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Quills

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Director: Philip Kaufman

Duration: 124 min

Year: 2000

Actors: Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet, Joaquin Phoenix

The infamous writer The Marquis de Sade of 18th Century France is imprisoned for unmentionable activities at Charanton Insane Asylum. He manages to befriend the young Abbe de Coulmier who runs the asylum along with a beautiful laundress named Madeline. Things go terribly wrong when the Abbe finds out that the Marquis books are being secretly published. Emperor Napoleon contemplates sending...

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Prick Up Your Ears

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Stephen Frears

Duration: 111 min

Year: 1987

Actors: Gary Oldman, Alfred Molina, Vanessa Redgrave

This film is the story of the spectacular life and violent death of British playwright Joe Orton. In his teens Orton is befriended by the older more reserved Kenneth Halliwell and while the two begin a relationship its fairly obvious that its not all about sex. Orton loves the dangers of bath-houses and liaisons in public restrooms; Halliwell not as charming or attractive as Orton doesnt...

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Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman

Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama, History

Country: United States, United Kingdom

Director: Adrian Shergold

Duration: 90 min

Year: 2005

Actors: Timothy Spall, Juliet Stevenson, Eddie Marsan

Albert Pierrepont delivered groceries - and was a hangman. Following in his fathers footsteps he quickly became known for his efficiency and compassion rising to become the best in the land. From early 1933 until the end of his career in 1955 he executed 608 people including the Beasts of Belsen war criminals for which he earned the gratitude of a nation. But by the time he hanged...

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Nicky's Family

Genres: Documentary, Biography, Drama, History

Country: United States, United Kingdom, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Israel, Cambodia

Director: Matej Minac

Duration: 96 min

Year: 2011

Actors: Ben Abeles, Jirina Bohdalová, The Dalai Lama

Nicholas Winton an Englishman today 102 years old organized the rescue of 669 Czech and Slovak children just before the outbreak of World War II. Winton now 102 years old did not speak about these events with anyone for more than half a century. His exploits would have probably been forgotten if his wife fifty years later hadnt found a suitcase in the attic full of documents and...

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Isn't She Great

Genres: Biography, Comedy, Romance

Country: United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Japan

Director: Andrew Bergman

Duration: 95 min

Year: 2000

Actors: Bette Midler, Nathan Lane, Stockard Channing

An unsuccessful over-the-top actress becomes a successful over-the-top authoress in this biography of Jacqueline Susann the famed writer of The Valley Of The Dolls and other trashy novels. Facing a failing career Susann meets a successful promoter who becomes her husband. After several failures to place her in commercials and a TV quiz show he hits upon the idea for her to become a writer....

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Into The Storm

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, War

Country: United States, United Kingdom

Director: Thaddeus O'Sullivan

Duration: 100 min

Year: 2009

Actors: Brendan Gleeson, Clive Mantle, Adrian Scarborough

Winston Churchill is named Prime Minister on the very day the Nazis launch their invasion of the low countries and France. The immediate concern is the fate of the British Expeditionary Force now trapped with their back to the sea. The evacuation at Dunquerque saved most of them. Churchill formed a unified government with the Labour party and was steadfast in refusing to negotiate with the...

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If A Tree Falls: A Story Of The Earth Liberation Front

Genres: Documentary, Biography, Crime, Drama, ...

Country: United States, United Kingdom

Director: Marshall Curry, Sam Cullman

Duration: 85 min

Year: 2011

Actors: Daniel McGowan, Lisa McGowan, Tim Lewis

IF A TREE FALLS is a rare behind-the-curtain look at the Earth Liberation Front the radical environmental group that the FBI calls Americas number one domestic terrorist threat. With unprecedented access and a nuanced point of view the documentary tells the story of Daniel McGowan an ELF member who faced life in prison for two multi-million dollar arsons against Oregon timber companies. The...

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Hunger

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Country: United Kingdom, Ireland

Director: Steve McQueen

Duration: 96 min

Year: 2008

Actors: Stuart Graham, Laine Megaw, Brian Milligan

Hunger follows life in the Maze Prison Northern Ireland with an interpretation of the highly emotive events surrounding the 1981 IRA Hunger Strike led by Bobby Sands. With an epic eye for detail the film provides a timely exploration of what happens when body and mind are pushed to the uttermost...

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King David

Genres: Adventure, Biography, Drama, War

Country: United States, United Kingdom

Director: Bruce Beresford

Duration: 114 min

Year: 1985

Actors: Richard Gere, Edward Woodward, Alice Krige

This is a movie about the life of Israels king...

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Henry VIII

Genres: Biography, Drama, Romance

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Pete Travis

Duration: 193 min

Year: 2003

Actors: Ray Winstone, Joss Ackland, Sid Mitchell

Two-part TV series documenting the stormy 38-year reign of King Henry...

