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De Palma is a movie starring Brian De Palma. A documentary about writer and director Brian De Palma.

Dare to Be Wild is a movie starring Emma Greenwell, Tom Hughes, and Alex Macqueen. Irishwoman Mary Reynold's journey from rank outsider to winner of a Gold Medal at the Chelsea Flower Show.

Be Here Now is a movie starring Jai Courtney, Andy Whitfield, and Indigo Whitfield. As though life is imitating art, actor and sex-symbol, Andy Whitfield, had just become a star as the lead in the hit television series,'Spartacus,'...

Altamira is a movie starring Antonio Banderas, Clément Sibony, and Rupert Everett. Life and events of the man who realized one of the most important discoveries of the 19th century: Altamira's caves.

Churchill's Secret is a TV movie starring Michael Gambon, Romola Garai, and Lindsay Duncan. British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill (Sir Michael Gambon) suffers from a stroke in the summer of 1953, which is consequently kept a...

Viceroy's House is a movie starring Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson, and Manish Dayal. The final Viceroy of India, Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (Hugh Bonneville), is tasked with...

The Zookeeper's Wife is a movie starring Jessica Chastain, Johan Heldenbergh, and Daniel Brühl. Keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Antonina and Jan Zabinski, must save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion in WWII Poland.

Elephant is a movie starring Meghan Markle. Documentary follows an African elephant named Shani and her son Jomo as their herd make an epic journey across the Kalahari Desert.

McLaren is a movie starring Mario Andretti, Alastair Caldwell, and Dwayne Cameron. The story of Bruce McLaren, the New Zealander who founded the McLaren Motor Racing team. A man who showed the world that a man of humble beginnings...

I'm Not There is a movie starring Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, and Heath Ledger. Ruminations on the life of Bob Dylan, where six characters embody a different aspect of the musician's life and work.

Bombshell is a movie starring Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, and Margot Robbie. A group of women take on Fox News head Roger Ailes and the toxic atmosphere he presided over at the network.

ZZ Top: That Little Ol' Band from Texas is a movie starring Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill, and Frank Beard. The story of how three oddball teenage bluesmen became one of the biggest, most beloved bands on the planet.

Seberg is a movie starring Kristen Stewart, Yvan Attal, and Gabriel Sky. Inspired by real events in the life of French New Wave icon Jean Seberg. In the late 1960s, Hoover's FBI targeted her because of her political and romantic...

Richard Jewell is a movie starring Paul Walter Hauser, Sam Rockwell, and Brandon Stanley. American security guard Richard Jewell saves thousands of lives from an exploding bomb at the 1996 Olympics, but is vilified by journalists...

Proceder is a movie starring Piotr Witkowski, Agnieszka Wiedlocha, and Ewa Zietek. Tomas Chada was a good guy at heart, great with rhyme and poetry, which lead him to becoming a rapper, well known in Poland. This story shows how he...

Pariah: The Lives and Deaths of Sonny Liston is a TV movie starring Nigel Collins, Helen-Jean Long, and Jerry Izenberg. Overcoming the seemingly insurmountable odds that life threw his way, Liston became heavyweight champion of the...

Stan & Ollie is a movie starring Steve Coogan, John C. Reilly, and Shirley Henderson. Laurel and Hardy, the world's most famous comedy duo, attempt to reignite their film careers as they embark on what becomes their swan song - a...

Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. is a movie starring M.I.A., Madonna, and Bill Maher. Drawn from a never-before-seen cache of personal footage spanning decades, this is an intimate portrait of the Sri Lankan artist and musician who continues to...

Brian Banks is a movie starring Aldis Hodge, Greg Kinnear, and Sherri Shepherd. A football player's dreams to play in the NFL are halted when he is wrongly convicted and sent to prison. Years later, he fights to clear his name...

Elizabeth: The Golden Age is a movie starring Cate Blanchett, Clive Owen, and Geoffrey Rush. A mature Queen Elizabeth endures multiple crises late in her reign including court intrigues, an assassination plot, the Spanish Armada,...

Rise of the Footsoldier is a movie starring Ricci Harnett, Craig Fairbrass, and Terry Stone. The life of career criminal Carlton Leach.

Becoming Jane is a movie starring Anne Hathaway, James McAvoy, and Julie Walters. A biographical portrait of a pre-fame Jane Austen and her romance with a young Irishman.

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford is a movie starring Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, and Sam Shepard. Robert Ford, who's idolized Jesse James since childhood, tries hard to join the reforming gang of the Missouri...

Control is a movie starring Sam Riley, Samantha Morton, and Craig Parkinson. A profile of Ian Curtis, the enigmatic singer of Joy Division whose personal, professional, and romantic troubles led him to commit suicide at the age of...

Persepolis is a movie starring Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, and Gena Rowlands. A precocious and outspoken Iranian girl grows up during the Islamic Revolution.

