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Farhan Akhtar

Sonam Kapoor Ahuja

Divya Dutta

Pavan Malhotra

Bhaag Milkha Bhaag (2013)

7.5 285 votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: India

Duration: 186 min.

Story: The true story of the "Flying Sikh" world champion runner and Olympian Milkha Singh who overcame the massacre of his family, civil war during the India-Pakistan partition, and homelessness to become one of India's most iconic athletes.

Plot: fight, knife, biography, past, sister, love, jail, slaughter, ...

Cast

Zac Efron

Jeremy Allen White

Harris Dickinson

Stanley Simons

The Iron Claw (2023)

7.5 1.3K votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 133 min.

Audience: R

Story: The true story of the inseparable Von Erich brothers, who made history in the intensely competitive world of professional wrestling in the early 1980s. Through tragedy and triumph, under the shadow of their domineering father and coach, the brothers seek larger-than-life immortality on the biggest stage in sports.

Style: intimate

Plot: sports, wrestling, brotherhood, biography, dallas, texas, based on true story, dysfunctional family, ...

Time: 1970s, 1980s

Place: texas

Cast

Stephen Stanton

Roger Ebert

Chaz Ebert

Ramin Bahrani

Life Itself (2014)

7.5 371 votes

Genre: Documentary

Country: United States of America

Duration: 121 min.

Audience: R

Story: The surprising and entertaining life of renowned film critic and social commentator Roger Ebert (1942-2013): his early days as a freewheeling bachelor and Pulitzer Prize winner, his famously contentious partnership with Gene Siskel, his life-altering marriage, and his brave and transcendent battle with cancer.

Plot: husband wife relationship, movie business, pop culture, male friendship, biography, rehabilitation centre, interracial marriage, cancer, ...

Cast

Jet Li

Sun Li

Dong Yong

Shido Nakamura

Fearless (2006)

7.5 1.4K votes

Genre: Action, Drama

Country: China, Hong Kong

Duration: 103 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: After going through a series of tragic events in his life, martial arts master Huo Yuanjia returns to Tianjin and must fight four international soldiers, in order to safeguard his nation's pride.

Style: intense

Plot: blindness and impaired vision, friendship, martial arts, kung fu, shanghai, china, hope, patriotism, ...

Cast

Burt Lancaster

Karl Malden

Thelma Ritter

Neville Brand

Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)

7.5 343 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, History

Country: United States of America

Duration: 147 min.

Audience: NR

Story: After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement. Driven nearly mad by loneliness and despair, Stroud's life gains new meaning when he happens upon a helpless baby sparrow in the exercise yard and nurses it back to health. Despite having only a third grade education, Stroud goes on to become a renowned ornithologist and achieves a greater sense of freedom and purpose behind bars than most people find in the outside world.

Plot: prison, prisoner, rebel, difficult childhood, human animal relationship, alcatraz prison, ornithology, biography, ...

Cast

Alia Bhatt

Ajay Devgn

Shantanu Maheshwari

Indira Tiwari

Gangubai Kathiawadi (2022)

7.5 193 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, History

Country: India

Duration: 157 min.

Story: Duped and sold to a brothel, a young woman fearlessly reclaims her power, using underworld connections to preside over the world she was once a pawn in.

Plot: based on novel or book, biography

Walk the Line (2005)

7.5 3.2K votes

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance

Country: Germany, United States of America

Duration: 136 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his rise to fame with Sun Records in Memphis, where he recorded alongside Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins.

Plot: prison, adultery, concert, music record, country music, guitar, loss of loved one, marriage, ...

Time: 1960s

Place: germany

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Sian Chiong

Rocu00edo Verdejo

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Ethan Schwartz

Felipe Albors

Súbete a mi moto (2020) TV Show

7.5 368 votes

Genre: Documentary, Drama

Country: Puerto Rico, Mexico

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 15

Audience: NR

Story: The Story behind the the iconic boy band Menudo according to the creator and manager of the band

Plot: biography, based on true story

Cast

Emilia Schu00fcle

Louis Cunningham

Jack Archer

Oscar Lesage

Marie Antoinette (2022) TV Show

7.5 63 votes

Genre: Drama, War

Country: Belgium, France

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 16

Audience: TV-14

Story: Marie Antoinette is just a teenager when she leaves Austria to marry the Dauphin of France. At Versailles, under the complex rules of the French court, she suffers from not being able to live her life the way she wants, under pressure to continue the Bourbon line and secure the Franco-Austrian alliance.

Plot: biography, marie antoinette, versailles, politics, romance, royalty, period drama, family, ...

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Alka Balbir

Guillaume Tremblay

Miranda July

Katia Krafft

Fire of Love (2022)

7.5 253 votes

Genre: Documentary

Country: United States of America, Canada

Duration: 94 min.

Audience: PG

Story: A doomed love triangle between intrepid French scientists Katia and Maurice Krafft, and their beloved volcanoes.

Style: romantic

Plot: married couple, volcano, interview, volcanology, archive footage, volcanic eruption, scientist hero, forces of nature, ...

