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Lo más cercano a Tyson primero
Toro salvaje 1980
Película
Jake la Motta es un joven boxeador que se entrena duramente, ayudado por su hermano Joey, para convertirse en el número uno de los pesos medios. Pronto consigue ver hecho realidad tan ansiado sueño, pero el triunfo y el éxito convierten su vida en una pesadilla. Por un lado, su matrimonio cada vez marcha peor debido a sus salidas nocturnas con otras mujeres; por otro, la mafia le presiona para que amañe combates. En poco tiempo gasta todo el capital del que dispone, para volver nuevamente a pasar todo tipo de penurias.
Las caras de Toro salvaje
- El ascenso y la caída del boxeador Jake LaMotta
- Un marido celoso que golpea a su familia
- Combates filmados en blanco y negro
Buena para ti si
- te gusta ver a Robert De Niro transformarse en boxeador y luego en un despojo.
- te gustan las escenas de boxeo que te meten en el ring.
- puedes con el retrato de un hombre que destruye todo a su alrededor.
Mala para ti si
- no soportas la sangre en las cuerdas ni las narices rotas.
- no puedes ver violencia doméstica en pantalla.
Temas: los celos · la autodestrucción · los hermanos
Diego Maradona 2019
Documentary
Constructed from over 500 hours of never-before-seen footage, this documentary centers on the personal life and career of the controversial football player Diego Maradona who played for SSC Napoli and Argentina in the 1980s.
The sides of Diego Maradona
- Maradona's years at Napoli
- Never-seen footage from the 1980s
- The 1986 World Cup and the Hand of God
Good for you if
- you like football told through its most famous goals.
- you like a life told only with footage from the time.
- you like a man split between the hero Diego and the star Maradona.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch cocaine and a slow fall from grace.
- two hours and ten minutes is too much for you.
About: fame · Naples · addiction · talent
Tupac: Resurrection 2003
Documentary
Home movies, photographs, and recited poetry illustrate the life of Tupac Shakur, one of the most beloved, revolutionary, and volatile hip-hop MCs of all time.
The sides of Tupac: Resurrection
- Tupac Shakur telling his own life
- Home movies, photos and his poems
- A rapper's rise and his death at 25
Good for you if
- you want Tupac's life in his own voice, from his own interviews.
- you love 90s hip-hop and the man behind its biggest songs.
- you like a portrait full of contradictions: poet, rebel, son.
Bad for you if
- you'd rather not relive a young life cut short by gunfire.
- you want an inquiry into who killed him. The film is about his life, not the case.
About: fame · violence · mothers and sons
Bobby Fischer Against the World 2011
Documentary
The first documentary feature to explore the tragic and bizarre life of the late chess master Bobby Fischer.
The sides of Bobby Fischer Against the World
- A Brooklyn chess prodigy
- The 1972 match against Spassky in Reykjavik
- A champion who vanishes into paranoia
Good for you if
- you like the true story of a genius who never fit in.
- you like the Cold War played out on a chessboard.
- you're drawn to an obsessive mind, brilliant and troubled.
Bad for you if
- you can't bear to watch a man's mental decline.
- you need more movement than archive footage of chess games.
About: obsession · genius · isolation
When We Were Kings 1996
Documentary
It's 1974. Muhammad Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George Foreman is ten years younger and the heavyweight champion of the world. Promoter Don King wants to make a name for himself and offers both fighters five million dollars apiece to fight one another, and when they accept, King has only to come up with the money. He finds a willing backer in Mobutu Sese Suko, the dictator of Zaire, and the "Rumble in the Jungle" is set, including a musical festival featuring some of America's top black performers, like James Brown and B.B. King.
The sides of When We Were Kings
- Muhammad Ali against George Foreman in Zaire
- A music festival with James Brown and B.B. King
- Don King and a dictator's money
Good for you if
- you like the Rumble in the Jungle and Ali's rope-a-dope.
- you like Muhammad Ali talking, joking and believing he can win.
- you like soul and African music filling a documentary.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch men punching each other.
- you find 1970s archive footage dated.
About: pride · black identity · comeback
The Armstrong Lie 2013
Documentary
In 2009, Alex Gibney was hired to make a film about Lance Armstrong's comeback to cycling. The project was shelved when the doping scandal erupted, and re-opened after Armstrong's confession. The Armstrong Lie picks up in 2013 and presents a riveting, insider's view of the unraveling of one of the most extraordinary stories in the history of sports. As Lance Armstrong says himself, "I didn't live a lot of lies, but I lived one big one."
The sides of The Armstrong Lie
- A comeback film that became a confession
- Lance Armstrong and the Tour de France
- Years of doping and denial
Good for you if
- you want the inside story of a lie told to the whole world.
- you like cycling and the Tour de France from inside the team.
- you want to spend two hours with a champion you can't quite root for.
