Erin Brockovich is an unemployed single mother of three who is desperate to find a job and improve their lives. She has no luck and a failed lawsuit from a car accident she was in looks as though it is the end of the road. But from that she manages to get a job for Ed Masry at his law firm and finds herself involved in a huge legal case.
William Shakespeare without his famous plays, sonnets and poems. This film takes a look at the end of his life as he returned back home to Stratford after his Globe Theatre burnt down and he struggles to connect with the family he neglected.
Eleanor Riese a patient in the psychiatric unit of a San Francisco hospital knows that the medication she is being given is making her worse. She manages to request a lawyer and Colette Hughes takes on the case, which turns out to be an uphill legal battle to improve treatment for mental patients by having consent to the drugs they are given.
Based on the life of Dick Cheney and his rise into power as Vice President to George W. Bush and changing things in the United States and around the world.
Mary Stuart returns to Scotland after the death of her French husband and has her sights set on the English throne. Trying to strike a deal with her cousin Elizabeth I as both women struggle to keep hold of their power.
Lee Israel is struggling to survive in life, she had a best-selling book in the New York Times list but she hasn’t grown from the biographies she likes to write. When she finds an old letter and realises they are worth money she turns her talent to forging letters from famous writers.
Based on the true story of Laurel and Hardy’s tour of the UK and Ireland, a truly outstanding and very famous comedy duo attempting to reignite their film career touring the theatres. Not going to plan when the ticket sales are a lot lower than they expected.
Nina Simone is a legend within the jazz world, being a celebrated jazz musician and classical pianist. This film looks at her rise to fame and mainly her relationship with manager Clifton Henderson.
Ron Stallworth is an African-American police officer in Colorado Springs and he managed to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan branch with the help of Flip Zimmerman a fellow police officer who just happens to be Jewish. The pair being posing as the same man Ron, manage to become the leader of the branch. This film is based on actual events.
Colette is pushed by her husband Willy to write a novel when the pair come on tough times, passing it off as his own and basking in the success. When she eventually wants recognition it does not work out as easily as she had planned.
