2023 Movies : Biography

With Cary Elwes • Jay Baruchel • Matt Johnson • Matthew Miller • Michael Ironside • Glenn Howerton • Martin Donovan • Saul Rubinek • Rich Somme

Two mismatched entrepreneurs – egghead innovator Mike Lazaridis and cut-throat businessman Jim Balsillie – joined forces in an endeavour that was to become a worldwide hit in little more than a decade. The device that one invented and the other sold was the BlackBerry, an addictive mobile phone that changed the way the world worked, played and communicated. But just as BlackBerry was rising to new peaks, it also started losing its way through the fog of Smartphone wars, management indecision and outside distractions, eventually leading to the breakdown of one of the most successful ventures in the history of the tech and business worlds.

With Ben Affleck • Matt Damon • Jason Bateman • Chris Tucker • Viola Davis • David Ellison • Marlon Wayans • Chris Messina • Gustaf Skarsgård • Madison Ainley • Alex Convery • Peter Guber • Matthew Maher • Tom Papa • Joel Gretsch • Jeff Robinov • Jon Weinbach • Julius Tennon • Jesse Sisgold • Damon

From award-winning director Ben Affleck, Air reveals the unbelievable game-changing partnership between a then rookie Michael Jordan and Nike’s fledgling basketball division which revolutionized the world of sports and contemporary culture with the Air Jordan brand. This moving story follows the career-defining gamble of an unconventional team with everything on the line, the uncompromising vision of a mother who knows the worth of her son’s immense talent, and the basketball phenom who would become the greatest of all time.

With Sydney Sweeney • Riva Marker • John Way • Josh Hamilton • Marchånt Davis • Brad Becker-Parton • Noah Stahl • Greg Nobile • Tina Satter • Benny Elledge

On June 3, 2017, 25-year-old former American intelligence specialist Reality Winner is confronted by FBI agents arriving at her home to question her suspected role in the mishandling of classified information. Based on true events, the film’s dialogue is directly from the transcript of their tense and transfixing conversation.

With Shia LaBeouf • Stella Mastrantonio • Asia Argento • Maurizio Braucci • Abel Ferrara • Marco Leonardi • Cristina Chiriac • Brando Pacitto • Vincenzo Crea • Luca Lionello • Salvatore Ruocco

It is the end of World War I and the young Italian soldiers are making their way back to San Giovanni Rotondo, a land of poverty, with a tradition of violence and submission to the iron-clad rule of the church and its wealthy landowners. Families are desperate, the men are broken, albeit victorious. Padre Pio also arrives, at a remote Capuchin monastery, to begin his ministry, evoking an aura of charisma, saintliness and epic visions of Jesus, Mary and the Devil himself. The eve of the first free elections in Italy sets the stage for a massacre with a metaphorical dimension: an apocalyptic event that changes the course of history.

With Ola G. Furuseth • Henrik M. Dahlsbakken • Alfred Ekker Strande • Mattis Herman Nyquist • Anne Krigsvoll

The life story of one of the world’s most significant modern painters, Edvard Munch.

With Manish Dayal • Ral Agada • Arash Amel • Elijah Shomanke • Taylor Nichols • Bernie Goldmann • Dayo Okeniyi • Yetide Badaki • Giannis Antetokounmpo • Uche Agada • Jaden Osimuwa

After emigrating from Nigeria to Greece, Charles and Vera Antetokounmpo (Dayo Okeniyi and Yetide Badaki, respectively) struggled to survive and provide for their five children, while living under the daily threat of deportation. With their oldest son still in Nigeria with relatives, the couple were desperate to obtain Greek citizenship but found themselves undermined by a system that blocked them at every turn. When they weren’t selling items to tourists on the streets of Athens with the rest of the family, the brothers – Giannis (Uche Agada) and Thanasis (Ral Agada) – would play basketball with a local youth team. Latecomers to the sport, they discovered their great abilities on the basketball court and worked hard to become world class athletes, along with brother, Kostas (Jaden Osimuwa). With the help of an agent, Giannis entered the NBA Draft in 2013 in a long shot prospect that would change not only his life but the life of his entire family. And last season, Giannis and Thanasis helped bring the Milwaukee Bucks their first championship ring in 50 years, while Kostas played for the previous season champs, the Los Angeles Lakers.

With Jim Caviezel • Mira Sorvino • Bill Camp • Eduardo Verastegui • Kurt Fuller • Alejandro Gomez Monteverde • Jose Zuniga • Scott Haze • Rod Barr

The story of Tim Ballard, a former US government agent, who quits his job in order to devote his life to rescuing children from global sex traffickers.

With Walton Goggins • Casey Affleck • Bill Pohlad • Jack Dylan Grazer • Beau Bridges • Zooey Deschanel • Chris Messina • Noah Jupe • Jim Burke

Dreamin’ Wild, the true story of love and redemption, is about what happened to singer/songwriter Donnie Emerson and his family when the album he and his brother recorded as teens was rediscovered after thirty years of obscurity and was suddenly hailed by music critics as a lost masterpiece. While the album’s rediscovery brings hopes of second chances, it also brings long-buried emotions as Donnie, his wife Nancy, brother Joe, and father Don Sr. come to terms with the past and their newly found fame.

With Matt Damon • Robert Downey Jr. • Emily Blunt • Christopher Nolan • Cillian Murphy • Florence Pugh • Rami Malek • Josh Hartnett • Benny Safdie • Kenneth Branagh • Emma Thomas • Dane DeHaan • Charles Roven • Alden Ehrenreich • Tony Goldwyn • David Krumholtz • Matthew Modine • David Dastmalchian • Jack Quaid

Story of J. Robert Oppenheimer and the creation of the atomic bomb.

With Kris Kaczor • Chick Big Crow • CeCe Big Crow • Doni DeCory • Rayette Provost

At 14, she was one of SD’s best basketball players. By 17, her social activism had made her a household name across the Great Plains. 30 years after her death, SuAnne Big Crow continues to galvanize the Lakota in their fight to reclaim their culture.

With Nan Arnold Gurley • Conrad John Schuck • Carrie Tillis • Nat McIntyre • Garris Wimmer • Ross Bolen • Laura Matula • Matt Logan • Erik Lokkesmoe • A. S. Peterson • Kay Cook

World War II. Darkness has fallen over Europe, and the boots of the Third Reich echo through the streets. But on a quiet city corner in the Netherlands, some choose to resist. Corrie Ten Boom and her family risk everything to hide Jewish refugees by the hundreds, and they ultimately face the consequences when they are discovered.

With Helen Mirren • Ed Stoppard • Camille Cottin • Guy Nattiv • Nicholas Martin • Dominic Mafham • Ben Caplan

Golda is a ticking-clock thriller set during the tense 19 days of the Yom Kippur War in 1973. Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir (Helen Mirren), faced with the potential of Israel’s complete destruction, must navigate overwhelming odds, a skeptical cabinet, and a complex relationship with US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger (Liev Schreiber), with millions of lives in the balance. Her tough leadership and compassion would ultimately decide the fate of her nation and leave her with a controversial legacy around the world.

With Hugh Bonneville • Phoebe Dynevor • Joel Fry • Rory Kinnear • Paul Kaye • Naomi Battrick • Chris Foggin

After big financial institutions fail the people in his small town, a car dealer decides to set up his own bank.