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  • Moulin Rouge (1952)
    Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
    Fictional account of French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
    Starring: José Ferrer, Zsa Zsa Gabor, and Colette Marchand
    Directors: John Huston
    Flickometer: 10.0 /10 (3069 votes)
  • Malcolm X (1992)
    Biography, Drama, History
    The biopic of the controversial and influential Black Nationalist leader.
    Starring: Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett, and Delroy Lindo
    Director: Spike Lee
    Writer: Spike Lee
    Flickometer: 10.0 /10 (824 votes)
  • Stoned (2005)
    Biography, Drama, Music
    A chronicle of the sordid life and suspicious death of Rolling Stones co-founder Brian Jones, who was found in the bottom of his swimming pool weeks after being let go from the band.
    Starring: Leo Gregory, Paddy Considine, and David Morrissey
    Director: Stephen Woolley
    Writer: Stephen Woolley
    Flickometer: 10.0 /10 (730 votes)
  • Riding in Cars with Boys (2001)
    Biography, Comedy, Drama
    A single mother, with dreams of becoming a writer, has a son at the age of 15 in 1965, and goes through a failed marriage with the drug-addicted father.
    Starring: Drew Barrymore, Steve Zahn, and Adam Garcia
    Director: Penny Marshall
    Writer: Penny Marshall
    Flickometer: 10.0 /10 (692 votes)
  • What's Love Got to Do with It (1993)
    Biography, Drama, Music
    A film about the singer Tina Turner and how she rose to stardom with her abusive husband Ike Turner and how she gained the courage to break free.
    Starring: Angela Bassett, Laurence Fishburne, and Rae'Ven Larrymore Kelly
    Directors: Brian Gibson
    Flickometer: 10.0 /10 (599 votes)
  • Bird (1988)
    Biography, Drama, Music
    The troubled life and career of the jazz musician, Charlie "Bird" Parker.
    Starring: Forest Whitaker, Diane Venora, and Michael Zelniker
    Director: Clint Eastwood
    Writer: Clint Eastwood
    Flickometer: 10.0 /10 (509 votes)
  • The Mirror (1975)
    Biography, Drama, History
    A man in his forties is going to die and remembers his past. His childhood, his mother, the war, personal moments but things that also tell the story of all the Russian nation...
    Starring: Margarita Terekhova, Filipp Yankovsky, and Ignat Daniltsev
    Director: Andrey Tarkovskiy
    Writer: Andrey Tarkovskiy
    Flickometer: 10.0 /10 (454 votes)
  • Papillon (1973)
    Biography, Crime, Drama
    A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.
    Starring: Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, and Victor Jory
    Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
    Writer: Franklin J. Schaffner
    Flickometer: 10.0 /10 (453 votes)
  • Midnight Express (1978)
    Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
    Story of a man who is caught smuggling drugs out of Turkey and thrown into prison.
    Starring: Brad Davis, Irene Miracle, and Bo Hopkins
    Director: Alan Parker
    Writer: Alan Parker
    Flickometer: 10.0 /10 (343 votes)
  • Marie Antoinette (1938)
    Biography, Drama, History, Romance
    The life of Marie Antoinette (1755-1793) from betrothal and marriage in 1770 to her beheading. At first...
    Starring: Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power, and John Barrymore
    Directors: W.S. Van Dyke and Julien Duvivier
    Writers: W.S. Van Dyke and Julien Duvivier
    Flickometer: 10.0 /10 (317 votes)