biography

Schindler's List | United States of America
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IMDB
8.9 (1133457 votes)
Budget
22,000,000.00$
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.

Catch Me If You Can | United States of America| Canada
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IMDB
8.1 (737,762 votes)
Budget
52,000,000.00$
A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor, and legal prosecutor. An FBI agent makes it his mission to put him behind bars. But Frank not only eludes capture, he revels in the pursuit.

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6.2 (1803 votes)
Set in early 1980s California, the story follows the meteoric rise of the golden boy of the automotive industry, John DeLorean and his iconic DeLorean Motor Company, through the eyes of his friendship with charming, ex-con pilot turned FBI informant, Jim Hoffman. DeLorean turned to unsavory activities to save his financially troubled DeLorean Motor Company, and it was Hoffman who was all too willing to lure the car designer/engineer into a cocaine trafficking ring set up by the FBI.

Genre
IMDB
7.2 (1240 votes)
The true story of a British whistleblower who leaked information to the press about an illegal NSA spy operation designed to push the UN Security Council into sanctioning the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

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IMDB
7.6 (586 votes)
Pavarotti was the rare combination of personality, genius and celebrity and he used his prodigious gifts to spread the gospel of opera as entertainment – something to be enjoyed by all music lovers. Through the sheer force of his talent, Pavarotti commanded the great stages of the world, and captured the hearts of audiences everywhere. Featuring rare interviews with his family and colleagues, never-before-seen footage, this look at a remarkable man is directed by Academy Award winner Ron Howard.

Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile | United States of America
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IMDB
6.7 (17274 votes)
A chronicle of the crimes of Ted Bundy, from the perspective of his longtime girlfriend, Elizabeth Kloepfer, who refused to believe the truth about him for years.

The Professor and the Madman | France| United States of America| Ireland
Genre
IMDB
7.4 (4994 votes)
Budget
25,000,000.00$
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.

The Big Short | United States of America
Genre
IMDB
7.8 (331541 votes)
Budget
28,000,000.00$
When four outsiders see what the big banks, media and government regulators refuse to — the impending collapse of the global economy — they have an idea: The Big Short. Their bold investment leads them into the dark underbelly of the modern banking industry where they must question everyone and everything. Based on the true story and best-selling book by Michael Lewis.

Rocketman | United Kingdom
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An epic musical fantasy about the uncensored human story of Sir Elton John’s breakthrough years, starring Taron Egerton.

Operation Finale | United States of America
Genre
IMDB
6.5 (18823 votes)
Budget
24,000,000.00$
In 1960, a team of Israeli secret agents is deployed to find Adolf Eichmann, the infamous Nazi architect of the Holocaust, supposedly hidden in Argentina, and get him to Israel to be judged.

BlacKkKlansman | United States of America
Genre
IMDB
7.5 (115168 votes)
Budget
15,000,000.00$
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.

Genre
IMDB
6.9 (1,984 votes)
After marrying a successful Parisian writer Willy, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette is transplanted from rural France to the intellectual splendor of Paris. Soon after, Willy convinces Colette to ghostwrite for him. She pens a semi-autobiographical novel about a witty and brazen country girl named Claudine, sparking a bestseller. Colette's fight over creative ownership defies gender roles and drives her to overcome societal constraints, revolutionizing literature, fashion and sexual expression.

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