Bad for you if
- two hours of interviews and archive footage is too much for you.
- you'd rather skip the lawyers, sponsors and cycling officials who kept the lie going.
About: lies · ambition · fame
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 2019
Documentary
An immersive look at the eventful life and brilliant artistic career of visionary American jazz trumpeter Miles Davis (1926-1991).
The sides of Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
- Miles Davis and his trumpet
- Jazz from bebop to fusion
- Musicians and family remembering him
Good for you if
- you want to hear Kind of Blue and the records that changed jazz.
- you like a portrait that shows a genius and his darker side.
- you're curious about racism in America through one musician's life.
Bad for you if
- you can't face drug addiction and abuse of a wife on screen.
- you can't spend two hours admiring a man you wouldn't root for.
About: genius · reinvention · racism
Undertaker: The Last Ride 2020
Documentary
The anticipated WWE Network docuseries will look back on The Undertaker’s storied WWE career and place a focus on the ongoing challenges the wrestling legend appears to have with a career beginning to near it's end.
The sides of Undertaker: The Last Ride
- A wrestling legend near the end of his career
- Mark Calaway behind The Undertaker character
- Matches he can't stop chasing
Good for you if
- you grew up watching The Undertaker in the ring.
- you like seeing the man behind a character he kept up for decades.
- you can be moved by a fighter whose body won't let him wrestle the way it used to.
Bad for you if
- you want full matches rather than interviews and backstage talk.
- you roll your eyes at big men getting emotional about their legacy.
About: aging · legacy · the body
O.J.: Made in America 2016
Documentary
A chronicle of the rise and fall of O.J. Simpson, whose high-profile murder trial exposed the extent of American racial tensions, revealing a fractured and divided nation.
The sides of O.J.: Made in America
- A football star's rise in the 1960s and 70s
- Los Angeles, race and the LAPD
- The 1995 murder trial and what came after
Good for you if
- you want to understand a trial through the city around it.
- you like a true crime story told with care for the facts.
- you want O.J. the running back at USC and Buffalo, long before the trial.
Bad for you if
- nearly eight hours is too much for you.
- you can't look at real crime scene photos of two victims.
About: race · fame · justice · America
Unbroken 2014
Film
A chronicle of the life of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who was taken prisoner by Japanese forces during World War II.
The sides of Unbroken
- An Olympic runner shot down over the Pacific
- Weeks adrift on a raft
- A prison camp guard called the Bird
Good for you if
- you like the true story of Louis Zamperini.
- you like a man who keeps going on a raft and in a prison camp.
- you like a Second World War story told through one soldier.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch a prisoner beaten again and again.
- you roll your eyes at a film made to inspire. Its motto is if you can take it, you can make it.
About: endurance · forgiveness · war
Pumping Iron 1977
Documentary
Amateur and professional bodybuilders prepare for the 1975 Mr. Olympia and Mr. Universe contests as five-time champion Arnold Schwarzenegger defends his Mr. Olympia title against Serge Nubret and the shy young Lou Ferrigno.
The sides of Pumping Iron
- Arnold Schwarzenegger chasing a sixth Mr. Olympia
- The shy young Lou Ferrigno
- Gyms and contests in 1975
Good for you if
- you like the training and rivalry behind a bodybuilding title.
- you want to see Schwarzenegger before Hollywood.
- you can't look away from young Arnold's charm and mind games.
Bad for you if
- a grainy 1977 documentary feels dated to you.
- you can't root for a champion who boasts he skipped his father's funeral to train.
About: ambition · rivalry · the body
Dallas Buyers Club 2013
Película
Basada en la vida real de Ron Woodroof, un cowboy de rodeo texano, drogadicto y mujeriego, al que en 1986 le diagnosticaron SIDA y le pronosticaron un mes de vida. Empezó entonces a tomar AZT, el único medicamento disponible en aquella época para luchar contra tan terrible enfermedad
Las caras de Dallas Buyers Club
- Un vaquero de rodeo diagnosticado con VIH
- Medicinas de contrabando a través de fronteras
- Un socio improbable
Buena para ti si
- te gustan los actores transformados en cuerpo y alma.
- te gustan las historias reales de gente que luchó contra el sistema.
- te gusta un hombre lleno de prejuicios que cambia.
Mala para ti si
- la enfermedad y la muerte por sida son demasiado pesadas para ti esta noche.
- prefieres evitar las escenas de sexo explícitas, o la estás viendo en familia.
Temas: la supervivencia · los prejuicios · el desafío
Rush 2013
Película
Narra la rivalidad que mantuvieron dos grandes pilotos de Fórmula 1, el británico James Hunt y el austriaco Niki Lauda, sobre todo en 1976, año en el que Lauda sufrió un gravísimo accidente que casi le costó la vida.
