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Country: Hong Kong, China
Genre: Adventure, Biography
Year: 2013
Northeast China early Northern Song dynasty AD 986. The Khitan army takes its revenge for a past massacre abducting General Yang Ye Adam Cheng and leaving his wife and seven sons to rescue him - and fall into their deadly trap. Led by the first son Ekin Cheng the seven - two of whom have never seen combat - set out with a small band of fighters to face an army of thousands brave the...
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2013
102 min
Die Söhne Des Generals Yang
Country: Russia
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Biopic of Russian ice hockey legend Valeri Kharlamov from early childhood rising to the pinnacle of the sport and his untimely...
134 min
Legenda No. 17
Country: United States
Genre: Biography
The true story of Abraham Lincoln and his bodyguard U.S. Marshal Ward Hill Lamon. This unique film features sets created from actual Civil War...
Saving Lincoln
Country: Japan
Genre: Biography, Drama
Tomoko is sick and tired of her relationship with unpopular talented writer Shingo who is married and has children. Tomoko then enters into a sexual relationship with younger man Ryota but Tomoko is still not...
Natsu No Owari
Country: Chile, France
Genre: Biography, Drama, Fantasy
Alejandro Jodorowsky was born in 1929 in Tocopilla a coastal town on the edge of the Chilean desert where this film was shot. It was there that Jodorowsky underwent an unhappy and alienated childhood as part of an uprooted family. Blending his personal history with metaphor mythology and poetry The Dance of Reality reflects Jodorowskys philosophy that reality is not objective but rather a...
130 min
La Danza De La Realidad
Country: Germany, Israel, Luxembourg, France
Year: 2012
A look at the life of philosopher and political theorist Hannah Arendt who reported for The New Yorker on the war crimes trial of the Nazi Adolf...
2012
113 min
Hannah Arendt
Country: United State
Genre: Biography, Horror
Based on true events. The Robertson County Sheriffs Department has released footage found on the bodies of the Sawyer familys cell phones and video cameras. What was first thought to be a murder-suicide is now believed to be the return of a centuries-old demon responsible for Americas most famous paranormal...
91 min
The Bell Witch Haunting
Country: United States, United Kingdom
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History, Sport
It was a match made in heaven: she was the darling of American tennis an outspoken activist against sexism in sport and society; he was the charismatic fast talking hustling chauvinist showman. Yet their unlikely courtship in the midst of a social revolution captured the imaginations of people around the world empowered a generation and changed sport...
83 min
The Battle Of The Sexes
Year: 2014
In 2008 J. B. Bernstein is a sports agent who finds his business being seriously outplayed by his deep-pocketed competitors. Inspired by reality shows and Indian cricket games on TV Bernstein gets the bold idea of finding cricket players in India and training them to become pro baseball players in America. After a long search Bernstein finds two talented but non-cricket playing youths Rinku...
2014
124 min
Million Dollar Arm
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Jersey Boys is a musical biography of the Four Seasons-the rise the tough times and personal clashes and the ultimate triumph of a group of friends whose music became symbolic of a generation. Far from a mere tribute concert though it does include numbers from the popular Four Seasons songbook Jersey Boys gets to the heart of the relationships at the center of the group-with a special focus...
Jersey Boys
Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
It is the mid-1930s and the storm clouds of WWII were forming in Germany. This films charts the work of Robert Watson Watt - the pioneer of Radar - and his hand-picked team of eccentric yet brilliant meteorologists as they struggle to turn the concept of Radar into a workable reality. Hamstrung by a tiny budget seemingly insurmountable technical problems and even a spy in the camp Watson Watt...
90 min
Castles In The Sky
Country: France
The Jewish Cardinal tells the amazing true story of Jean-Marie Lustiger; the son of Polish-Jewish immigrants; who maintained his cultural identity as a Jew even after converting to Catholicism at a young age; and later joining the priesthood. Quickly rising within the ranks of the Church; Lustiger was appointed Archbishop of Paris by Pope Jean Paul II - and found a new platform to celebrate his...
96 min
Le Métis De Dieu
Set on the French Riviera in the summer of 1915 Jean Renoir -- son of the Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste -- returns home to convalesce after being wounded in World War I. At his side is Andrée a young woman who rejuvenates enchants and inspires both father and...
111 min
Renoir
Country: Norway, United Kingdom
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Crime, Drama
This is a documentary film chronicling the brutal Honour Killing of Banaz Mahmod a young British Kurdish woman in London killed by her own family for choosing a life for...