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Henry V

Genres: Action, Biography, Drama, History, ...

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Kenneth Branagh

Duration: 137 min

Year: 1989

Actors: Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jacobi, Simon Shepherd

King Henry V of England is insulted by the King of France. As a result he leads his army into battle against France. Along the way the young king must struggle with the sinking morale of his troops and his own inner doubts. The war culminates at the bloody Battle of...

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Hawking (2004)

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Philip Martin

Duration: 90 min

Year: 2004

Actors: Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Brandon, Tom Hodgkins

A drama documenting the life and work of the theoretical physicist Professor Stephen Hawking who despite being diagnosed with motor neurone disease at the age of 21 has galvanized the scientific world with his ground-breaking work on the nature of the universe. Starring Benedict...

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Goodbye Bafana

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Country: Germany, France, Belgium, South Africa, Italy, United Kingdom, Luxembourg

Director: Bille August

Duration: 118 min

Year: 2007

Actors: Joseph Fiennes, Dennis Haysbert, Diane Kruger

James Gregory once lived in a farm and had befriended a native youth Bafana and had even had a photograph taken with him. Years later now married to Gloria and father of three children Chris Brett and Natasha James has nothing but shame and regret as many South African Caucasians in the oppressive Apartheid-era ridiculed him leading him to hate Africans. He seeks to redeem himself by...

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Gods And Monsters

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United States, United Kingdom

Director: Bill Condon

Duration: 105 min

Year: 1998

Actors: Ian McKellen, Brendan Fraser, Lynn Redgrave

The story of James Whale the director of Frankenstein 1931 and Frankensteins Braut 1935 in the time period following the Korean War. Whale is homosexual and develops a friendship with his gardener an...

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Girl With A Pearl Earring

Genres: Biography, Drama, Romance

Country: United Kingdom, Luxembourg

Director: Peter Webber

Duration: 100 min

Year: 2003

Actors: Scarlett Johansson, Colin Firth, Tom Wilkinson

This film adapted from a work of fiction by author Tracy Chevalier tells a story about the events surrounding the creation of the painting Girl With a Pearl Earring by 17th century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer. Little is known about the girl in the painting it is speculated that she was a maid who lived in the house of the painter along with his family and other servants though there is no...

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My Left Foot (my Left Foot: The Story Of Christy Brown)

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United Kingdom, Ireland

Director: Jim Sheridan

Duration: 103 min

Year: 1989

Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker, Alison Whelan

Christy Brown is a spastic quadriplegic born to a large poor Irish family. His mother Mrs Brown recognizes the intelligence and humanity in the lad everyone else regards as a vegetable. Eventually Christy matures into a cantankerous writer who uses his only functional limb his left foot to write...

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My Boy Jack

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, War

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Brian Kirk

Duration: 93 min

Year: 2007

Actors: David Haig, Daniel Radcliffe, Kim Cattrall

English gentleman author Rudyard Kipling famous for the Jungle Book uses his considerable influence being on a War Office propaganda think tank to get his nearly 18 year-old son John Jack admitted for military service during World war I after he is repeatedly refused on account of his bad eyesight. He is enrolled in the Irish Guards: their patriotic dream but mother and sisters nightmare....

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Mrs Brown

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, Romance

Country: United States, United Kingdom, Ireland

Director: John Madden

Duration: 105 min

Year: 1997

Actors: Judi Dench, Billy Connolly, Geoffrey Palmer

Queen Victoria is deeply depressed after the death of her husband disappearing from public. Her servant Brown who adores her through caress and admiration brings her back to life but that relationship creates scandalous situation and is likely to lead to monarchy...

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Midnight Express

Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama

Country: United States, United Kingdom

Director: Alan Parker

Duration: 121 min

Year: 1978

Actors: Brad Davis, Irene Miracle, Bo Hopkins

On October 6 1970 while boarding an international flight out of Istanbul Airport American Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle 2 kilos of hashish out of the country the drugs strapped to his body. He is told that he will be released if he cooperates with the authorities in identifying the person who actually sold him the hash. Billys troubles really begin when after that assistance he...

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Micro Men

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Saul Metzstein

Duration: 84 min

Year: 2009

Actors: Alexander Armstrong, Martin Freeman, Edward Baker-Duly

In 1979 Clive Sinclair British inventor of the pocket calculator frustrated by the lack of home investment in his projectthe electric car also opposes former assistant Chris Currys belief that he can successfully market a micro-chip for a home computer. A parting of the ways sees Curry in partnership with the Austrian Hermann Hauser and using whizz kid Cambridge students set up his own...

