Based on the true story of Thailand’s famed transgender kickboxer, “Beautiful Boxer” is a poignant action drama that punches straight into the heart and mind of a boy who fights like a man so he can become a woman. Believing he’s a girl trapped in a boy’s body since childhood, Parinya Charoenphol sets out to…
Category: Real Life Stories
Capote (2005)
In November, 1959, Truman Capote (Philip Seymour Hoffman), the author of Breakfast at Tiffany’s and a favorite figure in what is soon to be known as the Jet Set, reads an article on a back page of the New York Times. It tells of the murders of four members of a well-known farm family —…
Cinderella Man (2005)
“In all the history of the boxing game, you’ll find no human interest story to compare with the life narrative of James J. Braddock.” – Damon Runyon (1936) In the middle of the Great Depression, when an America in the grips of a devastating economic downturn was nearly brought to its knees, there came along…
Domino (2005)
Tagline: Smart. Daring. Defiant and dangerous. As well as beautiful. From director Tony Scott and inspired by a real-life story, Keira Knightley stars as Domino Harvey, who rejected her privileged Beverly Hills lifestyle as the daughter of a famous actor (Lawrence Harvey) and a Ford agency model to become a bounty hunter in pursuit of…
Downfall (Der Untergang) (2005)
When writer – producer Bernd Eichinger read the galleys of historian Joachim Fest’s book “Der Untergang” (“The Downfall: Inside Hitler’s Bunker, The Last Days of the Third Reich”), he knew he had found the dramatic key to a film he had wanted to make for decades, but never thought possible due to its scope. Fess’…
Get Rich or Die Tryin’ (2005)
An orphaned street kid (Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson) makes his mark in the drug trade, but finally dares to leave the violence of his former life behind to pursue a promising career in the music business as a rapper. Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, one of the biggest and most popular stars in hip-hop, is the…