Type: Movies
Genre: Biography
1153 content found
Erin Brockovich 2000

Erin Brockovich-Ellis is an unemployed single mother, desperate to find a job, but is having no luck. This losing streak even extends to a failed lawsuit against a doctor in a car accident she was in. With no alternative, she successfully browbeats her lawyer to give her a job in compensation for the loss. While no one takes her seriously, with her trashy clothes and earthy manners, that soon changes when she begins to investigate a suspicious real estate case involving the Pacific Gas & Electric Company. What she discovers is that the company is trying quietly to buy land that was contaminated by hexavalent chromium, a deadly toxic waste that the company is improperly and illegally dumping and, in turn, poisoning the residents in the area. As she digs deeper, Erin finds herself leading point in a series of events that would involve her law firm in one of the biggest class action lawsuits in American history against a multi-billion dollar corporation.

Category: Biography, Drama

Stars: Julia Roberts, David Brisbin, Dawn Didawick, Albert Finney

7.3 IMDB Rating 7,133 Views
Tombstone 1993

A successful lawman's plans to retire anonymously in Tombstone, Arizona are disrupted by the kind of outlaws he was famous for eliminating.

Category: Action, Biography, Drama

Stars: Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Sam Elliott, Bill Paxton

7.8 IMDB Rating 4,675 Views
Cunningham 2019

The iconic Merce Cunningham and the last generation of his dance company is stunningly profiled in Alla Kovgan's 3D documentary, through recreations of his landmark works and archival footage of Cunningham, John Cage, and Robert Rauschenberg.

Category: Biography, Documentary, Music

Stars: Carolyn Brown, John Cage, Ashley Chen, Brandon Collwes

6.4 IMDB Rating 2,257 Views
Dark Waters 2019

A corporate defense attorney takes on an environmental lawsuit against a chemical company that exposes a lengthy history of pollution.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Anne Hathaway, Mark Ruffalo, Tim Robbins, Bill Pullman

7.6 IMDB Rating 6,988 Views
Conviction 2010

Betty Anne Waters (Swank) is a high school dropout who spent nearly two decades working as a single mother while putting herself through law school, tirelessly trying to beat the system and overturn her brother's (Rockwell) unjust murder conviction.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama

Stars: Hilary Swank, Sam Rockwell, Thomas D. Mahard, Owen Campbell

7.2 IMDB Rating 5,742 Views
My One and Only 2019

An unusual road trip movie about a mother driving her two sons from New York to Pittsburgh to St. Louis and eventually Hollywood in her quest to find a man to take care of them all.

Category: Adventure, Biography, Comedy

Stars: Pascale Hutton, Sam Page, Stephen Huszar, Rhonda Dent

6.6 IMDB Rating 3,662 Views
Behaving Badly 2014

Teenager Rick Stevens has a crush on Nina Pennington. They form a friendship and embark on a rock n' roll journey together while Nina deals with her overbearing boyfriend, Kevin.

Category: Biography, Comedy

Stars: Nat Wolff, Selena Gomez, Mary-Louise Parker, Elisabeth Shue

4.5 IMDB Rating 6,419 Views
Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band 2019

A confessional, cautionary, and occasionally humorous tale of Robbie Robertson's young life and the creation of one of the most enduring groups in the history of popular music, The Band.

Category: Biography, Documentary, History

Stars: Martin Scorsese, Marilyn Monroe, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen

7.4 IMDB Rating 3,096 Views
Through My Father’s Eyes 2019

The extraordinary story of MMA/UFC super star Ronda Rousey.

Category: Biography, Documentary, Family

Stars: Ronda Rousey, Gary Stretch, Pete Antico, Gene LeBell

6.1 IMDB Rating 3,013 Views
The Professor and the Madman 2019

Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid 19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dr. William Minor.

Category: Biography, Drama, Mystery

Stars: Natalie Dormer, Mel Gibson, Jeremy Irvine

7.6 IMDB Rating 10,945 Views
Capone 2020

The 47-year old Al Capone, after 10 years in prison, starts suffering from dementia and comes to be haunted by his violent past.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama

Stars: Tom Hardy, Linda Cardellini, Matt Dillon, Kyle MacLachlan

5,5 IMDB Rating 6,184 Views
Stockholm 2018

Based on the absurd but true 1973 bank heist and hostage crisis in Stockholm that was documented in the New Yorker as the origins of the 'Stockholm Syndrome'.