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Michael Collins

Genres: Biography, Drama, Thriller, War

Country: United States, United Kingdom, Ireland

Director: Neil Jordan

Duration: 133 min

Year: 1996

Actors: Liam Neeson, Aidan Quinn, Julia Roberts

Neil Jordans depiction of the controversial life and death of Michael Collins the Lion of Ireland who led the IRA against British rule and founded the Irish Free State Eire in...

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Man On Wire - Der Drahtseilakt

Genres: Documentary, Biography

Country: United States, United Kingdom

Director: James Marsh

Duration: 94 min

Year: 2008

Actors: Philippe Petit, Jean François Heckel, Jean-Louis Blondeau

On August 7 1974 Philippe Petit a French wire walker juggler and street performer days shy of his 25th birthday spent 45 minutes walking dancing kneeling and lying on a wire he and friends strung between the rooftops of the Twin Towers. Uses contemporary interviews archival footage and recreations to tell the story of his previous walks between towers of Notre Dame and of the Sydney...

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Man On The Moon

Genres: Biography, Comedy, Drama

Country: United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Japan

Director: Milos Forman

Duration: 118 min

Year: 1999

Actors: Jim Carrey, Danny DeVito, Gerry Becker

Man on the Moon is a biographical movie on the late comedian Andy Kaufman. Kaufman along with his role on Taxi 1978 was famous for being the self-declared Intergender Wrestling Champion of the world. After beating women time and time again Jerry Lawler who plays himself in the movie a professional wrestler got tired of seeing all of this and decided to challenge Kaufman to a match. In...

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Made In Dagenham

Genres: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Nigel Cole

Duration: 113 min

Year: 2010

Actors: Sally Hawkins, Bob Hoskins, Andrea Riseborough

In 1968 the Ford auto factory in Dagenham was one of the largest single private employers in the UK. In addition to the thousands of male employees there are also 187 underpaid women machinists who primarily assemble the car seat upholstery in poor working conditions. Dissatisfied the women represented by the shop steward and Rita OGrady work with union rep Albert Passingham for a better...

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Machuca

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United Kingdom, Chile, Spain, France

Director: Andrés Wood

Duration: 121 min

Year: 2004

Actors: Matías Quer, Ariel Mateluna, Manuela Martelli

Santiago capital of Chile during the Marxist government of elected highly controversial president Salvador Allende. Father McEnroe supports his leftist views by introducing a program at the prestigious collegio Catholic prep school St. Patrick to allow free admission of some proletarian kids. One of them is Pedro Machuca slum-raised son of the cleaning lady in Gonzalo Infantes...

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Love Is The Devil: Study For A Portrait Of Francis Bacon

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United Kingdom, France, Japan

Director: John Maybury

Duration: 90 min

Year: 1998

Actors: Derek Jacobi, Daniel Craig, Tilda Swinton

In the 1960s British painter Francis Bacon 1909-1992 surprises a burglar and invites him to share his bed. The burglar a working class man named George Dyer 30 years Bacons junior accepts. Bacon finds Dyers amorality and innocence attractive introducing him to his Soho pals. In their sex life Dyer dominates Bacon is the masochist. Dyers bouts with depression his drinking and pill...

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Little Ashes

Genres: Biography, Drama, Romance

Country: United Kingdom, Spain

Director: Paul Morrison

Duration: 112 min

Year: 2008

Actors: Robert Pattinson, Javier Beltrán, Matthew McNulty

In 1922 Madrid is wavering on the edge of change as traditional values are challenged by the dangerous new influences of Jazz Freud and the avant-garde. Salvador Dali arrives at the university; 18 years old and determined to become a great artist. His bizarre blend of shyness and rampant exhibitionism attracts the attention of two of the universitys social elite - Federico Garcia Lorca and...

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Kon-tiki

Genres: Adventure, History

Country: United Kingdom, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Sweden

Director: Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg

Duration: 118 min

Year: 2012

Actors: Pål Sverre Hagen, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Gustaf Skarsgård

The Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl crossed the Pacific Ocean in a balsawood raft in 1947 together with five men to prove that South Americans back in pre-Columbian times could have crossed the ocean and settled on Polynesian islands. After financing the trips with loans and donations they set off on an epic 101-day-long trip across 8000 kilometers while the world was waiting for the result...

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Elizabeth - Das Goldene Königreich

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Country: United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany

Director: Shekhar Kapur

Duration: 114 min

Year: 2007

Actors: Cate Blanchett, Clive Owen, Geoffrey Rush

Two faiths two empires two rulers - colliding in 1588. Papist Spain wants to bring down the heretic Elizabeth. Philip is building an armada but needs a rationale to attack. With covert intrigue Spain sets a trap for the Queen and her principal secretary Walsingham using as a pawn Elizabeths cousin Mary Stuart whos under house arrest in the North. The trap springs and the armada sets...

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