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Mark | imdb: 8.5 |
Genre | documentary, biography, sport |
Country | United Kingdom, France, USA |
Duration | 02:42 |
Senna's remarkable story, charting his physical and spiritual achievments on the track and off, his quest for perfection, and the mythical status he has since attained, is the subject of Senna, a documentary feature that spans the racing legend's years as an F1 driver, from his opening season in 1984 to his untimely death a decade later.
Mark | imdb: 7.6 |
Genre | drama, documentary, biography, sport |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:48 |
Beyond the Mat is a 1999 professional wrestling documentary, directed by Barry W. Blaustein. The movie focuses on the lives of professional wrestlers outside of the ring, especially Mick Foley, Terry Funk, and Jake Roberts. The film heavily focuses on the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), often criticizing it and its chairman Vince McMahon. It also follows Extreme Championship Wrestling, it's rise in popularity, and many other independent wrestlers and organisations.
Mark | imdb: 7 |
Genre | comedy, drama, biography |
Country | France |
Seyolo Zantoko is a doctor from Congo who wants to get away from dictatorship and he is hired by the mayor of a small village in the north of France. The locals fear Seyolo and his family as they have never seen African people before, and Seyolo and his family struggle to adapt to this new life. But Seyolo is determined to succeed and to win the trust of the villagers.
Mark | imdb: 6.3 |
Genre | comedy, drama, crime, biography |
Country | United Kingdom, USA, Puerto Rico |
FBI informant Jim Hoffman lures troubled automobile magnate John DeLorean to an undercover sting for cocaine trafficking.
Mark | imdb: 7.5 |
Genre | drama, biography, sport |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:54 |
Rudy grew up in a steel mill town where most people ended up working, but wanted to play football at Notre Dame instead. There were only a couple of problems. His grades were a little low, his athletic skills were poor, and he was only half the size of the other players. But he had the drive and the spirit of 5 people and has set his sights upon joining the team.
Mark | imdb: 6.6 |
Genre | drama, crime, music, biography |
Country | United Kingdom, Sweden, Norway, USA, Hungary |
Duration | 02:16 |
A teenager's quest to launch Norwegian Black Metal in Oslo in the 1990s results in a very violent outcome.
Mark | imdb: 7.5 |
Genre | comedy, drama, biography, sport |
Country | USA, United Kingdom, Qatar |
Duration | 02:00 |
Competitive ice skater Tonya Harding rises amongst the ranks at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, but her future in the sport is thrown into doubt when her ex-husband intervenes.
Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | drama, music, biography |
Country | United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland |
Duration | 01:43 |
The story of music legend Terri Hooley, a key figure in Belfast's punk rock scene. Hooley founded the Good Vibrations store from which a record label sprung, representing bands such as The Undertones, Rudi and The Outcasts.
Mark | imdb: 5.1 |
Genre | drama, biography, sport |
Country | Russia |
Duration | 01:28 |
This is the life story of the outstanding Soviet hockey player Valery Kharlamov. They say that sometimes people are able to foresee their death, then before their eyes in a short period of time all life passes, all the most significant moments, all the people dear to a person. The plot of the picture and the style of narration is very different from everything that has already been shot or written on this topic. Like an ordinary Russian guy who has a congenital heart disease and is an eternal target for the wit of his peers due to a speech impairment, he was able to become the Olympic champion twice, eight times the World Champion, become the legend of Russian hockey and a role model for several generations of professionals and amateur athletes ? What was behind all these, at what price was this achieved, and what price had to be paid subsequently?
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | drama, music, biography |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 02:01 |
The tragic story of world-renowned cellist Jacqueline du Pré, as told from the point of view of her sister, flautist Hilary du Pré-Finzi.
Mark | imdb: 6.9 |
Genre | drama, biography |
Country | Germany, Belgium |
Duration | 02:18 |
55 Steps is based a the inspiring true story of Eleanor Riese, a mental illness patient herself, who brings a class action suit to give competent mental patients the right to have a say in their medication while they’re in a hospital, and Colette Hughes, the lawyer appointed to her case.
Mark | imdb: 5.3 |
Genre | drama, biography, sport |
Country | Canada |
Duration | 01:40 |
Ned Hanlan was Canada's most successful sculling champion at the turn of the 20th century. This dramatization of his life begins in his youth, when the wild young man is informally adopted by a gambler who promotes Ned on the sculling circuit, betting on the boy's rowing skills solely to make money off him. Later, a ruthless businessman named Knox takes over Ned's career, but when Ned realizes how dishonest Knox is, he finds another manager. Walter is an inventor and the first honest man Ned has dealt with in his career and, under Walter's guidance, Ned rises to great success in the sculling world.
