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Oedipus, a figure commonly considered a tragic hero. A tragic hero (or sometimes tragic heroine if they are female) is the protagonist of a tragedy. In his Poetics, Aristotle records the descriptions of the tragic hero to the playwright and strictly defines the place that the tragic hero must play and the kind of man he must be. Aristotle based ...
Story Ave is a 2023 American drama film directed by Aristotle Torres from a script by Torres and Bonsu Thompson, produced by Torres and Jamie Foxx, and starring Asante Blackk, Luis Guzmán, Melvin Gregg and Alex R. Hibbert. It is based on Torres's 2018 short film of the same name, which in turn was based on a true story.
The Impossible Spy (1987) – biographical drama television film based on the true story of an Israeli civilian spy, Eli Cohen, who was recruited into Israel's secret intelligence agency (the Mossad) in the 1960s to become a spy in Damascus [441] In Love and War (1987) – war thriller film based on the true story of James Stockdale and Sybil ...
Based on the non-fiction novel “A Long Way Home” by Saroo Brierley, “Lion” tells the story of Saroo, portrayed by Dev Patel, who gets lost on a train and ends up thousands of miles away ...
Hidden Figures. Loosely based on Margot Lee Shetterly’s book of the same name, Hidden Figures follows a trio of Black female mathematicians who worked at NASA’s segregated—by race and gender ...
The Last Full Measure (2019) – war drama film that tells the true story of Vietnam War hero William H. Pitsenbarger, a U.S. Air Force Pararescuemen (also known as a PJ) who personally saved over sixty men and flew on almost 300 rescue missions during the war to aide downed soldiers and pilots [117] [118]
The true story of the Titanic ... Amazon Prime. Hearst Owned. My Girl (1991) ... Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet evoke tears in this tragic story—based on a 1961 book of the same name—of a ...
This is a list of films originally produced and/or distributed theatrically by the entertainment company Amazon MGM Studios.This list does not include the pre-September 2023 releases from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, United Artists, Orion Pictures or American International Pictures, despite titles from 2023 onwards carrying the 2021 MGM logo at the start of them.