Based on Ron Hansen's novel, this action-packed western drama tells the story of Robert Ford (Casey Affleck), a seemingly insecure and quiet young man who has grown up worshiping America's most notorious outlaw, Jesse James (Brad Pitt). In 1881, he finds James and his older brother Frank (Sam Shepard) in Missouri and joins their gang for a final train robbery. One day the ambitious yet cowardly cowboy wants the fame that Jesse James gets and ventures to murder his idol.
This fact-based drama concerns Christopher McCandless (Emile Hirsch), a bright 22-year-old man with a promising future. But shortly after graduating from Atlanta's Emory University, the freedom-loving adventure seeker decides to give up his privileged life and go to live in the wilderness. He donates his $24,000 savings account to charity, changes his name to Alexander Supertramp and hitchhikes to Alaska, wearing only a thin coat and having neither compass nor map. Four months later, the man is found dead...
A biographic film. Based on the memoir Touching From A Distance by Deborah Curtis, Control is a cinematographic story telling us of the Joy Division band and its leader Ian Curtis (Sam Riley). It is also a skillfully and beautifully featured film about ravaging effects of love, fame and repentance, and the salvation we turn to art for. Formed as a rock band in 1976 in salford, Greater Manchester, originally named Warsaw, Joy Division quickly went off their initial punk rock influences and created a sound and style that shaped the tendencies of the post-punk movement of the late 1970s. Control, however, is virtually about Curtis’s difficult relationships with his wife Deborah (Samantha Morton) and the way his personal pain, epileptic sufferings, guilt and depression got manifested through Joy Division’s music. Playing all the instruments themselves, the actors must be given credit.
The movie reconstucts the true story that documents how Mandela became one of the most inspirational political figure in the modern history. It was created on basis of discrepant recollections of James Gregory (Joseph Fiennes), the white South African guard who had been guarding Nelson Mandela (Dennis Haysbert) during more than 20 years of the imprisonment of the latter under apartheid. Through the profound friendship between the two men and under Mandela's influence, Gregory's views evolve from the racist government bigotry to sincere devotion to the struggle for a free, democratic South Africa.
In the late 16th century, the British Empire faces a real threat: Spanish King Phillip II sends the greatest amount of ships, the Spanish Armada, to the British Isles. Queen Elizabeth (Cate Blanchett) is torn into pieces: on the one hand, she must lead her country and prepare people for defense; on the other hand, she must cope with her own feelings firstly because she falls in love with Sir Walter Raleigh (Clive Owen) who is likely to leave Britain and set up for a long travelling.
With the 400th anniversary of Rembrandt's birth in 2006, NIGHTWATCHING is truly a feast for the senses. Extravagant, suspenseful and sensuously beautiful, the mystery behind the extraordinary artist's infamous painting is perfectly explored by one of the most iconic Directors of our time - Peter Greenaway. The year 1642 marks the turning point in the life of the famous Dutch painter, Rembrandt, turning him from a wealthy respected celebrity into a discredited pauper. At the insistence of his pregnant wife Saskia, Rembrandt has reluctantly agreed to paint the Amsterdam Musketeer Militia in a group portrait that will later become to be known as The Nightwatch. He soon discovers that there is a conspiracy afoot with the Amsterdam merchants playing at soldiers maneuvering for financial advantage and personal power in, that time, the richest city in the Western World. Rembrandt stumbles on a foul murder. Confident in the birth of a longed-for son and heir, Rembrandt is determined to expose the conspiring murderers and builds his accusation meticulously in the form of the commissioned painting, uncovering the seamy and hypocritical side to Dutch Society in the Golden Age. Rembrandt's great good fortune turns. Saskia dies. Rembrandt reveals the accusation of murder in the painting and the conspirators plan revenge. They set out to discredit him at home and abroad. They plant a treacherous mistress, Geertje, to seduce him. They try to blind him. They plan his social and financial ruin, and to create the circumstances for his slide into penury, insult his young mistress Hendrickje, conspire to destroy his son, and bring Rembrandt to his knees. The bold and courageous painting of the Nightwatch, exceptional in aesthetics and content, is Rembrandt's most celebrated painting, it consolidated his reputation as a master-painter but it also destroyed him socially and financially.
