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| 1242: Gateway to the West |
| Director: Peter Soos |
| Lead Roles: Kevin Spacey |
| Keywords: 1200s, Set in Mongolia |
| Classification: Based on Real Life Events, Drama, Live Action, Dramatization |
| 4th and Goal |
| Director: Todd Robinson |
| Classification: Based on Factual Book/Article, Drama, Live Action, Dramatization |
| Afterward |
| Director: Dito Montiel |
| Lead Roles: Aaron Eckhart, Terrence Howard |
| Keywords: Filmed in Louisiana, United States |
| Classification: Based on Real Life Events, Thriller/Suspense, Live Action, Dramatization |
| Am I OK? |
| Director: Tig Notaro, Stephanie Allynne |
| Lead Roles: Dakota Johnson as Lucy, Sonoya Mizuno as Jane, Molly Gordon, Kiersey Clemons as Brit |
| Keywords: Sundance Film Festival 2022, Comedy Drama, Romance, LGBTQ+, Coming Out, F-Rated, Set in Los Angeles, Disrupted by 2020 COVID-19 pandemic |
| Classification: Based on Real Life Events, Comedy, Live Action, Dramatization |
Synopsis
After a deeply buried, long-held secret is revealed, two good friends sort through old patterns and new feelings amid the chaos.
| Apostles: Resurrection of Christ |
| Director: Andrew Erwin, Jon Erwin |
| Classification: Based on Religious Text, Drama, Live Action, Dramatization |
| The Apprentice |
| Director: Ali Abbasi |
| Lead Roles: Sebastian Stan as Donald Trump |
| Keywords: Set in New York City, 1970s, 1980s |
| Classification: Based on Real Life Events, Drama, Live Action, Dramatization |
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| Art Thief |
| Director: Arthur Egeli |
| Classification: Based on Real Life Events, Thriller/Suspense, Live Action, Dramatization |
Synopsis
A seasoned criminal uses his art experience to facilitate a massive, life-changing heist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts.
| Black Donnelly’s |
| Director: Adam MacDonald |
| Lead Roles: Sarah Bolger as Johannah Donnelly |
| Keywords: 1880s, Set in Canada |
| Classification: Based on Real Life Events, Drama, Live Action, Dramatization |
| The Collaboration |
| Director: Kwame Kwei-Armah |
| Lead Roles: Paul Bettany as Andy Warhol, Jeremy Pope as Jean-Michel Basquiat |
| Classification: Based on Play, Drama, Live Action, Dramatization |
| The Dating Game |
| Director: Anna Kendrick, Chloe Okuno |
| Classification: Based on Real Life Events, Drama, Live Action, Dramatization |
| Death Alley |
| Director: Nicholas Barton |
| Classification: Based on Real Life Events, Western, Live Action, Dramatization |
Synopsis
Death Alley is based on the TRUE STORY of the infamous Dalton Gang in their quest to become the Wild West’s most famous Outlaws. Hell-bent on upstaging their cousins, the Younger Klan and Jesse James, the brothers set out to do the unthinkable — rob two banks in one day in one town at the same time. With the ever-pressing U.S. Marshal Heck Thomas right at the their heels, the criminals decide to invade the quiet, peaceful Business Community of Coffeyville, KS. As the crime develops, the plans begin to fall apart as the ‘no-guns’ city ordinance is quickly disregarded by the Town’s Citizens, who take arms to defend their life savings and their families from the Notorious Robbers.
| Deliver Me From Nowhere |
| Director: Scott Cooper |
| Lead Roles: Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen |
| Classification: Based on Real Life Events, Drama, Live Action, Dramatization |
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| Every Day In Kaimukī |
| Director: Alika Tengan |
| Lead Roles: Naz Kawakami as Naz |
| Keywords: Sundance Film Festival 2022 |
| Classification: Based on Real Life Events, Drama, Live Action, Dramatization |
Synopsis
Naz, a cynical and charismatic 20-something, has spent his entire life in tranquil O’ahu, Hawaiʻi, skateboarding with his friends and hosting a nightly radio show where he spotlights emerging musicians. When his girlfriend, Sloane, nabs the chance to move to bustling New York, Naz begins preparing for their big move, planning every detail down to his cat’s absurd flight plan. Even when dreaming about what life outside the island might look like, however, Naz wonders whether uprooting his world is the right decision, and if anywhere will ever really feel like home when he’s always been an eternal outsider.
