based on true story

The American | New Zealand| Poland
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IMDB
6.9 (466 votes)
American ballet dancer Joy Womack is accepted into Moscow's infamously tough Bolshoi Ballet Academy, with the dream of becoming a great ballerina.

National Theatre Live: The Motive and the Cue | United Kingdom
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IMDB
8.6 (93 votes)
In 1964, Richard Burton, newly married to Elizabeth Taylor, is to play the title role in an experimental new Broadway production of Hamlet under Sir John Gielgud’s exacting direction. But as rehearsals progress, two ages of theatre collide and the collaboration between actor and director soon threatens to unravel.

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IMDB
7.9 (3593 votes)
Budget
50,000,000.00$
Italian immigrant Francesca Cabrini arrives in 1889 New York City and is greeted by disease, crime, and impoverished children. Cabrini sets off on a daring mission to convince the hostile mayor to secure housing and healthcare for society's most vulnerable. With broken English and poor health, Cabrini uses her entrepreneurial mind to build an empire of hope unlike anything the world had ever seen.

Ordinary Angels | United States of America
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A hairdresser single-handedly rallies an entire community to help a widowed father save the life of his critically ill young daughter.

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Budget
900,000.00$
Ilir Luma, a martial arts master specialized in the Pelasgian art of "Mundije", escaped the communist regime, when he was only 14 years old. He'd witnessed the hanging of a poet in the city of Kukes, Albania. In Germany, at a Taekwondo school, he meets Ana, who became his student and his girlfriend. Ilir promised to be there for her, whenever she needs him. Thirty years later, Ana is kidnapped and sent to Mexico. Ilir risks his life to rescue his kidnapped girlfriend, and battles the most dangerous fighters in the world.

La sociedad de la nieve | Spain
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IMDB
7.9 (967 votes)
On October 13, 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, chartered to take a rugby team to Chile, crashes into a glacier in the heart of the Andes.

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IMDB
6.7 (2075 votes)
Budget
95,000,000.00$
A biopic of automotive mogul Enzo Ferrari, whose family redefined the idea of the high-powered Italian sports car and practically spawned the concept of Formula One racing.

리바운드 | Korea
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IMDB
6.8 (220 votes)
Joong-Ang High School was once renowned for its high ranked basketball team, but as the years pass and victories grow fewer, the school's social worker Kang Yang-hyun who was a former minor league baseball player, becomes the head coach. Left over talent refuses to play under an inexperienced coach, leaving Coach Kang to pull together a ragtag team of sports misfits. The team is pushed to their limits, but one final obstacle threatens to destroy what little hope was left, until six members agree to return for the love of the game and take on the KBA National Tournament. With only six players on their roster, they begin knocking on victory's door, following Coach Kang's motto: "There is no such thing as missed shots, there are only rebounds!" The miracle journey of Busan Joong-Ang High begins.

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Dr. Ming Wang is not simply an eye surgeon: he is a beacon of empathy for humankind. Based on his incredible true story, Sight offers glimpses of hope at times when it feels the hardest to find.

भगवान भरोसे | India
Genre
IMDB
7.3 (301 votes)
Budget
450,000.00$
A story about two young, impressionable kids whose ideas about faith are constantly questioned and changed as their little world expands and takes into its fold, their country's fast-changing socio-political landscape.

Brave the Dark | United States of America
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IMDB
8.3 (7 votes)
A drama teacher tries to help one of his students, while dealing with his own issues.

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IMDB
8 (93 votes)
A lawyer helps a funeral home owner save his family business from a corporate behemoth. In a move to bring resonance to a dry case, the lawyer digs up a complex web of race, power, and oppression that forces everyone to examine prejudices.

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