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Cast

Mario Casas

Richard van Weyden

Alain Hernu00e1ndez

Adriu00e0 Salazar

The Photographer of Mauthausen (2018)

7.0 749 votes

Genre: Drama, History, Thriller

Country: Hungary, Spain

Duration: 111 min.

Audience: R

Story: Spanish photographer Francesc Boix, imprisoned in the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, works in the SS Photographic Service. Between 1943 and 1945, he hides, with the help of other prisoners, thousands of negatives, with the purpose of showing the freed world the atrocities committed by the Nazis, exhaustively documented. He will be a key witness during the Nuremberg Trials.

Plot: photographer, holocaust (shoah), spanish civil war (1936-39), biography, based on true story, holocaust (shoah) survivor, woman director, nazi occupation, ...

Time: world war ii, 1940s

Cast

Viggo Mortensen

Zuleikha Robinson

Omar Sharif

Louise Lombard

Hidalgo (2004)

6.9 1.4K votes

Genre: Adventure, Western

Country: United States of America, Morocco

Duration: 136 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Set in 1890, this is the story of a Pony Express courier who travels to Arabia to compete with his horse, Hidalgo, in a dangerous race for a massive contest prize, in an adventure that sends the pair around the world...

Plot: horse race, horse, racehorse, biography, sheik, mustang, sword fight, desert, ...

Time: 19th century

Place: middle east

Cast

Nicholas Hoult

Lily Collins

Colm Meaney

Derek Jacobi

Tolkien (2019)

6.9 1.6K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance, War

Country: United States of America

Duration: 112 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: England, early 20th century. The future writer and philologist John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) and three of his schoolmates create a strong bond between them as they share the same passion for literature and art, a true fellowship that strengthens as they grow up, but the outbreak of World War I threatens to shatter it.

Plot: male friendship, biography, based on true story, coming of age, mentor protégé relationship, boys' school, troubled relationship, oxford university, ...

Time: world war i, 1900s

Cast

Sverrir Gudnason

Shia LaBeouf

Stellan Skarsgu00e5rd

Tuva Novotny

Borg vs McEnroe (2017)

6.9 1.2K votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: Finland, Sweden

Duration: 108 min.

Audience: R

Story: The Swedish Björn Borg and the American John McEnroe, the best tennis players in the world, maintain a legendary duel during the 1980 Wimbledon tournament.

Plot: london, england, sports, tennis, tennis player, champion, biography, based on true story, ...

Time: 1980s

Place: sweden

Cast

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Johnny Depp

Benjamin Lavernhe

Melvil Poupaud

Jeanne du Barry (2023)

6.9 692 votes

Genre: Drama, History, Romance

Country: France, Belgium

Duration: 117 min.

Audience: 15

Story: The life of Jeanne Bécu, who was born as the illegitimate daughter of an impoverished seamstress in 1743 and went on to rise through the Court of Louis XV to become his last official mistress.

Plot: infidelity, royal family, versailles, king louis xv of france, romance, countess, mistress, royal court, ...

Time: 18th century

Place: france

Cast

Greta Garbo

John Gilbert

Ian Keith

Lewis Stone

Queen Christina (1934)

6.9 141 votes

Genre: Drama, History, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 99 min.

Story: Popular monarch Queen Christina of Sweden must choose between love and loyalty to her nation when she unexpectedly falls for a Spanish envoy.

Plot: ambassador, peace, queen, forbidden love, duty, biography, mobster, female protagonist, ...

Time: 17th century

Place: sweden

Cast

Kate Winslet

Saoirse Ronan

Gemma Jones

James McArdle

Ammonite (2020)

6.9 647 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 118 min.

Audience: R

Story: In 1840s England, palaeontologist Mary Anning and a young woman sent by her husband to convalesce by the sea develop an intense relationship. Despite the chasm between their social spheres and personalities, Mary and Charlotte discover they can each offer what the other has been searching for: the realisation that they are not alone. It is the beginning of a passionate and all-consuming love affair that will defy all social bounds and alter the course of both lives irrevocably.

Style: melancholy, absurd

Plot: beach, paleontology, affectation, paleontologist, biography, grief, lesbian relationship, period drama, ...

Time: 19th century

Guru (2007)

6.9 143 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: India

Duration: 166 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A villager, Gurukant Desai, arrives in Bombay in 1958, and rises from its streets to become the biggest tycoon in India.

Plot: biography, idealism, tycoon, industrialist, rise to power

Cast

Christopher Lee

James Fox

Maria Aitken

Shashi Kapoor

Jinnah (1998)

6.9 29 votes

Genre: Drama, History, War

Country: Pakistan

Duration: 110 min.

Audience: U

Story: Biography of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the founder of modern Pakistan is told through flashbacks as his soul tries to find eternal rest. The flashbacks start in 1947 as Jinnah pleads for a separate nation for the Muslim minority, infuriating Lord Mountbatten. Mountbatten then tries to enlist Gandhi & Nehru to persuade Jinnah to stop his efforts. Gandhi sides with Jinnah, which upsets Nehru. However, Jinnah turns down the offer to become prime minister and the film takes another slide back to 1916, which reveals all of the political implications that have occurred.

Plot: muslim, biography, political unrest

Place: pakistan

Cast

Keira Knightley

Dominic West

Denise Gough

Fiona Shaw

Colette (2018)

6.9 954 votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 112 min.

Audience: R

Story: After marrying a successful Parisian writer known commonly as Willy, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette is transplanted from her childhood home in rural France to the intellectual and artistic splendor of Paris. Soon after, Willy convinces Colette to ghostwrite for him. She pens a semi-autobiographical novel about a witty and brazen country girl named Claudine, sparking a bestseller and a cultural sensation. After its success, Colette and Willy become the talk of Paris and their adventures inspire additional Claudine novels.

