Genre:

Biography

244 found movie
Rise of the Legend (2014)

An orphan, whose father has been killed by dark power, attempts to bring justice back to the town.

Director: Roy Hin Yeung Chow

Stars: Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Eddie Peng, Luodan Wang

6.4 IMDB Rating 11,443 Views 3 Comment
The Better Angels

The story of Abraham Lincoln's childhood in the harsh wilderness of Indiana and the hardships that shaped him, the tragedy that marked him for ever and the two women who guided him to immortality.

Director: A.J. Edwards

Stars: Jason Clarke, Diane Kruger, Brit Marling

6.0 IMDB Rating 2,271 Views
Rosewater

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

Director: Jon Stewart

Stars: Gael García Bernal, Kim Bodnia, Dimitri Leonidas

6.6 IMDB Rating 4,033 Views 1 Comment
Low Down (2014)

A look at the life of pianist Joe Albany from the perspective of his young daughter, as she watches him contend with his drug addiction during the 1970s jazz scene.

Director: Jeff Preiss

Stars: John Hawkes, Elle Fanning, Glenn Close

6.1 IMDB Rating 2,906 Views
Wild (2014)

A chronicle of one woman's 1,100-mile solo hike undertaken as a way to recover from a recent personal tragedy.

Director: Jean-Marc Vallée

Stars: Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern, Gaby Hoffmann

7.1 IMDB Rating 7,456 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.

Director: Michael Cuesta

Stars: Jeremy Renner, Robert Patrick, Jena Sims

6.9 IMDB Rating 5,888 Views
Unbroken (2014)

After a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, Olympian Louis Zamperini spends a harrowing 47 days in a raft with two fellow crewmen before he's caught by the Japanese navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.

Director: Angelina Jolie

Stars: Jack O'Connell, Miyavi, Domhnall Gleeson

7.2 IMDB Rating 12,982 Views 3 Comment
Big Eye (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.

Director: Tim Burton

Stars: Amy Adams, Christoph Waltz, Danny Huston

7.0 IMDB Rating 5,932 Views
Selma (2014)

A chronicle of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965.

Director: Ava DuVernay

Stars: David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo, Oprah Winfrey

7.5 IMDB Rating 7,667 Views 2 Comment
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 b...

Director: Clint Eastwood

Stars: Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Kyle Gallner

7.3 IMDB Rating 2,452 Views 35 Comment
22 / 25
Load More