers: Gregory Bernstein, Sara Bernstein, Gavin Hood, Marcia Mitchell, Thomas Mitchell
Stars: Matthew Goode, Keira Knightley, MyAnna Buring
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5431890/
The true story of a British whistleblower who leaked information to the press about an illegal NSA spy operation designed to push the UN Security Council into sanctioning the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
The King
Release 2019
Genre Biography, Drama, Romance, War
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Director: David Michôd
Writers: Joel Edgerton, David Michôd
Stars: Robert Pattinson,Timothée Chalamet, Joel Edgerton, Tom Fisher
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7984766/
Hal, wayward prince and heir to the English throne, is crowned King Henry V after his tyrannical father dies. Now the young king must navigate palace politics, the war his father left behind, and the emotional strings of his past life.
The Current War
Release 2017
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Director: Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
Writers: Michael Mitnick
Stars: Tom Holland, Benedict Cumberbatch, Matthew Macfadyen
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2140507/
The dramatic story of the cutthroat race between electricity titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse to determine whose electrical system would power the modern world.
Brian Banks
Release 2018
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Director: Tom Shadyac
Writers: Doug Atchison
Stars: Greg Kinnear, Aldis Hodge, Melanie Liburd
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3920820/
A football player's dreams to play in the NFL are halted when he is wrongly convicted and sent to prison. Years later, he fights to clear his name within an unjust system.
Dolemite Is My Name
Release 2019
Genre Biography, Comedy, Drama
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Director: Craig Brewer
Writers: Scott Alexander, Larry Karaszewski
Stars: Eddie Murphy, Keegan-Michael Key, Kodi Smit-McPhee
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8526872/
Eddie Murphy portrays real-life legend Rudy Ray Moore, a comedy and rap pioneer who proved naysayers wrong when his hilarious, obscene, kung-fu fighting alter ego, Dolemite, became a 1970s Blaxploitation phenomenon.
The Keeper
Release 2018
Genre Biography, Drama, Romance
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Director: Marcus H. Rosenmüller
Writers: Robert Marciniak, Marcus H. Rosenmüller, Nicholas J. Schofield
Stars: David Kross, Freya Mavor, John Henshaw
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4642192/
The Keeper tells the extraordinary love story between a young English woman and a German PoW, who together overcome prejudice, public hostility, and personal tragedy. While visiting a PoW camp near Manchester at the end of WWII, Margaret Friar, the daughter of the manager of the local football team, notices young German soldier Bert Trautmann. Her father is so taken by Bert's prowess as a goal-keeper that he gets him out of the camp to play for his local team. Margaret and Bert's love blossoms despite local hostility and resentment of the German PoWs. In the meantime, Bert's heroics in goal are noticed by Manchester's City Football Club. Rather than going back to Germany like nearly all the other camp inmates, Bert marries Margaret and signs for Man City. His signing causes outrage to thousands of Man City fans, many of them Jewish. But Margaret wins support from an unexpected direction: Rabbi Altmann, a Man City supporter who fled the Nazis, who publishes an open letter opposing the campaign against Bert. Bert's path to acceptance begins and peaks at the 1956 FA Cup Final when he secures victory for Man City by playing on despite breaking his neck. Yet fate twists the knife for both Margaret and Bert. Alienated and alone, Margaret's and Bert's loyalty to each other will be put to the test once more. Heartbroken, Bert wants to give up. Equally heartbroken, Margaret insists that they move forward and that he keeps on playing.
