171. 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
172. 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, Gene Reynolds, Edward Norris
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.
173. Grandmaster, The ( Yi dai zong shi )
Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Action/Biography
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Kar Wai Wong
Actors: Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Ziyi Zhang, Chen Chang, Cung Le, Hye-kyo Song, Siu-Lung Leung
Plot: A biography of the great martial arts master Ip Man - the legendary man who would train and mentor Bruce Lee.
174. 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, James Karen, Lane Smith
Plot: The story of Francis Farmer as she goes from an actress to the mental
asylum.
175. Born to Be Blue
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Robert Budreau
Actors: Ethan Hawke, Carmen Ejogo, Callum Keith Rennie, Tony Nappo, Stephen McHattie, Janet-Laine Green
Plot: A re-imagining of jazz trumpeter Chet Baker's life in the 60s set with the setup being a film about himself with an enigmatic co-star who pushes him to look beyond his turbulent past and stage his own comeback.
176. 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.
177. Kundun
Year of Release: 1997
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Martin Scorsese
Actors: Tenzin Thuthob Tsarong, Gyurme Tethong, Tulku Jamyang Kunga Tenzin, Tenzin Yeshi Paichang, Tencho Gyalpo, Tenzin Topjar
Plot: Biography about the fourteenth Dalai Lama - forced to flee from Tibet after China forced its oppressive regime on his people. Fleeing to India, the Kundun has been living in exile ever since.
178. 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, Ari Graynor, Clea DuVall
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.
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, Alan Tudyk, John Goodman
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. Bukowski: Born Into This
Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Biography
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Dullaghan
Actors: Charles Bukowski, Bono, Sean Penn, Tom Waits, Harry Dean Stanton, Barbet Schroeder
