171. The Post
Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Steven Spielberg
Actors: Alison Brie, Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, Sarah Paulson
Plot: Inspired by real events - Katharine Graham is the first female publisher of a major American newspaper when she takes over The Washington Post. Long-time editor Ben Bradlee comes across the story of a lifetime - The Pentagon Papers, a massive government cover-up of Vietnam that spans three decades and involves four presidents. The story has implications that could not only harm their careers, but their very lives - as well as the future of the newspaper itself.
172. American Me
Year of Release: 1992
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Edward James Olmos
Actors: Sal Lopez, Vira Montes, Roberto Martín Márquez, Dyana Ortelli
Plot: A gangster is released from prison and tries to make sense of his life.
173. Boys Town
Year of Release: 1938
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Norman Taurog
Actors: Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Henry Hull, Leslie Fenton
Plot: Father Flanagan starts "Boys Town" after hearing a convicts story. Hoping to help wayward boys, one such charge is Whitey Marsh. The boy attempts numerous escapes, but returns - but he wants nothing more than to join his brother Joe in a local gang.
174. The Founder
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: John Lee Hancock
Actors: Linda Cardellini, Michael Keaton, Patrick Wilson, Nick Offerman
Plot: The life and times of the man behind most successful fast-food franchise on Earth, McDonald's founder, Ray Kroc.
175. Cobain: Montage of Heck
Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Biography
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Brett Morgen
Actors: Kurt Cobain, Dave Grohl, Courtney Love, Krist Novoselic
176. Frances
Year of Release: 1982
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Graeme Clifford
Actors: Jessica Lange, Kim Stanley, Sam Shepard, Bart Burns
Plot: The story of Francis Farmer as she goes from an actress to the mental asylum.
177. Conviction
Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Tony Goldwyn
Actors: Sam Rockwell, Hilary Swank, Juliette Lewis, Minnie Driver
Plot: When her brother exhausts all sources to overturn his robbery and murder charge, single mother Betty Anne Waters puts herself through law school in order to fight his conviction.
178. Machine Gun Preacher
Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Biography
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Marc Forster
Actors: Gerard Butler, Michelle Monaghan, Michael Shannon, Madeline Carroll
Plot: Sam Childers spent his life as a drug-dealing biker until he found God. He found a way to put his faith and former life to use by taking on the task of coming to the aid of Sudanese children forced to become soldiers.
179. Trumbo
Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jay Roach
Actors: Bryan Cranston, Elle Fanning, Helen Mirren, Diane Lane
Plot: Dalton Trumbo was one of the most successful screenwriters in the 1940s, winning an Oscar for Kitty Foyle. But as WWII swept across the world, his political view and ideologies clashed, and, along with publishing the novel "Johnny Got His Gun", he would eventually become the most famous face to be blacklisted by Hollywood.
180. Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
Year of Release: 1993
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Rob Cohen
Actors: Jason Scott Lee, Lauren Holly, Robert Wagner, Michael Learned
Plot: The life and times of Bruce Lee: a teenage, Chinese boy moves to the U.S. and opens his own martial arts studio. Then, he becomes a movie star.
