141. Jersey Boys
Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Musical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Clint Eastwood
Actors: Christopher Walken, Freya Tingley, Jeremy Luke, Vincent Piazza, Kathrine Narducci, Mike Doyle
Plot: A tale of four young men growing up in New Jersey - on the wrong side of the tracks. But not just any four young men - this is the story about The Four Seasons - a group that would lay claim to some of the most iconic hits of the 60s and who made it though good times and bad thanks to a code of honor learned on the rough streets they called home.
142. Sully
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Clint Eastwood
Actors: Tom Hanks, Laura Linney, Anna Gunn, Aaron Eckhart, Autumn Reeser, Sam Huntington
Plot: Follows the life of Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, an airline pilot responsible for the "Miracle on the Hudson" where he safely glided his damaged plane onto the Hudson River, saving all 155 people aboard. But beyond this one event, even a hero's life isn't always heroic and when people begin digging, it could ultimately destroy everything he has worked toward.
143. Danton
Year of Release: 1983
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Wojciech Pszoniak, Emmanuelle Debever, Patrice Chéreau, Anne Alvaro, Roland Blanche
144. Topsy-Turvy
Year of Release: 1999
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Mike Leigh
Actors: Allan Corduner, Dexter Fletcher, Timothy Spall, Jim Broadbent, Wendy Nottingham, Julia Rayner
Plot: After the failure of Princess Ida, the duo of Gilbert and Sullivan find their relationship strained to the breaking point. Yet their friends and associates have faith in them, and the duo stick together and the resulting play, The Mikado, becomes one of their biggest hits.
145. First Man
Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Damien Chazelle
Actors: Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy, Jon Bernthal, Pablo Schreiber, Kyle Chandler, Jason Clarke
Plot: The story of Neil Armstrong, who is famous for becoming the first man to walk on the moon and the sacrifice it took to get him there.
146. Lee Daniels' The Butler
Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Lee Daniels
Actors: Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, David Oyelowo, Cuba Gooding Jr., James Marsden, Lenny Kravitz
Plot: Focuses on the life of Eugene Allen, a man who served as head butler for the White House from 1952-1986 - and his unique insight into the changing landscape of politics and race as her served eight different presidents.
147. The Post
Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 2.9 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, Carrie Coon, Bruce Greenwood
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.
148. Hitchcock
Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Sacha Gervasi
Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Scarlett Johansson, Helen Mirren, James D'Arcy, Jessica Biel, Toni Collette
Plot: Explores the relationship between director Alfred Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville during the making of his landmark horror film Psycho in 1959.
149. Loving Vincent
Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Biography
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman
Actors: Aidan Turner, Saoirse Ronan, Eleanor Tomlinson, Helen McCrory, Jerome Flynn, Chris O'Dowd
150. A River Runs Through It
Year of Release: 1992
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Robert Redford
Actors: Craig Sheffer, Brad Pitt, Tom Skerritt, Brenda Blethyn, Emily Lloyd, Edie McClurg
Plot: Two sons of a Presbyterian minister - one who rebels against his father and one who keeps things grounded - still find time to bond over their love of fly fishing.
