Country: United States, United Kingdom
Genre: Biography, Drama
Coming to Hollywood as a celebrated boy genius featuring a spectacular career arc in New York including his War of the Worlds radio hoax Orson Welles is stymied on the subject for his first film. After a dinner party at Hearst Castle during which he has a verbal altercation with Hearst Welles decides to do a movie about Hearst. It takes him some time to convince co-writer Herman Mankiewicz...
Country: United Kingdom, France, South Africa
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History, News
Robert Mugabe... what happened? charts the Shakespearean rise and fall of the man who led a very successful African country and then ruined it. Mugabe was damned as a terrorist then knighted by Queen Elizabeth and is still in power more than 30 years later. The film explores what happened through interviews with some of his closest comrades. It assembles a unique collection of southern...
Country: Japan
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. Hes sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun Japans most powerful clan leader. Hes also challenged to fight by the supremely confident and skillful Sasaki Kojiro. Takezo agrees to fight Kojiro in a years time but rejects Shoguns patronage choosing instead to live on the edge of a village raising vegetables. Hes followed...
Country: United States
Genre: Biography, Drama
Based on true events. On the edges of Las Vegas 17-year-old Andrews life is spiraling out of control. Unable to cope with the loss of his father Andrews descent into drugs and violence is gaining momentum and the once promising young man is now headed for self-destruction. Andrews mother helpless to control her son and fighting an addiction of her own refuses to watch idly as her only...
Country: United States, Italy
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Serpico is a cop in the 1960s-early 1970s. Unlike all his colleagues he refuses a share of the money that the cops routinely extort from local criminals. Nobody wants to work with Serpico and hes in constant danger of being placed in life threatening positions by his partners. Nothing seems to get done even when he goes to the highest of authorities. Despite the dangers he finds himself in...
Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
CS Lewis is the author of the Narnia books - The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe. Known as Jack he teaches at an Oxford College during the 1930s. An American fan Joy Gresham arrives to meet him for tea in Oxford. It is the beginning of a love affair. Tragically Joy becomes terminally unwell and their lives become...
Country: Italy
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
A drama based on a memoir about growing up as a member of the Urka community in the small republic of...
Country: Germany
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller, War
The Final Days is the true story of Germanys most famous anti-Nazi heroine brought to life. Sophie Scholl is the fearless activist of the underground student resistance group The White Rose. Using historical records of her incarceration the film re-creates the last six days of Sophie Scholls life: a journey from arrest to interrogation trial and sentence in 1943 Munich. Unwavering in her...
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