Category Archives: Biography
Radioactive
Release 2019
Genre Biography, Drama, Romance
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Director: Marjane Satrapi
Writers: Lauren Redniss, Jack Thorne
Stars: Rosamund Pike, Sam Riley, Cara Bossom, Aneurin Barnard, Simon Russell Beale
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6017756/
A story of the scientific and romantic passions of Marie Sklodowska-Curie (Polish scientist) and Pierre Curie, and the reverberation of their discoveries throughout the 20th century.
Resistance
Release 2020
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Director: Jonathan Jakubowicz
Writer: Jonathan Jakubowicz
Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Ed Harris, Edgar Ramírez, Clémence Poésy, Matthias Schweighöfer
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6914122/
The story of a group of Jewish Boy Scouts who worked with the French Resistance to save the lives of ten thousand orphans during World War II.
Seberg
Release 2019
Genre Biography, Drama, Thriller
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Director: Benedict Andrews
Writers: Joe Shrapnel, Anna Waterhouse
Stars: Kristen Stewart, Yvan Attal, Gabriel Sky, Jack O'Connell, Margaret Qualley
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1780967/
Inspired by real events in the life of French New Wave icon Jean Seberg. In the late 1960s, Hoover's FBI targeted her because of her political and romantic involvement with civil rights activist Hakim Jamal.
Yip Man 4
Release 2019
Genre Action, Biography, Drama
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Director: Wilson Yip
Writers: Tai-lee Chan (screenplay), Hiroshi Fukazawa
Stars: Donnie Yen, Scott Adkins, Danny Chan Kwok-Kwan
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2076298/
The Kung Fu master travels to the U.S. where his student has upset the local martial arts community by opening a Wing Chun school.
Mr. Jones
Release 2019
Genre Biography, Drama, Thriller
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Director: Agnieszka Holland
Writers: Andrea Chalupa
Stars: James Norton, Vanessa Kirby, Peter Sarsgaard
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6828390/
A Welsh journalist breaks the news in the western media of the famine in the Soviet Union in the early 1930s.
Dark Waters
Release 2019
Genre Biography, Drama, Thriller
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Director: Todd Haynes
Writers: Matthew Michael Carnahan, Mario Correa, Nathaniel Rich
Stars: Anne Hathaway, Mark Ruffalo, Tim Robbins
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9071322/
A corporate defense attorney takes on an environmental lawsuit against a chemical company that exposes a lengthy history of pollution.
Richard Jewell
Release 2019
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Director: Clint Eastwood
Writers: Marie Brenner, Billy Ray
Stars: Paul Walter Hauser, Sam Rockwell, Brandon Stanley
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3513548/
American security guard Richard Jewell (Paul Walter Hauser) saves thousands of lives from an exploding bomb at the 1996 Olympics, but is vilified by journalists and the press who falsely reported that he was a terrorist.
Bombshell
Release 2019
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Director: Jay Roach
Writers: Charles Randolph
Stars: Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6394270/
A group of women take on Fox News head Roger Ailes and the toxic atmosphere he presided over at the network.
Harriet
Release 2019
Genre Action, Biography, Drama
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Director: Kasi Lemmons
Writers: Gregory Allen Howard, Kasi Lemmons
Stars: Cynthia Erivo, Leslie Odom Jr., Joe Alwyn
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4648786/
Based on the thrilling and inspirational life of an iconic American freedom fighter, Harriet tells the extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's greatest heroes. Her courage, ingenuity, and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history.
Ford v Ferrari
Release 2019
Genre Action, Biography, Drama
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Director: James Mangold
Writers: Jez Butterworth, John-Henry Butterworth, Jason Keller
Stars: Matt Damon, Christian Bale, Jon Bernthal
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1950186/
American car designer Carroll Shelby and driver Ken Miles battle corporate interference, the laws of physics and their own personal demons to build a revolutionary race car for Ford and challenge Ferrari at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1966.