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1. The Wizard of Lies (2017 TV Movie)
TV-MA | 133 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The fall of Bernie Madoff, whose Ponzi scheme robbed $65 billion from unsuspecting victims; the largest fraud in U.S. history.
Director: Barry Levinson | Stars: Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, Alessandro Nivola, Nathan Darrow
Votes: 28,663
2. Truth (I) (2015)
R | 125 min | Biography, Drama, History
Newsroom drama detailing the 2004 CBS "60 Minutes" report investigating then-President George W. Bush's military service, and the subsequent firestorm of criticism that cost anchor Dan Rather and producer Mary Mapes their careers.
Director: James Vanderbilt | Stars: Cate Blanchett, Robert Redford, Dennis Quaid, Elisabeth Moss
Votes: 21,239 | Gross: $2.54M
3. Maudie (2016)
PG-13 | 115 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
An arthritic Nova Scotia woman works as a housekeeper while she hones her skills as an artist and eventually becomes a beloved figure in the community.
Director: Aisling Walsh | Stars: Sally Hawkins, Ethan Hawke, Zachary Bennett, Gabrielle Rose
Votes: 21,564 | Gross: $6.17M
4. The Big Short (2015)
R | 130 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
In 2006-2007 a group of investors bet against the United States mortgage market. In their research, they discover how flawed and corrupt the market is.
Director: Adam McKay | Stars: Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt
Votes: 484,685 | Gross: $70.26M
5. The Informant! (2009)
R | 108 min | Biography, Comedy, Crime
The U.S. government decides to go after an agro-business giant with a price-fixing accusation, based on the evidence submitted by their star witness, vice president-turned-informant Mark Whitacre.
Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: Matt Damon, Tony Hale, Patton Oswalt, Lucas McHugh Carroll
Votes: 67,453 | Gross: $33.31M
6. Bad Education (2019)
TV-MA | 108 min | Biography, Comedy, Crime
The beloved superintendent of New York's Roslyn school district and his staff, friends and relatives become the prime suspects in the unfolding of the single largest public school embezzlement scandal in American history.
Director: Cory Finley | Stars: Hugh Jackman, Ray Romano, Welker White, Allison Janney
Votes: 43,498
7. The Banker (2020)
PG-13 | 120 min | Biography, Drama
In the 1960s, two African-American entrepreneurs hire a working-class white man to pretend to be the head of their business empire while they pose as a janitor and chauffeur.
Director: George Nolfi | Stars: Anthony Mackie, Samuel L. Jackson, Nicholas Hoult, Nia Long
Votes: 35,708
8. Finding Neverland (2004)
PG | 106 min | Biography, Drama, Family
The story of Sir J.M. Barrie's friendship with a family who inspired him to create Peter Pan.
Director: Marc Forster | Stars: Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet, Julie Christie, Radha Mitchell
Votes: 212,054 | Gross: $51.68M
9. City of Lies (2018)
R | 112 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Russell Poole and Jack Jackson investigate the murder of rapper Notorious B.I.G.
Director: Brad Furman | Stars: Johnny Depp, Forest Whitaker, Toby Huss, Dayton Callie
Votes: 19,050 | Gross: $0.57M
10. Find Me Guilty (2006)
R | 125 min | Biography, Comedy, Crime
In the late 1980s, a low level gangster named Jackie DiNorscio defends himself in court in what became the longest criminal trial in American judicial history.
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Vin Diesel, Peter Dinklage, Ron Silver, Alex Rocco
Votes: 36,245 | Gross: $1.17M
11. 1898: Our Last Men in the Philippines (2016)
R | 105 min | Drama, History, War
In 1898, Spain sends a military squad to the town of Baler, the Philippines, to protect one of the last colonies of the Spanish Empire, to prevent rebellious natives from recovering their ... See full summary »
Director: Salvador Calvo | Stars: Luis Tosar, Javier Gutiérrez, Álvaro Cervantes, Karra Elejalde
Votes: 3,594
12.
Small Axe (2020)
Episode:
Mangrove
(2020)
TV-MA | 127 min | Drama, History
Mangrove tells this true story of The Mangrove Nine, who clashed with London police in 1970. The trial that followed was the first judicial acknowledgment of behavior motivated by racial hatred within the Metropolitan Police.
Director: Steve McQueen | Stars: Gary Beadle, Darren Braithwaite, Richie Campbell, Ben Caplan
Votes: 5,891
13. American Gangster (2007)
R | 157 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
An outcast New York City cop is charged with bringing down Harlem drug lord Frank Lucas, whose real life inspired this partly biographical film.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Josh Brolin
Votes: 452,593 | Gross: $130.16M
14. A Beautiful Mind (2001)
PG-13 | 135 min | Biography, Drama, Mystery
A mathematical genius, John Nash made an astonishing discovery early in his career and stood on the brink of international acclaim. But the handsome and arrogant Nash soon found himself on a harrowing journey of self-discovery.
