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Cast

Christian Bale

Cate Blanchett

Marcus Carl Franklin

Richard Gere

I'm Not There (2007)

6.5 783 votes

Genre: Drama, Music

Country: Germany, United States of America

Duration: 135 min.

Audience: R

Story: Six actors portray six personas of music legend Bob Dylan in scenes depicting various stages of his life, chronicling his rise from unknown folksinger to international icon and revealing how Dylan constantly reinvented himself.

Style: nostalgic

Plot: rock 'n' roll, advancement, john f. kennedy, success, beatnik, biography, motorcycle crash, drag, ...

Cast

Andra Day

Trevante Rhodes

Garrett Hedlund

Leslie Jordan

The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021)

6.5 314 votes

Genre: Drama, History, Music

Country: United States of America

Duration: 131 min.

Audience: R

Story: Billie Holiday spent much of her career being adored by fans. In the 1940s, the government targeted Holiday in a growing effort to racialize the war on drugs, ultimately aiming to stop her from singing her controversial ballad, "Strange Fruit."

Plot: war on drugs, new orleans, louisiana, jazz singer or musician, ban from profession, biography, surveillance, heroin addiction, ...

Time: 1940s, 1950s

Cast

Angelina Jolie

Pierfrancesco Favino

Alba Rohrwacher

Haluk Bilginer

Maria (2024)

6.5 473 votes

Genre: Drama, History, Music

Country: Germany, Italy

Duration: 123 min.

Audience: R

Story: Maria Callas, the world's greatest opera singer, lives the last days of her life in 1970s Paris, as she confronts her identity and life.

Plot: opera, paris, france, surrealism, biography, based on true story, female protagonist, period drama, ...

Time: 1970s

Jackie (2016)

6.5 2.4K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America, France

Duration: 100 min.

Audience: R

Story: An account of the days of First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, in the immediate aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963.

Plot: assassination, usa president, widow, john f. kennedy, biography, dallas, texas, president, ...

Time: 1960s

Cast

Anamaria Vartolomei

Cu00e9leste Brunnquell

Matt Dillon

Marie Gillain

Being Maria (2024)

6.4 70 votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: Belgium, France

Duration: 100 min.

Story: A young, struggling actress lands her dream role in a film by an emerging Italian director, starring alongside an American superstar. What begins as her big breakthrough quickly turns into a living hell.

Plot: biography, based on true story, sexploitation, docudrama, actress, filmmaker, lesbian love, based on real person

Cast

Milla Jovovich

John Malkovich

Faye Dunaway

Dustin Hoffman

The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999)

6.4 1.6K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama

Country: France

Duration: 158 min.

Audience: R

Story: In 1429, a French teenager stood before her King with a message she claimed came from God; that she would defeat the world's greatest army and liberate her country from its political and religious turmoil. As she reclaims God's diminished kingdom, this courageous young woman has various amazing victories until her violent and untimely death.

Plot: rape, politics, necrophilia, siege, biography, hundred years' war, burned alive, heroine, ...

Time: 15th century

Place: france

Cast

Max von Sydow

Michael Anderson Jr.

Carroll Baker

Ina Balin

The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)

6.4 214 votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: United States of America

Duration: 199 min.

Audience: G

Story: From his birth in Bethlehem to his death and eventual resurrection, the life of Jesus Christ is given the all-star treatment in this epic retelling. Major aspects of Christ's life are touched upon, including the execution of all the newborn males in Egypt by King Herod; Christ's baptism by John the Baptist; and the betrayal by Judas after the Last Supper that eventually leads to Christ's crucifixion and miraculous return.

Plot: christianity, religion and supernatural, crucifixion, bible, biography, resurrection, religion, religious film, ...

Cast

Charlie Hunnam

Robert Pattinson

Sienna Miller

Tom Holland

The Lost City of Z (2017)

6.4 3.1K votes

Genre: Adventure, Drama, History

Country: United States of America, Northern Ireland

Duration: 141 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A true-life drama in the 1920s, centering on British explorer Col. Percy Fawcett, who discovered evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization in the Amazon and disappeared whilst searching for it.

Plot: based on novel or book, snake, river, expedition, lost civilisation, tribe, biography, amazon rainforest, ...

Time: world war i, 1920s

Place: south america

Cast

Greg Kinnear

Willem Dafoe

Rita Wilson

Maria Bello

Auto Focus (2002)

6.4 219 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 104 min.

Audience: R

Story: A successful TV star during the 1960s, former "Hogan's Heroes" actor Bob Crane projects a wholesome family-man image, but this front masks his persona as a sex addict who records and photographs his many encounters with women, often with the help of his seedy friend, John Henry Carpenter. This biographical drama reveals how Crane's double life takes its toll on him and his family, and ultimately contributes to his death.

Plot: adultery, infidelity, pornography, based on novel or book, orgy, sex addiction, biography, based on true story, ...

Time: 1970s, 1960s

The Smashing Machine (2025)

6.4 653 votes

Genre: Action, Drama, History

Country: United States of America

Duration: 123 min.

Audience: R

Story: In the late 1990s, up-and-coming mixed martial artist Mark Kerr aspires to become the greatest fighter in the world. However, he must also battle his opioid dependence and a volatile relationship with his girlfriend Dawn.

Style: intense

Plot: sports, drug addiction, biography, based on true story, mixed martial arts (mma), price of fame, sports drama, depressed, ...

Time: 1990s

Cast

Adam Driver

Penu00e9lope Cruz

Shailene Woodley

Gabriel Leone

Ferrari (2023)

6.4 1.3K votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: United States of America, Italy

Duration: 131 min.

