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Genre
Country
Markimdb: 8.2
Genrecomedy, drama, biography
CountryUSA, China
Duration02:10

Tony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South in the days when African Americans, forced to find alternate accommodations and services due to segregation laws below the Mason-Dixon Line, relied on a guide called The Negro Motorist Green Book.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genredrama, biography
CountryAustralia, USA
Duration01:55

Jared, the son of a Baptist pastor in a small American town, is outed to his parents at age 19. Jared is faced with an ultimatum: attend a gay conversion therapy program – or be permanently exiled and shunned by his family, friends, and faith.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genredrama
CountrySpain, Thailand, USA
Duration01:49

    In December 2004, close-knit family Maria, Henry and their three sons begin their winter vacation in Thailand. But the day after Christmas, the idyllic holiday turns into an incomprehensible nightmare when a terrifying roar rises from the depths of the sea, followed by a wall of black water that devours everything in its path. Though Maria and her family face their darkest hour, unexpected displays of kindness and courage ameliorate their terror.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA, China
    Duration02:18

      A con man, Irving Rosenfeld, along with his seductive partner Sydney Prosser, is forced to work for a wild FBI agent, Richie DiMaso, who pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genremelodrama, drama, military, biography
      CountryGermany, Italy
      Duration02:16

      Inspired by real events and spanning three eras of German history, film tells the story of Kurt, a young art student who falls in love with fellow student, Ellie. Ellie’s father, Professor Seeband, a famous doctor, is dismayed at his daughter’s choice of boyfriend, and vows to destroy the relationship. What neither of them knows is that their lives are already connected through a terrible crime Seeband committed decades ago.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genredrama, crime, biography
      CountryUSA, Canada, China
      Duration02:08

      Molly Bloom, a young skier and former Olympic hopeful becomes a successful entrepreneur (and a target of an FBI investigation) when she establishes a high-stakes, international poker game.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genredrama, biography, sport
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:09

        Oversized African-American, Michael Oher, the teen from across the tracks and a broken home, has nowhere to sleep at age 16. Taken in by an affluent Memphis couple, Michael embarks on a remarkable rise to play for the NFL.

        Markimdb: 8.1
        Genredrama, biography, history
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom
        Duration02:13

        In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty as well as unexpected kindnesses Solomon struggles not only to stay alive, but to retain his dignity. In the twelfth year of his unforgettable odyssey, Solomon’s chance meeting with a Canadian abolitionist will forever alter his life.

        Markimdb: 8.1
        Genrecomedy, crime, biography
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration02:21

        A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor, and legal prosecutor. An FBI agent makes it his mission to put him behind bars. But Frank not only eludes capture, he revels in the pursuit.

        Markimdb: 7
        Genrethriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration01:56

        Earl Stone, a man in his eighties, is broke, alone, and facing foreclosure of his business when he is offered a job that simply requires him to drive. Easy enough, but, unbeknownst to Earl, he's just signed on as a drug courier for a Mexican cartel. He does so well that his cargo increases exponentially, and Earl hit the radar of hard-charging DEA agent Colin Bates.

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genredrama, musical, music, biography
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Canada
        Duration01:53

        The story of Elton John's life, from his years as a prodigy at the Royal Academy of Music through his influential and enduring musical partnership with Bernie Taupin.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genredrama, biography
        CountryUSA, Greece
        Duration02:38

        The true story of how Ray Kroc, a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers’ speedy system of making the food and saw franchise potential. He maneuvered himself into a position to be able to pull the company from the brothers and create a billion-dollar empire.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genredrama, adventure, history
        CountryGermany
        Duration02:30

        The story of Rob Cole, a boy who is left a penniless orphan in an 11th-century English mining town when his mother dies of a mysterious illness. Vowing to become a physician and vanquish Death itself, he travels to Isfahan in Persia to study medicine under the great Ibn Sina. Through countless ordeals and challenges, and making many sacrifices along the way, he struggles on unwaveringly. His unflagging quest for knowledge leads to the blossoming of friendship and true love.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genreaction, drama, military, history
        CountryUSA, Bulgaria

