Category Archives: Biography
Breakthrough
Release 2019
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Director: Roxann Dawson
Writers: Grant Nieporte, Joyce Smith
Stars: Topher Grace, Josh Lucas, Mike Colter
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7083526/
When her 14-year-old son drowns in a lake, a faithful mother prays for him to come back from the brink of death and be healed.
The Best of Enemies
Release 2019
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Director: Robin Bissell
Writers: Robin Bissell, Osha Gray Davidson
Stars: Taraji P. Henson, Sam Rockwell, Babou Ceesay
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4807408/
Civil rights activist Ann Atwater faces off against C.P. Ellis, Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan, in 1971 Durham, North Carolina over the issue of school integration.
Red Joan
Release 2018
Genre Biography, Drama, Romance
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Director: Trevor Nunn
Writers: Lindsay Shapero, Jennie Rooney
Stars: Judi Dench, Sophie Cookson, Stephen Campbell Moore
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7615302/
The story of Joan Stanley, who was exposed as the KGB's longest-serving British spy.
City of Lies
Release 2018
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Director: Brad Furman
Writers: Randall Sullivan, Christian Contreras
Stars: Johnny Depp, Forest Whitaker, Toby Huss
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2677722/
Russell Poole and Jack Jackson investigate the murders of rappers Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur.
Charlie Says
Release 2018
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Director: Mary Harron
Writers: Guinevere Turner, Karlene Faith, Ed Sanders
Stars: Hannah Murray, Sosie Bacon, Suki Waterhouse
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1759744/
The tragic tale of an all-American girl who was transformed into a cold-blooded killer in the summer of 1969.
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
Release 2019
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Director: Joe Berlinger
Writers: Elizabeth Kendall, Michael Werwie
Stars: Lily Collins, Zac Efron, Angela Sarafyan
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2481498/
A courtroom frenzy ensues and sweeps 1970s America when a young single mother reluctantly tips the attention of a widespread manhunt toward her longtime boyfriend, Ted Bundy.
Fighting with My Family
Release 2019
Genre Biography, Comedy, Drama
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Director: Stephen Merchant
Writer: Stephen Merchant
Stars: Dwayne Johnson, Thomas Whilley, Tori Ellen Ross
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6513120/
A former wrestler and his family make a living performing at small venues around the country while his kids dream of joining World Wrestling Entertainment.
Jeremiah Terminator LeRoy
Release 2018
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Director: Justin Kelly
Writers: Justin Kelly, Savannah Knoop
Stars: Kristen Stewart, Diane Kruger, Laura Dern
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5460522/
A young woman named Savannah Knoop spends six years pretending to be the celebrated author JT LeRoy, the made-up literary persona of her sister-in-law.
The Professor and the Madman
Release 2019
Genre Biography, Drama, Mystery
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Director: Farhad Safinia
Writers: John Boorman, Todd Komarnicki, Farhad Safinia, Simon Winchester
Stars: Natalie Dormer, Mel Gibson, Jeremy Irvine
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5932728/
Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid 19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dr. William Minor.