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True story of Martha Mitchell, the whistle-blowing wife of Nixon chief of staff John Mitchell, and the price she paid for speaking out.

Drama Historical

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Set against San Francisco's vibrant cultural scene in the 1970s and 1980s, both before and after the AIDS epidemic, the crisis claims the life of Alysia Abbot's father, Steve Abbott, a widowed poet and gay activist.

Adaptation True Story

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The true story of Lance Corporal Leslie Martz, a U.S. Marine who was stationed in Haditha, Iraq.

Drama War

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On October 3, 2009, more than 300 Taliban fighters launch a predawn raid on a remote and controversial American outpost near the Afghan-Pakistani border, overrunning its perimeter defenses and breaching its wire. Staff Sgt. Clinton Romesha, a husband and father of three children, plans and leads a small band of soldiers in a counterattack against seemingly insurmountable odds, saving dozens of American lives, and ultimately receiving the Congressional Medal of Honor for his actions.

Action War

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A female Fish and Wildlife agent attempts to catch and successfully prosecute a wily international reptile smuggler based in Miami. Her job is made easier by the smuggler's reckless partner, who also happens to be his father.

Adventure Romance

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The true story of the Muenchener Post, the Munich newspaper that waged a war for more than a decade against the burgeoning Nazi Party and its leader Adolf Hitler.

Drama

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Albrect Muth, an eccentric social climber, is seduced and married a wealthy older widow, Viola Drath. Muth and Drath threw lavish events in their home as Muth lied about his background — which came under scrutiny after Drath was found murdered.

Drama Crime

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True story of the divers and seamen of Barge 269, a cargo ship, who were caught in the path of Hurricane Roxanne's 90-mph winds and 45-foot waves in 1995.

Drama Action

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Brain on Fire follows Cahalan (Moretz), a rising journalist at the New York Post who mysteriously starts having seizures and hearing voices. As weeks go by and Susannah rapidly descends into insanity, she moves inexplicably from violence to catatonia. Following a series of outbursts, misdiagnoses and a prolonged hospital stay, a lucky last-minute intervention by one doctor finally gives her a diagnosis and hope to rebuild her life.

PG-13 Drama 1 hr, 35 mins

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Through an unlikely pairing and tumultuous 19-year relationship, improv maestro Del Close and Charna Halpern own, run and teach at the Chicago's Improv Olympic theater. Together as friends, saviors and soulmates, the duo helps each other overcome his addiction, financial ruin, and their own personal demons to ultimately establish improv as an art form. As such A-list talent are cutting their teeth at IO, it isn’t unheard for Halpern to put a roof over their head, feed them and coach them through bad patches. Together they re-write the rules of improvisation, urging their students to bring intelligence to their art and justice to their characters. Close dies in March 1999.

Drama Biography

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William Dodd, the United States' reluctant and mild-mannered ambassador to Berlin in 1933, and his daughter Martha, a vivacious socialite have romantic affairs with a Gestapo official and a Soviet spy. Dodd and his family at first naively navigate life in Nazi Germany but they slowly gain awareness of the mounting brutality around them.

Drama True Story

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Four friends are on a fishing trip in the Gulf of Mexico when their boat capsizes, stranding the four men at sea. In the days that follow, the men fight to survive as they await to see if help will come.

Drama Thriller

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The film is based on two different accounts of a true story. It is described as a darkly comic tale of murder and survival, set among a group of diverse characters who choose to leave civilization behind and venture to the Galapagos. Their primary motivation is to find the meaning of life, a pressing question that affects us all.

Thriller

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Jose Miguel Battle Sr. escapes to the United States, where he and other Cubans are trained by the CIA to invade the country in an ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion.

Drama Crime

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A true-crime story about boxing, murder and money in the U.S. in the 1990s.

Crime Adaptation

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John D. Rockefeller is ruthless in building Standard Oil, and spends 30 years dodging investigations into his business tactics until Teddy Roosevelt takes him on. Rockefeller also turns into a philanthropist who gives away most of his fortune.

Drama Biography

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A Higher Call is the true story of a German fighter pilot who had a wounded American bomber and its crew in its crosshairs. It was five days before Christmas and the aviator did the unthinkable by sparing the lives of the Americans and escorting the bomber to safety.

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After quarreling with her husband over his request for a divorce, author Agatha Christie leaves their shared residence in Berkshire on the night of December 3, 1926. She leaves behind a letter for her secretary saying she is going to Yorkshire, and she is not found until 10 days later, when it is discovered that she is staying as a guest at a hotel in Yorkshire under a different name.

Action Adventure

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During WWII, Edward Arnold Chapman, a career criminal, spies on the Germans for the British.

Drama Adventure

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During World War I, women in a Yorkshire farming community turn murderous when their husbands return from the trenches to discover their places on the farms and in their beds have been taken by German POWs.

Drama

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