Genre: Biography
Year: 2014
69 content found
Effie Gray 2014

A look at the scandalous love triangle between Victorian art critic John Ruskin (Greg Wise), his teenage bride Euphemia "Effie" Gray (Dakota Fanning), and Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais (Tom Sturridge).

Category: Biography, Drama, romance, Romantic

Stars: Dakota Fanning, Greg Wise, Tom Sturridge

6.0 IMDB Rating 3,496 Views
The Good Lie 2014

A group of Sudanese refugees, given the chance to resettle in the U.S., arrive in Kansas City, Missouri, where their encounter with an employment agency counselor forever changes all of their lives.

Category: Biography, Drama

Stars: Reese Witherspoon, Arnold Oceng, Ger Duany

7.4 IMDB Rating 4,087 Views
Kill the Messenger 2014

Journalist Gary Webb, California 1996, started investigating CIA's role in the 1980s in getting crack cocaine to the black part of LA to get money and weapons to the Contra insurgents in Nicaragua.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Stars: Jeremy Renner, Robert Patrick, Jena Sims

6.9 IMDB Rating 5,220 Views
Desert Dancer 2014

Afshin Ghaffarian risks everything to start a dance company amid his home country of Iran's politically volatile climate and the nation's ban on dancing.

Category: Biography, Drama, Music

Stars: Nazanin Boniadi, Freida Pinto, Tom Cullen

6.2 IMDB Rating 3,021 Views
Get on Up 2014

A chronicle of James Brown's rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history.

Category: Biography, Drama, Music

Stars: Chadwick Boseman, Nelsan Ellis, Dan Aykroyd

6.9 IMDB Rating 5,107 Views
Rosewater 2014

Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari is detained by Iranian forces who brutally interrogate him under suspicion that he is a spy.

Category: Biography, Drama

Stars: Gael García Bernal, Kim Bodnia, Dimitri Leonidas

6.6 IMDB Rating 3,114 Views
Big Eyes 2014

A drama about the awakening of painter Margaret Keane, her phenomenal success in the 1950s, and the subsequent legal difficulties she had with her husband, who claimed credit for her works in the 1960s.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama

Stars: Amy Adams, Christoph Waltz, Danny Huston

7.0 IMDB Rating 5,556 Views
Houdini 2014

Follow the man behind the magic as he finds fame, engages in espionage, battles spiritualists and encounters the greatest names of the era, from U.S. presidents to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Grigori Rasputin.

Category: Biography, Drama

Stars: Adrien Brody, Kristen Connolly, Evan Jones

7.3 IMDB Rating 4,797 Views
From Caligari to Hitler: German Cinema in the Age of the Masses 2014

Focuses on the Weimar Republic (1918-1933) and its 'collective spirit' in cinema. The purpose of film as a cultural tool is examined. Based on celebrated sociologist Siegfried Kracauer's seminal book 'From Caligari to Hitler' (1947).

Category: Biography, Documentary, History

Stars: Rüdiger Suchsland, Hans Henrik Wöhler, Fritz Lang

7.3 IMDB Rating 416 Views
Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This 2014

With his trade-mark fez and bumbling stage persona involving clever conjuring tricks which appear to have gone wrong Tommy Cooper is one of Britain's most popular comedians, respected by his peers. However behind the public image ...

Category: Biography

Stars: David Threlfall, Helen McCrory, Amanda Redman

7.3 IMDB Rating 4,067 Views
Citizenfour 2014

A documentarian and a reporter travel to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden.

Category: Biography, Documentary

Stars: Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, William Binney

8.0 IMDB Rating 6,675 Views
The Last Executioner 2014

The story of Thailand's last prison executioner.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama

Stars: Vithaya Pansringarm, David Asavanond, Penpak Sirikul

6.4 IMDB Rating 4,296 Views
The Theory of Everything 2014

A look at the relationship between the famous physicist Stephen Hawking and his wife.

Category: Biography, Drama, romance, Romantic

Stars: Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Tom Prior

7.7 IMDB Rating 9,627 Views
Love & Mercy 2014

In the 60s, Beach Boys leader Brian Wilson struggles with emerging psychosis as he attempts to craft his avant-garde pop masterpiece. In the 80s, he's a broken, confused man under the 24-hour watch of shady therapist, Dr. Eugene Landy.

Category: Biography, Drama, Music

Stars: John Cusack, Paul Dano, Elizabeth Banks

7.4 IMDB Rating 4,740 Views
Memories of a World War II Hero: Captain Brown’s Story 2014

One of history's greatest test pilots, Capt. Eric "Winkle" Brown recounts his many adventures flying dangerous aircraft and setting aviation records.

Category: Biography

7.4 IMDB Rating 344 Views
The Gabby Douglas Story 2014

The story of the international gymnastics phenomenon who overcame overwhelming odds to become the first African American ever to be named Individual All-Around Champion in artistic gymnastics at the Olympic Games.

Category: Biography, Drama, Sport

Stars: Regina King, Imani Hakim, Sydney Mikayla

6.9 IMDB Rating 4,329 Views
American Sniper 2014

Navy S.E.A.L. sniper Chris Kyle's pinpoint accuracy saves countless lives on the battlefield and turns him into a legend. Back home with his family after four tours of duty, however, Chris finds that it is the war he can't leave behind.

Category: Action, Biography, Drama

Stars: Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Kyle Gallner

7.3 IMDB Rating 15,168 Views
Testament of Youth 2014

A British woman recalls coming of age during World War I - a story of young love, the futility of war, and how to make sense of the darkest times.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Alicia Vikander, Kit Harington, Taron Egerton

7.2 IMDB Rating 5,594 Views
Foxcatcher 2014

U.S. Olympic wrestling champions and brothers Mark Schultz and Dave Schultz join "Team Foxcatcher", led by eccentric multi-millionaire John du Pont, as they train for the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea, but John's self-destructive behavior threatens to consume them all.

Category: Biography, Drama, Sport

Stars: Steve Carell, Channing Tatum, Mark Ruffalo, Sienna Miller

7.0 IMDB Rating 3,415 Views
Pawn Sacrifice 2014

Set during the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer finds himself caught between two superpowers and his own struggles as he challenges the Soviet Empire.

Category: Biography, Drama, Sport

Stars: Tobey Maguire, Liev Schreiber, Peter Sarsgaard

7.0 IMDB Rating 5,434 Views