69 min
Banaz: A Love Story
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Gina Gershon and Raquel Welch stars in this Lifetime Original Movie chronicling Donatella Versaces Gershon inspiring triumph over tragedy. Based on Wall Street Journal reporter Deborah Balls widely-read book the movie brings to light the story of Donatella who following the brazen murder of her brother world-renowned designer Gianni...
85 min
House Of Versace
Country: South Africa, Canada
Year: 2011
A drama that chronicles the life of Winnie Mandela from her childhood through her marriage and her husbands...
2011
107 min
Winnie
Country: United State, Canada
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
The quiet town of Delmar New York was considered anything but dangerous...until 21-year-old Chris Porco was accused of brutally murdering his father Peter and disfiguring his mother Joan in a savage ax attack a claim made all the more shocking when the cases lead detective Joe Sullivan believed Joan had identified Chris as her attacker. Weeks after the crime however Joan would refute...
84 min
Romeo Killer: The Chris Porco Story
Country: Spain, India
Genre: Documentary, Biography
This is the story of a young Spanish director burned out by his job on TV who went to India in search of his first feature film only to discover that the real search was not for him in India but back home. However upon return in Madrid everything went the opposite as he...
Mapa
Genre: Biography, History
Katherine of Alexandria brought up as a nomad and living in the desert was aged just 11 when Emperor Maxentius saw her whilst out on patrol. Consumed by her beauty impudence and uncanny talent for languages he abducted the child killing her family. The slaughter was witnessed by her young friend Constantine who would later become Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. He never lost hope of...
108 min
Katherine Of Alexandria
In 1953 poet Dylan Thomas arrives in New York with his assistant and lover Liz Reitell to embark upon a tour of poetry readings ending up in California where he hopes to meet Stravinsky. He is perpetually drunk almost missing meetings throwing up and taking a paranoid view of his long-suffering agent John Brinnin whom he accuses of trying to defraud him. Whilst staying at the Chelsea hotel he...
72 min
A Poet In New York
Country: United States, South Korea
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Sport
For a select group of young men video gaming isnt just a hobby its a job. To be a professional gamer you need a competitive drive tactical skill and creativity. With increasingly larger prizes and six figure player salaries esports is on the rise as a career. Good Game follows a new kind of athlete the Starcraft 2 division of team Evil Geniuses as they compete around the world to take...
73 min
Good Game
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Mystery
Real estate agent John Maloof explains how a trip to a local auction house in search for old pictures to use for a book history of his neighborhood resulted in him bidding and winning a box full of old negatives. John goes through the massive quantity of negatives describes how impressed he was by the quality of the images quickly determined they were not reverent to his project and just...
Finding Vivian Maier
A chronicle of James Browns rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in...
138 min
Get On Up
Country: Denmark
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110 min
Spies & Glistrup
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, History, Musical, Romance
A live telecast of the famous Rodgers and Hammerstein...
180 min
The Sound Of Music Live!
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
It was a strange and curious misfit. Though born a Buick the Grand National was clearly something else. It was too quick and too brutish to carry that stodgy name. There was something inside the car trying to get out. BLACK AIR is a feature-length documentary about Buicks premier but paradoxical 1980s performance...
70 min
Black Air: The Buick Grand National Documentary
Twenty years ago seven superstar artists left Marvel Comics to create their own company Image Comics a company that continues to influence mainstream comics and pop culture to this day. Image began as more than just a publisher - it was a response to years of creator mistreatment and changed comics forever. The Image Revolution tells the story of Image Comics from its founders work at...
81 min
The Image Revolution
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Sport, Western
Rodeos are woven into the cultural fabric of the American West and are held in small towns and bustling cities from Arizona to North Dakota and beyond. Professional rodeo cowboys travel a year-long circuit of these rodeos participating in a 150 year-old tradition hoping to grab their share of fame and fortune. Cowboy Christmas is a 75-minute documentary following four of these modern-day...
75 min
Cowboy Christmas
Country: Canada
Biopic of Louis Cyr strongest man in the world at the end of the 19th...
Louis Cyr
A documentary on fetish website...
80 min
Kink
Country: United Kingdom, South Africa
Nelson Mandela is a South African lawyer who joins the African National Congress in the 1940s when the law under the Apartheid systems brutal tyranny proves useless for his people. Forced to abandon peaceful protest for armed resistance after the Sharpeville Massacre Mandela pays the price when he and his comrades are sentenced to life imprisonment for treason while his wife Winnie is abused...
