biography
HD 160
Director: Mike Leigh
Stars: Allan Corduner, Dexter Fletcher, Sukie Smith, Roger Heathcott, Wendy Nottingham, Stefan Bednarczyk, Geoffrey Hutchings, Timothy Spall, Francis Lee, William Neenan, Adam Searle, Martin Savage, Jim Broadbent, Lesley Manville, Kate Doherty
Storyline: After their production Princess Ida meets with less-than-stunning reviews the relationship between Gilbert and Sullivan is strained to breaking. Their friends and associates attempt to get the two to work together again which opens the way to The Mikado one of the duos greatest...
HD 107
Director: James Lapine
Stars: Judy Davis, Hugh Grant, Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters, Julian Sands, Ralph Brown, Georges Corraface, Anton Rodgers, Emma Thompson, Anna Massey, David Birkin, Nimer Rashed, Fiona Vincente, John Savident, Lucy Speed
Storyline: Novelist George Sand Judy Davis falls in love with composer Frédéric Chopin Hugh Grant. She tries to profess her love for him at a weekend hosted by a pretentious artistically minded duchess for famous musicians artists and writers of the day. The gentle and sickly Chopin is wary of the outspoken Sand but finds himself strangely drawn to her as...
HD 118
Director: Kevin Spacey
Stars: Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth, John Goodman, Bob Hoskins, Brenda Blethyn, Greta Scacchi, Caroline Aaron, Peter Cincotti, William Ullrich, Michael Byrne, Matt Rippy, Gary Whelan, Jake Broder, Tayfun Bademsoy, Tomas Spencer
Storyline: Consummate entertainer Bobby Darin 1936-1973 is making a movie about his life. Hes volatile driven by the love of performing ambition perfectionism and belief that hes living on borrowed time. He begins in the Bronx: a fatherless lad learning music and dance from his mom. His career starts slowly then Splish Splash puts him at the top of the charts and on Bandstand. He...
HD 140
Director: Olivier Dahan
Stars: Marion Cotillard, Sylvie Testud, Pascal Greggory, Emmanuelle Seigner, Jean-Paul Rouve, Gérard Depardieu, Clotilde Courau, Jean-Pierre Martins, Catherine Allégret, Marc Barbé, Caroline Sihol, Manon Chevallier, Pauline Burlet, Elisabeth Commelin, Marc Ga
Storyline: An un-chronological look at the life of the Little Sparrow Édith Piaf 1915-1963. Her mother is an alcoholic street singer her father a circus performer her paternal grandmother a madam. During childhood she lives with each of them. At 20 shes a street singer discovered by a club owner whos soon murdered coached by a musician who brings her to concert halls and then...
HD 108
Director: Jim McBride
Stars: Dennis Quaid, Winona Ryder, John Doe, Stephen Tobolowsky, Trey Wilson, Alec Baldwin, Steve Allen, Lisa Blount, Joshua Sheffield, Mojo Nixon, Jimmie Vaughan, David Ferguson, Robert Lesser, Lisa Jane Persky, Paula Person
Storyline: The story of Jerry Lee Lewis arguably the greatest and certainly one of the wildest musicians of the 1950s. His arrogance remarkable talent and unconventional lifestyle often brought him into conflict with others in the industry and even earned him the scorn and condemnation of the...
HD 106
Director: Floria Sigismondi
Stars: Kristen Stewart, Dakota Fanning, Michael Shannon, Stella Maeve, Scout Taylor-Compton, Alia Shawkat, Riley Keough, Johnny Lewis, Brett Cullen, Hannah Marks, Jill Andre, Ray Porter, Kiaya Snow, Allie Grant
Storyline: In 1975 San Fernando Valley teen Joan Larkin reinvents herself as Joan Jett a guitarist who wants to form an all-girl punk band. She pitches the idea to a sleazy manager Kim Fowley who pairs her with a drummer and then searches for a face: he finds Cherie Currie at 15 the perfect jailbait image for his purpose; by luck she can sing. Two others round out the band The Runaways....
HD 125
Director: Michael Apted
Stars: Sissy Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones, Levon Helm, Phyllis Boyens, Bill Anderson Jr., Foister Dickerson, Malla McCown, Pamela McCown, Kevin Salvilla, William Sanderson, Sissy Lucas, Pat Patterson, Brian Warf, Elizabeth Watson,
Storyline: At only thirteen years of age Loretta Webb marries Doolittle Lynn and is soon responsible for a sizeable family. Loretta appears destined to a life of homemaking but Doolittle recognises his wifes musical talent and buys her a guitar as an anniversary present one year. This gift sets Loretta Lynn on the gruelling tumultuous path to country music...
