SCIENCE, MUSIC AND COMEDY MOVIES BASED ON HISTORICAL EVENTS
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BOHEMIAN RAPSODY (2018)
Director: Bryan Singer
Main Actors: Rami Malek, Lucy Boynton, Gwilym Lee
Length: 2h13min
The story of the legendary British rock band Queen and lead singer Freddie Mercury, leading up to their famous performance at Live Aid (1985).
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LES INTOUCHABLES (2011)
Director: Olivier Nakache, Éric Toledano
Main Actors: Omar Sy, François Cluzet, Anne Le Ny
Length: 1h53min
After he becomes a quadriplegic from a paragliding accident, an aristocrat hires a young man from the projects to be his caregiver. This is a French movie loosely based on a real life friendship.
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GREEN BOOK (2018)
Director: Peter Farrelly
Main Actors: Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali, Linda Cardellini
Length: 2h10min
A working-class Italian-American bouncer becomes the driver of an African-American classical pianist on a tour of venues through the 1960s American South.
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THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING (2014)
Director: James Marsh
Main Actors: Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Tom Prior
Length: 2h04min
A look at the relationship between the famous physicistStephen Hawking and his wife.
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RAIN MAN (1988)
Director: Barry Levinson
Main Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino
Length: 2h14min
Loosely based on a true story, a selfish yuppie Charlie Babbitt's father left a fortune to his savant brother Raymond and a pittance to Charlie; they travel cross-country.
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ROCKETMAN (2019)
Director: Dexter Fletcher
Main Actors: Taron Egerton, Jamie Bell, Richard Madden
Length: 2h02min
A musical fantasy about the fantastical human story of Elton John's breakthrough years.
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TESLA (2020)
Director: Michael Almereyda
Main Actors: Ethan Hawke, Eve Hewson, Eli A. Smith
Length: 1h42min
A freewheeling take on visionary inventor Nikola Tesla, his interactions with Thomas Edison and J.P. Morgan's daughter Anne, and his breakthroughs in transmitting electrical power and light. This movie takes an interesting new way of story-telling with intentional anachronisms.
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RAY (2004)
Director: Taylor Hackford
Main Actors: Jamie Foxx, Regina King, Kerry Washington
Length: 2h32min
The story of the life and career of the legendary rhythm and blues musician Ray Charles, from his humble beginnings in the South, where he went blind at age seven, to his meteoric rise to stardom during the 1950s and 1960s.
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LA MÔME (2007)
Director: Olivier Dahan
Main Actors: Marion Cotillard, Sylvie Testud, Pascal Greggory
Length: 2h20min
Biopic of the iconic French singer Édith Piaf. Raised by her grandmother in a brothel, she was discovered while singing on a street corner at the age of 19. Despite her success, Piaf's life was filled with tragedy.
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STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON (2015)
Director: F. Gary Gray
Main Actors: O'Shea Jackson Jr., Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell
Length: 2h27min
The rap group NWA emerges from the mean streets of Compton in Los Angeles, California, in the mid-1980s and revolutionizes Hip Hop culture with their music and tales about life in the hood.
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THE CURRENT WAR (2017)
Director: Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
Main Actors: Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Shannon, Nicholas Hoult
Length: 1h47min
The dramatic story of the cutthroat race between electricity titans Thomas A. Edison and George Westinghouse, aided by the genius Nikola Tesla, to determine whose electrical system would power the modern world.
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8 MILE (2002)
Director: Curtis Hanson
Main Actors: Eminem, Brittany Murphy, Kim Basinger
Length: 1h50min
A young rapper, struggling with every aspect of his life, wants to make it big but his friends and foes make this odyssey of rap harder than it may seem.
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ALL EYEZ ON ME (201
Director: Benny Boom
Main Actors: Demetrius Shipp Jr., Danai Gurira, Kat Graham
Length: 2h20min
Tells the true and untold story of prolific rapper, actor, poet and activist Tupac Shakur.
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