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Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Year: 1998
After rocker Kurt Cobains death ruled a suicide a film crew arrives in Seattle to make a documentary. Director Nick Broomfield talks to lots of people: Cobains aunt who provides home movies and recordings the estranged father of Cobains widow Courtney Love an L.A. private investigator who worked for Love a nanny for Kurt and Courtneys child friends and lovers of both and others....
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1998
95 min
Kurt & Courtney
Country: United States
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Sport
Year: 2009
The film tells the inspiring true story of how Nelson Mandela joined forces with the captain of South Africas rugby team to help unite their country. Newly elected President Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport Mandela rallies South Africas rugby team as...
2009
134 min
Invictus
Year: 2010
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2010
91 min
Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child
Country: United Kingdom, United States
Year: 2012
A documentary film about the extraordinary life of a famous musical prodigy who has been battling against Lou Gehrigs Disease for 22 years. A paralyzing terminal illness with no real treatment or cure it has trapped Jason inside of his body for over 15 years; unable to move unable to speak and unable to play the instrument which propelled him to international stardom at just 19 years of...
2012
87 min
Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet
This is a personal journey film about singer/songwriter John Mellencamp. It was made during his summer 2009 tour with Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson; Mellencamp also recorded his new album in three historical locations during the month and a half tour. The story is told through the eyes of the father/son film making team of Kurt and Ian Markus neither of whom had ever made a film before. The entire...
86 min
It's About You
Genre: Action, Biography, Comedy, Drama, Sport
Year: 1977
The true life story of Wendell Scott the first black stock car racing driver to win an upper tier NASCAR...
1977
96 min
Greased Lightning
Country: France, Mali
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Year: 2001
In the sixties the people of Mali awoke each morning to the sound of Boubacar KarKar Traorés voice on the radio singing of independence. Everyone in Mali remembers having danced to his hits. But since his music was only played on the radio he didnt earn enough money to live on and he had to stop playing music to work as a tailor and a salesman to feed his family. A few years later he is...
2001
76 min
I'll Sing For You
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Year: 2007
This is the story of a teenager named Gracie Bowen who lives in South Orange New Jersey is crazy about soccer as are her three brothers and former soccer star father. Although Gracie wants to join her brothers and father in the nightly practices she is discouraged by everyone except her elder brother Johnny. Her father does not believe that girls should play soccer and tells her that she is...
2007
Gracie
Year: 2011
HIT SO HARD follows the journey of Patty Schemel the openly gay drummer of Courtney Loves seminal rock band Hole. As a young girl who always knew she was different from the other kids in her farm town home outside of Seattle Patty never dreamed she would one day have her picture on the cover of Rolling Stone. But she also never fathomed that she could lose it all. A true survivor of what...
2011
103 min
Hit So Hard
Genre: Biography, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A movie created from found footage of a lost military expedition that exposes the origins of life on...
88 min
Alien Origin
Year: 1993
Documentary about the life and death of the notorious underground punk icon GG Allin the foul mouthed heroin shooting lead singer of the Murder Junkies who would throw excrement at the crowd start fights with the biggest guys in the audience and threatened to kill himself onstage. He was considered the lowest common denominator of our society by some an avant-garde artist by others. He died...
1993
90 min
Hated: Gg Allin & The Murder Junkies
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Sport
FOCUS is a documentary about Mike Ross an average 26-year-old African-American unemployed college graduate who happens to be one of the worlds best video game players. The documentary is a portrait of his summer as he travels around the country competing in events to prepare for the biggest tournament of his life while revealing the origins hardships and misconceptions of his...
71 min
Focus: A Documentary
Country: United Kingdom, Ireland
A chronicle of Terri Hooleys life a record-store owner instrumental in developing Belfasts punk-rock...
Good Vibrations
Country: United States, United Kingdom
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History, Music
Year: 2013
Good Ol Freda tells the story of Freda Kelly a shy Liverpudlian teenager asked to work for a young local band hoping to make it big: the Beatles. As the Beatles fame multiplies Freda bears witness to music and cultural history but never exploits her insider access. Their loyal secretary from beginning to end Freda finally tells her tales for the first time in 50...
2013
Good Ol' Freda
Country: China, Hong Kong, United States
Genre: Action, Kung Fu, Biography, Drama, Sport
Year: 2006
Martial arts legend Huo Yuanjia became the most famous fighter in all of China at the turn of the 20th Century. Huo faced personal tragedy but ultimately fought his way out of darkness and into history defining the true spirit of martial arts. His self-discovery and the choices he made inspired his nation. The son of a great fighter who did not wish for his child to follow in his footsteps...
