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42 (2013)

7.2 2.0K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 128 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: In 1947, Jackie Robinson becomes the first Black man to play in Major League Baseball facing unabashed racism from the public, the press and other players.

Plot: sports, baseball, biography, racial segregation, based on true story, racial tension, racial prejudice, brooklyn dodgers

Time: 1940s

Cast

Val Kilmer

Jack Kilmer

Mercedes Kilmer

Joanne Whalley

Val (2021)

7.2 227 votes

Genre: Documentary

Country: United States of America

Duration: 109 min.

Audience: R

Story: For over 40 years Val Kilmer, one of Hollywood’s most mercurial and/or misunderstood actors has been documenting his own life and craft through film and video. He has amassed thousands of hours of footage, from 16mm home movies made with his brothers, to time spent in iconic roles for blockbuster movies like Top Gun, The Doors, Tombstone, and Batman Forever. This raw, wildly original and unflinching documentary reveals a life lived to extremes and a heart-filled, sometimes hilarious look at what it means to be an artist and a complex man.

Plot: biography, home movie footage, archive footage, struggling actor, family photo, amateur footage, actor, cancer victim, ...

Cast

Paul Newman

Pier Angeli

Everett Sloane

Eileen Heckart

Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)

7.2 184 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 113 min.

Audience: NR

Story: The story of boxer Rocky Graziano's rise from juvenile delinquent to world champ.

Plot: new york city, army, parent child relationship, abusive father, marriage, convertible, biography, based on memoir or autobiography, ...

Cast

Emily Blunt

Rupert Friend

Paul Bettany

Miranda Richardson

The Young Victoria (2009)

7.2 1.1K votes

Genre: Drama, History, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 105 min.

Audience: PG

Story: As the only legitimate heir of England's King William, teenage Victoria gets caught up in the political machinations of her own family. Victoria's mother wants her to sign a regency order, while her Belgian uncle schemes to arrange a marriage between the future monarch and Prince Albert, the man who will become the love of her life.

Plot: royal family, biography, royalty, period drama, british monarchy

Time: 19th century

Cast

Ranbir Kapoor

Paresh Rawal

Vicky Kaushal

Anushka Sharma

Sanju (2018)

7.2 219 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: India, United States of America

Duration: 161 min.

Audience: 15

Story: Sanju explores some of the most crucial chapters from movie star Sanjay Dutt’s dramatic and controversial real life. It gives a lowdown on his tryst with drugs and his trials and tribulations in the Arms Acts case and the 1993 Mumbai blasts.

Plot: artists' life, biography, sanjay dutt

Cast

Carey Mulligan

Helena Bonham Carter

Brendan Gleeson

Anne-Marie Duff

Suffragette (2015)

7.2 1.7K votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: France, United Kingdom

Duration: 106 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Based on true events about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State.

Plot: london, england, biography, feminist, period drama, woman director, suffragettes

Time: 1910s

Cast

August Diehl

Valerie Pachner

Maria Simon

Karin Neuhu00e4user

A Hidden Life (2019)

7.2 791 votes

Genre: Drama, History, War

Country: Germany, United States of America

Duration: 173 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter faces the threat of execution for refusing to fight for the Nazis during World War II.

Plot: husband wife relationship, nazi, biography, based on true story, conscientious objector, free will, catholic, saint, ...

Time: world war ii

Place: austria

Cast

Carey Mulligan

Zoe Kazan

Patricia Clarkson

Andre Braugher

She Said (2022)

7.2 723 votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: United States of America

Duration: 129 min.

Audience: R

Story: New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a generation — a story that helped launch the #MeToo movement and shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood.

Plot: based on novel or book, journalism, biography, sexual violence, sexual harassment, hollywood, female journalist, new york times, ...

Time: 2010s

Diomedes, el Cacique de La Junta (2015) TV Show

7.2 752 votes

Genre: Reality

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 114

Story: The life and work of vallenato musician Diomedes Díaz, better known as 'The Chief of the Junta'.

Plot: biography, telenovela, music

Trumbo (2015)

7.2 1.7K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 124 min.

Audience: R

Story: The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is blacklisted.

Plot: parent child relationship, movie business, screenwriter, biography, hollywood, writer, communism, blacklist, ...

Time: 1940s

Cast

Kirk Douglas

Anthony Quinn

James Donald

Pamela Brown

Lust for Life (1956)

7.2 207 votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: United States of America

Duration: 122 min.

Audience: NR

Story: An intense and imaginative artist, revered Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh possesses undeniable talent, but he is plagued by mental problems and frustrations with failure. Supported by his brother, Theo, the tormented Van Gogh eventually leaves Holland for France, where he meets volatile fellow painter Paul Gauguin and struggles to find greater inspiration.

