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Cast

Aaron Pierre

Kelvin Harrison Jr.

Jayme Lawson

Weruche Opia

Genius (2017) TV Show

7.5 306 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 36

Audience: TV-14

Story: The life stories of history's greatest minds. From their days as young adults to their final years we see their discoveries, loves, relationships, causes, flaws and genius.

Plot: biography, genius, anthology, historical drama, math genius, ecentric genius, history and legacy

Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker

Cast

Octavia Spencer

Tiffany Haddish

Carmen Ejogo

Garrett Morris

Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker (2020) TV Show

7.5 344 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 4

Audience: TV-MA

Story: An African American washerwoman rises from poverty to build a beauty empire and become the first female self-made millionaire.

Style: inspiring

Plot: based on novel or book, biography, miniseries, philanthropist

Cast

Jamie Foxx

Kerry Washington

Regina King

Harry Lennix

Ray (2004)

7.5 2.2K votes

Genre: Drama, Music

Country: United States of America

Duration: 152 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by a fiercely independent mom who insisted he make his own way, He found his calling and his gift behind a piano keyboard. Touring across the Southern musical circuit, the soulful singer gained a reputation and then exploded with worldwide fame when he pioneered coupling gospel and country together.

Style: melancholy

Plot: blindness and impaired vision, country music, jazz, loss of loved one, overdose, bus ride, georgia, record producer, ...

Cast

Austin Butler

Tom Hanks

Olivia DeJonge

Helen Thomson

Elvis (2022)

7.5 3.9K votes

Genre: Drama, History, Music

Country: Australia, United States of America

Duration: 159 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: The life story of Elvis Presley as seen through the complicated relationship with his enigmatic manager, Colonel Tom Parker.

Plot: rock 'n' roll, biography, singer, music business, rock singer, famous song, apathetic, disdainful, ...

Time: 1950s

Maradona, Blessed Dream (2021) TV Show

7.4 649 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Argentina, Italy

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 10

Story: The controversial life and history of Argentine football legend Diego Armando Maradona. From his beginnings in Villa Fiorito, one of the poorest barrios of Buenos Aires, to achieving glory on the international football league. Earning himself a well-deserved place in history. Living a life strewn with drugs, sex and public scrutiny, he played by his own rules regardless of the consequences. Watch the man who took the world by storm and made his way into the hearts of millions.

Plot: biography, football (soccer)

Lone Survivor (2013)

7.4 4.8K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, War

Country: United States of America

Duration: 121 min.

Audience: R

Story: Four Navy SEALs on a covert mission to neutralize a high-level Taliban operative must make an impossible moral decision in the mountains of Afghanistan that leads them into an enemy ambush. As they confront unthinkable odds, the SEALs must find reserves of strength and resilience to fight to the finish.

Plot: based on novel or book, fight, biography, based on true story, taliban, survival, u.s. navy seal, military, ...

Place: afghanistan

Cast

Julia Roberts

Albert Finney

Aaron Eckhart

Marg Helgenberger

Erin Brockovich (2000)

7.4 3.7K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 131 min.

Audience: R

Story: A twice-divorced mother of three who sees an injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins -- with a little help from her push-up bra. Erin goes to work for an attorney and comes across medical records describing illnesses clustered in one nearby town. She starts investigating and soon exposes a monumental cover-up.

Plot: biography, based on true story, female protagonist, single mother, water pollution, environmental law, legal drama, corporate negligence

Cast

Helmut Berger

Romy Schneider

Trevor Howard

Silvana Mangano

Ludwig (1973)

7.4 188 votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: Germany, France

Duration: 239 min.

Audience: R

Story: Historical evocation of Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from his crowning in 1864 until his death in 1886, as a romantic hero. Fan of Richard Wagner, betrayed by him, in love with his cousin Elisabeth of Austria, abandoned by her, tormented by his homosexuality, he will little by little slip towards madness.

Plot: friendship, bavaria, germany, biography, herrenchiemsee, male homosexuality, king

Time: 19th century

The Last King of Scotland (2006)

7.4 2.4K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America, United Kingdom

Duration: 123 min.

Audience: R

Story: Young Scottish doctor, Nicholas Garrigan decides it's time for an adventure after he finishes his formal education, so he decides to try his luck in Uganda, and arrives during the downfall of President Obote. General Idi Amin comes to power and asks Garrigan to become his personal doctor.

Style: absurd

Plot: diplomat, naivety, based on novel or book, general, kidnapping, dictator, africa, mass murder, ...

Time: 1970s

Cast

Diane Lane

John Malkovich

Scott Glenn

Dylan Walsh

Secretariat (2010)

7.4 643 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 123 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Housewife and mother Penny Chenery agrees to take over her ailing father's Virginia-based Meadow Stables, despite her lack of horse-racing knowledge. Against all odds, Chenery - with the help of veteran trainer Lucien Laurin - manages to navigate the male-dominated business, ultimately fostering the first Triple Crown winner in 25 years.