Mark | imdb: 7 |
Genre | drama, biography, history |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:32 |
Political strategist Dominic Cummings leads a popular but controversial campaign to convince British voters to leave the European Union from 2015 up until the present day.
Mark | imdb: 7 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, biography, history |
Country | France, United Kingdom, Thailand |
Duration | 02:12 |
The story of Aung San Suu Kyi as she becomes the core of Burma's democracy movement, and her relationship with her husband, writer Michael Aris.
Mark | imdb: 7.7 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, military, history, sport |
Country | Macedonia, Czech Republic, USA |
Duration | 01:53 |
Spitz is the German-Jewish coach of the football team Macedonia during World War II. Under his leadership, the team fights to become the champion of Bulgaria's National Football League
Mark | imdb: 8.2 |
Genre | drama, biography, sport |
Country | India |
Duration | 03:06 |
The true story of the "Flying Sikh" world champion runner and Olympian Milkha Singh who overcame the massacre of his family, civil war during the India-Pakistan partition, and homelessness to become one of India's most iconic athletes.
Mark | imdb: 6.6 |
Genre | drama, biography, sport |
Country | Philippines |
Before he became one of the world's greatest boxers, Emmanuel "Manny" Pacquiao was a young boy living a hand-to-mouth existence, trying to survive from one day to the next. When he discovers his natural talent for boxing, he embarks on a brutal and intense journey that takes him from the mountains of the Philippines to the streets of Manila, and must risk everything to become a champion - for himself, his family, and his country.
Mark | imdb: 5.5 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, biography |
Country | United Kingdom, France, Sweden, Belgium |
Duration | 01:52 |
During the last two years of her life, Princess Diana campaigns against the use of land mines and has a secret love affair with a Pakistani heart surgeon.
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, biography |
Country | United Kingdom, USA, Germany, Denmark, Belgium, Japan |
Duration | 02:35 |
When Gerda Wegener asks her husband Einar to fill in as a portrait model, Einar discovers the person she's meant to be and begins living her life as Lili Elbe. Having realized her true self and with Gerda's love and support, Lili embarks on a groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer.
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | comedy, drama, music, biography |
Country | Palestine, United Kingdom, Qatar, Netherlands, Egypt, United Arab Emirates |
Mohammed Assaf, an aspiring musician living in Gaza, sets a seemingly impossible goal: to compete on the program "Arab Idol."
Mark | imdb: 7.8 |
Genre | drama, biography, history, sport |
Country | Taiwan |
A Taiwanese high school baseball team travels to Japan in 1931 to compete in a national tournament.
Mark | imdb: 7.5 |
Genre | drama, biography, sport |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:38 |
Taking over Leeds United, Brian Clough's abrasive approach and his clear dislike of the players' dirty style of play make it certain there is going to be friction. Glimpses of his earlier career help explain both his hostility to previous manager Don Revie and how much he is missing right-hand man Peter Taylor.
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | drama, biography, sport |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:59 |
In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell, a devout Christian born to Scottish missionaries in China, sees running as part of his worship of God's glory and refuses to train or compete on the Sabbath. Harold Abrahams overcomes anti-Semitism and class bias, but neglects his beloved sweetheart in his single-minded quest.
Mark | imdb: 6.6 |
Genre | comedy, drama, sport |
Country | United Kingdom, France |
Duration | 01:46 |
Jimmy Grimble is a shy Manchester school boy. At school he is constantly being bullied by the other kids, and at home he has to face his mother's new boyfriend. However, through football, and some special boots, he manages to gain the confidence to succeed and leads his school football team towards the final of the local schools cup.
Mark | imdb: 6.4 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama, sport |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 02:04 |
A man who is suffering a mid-life crisis finds new meaning in his life as part of an all-male, middle-aged, amateur synchronised swimming team.
Mark | imdb: 5.1 |
Genre | biography, history, sport |
Country | Russia |
Based upon the real-life events of the 1910s, this extremely topical story is about a guy from the lowest social strata, who, in order to be with his beloved woman, had to leave his native land and to start his life anew in Moscow. Proved himself in a battle, he was noticed by the Englishman owning a closed soccer club, who invited him to try his hand at his team. However, soccer is an aristocratic game and the team didn't accept a barge-hauler from the Volga. Therefore, he gathered his courage, found the right people, with whom they created the Wild League consisted of street teams from Moscow. Thus, he became a leader, changing his life and the lives of people surrounding him. Varlamy replaced folk fun - battles «wall against the wall», in which perished ordinary people - with soccer. Now they're challenged by the soccer lawmakers.
Mark | imdb: 8.1 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama, adventure, biography, history, sport |
Country | Serbia |
Duration | 02:21 |
A football team from Belgrade, former Republic of Yugoslavia gets a chance to go to the First World Football Championship, but things get complicated along the way.