"Meat Loaf" Aday is an overgrown Texas youngster, the son of a gentle woman dying of cancer and an alcoholic, abusive father. Tormented by his father and schoolmates over his size, he strikes out on his own after his mother's death, in an impossible task to prove himself to the world and to himself. A chance audition for a musical leads him to join forces with composer Jim Steinman, and together the two make music history with the operatic rock album "Bat Out of Hell." But the demons that drive Meat Loaf aren't assuaged by success, and eventually he must come to terms with them.
A young man who was sentenced to 7 years in prison for robbing a post office ends up spending 30 yea...
Parisian bon vivant, World War II Resistance fighter, Nobel Prize-winning playwright, philandering h...
Raama, who is a devotee of Lord Venkateswara, denounces worldly pleasures including his soon-to-be-b...
A recently discovered conversation between photographer Peter Hujar and his friend Linda Rosenkrantz...
From his discovery by a priest while serving time at the Missouri State Penitentiary to the infamous...
In 1958 New York Diane Arbus is a housewife and mother who works as an assistant to her husband, a p...
The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...
The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourho...
A thinly-disguised version of the life of Marilyn Monroe, detailing her ups and downs in life and ho...
The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame...
The early life of Walt Disney is explored in this family film with an art house twist. Though his re...
The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destro...
A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pur...
Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by...
In 1895, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was the most famous writer in London, and Bosie Douglas, son of the...
A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional ...
From the mean streets of the Belleville district of Paris to the dazzling limelight of New York's mo...
While researching his book In Cold Blood, writer Truman Capote develops a close relationship with co...