2006
104 min
Fearless
Ozzy Osbournes four decade track record as a culturally relevant artist is unprecedented but his personal struggles have been shrouded in secrecy until now. Featuring never before seen footage uncovered from the archives and interviews with Paul McCartney Tommy Lee and others God Bless Ozzy Osbourne is the first documentary to take viewers inside the complex mind of rocks great icon....
120 min
God Bless Ozzy Osbourne
George Harrison first became known to the world as The Quiet Beatle of the Fab Four but there was far more to his life than simply being a part of The Beatles. This film explores the life and career of this seminal musician philanthropist film producer and amateur race car driver who grew to make his own mark on the world. Through his music archival footage and the memories of friends and...
208 min
George Harrison: Living In The Material World
Country: France
Lucien Ginsburg a rebellious French Jewish boy with a grotesque imagination hates playing the piano like his father a bar professional and manages to be admitted to Montmartre Academy as painter where he befriends an SS officer who helps him survive he occupation. After the war he chooses to become a performing artist and adopts the stage name Serge Gainsbourg. His unorthodox songs bring...
130 min
Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life
Year: 2008
Five high school cheerleaders including the daughter of the school principal run amok -- and teachers parents and administrators allow them to get away with a wide range of scandalous behavior. Know as the fab five the girls disregard school rules drink alcohol and post suggestive pictures on the Internet. But when the new cheerleading coach attempts to discipline them her superiors ask...
2008
Fab Five: The Texas Cheerleader Scandal
Country: United Kingdom, Germany
Year: 2000
2000
59 min
Freddie Mercury, The Untold Story
Country: United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Year: 1999
The gold medal for the mens 10000-meter race in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics is won by Ethiopian Haile...
1999
83 min
Endurance
Country: United States, Germany
Year: 2005
A chronicle of the life of Elvis Presley Rhys Meyers from his humble beginnings to his rise to international...
2005
173 min
Elvis
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, Sport
Based on a true story. A young boxer Emilio from the wrong side of the tracks with big dreams of winning the Golden Gloves boxing championship finds himself at a cross roads after being locked up. As he fights his way back into the winning circle he gets a second shot at the championship title. As he is toe to toe in the ring with his competitor hell throw all the punches and be the last man...
97 min
Counterpunch
Country: United States, United Kingdom, Iceland
Genre: Biography, History, Sport
Bobby Fischer Against the World is a documentary feature exploring the tragic and bizarre life of the late chess master Bobby Fischer. The drama of Bobby Fischers career was undeniable from his troubled childhood to his rock star status as World Champion and Cold War icon to his life as a fugitive on the run. This film explores one of the most infamous and mysterious characters of the 20th...
93 min
Bobby Fischer Against The World
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
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 Greengrasss distinctive lens - simultaneously a pulse-pounding thriller and a complex portrait of the myriad effects of globalization. The film focuses on the relationship between the Alabamas commanding officer Captain...
Captain Phillips
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, Sport
During the Great Depression a common-man hero James J. Braddock--a.k.a. the Cinderella Man--was to become one of the most surprising sports legends in history. By the early 1930s the impoverished ex-prizefighter was seemingly as broken-down beaten-up and out-of-luck as much of the rest of the American populace who had hit rock bottom. His career appeared to be finished he was unable to pay...
144 min
Cinderella Man
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Musical
Year: 2004
De-Lovely is an original musical portrait of American composer Cole Porter filled with his unforgettable songs. In the film Porter is looking back on his life as if it was one of his spectacular stage shows with the people and events of his life becoming the actors and action onstage. Through elaborate production numbers and popular hits like Anything Goes Its De-Lovely and Night and...
2004
125 min
De Lovely
A mostly chronological look at the Rolling Stones with archive footage and recent off-camera commentary by Jagger Richards Watts Wyman Taylor and Wood. Topics include virtually instant success and fans dangerous antics becoming songwriters press coverage as the anti-Beatles Richards and Jaggers drug arrest and trial Brian Jones decline and death fleeing the tax man to the south of...
111 min
Crossfire Hurricane
Country: United States, Canada
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, Thriller
The amazing true story of a Uruguayan rugby teams plane that crashed in the middle of the Andes mountains and their immense will to survive and pull through alive forced to do anything and everything they could to stay alive on meager rations and through the freezing cold. The only thing the team has riding on after losing so many of their good friends and family members is the slim chance of...
