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Cast

Hugh Jackman

Kate Hudson

Michael Imperioli

Fisher Stevens

Song Sung Blue (2025)

7.4 269 votes

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 133 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Based on a true story, two down-on-their-luck musicians form a joyous Neil Diamond tribute band, proving it's never too late to find love and follow your dreams.

Plot: wisconsin, based on true story, based on movie, milwaukee wisconsin, tribute band, sentimental, biographical drama, based on documentary

Cast

Nawazuddin Siddiqui

Rasika Dugal

Tahir Raj Bhasin

Feryna Wazheir

Manto (2018)

7.4 52 votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: India

Duration: 112 min.

Story: In Bombay's seedy-shiny film world, Manto and his stories are widely read and accepted. But as sectarian violence engulfs the nation, Manto makes the difficult choice of leaving his beloved Bombay. In Lahore, he finds himself bereft of friends and unable to find takers for his writings.

Plot: biography

Frida (2002)

7.4 2.2K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 123 min.

Audience: R

Story: A biography of artist Frida Kahlo, who channeled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous marriage into her work.

Plot: love of one's life, bisexuality, painter, surrealism, biography, disabled, lgbt, female artist, ...

Place: mexico

The Fighter (2010)

7.4 4.8K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 116 min.

Audience: R

Story: Boxer "Irish" Micky Ward's unlikely road to the world light welterweight title. His Rocky-like rise was shepherded by half-brother Dicky, a boxer-turned-trainer who rebounded in life after nearly being KO'd by drugs and crime.

Plot: sports, irish-american, boxer, biography, family business, dysfunctional family, family conflict, hometown, ...

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Sareum Srey Moch

Phoeung Kompheak

Sveng Socheata

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Mun Kimhak

First They Killed My Father (2017)

7.4 715 votes

Genre: Drama, History, War

Country: United States of America

Duration: 136 min.

Audience: R

Story: A 5-year-old girl embarks on a harrowing quest for survival amid the sudden rise and terrifying reign of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.

Plot: mass murder, biography, genocide, prison camp, forced labor, history

Time: 1970s

Place: cambodia

Cast

Jesse Eisenberg

Andrew Garfield

Armie Hammer

Justin Timberlake

The Social Network (2010)

7.4 13.3K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 121 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: In 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programmer Mark Zuckerberg begins work on a new concept that eventually turns into the global social network known as Facebook. Six years later, Mark is one of the youngest billionaires ever, but his unprecedented success leads to both personal and legal complications when he ends up on the receiving end of two lawsuits, one involving his former friend.

Plot: hacker, based on novel or book, boston, massachusetts, ex-girlfriend, biography, based on true story, historical fiction, ...

Cast

Steve Carell

Christian Bale

Ryan Gosling

Brad Pitt

The Big Short (2015)

7.4 9.9K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 131 min.

Audience: R

Story: The men who made millions from a global economic meltdown.

Plot: based on novel or book, bank, fraud, wall street, biography, based on true story, finances, animated scene, ...

Cast

Johnny Depp

Penu00e9lope Cruz

Franka Potente

Rachel Griffiths

Blow (2001)

7.4 4.6K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 124 min.

Audience: R

Story: The story of how George Jung, together with the Medellín Cartel led by Pablo Escobar, established the billion-dollar cocaine empire in the United States in the 1970s.

Style: suspenseful, intense

Plot: drug smuggling, war on drugs, drug trafficking, drug addiction, biography, based on true story, rise and fall, docudrama, ...

Time: 1970s

Cast

Gary Oldman

Stephen Dillane

Lily James

Ronald Pickup

Darkest Hour (2017)

7.4 5.5K votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 125 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: In May 1940, the fate of World War II hangs on Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler or fight on knowing that it could mean the end of the British Empire.

Plot: biography, based on true story, london underground, british politics, british prime minister, british history, autobiographical, dunkirk, ...

Time: world war ii, 1940s

Cast

Kevin de Paula

Leonardo Lima Carvalho

Seu Jorge

Milton Gonu00e7alves

Pelé: Birth of a Legend (2016)

7.3 1.2K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 107 min.

Audience: PG

Story: The life story of Brazilian football legend, Pele.

Plot: sports, biography, football (soccer), inspirational

Place: brazil

Cast

Emma Thompson

Tom Hanks

Colin Farrell

Paul Giamatti

Saving Mr. Banks (2013)

7.3 3.5K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, History

Country: Australia, United Kingdom

Duration: 126 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Author P.L. Travers looks back on her childhood while reluctantly meeting with Walt Disney, who seeks to adapt her Mary Poppins books for the big screen.