        A small unit of U.S. soldiers, alone at the remote Combat Outpost Keating, located deep in the valley of three mountains in Afghanistan, battles to defend against an overwhelming force of Taliban fighters in a coordinated attack. The Battle of Kamdesh, as it was known, was the bloodiest American engagement of the Afghan War in 2009 and Bravo Troop 3-61 CAV became one of the most decorated units of the 19-year conflict.

        Markimdb: 7.7
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:38

        The true story of the investigation of the "Zodiac Killer", a serial killer who terrified the San Francisco Bay Area, taunting police with his ciphers and letters. The case becomes an obsession for four men as their lives and careers are built and destroyed by the endless trail of clues.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genreaction, thriller, comedy, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:09

          Daniel Lugo, manager of the Sun Gym in 1990s Miami, decides that there is only one way to achieve his version of the American dream: extortion. To achieve his goal, he recruits musclemen Paul and Adrian as accomplices. After several failed attempts, they abduct rich businessman Victor Kershaw and convince him to sign over all his assets to them. But when Kershaw makes it out alive, authorities are reluctant to believe his story.

          Markimdb: 6.6
          Genrethriller, drama, history
          CountryFrance, Belgium, Luxembourg, Romania, Canada, USA
          Duration02:02

          Barents Sea, August 12th, 2000. During a Russian naval exercise, and after suffering a serious accident, the K-141 Kursk submarine sinks with 118 crew members on board. While the few sailors who are still alive barely manage to survive, their families push for accurate information and a British officer struggles to obtain from the Russian government a permit to attempt a rescue before it is late. But general incompetence are against all their efforts.

          Markimdb: 7.4
          Genredrama, biography
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:03

          On 15 January 2009, the world witnessed the 'Miracle on the Hudson' when Captain 'Sully' Sullenberger glided his disabled plane onto the frigid waters of the Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 aboard. However, even as Sully was being heralded by the public and the media for his unprecedented feat of aviation skill, an investigation was unfolding that threatened to destroy his reputation and career.

          Markimdb: 7.5
          Genredrama, biography, sport
          CountryRussia
          Duration02:14

          Biopic of Russian ice hockey legend Valeri Kharlamov from early childhood, rising to the pinnacle of the sport and his untimely death

          Markimdb: 7.2
          Genredrama, adventure, biography, history
          CountryNorway, United Kingdom, Denmark, Germany, Sweden
          Duration01:49

          The true story about legendary explorer Thor Heyerdahl and his epic crossing of the Pacific on a balsa wood raft in 1947, in an effort to prove it was possible for South Americans to settle in Polynesia in pre-Columbian times.

          Markimdb: 6.5
          Genredrama, crime, biography
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:51

          The story of a teenager, Richard Wershe Jr., who became an undercover informant for the police during the 1980s and was ultimately arrested for drug-trafficking and sentenced to life in prison.

          Markimdb: 8.2
          Genrecomedy, drama, crime, biography
          CountryUSA
          Duration03:00

            A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.

            Markimdb: 7.5
            Genreaction, drama, military
            CountryUSA, United Kingdom
            Duration01:56

              Four Navy SEALs on a covert mission to neutralize a high-level al-Qaeda operative must make an impossible moral decision in the mountains of Afghanistan that leads them into an enemy ambush. As they confront unthinkable odds, the SEALs must find reserves of strength and resilience to fight to the finish.

              Markimdb: 7.3
              Genredrama, biography, history
              CountryUSA, Japan
              Duration02:30

              A look at the life of the astronaut, Neil Armstrong, and the legendary space mission that led him to become the first man to walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969.

