The movie depicts the fictionalized story of the discovery of the New World by the Genoan explorer Christopher Columbus (Gérard Depardieu) as well as the effect this has on the indigenous people.
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The Masked Saint
HDThe Masked SaintA pastor and professional wrestler accepts a position at a struggling church in a small Michigan town and moonlights as a masked vigilante while evading the police and somehow reconcile his violent secret identity.
- DirectorWarren P. Sonoda
- GenresAction, Biography
- CastBrett Granstaff
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Red Dog
HDRed DogThe film is based on the legendary true story of the Red Dog, a nomadic red kelpie that won the hearts of hundreds of West Australian outback residents while roaming the Australian outback in search of his long lost master.
- DirectorKriv Stenders
- GenresBiography, Comedy
- CastJosh Lucas
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This Boy’s Life
HDThis Boy’s LifeBased on on the memoirs of writer and literature professor Tobias Wolff, the movie follows Toby (Leonardo DiCaprio), a rebellious 50s teenager, who plans an escape as his stepfather believes violence is the best way to discipline him.
- DirectorMichael Caton-Jones
- GenresBiography, Drama
- CastRobert De Niro
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Words and Music
HDWords and MusicWords and Music is the fictionalized story of the songwriting partnership of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart: from their first meeting, through lean years and their breakthrough, to their successes on Broadway, London, and Hollywood.
- DirectorNorman Taurog
- GenresBiography, Comedy
- CastMickey Rooney
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Kill Your Darlings
HDKill Your DarlingsA murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Lucien Carr and William Burroughs when they all are arrested after another student who falls deeply and madly in love with the impossibly cool Carr is found dead.
- DirectorJohn Krokidas
- GenresBiography, Drama
- CastDaniel Radcliffe
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I’m Not There
HDI’m Not ThereRuminations on the life of Bob Dylan, where six characters embody a different aspect of the musician’s life and work. In 1959 a guitar-strumming youth (Marcus Carl Franklin) rides the rails, calling himself ‘Guthrie.’ Then a man named Jack (Christian Bale) emerges in New York’s Greenwich Village, followed by ‘Robbie (Heath Ledger),’ Jude (Cate Blanchett) and […]
- DirectorTodd Haynes
- GenresBiography, Drama
- CastChristian Bale
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Party Monster
HDParty MonsterBased on a true story, the movie follows Michael Alig (Macaulay Culkin) who arrives on a Greyhound bus in New York City desperate to leave his boring Midwestern past behind. Soon his life is sent spiraling down when he brags on television about killing his drug dealer and roommate.
- DirectorFenton Bailey Randy Barbato
- GenresBiography, Crime
- CastMacaulay Culkin
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Sinatra Club
HDSinatra ClubIn 1972 an ambitious young mobster named John Gotti (Danny Nucci) plans to steal silver bullion using people of warring crime families. If they manage to pull it off, they will all be rich and the criminal underworld will be reunited; if they fail, they will most certainly wind up dead.
- DirectorJames Quattrochi
- GenresAction, Biography
- CastJason Gedrick
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Great Balls of Fire
HDGreat Balls of FireThe movie depicts the life and career of wildly controversial rock ‘n’ roll star Jerry Lee Lewis, a saintly sinner, a world-wise naïf, a skilled performer with zero sense of discipline, a loving husband who uses his wife for a punching bag.
- DirectorJim McBride
- GenresBiography, Drama
- CastDennis Quaid
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Silkwood
HDSilkwoodThis drama is based on the true story of Karen Silkwood (Meryl Streep), who works at a nuclear facility, who was purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing blatant worker safety violations at the plant.
- DirectorMike Nichols
- GenresBiography, Drama
- CastMeryl Streep
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Total Eclipse
HDTotal EclipseYouthful poet Paul Verlaine (David Thewlis) drinks absinthe and neglects his devoted wife, Mathilde (Romane Bohringer). When young, wild poet Arthur Rimbaud enters their lives, he alienates the couple even further by engaging in a fierce, forbidden romance with Paul.
- DirectorAgnieszka Holland
- GenresBiography, Drama
- CastLeonardo DiCaprio
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Who Is Harry Nilsson
HDWho Is Harry NilssonWho Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin’ About Him?) is a documentary about the life and work of the enigmatic folk rock singer-songwriter, Harry Nilsson, told by three dozen of Nilsson’s friends, colleagues and extended family.
- DirectorJohn Scheinfeld
- GenresBiography, Documentary
- CastGerry Beckley
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Gandhi
HDGandhiThis acclaimed biographical drama presents major events in the life of Mohandas Gandhi (Ben Kingsley), the beloved Indian leader who stood against British rule over his country. And the stubborn nature of Jinnah and his commitment towards Pakistan is portrayed.
- DirectorRichard Attenborough
- GenresBiography, Drama
- CastBen Kingsley
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Becoming Jane
HDBecoming JaneBecoming Jane is a biographical portrait of a pre-fame Jane Austen and her romance with a young Irishman, a charming but penniless apprentice lawyer who gives her the knowledge of the heart she needs for her future career as a novelist.
- DirectorJulian Jarrold
- GenresBiography, Drama
- CastAnne Hathaway