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Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?

Animation, Biography, Documentary

2013year 88min 7.1IMDB

Michel Gondry

A series of interviews featuring linguist, philosopher and activist Noam Chomsky done in hand-drawn animation.
Fighter in the Wind

Action, Biography, Drama, History, War

2004year 120min 6.9IMDB

Dong-kun Yang, Min-Young Park

A young Korean man arrives in Japan near the end of World War II with hopes of being a fighter pilot, but ends up on the streets battling racism, organized crime, occupying American servicemen, and...
Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski

Biography, Documentary

2018year 115min 7.9IMDB

George DiCaprio

In old Betamax footage, the Polish-American artist Stanislav Szukalski (1893-1987) speaks animatedly about his life and work. Art aficionado Glenn Bray filmed his elderly friend in the last years...
Pasolini

Biography, Drama

2014year 84min 5.9IMDB

Willem Dafoe, Riccardo Scamarcio, Maria de Medeiros, Andrea Bosca

A kaleidoscopic look at the last day of Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini in 1975.
Unconditional

Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery

2012year 92min 7.0IMDB

Lynn Collins, Bruce McGill, Michael Ealy, Diego Klattenhoff

A woman's world is shattered after her sweetheart Billy is murdered in a random act of violence. After this tragic event she starts to dig around to find the killer of her husband. On her quest she...
The Most Hated Woman in America

Action, Biography, Drama, History

2017year 91min 6.1IMDB

Juno Temple, Sally Kirkland, Anna Camp, Josh Lucas

A true story of the much debated rise and demise of a woman, named Madalyn Murray O'Hair, who was known as the head atheist activist of America. She founded the organization, American Atheist, and...
To Write Love on Her Arms

Biography, Drama, Fantasy, Music

2012year 102min 6.5IMDB

Rupert Friend, Chad Michael Murray, Kat Dennings, Brian Patrick Clarke

The story follows 19-year-old Renee (Kat Dennings) who has always loved fairy tales: the idea of a princess, a hero and a happily ever after. But Renee's life is that of a darker tale: she's a...
Hidden Figures

Action, Biography, Drama, History

2016year 127min 7.8IMDB

Glen Powell, Janelle Monáe, Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst

As the United States raced against Russia to put a man in space, NASA found untapped talent in a group of African-American female mathematicians that served as the brains behind one of the greatest...
Goodbye Bafana

Biography, Drama, History

2007year 118min 7.1IMDB

Diane Kruger, Joseph Fiennes, Dennis Haysbert, Danny Keogh

James Gregory once lived in a farm and had befriended a native youth, Bafana, and had even had a photograph taken with him. Years later, now married to Gloria and father of three children (Chris,...
Machuca

Biography, Drama, History

2004year 121min 7.7IMDB

Tiago Correa

Santiago, capital of Chile during the Marxist government of elected, highly controversial president Salvador Allende. Father McEnroe supports his leftist views by introducing a program at the...
The Elephant Man

Action, Biography, Drama

1980year 124min 8.2IMDB

Anthony Hopkins, David Lynch, Dexter Fletcher, John Hurt

In Victorian London, Dr. Frederick Treves with the London Hospital comes across a circus sideshow attraction run by a man named Bytes called "The Elephant Man". In actuality, the creature on...
Captain Phillips

Action, Adventure, Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller

2013year 134min 7.8IMDB

Tom Hanks, Max Martini, Catherine Keener, John Magaro

Captain Phillips is a multi-layered examination of the 2009 hijacking of the U.S. container ship Maersk Alabama by a crew of Somali pirates. It is - through director Paul Greengrass's distinctive...
Pardoned by Grace

Biography, Drama, Family

2022year 102min 5.1IMDB

Joey Lawrence

The life of Scott Highberger, a Michigan City, Indiana pastor. Before he practiced religion he was strung out. Once an Drug addict, alcoholic, and recidivist. Now doing gods work. This is the story...
Stephen Curry: Underrated

Action, Biography, Documentary, Sport

2023year 110min 7.3IMDB

Spike Lee

The coming-of-age story of Stephen Curry, from an undersized basketball player at a small college, to becoming a larger-than-life NBA superstar.
Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life

Biography, Documentary

1996year 145min 6.5IMDB

Marilyn Monroe, Robert Taylor, Buzz Aldrin, Sharon Gless

Ayn Rand was born in 1905 in St. Petersberg, Russia. She escaped to America in 1926 amidst the rise of Soviet Communism. She remained in the United States for the rest of her life, where she became...
Bound for Glory

Biography, Drama, Music

1976year 147min 7.2IMDB

James Hong, Wendy Schaal, David Carradine, Randy Quaid

This film is an excellent biography of Woody Guthrie, one of America's greatest folk singers. He left his dust-devastated Texas home in the 1930s to find work, and discovered the suffering and...
Infamous

Biography, Crime, Drama

2006year 110min 7.0IMDB

Sandra Bullock, Lee Pace, Daniel Craig, Sigourney Weaver

On November 16, 1959, Truman Capote reads about the murder of a the Clutter family. There's no suspects. With Harper Lee, he visits the town: he wants to write about their response. First he must...
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu

Biography, Documentary, History

2010year 180min 7.5IMDB

Jimmy Carter, Prince Charles, Mikhail Gorbachev, Queen Elizabeth II

During the summary trial that he and his wife were submitted to, Nicolae Ceausescu is reviewing his long reign in power: 1965-1989. From a formal point of view, The Autobiography of Nicolae...
The Hoax

Biography, Comedy, Drama, History

2006year 116min 6.7IMDB

Stanley Tucci, Marcia Gay Harden, Richard Gere, Hope Davis

Early in 1971, the McGraw-Hill publishing company passes on Clifford Irving's new novel. He's desperate for money so, against the backdrop of Nixon's re-election calculations, Irving claims he has...
The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz

Action, Biography, Crime, Documentary

2014year 105min 8.0IMDB

The story of programming prodigy and information activist Aaron Swartz. From Swartz's help in the development of the basic internet protocol RSS to his co-founding of Reddit, his fingerprints are...