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THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7 (2020)
Director: Aaron Sorkin
Main Actors: Eddie Redmayne, Alex Sharp, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jeremy Strong, Mark Rylance
Length: 2h10min
The story of 7 people on trial stemming from various charges surrounding the uprising at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.
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THE IRISHMAN (2019)
Director: Martin Scorsese
Main Actors: Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Al Pacino
Length: 3h30min
An old man recalls his time painting houses for his friend, Jimmy Hoffa, through the 1950-70s.
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SPOTLIGHT (2015)
Director: Tom McCarthy
Main Actors: Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams, Michael Keaton
Length: 2h09min
The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.
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THE BIG SHORT (2015)
Director: Adam McKay
Main Actors: Steve Carrell, Brad Pitt, Christian Bale, Ryan Gosling
Length: 2h10min
In 2006-2007 a group of investors bet against the US mortgage market. In their research they discover how flawed and corrupt the market is.
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FREEDOM WRITERS (2007)
Director: Richard LaGravenese
Main Actors: Hillary Swank, Imelda Staunton, Patrick Dempsey
Length: 2h03min
A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves and pursue education beyond high school.
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CATCH ME IF YOU CAN (2002)
Director: Steven Spielberg
Main Actors: Leonardo Di Caprio, Tom Hanks, Christopher Walken
Length: 2h21min
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.
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AMERICAN HUSTLE (2013)
Director: David O'Russell
Main Actors: Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence
Length: 2h18min
A con man, Irving Rosenfeld, along with his seductive partner Sydney Prosser, is forced to work for a wild F.B.I. Agent, Richie DiMaso, who pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and the Mafia.
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THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (2013)
Director: Martin Scorsese
Main Actors: Leonardo Di Caprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie
Length: 3h00min
Based on the true story of Jordan Belfort, from his rise to a wealthy stock-broker living the high life to his fall involving crime, corruption and the federal government.
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THE POST (2017)
Director: Steven Spielberg
Main Actors: Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Sarah Paulsen, Bob Odenkirk
Length: 1h56min
A cover-up spanning four U.S. Presidents pushes the country's first female newspaper publisher and her editor to join an unprecedented battle between press and government.
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THE PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS (2006)
Director: Gabriele Muccino
Main Actors: Will Smith, Thandiwe Newton, Jaden Smith
Length: 1h57min
A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional career.
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AMERICAN GANGSTER (2007)
Director: Ridley Scott
Main Actors: Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Chiwetel Ejiofor
Length: 2h37min
An outcast New York City cop is charged with bringing down Harlem drug lord Frank Lucas, whose real life inspired this partly biographical film.
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VICE (2018)
Director: Adam McKay
Main Actors: Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Steve Carrell, Sam Rockwell
Length: 2h13min
The story of Dick Cheney, an unassuming bureaucratic Washington insider, who quietly wielded immense power as Vice President to George W. Bush, reshaping the country and the globe in ways that we still feel today.
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BLACKKKLANSMAN (2018)
Director: Spike Lee
Main Actors: John David Washington, Adam Driver, Laura Harrier
Length: 2h16min
Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer from Colorado Springs, CO, successfully manages to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan branch with the help of a Jewish surrogate who eventually becomes its leader. Based on actual events.
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UNITED 93 (2006)
Director: Paul Greengrass
Main Actors: David Alan Basche, Olivia Thirlby, Liza Colón-Zayas
Length: 1h51min
A real-time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on September 11th, 2001 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.
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LIFE OF A KING (2013)
Director: Jake Goldberger
Main Actors: Cuba Gooding Jr., Dennis Haysbert, George Dick
Length: 1h40min
Ex-felon, Eugene Brown, establishes a Chess Club for inner city teenagers in Washington, D.C.
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JOY (2015)
Director: David O. Russell
Main Actors: Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro
Length: 2h04min
Joy is the story of the title character, who rose to become founder and matriarch of a powerful family business dynasty.
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FENCES (2016)
Director: Denzel Washington
Main Actors: Denzel Washington, Viola Davis, Stephen McKinley Henderson
Length: 2h19min
A working-class African-American father tries to raise his family in the 1950s, while coming to terms with the events of his life.
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THE SOCIAL NETWORK (2010)
Director: David Fincher
Main Actors: Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake
Length: 2h01min
As Harvard student, Mark Zuckerberg, creates the social networking site that would become known as Facebook, he is sued by the twins who claimed he stole their idea, and by the co-founder who was later squeezed out of the business.
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12 YEARS A SLAVE (2013)
Director: Steve McQueen
Main Actors: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Kenneth Williams, Michael Fassbender
Length: 2h13min
In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.
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THE KING'S SPEECH (2010)
Director: Tom Hooper
Main Actors: Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter
Length: 1h59min
The story of King George VI, his impromptu ascension to the throne of the British Empire in 1936, and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch overcome his stammer.
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THE BUTLER (2013)
Director: Lee Daniels
Main Actors: Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, John Cusack
Length: 2h15min
As Cecil Gaines serves eight presidents during his tenure as a butler at the White House, the civil rights movement, Vietnam, and other major events affect this man's life, family, and American society.
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