Eight Men Out

Movie · 6.8 / 10 · 2 Sept 1988 · English

Buck Weaver and Hap Felsch are young idealistic players on the Chicago White Sox, a pennant-winning team owned by Charles Comiskey - a penny-pinching, hands-on manager who underpays his players and treats them with disdain. And when gamblers and hustlers discover that Comiskey's demoralized players are ripe for a money-making scheme, one by one the team members agree to throw the World Series. But when the White Sox are defeated, a couple of sports writers smell a fix and a national scandal explodes, ripping the cover off America's favorite pastime.

My Dinner with Hervé

Movie · 6.3 / 10 · 20 Oct 2018 · English

An unlikely friendship evolves over one wild night in LA between a struggling journalist and actor Hervé Villechaize, the world's most famous gun-toting dwarf, resulting in life-changing consequences for both.

The Audrey Hepburn Story

Movie · 6.0 / 10 · 27 Mar 2000 · English

The film spans from Hepburn's early childhood to the 1950s which details her life as a Dutch ballerina, coming to grips with her parents' divorce, and enduring life in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II. She then settles in the U.S. where she succeeds in making it big as a movie actress, in such movies as Breakfast at Tiffany's.

Respect

Movie · 6.8 / 10 · 12 Aug 2021 · English

The rise of Aretha Franklin’s career from a child singing in her father’s church’s choir to her international superstardom.

TalhotBlond

Movie · 6.3 / 10 · 23 Jun 2012 · English

Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately leads to the murder of an innocent man.

Shattered Glass

Movie · 7.0 / 10 · 14 Nov 2003 · English

Stephen Glass is a staff writer for the respected current events and policy magazine The New Republic and a freelance feature writer for publications such as Rolling Stone, Harper's and George. By the mid-90s, Glass' articles had turned him into one of the most sought-after young journalists in Washington, but a bizarre chain of events - chronicled in Buzz Bissinger's September 1998 Vanity Fair article - suddenly stopped his career in its tracks.

Elvis

Movie · 6.8 / 10 · 10 Feb 1979 · English

This biopic traces Elvis Presley’s life from his impoverished childhood to his meteoric rise to stardom to his triumphant conquering of Las Vegas.

Munich - The Edge of War

Movie · 6.9 / 10 · 31 Dec 2021 · English

At the tense 1938 Munich Conference, former friends who now work for opposing governments become reluctant spies racing to expose a Nazi secret.

Big George Foreman

Movie · 7.6 / 10 · 27 Apr 2023 · English

Fueled by an impoverished childhood, George Foreman channeled his anger into becoming an Olympic Gold medalist and World Heavyweight Champion, followed by a near-death experience that took him from the boxing ring to the pulpit. But when he sees his community struggling spiritually and financially, Foreman returns to the ring and makes history by reclaiming his title, becoming the oldest and most improbable World Heavyweight Boxing Champion ever.

Grey Gardens

Movie · 6.8 / 10 · 21 Jun 2009 · English

Based on the life stories of the eccentric aunt and first cousin of Jackie Onassis raised as Park Avenue débutantes but who withdrew from New York society, taking shelter at their Long Island summer home, "Grey Gardens." As their wealth and contact with the outside world dwindled, so did their grasp on reality.

Normal

Movie · 6.7 / 10 · 21 Jan 2003 · English

A Midwestern husband and father announces his plan to have a sex change operation.

Mank

Movie · 6.7 / 10 · 13 Nov 2020 · English

1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane.