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Direction Abel Gance

Cast Albert Dieudonné · Gina Manès · Edmond Van Daële · Antonin Artaud

Plot A biopic of Napoleon which spans approximately 16 years. It covers Napoleon's childhood, his first strategic victory (a schoolyard snowball fight), his rise through the ranks after the Revolution and...

Direction Stanley Kubrick

Cast Kirk Douglas · Tony Curtis · Laurence Olivier · Peter Ustinov

Plot Based on the homonymous novel by Howard Fast about the historical life of Spartacus and the Third Servile War. Spartacus (Kirk Douglas) is a rebellious slave who leads a violent...

Direction Sergei M. Eisenstein

Cast Nikolai Cherkasov · Serafima Birman · Ludmila Tselikovskaya · Mikhail Nazvanov

Plot In 1547, Ivan IV (1530-1584), archduke of Moscow, crowns himself Tsar of Russia and sets about reclaiming lost Russian territory. In scenes of his coronation, his wedding to Anastasia, his...

Direction Kinuyo Tanaka

Cast Yumeji Tsukioka · Ryoji Hayama · Junkichi Orimoto · Hiroko Kawasaki

Plot Fumiko (Tsukioka Yurneji) is married to a taciturn and unsympathetic husband and has two children. She seems like a devoted and dutiful wife, but is dissatisfied with her situation. Her...

Direction Chris Brancato · Carlo Bernard · Doug Miro · Paul Eckstein

Cast Wagner Moura · Pedro Pascal · Boyd Holbrook · Damián Alcázar

Plot TV Series (2015-2017). 3 Seasons. 30 Episodes. Narcos is the true story of U.S. and Colombian efforts in the 1980s to battle the infamous drug lord Pablo Escobar and the...

Direction Alexis Cahill · Enzo Monteleone

Cast Claudio Gioè · Salvatore Lazzaro · Alessio Manno · Pier Luigi Misasi

Plot 'Corleone' narrates the life of Totò Riina between 1943 and 1993. From a difficult adolescence to his rise to power within Cosa Nostra, passing via the many bloody episodes which...

Direction Madeleine Parry · Jon Olb

Cast Hannah Gadsby

Plot Australian comic Hannah Gadsby reshapes standard stand-up by pairing punchlines with personal revelations on gender, sexuality and childhood turmoil.

Direction Bruce Weber

Cast Chet Baker

Plot Documentary on the life of jazz trumpeter and drug addict Chet Baker, directed by famous photographer Bruce Weber. This documentary about jazz trumpeter-singer Chet Baker intercuts footage from the 1950s,...

Direction Nick Willing

Cast Fiona Bradley · Luis Amorim de Sousa · John Erle-Drax · John McEwen

Plot A unique insight into the life and work of celebrated painter Paula Rego directed by her son, the film maker Nick Willing.

Direction Edward Owens

Cast Mildered Owens · Irene Collins · Nettie Thomas

Plot The music is by Marilyn Monroe singing ‘Running Wild’ from Some Like It Hot, because it’s a film portrait of Nettie Thomas. She did floors in white women’s homes, like...

Direction Mitra Farahani

Cast Bahman Mohassess · Mitra Farahani

Plot Bahman Mohassess was a celebrated artist at the time of the Shah. Trained in Italy, he created sculptures and paintings in his homeland. But audiences often took offence at the...

Direction Angus Gibson · Jo Menell

Plot A vibrantly presented and emotionally charged portrait of the dynamic African leader, this needed tighter narration to close informational gaps. For instance, there is very little mention of F.W. de...

Direction Martin Scorsese

Cast Bob Dylan · Joan Baez · Allen Ginsberg · Pete Seeger

Plot Renowned director Martin Scorsese's documentary No Direction Home: Bob Dylan chronicles the career of the singer and songwriter during the tumultuous years between 1961 and 1966. Dylan allowed Scorsese to...

Direction Josh Lowell · Peter Mortimer

Plot In an unbelievable story of perseverance, free climber Tommy Caldwell and climbing partner Kevin Jorgeson attempt to scale the impossible 3000ft Dawn Wall of El Capitan.

Direction John Dullaghan

Plot Documentary on Charles Bukowski, author of 'Notes of a Dirty Old Man', 'Love Is a Dog from Hell', and the autobiographical novels, 'Women', 'Hollywood', and 'Post Office'.

Direction Peter Watkins

Cast Geir Westby · Gro Fraas · Kerstii Allum · Eric Allum

Plot Following a rough chronology from 1884 to 1894, when Norwegian artist Edvard Munch began expressionism and established himself as northern Europe's most maligned and controversial artist, the film also flashes...

Direction Ryan Murphy · Gwyneth Horder-Payton · Helen Hunt · Liza Johnson

Cast Jessica Lange · Susan Sarandon · Alfred Molina · Judy Davis

Plot TV Miniseries (2017). 8 Episodes. Tells the story of the legendary rivalry between Joan Crawford (Jessica Lange) and Bette Davis (Susan Sarandon) during their collaboration on the Academy Award®-nominated thriller...

Direction Asif Kapadia

Cast Ayrton Senna · Alain Prost · Nigel Mansell · Ron Dennis

Plot The story of the monumental life and tragic death of legendary Brazilian motor-racing Champion Ayrton Senna (1960-1994). Spanning the decade from his arrival in Formula One in the mid 80's,...

Direction Mani Kaul

Cast Mita Vasisht · Muhar Biswas · Ranjana Srivastava · Shravani Mukherjee

Plot An impressionistic biographical look at Siddheshwari Devi (1908-1977), the classical Indian singer whose voice was appreciated by the maharajas and public alike.

Direction Albert Montón