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The Intouchables (2011)

Summary: After he becomes a quadriplegic from a paragliding accident, an aristocrat hires a young man from the projects to be his caregiver.

Release Date: November 02, 2011

Genres: Biography, Comedy, Drama

Directors: Olivier Nakache

, Éric Toledano

Writers: Olivier Nakache

, Philippe Pozzo di Borgo

, Éric Toledano

Runtime: 1 h 52 min

MPAA: R

Production: Quad, Ten Films, Canal+, Chaocorp, Gaumont, TF1 Films Production

Distributor: The Weinstein Company, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Country: France

Language: French

Movie budget: $ 9,500,000

Domestic: $ 10,198,820

International: $ 416,389,690

A Beautiful Mind (2001)

Summary: After John Nash, a brilliant but asocial mathematician, accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish.

Release Date: January 04, 2002

Genres: Biography, Drama

Director: Ron Howard

Writers: Akiva Goldsman

, Sylvia Nasar

Runtime: 2 h 15 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Universal Pictures, Dreamworks Pictures, Imagine Entertainment

Distributor: American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE), Amazon Prime Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 58,000,000

Domestic: $ 170,742,341

International: $ 146,048,916

Donnie Brasco (1997)

Summary: An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and finds himself identifying more with the Mafia life--at the expense of his regular one.

Release Date: February 28, 1997

Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama

Director: Mike Newell

Writers: Joseph D. Pistone

, Richard Woodley

, Paul Attanasio

Runtime: 2 h 07 min

MPAA: R

Production: Mandalay Entertainment, Baltimore Pictures, Mark Johnson Productions

Distributor: Sony Pictures Releasing, TriStar Pictures, Columbia TriStar Home Video, National Broadcasting Company (NBC), Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Mill Creek Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 35,000,000

Domestic: $ 41,909,762

International: $ 83,000,000

American Gangster (2007)

Summary: An outcast New York City cop is charged with bringing down Harlem drug lord Frank Lucas, whose real life inspired this partly biographical film.

Release Date: November 02, 2007

Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama

Director: Ridley Scott

Writers: Steven Zaillian

, Mark Jacobson

Runtime: 2 h 37 min

MPAA: R

Production: Universal Pictures, Imagine Entertainment, Relativity Media, Scott Free Productions, WR Universal Group

Distributor: Universal Pictures

Countries: United States, United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 100,000,000

Domestic: $ 130,164,645

International: $ 139,590,785

Catch Me If You Can (2002)

Summary: Barely 21 yet, Frank is a skilled forger who has passed as a doctor, lawyer and pilot. FBI agent Carl becomes obsessed with tracking down the con man, who only revels in the pursuit.

Release Date: December 25, 2002

Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama

Director: Steven Spielberg

Writers: Jeff Nathanson

, Frank Abagnale Jr.

, Stan Redding

Runtime: 2 h 21 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Dreamworks Pictures, Kemp Company, Splendid Pictures, Parkes/MacDonald Image Nation, Amblin Entertainment, Muse Entertainment Enterprises

Distributor: DreamWorks Distribution, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), DreamWorks Home Entertainment, HBO Max, Paramount+

Countries: United States, Canada

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 52,000,000

Domestic: $ 164,615,351

International: $ 187,498,961

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Walk the Line (2005)

Summary: A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his rise to fame with Sun Records in Memphis, where he recorded alongside Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins.

Release Date: November 18, 2005

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

Director: James Mangold

Writers: Johnny Cash

, Gill Dennis

, James Mangold

Runtime: 2 h 16 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Fox 2000 Pictures, Tree Line Film, Konrad Pictures, Catfish Productions, Major Studio Partners, Mars Media Beteiligungs

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, CBS, HBO Max

Countries: Germany, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 28,000,000

Domestic: $ 119,519,402

International: $ 67,278,584

Blow (2001)

Summary: The story of how George Jung, along with the Medellín Cartel headed by Pablo Escobar, established the American cocaine market in the 1970s in the United States.

Release Date: April 06, 2001

Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama

Director: Ted Demme

Writers: Bruce Porter

, David McKenna

, Nick Cassavetes

Runtime: 2 h 04 min

MPAA: R

Production: Apostle, Avery Pix, New Line Cinema, Spanky Pictures

Distributor: New Line Cinema, New Line Home Video, HBO Max

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 53,000,000

Domestic: $ 52,990,775

International: $ 30,291,521

The Last King of Scotland (2006)

Summary: Based on the events of the brutal Ugandan dictator Idi Amin's regime as seen by his personal physician during the 1970s.