Director: Ron Howard | Stars: Russell Crowe, Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Christopher Plummer
Votes: 987,088 | Gross: $170.74M
15. Tommy's Honour (2016)
PG | 112 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
In every generation, a torch passes from father to son. And that timeless dynamic is the beating heart of Tommy's Honour - an intimate, powerfully moving tale of the real-life founders of the modern game of golf.
Director: Jason Connery | Stars: Benjamin Wainwright, Peter Mullan, Jack Lowden, Peter Ferdinando
Votes: 1,379 | Gross: $0.56M
16. Neruda (2014)
100 min | Action, Drama, History
The poet Pablo Neruda receives the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971 and in his acceptance speech, he recalls episodes of his life almost forgotten. In 1948 because of a Senator of the ... See full summary »
Director: Manuel Basoalto | Stars: José Secall, Paulina Harrington, Max Corvalán, Nelson Brodt
Votes: 79
17. My Left Foot (1989)
R | 103 min | Biography, Drama
Christy Brown, born with cerebral palsy, learns to paint and write with his only controllable limb - his left foot.
Director: Jim Sheridan | Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker, Alison Whelan, Kirsten Sheridan
Votes: 79,798 | Gross: $14.74M
18. A United Kingdom (2016)
PG-13 | 111 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of King Seretse Khama of Botswana and how his loving but controversial marriage to a British white woman, Ruth Williams, put his kingdom into political and diplomatic turmoil.
Director: Amma Asante | Stars: David Oyelowo, Rosamund Pike, Tom Felton, Jack Davenport
Votes: 16,986 | Gross: $3.90M
19. Spare Parts (I) (2015)
PG-13 | 114 min | Biography, Drama, History
Four Mexican high school students form a robotics club. With no experience, 800 bucks, used car parts and a dream, this rag tag team goes up against the country's reigning robotics champion, MIT.
Director: Sean McNamara | Stars: George Lopez, Jamie Lee Curtis, Carlos PenaVega, Marisa Tomei
Votes: 11,861 | Gross: $3.61M
20. Resolution 819 (2008 TV Movie)
96 min | History, War
Resolution 819: Adopted by the Security Council at its 3199th meeting on April 16th, 1993. Resolution 819 tells the compelling story of a young investigator sent to Bosnia in 1995 to ... See full summary »
Director: Giacomo Battiato | Stars: Benoît Magimel, Hippolyte Girardot, Karolina Gruszka, Hristo Shopov
Votes: 209
21. The One and Only Ivan (2020)
PG | 95 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A gorilla named Ivan tries to piece together his past with the help of an elephant named Ruby as they hatch a plan to escape from captivity.
Director: Thea Sharrock | Stars: Sam Rockwell, Bryan Cranston, Phillipa Soo, Chaka Khan
Votes: 13,445
22. My Blind Date with Life (2017)
111 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
An ambitious young man struggles to achieve his dream of becoming an employee in a Munich luxury hotel despite being strongly visually impaired.
Director: Marc Rothemund | Stars: Kostja Ullmann, Jacob Matschenz, Anna Maria Mühe, Johann von Bülow
Votes: 5,779
23. Sardar Udham (2021)
TV-MA | 164 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
A biopic detailing the 2 decades that Punjabi Sikh revolutionary, Udham Singh, spent planning the assassination of the man responsible for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.
Director: Shoojit Sircar | Stars: Vicky Kaushal, Shaun Scott, Stephen Hogan, Amol Parashar
Votes: 47,275
24. The Vancouver Asahi (2014)
132 min | Drama, History, Sport
1918 -1942 , A Time Period passed . Vancouver Canada , a Japanese Community and the struggles and triumphs they faced , and the Spirit of a Baseball Team that won over many, and overcame ... See full summary »
Director: Yûya Ishii | Stars: Satoshi Tsumabuki, Kazuya Kamenashi, Ryô Katsuji, Yusuke Kamiji
Votes: 259
25. Jungle (I) (2017)
R | 115 min | Action, Adventure, Biography
A group of friends join a guide for a trek into the Bolivian jungle, searching for an Indian village. The men soon realize that the jungle is a difficult place to be.
Director: Greg McLean | Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Thomas Kretschmann, Alex Russell, Joel Jackson
Votes: 63,650
26. Zodiac (2007)
R | 157 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Between 1968 and 1983, a San Francisco cartoonist becomes an amateur detective obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac Killer, an unidentified individual who terrorizes Northern California with a killing spree.