HD 121
Director: Bernard Rose
Stars: Gary Oldman, Jeroen Krabbé, Isabella Rossellini, Johanna ter Steege, Marco Hofschneider, Miriam Margolyes, Barry Humphries, Valeria Golino, Gerard Horan, Christopher Fulford, Alexandra Pigg, Luigi Diberti, Michael Culkin, Donal Gibson, Matthew North
Storyline: The life and death of the legendary Ludwig van Beethoven. Beside all the work he is known for the composer once wrote a famous love letter to a nameless beloved and the movie tries to find out who this beloved was. Not easy as Beethoven has had many women in his...
HD 152
Director: Taylor Hackford
Stars: Jamie Foxx, Kerry Washington, Regina King, Clifton Powell, Harry Lennix, Bokeem Woodbine, Aunjanue Ellis, Sharon Warren, C.J. Sanders, Curtis Armstrong, Richard Schiff, Larenz Tate, Terrence Howard, David Krumholtz, Wendell Pierce
Storyline: Ray Charles has the distinction of being both a national treasure and an international phenomenon. By the early 1960s Ray Charles had accomplished his dream. Hed come of age musically. Hed made it to Carnegie Hall. The hit records Georgia Born to Lose successively kept climbing to the top of the charts. Hed made his first triumphant European concert tour in 1960 a feat which...
HD 105
Director: Scott Hicks
Stars: Geoffrey Rush, Justin Braine, Sonia Todd, Chris Haywood, Alex Rafalowicz, Gordon Poole, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Nicholas Bell, Danielle Cox, Rebecca Gooden, Marta Kaczmarek, John Cousins, Noah Taylor, Paul Linkson, Randall Berger
Storyline: Based on the true story of Australian pianist David Helfgott this delightful movie charts the traumatic early years through adulthood. Telling the story in flashback we see David as a child prodigy and as he grows up while his patriarchal father abuses him and his siblings with the memory of his childhood in Europe and the loss of his family in the concentration camps. David finally...
HD 115
Director: Mat Whitecross
Stars: Andy Serkis, Tom Hughes, Clifford Samuel, Joseph Kennedy, Arthur Darvill, James Jagger, Shakraj Soornack, Mackenzie Crook, Olivia Williams, Sam Spruell, Julian Cox, Nick Rowson, Wesley Nelson, Ross Boatman, Msimisi Dlamini
Storyline: A biography of Ian Dury who was stricken with polio at a young age and defied expectations by becoming one of the founder of the punk-rock scene in Britain in the...
HD 153
Director: James Mangold
Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon, Ginnifer Goodwin, Robert Patrick, Dallas Roberts, Dan John Miller, Larry Bagby, Shelby Lynne, Tyler Hilton, Waylon Payne, Shooter Jennings, Sandra Ellis Lafferty, Dan Beene, Clay Steakley, Johnathan Rice
Storyline: 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...
HD 122
Director: Anton Corbijn
Stars: Sam Riley, Samantha Morton, Alexandra Maria Lara, Joe Anderson, James Anthony Pearson, Harry Treadaway, Craig Parkinson, Toby Kebbell, Andrew Sheridan, Robert Shelly, Richard Bremmer, Tanya Myers, Martha Myers Lowe, Matthew McNulty, David Whittington
Storyline: Ian Curtis is a quiet and rather sad lad who works for an employment agency and sings in a band called Warsaw. He meets a girl named Debbie whom he promptly marries and his band of which the name in the meantime has been changed to Joy Division gets more and more successful. Even though Debbie and he become parents their relationship is going downhill rapidly and Ian starts an...
HD 121
Director: Anand Tucker
Stars: Emily Watson, Rachel Griffiths, James Frain, David Morrissey, Charles Dance, Celia Imrie, Rupert Penry-Jones, Bill Paterson, Auriol Evans, Keylee Jade Flanders, Nyree Dawn Porter, Anthony Smee
Storyline: British sisters Hilary du Pré and Jacqueline du Pré are both talented musicians Hilary a flautist Jackie a cellist. With regard to their musical prowess they have always had a friendly competitive nature with each other fueled in large part by the want of their pianist mother Iris for them to achieve musical greatness. But underlying this friendliness is a deep desire to be...