              Markimdb: 5.9
              Genredrama, military
              CountryRussia
              Duration02:08

              During WWII a Soviet artillery unit is fighting Nazis while trying to do everything to save lives of a group of deaf children near their position.

              Markimdb: 6.6
              Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, biography
              CountryFrance
              Duration02:02

              During the making of one of his films, French film director Jean-Luc Godard falls in love with 17-year old actress Anne Wiazemsky and later gets married.

              Markimdb: 6.9
              Genredrama, biography
              CountryUSA
              Duration02:32

              A victim of the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013 helps the police track down the killers while struggling to recover from devastating trauma.

              Markimdb: 6.7
              Genrecomedy, drama, biography, history, sport
              CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
              Duration01:59

              The true story of the 1973 tennis match between World number one Billie Jean King and ex-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs.

              Markimdb: 6.8
              Genredrama, military, history
              CountryUSA

              The incredible true story of Vietnam War hero William H. Pitsenbarger, a U.S. Air Force Pararescuemen medic who personally saved over sixty men. Thirty-two years later, Pentagon staffer Scott Huffman investigates a Congressional Medal of Honor request for Pitsenbarger and uncovers a high-level conspiracy behind the decades-long denial of the medal, prompting Huffman to put his own career on the line to seek justice for the fallen airman.

              Markimdb: 7.2
              Genrethriller, adventure, biography, history
              CountryRussia
              Duration02:25

              March 1965. In the heat of the Cold War, the USA and the USSR are competing for supremacy in space. What both superpowers aim for in this race, is to be the first to have a man walk in outer space. To accomplish that, no price is too high and no risk is too great. Now it’s up to the unlikely duo of a seasoned war veteran and a hot-headed test-pilot to fulfill this mission. Two men in a tiny spaceship, without proper testing, facing the complete unknown… They were supposed to do what no man has done before – and no man imagined what would happen next…

              Markimdb: 7.3
              Genrethriller, drama, crime, biography
              CountryFrance, Germany, USA, United Kingdom
              Duration02:23

              CIA employee Edward Snowden leaks thousands of classified documents to the press.

              Markimdb: 7.3
              Genredrama, biography
              CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, United Arab Emirates, Japan

              A movie about reporter W. Eugene Smith and his research on mercury poisoning in Minamata, Japan, resulting in severe neurological symptoms.

              Markimdb: 7.1
              Genreaction, thriller, drama, history
              CountryUSA, Hong Kong
              Duration02:15

                A story set on the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, which exploded during April 2010 and created the worst oil spill in U.S. history.

                Markimdb: 8.1
                Genredrama, military, biography, history
                CountryAustralia, USA
                Duration02:29

                  WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.

                  Markimdb: 8
                  Genredrama, biography
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration01:58

                    Loosely based on the true-life tale of Ron Woodroof, a drug-taking, women-loving, homophobic man who in 1986 was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS and given thirty days to live.

                    Markimdb: 6.7
                    Genremelodrama, drama, military, biography
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration02:16

                    The life of celebrated but reclusive author, J.D. Salinger, who gained worldwide fame with the publication of his novel, The Catcher in the Rye.

                    Markimdb: 6.1
                    Genredrama
                    CountryRussia
                    Duration01:39

                    The story is based on the real events of 1985. The team of a Russian polar icebreaker “Mikhail Gromov” discovered a giant iceberg. The ship came into collision while attempting to take cover from the weather and is forced to drift with ice along the Amundsen Sea coast. The crew of “Gromov” spent 133 days of polar night trying to find a way out of their icy trap. They have no room for mistakes; one wrong move and the vessel is crushed by ice.

                    Markimdb: 5.7
                    Genrethriller, drama, biography, sport
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration02:17

                    An adrenaline seeking snowboarder gets lost in a massive winter storm in the back country of the High Sierras where he is pushed to the limits of human endurance and forced to battle his own personal demons as he fights for survival....