Plot: infidelity, paris, france, nobel prize, biography, based on true story, author, lgbt, ...

Time: 19th century

Place: france

Cast

Sebastian Stan

Jeremy Strong

Martin Donovan

Maria Bakalova

The Apprentice (2024)

6.8 988 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, History

Country: United States of America, United Kingdom

Duration: 122 min.

Audience: R

Story: A young Donald Trump, eager to make his name as a hungry scion of a wealthy family in 1970s New York, comes under the spell of Roy Cohn, the cutthroat attorney who would help create the Donald Trump we know today. Cohn sees in Trump the perfect protégé—someone with raw ambition, a hunger for success, and a willingness to do whatever it takes to win.

Style: absurd

Plot: new york city, rape, corruption, aids, funeral, politics, blackmail, biography, ...

Time: 1970s, 1980s

Cast

Florence Pugh

Lena Headey

Nick Frost

Vince Vaughn

Fighting with My Family (2019)

6.8 1.9K votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 108 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Born into a tight-knit wrestling family, Paige and her brother Zak are ecstatic when they get the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to try out for the WWE. But when only Paige earns a spot in the competitive training program, she must leave her loved ones behind and face this new cutthroat world alone. Paige's journey pushes her to dig deep and ultimately prove to the world that what makes her different is the very thing that can make her a star.

Plot: sports, wrestling, biography, based on true story, family drama, family, norfolk

Place: england

Cast

Chris Pine

Aaron Taylor-Johnson

Florence Pugh

Billy Howle

Outlaw King (2018)

6.8 1.7K votes

Genre: Action, History, War

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 122 min.

Audience: R

Story: Forced into exile by the English after being crowned King of Scotland, legendary warrior Robert the Bruce fights to reclaim the throne.

Plot: castle, exile, biography, based on true story, uprising, period drama, historical drama, scottish highlands, ...

Time: 14th century

Place: scotland

Cast

Aileen Wuornos

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Michele Gillen

Aileen: Queen of the Serial Killers (2025)

6.8 68 votes

Genre: Crime, Documentary

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 104 min.

Audience: R

Story: Aileen Wuornos remains a rarity: a female serial killer. From childhood abuse to death-row revelations, this documentary revisits her life and crimes.

Plot: child abuse, serial killer, prostitution, true crime, dysfunctional life, female serial killer, child sexual abuse, female killer, ...

Time: 1980s, 1990s

Cast

Eddie Redmayne

Felicity Jones

Tom Courtenay

Phoebe Fox

The Aeronauts (2019)

6.8 1.2K votes

Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 100 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: In 1862, daredevil balloon pilot Amelia Wren teams up with pioneering meteorologist James Glaisher to advance human knowledge of the weather and fly higher than anyone in history. While breaking records and advancing scientific discovery, their voyage to the very edge of existence helps the unlikely pair find their place in the world they have left far below them. But they face physical and emotional challenges in the thin air, as the ascent becomes a fight for survival.

Plot: cloud, hot air balloon, biography, based on true story, aeronautics

Time: 19th century

Cast

Benicio del Toro

Demiu00e1n Bichir

Santiago Cabrera

Vladimir Cruz

Che: Part One (2008)

6.8 835 votes

Genre: Drama, History, War

Country: United States of America, Spain

Duration: 134 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Ernesto Guevara, known as 'Che', leads a group of Cuban exiles under Fidel Castro in a revolution to overthrow Fulgencio Batista, the dictator of Cuba.

Plot: hero, central intelligence agency (cia), biography, che guevara, fidel castro, cuban revolution

Time: 1950s

Place: cuba

Cast

Christian Clavier

Isabella Rossellini

John Malkovich

Gu00e9rard Depardieu

Napoleon (2002) TV Show

6.8 85 votes

Genre: Action, Drama, War

Country: Canada, France

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 4

Audience: NR

Story: A masterful soldier, tactician and statesmen, Napoleon Bonaparte's courage and love for his country sees him rise from an unpaid general consumed with ambition to the most powerful man in Europe, then his fall, and exile.

Plot: napoleon bonaparte, biography, napoleonic wars

Cast

Ingrid Bergman

Yul Brynner

Helen Hayes

Akim Tamiroff

Anastasia (1956)

6.8 189 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 105 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Russian exiles in Paris plot to collect ten million pounds from the Bank of England by grooming a destitute, suicidal girl to pose as heir to the Russian throne. While Bounin is coaching her, he comes to believe that she is really Anastasia. In the end, the Empress must decide her claim.

Plot: princess, amnesia, identity, exile, biography, assumed identity, anastasia romanowa

Time: 1920s

Cast

Emma Stone

Steve Carell

Andrea Riseborough

Sarah Silverman

Battle of the Sexes (2017)

6.8 2.0K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, History

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 121 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: The true story of the 1973 tennis match between world number one Billie Jean King and ex-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs.

Plot: sports, tennis, tennis player, biography, based on true story, femme fatale, female athlete, determination, ...

Time: 1970s

Cast

Rosamund Pike

Jamie Dornan

Tom Hollander

Stanley Tucci

A Private War (2018)

6.8 561 votes

Genre: Drama, War

Country: United States of America

Duration: 106 min.

Audience: R

Story: One of the most celebrated war correspondents of our time, Marie Colvin is an utterly fearless and rebellious spirit, driven to the frontlines of conflicts across the globe to give voice to the voiceless.

Plot: journalist, palestinian-israeli conflict, war correspondent, biography, based on magazine, newspaper or article

Place: syria

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