Category Archives: Biography
In the Heart of the Sea
Release 2015
Genre Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, Thriller
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Director: Ron Howard
Writers: Charles Leavitt, Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, Nathaniel Philbrick
Stars: Chris Hemsworth, Benjamin Walker, Cillian Murphy, Brendan Gleeson, Ben Whishaw
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1390411/
A recounting of a whaling ship's sinking by a giant whale in 1820 that would inspire the great novel, Moby Dick.
Legend
Release 2015
Genre Adventure, Biography, Crime, Fantasy, Romance, Thriller
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Director: Brian Helgeland
Writers: Brian Helgeland, John Pearson
Stars: Colin Morgan, Tom Hardy, Christopher Eccleston, Joshua Hill, Emily Browning
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3569230/
The film tells the story of the identical twin gangsters Reggie and Ronnie Kray, two of the most notorious criminals in British history, and their organised crime empire in the East End of London during the 1960s.
The Girl King
Release 2015
Genre Biography, Drama, Romance
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Director: Mika Kaurismäki
Writers: Michel Marc Bouchard
Stars: Malin Buska, Sarah Gadon, Michael Nyqvist, Lucas Bryant, Laura Birn
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1254322/
THE GIRL KING paints a portrait of the brilliant, extravagant Kristina of Sweden, queen from age six, who fights the conservative forces that are against her ideas to modernize Sweden and who have no tolerance for her awakening sexuality.
The Walk
Release 2015
Genre Adventure, Biography, Drama, Thriller
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Director: Robert Zemeckis
Writers: Robert Zemeckis, Christopher Browne, Philippe Petit
Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Guillaume Baillargeon, Émilie Leclerc, Mark Trafford, Inka Malovic
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3488710/
In 1974, high-wire artist Philippe Petit recruits a team of people to help him realize his dream: to walk the immense void between the World Trade Center towers.
The 33
Release 2015
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Director: Patricia Riggen
Writers: Mikko Alanne, Craig Borten, Michael Thomas, Jose Rivera, Hector Tobar
Stars: Antonio Banderas, Rodrigo Santoro, Juliette Binoche, James Brolin, Lou Diamond Phillips
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2006295/
Based on the real-life event, when a gold and copper mine collapses, it traps 33 miners underground for 69 days.
Howl
Release 2015
Genre Biography, Drama, Horror
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Director: Paul Hyett
Writers: Mark Huckerby, Nick Ostler
Stars: Ed Speleers, Holly Weston, Elliot Cowan, Amit Shah, Sam Gittins
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2393827/
When passengers on a train are attacked by a creature, they must band together in order to survive until morning.
Black Mass
Release 2015
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Director: Scott Cooper
Writers: Mark Mallouk, Jez Butterworth, Dick Lehr, Gerard O'Neill
Stars: Johnny Depp, Joel Edgerton, Benedict Cumberbatch, Dakota Johnson, Kevin Bacon
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1355683/
The true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf.
Straight Outta Compton
Release 2015
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Director: F. Gary Gray
Writers: Jonathan Herman, Andrea Berloff, S. Leigh Savidge, Alan Wenkus
Stars: O'Shea Jackson Jr., Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell, Neil Brown Jr., Aldis Hodge
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1398426/
The group NWA emerges from the mean streets of Compton in Los Angeles, California, in the mid-1980s and revolutionizes Hip Hop culture with their music and tales about life in the hood.
Bessie
Release 2015
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Director: Dee Rees
Writers: Christopher Cleveland, Horton Foote, Bettina Gilois, Dee Rees
Stars: Michael Kenneth Williams, Bryan Greenberg, Queen Latifah, Tika Sumpter, Oliver Platt
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3704352/
The story of legendary blues performer, Bessie Smith, who rose to fame during the 1920s and '30s.
Killing Jesus
Release 2015
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Director: Christopher Menaul
Writers: Martin Dugard, Walon Green, Bill O'Reilly
Stars: Kelsey Grammer, Vernon Dobtcheff, Eoin Macken, Rufus Sewell, John Rhys-Davies
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3609402/
A miniseries chronicling the life of Jesus of Nazareth.