                    Markimdb: 6.1
                    Genrethriller, drama, crime
                    CountryUSA, Thailand, Kazakhstan, Hong Kong, Canada
                    Duration02:20

                    Alex, an immigrant from Ukraine comes to Canada and becomes involved with an online criminal organization called Darkweb. What starts off as a way to help his parents financially, soon becomes a personal vendetta against the entire banking system, when his mother is fired from her job at the bank

                    Markimdb: 7.8
                    Genrethriller, drama, biography, history
                    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, India

                    What was supposed to be a peaceful protest turned into a violent clash with the police. What followed was one of the most notorious trials in history.

                    Markimdb: 6.2
                    Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
                    CountryUSA

                    A sweeping drama set in the chaotic aftermath of the US invasion of Iraq, where the life of top UN diplomat Brazilian Sérgio Vieira de Mello hangs in the balance during the most treacherous mission of his career.

                    Markimdb: 6.7
                    Genredrama, sport
                    CountryRussia
                    Duration02:11

                    The story is set at the 1972 Munich Olympics where the U.S. team lost the basketball championship for the first time in 36 years. The final moments of the final game have become one of the most controversial events in Olympic history. With play tied, the score table horn sounded during a second free throw attempt that put the U.S. ahead by one. But the Soviets claimed they had called for a time out before the basket and confusion ensued. The clock was set back by three seconds twice in a row and the Russians finally prevailed at the very last. The U.S. protested, but a jury decided in the USSR’s favor and Team USA voted unanimously to refuse its silver medals. The Soviet players have been treated as heroes at home.

                    Markimdb: 8.2
                    Genredrama, crime
                    CountryFrance, USA
                    Duration02:51

                    The life of the gambling paradise – Las Vegas – and its dark mafia underbelly.

                    Markimdb: 7
                    Genredrama, military, biography, history
                    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Czech Republic
                    Duration02:23

                    The account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion.

                    Markimdb: 6.5
                    Genredrama
                    CountryRussia
                    Duration02:47

                    Based on true and tragic events in the life of Vitaly Kaloyev, an architect and family man. In 2002, his wife and children die in a mid-air collision along with 70 other people, mostly children. Vitaly is one of the first people to discover the bodies of his family at the site of the crash. The blame is put on the company responsible for monitoring the air space, as well as the lone air traffic controller on duty at the time. Two years later, after much obstructed efforts to get apologies and answers, Vitaly flies to Switzerland to obtain justice.

                    Markimdb: 6.6
                    Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, adventure, biography
                    CountryUSA, Hong Kong, Iceland
                    Duration02:28

                    A true story of survival, as a young couple's chance encounter leads them first to love, and then on the adventure of a lifetime as they face one of the most catastrophic hurricanes in recorded history.

                    Markimdb: 6.2
                    Genremelodrama, drama, biography
                    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA, China, Hungary

                    The story of Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie and her extraordinary scientific discoveries—through the prism of her marriage to husband Pierre—and the seismic and transformative effects their discovery of radium had on the 20th century.

                    Markimdb: 7.1
                    Genreaction, comedy, drama, crime, biography
                    CountryArgentina, USA

                    In 2006, a group of thieves performed what is considered one of the most famous and smart bank heists in the history of Argentina. How they robbed the Rio bank is as surprising as what happened afterwards. This is their story.

                    Markimdb: 8.1
                    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
                    CountrySouth Korea
                    Duration02:11

                    1986 Gyunggi Province. The body of a young woman is found brutally raped and murdered. Two months later, a series of rapes and murders commences under similar circumstances. And in a country that had never known such crimes, the dark whispers about a serial murderer grow louder. A special task force is set up in the area, with two local detectives Park Doo-Man and Jo Young-Goo joined by a detective from Seoul who requested to be assigned to the case.

                    Markimdb: 7.7
                    Genremelodrama, drama, biography
                    CountryUnited Kingdom, Japan, USA
                    Duration02:03

                      The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde.




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