141 min
Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom
Country: Ireland, United Kingdom, United States, France
Paul Kimmage once referred to Lance Armstrong as the cancer of cycling. This film follows contentious journalist and cycling whistleblower Kimmage as he searches for answers to difficult questions about doping in the sport he...
87 min
Rough Rider
The story of Legendary hip hop/r&b/pop trio TLC. The group rose to fame in 1991 when they signed to LaFace Records releasing their multi-platinum debut. Their 1994 follow-up CrazySexyCool sold over 22 million copies and Fanmail sold over 10 million copies in 1999. This group experienced bankruptcy illness group fights and death. All the while dominating the charts and the music...
Crazysexycool: The Tlc Story
Country: United Kingdom, Netherlands, France, Croatia
128 min
Goltzius And The Pelican Company
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Drama, News
Life According to Sam is about one familys courageous fight to save their only son from a rare and fatal disease progeria. The average age of death from progeria is 13 there is no treatment and no cure. Dr. Leslie Gordon and Dr. Scott Berns are set on changing this. When their son Sam now 16 years old was diagnosed with progeria at age two doctors told Leslie and Scott to enjoy Sam while...
Life According To Sam
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Family, Sport
From the Pacific Northwest to the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah this is the inspiring true story of four tenacious men who risk everything to conquer the world records of motorcycle land speed racing. Their extraordinary journey will remind you how perseverance against all odds can send the most unlikely men roaring into...
Out Of Nothing
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Sport, War
The Trials of Muhammad Ali covers Alis toughest bout: his battle to overturn a five-year prison sentence for refusing US military service in Vietnam. Prior to becoming the most recognizable face on earth Cassius Clay became Muhammad Ali and found himself in the crosshairs of conflicts concerning race religion and wartime dissent. Trials zeroes in on the most controversial years of Alis...
86 min
The Trials Of Muhammad Ali
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Crime, Sport
Pug a wisecracking 13 year old living on a dangerous Westside block has one goal in mind: to join The Twelve OClock Boys; the notorious urban dirt-bike gang of Baltimore. Converging from all parts of the inner city they invade the streets and clash with police who are forbidden to chase the bikes for fear of endangering the public. When Pugs older brother dies suddenly he looks to the pack...
76 min
12 O'clock Boys
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Music
The true story of Paul Potts a shy bullied shop assistant by day and an amateur opera singer by night who became a phenomenon after being chosen for -- and ultimately winning -- Britains Got...
103 min
One Chance - Einmal Im Leben
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
In the summer of 1969 Bernard a Gaspesian fishermans son arrive in Perce to fin work. He meets Paul Jacques and Francis Quebec Independence activists who have come to open the Fishermans House. They aim to organize public conferences and offer lodgings to young travelers. A motley crowd of Quebecers from all over the province soon flocks to Perce: artists hippies rockers hitchhikers...
97 min
La Maison Du Pêcheur
Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller
The Grim Sleeper follows LA Weekly reporter Christine Pelisek Walker as she doggedly investigates the unsolved murders of dozens of women in Los Angeles and soon realizes one person is responsible for many of these deaths that began over 20 years earlier. After a string of murders in the 1980s the violence seemed to end; but almost 14 years later another murder spree begins leading Pelisek...
89 min
The Grim Sleeper
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Drama, Family
BEFORE AND AFTER DINNER is an exploration of the life and work of Andre Gregory groundbreaking director actor artist and raconteur filmed by prize-winning documentarian Cindy Kleine his wife. Through her close-up lens Cindy introduces us to this cultural icon and master storyteller and tells the unusual story of a good marriage that thrives in collaboration art and humor celebrating...
Andre Gregory: Before And After Dinner
GAGARIN: FIRST IN SPACE is a feature film featuring amazing SFX that celebrates the bravery and achievements of Yuri Gagarin - the first man in space. On April 12 1961 Soviet cosmonaut Gagarin blasted off in a Vostok rocket and he orbited Earth for 108 minutes. He was the cosmonaut who was selected from over three thousand fighter pilots throughout the Soviet Union. Once chosen Gagarin is...
Gagarin: First In Space
Country: France, Israel, Bulgaria
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Sport
Victor Young Perez tells the astonishing harrowing and incredible moving story of a Tunisian Jewish boxer who became the World Flyweight Champion in 1931 and 1932. Perez started training as a boxer at age 14 along with his older brother Benjamin Kid Perez Perez rose to great fame via the help and guidance of Leon Bellier and had a brief relationship with French-Italian actress Mireille...
