Mao's Last Dancer movie is a Australian biographical film, directed by Bruce Beresford, based on ballet dancer Li Cunxin's autobiographical book Mao's Last Dancer. Mao's Last Dancer movie plunges us deep into the heart of Mao's Cultural Revolution, where 11-year-old boy Li Cunxin, living in an impoverished mountain village, is selected to learn ballet at the Beijing Dance Academy. On a visit to China, an American ballet director Ben Stevenson is impressed by Li's talent and offers him a three-month stay in the US as an exchange student at his ballet school, the Houston Ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he fell in love with an American woman. Two years later, he managed to defect and went on to perform as a principal dancer for the Houston Ballet and as a principal artist with the Australian Ballet.

You're innocent until proven otherwise. In some cases, proving another's innocence can be an inspiring life-long crusade. This is how real-life prisoners' rights advocate and lawyer, Betty Anne Waters inspired the Conviction movie. The 2010 Toronto Film Fest entry is a drama starred by Oscar winner, Hillary Swank, who plays as Betty Anne Waters—a single mother who went on to become a lawyer to prove his brother's innocence and bring him out of jail. Her brother, Kenneth Waters (Sam Rockwell) was wrongfully convicted for a murder in 1983. She struggled through law school and years of practice before she succeeded in his exoneration in 2001. The Conviction movie is set for a release in the U.S. on October 15, 2010.

Known by the nickname the Machine Gun Preacher, Sam Childers was changed from a drug dealing biker to a man of God and savior of hundreds of orphaned children in the Sudan area of Africa. He first attended a church revival in 1992 and became enlightened when learning of the plight of thousands of young children in far away Sudan. The LRA (Lord's Resistance Army) were responsible for many atrocious acts on children and adults, with as many as 50,000 children being forced into slavery to become sex slaves or young soldiers.eginning with their first trip back in 1998, Childers and his wife Lynn took it upon themselves to rescue as many children as possible and founded the Children's Village in Southern Sudan they called the Angels of East Africa where they take in orphans.he Machine Gun Preacher is about this true life hero and offers a fascinating account of how brutal some can be, especially toward young children, and how a "calling" gives hope to the unfortunate in a far off land. Stars Gerard Butler (The Bounty Hunter, 300) as the reformed biker, Sam Childers, his wife Lynn is played by Michelle Monaghan (The Heartbreak Kid, Trucker).

The movie Coco Before Chanel is about Gabrielle Chanel, who has been called the most influential of all fashion figures from the twentieth century clothing fashion world. The young Gabrielle starts out in an orphanage where she and her sister Adrienne have been dropped off by her father. Gabrielle grows up to be an ambitious woman who proves herself to be difficult to get along with as she forges a name for herself in the world of high fashion. Gabrielle and sister Adrienne eventually work as singers of bawdy songs, not wishing to be confused with the prostitutes also working there. Gabrielle gets the nickname Coco after a song she sings about a little lost dog and she becomes sarcastic and cynical, hardened by the lifestyle around her.Beginning her life in the fashion world as a seamstress, Ms Coco Chanel becomes the most influential name in style of the century, and perhaps of all time, as her flair for novelty and how women should look win the world over. This movie is "costume drama" at its highest form."

"Milk" is a 2008 biographical film directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Sean Penn as Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official in California. The film chronicles Milk's political career and his rise as a prominent LGBT rights activist, as well as his personal relationships and tragic assassination in 1978.

Are the phrases "Canadian Caper" and "Iranian Hostage Crises" sound familiar to you? If no, there is short excursion into the history. In 1979 the Iranian revolution escalates at new level. Angry crowds storm the embassies of the western countries in Tehran. Sixty six Americans were caught as hostages and were held for more than 400 days. However six US Diplomats managed to escape the fate of "victims of terrorism and anarchy" as per words of President Carter. Those lucky ones managed to find a shelter in Canada Ambassador's home. Realizing, that finding and killing all of them is only a question of time, CIA requests Antonio J. Mendez to design and implement an unbelievable rescue plan to bring those six Diplomats back home. The years after Antonio J. Mendez, a former CIA technical operations officer, writes a book lifting a curtain off this covert operation. And 33 years later after the "Iranian Hostage Crises" Ben Affleck releases his own movie, Argo, which he direct, co-produce (alongside with George Clooney) and where he plays the leading role, CIA Special Agent, Tony Mendez. As we can see, Ben hasn't look far for searching the appropriate actor for the main protagonist role, choosing himself for playing most toughest guy. Nevertheless, the other cast members were selected brilliantly: Bryan Cranston (Rock of Ages, Red Tails), John Goodman (Red State, The Artis and, funny fact, Sullivan Truck from Cars) and Taylor Schilling (The Lucky One, Mercy).