Mademoiselle Paradis
A history movie starring Maria Dragus, Devid Striesow and Susanne Wuest
18th century Vienna. The true story of Maria Theresia von Paradis, a gifted piano player and close friend of Mozart’s, who lost her eye-sight as a child. Desperate to cure their talented daughter, the Paradis entrust Maria to Dr. Mesmer, a forward-thinking-physician who gives her the care and attention that she requires ... (more)
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Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017)
A history movie starring Luke Evans, Rebecca Hall and Bella Heathcote
The unconventional life of Dr. William Marston, the Harvard psychologist and inventor who helped invent the modern lie detector test and created Wonder Woman in 1941.
The Birth of a Nation (2016)
A drama starring Nate Parker, Armie Hammer and Gabrielle Union
Nat Turner, a former slave in America, leads a liberation movement in 1831 to free African-Americans in Virgina that results in a violent retaliation from whites.
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The Zookeeper's Wife (2017)
A biography starring Jessica Chastain, Daniel Brühl and Efrat Dor
The real-life story of one working wife and mother who became a hero to hundreds during World War II. In 1939 Poland, Antonina Żabińska and her husband, Dr. Jan Żabiński, have the Warsaw Zoo flourishing under his stewardship and her care. When their country is invaded by the Nazis, Jan and Antonina are stunned – and forced to report to the Reich’s newly appointed chief zoologist, Lutz Heck ... (more)
Mudbound (2017)
A drama starring Jason Clarke, Jason Mitchell and Carey Mulligan
In the post–World War II South, two families are pitted against a barbaric social hierarchy and an unrelenting landscape as they simultaneously fight the battle at home and the battle abroad.
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The Unheard Woman (2016)
A drama starring Rosalie Thomass, Gundi Ellert and Sebastian Bezzel
Farmer’s wife and mother of three Hanni worries about her youngest, Magdalena, who’s smaller and more sensitive than her siblings. She gets stomach flu and can’t see well. The doctors prescribe nothing but panaceas, and don’t take her case seriously. While Hanni searches for a doctor who will take Magdalena’s symptoms seriously, her husband and sons feel neglected ... (more)