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Albert Nobbs
Albert Nobbs is a 2011 drama directed by Rodrigo García, starring Glenn Close as a woman passing as a man at a Dublin hotel, adapted from George Moore's 1918 novella; Oscar-nominated for Close, Janet McTeer, and makeup.
American Dreams in China (中国合伙人)
American Dreams in China (中国合伙人), a 2013 Peter Chan comedy-drama starring Huang Xiaoming, Deng Chao, and Tong Dawei, loosely based on New Oriental's founders; earned 540 million RMB and the Golden Rooster Best Picture award.
Ao: The Last Hunter
Ao: The Last Hunter is a 2009 French prehistoric drama directed by Jacques Malaterre, loosely based on Marc Klapczynski's novel Aô, l'homme ancien, spoken in an invented prehistoric language.
Argo (2012 film)
Argo (2012) is Ben Affleck's Oscar-winning thriller about the CIA's fake Hollywood film scheme, Studio Six Productions' 'Argo,' that exfiltrated six US diplomats from Tehran in 1980, and the historical-accuracy controversies it sparked.
Big Miracle
Big Miracle is a 2012 Ken Kwapis drama starring Drew Barrymore and John Krasinski, based on Tom Rose's book about the 1988 Operation Breakthrough rescue of three ice-trapped gray whales near Barrow, Alaska, involving Soviet icebreakers; not to be confused with the TV series Big Miracles.
Black Venus
Black Venus (Vénus noire) is Abdellatif Kechiche's 2010 French-Italian historical drama about Saartjie Baartman, the "Hottentot Venus", starring Yahima Torres; it competed at Venice 2010 and opened in France on 27 October 2010.
Captain Phillips (film)
Captain Phillips (2013) is Paul Greengrass's biographical thriller starring Tom Hanks and Barkhad Abdi about the 2009 Maersk Alabama hijacking; it earned six Oscar nominations and grossed $218.8 million worldwide.
Come Sunday (film)
Come Sunday is a 2018 Netflix biographical drama directed by Joshua Marston, adapted from This American Life's 'Heretics,' starring Chiwetel Ejiofor as Tulsa pastor Carlton Pearson, who preached there is no hell and was branded a heretic.
Coming Home (归来) (2014 film)
Coming Home (归来) is Zhang Yimou's 2014 Chinese drama adapted from Yan Geling's novel The Criminal Lu Yanshi, starring Gong Li and Chen Daoming as a couple reunited after the Cultural Revolution despite the wife's amnesia; it premiered Out of Competition at Cannes 2014 and earned over 200 million yuan in China.
Diana (2013 film)
Diana (2013) is Oliver Hirschbiegel's biographical drama starring Naomi Watts as Diana, Princess of Wales, and Naveen Andrews as Hasnat Khan, covering her final two years, land-mine campaign, and secret affair; critically panned at 7% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Dolphin Tale
Dolphin Tale (2011), also known by its tagline inspired by Winter's story, is a Charles Martin Smith family drama about a dolphin fitted with a prosthetic tail at Clearwater Marine Aquarium; it grossed about $95 million and spawned a 2014 sequel.
Eat Pray Love
Eat Pray Love: Elizabeth Gilbert's 2006 bestselling post-divorce travel memoir (Italy, India, Bali; over 12 million copies) and its 2010 Ryan Murphy film starring Julia Roberts, which grossed $204.6 million worldwide but scored 34% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Eden (2014 film)
Eden (2014) is Mia Hansen-Løve's French drama about DJ Paul, whose career in 1990s Paris house music, inspired by her brother Sven, rises and fades as Daft Punk succeed; premiered at Toronto 2014, distinct from the same-year Madiraju survival thriller.
First Man (film)
First Man (2018) is Damien Chazelle's biographical drama starring Ryan Gosling as Neil Armstrong, adapted from James R. Hansen's authorized biography; it won the Oscar for Best Visual Effects and the Golden Globe for Best Original Score.
