21 – 40 of 49 movies
B.B. King and I
A young drummer travels from the heartland of America to Hollywood in pursuit of his musical destiny. After attending a B.B. King concert in 1980, the drummer strikes up a friendship with the blues legend that endures for 30 years, culminating with him gifting King with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Banking on Mr. Toad
Follows "Wind in the Willows" author Kenneth Grahame, Elsie, and their young son Alastair, who struggled with health problems, many of which could not be properly treated at the time. The family’s troubles are eased by the “Wind in the Willows” and its success.
Castro's Daughter
A biopic about Alina Fernandez, Fidel Castro's exiled daughter.
Location: US - Puerto Rico
Fela Kuti
A human rights activist, sexual revolutionary, and political maverick, Fela Kuti was one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. He was the king of Afrobeat, a fusion of jazz, funk, psychedelic rock, and Yoruba chants and rhythms. Taking on Nigeria’s rapidly changing and often corrupt government in the 1970s, Fela pushed boundaries in art and life. His legacy as a charismatic visionary continues to inspire the contemporary hip-hop world and generations of artists who believe in the power of music to transform people and cultures.
Fred & Ginger
The story of the passionate and explosive relationship between Hollywood dance legends, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.
Pure Imagination
Centers around a specific period in Roald Dahl’s life when his four-month old son was tragically struck by a taxi, and the author went to great lengths to save the boy’s life.
The Murderous Miss High...
During her formative years, author Patricia Highsmith has a fascination for gruesome murders. Her tumultuous love life influences her persona.
A First Class Man
A self-taught Indian math child prodigy and mystic Ramanujan corresponds with British mathematician and atheist G.H. Hardy, who is struck by the Indian's genius and invites him to work in Cambridge.
Dionne
The film will cover the period early in singer Dionne Warwick's career from 1962 through 1968.
Fleming
True story of the creator and writer of the James Bond franchise, and his own life experiences with womanizing and spying.
Fred Astaire Biopic
A biopic of legendary actor, dancer and singer Fred Astaire.
Girl You Know It’s True
Follows the 1980s rise of the Grammy-winning German-French R&B duo, as well as their fall after it emerges that they lip-synch all of their songs.
Good Vibrations
A biopic of Belfast, Ireland-based music legend Terri Hooley, founder of the Good Vibrations record store and record label, home of punk rockers The Undertones and Rudi and the Outcasts.
La Mujer Infinita
In 1913, at the age of 16, Italian born Tina Modotti (né Assunta Adelaide Luigia Modotti Mondini) emigrates to the United States to join her father in San Francisco, California. Attracted to the performing arts supported by the Italian émigré community in the Bay Area, Modotti experiments with acting. She appears in several plays, operas, and silent movies in the late 1910s and early 1920s, and also works as an artist's model. She later becomes an activist.
Lee
American fashion model, artist and war correspondent Elizabeth "Lee" Miller is a muse and collaborator to famous artists such as Pablo Picasso and Man Ray, an acclaimed photojournalist documenting some of the most important moments in history, a witness to wartime atrocities and one of the most glamorous women of her time.
Little Dragon
The story is a contemporary dramatization of the 1950s Hong Kong social and political forces that shaped Bruce Lee into both the most famous martial arts star of all time and a significant modern day philosopher.
Love Is a Gun
Story of notorious Depression-era criminal duo and lovers, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow.
McCarthy
Charts the epic rise and fall of infamous US Senator Joseph McCarthy (Shannon).
Location: Czech Republic
Monty Clift
A method actor who refuses to put his private life on display, Montgomery Clift graduates from stage roles to screen success in films that include "A Place In The Sun" and "From Here To Eternity." His matinee idol good looks are destroyed by a devastating car accident that leaves him with a broken nose and facial scars. Though he continues to make movies, the accident haunts him until his death, even though he receives an Oscar nomination for one of his last performances in Judgment At Nuremberg.