| The Fantastic Flitcrofts |
| Director: Craig Roberts |
| Lead Roles: Mark Rylance as Maurice Flitcroft |
| Keywords: Golf, 1970s, Sports Comedy, Underdog |
| Classification: Based on Real Life Events, Comedy, Live Action, Dramatization |
| First Saturday Night Live |
| Director: Jason Reitman |
| Classification: Based on Real Life Events, Live Action, Dramatization |
| For Unto Us |
| Director: Samuel Fischer |
| Keywords: Faith-Based Drama, Ancient Rome |
| Classification: Based on Religious Text, Drama, Live Action, Dramatization |
| Fred & Ginger |
| Director: Jonathan Entwistle |
| Lead Roles: Jamie Bell, Margaret Qualley |
| Classification: Based on Real Life Events, Drama, Live Action, Dramatization |
| Los Frikis |
| Director: Tyler Nilson, Mike Schwartz |
| Keywords: 1990s, Set in Cuba, Punk Rock, AIDS |
| Classification: Based on Real Life Events, Live Action, Dramatization |
| Fruit of the Poisonous Tree |
| Director: Fritz Kiersch |
| Keywords: Crime Drama, Filmed in New Mexico, United States |
| Classification: Based on Real Life Events, Drama, Live Action, Dramatization |
| Fun Home |
| Director: Sam Gold |
| Keywords: Biography, Biographical Drama |
| Classification: Based on Musical or Opera, Drama, Live Action, Dramatization |
| Hamnet |
| Director: Chloé Zhao |
| Lead Roles: Paul Mescal, Jessie Buckley |
| Classification: Based on Real Life Events, Drama, Live Action, Dramatization |
| Hellish Nell |
| Director: Aislinn Clarke |
| Classification: Based on Real Life Events, Thriller/Suspense, Live Action, Dramatization |
| Hunting Bigfoot |
| Director: Taylor Guterson |
| Keywords: Docudrama, Cryptozoology |
| Classification: Original Screenplay, Documentary, Live Action, Dramatization |
Synopsis
Portrait of a broken man obsessively pursuing personal and professional redemption in a world where many of those close to him think he’s crazy..
| I Am A Man |
| Director: Andrew Troy |
| Keywords: 1870s |
| Classification: Based on Factual Book/Article, Drama, Live Action, Dramatization |
| Joy |
| Director: Ben Taylor |
| Keywords: 1960s, 1970s |
| Classification: Based on Real Life Events, Drama, Live Action, Dramatization |
| Love, Courage and the Battle of Bushy Run |
| Director: Dave Alan Johnson, Larry A. McLean |
| Classification: Based on Real Life Events, Action, Live Action, Dramatization |
| Maria |
| Director: Pablo Larrain |
| Keywords: 1970s, Opera |
| Classification: Based on Real Life Events, Drama, Live Action, Dramatization |
| Mary |
| Director: D.J. Caruso |
| Lead Roles: Anthony Hopkins as King Herod, Noa Cohen as Mary |
| Keywords: Filmed in Morocco |
| Classification: Based on Religious Text, Thriller/Suspense, Live Action, Dramatization |
| Mr. Lucky |
| Classification: Based on Real Life Events, Romantic Comedy, Live Action, Dramatization |
| The Murderous Miss Highsmith |
| Director: Alexandra Pechman |
| Lead Roles: Shailene Woodley as Patricia Highsmith |
| Classification: Based on Real Life Events, Horror, Live Action, Dramatization |
| Music Got Me Here |
| Director: Gurinder Chadha |
| Lead Roles: Chase Stokes |
| Classification: Based on Movie, Drama, Live Action, Dramatization |
| My Last Skirt |
| Keywords: 1800s |
| Classification: Based on Factual Book/Article, Drama, Live Action, Dramatization |
| Otherwise Illegal Activity |
| Keywords: Terrorism |
| Classification: Based on Real Life Events, Thriller/Suspense, Live Action, Dramatization |
| The Penguin & The Fisherman |
| Director: David Schurmann |
| Keywords: Family Drama, Inspired by a True Story |
| Classification: Based on Real Life Events, Drama, Live Action, Dramatization |
| The Place I Belong |
| Director: Bruce Beresford |
| Keywords: Golf |
| Classification: Based on Real Life Events, Drama, Live Action, Dramatization |
| Rich Strike |
| Keywords: Horse Racing, Underdog |
| Classification: Based on Real Life Events, Drama, Live Action, Dramatization |
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| A Rose for Her Grave: The Randy Roth Story |
| Lead Roles: Chrishell Stause, Laura Ramsey, Colin Egglesfield |
| Keywords: TV Movie, Crime |
| Classification: Based on Factual Book/Article, Thriller/Suspense, Live Action, Dramatization |
Synopsis
Cindy is convinced that her best friend Lori is marrying the wrong guy, and when Lori’s body is discovered, Cindy sets out to discover the truth.
