Straight Outta Compton is a movie based on a true story about the rap group N.W.A. In the mid-1980s five young men from Compton, California created hip hop music to express their anger and frustration about living in the most dangerous place in America, forever revolutionizing music and pop culture.
Straight Outta Compton Movie Director: F. Gary Gray
O’Shea Jackson Jr., Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell, Neil Brown Jr.
Papa Hemingway in Cuba is a biographical drama set in 1959 at the peak of the Cuban Revolution. A young journalist travels to Havana, Cuba to meet his literary idol, Ernest Hemingway.
Bob Yari
Giovanni Ribisi, Joely Richardson, Adrian Sparks, Minka Kelly
Movie Release Date: April 29, 2016
The movie Breaking a Monster follows the lives of 13 year old band members Alec Atkins, Malcolm Brickhouse and Jarad Dawkins as they transition from childhood to become the successful rock band ‘Unlocking the Truth’.
Luke Meyer
Malcolm Brickhouse, Jarad Dawkins, Alec Atkins, Alan Sacks
The Infiltrator stars Bryan Cranston as a U.S. customs and excise agent who infiltrates Colombia’s most powerful cartels and uncovers a money laundering scheme involving Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar.
Brad Furman
Bryan Cranston, John Leguizamo, Diane Kruger, Amy Ryan
Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant star in Florence Foster Jenkins, a movie about a New York heiress who dreamed of making it big as a famous opera singer despite having a really bad singing voice.
Stephen Frears
Meryl Streep, Hugh Grant, Simon Helberg, Rebecca Ferguson
The movie, Anthropoid, is based on a WWII mission to assassinate SS General Reinhard Heydrich, third in command after Hitler and Himmler and the architect behind the Final Solution.
Sean Ellis
Jamie Dornan, Cillian Murphy, Brian Caspe, Karel Hermánek Jr.
Southside with You is a biographical account of the epic first date on Chicago’s South Side, between Barack Obama and his future First Lady, in the summer of 1989.
Richard Tanne
Tika Sumpter, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Parker Sawyers, Donald Paul
Tom Hanks stars in Sully, a biographical drama about Chesley Sullenberger, the pilot who became a hero after landing his plane on the Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 crew and passengers on board.
Clint Eastwood
Tom Hanks, Laura Linney, Anna Gunn, Aaron Eckhart
Snowden is a biographical political movie about NSA employee Edward Snowden, a fugitive, wanted by the United States for leaking thousands of classified documents to the press.
Oliver Stone
Scott Eastwood, Shailene Woodley, Nicolas Cage, Joseph Gordon-Levitt
In Queen of Katwe, the life of a young girl from rural Uganda rapidly changes when she is introduced to the game of chess and pursues her dream of becoming a world chess champion.
Mira Nair
Lupita Nyong’o, David Oyelowo, Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, Madina Nalwanga
The Birth of a Nation is a period drama about Nat Turner, an enslaved preacher, who led his fellow men in a violent rebellion in a crusade for justice and freedom.
Nate Parker
Nate Parker, Armie Hammer, Mark Boone Junior, Colman Domingo
Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple, are sentenced to prison in Virginia in 1958 for getting married.
Jeff Nichols
Ruth Negga, Joel Edgerton, Will Dalton, Dean Mumford
Jackie, voted Best Screenplay at the Venice Film Festival, is a biographical drama about First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, played by Natalie Portman, following the tragic assassination of her husband, John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. Jackie is an intimate portrayal of a grieving widow who struggles to come to terms with her husband’s horrific death, played out on television over and over again. As a mother, she had to be there to comfort her children, and as the First Lady, to ensure her husband’s presidential legacy was unique and magical and would never be that way again.
Pablo Larraín
Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, Greta Gerwig, Billy Crudup
A United Kingdom is an inspiring true story of a marriage that shook the world. In 1948, Seretse Khama, prince of Bechuanaland, now Botswana, met and married Ruth, an office worker from London. Their interracial marriage did not have the approval of their families nor the British and South African governments.
Seretse was prepared to accept the responsibility for ruling his country but would not deny his love for his wife. He believed no man is free if not master of himself. When Bechuanaland was declared independent they returned from imposed exile to rule their kingdom.
David Oyelowo, Rosamund Pike, Jack Davenport, Tom Felton
Amma Asante
The Zookeeper’s Wife is a biographical drama based on the book by the same name, written by Diane Ackerman. During the German invasion of Poland in September 1939, at the beginning of World War II, Antonina and Jan Zabinski were zoo keepers at the Warsaw Zoo.
Although the zoo was forced to close the Zabinskis remained in the villa and became active with the Polish underground resistance. Despite the threat of execution, the Zabinskis concealed hundreds of Jews as well as a variety of animals on the property.
They both survived the war and reopened the zoo in 1949.
In 1965 they were recognized by the State of Israel as Righteous Among Nations an honor used to describe non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust.
Jessica Chastain, Johan Heldenbergh, Daniel Brühl, Timothy Radford
Niki Caro
The Lost City of Z is based on a true story about British Col. Percival Fawcett, a military man turned explorer, who was obsessed with finding the Lost City, a hidden civilization, thought to exist in the Amazon in the 1920s.
A fortune teller tells him that what he seeks is far greater than he ever imagined, it is his destiny.
Percival says goodbye to his wife and children and sets out on an adventure up the Amazon River. On his journey, he comes up against murderous savages and disease that threaten his life and those that accompany him. He’s advised to abort the mission, but there is no turning back. His persistence threatens his reputation, his marriage and his life.
