Category Archives: Biography
Unplanned
Release 2019
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Director: Chuck Konzelman, Cary Solomon
Writers: Cary Solomon, Chuck Konzelman
Stars: Ashley Bratcher, Brooks Ryan, Robia Scott
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9024106/
All Abby Johnson ever wanted to do was help women. As one of the youngest Planned Parenthood clinic directors in the nation, she believed in a woman's right to choose. Until the day she saw something that changed everything.
Skin
Release 2018
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Director: Guy Nattiv
Writer: Guy Nattiv
Stars: Jamie Bell, Danielle Macdonald, Daniel Henshall
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6043142/
A destitute young man, raised by racist skinheads and notorious among white supremacists, turns his back on hatred and violence to transform his life, with the help of a black activist and the woman he loves.
Tolkien
Release 2019
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Director: Dome Karukoski
Writers: David Gleeson, Stephen Beresford
Stars: Nicholas Hoult, Lily Collins, Colm Meaney
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3361792/
The formative years of the orphaned author J.R.R. Tolkien as he finds friendship, love and artistic inspiration among a group of fellow outcasts at school.
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.