| Rothko |
| Director: Sam Taylor-Johnson |
| Lead Roles: Sam Taylor-Johnson |
| Classification: Based on Factual Book/Article, Drama, Live Action, Dramatization |
| The Senior |
| Director: Rod Lurie |
| Lead Roles: Michael Chiklis as Mike Flynt |
| Classification: Based on Real Life Events, Drama, Live Action, Dramatization |
| The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo |
| Director: Leslye Headland |
| Classification: Based on Real Life Events, Drama, Live Action, Dramatization |
| Six Triple Eight |
| Director: Tyler Perry |
| Keywords: World War II, Female Lead, Female empowerment, 1940s, War Drama, African Americans |
| Classification: Based on Factual Book/Article, Drama, Live Action, Dramatization |
Synopsis
Six Triple Eight tells the inspiring true story of the incredible and brave women of the only all-black, all-female World War 2 Battalion. These 855 women joined the war effort with little knowledge of what exactly they would be doing, but were quickly given the mission of a lifetime: sort through and fix the three-year backlog of undelivered mail. A herculean task, that most thought to be impossible, the women not only succeeded but did it in half the time they were given. Facing discrimination, unfamiliar land, and a war-torn country, they persevered and sorted over 17 million pieces of mail, reconnecting American soldiers with their families and loved ones back home. The motto that kept them going each day was one they created themselves: “No Mail, Low Morale.” The women of the 6888 weren’t just delivering mail, they were delivering hope.
| The Smashing Machine |
| Director: Benny Safdie |
| Lead Roles: Dwayne Johnson as Mark Kerr |
| Classification: Based on Real Life Events, Drama, Live Action, Dramatization |
| Soulmates |
| Director: Jim Fitzpatrick |
| Classification: Based on Real Life Events, Drama, Live Action, Dramatization |
| Splendid Solution |
| Classification: Based on Factual Book/Article, Drama, Live Action, Dramatization |
Synopsis
Jonas Salk, a virologist, begins his polio research and eventually discovers a vaccine that he purposefully does not patent which is then used for decades to inoculate against the virus.
| La Stanza |
| Director: Stefano Lodovichi |
| Classification: Original Screenplay, Horror, Live Action, Dramatization |
| Tow |
| Director: Stephanie Laing |
| Lead Roles: Rose Byrne |
| Classification: Based on Real Life Events, Drama, Live Action, Dramatization |
| The Trashers |
| Director: Cooper Raiff |
| Lead Roles: Cooper Hoffman as AJ |
| Keywords: Hockey, Mafia, 2000s, Set in Connecticut |
| Classification: Based on Real Life Events, Drama, Live Action, Dramatization |
| Unstoppable: The Anthony Robles Story |
| Director: William Goldenberg |
| Keywords: Wrestling, College Sports |
| Classification: Based on Factual Book/Article, Drama, Live Action, Dramatization |
| Untitled Bishal Dutta Horror Project |
| Director: Bishal Dutta |
| Classification: Based on Folk Tale/Legend/Fairytale, Horror, Live Action, Dramatization |
| Untitled Gene Roddenberry Biopic |
| Classification: Based on Real Life Events, Drama, Live Action, Dramatization |
| Verona |
| Director: Timothy Scott Bogart |
| Lead Roles: Jamie Ward as Romeo, Clara Rugaard as Juliet |
| Keywords: Romantic Musical, Romeo and Juliet Romance, Romance |
| Classification: Based on Real Life Events, Musical, Live Action, Dramatization |
| Voy! Voy! Voy! |
| Director: Omar Hilal |
| Keywords: 2010s |
| Classification: Based on Real Life Events, Comedy, Live Action, Dramatization |
| Wake Up |
| Director: Janet Craig |
| Lead Roles: Tori Griffith as Grace |
| Keywords: Crime Thriller, Actors Making Their Directorial Debut |
| Classification: Based on Real Life Events, Thriller/Suspense, Live Action, Dramatization |
| What’s Going On |
| Director: Allen Hughes |
| Keywords: 1970s, 1980s, Musicians |
| Classification: Based on Real Life Events, Drama, Live Action, Dramatization |
| Where is the Lie? |
| Director: Quark Henares |
| Lead Roles: EJ Jallorina as Janzen Torres, Royce Cabera as Theo Balmaceda, Maris Racal as Beanie Landridos |
| Keywords: Psychological Thriller, Internet, Internet Dating |
| Classification: Based on Real Life Events, Thriller/Suspense, Live Action, Dramatization |
Synopsis
Hopeless romantic Janzen Torres finds another chance at love when she matches with the handsome and seemingly perfect Theo Balmaceda on a dating app. Unfortunately, on the day of their meet-up, Theo ghosts her, leading Janzen into an intricate web of deceit, lies, and catfishing led by sociopathic mastermind Beanie Landridos.
| Winner |
| Director: Susanna Fogel |
| Lead Roles: Emilia Jones as Winner |
| Keywords: Political |
| Classification: Based on Factual Book/Article, Drama, Live Action, Dramatization |
Synopsis
American intelligence specialist Reality Leigh Winner is the first to expose Russia’s interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. She is arrested in 2017 for removing confidential documents from the government and feeding them to the press In 2018; Winner is sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison.
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| Wolves |
| Director: Danny Dunlop |
| Keywords: Psychological Horror |
| Classification: Based on Real Life Events, Horror, Live Action, Dramatization |
Synopsis
When a young social recluse stumbles onto a series of unsolved cold cases he finds himself pulled deeper into society’s dark underside and must face his own demons to learn the truth.