Type: Movies
Genre: Biography
1153 content found
The True Cost 2015

This is a story about clothing. It's about the clothes we wear, the people who make them, and the impact the industry is having on our world. The price of clothing has been decreasing for decades, while the human and environmental costs have grown dramatically. The True Cost is a groundbreaking documentary film that pulls back the curtain on the untold story and asks us to consider, who really pays the price for our clothing?

Category: Biography, Documentary, Drama

Stars: Livia Giuggioli,Stella McCartney,Vandana Shiva,Lucy Siegle

7.7 IMDB Rating 4,647 Views
Williams 2017

Focusing on the career and family of its legendary founder Sir Frank Williams, the British sports documentary tells the extraordinary story of the Williams Formula 1 team, from its inception to the present day.

Category: Biography, Documentary, Sport

Stars: Emily Bevan, Pamela Cockerill, Jenny Funnell

7.7 IMDB Rating 3,564 Views
McKellen: Playing the Part 2017

Feature documentary on the life and work of Sir Ian McKellen.

Category: Biography, Documentary

Stars: Ian McKellen, Scott Chambers, Luke Evans

7.6 IMDB Rating 3,184 Views
The Imitation Game 2014

Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain's top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II.

Category: Biography, Drama, Thriller

Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch,Keira Knightley,Matthew Goode,Rory Kinnear

8.1 IMDB Rating 11,312 Views
Into the Wild 2007

Based on a true story. After graduating from Emory University, Christopher McCandless abandoned his possessions, gave his entire savings account to charity, and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters who shape his life.

Category: Adventure, Biography, Drama

Stars: Emile Hirsch,Marcia Gay Harden,William Hurt,Jena Malone

8.1 IMDB Rating 9,899 Views
The Fifth Estate 2013

The story begins as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and his colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Daniel Brühl) team up to become underground watchdogs of the privileged and powerful. On a shoestring, they create a platform that allows whistle-blowers to anonymously leak covert data, shining a light on the dark recesses of government secrets and corporate crimes. Soon, they are breaking more hard news than the world's most legendary media organizations combined. But when Assange and Berg gain access to the biggest trove of confidential intelligence documents in U.S. history, they battle each other and a defining question of our time: what are the costs of keeping secrets in a free society-and what are the costs of exposing them?

Category: Biography, Drama, Thriller

Stars: Peter Capaldi,David Thewlis,Anatole Taubman,Alexander Beyer

6.2 IMDB Rating 4,855 Views
Brexit: The Uncivil War 2019

Political strategist Dominic Cummings leads a popular but controversial campaign to convince British voters to leave the European Union from 2015 up until the present day.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Sarah Belcher, Malcolm Freeman

7.0 IMDB Rating 5,771 Views
A Prayer Before Dawn 2018

The true story of an English boxer incarcerated in one of Thailand's most notorious prisons as he fights in Muay Thai tournaments to earn his freedom.

Category: Action, Biography, Crime

Stars: Joe Cole, Vithaya Pansringarm, Panya Yimmumphai

7,1 IMDB Rating 10,689 Views
My Beautiful Broken Brain 2014

MY BEAUTIFUL BROKEN BRAIN is 34 year old Lotje Sodderland's personal voyage into the complexity, fragility and wonder of her own brain following a life changing hemorrhagic stroke. Regaining consciousness to an alien world - Lotje was thrown into a new existence of distorted reality where words held no meaning and where her sensory perception had changed beyond recognition. This a story of pioneering scientific research to see if her brain might recover - with outcomes that no one could have predicted. It is a film about hope, transformation and the limitless power of the human mind.

Category: Biography, Documentary

Stars: David Lynch, Sophie Robinson, Hente Sodderland

7.1 IMDB Rating 3,142 Views
Grace of Monaco 2014

The story of former Hollywood star Grace Kelly's crisis of marriage and identity, during a political dispute between Monaco's Prince Rainier III and France's Charles De Gaulle, and a looming French invasion of Monaco in the early 1960s.

Category: Biography, Drama, Romantic

Stars: Nicole Kidman,Tim Roth,Frank Langella,Paz Vega

5.7 IMDB Rating 5,199 Views
Brawler 2018

In 1975, a Bayonne, New Jersey underdog boxer gets a shot to fight the champ.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama

Stars: Zach McGowan, Amy Smart, Joe Pantoliano

5,670 Views
Unbroken: Path to Redemption 2018

When the war ended, his battle began. Based on Laura Hillenbrand's bestselling book, UNBROKEN: PATH TO REDEMPTION begins where Unbroken ends, sharing the next amazing chapter of Olympian and World War II hero Louis Zamperini's powerful true story of forgiveness, redemption, and amazing grace.

