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Catch Me If You Can
2002 film by Steven Spielberg
Goodfellas
Goodfellas (stylized as GoodFellas) is a 1990 American biographical crime drama film directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Nicholas Pileggi and Scorsese, and produced by Irwin Winkler. It is a film adaptation of Pileggi's 1985 nonfiction book Wiseguy. Starring Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco and Paul Sorvino, the film narrates the rise and fall of Mafia associate Henry Hill and his friends and family from 1955 to 1980.
Out of Africa
1985 film by Sydney Pollack
Captain Phillips
2013 film directed by Paul Greengrass
American Gangster
2007 film by Ridley Scott
Moneyball
2011 American film directed by Bennett Miller
The Big Short
2015 film directed by Adam McKay
The Favourite
2018 film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos
Midnight Express
1978 film directed by Alan Parker
The Greatest Showman
2017 film directed by Michael Gracey
Sully
2016 film directed by Clint Eastwood
Napoleon
2023 film directed by Ridley Scott
Capote
2005 film directed by Bennett Miller
The Walk
2015 film by Robert Zemeckis
Chaplin
1992 film by Richard Attenborough
The Perfect Storm
2000 film directed by Wolfgang Petersen
Snowden
2016 film directed by Oliver Stone
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
2002 film directed by George Clooney
Vice
2018 film directed by Adam McKay
Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World
1998 film directed by Tom Ellery and Bradley Raymond
Society of the Snow
2023 film directed by J. A. Bayona
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
2018 film directed by Marielle Heller
Sergeant York
1941 biographical film directed by Howard Hawks
War Dogs
2016 film by Todd Phillips
Domino
2005 film directed by Tony Scott
Queen of the Desert
2015 film directed by Werner Herzog
A River Runs Through It
1992 film by Robert Redford
Cleopatra
1934 film by Cecil B. DeMille
The Divine Lady
1929 film by Frank Lloyd
Everything Is Illuminated
2005 film directed by Liev Schreiber
Pollock
2000 film directed by Ed Harris
El Cid
1961 film directed by Anthony Mann
Deliver Us from Evil
2014 film by Scott Derrickson
Wilson
1944 film directed by Henry King
Bound for Glory
1976 film by Hal Ashby
Rules Don't Apply
2016 film directed by Warren Beatty
Jesse James
1939 film directed by Henry King
Summer of '42
1971 film by Robert Mulligan
Eddie the Eagle
2016 film directed by Dexter Fletcher
Man on Wire
2008 documentary film directed by James Marsh
The Story of Louis Pasteur
1936 film by William Dieterle
The Agony and the Ecstasy
1965 film by Carol Reed
Mrs Henderson Presents
2005 film by Stephen Frears
Soul Surfer
2011 film directed by Sean McNamara
Stan and Ollie
2018 film by Jon S. Baird
The Wind and the Lion
1975 film directed by John Milius
Tetris
2023 film directed by Jon S. Baird
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
2018 film directed by Gus Van Sant
Viva Villa!
1934 film by Howard Hawks, John Waters, Jack Conway, William A. Wellman
Jesus
1979 film directed by Peter Sykes and John Krish
Cadillac Records
2008 film directed by Darnell Martin
Get on Up
2014 film by Tate Taylor
Kill the Irishman
2011 film directed by Jonathan Hensleigh
The Glenn Miller Story
1954 film by Anthony Mann
A Walk in the Woods
2015 film by Ken Kwapis
Hamilton
2020 film of the 2015 Broadway musical of the same name
The Infiltrator
2016 film directed by Brad Furman
Love and Mercy
2014 film directed by Bill Pohlad
Funny Lady
1975 musical film directed by Herbert Ross
The Great Waltz
1938 American film