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Hamsun 1996

Norwegian Nobel Laureate Knut Hamsun's controversial support for the Nazi regime during WW2 and its consequences for the Hamsun family after the war.

Category: Biography, Drama, War

Stars: Max von Sydow, Ghita Nørby, Anette Hoff

7.2 IMDB Rating 64 Views
Cassandro 2023

Follows the true story of Cassandro, the ''exotico'' character created by Saúl Armendáriz, gay amateur wrestler from El Paso who rose to international stardom.

Category: Biography, Drama, Sport

Stars: Gael García Bernal, Roberta Colindrez, Perla De La Rosa

5.7 IMDB Rating 84 Views
Jeanne Du Barry 2023

The life of Jeanne Bécu who was born as the illegitimate daughter of an impoverished seamstress in 1743 and went on to rise through the Court of Louis XV to become his last official mistress.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Maïwenn, Johnny Depp, Benjamin Lavernhe

6.9 IMDB Rating 225 Views
Golda 2023

Focuses on the intensely dramatic and high-stakes responsibilities and decisions that Golda Meir, also known as the 'Iron Lady of Israel,' faced during the Yom Kippur War.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Helen Mirren, Zed Josef, Claudette Williams

6.2 IMDB Rating 149 Views
The Saint of Second Chances 2023

Mike Veeck, son of legendary Major League Baseball owner Bill Veeck, blows up his father's career and then spends the next few decades learning the value of a second chance.

Category: Biography, Documentary, Drama

Stars: Mike Veeck, Charlie Day, Jeff Daniels

7.2 IMDB Rating 76 Views
Changeling 2008

Grief-stricken mother Christine Collins takes on the L.A.P.D. to her own detriment when they try to pass off an obvious impostor as her missing child.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama

Stars: Angelina Jolie, Colm Feore, Amy Ryan

7.8 IMDB Rating 5,953 Views
Winning Time The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty 2022–

The professional and personal lives of the 1980s Los Angeles Lakers, one of sports' most revered and dominant dynasties - a team that defined an era, both on and off the court.

Category: Biography, Drama, Sport

Stars: John C. Reilly, Quincy Isaiah, Jason Clarke

8.3 IMDB Rating 7,258 Views
The Social Network 2010

As Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg creates the social networking site that would become known as Facebook, he is sued by the twins who claimed he stole their idea and by the co-founder who was later squeezed out of the business.

Category: Biography, Drama

Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake

7.8 IMDB Rating 9,186 Views
Straight Outta Compton 2015

The rap group NWA emerges from the mean streets of Compton in Los Angeles, California, in the mid-1980s and revolutionizes Hip Hop culture with their music and tales about life in the hood.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: O'Shea Jackson Jr., Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell

7.8 IMDB Rating 17,183 Views
Ride Like a Girl 2019

The story of Michelle Payne, the first female jockey to win the Melbourne Cup.

Category: Biography, Drama, Sport

Stars: Teresa Palmer, Sam Neill, Brooke Satchwell

7.0 IMDB Rating 3,858 Views
Tapie 2023

A relentlessly ambitious working-class man becomes one of France's most controversial public figures in this fictionalized biopic about Bernard Tapie.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Ivan Murphy, Laurent Lafitte, Joséphine Japy

314 Views
Bessie 2015

The story of legendary blues performer Bessie Smith, who rose to fame during the 1920s and '30s.

Category: Biography, Drama, Music

Stars: Queen Latifah, Kamryn Johnson, Rikki McKinney

6.6 IMDB Rating 4,020 Views
Toves værelse 2023

The year is 1963. A women's liberation movement the size of today's #MeToo movement has been underway for a while, and it's rolling across the Western world like an avalanche. In a luxury flat in central Copenhagen we meet one of ...

Category: Biography, Drama

Stars: Paprika Steen, Lars Brygmann, Joachim Fjelstrup

7.3 IMDB Rating 166 Views
Burning Body 2023

When a police officer is murdered and set on fire, all eyes focus on two other agents: his girlfriend and her lover. Inspired by true events.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama

Stars: Pep Tosar, Úrsula Corberó, Quim Gutiérrez

8.2 IMDB Rating 546 Views
Captive 2015

A single mother struggling with drug addiction is taken hostage in her own apartment by a man on the run who has broken out of jail and murdered the judge assigned to his case.

Category: Action, Biography, Crime

Stars: Kate Mara, David Oyelowo, Mimi Rogers

5.4 IMDB Rating 3,353 Views
First Man 2018

A look at the life of the astronaut, Neil Armstrong, and the legendary space mission that led him to become the first man to walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy, Jason Clarke

7.3 IMDB Rating 11,280 Views
Operation Finale 2018

A team of secret agents set out to track down the Nazi officer who masterminded the Holocaust.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Oscar Isaac, Ben Kingsley, Mélanie Laurent

6.6 IMDB Rating 4,841 Views
Che: Part Two 2008

In 1967, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara leads a small partisan army to fight an ill-fated revolutionary guerrilla war in Bolivia, South America.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Demián Bichir, Rodrigo Santoro, Benicio Del Toro

6.8 IMDB Rating 3,470 Views
Lion 2016

A five-year-old Indian boy is adopted by an Australian couple after getting lost hundreds of kilometers from home. 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.

Category: Biography, Drama

Stars: Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman, Rooney Mara

8.0 IMDB Rating 7,661 Views
Sockerexperimentet 2023

The film is inspired by a controversial experiment that took place in Sweden in 1948.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Magnus Af Sandeberg, Elisabeth Andersson, Wendela Antepohl

6.3 IMDB Rating 461 Views