Type: Movies
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Biography
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Tetris
2023
The story of how one of the world's most popular video games found its way to players around the globe. Businessman Henk Rogers and Tetris inventor Alexey Pajitnov join forces in the USSR, risking it all to bring Tetris to the mas...
Category: Biography, Drama, History
Stars: Taron Egerton, Toby Jones, Roger Allam
7.3 IMDB Rating 22 Views
Front of the Class
2008
Brad Cohen who, despite being challenged by Tourette's Syndrome at a very young age, defies all odds to become a gifted teacher.
Category: Biography, Drama
Stars: James Wolk, Treat Williams, Dominic Scott Kay
8.1 IMDB Rating 60 Views
The Founder
2016
1954. Having worked as a salesman most of his adult life, Ray Kroc has been a hustler in most senses of the word. That hustling has made him the target of derision among certain circles for peddling what have ended up being more novelty or faddish than useful products, but it has also placed more than a comfortable roof in Arlington Heights, Illinois over his and his wife Ethel's heads. Ethel, however, wishes that he placed as much effort into being at home with her than he is in selling, his current job of peddling five-spindle milkshake makers for Prince Castle which has him constantly on the road going from one drive-in restaurant to another. It is because of the beefs he has with the whole drive-in experience (bad food, bad service) in constantly eating at such establishments while on the road that he becomes enthralled with the concept of McDonald's Restaurant in San Bernardino, California, it owned and operated by brothers Richard McDonald and Maurice McDonald - Dick and Mac. Unlike most of Ray's customers who will only require one five-spindle milkshake maker at any given time, the McDonald brothers end up purchasing eight machines for their single restaurant. Primarily on Dick's initiative, the brothers have redesigned the whole concept of the drive-in restaurant to focus on quality food through a smaller menu of only the most popular items (hamburgers, fries, sodas), consistency in product so that customers know what to expect from time to time, change in the target market from lounging teenagers to families, and perhaps most importantly speed in having any order ready within seconds, many of these goals achievable through assembly line styled production. They had tried franchising previously, but failed in that they lost control over many of those aspects which made their San Bernardino restaurant successful. Despite believing Ray a bit off kilter (in other words, crazy), the McDonald brothers somewhat hesitantly enter into a contract with him to be their head of franchising. Ray's experience in the job is not without its problems, especially as his franchisees seem to be making more money than he is, he who is only breaking even. He is not averse to advancing ideas provided to him to get ahead - original ideas which are not his forte - he seeing the brothers as his biggest problem in they thinking small. These differences lead to a standoff between Ray and the brothers, the former who has a different goal for "his" business in profit and stoking his own ego seemingly his main priorities.
Category: Biography, Drama, History
Stars: Michael Keaton,Nick Offerman,John Carroll Lynch,Linda Cardellini
7.3 IMDB Rating 8,030 Views
Munch
2023
Rejected by the art establishment, wracked with grief over the loss of his older sister and tortured by addiction, the film captures Edvard Munch's life, one of the world's greatest artists of all time.
Category: Biography, Drama, History
Stars: Alfred Ekker Strande, Mattis Herman Nyquist, Ola G. Furuseth
6.5 IMDB Rating 279 Views
Johnny
2022
Love for the world and other people and about the fact that everyone deserves a second chance. When Patryk receives it from a priest Jan Kaczkowski does not even suspect how it will change his life.
Category: Biography, Drama
Stars: Dawid Ogrodnik, Piotr Trojan, Beata Zygarlicka
6.9 IMDB Rating 72 Views
Hoffa
1992
The story of the notorious American labor union figure Jimmy Hoffa, who organizes a bitter strike, makes deals with members of the organized crime syndicate and mysteriously disappears in 1975.
Category: Biography, Crime, Drama
Stars: Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Armand Assante
6.6 IMDB Rating 204 Views
Till
2022
In 1955, after Emmett Till is murdered in a brutal lynching, his mother vows to expose the racism behind the attack while working to have those involved brought to justice.
Category: Biography, Drama, History
Stars: Danielle Deadwyler, Jalyn Hall, Frankie Faison
7.1 IMDB Rating 880 Views
The Last Emperor
1987
Dramatization of China's last emperor, Puyi.
Category: Biography, Drama, History
Stars: John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole
7.7 IMDB Rating 103 Views
Believe Me: The Abduction of Lisa McVey
2018
On the night she plans to take her own life, a 17-year-old girl is kidnapped and finds herself fighting to stay alive. She is released, but when she returns home, no one believes her story except for one detective.
Category: Biography, Crime, Drama
Stars: Katie Douglas, David James Elliott, Rossif Sutherland
7.2 IMDB Rating 1,109 Views
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
2018
When Lee Israel falls out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception.
Category: Biography, Comedy, Crime
Stars: Melissa McCarthy, Richard E. Grant, Dolly Wells
7,5 IMDB Rating 6,896 Views
Unga Astrid
2018
Biopic of Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren, the author of numerous children's books and creator of Pippi Longstocking.
Category: Biography, Drama
Stars: Alba August, Maria Bonnevie, Trine Dyrholm
7.1 IMDB Rating 9,814 Views
The Whistleblower
2010
A drama based on the experiences of Kathryn Bolkovac, a Nebraska cop who served as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia and outed the U.N. for covering up a sex trafficking scandal.
Category: Action, Biography, Crime
Stars: Rachel Weisz, Monica Bellucci, Vanessa Redgrave
7.1 IMDB Rating 3,703 Views
Get Rich or Die Tryin’
2005
A tale of an inner city drug dealer who turns away from a life of crime to pursue his passion of rap music.
Category: Biography, Crime, Drama
Stars: 50 Cent, Joy Bryant, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
5.4 IMDB Rating 16,314 Views
Now More Than Ever: The History of Chicago
2016
The history of legendary rock band Chicago is chronicled from their inception in 1967 all the way to the present.
Category: Biography, Documentary, History
Stars: Lee Loughnane, Robert Lamm, Walter Parazaider
7.0 IMDB Rating 100 Views
Cocaine Godmother
2017
The real life of Colombian drug lord, Griselda Blanco, who reportedly masterminded more than 200 murders. This film presents her life story from the time she was a young girl to the end of her life.
Category: Biography, Drama
Stars: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Jenny Pellicer, Alejandro Edda
5.6 IMDB Rating 6,810 Views
Shadowlands
1993
C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned Christian theologian, writer and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets spirited poet Joy Gresham from the U.S.
Category: Biography, Drama, romance
Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Debra Winger, Julian Fellowes
7.4 IMDB Rating 79 Views