Six incarnations of Bob Dylan: an actor, a folk singer, an electrified troubadour, Rimbaud, Billy the Kid, and Woody Guthrie. Put Dylan's music behind their adventures, soliloquies, interviews, marriage, and infidelity. Recreate 1960s documentaries in black and white. Put each at a crossroads, the artist becoming someone else. Jack, the son of Ramblin' Jack Elliott, finds Jesus; handsome Robbie falls in love then abandons Claire. Woody, a lad escaped from foster care, hobos the U.S. singing; Billy awakes in a valley threatened by a six-lane highway; Rimbaud talks. Jude, booed at Newport when he goes electric, fences with reporters, pundits, and fans. He won't be classified.
Set in Washington, D.C., in the 1960s, the inspiring drama tells the true life story of Ralph Waldo 'Petey' Greene (Don Cheadle). When a radio program director, Dewey Hughes (Chiwetel Ejiofor), visits his brother Milo (Mike Epps) in prison, he hears his fellow inmate, Petey, who works as a disc jockey to express himself. Dewey decides to support an open-minded and open-hearted man and gets him on the air. Petey's charismatic voice, his bold honesty and his biting sense of humor make him an instant hit with audiences.
El Greco is a Greek film about the life of the Greek painter Doménicos Theotokópoulos (El Greco). It was produced in 2007, directed by Yannis Smaragdis and written by Jackie Pavlenko and Dimitris Siatopoulos (book). A dramatization of the life of 16th century Greek painter, Doménicos Theotokópoulos, who, in search of freedom and love, sets off from Crete and goes to Venice and finally Toledo.
Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind.
The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Tony Blair during their struggle, following the death of Diana, to reach a compromise between what was a private tragedy for the Royal family and the public's demand for an overt display of mourning.
From the producers of "The Rookie", this inspiring sports movie will star Mark Wahlberg as a Philadelphia Eagles fan who has just lost his wife and his teaching job. He decides one day to show up for an open tryout for his favorite NFL team, only to see his wildest dreams come true.
In the detective thriller, Truman Capote (Toby Jones), a famous writer for The New Yorker, reads a brief story about the brutal and senseless murders of four members of a farm family in Holcomb, Kansas. Intrigued by the story, he and his assistant and fellow writer, Nelle Harper Lee (Sandra Bullock), set out for Kansas to research the horrific case for an article. The deeper Capote digs into the story, the more convinced he becomes that it is too big for just an article, and he decides to write a modern non-fiction novel about the murders and suspects. In doing so, he creates his famous work, "In Cold Blood," but he has to pay too big a price for his success.
The moving drama is based on the real-life story of Chris Gardner (Will Smith), a purposeful, strong-willed, fortitudinous person who never let despair hold him captive. You know, life is difficult enough as it is. And you have to learn to take the rough with the smooth as Chris did. Jobless, homeless and stony-broke, he took things on the chin and bent over backwards to earn a reasonable living and make his infant son Christopher (Jaden Smith) happy. There was a period of tough sledding before he succeeded in beating the odds. But for his capability of endurance, his talent and the overwhelming desire for a better life, he wouldn’t have become a millionaire.
The idealist William Wilberforce maneuvers his way through Parliament in 19th century England, endeavoring to end the British transatlantic slave trade.
A beautiful, wealthy young party girl drops out of Radcliffe in 1965 and heads to New York to become Holly Golightly. When she meets a hungry young artist named Andy Warhol, he promises to make her the star she always wanted to be. And like a super nova she explodes on the New York scene only to find herself slowly lose grip on reality...
Set in Victorian England, the charming romantic drama tells the story of Beatrix Potter (Renee Zellweger), a single, 32-year-old woman who goes from one publishing house to another, showing her children's stories and drawings and trying to get her book published. The Warne brothers, Harold (Anton Lesser) and Fruing (David Bamber), are among the six publishers to whom Beatrix submits the story of Peter Rabbit. Having examined her rabbits in frock coats and half-witted ducks who she talks to as if they are living creatures, the brothers only agree to publish her work to preoccupy their younger brother Norman (Ewan McGregor). Beatrix's first project proves a huge success, making her a writing celebrity.
Tony Scott's witty action-drama is based upon the true story. Inimitable Keira Knightley appears as a renegade Domino Harvey, who leaves her high-society life for the bounty-hunter being to track down drug dealers and murderers for a bail bonds company in South Central L.A. She met Ed Mosbey (Mickey Rourke), an ex-con who had gone on to a successful career as a "bail recovery agent" - in short, a bounty hunter. To mother's horror, Domino not only fell in love with the job but also with her fellow adventurers, who over the years would become her family.
This biopic television miniseries features Jonathan Rhys-Meyers as the King of Rock-n-roll, the story traces all his life from the very boyhood in 1950's Memphis to the pinnacles of his worldwide glory and the depths of isolation and drug addiction of his life's end.