Alive 1993
Country: France, Belgium
A biopic of French pop star Claude Francois most famous for co-writing the song My Way. Tracing his life from childhood in Egypt through success in France to his untimely death in Paris in...
148 min
Cloclo
Starting off on his 62nd birthday Charles Bradley: Soul of America follows the extraordinary journey of singer Charles Bradley during the electrifying and transformative months leading up to the release of his debut album No Time for Dreaming. The 74-minute documentary feature will premiere at the SXSW 2012 Film Festival in Austin Texas. Despite being abandoned as a child a period of...
75 min
Charles Bradley: Soul Of America
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport, Western
Year: 1994
This film chronicles the life of Lane Frost 1987 PRCA Bull Riding World Champion his marriage and his friendships with Tuff Hedeman three-time World Champion and Cody...
1994
105 min
8 Seconds
Year: 1979
An account of The Beatles during the Hamburg years their signing with Brian Epstein and their inevitable rise during the early...
1979
Birth Of The Beatles
A pre-fame Beatles head for the seedy clubs of Hamburg in search of success. The band meet up with a group of trendy German beatniks one of whom Astrid Kircherr bass guitarist Stuart Sutcliffe falls in love with. Whilst best friend John Lennon can only watch Sutcliffe has to choose between rock n roll and a new life in...
100 min
Backbeat
Country: Canada
Genre: Biography, Music
At 14 best friends Robb Reiner and Lips made a pact to rock together forever. Their band Anvil hailed as the demi-gods of Canadian metal influenced a musical generation that includes Metallica Slayer and Anthrax despite never hitting the big time. Following a calamitous European tour Lips and Robb now in their fifties set off to record their 13th album in one last attempt to fulfill...
80 min
Anvil: The Story Of Anvil
Its time to rock and roll - air guitar style. AIR GUITAR NATION is the feature documentary about the year that air guitar swept America - from New York to Los Angeles and then all the way to northern Finland. AIR GUITAR NATION chronicles the birth of the US Air Guitar Championships and the personal journeys of those talented contestants who are vying to become the first World Air Guitar Champion...
81 min
Air Guitar Nation
Country: India
The true story of the Flying Sikh - world champion runner and Olympian Milkha Singh -- who overcame the massacre of his family civil war during the India-Pakistan partition and homelessness to become one of Indias most iconic...
186 min
Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
In 1964 a brash new pro boxer fresh from his olympic gold medal victory explodes on to the scene Cassius Clay. Bold and outspoken he cuts an entirely new image for African Americans in sport with his proud public self confidence with his unapologetic belief that he is the greatest boxer of all time. To his credit he sets out to prove that with his highly agile and forceful style soon making...
157 min
Ali
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, Sport
A Jewish woman from Detroit who became a boxing manager guiding several major careers. This film focuses on her relationship with one boxer Epps whos reportedly a composite of several including Toney McKart and Hearns. Kallen eventually left her husband of 30 years and moved to Los Angeles becoming the commissioner of the International Female Boxers...
Against The Ropes
Year: 1945
Prof. Joseph Elsner guides his protégé Frydryk Chopin through his formative years to early adulthood in Poland. At a recital in a dukes home Chopin insults the new Russian-installed governor and must flee the country. The professor takes him to Paris where he eventually comes under the wing and influence of novelist George Sand and rises to prominence in the music world to the exclusion of...
1945
113 min
A Song To Remember
Summer 1961: Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle are on pace to break the most hallowed record in U.S. sports Babe Ruths single-season 60 home runs. Its a big story and the intense plain-spoken Maris is the bad guy: sports writers bait him and minimize his talent fans cheer Mantle the leagues golden boy and baseballs commissioner announces that Ruths record stands unless its broken within...
129 min
61 Star
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, Musical, Romance
Year: 1965
In 1930s Austria a young woman named Maria is failing miserably in her attempts to become a nun. When the Navy captain Georg Von Trapp writes to the convent asking for a governess that can handle his seven mischievous children Maria is given the job. The Captains wife is dead and he is often away and runs the household as strictly as he does the ships he sails on. The children are unhappy...
1965
174 min
The Sound Of Music
Country: Australia
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Music
1968 was the year that changed the world. And for four young Aboriginal sisters from a remote mission this is the year that would change their lives forever. Around the globe there was protest and revolution in the streets. Indigenous Australians finally secured the right to vote. There were drugs and the shock of a brutal assassination. And there was Vietnam. The sisters Cynthia Gail Julie...