Victor Young Perez
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
In the 1850s Ellen Ternan is a minimally talented actress who catches the eye of the hailed British author Charles Dickens. Bored with his intellectually unstimulating wife Dickens takes the educated Ellen has his mistress with the cooperation of her mother. What follows is a stormy relationship with this literary giant who provides her with a life few women of her time can enjoy. Yet Ellen...
The Invisible Woman
Country: United States, Mexico
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...
Cesar Chavez
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History, Music
In Search of Blind Joe Death: The Saga of John Fahey is a documentary film about the legendary American guitarist composer and provocateur John Fahey 1939-2001. Fahey is often considered the godfather of American primitive guitar. This cinematic exploration features Pete Townshend Chris Funk of The Decemberists and Joey Burns of Calexico. These stellar musicians along with Fahey associates...
58 min
In Search Of Blind Joe Death: The Saga Of John Fahey
Winter 1915. Confined by her family to an asylum in the South of France - where she will never sculpt again - the chronicle of Camille Claudels reclusive life as she waits for a visit from her brother Paul...
95 min
Camille Claudel 1915
Country: Turkey
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Last days of 1941 summer the era of Obligation during the famine atmosphere of the Second World War. In the middle of all this poverty and turmoil there are two poets in their early twenties: Muzaffer Tayyip Uslu and Rustu Onur. They have been carrying tuberculosis germs in their lungs and love of poetry in their hearts for years. Two poets who have the constant habit of making bets on things...
The Butterfly's Dream - Kelebegin Rüyasi
Country: Germany, Italy
Genre: Biography, Drama, Musical
1830. Violin virtuoso and notorious womanizer Niccolò Paganini David Garrett is at the peak of his career acclaimed throughout Europe. His name alone suggests countless affairs and scandals - which is exactly what his manager Urbani Jared Harris is doing his utmost to cultivate for it is in his interest to market his famous client the best way possible. Only the London public has yet to be...
122 min
Der Teufelsgeiger
Country: France, Belgium
Violette Leduc born a bastard at the beginning of last century meets Simone de Beauvoir in the years after the war in St-Germain-des-Prés. Then begins an intense relationship between the two women that will last throughout their lives relationship based on the quest for freedom by writing to Violet and conviction for Simone to have in their hands the fate of an extraordinary...
132 min
Violette
Country: Australia, United States, Papua New Guinea, Cameroon, Cambodia, Afghanistan
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Drama
Six girls coming of age ready to become something...
88 min
I Am A Girl
Country: s
Set in the glamour and free spirit of the early sixties. Monica a young Swedish small town girl is dreaming of the vibrant city jazz clubs of Stockholm. She embarks on an intense journey in the limelight as a celebrated singer and actress in the golden era of jazz. Among artists and hipsters her phenomenal success leaves a trail of broken love affairs and...
Monica Z
Country: Japan, China
A young girl named Oshin is sent to work for another family because of her familys financial...
Oshin
Country: Belgium, Italy
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Salvatore Granata is a rather poor man who lives with his wife son and daughter in Calabria in Italy. One day Salvatore decides to move to Belgium to work in the coal mine of Waterschei as a gastarbeider an immigrant worker. His family will stay in Italy as Salvatore will only be in Belgium for three years. He hopes to earn much money in a rather small time frame so he can buy a forge for his...
118 min
Marina
Genre: Biography, Comedy
In 700 Sundays legendary comedian and actor Billy Crystal tells the stories of his youth growing up in the jazz world of Manhattan his teenage years and finally adulthood. The Tony Award-winning show is a funny and poignant exploration of family and fate loving and...
700 Sundays
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
The savage murders of three young children sparks a controversial trial of three teenagers accused of killing the kids as part of a satanic...
114 min
Devil's Knot
Country: South Africa, New Zealand, Indonesia
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Romance
The Perfect wave is a LOVE STORY with four key pillars a young mans love for surfing adventure a mothers love for her son a young man falling in love for the first time Gods love. The film takes the audience on a journey as our hero searches for his perfect wave. The journey has many unexpected turns and twists as our hero falls in-love and looses his way but as fate would have it...
94 min
The Perfect Wave
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Drama, Sport
Professional sports is known as a true meritocracy a field in which the cream really does rise to the top as theres simply too much money at stake to operate in any other fashion. In uncommon instances however inefficiencies can occur and gifted players may fall through the cracks. Such is the story of Lenny Cooke. In 2001 Cooke was the number-one ranked high school basketball player in...
Lenny Cooke
