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Saving Mr. Banks

Action, Biography, Comedy, Drama, Family, History, Music

2013year 125min 7.5IMDB

Tom Hanks, Paul Giamatti, Colin Farrell, Jason Schwartzman

When Walt Disney's (Tom Hanks') daughters begged him to make a movie of their favorite book, P.L. Travers' (Emma Thompson's) "Mary Poppins", he made them a promise - one that he didn't realize...
Soul Surfer

Action, Biography, Drama, Family, Sport

2011year 112min 7.0IMDB

AnnaSophia Robb, Dennis Quaid, Helen Hunt, Craig T. Nelson

13-year-old Bethany Hamilton is a champion surfer who was born to be in the water. But after a fun night out night-surfing and what should be a fun day in the water, she is attacked by a shark and...
One Chance

Action, Biography, Comedy, Drama, Music

2013year 103min 6.8IMDB

Jemima Rooper, Alexandra Roach, Valeria Bilello, Simon Cowell

Director David Frankel (The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Marley & Me (2008)) teams with Screenwriter Justin Zackham (The Bucket List (2007)) to tell the story of amateur opera singer Paul Potts (James...
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

Action, Biography, Drama, History

2013year 141min 7.1IMDB

Idris Elba, Naomie Harris, Elizabeth Taylor, Armand Aucamp

Nelson Mandela is a South African lawyer who joins the African National Congress in the 1940s when the law under the Apartheid system's brutal tyranny proves useless for his people. Forced to...
Jamesy Boy

Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, Romance

2014year 109min 6.2IMDB

Taissa Farmiga, Rosa Salazar, Mary-Louise Parker, James Woods

The true story of James Burns who, as a teenager goes from the suburban street gangs of Denver to a maximum-security prison cell surrounded by hardened criminals. In this unlikely setting, will...
12 Years a Slave

Action, Biography, Drama, History

2013year 134min 8.1IMDB

Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender, Paul Giamatti, Benedict Cumberbatch

Based on an incredible true story of one man's fight for survival and freedom. In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free Black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into...
The Armstrong Lie

Action, Biography, Documentary, Sport

2013year 124min 7.2IMDB

Barbara Walters, Jon Stewart, Alex Gibney, Oprah Winfrey

In 2009 director Alex Gibney set out to film The Road Back, a documentary on cyclist Lance Armstrong's comeback year after a four-year retirement from the sport. Three years later, on October 2012,...
Ed Wood

Action, Biography, Comedy, Drama

1994year 127min 7.8IMDB

Johnny Depp, Sarah Jessica Parker, Vincent D'Onofrio, Jeffrey Jones

Because of his eccentric habits and bafflingly strange films, director Edward D. Wood Jr. is a Hollywood outcast. Nevertheless, with the help of the formerly famous Bela Lugosi and a devoted cast...
Milk

Action, Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama, History, Horror, Romance

2008year 128min 7.5IMDB

Josh Brolin, James Franco, Boyd Holbrook, Sean Penn

Using flashbacks from a statement recorded late in life and archival footage for atmosphere, this film traces Harvey Milk's career from his 40th birthday to his death. He leaves the closet and New...
Catch Me If You Can

Action, Biography, Crime, Drama

2002year 141min 8.1IMDB

Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Banks, Amy Adams

A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor, and legal prosecutor. An FBI agent makes it...
Dallas Buyers Club

Action, Biography, Drama

2013year 117min 7.9IMDB

Matthew McConaughey, Jared Leto, Jennifer Garner, Denis O'Hare

In mid 1980s Texas, electrician Ron Woodroof is starting to learn that he has AIDS. Though told he has just 30 days left to live, Woodroof refuses to give in to despair. He seeks out alternative...
Coal Miner's Daughter

Action, Biography, Drama, Music, Musical

1980year 0min 7.5IMDB

Tommy Lee Jones, Sissy Spacek, Beverly D'Angelo, William Sanderson

At only 13, Loretta Webb marries Oliver "Doolittle" Lynn and is soon responsible for a large family. She appears destined to a life of homemaking, but Doolittle recognizes her musical talent, and...
The Bell Witch Haunting

Action, Biography, Horror

2013year 91min 3.6IMDB

Found-footage horror. The Robertson County Sheriff's Department has released videos found on the bodies of the Sawyer family's cell phones and video cameras. What was first thought to be a...
The Fifth Estate

Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller

2013year 128min 6.2IMDB

Kyle Soller, Alicia Vikander, Benedict Cumberbatch, Laura Linney

The story begins as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and his colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Daniel Brühl) team up to become underground watchdogs of the privileged and...
The Butler

Action, Biography, Drama

2013year 132min 7.2IMDB

Robin Williams, John Cusack, Alan Rickman, Jesse Williams

Cecil Gaines was a sharecropper's son who grew up in the 1920s as a domestic servant for the white family who casually destroyed his. Eventually striking out on his own, Cecil becomes a hotel valet...
Abraham Lincoln

Action, Biography, Drama, History, War

1930year 96min 5.6IMDB

Jason Robards Sr., Walter Huston, Una Merkel

Brief vignettes about Lincoln's early life include his birth, early jobs, (unsubstantiated) affair with Ann Rutledge, courtship of Mary Todd, and the Lincoln-Douglas debates; his presidency and the...
Fruitvale Station

Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, Romance

2013year 85min 7.5IMDB

Kevin Durand, Chad Michael Murray, Michael B. Jordan, Octavia Spencer

This is the true story of Oscar, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident who wakes up on the morning of December 31, 2008 and feels something in the air. Not sure what it is, he takes it as a sign to get a...
Jobs

Action, Biography, Drama

2013year 128min 6.0IMDB

Dermot Mulroney, J.K. Simmons, David Denman, Amanda Crew

The film opens in 2001 with a middle-aged Steve Jobs (Ashton Kutcher) introducing the iPod at an Apple Town Hall meeting.[6] It then flashes back to Reed College in 1974. Jobs had already dropped...
Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir

Action, Biography, Documentary

2011year 90min 7.1IMDB

Catherine Deneuve, Sharon Tate, Roman Polanski, Emmanuelle Seigner

A documentary about Roman Polanski, the man and filmmaker. Roman Polanski speaks about his eventful life story and career in conversation with Andrew Braunsberg, his former business partner,...
Summer in February

Action, Biography, Drama, Romance

2013year 100min 5.6IMDB

Emily Browning, Dan Stevens, Nicholas Farrell, Dominic Cooper

The Newlyn School of artists flourished at the beginning of the 20th Century and the film focuses on the wild and bohemian Lamorna Group, which included Alfred Munnings and Laura and Harold Knight....