Gimme Shelter (2013 film)
Gimme Shelter (2013 film), also called Gimme Shelter, is Ron Krauss's drama starring Vanessa Hudgens as pregnant runaway Agnes 'Apple' Bailey, based on Kathy DiFiore's Several Sources Shelters, released by Roadside Attractions in January 2014.
Gone with the Bullets (一步之遥)
Gone with the Bullets (一步之遥) is Jiang Wen's 2014 3D film, second of his republican-era trilogy after Let the Bullets Fly. Set in 1920s Shanghai and loosely based on the Yan Ruisheng murder case, it earned 516 million yuan and polarized critics.
Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai (一命)
Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai (Ichimei, 一命) is Takashi Miike's 2011 3D remake of Kobayashi's 1962 Harakiri, based on Takiguchi's Ibun Ronin-ki, starring Ebizo Ichikawa XI; it premiered in competition at Cannes 2011.
In the Name of My Daughter
In the Name of My Daughter (L'Homme qu'on aimait trop) is André Téchiné's 2014 French drama with Catherine Deneuve, Guillaume Canet, and Adèle Haenel about the 1977 disappearance of casino heiress Agnès Le Roux in Nice.
Kano (2014 film)
Kano is a 2014 Taiwanese biographical sports drama directed by Umin Boya about a multi-ethnic Taiwanese baseball team reaching the 1931 Koshien final.
Life of a King
Life of a King is a 2013 drama directed by Jake Goldberger, starring Cuba Gooding Jr. as Eugene Brown, the ex-convict who founded Washington, D.C.'s Big Chair Chess Club for at-risk teens.
Lovelace (film)
Lovelace is a 2013 American biographical drama directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, starring Amanda Seyfried as Linda Lovelace, star of the 1972 film Deep Throat.
Marvellous
Marvellous is a 2014 BBC Two biographical drama film, also called the Neil Baldwin film, directed by Julian Farino and written by Peter Bowker, starring Toby Jones as Stoke City kit man Neil Baldwin; it won two 2015 BAFTAs.
Mr. Turner
Mr. Turner (2014) is Mike Leigh's biographical drama on painter J.M.W. Turner's last 25 years, starring Timothy Spall, who won Cannes Best Actor; Dick Pope won a cinematography jury prize.
My Dinner with Hervé
My Dinner with Hervé is a 2018 HBO Films television drama directed by Sacha Gervasi, starring Peter Dinklage as Fantasy Island actor Hervé Villechaize and Jamie Dornan as journalist Danny Tate, dramatizing Gervasi's real 1993 interview days before Villechaize's suicide; Emmy-nominated for Outstanding Television Movie.
Night Train to Lisbon (film)
Night Train to Lisbon (2013), Bille August drama adapted from Pascal Mercier's novel, starring Jeremy Irons as a Swiss professor investigating a Salazar-era resistance doctor in Lisbon.
No (2012 film)
No (2012 film) by Pablo Larraín: Chilean historical drama starring Gael García Bernal as adman René Saavedra in the 1988 anti-Pinochet plebiscite campaign; Cannes Art Cinema Award winner and Oscar-nominated, shot on U-matic video.
Noah (2014 film)
Noah is a 2014 American biblical epic directed by Darren Aronofsky, starring Russell Crowe as the ark-builder Noah, who receives a divine mission to save creation from an apocalyptic flood.
One Chance (film)
One Chance (2013) is a David Frankel biographical drama, written by Justin Zackham, starring James Corden as Britain's Got Talent winner Paul Potts, with Julie Walters, Colm Meaney, and Alexandra Roach; Weinstein Company release, Metascore 52.
Pride (2014 film)
Pride (2014), Matthew Warchus's comedy-drama written by Stephen Beresford, dramatizes Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners, London gay activists who funded Welsh strikers in the 1984–85 miners' strike; Cannes Queer Palm and BAFTA-winning, released 12 September 2014.
Rush (2013 film)
Rush (2013) is Ron Howard's action-drama, written by Peter Morgan, dramatizing the 1976 Formula 1 rivalry between James Hunt (Chris Hemsworth) and Niki Lauda (Daniel Brühl), with a 74 Metascore and fabricated scenes noted.