The Sapphires
Country: Australia, United Kingdom, United States, France
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Crime, History, Western
Year: 2003
2003
110 min
Ned Kelly
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Musical, Thriller
Year: 1996
High-flying adored! The film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical depicting the infamous real-life story of Eva Evita Duarte de Peron the wife of President Juan Peron who rose from poverty to become the most famous Argentine woman in history. Her huge political influence and constant charity works earned her scorn and fear from the military and upper classes but adoration and love from the...
1996
135 min
Evita
Genre: Biography, Drama
Year: 1990
In 1931 Paris Anais Nin meets Henry Miller and his wife June. Intrigued by them both she begins expanding her sexual horizons with her husband Hugo as well as with Henry and others. June shuttles between Paris and New York trying to find acting jobs while Henry works on his first major work Tropic of Cancer a pseudo-biography of June. Anais and Hugo help finance the book but June is...
1990
136 min
Henry & June
Country: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Storyline: Set against the sexy glamorous golden age of Formula 1 racing in the 1970s the film is based on the true story of a great sporting rivalry between handsome English playboy James Hunt Hemsworth and his methodical brilliant opponent Austrian driver Niki Lauda Bruhl. The story follows their distinctly different personal styles on and off the track their loves and the astonishing...
123 min
Rush (2013)
Storyline: Cecil Gates was a sharecroppers son who grew up in the 1920s as a domestic servant for the white family who casually destroyed his. Eventually striking out on his own Cecil becomes a valet of such efficiency and discreteness in the 1950s that he becomes a butler in the White House itself. There Cecil would serve numerous US Presidents over the decades as a passive witness of history...
132 min
The Butler
Storyline: The story of Steve Jobs ascension from college dropout into one of the most revered creative entrepreneurs of the 20th...
128 min
Jobs
Genre: Biography, Crime, Thriller
Storyline: An Alaska State Trooper partners with a young woman who escaped the clutches of serial killer Robert Hansen to bring the murderer to justice. Based on actual...
The Frozen Ground
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Romance, Western
Storyline: Wyatt Earp is a movie about a man and his family. The movie shows us the good times and the bad times of one of the Wests most famous...
191 min
Wyatt Earp
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, War
Year: 1997
Storyline: After the death of 11 climbers Austrian Heinrich Harrer Brad Pitt decides to add glory to his country and to the German pride by climbing Nanga Parbat in British India and leaves his expectant wife behind. Egoist and a loner he does not get along with others on his team - but must bend to their wishes after bad weather threatens them. Then WWII breaks out they are arrested and...
1997
Seven Years In Tibet
Country: United States, Luxembourg
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, War
Storyline: In 1965 while bombing Laos in a classified mission the propeller plane of the German-American US Navy pilot Dieter Dengler is hit and crashes in the jungle. Dieter is arrested by the peasants tortured by the Vietcong and sent to a prisoner camp where he meets five other mentally deranged prisoners and guards. He becomes close to Duane and organizes an escape plan; however the...
126 min
Rescue Dawn
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Romance
Year: 1985
Storyline: Follows the life of Karen Blixen who establishes a plantation in Africa. Her life is Complicated by a husband of convenience Bror Blixen a true love Denys troubles on the plantation schooling of the natives war and catching VD from her...
1985
161 min
Out Of Africa
Storyline: The life story of Jackie Robinson and his history-making signing with the Brooklyn Dodgers under the guidance of team executive Branch...
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Year: 1962
Storyline: An inordinately complex man who has been labeled everything from hero to charlatan to sadist Thomas Edward Lawrence blazed his way to glory in the Arabian desert then sought anonymity as a common soldier under an assumed name. The story opens with the death of Lawrence in a motorcycle accident in Dorset at the age of 46 then flashbacks to recount his adventures: as a young...
1962
216 min
Lawrence Of Arabia
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Storyline: Based on a true story. After graduating from Emory University top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandoned his possessions gave his entire $24000 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...
Into The Wild
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Crime, Western
Year: 1969
Storyline: Butch and Sundance are the two leaders of the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang. Butch is all ideas Sundance is all action and skill. The west is becoming civilized and when Butch and Sundance rob a train once too often a special posse begins trailing them no matter where they run. Over rock through towns across rivers the group is always just behind them. When they finally escape through...
1969
Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Thriller
Storyline: 127 Hours is the true story of mountain climber Aron Ralstons remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated canyon in Utah. Over the next five days Ralston examines his life and survives the elements to finally discover he has the courage and the wherewithal to extricate himself by any means necessary scale a 65 foot wall...
94 min
127 Hours
