Young Woman and the Sea (
2024) | IMDb:
0
This is the extraordinary true story of Trudy Ederle, the first woman to successfully swim the English Channel. Through the steadfast support of her older sister and supportive trainers, she overcame adversity and the animosity of a patriarchal society to rise through the ranks of the Olympic swimming team and complete the 21-mile trek from France to England.
Starring:
Daisy Ridley
,
Tilda Cobham-Hervey
,
Stephen Graham
,
Christopher Eccleston
,
Kim Bodnia
,
Glenn Fleshler
Landauer (
2014) | IMDb:
6.4
The story of former Bayern Munich president Kurt Landauer, a Bavarian jew ousted by the National Socialists and brought to the concentration camp of Dachau, where he survived to come back and start to rebuild his old club after World War II.
Starring:
Josef Bierbichler
,
Jeanette Hain
,
Herbert Knaup
,
Andreas Lust
,
Andrea Wenzl
,
Eisi Gulp
Directed by:
Hans Steinbichler
The Countess (
2009) | IMDb:
6.2
Kingdom of Hungary, 17th century. As she gets older, powerful Countess Erzsébet Báthory (1560-1614), blinded by the passion that she feels for a younger man, succumbs to the mad delusion that blood will keep her young and beautiful forever.
Starring:
Julie Delpy
,
Daniel Brühl
,
William Hurt
,
Anamaria Marinca
,
Sebastian Blomberg
,
Adriana Altaras
The Young Victoria (
2009) | IMDb:
7.2
As the only legitimate heir of England's King William, teenage Victoria gets caught up in the political machinations of her own family. Victoria's mother wants her to sign a regency order, while her Belgian uncle schemes to arrange a marriage between the future monarch and Prince Albert, the man who will become the love of her life.
Starring:
Emily Blunt
,
Rupert Friend
,
Paul Bettany
,
Miranda Richardson
,
Jim Broadbent
,
Thomas Kretschmann
Directed by:
Jean-Marc Vallée
The Reader (
2008) | IMDb:
7.6
The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a concentration camp guard late in the war. He alone realizes that Hanna is illiterate and may be concealing that fact at the expense of her freedom.