Plot: horseback riding, horse race, biography, based on true story, equestrian, stallion, eccentricity, triple crown

Time: 1970s

Cast

Paul Walter Hauser

Jon Hamm

Kathy Bates

Sam Rockwell

Richard Jewell (2019)

7.4 2.7K votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: United States of America

Duration: 131 min.

Audience: R

Story: Richard Jewell thinks quick, works fast, and saves hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives after a domestic terrorist plants several pipe bombs and they explode during a concert, only to be falsely suspected of the crime by sloppy FBI work and sensational media coverage.

Plot: biography, based on true story, cautionary tale

American Sniper (2014)

7.4 13.7K votes

Genre: Action, War

Country: United States of America

Duration: 133 min.

Audience: R

Story: U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle takes his sole mission—protect his comrades—to heart and becomes one of the most lethal snipers in American history. His pinpoint accuracy not only saves countless lives but also makes him a prime target of insurgents. Despite grave danger and his struggle to be a good husband and father to his family back in the States, Kyle serves four tours of duty in Iraq. However, when he finally returns home, he finds that he cannot leave the war behind.

Style: suspenseful, tense

Plot: sniper, based on novel or book, affectation, grave, biography, based on true story, u.s. navy seal, iraq war, ...

Place: iraq

The New Look (2024) TV Show

7.4 84 votes

Genre: Drama, War

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 10

Audience: TV-MA

Story: The shocking story of how fashion icon Christian Dior and his contemporaries including Coco Chanel, Pierre Balmain, and Cristóbal Balenciaga navigated the horrors of World War Il and launched modern fashion.

Plot: paris, france, biography, fashion designer, based on true story, german occupation of france, candid, fashion industry

Time: world war ii

Conversations with a Killer: The John Wayne Gacy Tapes

Cast

John Wayne Gacy

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Sam Amirante

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Greg Bedoe

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Rafael Tovar

Conversations with a Killer: The John Wayne Gacy Tapes (2022) TV Show

7.4 220 votes

Genre: Documentary

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 3

Audience: TV-MA

Story: He dined with the powerful. He preyed on the vulnerable. Beneath a smiling exterior was the horrifying darkness of a sadistic serial killer.

Plot: illinois, clown, biography, serial killer, miniseries, true crime, missing person, criminal investigation, ...

Time: 1970s

Cast

Jack O'Connell

Alex Russell

Domhnall Gleeson

Garrett Hedlund

Unbroken (2014)

7.4 4.4K votes

Genre: Drama, War

Country: United States of America

Duration: 137 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A chronicle of the life of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who was taken prisoner by Japanese forces during World War II.

Plot: berlin, germany, based on novel or book, sports, prisoner of war, u.s. air force, biography, based on true story, ...

Time: world war ii

Place: japan

Cast

Noel Gallagher

Liam Gallagher

Paul Arthurs

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Paul Gallagher

Supersonic (2016)

7.4 242 votes

Genre: Documentary, History, Music

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 117 min.

Audience: R

Story: Supersonic charts the meteoric rise of Oasis from the council estates of Manchester to some of the biggest concerts of all time in just three short years. This palpable, raw and moving film shines a light on one of the most genre and generation-defining British bands that has ever existed and features candid new interviews with Noel and Liam Gallagher, their mother, and members of the band and road crew.

Plot: biography, pop music, music documentary, life and career, famous song, music duo

Cast

Diego Maradona

Pelu00e9

Dalma Maradona

Daniel Arcucci

Diego Maradona (2019)

7.4 436 votes

Genre: Documentary

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 130 min.

Audience: 12A

Story: Constructed from over 500 hours of never-before-seen footage, this documentary centers on the personal life and career of the controversial football player Diego Maradona who played for SSC Napoli and Argentina in the 1980s.

Plot: sports, biography, football (soccer), sports documentary, hand gottes

Time: 1980s

Cast

Heath Ledger

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Kate Ledger

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Kim Ledger

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Olivia Ledger

I Am Heath Ledger (2017)

7.4 229 votes

Genre: Documentary

Country: Canada

Duration: 90 min.

Story: The life and career of an actor, artist, and icon. His own journey through his own camera.

Plot: biography, admiring

Cast

Dominique Devenport

Jannik Schu00fcmann

David Korbmann

Du00e9siru00e9e Nosbusch

Sisi (2021) TV Show

7.4 117 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Germany, Austria

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 24

Story: "Sisi" follows the extraordinary life of Empress Elisabeth of Austria. Modern, honest, and authentic. Told from the perspective of her closest confidants, the series takes a new look at the empress' life and reveals a multi-layered woman.

Plot: emperor, biography, historical figure, based on true story, royalty, empress, period drama, austria-hungary, ...

Place: austria