Style: melancholy, philosophical, intense

Plot: suicide, paris, france, painting, artist, grave, ear, painter, ...

Time: 19th century

Cast

Luke Evans

Rebecca Hall

Bella Heathcote

Connie Britton

Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017)

7.2 936 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 108 min.

Audience: R

Story: The unconventional life of Dr. William Marston, the Harvard psychologist and inventor who helped invent the modern lie detector test and co-created Wonder Woman in 1941.

Plot: comic book, biography, polyamory, bdsm, censorship, freedom of expression

Cast

Taron Egerton

Hugh Jackman

Christopher Walken

Ania Sowinski

Eddie the Eagle (2016)

7.2 2.3K votes

Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 106 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: The feel-good story of Michael 'Eddie' Edwards, an unlikely but courageous British ski-jumper who never stopped believing in himself—even as an entire nation was counting him out. With the help of a rebellious and charismatic coach, Eddie takes on the establishment and wins the hearts of sports fans around the world by making an improbable and historic showing at the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics.

Plot: underdog, sports, olympic games, mountain, ski jump, biography, based on true story, snow skiing, ...

Time: 1980s

Place: britain

Cast

Timothu00e9e Chalamet

Joel Edgerton

Sean Harris

Tom Glynn-Carney

The King (2019)

7.2 3.6K votes

Genre: Drama, History, War

Country: Australia, United States of America

Duration: 140 min.

Audience: R

Story: England, 15th century. Hal, a capricious prince who lives among the populace far from court, is forced by circumstances to reluctantly accept the throne and become Henry V.

Plot: biography, based on true story, hundred years' war, historical fiction, british history, mentor protégé relationship, king of england, costume drama, ...

Time: 15th century

Cast

Jessica Chastain

Idris Elba

Kevin Costner

Michael Cera

Molly's Game (2017)

7.2 4.0K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 141 min.

Audience: R

Story: Molly Bloom, a young skier and former Olympic hopeful becomes a successful entrepreneur (and a target of an FBI investigation) when she establishes a high-stakes, international poker game.

Plot: new york city, court, poker, gambling, bratva (russian mafia), olympic games, fbi, biography, ...

Cast

Dev Patel

Jeremy Irons

Toby Jones

Devika Bhise

The Man Who Knew Infinity (2016)

7.2 1.6K votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 108 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Growing up poor in Madras, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar earns admittance to Cambridge University during WWI, where he becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories with the guidance of his professor, G.H. Hardy.

Plot: based on novel or book, mathematics, mathematician, mathematical theorem, biography, based on true story, historical figure, famous people, ...

Time: 1910s

Place: england

Cast

Michael Keaton

Nick Offerman

John Carroll Lynch

Linda Cardellini

The Founder (2016)

7.1 5.4K votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: Greece, United States of America

Duration: 115 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: The true story of how Ray Kroc, a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers’ speedy system of making the food and saw franchise potential. He maneuvered himself into a position to be able to pull the company from the brothers and create a billion-dollar empire.

Plot: greed, ambition, biography, family business, based on true story, salesman, corporate greed, fast food, ...

Time: 1950s

Cast

Jamie Dornan

Cillian Murphy

Charlotte Le Bon

Anna Geislerovu00e1

Anthropoid (2016)

7.1 1.2K votes

Genre: History, Thriller, War

Country: Czech Republic, France

Duration: 120 min.

Audience: R

Story: In December 1941, Czech soldiers Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš parachute into their occupied homeland to assassinate Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich.

Plot: assassination, nazi, prague, czech republic, biography, female protagonist, third reich (iii reich 1933-45), operation anthropoid, ...

Time: world war ii

Place: germany

Cast

Vicky Kaushal

Shaun Scott

Stephen Hogan

Amol Parashar

Sardar Udham (2021)

7.1 128 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, History

Country: India

Duration: 162 min.

Audience: R

Story: A young Sardar Udham Singh left deeply scarred by the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, escaped into the mountains of Afghanistan, reaching London in 1933-34. Carrying an unhealed wound for 21 years, the revolutionary assassinated Michael O’Dwyer on 13th March, 1940, the man at the helm of affairs in Punjab, April 1919 to avenge the lost lives of his beloved brethren.

Plot: biography, historical, punjab, india

Cast

Mel Gibson

Sean Penn

Natalie Dormer

Eddie Marsan

The Professor and the Madman (2019)

7.1 1.3K votes

Genre: Drama, History, Mystery

Country: France, Ireland

Duration: 124 min.

Audience: 15

Story: Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid 19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dr. William Minor.

Plot: based on novel or book, professor, lunatic asylum, biography, based on true story, mental patient, dictionary

Time: 19th century

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