61. 42
Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Brian Helgeland
Actors: Harrison Ford, Jon Bernthal, Chadwick Boseman, Christopher Meloni, T.R. Knight, Nicole Beharie
Plot: The story behind Jackie Robinson's historical turn at breaking the color barrier in baseball, with guidance from Brooklyn Dodger's executive director Ricky Branch.
62. The Basketball Diaries
Year of Release: 1995
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Biography
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Scott Kalvert
Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, James Madio, Mark Wahlberg, Lorraine Bracco, Patrick McGaw, Bruno Kirby
Plot: A group of teens growing up in streets of New York City get mixed up in drugs and their innocence is lost. Jim Carroll, DiCaprio, just wants to be a great writer but the drugs get a hold of him too.
63. Born on the Fourth of July
Year of Release: 1989
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: War/Biography
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Oliver Stone
Actors: Tom Cruise, Tom Berenger, Kyra Sedgwick, Raymond J. Barry, Caroline Kava, Stephen Baldwin
Plot: Ron Kovic is a young man graduating high school during Vietnam war when he decides to enlist in the military. After his injury he is shocked with the treatment of war veterans but quickly learns the truths to the war as he fights for peace.
64. A Man for All Seasons
Year of Release: 1966
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Biography
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Actors: Orson Welles, John Hurt, Paul Scofield, Leo McKern, Corin Redgrave, Robert Shaw
Plot: The struggle of Thomas More to stand up to the corrupt king as a divorce is decreed and rejected.
65. Ford v. Ferrari
Year of Release: 2019
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: James Mangold
Actors: Christian Bale, Matt Damon, Jon Bernthal, Caitriona Balfe, Josh Lucas, Noah Jupe
Plot: American car designer Carroll Shelby teams up with driver Ken Miles - taking on corporate bureaucracy, personal demons and the very laws of physics in order to design a car for Ford that will be able to take on Ferrari in the prestigious 24 Hours of Le Mans race in 1966.
66. Christiane F.
Year of Release: 1981
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Uli Edel
Actors: Natja Brunckhorst, Thomas Haustein, Jens Kuphal, Rainer Woelk, Jan Georg Effler, David Bowie
Plot: A teen living in 1970s Berlin finds herself drawn into the world of drugs and disco via a series of recorded tapes she made.
67. Wind Rises, The ( Kaze tachinu )
Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Biography
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Actors: Hideaki Anno, Jun Kunimura, Mirai Shida, Miori Takimoto, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Masahiko Nishimura
Plot: Hayao Miyazaki's latest film focuses on the life of Jiro Horikoshi - the man responsible for the design of the Japanese Zero fighter that saw much use in WWII. It is also a reflection of life in Japan during the first half of the 20th century.
68. The People vs. Larry Flynt
Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Milos Forman
Actors: Woody Harrelson, Courtney Love, Edward Norton, James Cromwell, Brett Harrelson, Crispin Glover
Plot: A comical biography of Larry Flynt's life, the birth of Husler Magazine and his battle for free speech in America.
69. The Death of Stalin
Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Armando Iannucci
Actors: Steve Buscemi, Olga Kurylenko, Jason Isaacs, Rupert Friend, Andrea Riseborough, Jeffrey Tambor
70. Judas and the Black Messiah
Year of Release: 2021
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Shaka King
Actors: Daniel Kaluuya, LaKeith Stanfield, Jesse Plemons, Martin Sheen, Dominique Fishback, Lil Rel Howery
Plot: As the Black Panther movement spread across the United States, J. Edgar Hoover seeing a threat bigger than Communism seeks a scapegoat and finds it in Fred Hampton, leader of the Chicago chapter. Bill O'Neal, seeking to avoid jail for impersonating an FBI agent, is recruited to go undercover - quickly rising to head of security and reporting on his findings. But soon it becomes apparent jail is not good enough to stop Hampton and O'Neal will have to decide how far he is willing to go to appease the FBI.