HD 161
Director: Clint Eastwood
Stars: Forest Whitaker, Diane Venora, Michael Zelniker, Samuel E. Wright, Keith David, Michael McGuire, James Handy, Damon Whitaker, Morgan Nagler, Arlen Dean Snyder, Sam Robards, Penelope Windust, Glenn Wright
Storyline: Saxophone player Charlie Parker comes to New York in 1940. He is quickly noticed for his remarkable way of playing. He becomes a drug addict but his loving wife Chan tries to help...
HD 97
Director: Gus Van Sant
Stars: Michael Pitt, Lukas Haas, Asia Argento, Scott Patrick Green, Nicole Vicius, Ricky Jay, Ryan Orion, Harmony Korine, Rodrigo Lopresti, Kim Gordon, Adam Friberg, Andy Friberg
Storyline: Introspective artist Blake is buckling under the weight of fame professional obligations and a mounting feeling of isolation. Dwarfed by towering trees Blake slowly makes his way through dense woods. He scrambles down an embankment to a fresh spring and undresses for a short swim. The next morning he returns to his house an elegant if neglected stone mansion. Many people are...
HD 108
Director: Luis Valdez
Stars: Lou Diamond Phillips, Esai Morales, Rosanna DeSoto, Elizabeth Peña, Danielle von Zerneck, Joe Pantoliano, Rick Dees, Marshall Crenshaw, Howard Huntsberry, Brian Setzer, Daniel Valdez, Felipe Cantu, Eddie Frias, Mike Moroff, Geoffrey Rivas
Storyline: This is the true story of Ritchie Valens a young rock & roll singer who tragically died in a plane crash at the age of 17. The film follows Ritchie from his days in Pacoima California where he and his family make a meager living working on farms to his rise as a star. The film also focuses on Richies friendship and rivalry with his older brother Bob and his relationship with...
HD 136
Director: Imtiaz Ali
Stars: Ranbir Kapoor, Nargis Fakhri, Shammi Kapoor, Shikha Jain, Jaideep Ahlawat, Aditi Rao Hydari, Piyush Mishra, Moufid Aziz, Kumud Mishra, Shreya Narayan, Shernaz Patel, Paritosh Sand
Storyline: Dressed in Persian clothes chased by hooligans famous Indian-born Rockstar Jordan barely makes it to a Czech stadium to perform before a huge crowd. It was not too long ago that he was just an awkward uninhibited collegian wanna-be musician with a name of Janardhan Jakhar who was ridiculed everywhere. His family wanted him to be inducted in their business but he refuses. He is...
HD 101
Director: Steve Carver
Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Ben Gazzara, Harry Guardino, Susan Blakely, John Cassavetes, Frank Campanella, John Orchard, Carmen Argenziano
Storyline: The story of the rise and fall of the infamous Chicago gangster Al Capone and the control he exhibited over the city during the prohibition years. Unusually briefly covering the years after Capone was...
HD 92
Director: Newt Arnold
Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Donald Gibb, Leah Ayres, Norman Burton, Forest Whitaker, Roy Chiao, Philip Chan, Pierre Rafini
Storyline: Frank Dux has spent most his life being trained by Tanaka to participate in the Kumite the ultimate martial arts tournament where participants are seriously injured even killed. Frank decides to go despite being told by his superiors in the army that he cant because they need him. Two army officers are sent to get him and the trail leads to Hong Kong but Frank eludes them. While...
HD 105
Director: Phyllida Lloyd
Stars: Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent, Susan Brown, Alice da Cunha, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Iain Glen, Alexandra Roach, Victoria Bewick
Storyline: Tells the story of a woman who smashed through the barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male-dominated world. The story concerns power and the price that is paid for power and is a surprising and insightful portrait of an extraordinary and complex...
HD 92
Director: Joe Chappelle
Stars: Rudolf Martin, Jane March, Christopher Brand, Peter Weller, Roger Daltrey, Michael Sutton, Razvan Vasilescu, Radu Amzulescu, Maia Morgenstern, Claudiu Bleont, Claudiu Trandafir, Dan Bordeianu, Victor Ungureanu, Dan Badarau, Sebastian Lupea
Storyline: A warlord must fight a bloody battle in order to regain his...
