The war drama is narrated by Anthony Swofford (Jake Gyllenhaal), a third-generation Marine enlistee, who vividly recounts his experiences in the first Gulf War, depicting the rigours of boot camp, horrors of combats, friendship and loyalty of brothers-in-arms, and their memories of family and lovers who are cheating on them while they are on the front line.
The charming dramedy follows the life of legendary New Zealander Burt Munro (Anthony Hopkins) who spent years improving and modifying his beloved 1920 Indian Scout motorcycle. He travelled all over the world on his bike and eventually made his dream come true. During the 1967 famous race held at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats, he set a world speed record of 190.07 mph, which has not been broken yet.
The biopic depicts the life of Johnny Cash (Joaquin Phoenix), a legendary country and rock-and-roll singer-songwriter. The early years of his life were saddened by his elder brother's tragic death and his father's scornful attitude towards him (his dad considered Cash to be a bad son). The soon-to-be musician served in the United States Air Force in Germany. After his discharge Cash married his sweetheart, Vivian Liberto (Ginnifer Goodwin), who gave birth to four daughters. But their marriage was not without shadows as he neglected his family duties and devoted all his time and energy mainly to playing the guitar and singing along with his two close friends. At the age of 23, he released his first hit "Cry Cry Cry" and soon went on a tour of the USA, along with Jerry Lee Lewis (Waylon Payne), Elvis Presley (Tyler Hilton) and June Carter (Reese Witherspoon). He adored June and her songs since he was a kid. When their paths crossed, he came to realize that June was a woman of his dreams. He had been trying to win her hand for several years. The critical moments in his life were accompanied by his addiction to amphetamine and alcohol. In 1968, Cash and Carter got married and lived together long and happily till death did them part.
Set in California in the 1970s, the compelling drama revolves around a group of energetic and fearless teenage surfers, named the Z-Boys, who revolutionized skateboarding. Performing daredevil stunts in empty swimming pools, they pioneered a new extreme sport which became a new trend in pop culture and a symbol of a whole generation of their young coevals. However, sudden fame took its toll on their friendship, as they transformed their hobby of surfing into a business.
In the North American Great Depression, the former successful boxer James Braddock loses all his possessions and savings with the crash of the stock market. His beloved wife Mae Braddock and their three children survive to starvation and lack of heating and the daily difficulties supported by their love. In 1934, when Jim's couch and manager Joe Gould offers to him a chance to return to boxing, he becomes the symbol of hope of hopeless people in a ruined nation.
On the night of 14 November 1959, in Holcomb, Kansas, a farmhouse is broken into by the criminals Perry Smith and Dick Hickock that expect to get US$ 10,000.00. With the policy of "no witness", the murderers kill the entire family. The homosexual writer Truman Capote travels to the small town with his friend Nelle Harper Lee and decide to use the topic to write a book. When the killers are arrested, he becomes friend of Perry for his own interest and then he falls in love for him, and gets a new lawyer for them, postponing their execution until 14 April 1965.
A man who had conquered 90% of the known world by the age of twenty-five, Alexander the Great (Colin Farrell) was one of history's most luminous and influential leaders who forged an empire stretching from Greece to India in the fourth century B.C. His conquests facilitated the promotion of Greek culture, and, centuries later, the spread of Christianity, and the expansion of the great Roman Empire. Young King of Macedonia had conquered almost the entire known world of his era, before dying at the age of 32. This epic movie follows him, his family, his allies, foes, ventures and achievements.
The early years of the famous magnate, Howard Hughes (1905-1976), are charted in this biographical chronicle where Leo DiCaprio stars. His eclectic career came through everything from oil, for which he cared little, to casinos, film, and aviation - as he turned millions of dollars into billions. His relationships with Hollywood's divas, including the elegant screen star Katharine Hepburn (Blanchett) and the sensual screen beauty Ava Gardner (Beckinsale) were also volatile. He was the incarnated mid-century icon of American wealth. Martin Scorsese directed this fast-moving, epic-scale biopic documenting the life and loves of the one of the most colorful Americans of the 20th century and also chronicles Hughes' struggle with his physical phobias and disabilities, and with his increasingly erratic, obsessive-compulsive behavior that forces him to isolate himself from the world.
Consummate entertainer Bobby Darin (1936-1973) is making a movie about his life. He's volatile, driven by the love of performing, ambition, perfectionism, and belief that he's 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 wants to be an entertainer, not a pop star, so he aims for the Copacabana; then it's on to the movies, where he meets and marries Sandra Dee. After, it's balancing career, health, marriage and family life, balances he doesn't always keep. Throughout, conversations with his boyhood self give him perspective.
