Browse Movies : TBA Month : Drama : U (Page #5)

Based on the true story of two Philadelphia lawyers, Michael Banks and J. Gordon Cooney, who spent 15 years overturning a murder conviction.

A logger in the Pacific Northwest creates the Bigfoot myth by using a pair of 16-foot carved wooden foot and stomping around on the ground. He keeps the legend going for more than forty years by using photos, footprints, and fake sightings before his family admits the long running hoax shortly after his death.

Biopic of legendary '50s rocker Bill Haley, who recorded such classics as "Rock Around the Clock" with his band, The Comets.

Downhill ski racer Bill Johnson, the 1984 Olympic gold medalist, loses his memory in a devastating crash during a comeback bid.

Bowe Bergdahl, an Army sergeant, is captured by the Taliban and held prisoner for five years after he leaves his base in Afghanistan.

Set in Brazil, an actor who plays children's TV personality Bozo the Clown is able to encourage all children except his own son. The man develops a cocaine addiction at one point but later becomes a pentecostal preacher.

A girl wakes up from a 15-year coma and finds herself in a haunted hospital ward.

Damien Echols reveals his experiences on death row after his wrongful conviction and subsequent wrongful 18-year imprisonment for the 1993 murder of three 8-year-old boys in West Memphis, Arkansas.

Loosely based on the life of Dave van Ronk, known as the uncle of the coffeehouse scene, a big personality famed for his musical acumen, left-wing politics, general erudition and entertaining storytelling.

The storyline, set in the South in 1961, revolves around a precocious girl who overcomes the negative effects of abuse by singing and dancing like Elvis.

Derek Boogaard, a shy over-sized man, learns to use his fists to make it to the National Hockey League and becomes a renowned hockey enforcer. The hulking 6'7" and 270 pounds Boogaard becomes known as the Boogeyman, and rarely loses a fight while playing for the Minnesota Wild and the New York Rangers. He gets addicted to painkillers from years of damage, and is found dead at age 28 after mixing prescription drugs with booze.

In 2003, John Giuca is convicted of the murder of Mark Fisher in Red Hook. Despite a lack of forensic evidence, John is sentenced to 25 years to life. Convinced her son is innocent, Brooklyn-based Doreen Giuliano goes beyond the tireless advocate that many parents might become when their children are incarcerated. She goes undercover to expose biased jurors, wears a wire to record lying informants, and even organizes mass protests against the Brooklyn District Attorney's office, which had become notorious for a string of overturned convictions due to prosecutorial misconduct.

Robert Craig Knievel becomes a household name in the 1970s for his nationally televised motorcycle jumps. Ever the showman, daredevil Evel Knievel is recognized for his use of a Stars-and-Stripes getup and known for his 433 broken bones. At the height of his celebrity, he gains endorsements from Harley-Davidson and a toy line by the Ideal Toy Company. Knievel dies in 2007 at the age of 69.

A 10-year-old boy recovers from losing his father in the Sept. 11 attacks by delving into his family history, uncovering secrets in the process.

A 12-year-old aspiring food critic charms his way into posh eateries on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

A fictional look at a real event about a young man who turns up at a home and tells a couple that he's their child who disappeared years ago.