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Year: Before 2010
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A Beautiful Mind
2001
From the heights of notoriety to the depths of depravity, John Forbes Nash, Jr. experienced it all. A mathematical genius, he 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 painful and harrowing journey of self-discovery. After many years of struggle, he eventually triumphed over his tragedy, and finally - late in life - received the Nobel Prize.
Category: Biography, Drama
Stars: Russell Crowe,Ed Harris,Jennifer Connelly,Christopher Plummer
8.2 IMDB Rating 6,786 Views
Invictus
2009
Nelson Mandela, in his first term as President of South Africa, initiates a unique venture to unite the Apartheid-torn land: enlist the national rugby team on a mission to win the 1995 Rugby World Cup.
Category: Biography, Drama, History
Stars: Morgan Freeman,Matt Damon,Tony Kgoroge,Patrick Mofokeng
7.4 IMDB Rating 3,676 Views
Walk the Line
2005
While growing up in the Great Depression era, Johnny Cash takes an interest in music and eventually moves out of his Arkansas town to join the air force in Germany. While there, he buys his first guitar and writes his own music, and proposes to Vivian. When they got married, they settled in Tennessee and with a daughter, he supported the family by being a salesman. He discovers a man who can pursue his dreams and ends up getting a record with the boys. Shortly after that, he was on a short tour, promoting his songs, and meets the already famous and beautiful June Carter. Then as they get on the long-term tours with June, the boys, and Jerry Lee Lewis, they have this unspoken relationship that grows. But when June leaves the tour because of his behavior, he was a drug addict. His marriage was also falling apart, and when he sees June years later at an awards show, he forces June to tour with them again, promising June to support her two kids and herself. While the tour goes on, the relationship between June and John grow more,and his marriage to his first wife ends. June finds out about the drugs, and help him overcome it. True love and care helped John eventually stop the drug usage, and finally proposes to her in front of an audience at a show.
Category: Biography, Drama, Music
Stars: Joaquin Phoenix,Reese Witherspoon,Ginnifer Goodwin,Robert Patrick
7.9 IMDB Rating 6,673 Views
Spartacus: Blood and Sand
2010–2013
The life of Spartacus, the gladiator who lead a rebellion against the Romans. From his time as an ally of the Romans, to his betrayal and becoming a gladiator, to the rebellion he leads and its ultimate outcome.
Category: Action, Adventure, Biography
Stars: Manu Bennett, Daniel Feuerriegel, Peter Mensah, Lucy Lawless
8.5 IMDB Rating 30,582 Views
John Adams
2008
The life of one of the USA's Founding Fathers, its second President, and his role in the nation's first 50 years.
Category: Biography, Drama, History
Stars: Paul Giamatti, Laura Linney, John Dossett, Stephen Dillane
8.5 IMDB Rating 1,767 Views
The Young Victoria
2009
A dramatization of the turbulent first years of Queen Victoria's rule, and her enduring romance with Prince Albert.
Category: Biography, Drama, History
Stars: Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Paul Bettany, Miranda Richardson
7.3 IMDB Rating 3,504 Views
Men of Honor
2000
The story ultimately revolves around two "men of honor"; their relationship, their individual and joint failures and triumphs. Carl Brashear is determined to be the first African American Navy Diver in a time where racism is rife. Leslie Sunday is his embittered trainer, determined to see him fail. Fate, challenges and circumstances eventually draw these two men together in a tale of turbulence and ultimately triumph.
Category: Biography, Drama
Stars: Robert De Niro, Cuba Gooding Jr., Charlize Theron, Aunjanue Ellis
7.2 IMDB Rating 4,806 Views
The Elephant Man
1980
John Merrick (whose real name was Joseph, as this is based on a true story) is an intelligent and friendly man, but he is hated by his Victorian-era English society because he is severely deformed. Once he is discovered by a doctor, however, he is saved from his life in a freak show and he is treated like the human being that he really is.
Category: Biography, Drama
Stars: Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud
8.1 IMDB Rating 2,313 Views
House of Saddam
2008
A mini-series that explores the inner workings of Saddam Hussein's family and his relationship with his closest advisers.
