In 1942 in occupied France, a Jewish refugee marries a soldier to escape deportation to Germany. Read More »
Biography
A Time to Live and a Time to Die (1985) Hsiao-Hsien Hou, Chia-bao Chang, Neng Chang, Chih-Chen Chen, Biography, Drama
This depiction of childhood and adolescence draws heavily from the filmmaker’s own boyhood. Read More »
The Look of Silence (2014) Joshua Oppenheimer, Adi Rukun, M.Y. Basrun, Amir Hasan, Documentary, Biography, History
An Indonesian man with a communist background named Ramli was brutally murdered when the “Communist” purge occurred in 1965. Read More »
Lady with Red Hair (1940) Curtis Bernhardt, Miriam Hopkins, Claude Rains, Richard Ainley, Biography, Drama
A messy divorce leaves Mrs. Leslie Carter shunned by Chicago society for being an adulteress and forbidden from having custody of her son. Read More »
Tennessee Johnson (1942) William Dieterle, Van Heflin, Lionel Barrymore, Ruth Hussey, Biography, Drama
The tumultuous presidency of 17th-president Andrew Johnson is chronicled in this biopic. Read More »
The Naked Maja (1958) Henry Koster, Ava Gardner, Anthony Franciosa, Amedeo Nazzari, Adventure, Biography, Drama, Romance
Love takes precedence over art and politics as Spanish painter Goya pines for an aloof duchess. Read More »
Henry V (1944) Laurence Olivier, Laurence Olivier, Robert Newton, Leslie Banks, Biography, Drama, History
In the motivated Olivier notion, Shakespeare’s drama begins as a function at the Globe Theatre Read More »
Hamsun (1996) Jan Troell, Max von Sydow, Ghita Nørby, Anette Hoff, Biography, Drama, War
Knut Hamsun is Norway’s most famous and respected writer. Ever since he was young he’s despised the English because of the starvation that they caused Norway through WWI. Read More »
The Times of Harvey Milk (1984) Rob Epstein, Harvey Fierstein, Harvey Milk, Anne Kronenberg, Documentary, Biography, History
An actual twentieth-century trailblazer, Harvey Milk was an outspoken human rights activist and one of the very first openly homosexual U.S. politicians elected to public office Read More »
Chariots of Fire (1981) Hugh Hudson, Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Nicholas Farrell, Biography, Drama, Sport
In the class-obsessed and religiously divided United Kingdom of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Read More »
The Rise of Louis XIV (1966) Roberto Rossellini, Jean-Marie Patte, Raymond Jourdan, César Silvagni, Biography, History
1661: Cardinal Mazarin dies. In the power vacuum, the young Louis asserts his intention to govern as well as rule. Read More »
Joan at the Stake (1954) Roberto Rossellini, Ingrid Bergman, Tullio Carminati, Giacinto Prandelli, Biography, Drama, History, Musical
The film takes place mostly in a surrealistic fantasy around the time of the execution of Joan of Arc. Joan of Arc, played by Ingrid Bergman, is being burned alive for heresy. Read More »
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (2017) Alexandra Dean, Nino Amareno, Charles Amirkhanian, Jeanine Basinger, Documentary, Biography, History, War
Hedy Lamarr was a Hollywood movie star who was hailed as the most beautiful and glamorous in the world. Read More »
Inherit the Wind (1960) Stanley Kramer, Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly, Biography, Drama, History
In the 1920s, Tennessee schoolteacher Bertram Cates (Dick York) is put on trial for violating the Butler Act Read More »
Prisoner of Rio (1988) Lech Majewski, Steven Berkoff, Paul Freeman, Peter Firth, Biography, Drama, Thriller
In 1981, Ronald Biggs was kidnapped by agents from Scotland Yard from his Brazilian hideout for his participation in the 1964 British train robbery. Read More »