Breach is a movie starring Chris Cooper, Ryan Phillippe, and Dennis Haysbert. FBI upstart Eric O'Neill enters into a power game with his boss, Robert Hanssen, an agent who was put on trial for selling secrets to the Soviet Union.

Nightwatching is a movie starring Martin Freeman, Emily Holmes, and Eva Birthistle. An extravagant, exotic and moving look at Rembrandt's romantic and professional life, and the controversy he created by the identification of a...

Mongol is a movie starring Tadanobu Asano, Amadu Mamadakov, and Khulan Chuluun. The story recounts the early life of Genghis Khan who was a slave before going on to conquer half the world in 1206.

Changeling is a movie starring Angelina Jolie, Colm Feore, and Amy Ryan. Grief-stricken mother Christine Collins (Angelina Jolie) takes on the L.A.P.D. to her own detriment when it tries to pass off an obvious impostor as her...

Frost/Nixon is a movie starring Frank Langella, Michael Sheen, and Kevin Bacon. A dramatic retelling of the post-Watergate television interviews between British talk-show host David Frost and former president Richard Nixon.

Yip Man is a movie starring Donnie Yen, Simon Yam, and Siu-Wong Fan. During the Japanese invasion of 1937, when a wealthy martial artist is forced to leave his home and work to support his family, he reluctantly agrees to train...

The Duchess is a movie starring Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, and Dominic Cooper. A chronicle of the life of 18th-century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life.

Cadillac Records is a movie starring Adrien Brody, Jeffrey Wright, and Beyoncé. Chronicles the rise of Chess Records and its recording artists.

Bathory is a movie starring Anna Friel, Karel Roden, and Vincent Regan. Bathory is based on the legends surrounding the life and deeds of Countess Elizabeth Bathory known as the greatest murderess in the history of mankind. Contrary...

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People is a movie starring Simon Pegg, Kirsten Dunst, and Megan Fox. A British writer struggles to fit in at a high-profile magazine in New York City.

Carnera: The Walking Mountain is a movie starring Andrea Iaia, Anna Valle, and Paolo Seganti. The life of Primo Carnera a.k.a. "Ambling Alp", Italian professional boxer and the World Heavyweight Champion from June 1933 to June 1934,...

The Longshots is a movie starring Ice Cube, Keke Palmer, and Tasha Smith. The true story of Jasmine Plummer who, at the age of eleven, became the first female to play in Pop Warner football tournament in its 56-year history.

Man on Wire is a movie starring Philippe Petit, Jean François Heckel, and Jean-Louis Blondeau. A look at tightrope walker Philippe Petit's daring, but illegal, high-wire routine performed between New York City's World Trade Center's...

Little Ashes is a movie starring Robert Pattinson, Javier Beltrán, and Matthew McNulty. About the young life and loves of artist Salvador Dalí, filmmaker Luis Buñuel and writer Federico García Lorca.

Georgetown is a movie starring Christoph Waltz, Vanessa Redgrave, and Annette Bening. Ulrich Mott, an ambitious social climber, marries a wealthy widow in Washington D.C. in order to mix with powerful political players.

A Hidden Life is a movie starring August Diehl, Valerie Pachner, and Maria Simon. The Austrian Franz Jägerstätter, a conscientious objector, refuses to fight for the Nazis in World War II.

Flash of Genius is a movie starring Greg Kinnear, Lauren Graham, and Alan Alda. Robert Kearns takes on the Detroit automakers who he claims stole his idea for the intermittent windshield wiper.

Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson is a movie starring Hunter S. Thompson, Johnny Depp, and Joe Cairo. A portrait of the late gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson.

My Name Is Sara is a movie starring Zuzanna Surowy, Konrad Cichon, and Pawel Królikowski. Sara is a a 13 year-old Polish Jew who finds refuge and is taken in by a farmer and his wife. She soon discovers the dark secrets of her...

Max Manus is a movie starring Aksel Hennie, Agnes Kittelsen, and Nicolai Cleve Broch. The true story about one of the most brilliant saboteurs during World War II and his battle to overcome his inner demons.

The Blind Side is a movie starring Quinton Aaron, Sandra Bullock, and Tim McGraw. The story of Michael Oher, a homeless and traumatized boy who became an All-American football player and first-round NFL draft pick with the help of a...

Notorious is a movie starring Jamal Woolard, Anthony Mackie, and Derek Luke. The life and death story of The Notorious B.I.G. (a.k.a. Christopher Wallace), who came straight out of Brooklyn to take the world of rap music by storm.

The Countess is a movie starring Julie Delpy, Daniel Brühl, and William Hurt. A 17th century Hungarian countess embarks on a murderous undertaking, with the belief that bathing in the blood of virgins will preserve her beauty.