Director: David Fincher | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards
Votes: 598,450 | Gross: $33.08M
27. The Traitor (2019)
R | 153 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The real life of Tommaso Buscetta, the so-called "boss of the two worlds," the first mafia informant in Sicily in the 1980s.
Director: Marco Bellocchio | Stars: Pierfrancesco Favino, Maria Fernanda Cândido, Fabrizio Ferracane, Fausto Russo Alesi
Votes: 12,976
28. Extraordinary Measures (2010)
PG | 106 min | Drama
A drama centered on the efforts of John and Aileen Crowley to find a researcher who might have a cure for their two children's rare genetic disorder.
Director: Tom Vaughan | Stars: Brendan Fraser, Keri Russell, Harrison Ford, Meredith Droeger
Votes: 17,810 | Gross: $11.85M
29. Manjhi: The Mountain Man (2015)
TV-14 | 120 min | Biography, Drama
Using only a hammer and a chisel, a man spends twenty-two years carving a road through a treacherous mountain.
Director: Ketan Mehta | Stars: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Radhika Apte, Ashutosh Acharya, Shahzad Ahmed
Votes: 19,998
30. The 12th Man (2017)
Unrated | 135 min | Drama, History, Thriller
They were 12 saboteurs. The Nazis killed 11 of them. This is the true story of the one that got away.
Director: Harald Zwart | Stars: Thomas Gullestad, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Marie Blokhus, Mads Sjøgård Pettersen
Votes: 29,214
31. My Sweet Orange Tree (2012)
99 min | Drama, Family
My Sweet Orange Tree begins with José Mauro de Vasconcelos (Caco Ciocler) receiving an edition of his finished novel. Then, the film starts to tell the story from the writer's memories, ... See full summary »
Director: Marcos Bernstein | Stars: João Guilherme, José de Abreu, Caco Ciocler, Eduardo Dascar
Votes: 1,466
32. The Program (II) (2015)
R | 99 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
An Irish sports journalist becomes convinced that Lance Armstrong's performances during the Tour de France victories are fueled by banned substances. With this conviction, he starts hunting for evidence that will expose Armstrong.
Director: Stephen Frears | Stars: Ben Foster, Chris O'Dowd, Guillaume Canet, Jesse Plemons
Votes: 19,411
33. A Man of Action (2022)
TV-MA | 111 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
In this drama inspired by the life of Lucio Urtubia, an anarchist targets one of the world's biggest banks with an ingenious counterfeiting operations.
Director: Javier Ruiz Caldera | Stars: Juan José Ballesta, Luis Callejo, Liah O'Prey, Miki Esparbé
Votes: 3,346
34. Gold Run (2022)
117 min | Drama, Thriller, War
Based on the true story of the effort to evacuate the entire Norwegian gold reserve out of Norway during the German invasion of Norway in World War II to keep the gold out of Germany's hands.
Director: Hallvard Bræin | Stars: Jon Øigarden, Ida Elise Broch, Sven Nordin, Eivind Sander
Votes: 2,600
35. Between Two Worlds (2021)
106 min | Drama
It is based on French journalist Florence Aubenas's bestselling non-fiction work Le Quai de Ouistreham, investigating rising precarity in French society through her experiences in the northern port city of Caen.
Director: Emmanuel Carrère | Stars: Juliette Binoche, Louise Pociecka, Steve Papagiannis, Aude Ruyter
Votes: 2,272
36. The Colour Room (2021)
112 min | Drama
Clarice Cliff breaks the glass ceiling and revolutionizes the workplace at a pottery factory in 1920s England.
Director: Claire McCarthy | Stars: Phoebe Dynevor, Matthew Goode, Kerry Fox, Darci Shaw
Votes: 1,665
37. Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend (2022)
R | 97 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
this thrilling, high-speed biopic reveals one man's dream of making the world's fastest car-and beating rival Enzo Ferrari.
Director: Bobby Moresco | Stars: Mira Sorvino, Frank Grillo, Gabriel Byrne, Eliana Jones
Votes: 12,446
38. Expediency (2021)
150 min | Thriller
The political differences between one of the influential figures of the regime and his son, pits them against each other and causes a severe confrontation and balance between family ties and the political interest of the country.
Director: Hossein Darabi | Stars: Farhad Ghaemian, Vahid Rahbani, Majid Norouzi, Nazanin Farahani
Votes: 199
39. The Command (2018)
PG-13 | 117 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The 2000 K-141 Kursk submarine disaster is followed by governmental negligence. As the sailors fight for survival, their families desperately battle political obstacles and impossible odds to save them.
Director: Thomas Vinterberg | Stars: Matthias Schoenaerts, Léa Seydoux, Peter Simonischek, August Diehl
Votes: 21,449
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