Release Date: January 19, 2007

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Director: Kevin Macdonald

Writers: Peter Morgan

, Jeremy Brock

, Giles Foden

Runtime: 2 h 03 min

MPAA: R

Production: Searchlight Pictures, DNA Films, FilmFour, Cowboy Films, Slate Films, Tatfilm

Distributor: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, My Network TV

Countries: United Kingdom, Germany

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 6,000,000

Domestic: $ 17,606,684

International: $ 31,011,507

12 Years a Slave (2013)

Summary: In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.

Release Date: November 08, 2013

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Director: Steve McQueen

Writers: John Ridley

, Solomon Northup

Runtime: 2 h 14 min

MPAA: R

Production: New Regency Productions, River Road Entertainment, Plan B Entertainment, Film4, Searchlight Pictures, Summit Entertainment

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

Countries: United States, United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 20,000,000

Domestic: $ 56,671,993

International: $ 131,061,209

The King's Speech (2010)

Summary: The story of King George VI, his unexpected ascension to the throne of the British Empire in 1936, and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch overcome his stammer.

Release Date: December 25, 2010

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Director: Tom Hooper

Writer: David Seidler

Runtime: 1 h 58 min

MPAA: R

Production: The Weinstein Company, UK Film Council, Momentum Pictures, Aegis Film Fund, Molinare Investment, FilmNation Entertainment, See-Saw Films, Bedlam Productions

Distributor: The Weinstein Company, Anchor Bay Entertainment, HBO Max, Lionsgate

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 15,000,000

Domestic: $ 138,797,449

International: $ 345,271,412

Papillon (1973)

Summary: A French convict in the 1930s befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence in the South American penal colony on Devil's Island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.

Release Date: December 19, 1973

Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama

Director: Franklin J. Schaffner

Writers: Dalton Trumbo

, Lorenzo Semple Jr.

, Henri Charrière

Runtime: 2 h 31 min

MPAA: R

Production: Les Films Corona, General Production Company, Solar Productions

Distributor: Allied Artists Pictures, Allied Artists Home Video, MGM/CBS Home Video, CBS Video, CBS/Fox, Warner Home Video

Countries: France, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 12,000,000

Domestic: $ 53,267,000

The Imitation Game (2014)

Summary: During World War II, the English mathematical genius Alan Turing tries to crack the German Enigma code with help from fellow mathematicians while attempting to come to terms with his troubled private life.

Release Date: December 25, 2014

Genres: Biography, Drama, Thriller

Director: Morten Tyldum

Writers: Graham Moore

, Andrew Hodges

Runtime: 1 h 54 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Black Bear Pictures, FilmNation Entertainment, Bristol Automotive, Hishow Entertainment, West London Films

Distributor: Anchor Bay Entertainment, Hotstar

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 14,000,000

Domestic: $ 91,125,683

International: $ 142,430,025

Raging Bull (1980)

Summary: The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.

Release Date: December 19, 1980

Genres: Biography, Drama, Sport

Director: Martin Scorsese

Writers: Jake LaMotta

, Joseph Carter

, Peter Savage

Runtime: 2 h 09 min

MPAA: R

Production: Chartoff-Winkler Productions, Chartoff-Winkler Productions

Distributor: United Artists, Magnetic Video, CBS/Fox, CBS, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, The Criterion Collection, Philips, Warner Home Video, MGM Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 18,000,000

Domestic: $ 23,383,987

International: $ 20,840

The Fighter (2010)

Summary: Based on the story of Micky Ward, a fledgling boxer who tries to escape the shadow of his more famous but troubled older boxing brother and get his own shot at greatness.

Release Date: December 17, 2010

Genres: Action, Biography, Drama

Director: David O. Russell

Writers: Scott Silver

, Paul Tamasy

, Eric Johnson

Runtime: 1 h 56 min

MPAA: R

Production: Closest to the Hole Productions, Fighter, Mandeville Films, The Weinstein Company

Distributor: HBO Max, Paramount Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 25,000,000

Domestic: $ 93,617,009

International: $ 35,573,860