Category: Biography, Drama

Stars: Samuel Hunt, Merritt Patterson, Bobby Campo

5,6 IMDB Rating 5,570 Views
Margin Call 2011

A respected financial company is downsizing and one of the victims is the risk management division head, who was working on a major analysis just when he was let go. His protégé completes the study late into the night and then frantically calls his colleagues in about the company's financial disaster he has discovered. What follows is a long night of panicked double checking and double dealing as the senior management prepare to do whatever it takes to mitigate the debacle to come even as the handful of conscientious comrades find themselves dragged along into the unethical abyss.

Category: Biography, Drama, Thriller

Stars: Kevin Spacey,Paul Bettany,Jeremy Irons,Zachary Quinto

7.1 IMDB Rating 8,810 Views
Cesar Chavez 2014

Chronicling the birth of a modern American movement, Cesar Chavez tells the story of the famed civil rights leader and labor organizer torn between his duties as a husband and father and his commitment to securing a living wage for farm workers. Passionate but soft-spoken, Chavez embraced non-violence as he battled greed and prejudice in his struggle to bring dignity to people. Chavez inspired millions of Americans from all walks of life who never worked on a farm to fight for social justice. His triumphant journey is a remarkable testament to the power of one individual's ability to change the world.

Category: Biography, Drama

Stars: Kerry Adra,Maynor Alvarado,Yancey Arias,Wes Bentley

6.4 IMDB Rating 2,912 Views
The Odyssey 2016

Mycket inflytelserika och oförskräckt ambitiösa pionjär, innovatör, filmare, forskare och naturvårdare, Jacques-Yves Cousteaus vattenlevande äventyr täcker ungefär trettio år av en inarguably rik på prestationer liv.

Category: Biography

Stars: Lambert Wilson, Pierre Niney, Audrey Tautou

6.6 IMDB Rating 5,201 Views
Behind the Candelabra 2013

Scott Thorson, a young bisexual man raised in foster homes, is introduced to flamboyant entertainment giant Liberace and quickly finds himself in a romantic relationship with the legendary pianist. Swaddled in wealth and excess, Scott and Liberace have a long affair, one that eventually Scott begins to find suffocating. Kept away from the outside world by the flashily effeminate yet deeply closeted Liberace, and submitting to extreme makeovers and even plastic surgery at the behest of his lover, Scott eventually rebels. When Liberace finds himself a new lover, Scott is tossed on the street. He then seeks legal redress for what he feels he has lost. But throughout, the bond between the young man and the star never completely tears.

Category: Biography, Drama, Romantic

Stars: Matt Damon,Scott Bakula,Eric Zuckerman,Eddie Jemison

7.0 IMDB Rating 3,978 Views
Dovlatov 2018

DOVLATOV charts six days in the life of brilliant, ironic writer who saw far beyond the rigid limits of 70s Soviet Russia. Sergei Dovlatov fought preserve his own talent and decency with poet and writer Joseph Brodsky while watching his artist friends getting crushed by the iron-willed state machinery.

Category: Biography, Drama

Stars: Milan Maric, Danila Kozlovsky, Helena Sujecka

6,6 IMDB Rating 3,380 Views
The Normal Heart 2014

The story of the onset of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City in the early 1980s, taking an unflinching look at the nation's sexual politics as gay activists and their allies in the medical community fight to expose the truth about the burgeoning epidemic to a city and nation in denial.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Mark Ruffalo,Jonathan Groff,Frank De Julio,William DeMeritt

7.9 IMDB Rating 5,172 Views
Nanga Parbat 2010

Drama about the tragic Nanga Parbat expedition by the two Messner brothers in 1970, on which Reinhold Messners younger brother Günther died.

Category: Biography, Drama

Stars: Florian Stetter, Andreas Tobias, Karl Markovics

6.6 IMDB Rating 3,295 Views
My Dinner with Hervé 2018

A look at the life of French actor Hervé Villechaize, co-star of the hit '70s TV series "Fantasy Island", who took his own life in 1993 at the age of 50.

Category: Biography, Drama

Stars: Jamie Dornan, Peter Dinklage, Andy Garcia

7,9 IMDB Rating 3,709 Views