Plot: biography, based on true story, death of father, alcoholism, author, writer, aftercreditsstinger, disneyland, ...

Time: 1960s

Cast

Terry Donahue

Pat Henschel

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Diana Bolan

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Kim Donahue

A Secret Love (2020)

7.3 130 votes

Genre: Documentary

Country: United States of America

Duration: 82 min.

Story: Amid shifting times, two women kept their decades-long love a secret. But coming out later in life comes with its own set of challenges.

Plot: coming out, interview, biography, lesbian relationship, female homosexuality, old photograph, old footage, social & cultural documentary, ...

Cast

Charlie Hunnam

Rami Malek

Christopher Fairbank

Eve Hewson

Papillon (2017)

7.3 2.2K votes

Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama

Country: Czech Republic, Malta

Duration: 134 min.

Audience: R

Story: Henri “Papillon” Charrière, a safecracker from the Parisian underworld, is wrongfully convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, where he forges a strong friendship with Louis Dega, a counterfeiter who needs his protection.

Style: shocking, whimsical

Plot: prisoner, based on novel or book, biography, based on true story, guillotine, remake, solitary confinement, wrongful conviction, ...

Place: south america

Cast

Fru00e9du00e9ric Bourdin

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Adam O'Brian

Anna Ruben

Cathy Dresbach

The Imposter (2012)

7.3 801 votes

Genre: Crime, Documentary, Mystery

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 99 min.

Audience: R

Story: In 1994, a 13-year-old boy disappeared without a trace from his home in San Antonio, Texas. Three-and-a-half years later, he is found alive in a village in southern Spain with a horrifying story of kidnap and torture. His family is overjoyed to bring him home. But all is not quite as it seems.

Plot: kidnapping, investigation, fake identity, biography, disappearance, investigator, stolen identity, missing child, ...

Cast

Whitney Houston

Bobby Brown

Cissy Houston

Clive Davis

Whitney (2018)

7.3 208 votes

Genre: Documentary, Music

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 120 min.

Audience: R

Story: Examines the life and career of singer Whitney Houston. Features never-before-seen archival footage, exclusive recordings, rare performances and interviews with the people who knew her best.

Plot: biography, celebrity, singer, fame

The Butler (2013)

7.3 3.1K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 132 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: 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 of such efficiency and discreteness in the 1950s that he becomes a butler in the White House itself. There, Cecil would serve numerous US Presidents over the decades as a passive witness of history with the American Civil Rights Movement gaining momentum even as his family has troubles of its own. As his wife, Gloria, struggles with alcoholism and his defiant eldest son, Louis, strives for a just world, Cecil must decide whether he should take action in his own way.

Plot: usa president, the white house, butler, slavery, john f. kennedy, black panther party, racial segregation, martin luther king, ...

Time: 1970s, 1980s, 1950s, ...

Cast

Jessica Chastain

Daniel Bru00fchl

Johan Heldenbergh

Michael McElhatton

The Zookeeper's Wife (2017)

7.3 1.6K votes

Genre: Drama, History, War

Country: Czech Republic, United Kingdom

Duration: 126 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: The account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion.

Plot: nazi, holocaust (shoah), biography, based on true story, zookeeper, biting

Time: world war ii

Leonardo (2021) TV Show

7.3 172 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: France, Italy

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 8

Story: A fresh look at the life and legacy of the iconic artist Leonardo da Vinci, positing that he was a gay outsider who used his work as a way of hiding his true self. Each episode will examine one of da Vinci’s artworks for hidden clues about a tortured artist struggling for perfection.

Plot: leonardo da vinci, biography, murder

Time: renaissance, 15th century

Cast

Hrithik Roshan

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

Sonu Sood

Kulbhushan Kharbanda

Jodhaa Akbar (2008)

7.3 285 votes

Genre: Drama, History, Romance

Country: India

Duration: 213 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A sixteenth century love story about a marriage of alliance that gave birth to true love between a Mughal emperor and a Rajput princess.

Plot: husband wife relationship, marriage crisis, emperor, hindu, biography, sword fight, period drama, domineering mother, ...

Time: 16th century

Cast

Taron Egerton

Jamie Bell

Richard Madden

Bryce Dallas Howard

Rocketman (2019)

7.3 5.0K votes

Genre: Drama, Music

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 121 min.

Audience: R

Story: The story of Elton John's life, from his years as a prodigy at the Royal Academy of Music through his influential and enduring musical partnership with Bernie Taupin.

Plot: london, england, drug abuse, pop star, musical, biography, based on true story, alcoholism, ...

Time: 1970s, 1960s

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