Country: United States
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Seriocomic story based on the memoir by Beverly Donofrio the movie follows a young woman who finds her life radically altered by an event from her teen years. Born in 1950 Beverly grew up bright and ambitious in a working-class neighborhood in Connecticut; her father was a tough but good-hearted cop who listened to his daughters problems and her mother was a nervous woman eager to imagine the...
Country: United States
Genre: Biography
Good Girl Bad Girl tells the story of Rihanna and her triumphant journey from poverty and obscurity on the Caribbean island of Barbados to becoming a worldwide pop...
Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Rise of the Footsoldier follows the inexorable rise of Carlton Leach from one of the most feared generals of the football terraces to becoming a member of a notorious gang of criminals who rampaged their way through London and Essex in the late eighties and early nineties. It is three decades of his life following him from football hooliganism through to his burgeoning career as a bouncer his...
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...
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