Charlie Hunnam, Robert Pattinson, Sienna Miller, Tom Holland
James Gray
The Glass Castle is an emotionally rich film based on the best selling memoir by Jeanette Walls.
A young woman reflects back on her childhood of poverty, uncertainty and neglect and realizes that her past helped shape the successful woman she has become today.
She finds it within herself to forgive her alcoholic father for her non-conventional upbringing and to embrace her father’s positive outlook and hope for the future.
Brie Larson, Naomi Watts, Woody Harrelson, Sarah Snook
Destin Daniel Cretton
Birth of the Dragon is set in San Francisco in the 1960s. Before Bruce Lee became a movie star only one man stood in his way.
Witness the epic showdown between an up-and-coming Bruce Lee and kung fu master Wong Jack Man. A fight that gave birth to the dragon.
Billy Magnussen, Yu Xia, Philip Ng, Jingjing Qu
George Nolfi
Rebel in the Rye is a biographical drama based on the life of celebrated author, J.D. Salinger, who gained worldwide popularity with the publication of his novel, The Catcher in the Rye.
Zoey Deutch, Nicholas Hoult, Kevin Spacey, Sarah Paulson
Danny Strong
Battle of the Sexes hilites gender inequality in the sports world.
Believing that a woman’s place was in the kitchen, Bobby Riggs offers $100,000 to any woman who could beat him on the tennis court. On behalf of women everywhere, tennis icon and world number one, Billie Jean King, accepts his challenge.
The Battle of the Sexes was one of the most watched televised sports events of all time.
Emma Stone, Steve Carell, Andrea Riseborough, Elisabeth Shue
Jonathan Dayton; Valerie Faris
In Victoria and Abdul, Judy Dench plays the aging Queen Victoria, a lonely widow after the death of her husband Prince Albert.
In 1887, the year of the Queen’s Golden Jubilee, a handsome young Indian clerk traveled from India to present the queen with a ceremonial coin. The two of them strike up an unlikely friendship that causes jealousy and creates enemies within the Royal Household.
Judi Dench, Olivia Williams, Michael Gambon, Simon Callow
Stephen Frears
Stronger is an inspirational movie of hope based on the real life story of Jeff Bauman, a victim of the Boston Marathon bombing whose injuries were life changing.
The movie documents his physical and emotional struggle to recover from this heinous act. In addition, he was
able to assist the police in tracking down the enemy.
This ordinary man was considered a hero by the citizens of Boston and became a symbol of hope following the infamous 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.
Jake Gyllenhaal, Tatiana Maslany, Miranda Richardson, Richard Lane Jr.
David Gordon Green
Tom Cruise stars in American Made, an entertaining true story set in the 1980s. Cruise plays Barry Seal, an airline pilot, who lands a dream job flying over central America taking spy photos of freedom fighters and terrorists for the CIA.
The job soon morphs into big business carrying arms and drugs between the US and Central America, all under the protection of the CIA, DEA and the White House. Barry realizes that he is dealing with some very dangerous criminals and that his situation is very precarious.
When he was eventually arrested, he cut a deal to incriminate the bigger players.
Tom Cruise, Domhnall Gleeson, Sarah Wright, Jesse Plemons
Doug Liman
The movie, Breathe, is based on the inspiring true love story of Robin and Diana Cavendish. Struck with a debilitating disease, Robin wanted to die but his wife wouldn’t let him. He had to live to see his son grow up.
Robin didn’t want to just survive he wanted to truly live. With the invention of a wheelchair that would breathe for him, Robin was able to leave the hospital and achieve his dreams.
Breathe is a heartwarming celebration of human possibility.
Diana Rigg, Claire Foy, Andrew Garfield, Miranda Raison
Andy Serkis
Only the Brave is a biographical drama based on true events surrounding a group of elite firefighters from Prescott, Arizona, known as the Granite Mountain Hotshots.
Witness the incredible team who showed the world the meaning of courage when they risked everything to protect a town from a historic wildfire.
Josh Brolin, Miles Teller, Jeff Bridges, Jennifer Connelly
Joseph Kosinski
The Darkest Hour is a historical drama which takes place during the early days of World War II. Winston Churchill, the newly-appointed British Prime Minister, must decide whether to negotiate with Hitler, or continue the fight against all odds.
Gary Oldman, Lily James, Kristin Scott Thomas, Ben Mendelsohn
Joe Wright
The Post stars Meryl Streep as the country’s first female newspaper publisher at the Washington Post.
When top secret documents, The Pentagon Papers, are leaked to the press, the US government tries to stop the newspapers from publishing the classified documents.
Galvanized by her executive editor, played by Tom Hanks, she embraces the fight for ‘freedom of the press’ holding the US government accountable for their handling of the Vietnam War and the lies they told the American people about the US involvement in Indochina.
Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Sarah Paulson, Bob Odenkirk
Steven Spielberg
Race is a biography about Jesse Owens and his quest to become the greatest track and field athlete in history. At the 1936 Olympics, Jesse is thrust onto the world stage when he faces off against Adolf Hitler’s vision of Aryan supremacy.
Stephen Hopkins
Stephan James, Jason Sudeikis, Eli Goree, Shanice Banton
The movie Eddie the Eagle tells the inspiring story of Eddie Edwards, a British ski jumper, whose never say die attitude charmed the world when he beat the odds and qualified to compete in the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics.
Dexter Fletcher
Taron Egerton, Hugh Jackman, Tom Costello Jr., Jo Hartley
Miles Ahead is a biography about the life and music of jazz musician Miles Davis.
Don Cheadle
Don Cheadle, Emayatzy Corinealdi, Ewan McGregor, Michael Stuhlbarg