Audience: R

Story: Set during the summer of 1957. Ex-racecar driver, Enzo Ferrari, is in crisis. Bankruptcy stalks the company he and his wife, Laura, built from nothing ten years earlier. Their tempestuous marriage struggles with the mourning for one son and the acknowledgement of another.

Plot: husband wife relationship, biography, based on true story, racing, cars, ferrari

Time: 1950s

Cast

Keira Knightley

Viggo Mortensen

Michael Fassbender

Sarah Gadon

A Dangerous Method (2011)

6.3 2.2K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Switzerland, United Kingdom

Duration: 99 min.

Audience: R

Story: Seduced by the challenge of an impossible case, the driven Dr. Carl Jung takes the unbalanced yet beautiful Sabina Spielrein as his patient. Jung’s weapon is the method of his master, the renowned Sigmund Freud. Both men fall under Sabina’s spell.

Plot: infidelity, based on novel or book, psychoanalysis, biography, based on true story, cigar smoking, spanking, patient, ...

Cast

Eddie Peng Yu-Yan

AngelaBaby

Sammo Hung Kam-Bo

Tony Leung Ka-fai

Rise of the Legend (2014)

6.3 222 votes

Genre: Action, Drama

Country: Hong Kong

Duration: 131 min.

Story: In 1868 during the late Qing Dynasty, rampant corruption on the Imperial Court inflicts much suffering in people's lives. For years, the Black Tiger’s fearsome boss Lei Gong has been trying to get rid of the leader of the Northern Sea. One of his latest recruits is Fei, a fearless fighter who takes the Northern Sea leader’s head after a fierce fight. Just as Lei Gong believes he has total control of the port, a new gang called the Orphans rises in power. Led by Fei’s childhood friend Huo, the Orphans are out to eliminate all the criminal power from the port…

Plot: martial arts, kung fu, biography, wu shu, huang feihong

Time: 19th century

Cast

Joaquin Phoenix

Vanessa Kirby

Tahar Rahim

Rupert Everett

Napoleon (2023)

6.3 3.2K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, History

Country: United States of America

Duration: 158 min.

Audience: R

Story: An epic that details the checkered rise and fall of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and his relentless journey to power through the prism of his addictive, volatile relationship with his wife, Josephine.

Plot: empire, general, biography, napoleon bonaparte, based on true story, napoleonic wars, violence

Time: 18th century, 19th century

Place: france

Cast

Javier Bardem

Penu00e9lope Cruz

Peter Sarsgaard

Julieth Restrepo

Loving Pablo (2017)

6.3 1.0K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: Bulgaria, Spain

Duration: 123 min.

Audience: R

Story: The film chronicles the rise and fall of the world's most feared drug lord Pablo Escobar and his volatile love affair with Colombia's most famous journalist Virginia Vallejo throughout a reign of terror that tore a country apart.

Plot: journalist, based on novel or book, cocaine, biography, based on true story, medellín, colombia, drug cartel, ...

Time: 1980s

Cast

Carey Mulligan

Bradley Cooper

Matt Bomer

Vincenzo Amato

Maestro (2023)

6.3 850 votes

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 129 min.

Audience: R

Story: A towering and fearless love story chronicling the lifelong relationship between Leonard Bernstein and Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein. A love letter to life and art, Maestro at its core is an emotionally epic portrayal of family and love.

Style: intimate

Plot: husband wife relationship, show business, conductor, marriage, biography, based on true story, love, historical, ...

Time: 1940s

Cast

Matt Smith

Marianne Rendu00f3n

John Benjamin Hickey

Brandon Sklenar

Mapplethorpe (2019)

6.3 36 votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: United States of America

Duration: 102 min.

Audience: NR

Story: A look at the life of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe from his rise to fame in the 1970s to his untimely death in 1989.

Plot: photographer, biography, hiv, bdsm, lgbt, gay artist

Cast

Leonardo DiCaprio

Armie Hammer

Naomi Watts

Josh Lucas

J. Edgar (2011)

6.2 2.6K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, History

Country: United States of America

Duration: 137 min.

Audience: R

Story: As the face of law enforcement in the United States for almost 50 years, J. Edgar Hoover was feared and admired, reviled and revered. But behind closed doors, he held secrets that would have destroyed his image, his career, and his life.

Plot: fbi, biography, historical figure, lgbt, gay theme

Cast

Robert De Niro

Debra Messing

Cosmo Jarvis

Kathrine Narducci

The Alto Knights (2025)

6.2 446 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, History

Country: United States of America

Duration: 122 min.

Audience: R

Story: Two of New York's most notorious organized crime bosses, Frank Costello and Vito Genovese, vie for control of the city's streets. Once the best of friends, petty jealousies and a series of betrayals place them on a deadly collision course that will reshape the Mafia (and America) forever.

Plot: new york city, crime boss, biography, mafia, true crime, assassination attempt, usa history

Time: 1950s, 20th century

Cast

Demetri Martin

Imelda Staunton

Henry Goodman

Jonathan Groff

Taking Woodstock (2009)

6.2 480 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music

Country: Taiwan, United States of America

Duration: 120 min.

Audience: R

Story: The story of Elliot Tiber and his family, who inadvertently played a pivotal role in making the famed Woodstock Music and Arts Festival into the happening that it was. When Elliot hears that a neighboring town has pulled the permit on a hippie music festival, he calls the producers thinking he could drum up some much-needed business for his parents' run-down motel. Three weeks later, half a million people are on their way to his neighbor’s farm in White Lake, New York, and Elliot finds himself swept up in a generation-defining experience that would change his life–and American culture–forever.

Plot: based on novel or book, biography, woodstock, new york, music festival, dog tag, catskills

Time: 1960s

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