The movie begins with the words from Sylvia Plath’s poem ‘Lady Lazarus’: ‘Dying is an art’. The movie relates the story of love and passion between two well-known poets of the XX century – Sylvia Plath (Gwyneth Paltrow) and Ted Hughes (Daniel Craig). Their first meeting developed into a stormy relationship. However, their marriage proved to be fragile, and they separated (mainly because of Hughes’ affair with Assia Wevill (Amira Casar). Down-and-out, depressed, with a broken heart, Sylvia Plath took her own life in 1963.
Harvey Pekar (Paul Giamatti) leads an ordinary life in the city of Cleveland, working as a file clerk at the local VA hospital. Being divorced twice, Harvey fills his solitary days with reading and listening to music, and he regularly scours garage sales and thrift stores for rare Jazz records. His routine life changes for the better when a chance meeting with a greeting card artist and music enthusiast Robert Crumb (James Urbaniak) develops into a warm friendship through their common interests. Once Crumb becomes famous for his underground comic books, Harvey decides to write his own book with Crumb’s illustrations. ‘American Splendor’ tells truthful, unsentimental, warts-and-all stories about his working-class life. Soon Harvey achieves cult fame and meets his future wife, Joyce (Joyce Brabner), a comic book storeowner from Delaware.
A dark tale based on the true story of Aileen Wuornos, one of America's first female serial killers. Wuornos had a difficult and cruel childhood plagued by abuse and drug use in Michigan. She became a prostitute by the age of thirteen, the same year she became pregnant. She eventually moved to Florida where she began earning a living as a highway prostitute—servicing the desires of semi-truck drivers. The tale focuses on the nine month period between 1989 and 1990, during which Wuornos had a lesbian relationship with a woman named Selby. And during that very same time, she also began murdering her clientele in order to get money without using sex. This turned the tables on a rather common phenomena of female highway prostitutes being the victims of serial killers—instead Wuornos, herself, carried out the deeds of a cold-blooded killer.
Tracy is a more unpopular girl who desperately wants to befriend the most popular girl in school Evie. When Evie finally becomes her friend she leads Tracy into a world of drugs, sex, violence, and theft in which her mother can not save her.
W. Abagnale Jr. (Leonardo DiCaprio) was a high school student who changed places of employment working as a doctor, a pilot, a lawyer... not even wielding any skill of these professions. He was a perfect con artist pursued by the FBI in the sixties along with more dangerous offenders - terrorists, serial killers and others. This venturesome forger has been hunted by an FBI agent Carl Hanratty (Tom Hanks) who tried to do his best to catch Abagnale in this funny picture by inimitable Steven Spielberg. This film is based on the real events!
One of the most accomplished piano players in Poland, Wladyslaw Szpilman becomes subject to the anti-Jewish laws imposed by the conquering Germans in the 1930s. At last deciding to escape, suffering the tragedy of his family deported to a death camp, Szpilman goes into hiding as a Jewish refugee where he is witness to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943 and the Warsaw City Revolt in August/October 1944.
"Frida" chronicles the life Frida Kahlo (Salma Hayek) shared unflinchingly and openly with Diego Rivera (Alfred Molina), as the young couple took the art world by storm. From her complex and enduring relationship with her mentor and husband to her illicit and controversial affair with Leon Trotsky, to her provocative and romantic entanglements with women, Frida Kahlo lived a bold and uncompromising life as a political, artistic, and sexual revolutionary.
Chic life and mysteriuos death of Bob Crane, an actor, is still stunning the minds despite the fact he died in 1978. He was a sex addict, and a permanent client of the most dissolute strip clubs; female form was the favorite object of his interest as a photographer. After he met a camera operator John Carpenter, he's got accustomed to the video, and, at the same time his marriage and the entirely life went to the road to ruin. As he used to tempt his fate, he could not escape it and died from the tripod strike on his head.
A sailor (Derek Luke) prone to violent outbursts is sent to a naval psychiatrist (Washington) for help. Refusing at first to open up, the young man eventually breaks down and reveals a horrific childhood. Through the guidance of his doctor, he confronts his painful past and begins a quest to find the family he never knew.
Michael Reilly Burke's portrayal of the notorious serial killer Ted Bundy is exceptional. This account begins in 1974 with Bundy as a sympathetic counselor at an emergency hotline center in Seattle as well as a struggling law student. Bundy was handsome, intelligent, and well spoken, but something disturbing lurked just beneath the facade and his sociopathic behavior set forth a series of events that would shock the world. "Ted Bundy" moves from the 1974 Seattle killings to Utah, Colorado, and to his final killing spree in Tallahassee, Florida shortly after he escaped (for the second time) from incarceration and ends with his humiliating demise in the electric chair on January 24th, 1989. Theodore Robert Bundy confessed to killing 28 women, but the actual number Bundy carried with him to his grave. Some say, however, that he is responsible for as many as 33 to 100 murders of young women.
