Country: United States
Genre: Biography, Drama
A beautiful wealthy young party girl drops out of Radcliffe in 1965 and heads to New York to become Holly Golightly. When she meets a hungry young artist named Andy Warhol he promises to make her the star she always wanted to be. And like a super nova she explodes on the New York scene only to find herself slowly lose grip on...
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Germany
Genre: Biography, Drama
Sweden early 1900s - an era of social change and unrest war and poverty. A young working class woman Maria wins a camera in a lottery. The camera grants her the eyes to view the world and empowers her over several decades to raise and nurture her family of six children and an alcoholic womanizing and sometimes violent although ultimately loving...
Country: United States
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Inspired by a true story of a young Hasidic man who was lured into the world of international drug trafficking in the late...
Country: United States
Genre: Drama, History, War
Based on J. G. Ballards autobiographical novel tells the story of a boy James Graham whose privileged life is upturned by the Japanese invasion of Shanghai December 8 1941. Separated from his parents he is eventually captured and taken to Soo Chow confinement camp next to a captured Chinese airfield. Amidst the sickness and food shortages in the camp Jim attempts to reconstruct his...
Country: United States
Genre: Biography, Drama
A biopic about the actor James Dean whose stardom of the ultimate teenage rebel as well as the premature death made him a legend. His roles are depicted having much in common with his personal life most notably the difficult relationship with his...
Country: Germany, United States
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Anthony Swoff Swofford a Camus-reading kid from Sacramento enlists in the Marines in the late 1980s. He malingers during boot camp but makes it through as a sniper paired with the usually-reliable Troy. The Gulf War breaks out and his unit goes to Saudi Arabia for Desert Shield. After 175 days of boredom adrenaline heat worry about his girlfriend finding someone else losing it and...
Country: France, United States
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
One of the obsessive speculations in American history is whether Thomas Jefferson in the years before he became president had an affair with and fathered a child with his 15-year-old slave Sally Hemings. JEFFERSON IN PARIS follows Jefferson to France as the U.S. ambassador to the court of Louis XVI following the death of his wife his friendships and flirtations with the French his...
Country: United States, France
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
On November 22 1963 president John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas. Lee Harvey Oswald is arrested for the crime and subsequently shot by Jack Ruby supposedly avenging the presidents death. An investigation concludes that Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby acted alone in their respective crimes but Louisiana district attorney Jim Garrison is skeptical. Assembling a trusted group of people...
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