Category: Biography, Drama, History, TV Mini
Stars: Igal Naor, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Makram Khoury, Philip Arditti
7.5 IMDB Rating 3,524 Views
The Sound of Music
1965
In 1930's Austria, a young woman named Maria is failing miserably in her attempts to become a nun. When the Navy captain Georg Von Trapp writes to the convent asking for a governess that can handle his seven mischievous children, Maria is given the job. The Captain's wife is dead, and he is often away, and runs the household as strictly as he does the ships he sails on. The children are unhappy and resentful of the governesses that their father keeps hiring, and have managed to run each of them off one by one. When Maria arrives, she is initially met with the same hostility, but her kindness, understanding, and sense of fun soon draws them to her and brings some much-needed joy into all their lives -- including the Captain's. Eventually he and Maria find themselves falling in love, even though Georg is already engaged to a Baroness and Maria is still a postulant. The romance makes them both start questioning the decisions they have made. Their personal conflicts soon become overshadowed, however, by world events. Austria is about to come under the control of Germany, and the Captain may soon find himself drafted into the German navy and forced to fight against his own country.
Category: Biography, Drama, Family, Kids
Stars: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker, Richard Haydn
8.0 IMDB Rating 4,584 Views
Lawrence of Arabia
1962
Due to his knowledge of the native Bedouin tribes, British Lieutenant T.E. Lawrence is sent to Arabia to find Prince Faisal and serve as a liaison between the Arabs and the British in their fight against the Turks. With the aid of native Sherif Ali, Lawrence rebels against the orders of his superior officer and strikes out on a daring camel journey across the harsh desert to attack a well-guarded Turkish port.
Category: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Stars: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins
8.3 IMDB Rating 3,252 Views
The Fighter
2010
Based on the story of Micky Ward, a fledgling boxer who tries to escape the shadow of his more famous but troubled older boxing brother and get his own shot at greatness.
Category: Biography, Drama, Sport
Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Melissa Leo
7.8 IMDB Rating 4,644 Views
The Doors
1991
The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band The Doors and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison, from his days as a UCLA film student in Los Angeles, to his untimely death in Paris, France at age 27 in 1971.
Category: Biography, Drama, Music
Stars: Val Kilmer, Meg Ryan, Kyle MacLachlan, Frank Whaley
7.2 IMDB Rating 996 Views
Citizen X
1995
During the 1980s, Soviet authorities hunt for a serial killer who picks his victims in railway stations and commuter trains and lures them into the woods.
Category: Biography, Crime, Drama
Stars: Stephen Rea, Donald Sutherland, Max von Sydow, Jeffrey DeMunn
7.5 IMDB Rating 1,008 Views
Erin Brockovich
2000
Erin Brockovich-Ellis is an unemployed single mother, desperate to find a job, but is having no luck. This losing streak even extends to a failed lawsuit against a doctor in a car accident she was in. With no alternative, she successfully browbeats her lawyer to give her a job in compensation for the loss. While no one takes her seriously, with her trashy clothes and earthy manners, that soon changes when she begins to investigate a suspicious real estate case involving the Pacific Gas & Electric Company. What she discovers is that the company is trying quietly to buy land that was contaminated by hexavalent chromium, a deadly toxic waste that the company is improperly and illegally dumping and, in turn, poisoning the residents in the area. As she digs deeper, Erin finds herself leading point in a series of events that would involve her law firm in one of the biggest class action lawsuits in American history against a multi-billion dollar corporation.
Category: Biography, Drama
Stars: Julia Roberts, David Brisbin, Dawn Didawick, Albert Finney
7.3 IMDB Rating 4,287 Views
Conviction
2010
Betty Anne Waters (Swank) is a high school dropout who spent nearly two decades working as a single mother while putting herself through law school, tirelessly trying to beat the system and overturn her brother's (Rockwell) unjust murder conviction.
Category: Biography, Crime, Drama
Stars: Hilary Swank, Sam Rockwell, Thomas D. Mahard, Owen Campbell
7.2 IMDB Rating 3,642 Views
Lords of Dogtown
2005
A fictionalized take on the group of brilliant young skateboarders raised in the mean streets of Dogtown in Santa Monica, California. The Z-Boys, as they come to be known, perfect their craft in the empty swimming pools of unsuspecting suburban homeowners, pioneering a thrilling new sport and eventually moving into legend.
Category: Biography, Drama, Sport
Stars: John Robinson, Emile Hirsch, Rebecca De Mornay, William Mapother
7.1 IMDB Rating 4,472 Views
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1969
Wyoming, early 1900s. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid are the leaders of a band of outlaws. After a train robbery goes wrong they find themselves on the run with a posse hard on their heels. Their solution - escape to Bolivia.
Category: Biography, Crime, Drama
Stars: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Strother Martin
8.0 IMDB Rating 2,199 Views