HD 137
Director: Clint Eastwood
Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Josh Hamilton, Geoff Pierson, Cheryl Lawson, Kaitlyn Dever, Brady Matthews, Gunner Wright, David A. Cooper, Ed Westwick, Naomi Watts
Storyline: As the face of law enforcement in America for almost 50 years J. Edgar Hoover was feared and admired reviled and revered. But behind closed doors he held secrets that would have destroyed his image his career and his...
HD 122
Director: Roland Joffe
Stars: Charlie Cox, Wes Bentley, Dougray Scott, Unax Ugalde, Olga Kurylenko, Pablo Lapadula, Golshifteh Farahani, Rusty Lemorande
Storyline: A young journalist long ago rejected by his now aged and dying father finds himself investigating one of his fathers former friends a candidate for canonization. Uncovering the two mens complicated relationship from childhood through the horrors of the Spanish Civil War unveils a compelling drama filled with passion betrayal love and religion. An action packed story set during a...
HD 133
Director: Bennett Miller
Stars: Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Robin Wright, Chris Pratt, Stephen Bishop, Brent Jennings, Ken Medlock, Tammy Blanchard
Storyline: Oakland As GM Billy Beane is handicapped with the lowest salary constraint in baseball. If he ever wants to win the World Series Billy must find a competitive advantage. Billy is about to turn baseball on its ear when he uses statistical data to analyze and place value on the players he picks for the...
HD 106
Director: Asif Kapadia
Stars: Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost, Frank Williams, Ron Dennis, Viviane Senna, Milton da Silva, Neide Senna, Jackie Stewart
Storyline: The story of the monumental life and tragic death of legendary Brazilian motor-racing Champion Ayrton Senna. Spanning the decade from his arrival in Formula One in the mid 80s the film follows Sennas struggles both on track against his nemesis French World Champion Alain Prost and off it against the politics which infest the sport. Sublime spiritual yet on occasion ruthless -...
HD 106
Director: Sean McNamara
Stars: AnnaSophia Robb, Helen Hunt, Dennis Quaid, Lorraine Nicholson, Kevin Sorbo, Carrie Underwood, Ross Thomas, Chris Brochu, Sonya Balmores, Jeremy Sumpter
Storyline: 13 year-old Bethany Hamilton is a champion surfer who was born to be in the water. But after a fun night out night surfing and what should be a fun day in the water she is attacked by a shark and loses her arm. Rushed to the hospital she remains calm and maintains her faith in God. Now she has to re-learn how to do everything with only one arm - including how to surf. It will take...
HD 112
Director: Hark Tsui
Stars: Jet Li, Cunzhuang Ge, Rosamund Kwan, Shun Lau, Siu Chung Mok, John Wakefield, Xin Xin Xiong
Storyline: Wong Fei-Hung and sidekick Chung arrive in Peking just as the Empress announces a Lion Dance martial arts contest. Also accompanying him is cousin Yee his young Westernized aunt-by-adoption to whom Wong is secretly betrothed. Wong faces a possible romantic rival in a Russian diplomat Tumanovsky whom Aunt Yee knew back in school and a martial arts rival in the brutal Club Foot...
HD 113
Director: Hark Tsui
Stars: Jet Li, Rosamund Kwan, Donnie Yen, Siu Chung Mok, David Chiang, Xin Xin Xiong, Paul Fonoroff, Ho Chi-Moon, Ka-Kui Ho
Storyline: In the sequel to the Tsui Hark classic Wong Fei-Hung faces The White Lotus society a fanatical cult seeking to drive the Europeans out of China through violence even attacking Chinese who follow Western ways. Wong must also defend Dr. Sun Yat Sen a revolutionary from the military. With his friends loved ones and the future of China itself at stake Wong must once again use his...
HD 108
Director: Wilson Yip
Stars: Donnie Yen, Lynn Hung, Simon Yam, Sammo Hung Kam-Bo, Xiaoming Huang, Siu-Wong Fan, Kent Cheng, Darren Shahlavi
Storyline: Ip Man 2 is a 2010 Hong Kong biographical martial arts film loosely based on the life of Ip Man a grandmaster of the martial art Wing Chun. A sequel to the 2008 film Ip Man the film was directed by Wilson Yip and stars Donnie Yen who reprises the leading role. Continuing after the events of the earlier film the sequel centers on Ips movements in Hong Kong which is under British...
