biography

Rocketman | United Kingdom
Genre
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.

Genre
IMDB
8.1 (301200 votes)
Budget
52,000,000.00$
Bohemian Rhapsody is a foot-stomping celebration of Queen, their music and their extraordinary lead singer Freddie Mercury. Freddie defied stereotypes and shattered convention to become one of the most beloved entertainers on the planet. The film traces the meteoric rise of the band through their iconic songs and revolutionary sound. Freddie manages to reunite with his bandmates just in time for Live Aid and he leads the band in one of the greatest performances in the history of rock music.

The Pursuit of Happyness | United States of America
Genre
IMDB
8.0 (425977 votes)
Budget
55,000,000.00$
A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional career.

Genre
IMDB
7.2 (43673 votes)
Wrongfully convicted for murder, Henri "Papillon" forms an unlikely relationship with fellow inmate and quirky convicted counterfeiter Louis Dega, in an attempt to escape from the notorious penal colony on Devil's Island.

Christopher Robin | United States of America
Genre
IMDB
7.7 (18,917 votes)
Budget
75,000,000.00$
An adult Christopher Robin, who is now focused on his new life, work, and family, suddenly meets his old friend Winnie the Pooh, who returns to his unforgotten childhood past to help him return to the Hundred Acre Wood and help find Pooh's lost friends.

The Duchess | France| Spain| United Kingdom| Italy
Genre
IMDB
6.9 (77482 votes)
Budget
17,759,769.00$
Set at the end of the eighteenth century, The Duchess is the story of the beautiful and, glamorous Georgiana Spencer, the most fascinating woman of the age. While her beauty and charisma made her name, her extravagant tastes and appetite for gambling and love made her infamous. Married young to the older, distant Duke of Devonshire, intimate of ministers and princes, Georgiana became a fashion icon, a doting mother, a shrewd political operator and darling of the common people. But at the core of her story is a desperate search for love. Cast: Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Charlotte Rampling u.c. Directed by Saul Dibb Script: Jeffrey Hatcher

Pianist, The | France| Germany| United Kingdom| Poland
Genre
IMDB
8.5 (842338 votes)
Budget
35,000,000.00$
The true story of Wladyslaw Szpilman who, in the 1930s, was known as the most accomplished piano player in all of Poland, if not Europe. Roman Polanski, in his turn, escaped from the Krakow ghetto before its liquidation and wandered about gaining refuge with a number of Catholic families. His mother died in Nazi concentration camp when Roman was eight. At the outbreak of the Second World War, however, Szpilman becomes subject to the anti-Jewish laws imposed by the conquering Germans. By the start of the 1940s, Szpilman has seen his world go from piano concert halls to the Jewish Ghetto of Warshaw and then must suffer the tragedy of his family deported to a death camp, while Szpilman is conscripted into a forced German Labor Compound. At last deciding to escape, Szpilman goes into hiding as a Jewish refugee where he is witness to the Warshaw Ghetto Uprising and the Warshaw City Revolt in 1945. When he escapes the ghetto, at first he is hidden in an appartment by Polish friends in the Resistance, after lives in the ruins of Warsaw. Real hero of the movie Wladyslaw Szpilman died at 88 in 2000.

Genre
IMDB
6.7 (83371 votes)
Budget
100,000,000.00$
Onetime Pony Express rider Frank T. Hopkins (Viggo Mortensen) experiences the adventure of a lifetime as he and his Mustang, Hidalgo, compete against the world`s finest Arabian stallions in the greatest endurance race ever run: the Ocean of Fire - 3,000 miles across the desert. For Frank, the Ocean of Fire becomes not only a matter of pride and honor, but a race for his very survival as he and his horse, Hidalgo, attempt the impossible.

Cinderella Man | United States of America
Genre
IMDB
8.0 (171548 votes)
Budget
88,000,000.00$
During the darkest years of the Great Depression, Braddock (Crowe) takes on various dead end jobs as a means to support his wife, Mae (Zellweger) and their children, but he never forgets his dream of boxing again. Then, due to a last minute cancellation, Braddock finds himself once again in the boxing ring, facing the second-ranked world contender, and to everyone's astonishment beats him in the 3rd round. Braddock continues on a string of successes, despite being pounds lighter than his opponents and suffering excessive damage to his hands. Nicknamed "Cinderella Man", he finally comes to face his toughest challenger yet, Max Baer (Bierko), the heavyweight champion of the world, renowned for killing two men in the ring. Looking for nothing more than to provide for his family, Braddock was a great man whose commitment to them spurred him on, ultimately elevating him to legend status. Casting: Russell Crowe, Renee Zellweger, Craig Bierko, Paul Giamatti, Paddy Considine. English with latvian and russian subtitles.

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