Category: Biography, Comedy, Crime

Stars: Ethan Hawke, Noomi Rapace, Mark Strong, Christopher Heyerdahl

6.1 IMDB Rating 3,613 Views
Black Mass 2015

The true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama

Stars: Johnny Depp, Joel Edgerton, Benedict Cumberbatch, Dakota Johnson

6.9 IMDB Rating 9,137 Views
Amadeus 1984

Antonio Salieri believes that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's music is divine and miraculous. He wishes he was himself as good a musician as Mozart so that he can praise the Lord through composing. He began his career as a devout man who believes his success and talent as a composer are God's rewards for his piety. He's also content as the respected, financially well-off, court composer of Austrian Emperor Joseph II. But he's shocked to learn that Mozart is such a vulgar creature, and can't understand why God favored Mozart to be his instrument. Salieri's envy has made him an enemy of God whose greatness was evident in Mozart. He is ready to take revenge against God and Mozart for his own musical mediocrity.

Category: Biography, Drama, Music

Stars: F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge, Roy Dotrice

8.3 IMDB Rating 8,459 Views
127 Hours 2010

127 Hours is the true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston's remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated canyon in Utah. Over the next five days Ralston examines his life and survives the elements to finally discover he has the courage and the wherewithal to extricate himself by any means necessary, scale a 65 foot wall and hike over eight miles before he can be rescued. Throughout his journey, Ralston recalls friends, lovers, family, and the two hikers he met before his accident. Will they be the last two people he ever had the chance to meet?

Category: Adventure, Biography, Drama

Stars: James Franco, Kate Mara, Amber Tamblyn, Sean Bott

7.6 IMDB Rating 8,849 Views
I Am Ali 2014

Unprecedented access to Muhammad Ali's personal archive of "audio journals" as well as interviews and testimonials from his inner circle of family and friends are used to tell the legend's life story.

Category: Biography, Documentary, Sport

Stars: Muhammad Ali Jnr, Hana Ali, Maryum Ali, Muhammad Ali

7.2 IMDB Rating 4,476 Views
Beware the Slenderman 2016

Tells the story of two 12-year old girls, who attempted to murder one of their friends in an attempt to appease Slenderman, a fictional monster from a horror website.

Category: Biography, Crime, Documentary

Stars: Morgan Geyser, Anissa Weier, Angie Geyser, Bill Weier

6.2 IMDB Rating 8,330 Views
Circus of Books 2019

In 1976, Karen and Barry Mason had fallen on hard times and were looking for a way to support their young family when they answered an ad in the Los Angeles Times. Larry Flynt was seeking distributors for Hustler Magazine. What was expected to be a brief sideline led to their becoming fully immersed in the LGBT community as they took over a local store, Circus of Books. A decade later, they had become the biggest distributors of gay porn in the US. The film focuses on the double life they led, trying to maintain the balance of being parents at a time when LGBT culture was not yet accepted. Their many challenges included facing jail time for a federal obscenity prosecution and enabling their store to be a place of refuge at the height of the AIDS crisis. Circus of Books offers a rare glimpse into an untold chapter of queer history, and it is told through the lense of the owners' own daughter, Rachel Mason, an artist, filmmaker and musician.

Category: Biography, Documentary

Stars: Larry Flynt, Rachel Mason, Jeff Stryker, Alaska Thunderfuck

7.6 IMDB Rating 2,589 Views
The Last King of Scotland 2006

In the early 1970s, Nicholas Garrigan, a young semi-idealistic Scottish doctor, comes to Uganda to assist in a rural hospital. Once there, he soon meets up with the new President, Idi Amin, who promises a golden age for the African nation. Garrigan hits it off immediately with the rabid Scotland fan, who soon offers him a senior position in the national health department and becomes one of Amin's closest advisers. However as the years pass, Garrigan cannot help but notice Amin's increasingly erratic behavior that grows beyond a legitimate fear of assassination into a murderous insanity that is driving Uganda into bloody ruin. Realizing his dire situation with the lunatic leader unwilling to let him go home, Garrigan must make some crucial decisions that could mean his death if the despot finds out.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Forest Whitaker, James McAvoy, Kerry Washington, Gillian Anderson

7.7 IMDB Rating 6,983 Views
Müslüm 2018

A biopic about turkish vocal artist Müslüm Gürses, drama, childhood, his life.

Category: Biography, Drama, Music

Stars: Timuçin Esen, Zerrin Tekindor, Ayça Bingöl, Erkan Can

8.0 IMDB Rating 2,906 Views