Cast

Christian Serratos

Gabriel Chavarria

Ricardo Chavira

Noemi Gonzalez

Selena: The Series (2020) TV Show

7.5 1.6K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Mexico, United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 18

Audience: TV-PG

Story: As Mexican-American Tejano singer Selena comes of age and realizes her dreams, she and her family make tough choices to hold on to love and music.

Plot: musical, biography, murder, singer, latin music

Time: 1990s

Cast

Akshay Kumar

Radhika Apte

Sonam Kapoor Ahuja

Jyoti Subhash

Pad Man (2018)

7.5 244 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: India, United States of America

Duration: 140 min.

Story: Upon realizing the extent to which women are affected by their menses, a man sets out to create a sanitary pad machine and to provide inexpensive sanitary pads to the women of rural India.

Style: taboo

Plot: superhero, village, invention, biography, menstruation, based on true story, based on short story, dramedy, ...

Cast

Trevante Rhodes

Russell Hornsby

Mike (2022) TV Show

7.5 189 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 8

Story: Explore the wild, tragic and controversial life and career of heavyweight champion Mike Tyson - one of the most polarizing figures in sports culture.

Plot: boxer, biography, sports, based on true story, heavyweight champion, boxing

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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Jane C. Ginsburg

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James Steven Ginsburg

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Nina Totenberg

RBG (2018)

7.5 308 votes

Genre: Documentary

Country: United States of America

Duration: 98 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg now 84, and still inspired by the lawyers who defended free speech during the Red Scare, Ginsburg refuses to relinquish her passionate duty, steadily fighting for equal rights for all citizens under the law. Through intimate interviews and unprecedented access to Ginsburg’s life outside the court, RBG tells the electric story of Ginsburg’s consuming love affairs with both the Constitution and her beloved husband Marty—and of a life’s work that led her to become an icon of justice in the highest court in the land.

Plot: biography, supreme court, woman director, supreme court justice

Cast

John David Washington

Adam Driver

Topher Grace

Laura Harrier

BlacKkKlansman (2018)

7.5 8.1K votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 136 min.

Audience: R

Story: Colorado Springs, late 1970s. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer, and Flip Zimmerman, his Jewish colleague, run an undercover operation to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan.

Plot: based on novel or book, ku klux klan, black panther party, biography, based on true story, undercover cop, racism, based on memoir or autobiography, ...

Time: 1970s

Cast

Michael Diamond

Adam Horovitz

Adam Yauch

Ben Stiller

Beastie Boys Story (2020)

7.5 190 votes

Genre: Documentary, Music

Country: United States of America, United Kingdom

Duration: 120 min.

Audience: R

Story: Here's a little story they're about to tell... Mike Diamond and Adam Horovitz share the story of their band and 40 years of friendship in a live documentary experience directed by friend, collaborator, and their former grandfather, Spike Jonze.

Plot: rap music, hip-hop, biography, rock music, live performance, archive footage, bloopers, real story, ...

Cast

Keerthy Suresh

Dulquer Salmaan

Samantha Ruth Prabhu

Vijay Deverakonda

Mahanati (2018)

7.5 61 votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: India

Duration: 176 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Mahanati depicts the life and career of one of Telugu cinema's greatest and most iconic starlets, the first Indian female super star, Savitri.

Plot: biography, autobiography, crying, director, secret marriage, savitri, love marriage

Cast

Margot Robbie

Sebastian Stan

Allison Janney

Julianne Nicholson

I, Tonya (2017)

7.5 6.2K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America, United Kingdom

Duration: 120 min.

Audience: R

Story: Competitive ice skater Tonya Harding rises amongst the ranks at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, but her future in the sport is thrown into doubt when her ex-husband intervenes.

Plot: sports, competition, olympic games, portland, oregon, biography, based on true story, rivalry, ...

Time: 1990s

Cast

George C. Scott

Karl Malden

Stephen Young

Michael Strong

Patton (1970)

7.5 1.2K votes

Genre: Drama, History, War

Country: United States of America

Duration: 172 min.

Audience: PG

Story: "Patton" tells the tale of General George S. Patton, famous tank commander of World War II. The film begins with Patton's career in North Africa and progresses through the invasion of Germany and the fall of the Third Reich. Side plots also speak of Patton's numerous faults such his temper and habit towards insubordination.

Plot: general, steel helmet, allies, normandy, france, dead soldier, tank, biography, ...

Time: world war ii

The Law According to Lidia Poët (2023) TV Show

7.5 164 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, War

Country: Italy

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 18

Audience: TV-MA

Story: In late 19th-century Turin, the young Lidia Poët, fights against everything and everyone to get what is rightfully hers: to be enrolled in the official register of lawyers. A profession, at the time, reserved exclusively for men. Nevertheless, nothing could stop her dream of becoming the first female lawyer in Italy.

Plot: biography, turin, based on true story, courtroom, turin italy, legal battle, woman lawyer, legal drama, ...

Time: 19th century

Place: italy

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