141. Vice
Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Adam McKay
Actors: Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Sam Rockwell, Alison Pill, Steve Carell, Jesse Plemons
Plot: Explores the influence of Dick Cheney, a Washington insider who became vice president to George W. Bush, and used that position to change the political landscape - with ripples that are still felt today.
142. The Krays
Year of Release: 1990
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Peter Medak
Actors: Billie Whitelaw, Tom Bell, Gary Kemp, Martin Kemp, Alfred Lynch, Susan Fleetwood
Plot: Follows the lives of twin brothers Ronald and Reginald Kray - London-born boys who rose to power in the 1960s as crime lords of the underworld.
143. Kundun
Year of Release: 1997
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Martin Scorsese
Actors: Tenzin Thuthob Tsarong, Gyurme Tethong, Tulku Jamyang Kunga Tenzin, Tenzin Yeshi Paichang, Tencho Gyalpo, Tenzin Topjar
Plot: Biography about the fourteenth Dalai Lama - forced to flee from Tibet after China forced its oppressive regime on his people. Fleeing to India, the Kundun has been living in exile ever since.
144. Jersey Boys
Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Musical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Clint Eastwood
Actors: Christopher Walken, Freya Tingley, Jeremy Luke, Vincent Piazza, Kathrine Narducci, Mike Doyle
Plot: A tale of four young men growing up in New Jersey - on the wrong side of the tracks. But not just any four young men - this is the story about The Four Seasons - a group that would lay claim to some of the most iconic hits of the 60s and who made it though good times and bad thanks to a code of honor learned on the rough streets they called home.
145. The Madness of King George
Year of Release: 1994
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Nicholas Hytner
Actors: Nigel Hawthorne, Helen Mirren, Ian Holm, Rupert Graves, Amanda Donohoe, Rupert Everett
Plot: Based on the historical period when King George III suffered from a blood disorder that caused episodes of dementia - and those around him who try to combat this affliction and keeping themselves in power.
146. Lee Daniels' The Butler
Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Lee Daniels
Actors: Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, David Oyelowo, Cuba Gooding Jr., James Marsden, Lenny Kravitz
Plot: Focuses on the life of Eugene Allen, a man who served as head butler for the White House from 1952-1986 - and his unique insight into the changing landscape of politics and race as her served eight different presidents.
147. Hitchcock
Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Sacha Gervasi
Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Scarlett Johansson, Helen Mirren, James D'Arcy, Jessica Biel, Toni Collette
Plot: Explores the relationship between director Alfred Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville during the making of his landmark horror film Psycho in 1959.
148. Danton
Year of Release: 1983
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Wojciech Pszoniak, Emmanuelle Debever, Patrice Chéreau, Anne Alvaro, Roland Blanche
149. Topsy-Turvy
Year of Release: 1999
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Mike Leigh
Actors: Allan Corduner, Dexter Fletcher, Timothy Spall, Jim Broadbent, Wendy Nottingham, Julia Rayner
Plot: After the failure of Princess Ida, the duo of Gilbert and Sullivan find their relationship strained to the breaking point. Yet their friends and associates have faith in them, and the duo stick together and the resulting play, The Mikado, becomes one of their biggest hits.
150. A River Runs Through It
Year of Release: 1992
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Robert Redford
Actors: Craig Sheffer, Brad Pitt, Tom Skerritt, Brenda Blethyn, Emily Lloyd, Edie McClurg
Plot: Two sons of a Presbyterian minister - one who rebels against his father and one who keeps things grounded - still find time to bond over their love of fly fishing.
