The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)
Chris’s wife decides to divorce him because she is fed up with his failures in business, leaving him jobless and in need of help with his son’s custody and an unpaid internship at a brokerage firm.
Into the Wild (2007)
A recent graduate named Christopher McCandless makes the decision to give up everything and hitchhike throughout the United States. He runs into a number of experiences that shape him personally while on his travels.
127 Hours (2010)
Mountain climber Aron Ralston becomes stranded in a gorge while on a hiking vacation in Utah. A time passes, he resorts to extreme means to stay alive and fights for 127 hours before being rescued.
A Beautiful Mind (2001)
After accepting a task from William Parcher, John Nash, a mathematical prodigy who is smart but introverted, discovers that his life is altering negatively.
Life of Pi (2012)
In a lifeboat that is lost in the wilderness, Pi Patel manages to live. His battle against the odds is made more difficult by the presence of a Bengal tiger male and a hyena.
Invictus (2009)
President Nelson Mandela seeks to bring his people together in the wake of apartheid by backing a rugby team in their quest to win the 1995 Rugby World Cup.
The Imitation Game (2014)
A British mathematician named Alan Turing joins the effort to crack the German enigma code. He creates a device to decipher the codes with the aid of his colleagues mathematicians.
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Successful banker Andy Dufresne is detained for the deaths of his wife and her boyfriend and given a life sentence at the Shawshank prison. He ends up being the strangest prisoner.
Dead Poets Society (1989)
John Keating, a forward-thinking English teacher, attempts to inspire his students to defy expectations, challenge the established quo, and enjoy life without apology.