151. The Lost City of Z
Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Biography
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: James Gray
Actors: Charlie Hunnam, Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, Sienna Miller, Angus Macfadyen, Daniel Huttlestone
Plot: Based on the true story of British explorer Percy Fawcett who, at the dawn of the 20th century, comes across what he believes is a previously unknown ancient, advanced civilization deep within the Amazon. Despite being ridiculed by the scientific community, Fawcett, along with the support of his aide de camp and wife, returns to the Amazon time and time again to prove his case up until his mysterious disappearance in 1925.
152. A Prayer Before Dawn
Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Biography
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire
Actors: Joe Cole, Vithaya Pansringarm, Panya Yimmumphai, Nicolas Shake, Pornchanok Mabklang, Billy Moore
153. Lion of the Desert
Year of Release: 1981
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Moustapha Akkad
Actors: Anthony Quinn, Oliver Reed, Irene Papas, Rod Steiger, John Gielgud, Raf Vallone
Plot: General Rodolfo Graziani is assigned directly by Benito Mussolini to
subdue the Arabs in Libya. But early victory is out of his hands as Omar
Mukhtar and his army of Bedouins win battle after battle. But the cruel
Graziani sets upon a plan to target the civilian population: the aged, the
women and the children in order to get Mukhtar to surrender.
154. 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, 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.
155. Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Marielle Heller
Actors: Melissa McCarthy, Melissa McCarthy, Joanna Adler, Richard E. Grant, Marc Evan Jackson, Christian Navarro
Plot: Based on the true story of best-selling celebrity biographer Lee Israel who, during the 1970s-80s published books on the likes of Katherine Hepburn, Tallulah Bankhead, Estee Lauder and journalist Dorothy Kilgallen. But changing tastes means Israel finds herself no longer able to get published. Not content with this fact, she turns to a new tactic: deception, along with help from her best friend, Jack.
156. I Killed My Mother ( J'ai tué ma mère )
Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Xavier Dolan
Actors: Anne Dorval, Xavier Dolan, François Arnaud, Suzanne Clément, Patricia Tulasne, Niels Schneider
Plot: Xavier Dolan both directed and stars in the semi-autobiographical look into the confused adolescence of a teenager and his love/hate relationship with his mother.
157. The World's Fastest Indian
Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Biography
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Roger Donaldson
Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Iain Rea, Tessa Mitchell, Aaron Murphy, Tim Shadbolt, Annie Whittle
Plot: The life story of New Zealander, Burt Munro. In 1967, after spending years rebuilding a 1920 Indian motorcycle, he packs up his bike and travels around the world to race in Utah at the Bonneville Salt Flats. Encountering obstacle after obstacle, including being denied entrance in the races, Munro defies the odds and sets a new land-speed world record.
158. Big Eyes
Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Tim Burton
Actors: Amy Adams, Christoph Waltz, Terence Stamp, Jason Schwartzman, Krysten Ritter, Danny Huston
Plot: Painter Margaret Keane flourished in the 1950s, as her paintings featuring children with large eyes became the rage. In the 1960s, her husband Walter Keane started taking credit for her work, leading to a long, difficult legal battle.
159. Ivan the Terrible, Part I ( Ivan Groznyy I )
Year of Release: 1947
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Sergei M. Eisenstein
Actors: Nikolai Cherkasov, Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, Serafima Birman, Mikhail Nazvanov, Mikhail Zharov, Pavel Kadochnikov
Plot: In this first part of the two-part life of Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible) we explore his early days after he crowns himself Tsar of Russia and beings cultivating his power and reclaiming lost territory. From various campaigns to an illness that nearly takes his life to threats from the aristocracy and his own family - he deftly plays his hand to keep his title.
160. Nixon
Year of Release: 1995
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Oliver Stone
Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Joan Allen, Powers Boothe, Ed Harris, Bob Hoskins, E.G. Marshall
Plot: Oliver Stone's examination of Richard Nixon - from his strict Quaker upbringing to early political stirrings and the devastating loss to John F. Kennedy. Although sharing little charisma, his political machinations eventually pay off when he is elected president in 1968 - but, though safely ahead in polls, is brought down by paranoia when the Watergate scandal hits.