Las caras de Rush
- Hunt contra Lauda
- Un accidente en Nürburgring
- La temporada de Fórmula 1 de 1976
Buena para ti si
- te gustan las escenas de carreras que te meten en el coche.
- te gustan dos rivales que se necesitan.
- te gustan las historias reales de deporte.
Mala para ti si
- te cuesta ver quemaduras y escenas de hospital. Un accidente se muestra de muy cerca.
- prefieres evitar las muchas escenas de sexo de James Hunt, o la ves en familia.
Temas: la rivalidad · el riesgo · el respeto
Val 2021
Documentary
For over 40 years Val Kilmer, one of Hollywood's most mercurial and/or misunderstood actors, has been documenting his own life and craft through film and video. He has amassed thousands of hours of footage, from 16mm home movies made with his brothers, to time spent in iconic roles for blockbuster movies like Top Gun, The Doors, Tombstone, and Batman Forever. This raw, wildly original and unflinching documentary reveals a life lived to extremes and a heart-filled, sometimes hilarious look at what it means to be an artist and a complex man.
The sides of Val
- Val Kilmer's own home videos over forty years
- His son reading his words
- Throat cancer and a lost voice
Good for you if
- you like an actor's life told through his own camera.
- you can be moved by Val Kilmer struggling to speak after cancer.
- you like a family story, from 16mm films made with his brothers to his son reading his words.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch illness and a body that fails.
- you want the energy of his films, not a quiet look back.
About: art · illness · memory
Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez 2020
Documentary
Via interviews with friends, players and insiders, this docuseries examines how Aaron Hernandez went from an NFL star to a convicted killer.
The sides of Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez
- An NFL star convicted of murder
- Friends, teammates and reporters looking back
- A brain damaged by years of football
Good for you if
- you want to understand how Aaron Hernandez went from the Patriots to prison.
- you like true crime that looks at the man as much as the case.
- you're curious about what football culture hides behind the stadium.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch a young man's life fall apart into murder and prison.
- you want one clear answer to why he killed, and this series weighs several.
About: masculinity · secrets · violence
Chris Brown: Welcome to My Life 2017
Documentary
This compelling Documentary moves beyond the spotlight and past the attention-grabbing headlines to give pop superstar Chris Brown a chance to tell his own story. New interviews with the international phenomenon reveal long-awaited answers about his passion for making music, his tumultuous and much publicized relationships, and the pitfalls of coming of age in the public eye. Also included is new concert footage, behind-the-scenes access, and special interviews from Usher, Jennifer Lopez, DJ Khaled, Mike Tyson, Jamie Foxx and others.
The sides of Chris Brown: Welcome to My Life
- Chris Brown in his own words
- Concert footage and studio sessions
- Usher, Jennifer Lopez and Jamie Foxx
Good for you if
- you like Chris Brown's music and want to see him on stage and in the studio.
- you want to hear a star tell his own story.
Bad for you if
- you can't spend a film on Chris Brown's side of his own headlines.
- you roll your eyes when a star talks with deep sincerity about his love of music.
About: fame · growing up in public · redemption
Andre the Giant 2018
Documentary
An ambitious and wide-ranging documentary exploring Andre’s upbringing in France, his celebrated career in WWE, and his forays in the entertainment world.
The sides of Andre the Giant
- A giant from a farm in France
- Wrestling legends telling his story
- A body that never stopped growing
Good for you if
- you like the life of André Roussimoff, from a French farm to the WWE.
- you like wrestling told by Hulk Hogan and Ric Flair.
- you can be moved by a giant who never fit in the world.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch a man's body slowly failing him.
- you want full matches more than interviews.
About: loneliness · fame · the body
Imagine: John Lennon 1988
Documentary
The biography of former Beatle, John Lennon—narrated by Lennon himself—with extensive material from Yoko Ono's personal collection, previously unseen footage from Lennon's private archives, and interviews with David Bowie, his first wife Cynthia, second wife Yoko Ono and sons Julian and Sean.
The sides of Imagine: John Lennon
- John Lennon telling his own life
- Home footage from Yoko Ono's archives
- Cynthia, Julian and Sean looking back
Good for you if
- you love the Beatles and Lennon's solo songs.
- you want Lennon in his own voice, from Liverpool to New York.
- you like a portrait of a man with all his contradictions.
Bad for you if
- you find old 1960s and 70s footage dated.
- you can't revisit his murder in New York in 1980.
About: fame · love · peace · loss
American Gangster 2007
Película
Nueva York, 1968. Frank Lucas es el taciturno chófer de un importante mafioso negro de Harlem. Cuando su jefe muere inesperadamente, Frank aprovecha la oportunidad para construir su propio imperio. Gracias a su talento, se convierte no sólo en el principal narcotraficante de la ciudad, inundando las calles con productos de mejor calidad y precio, sino también en un hombre público muy respetado. Richie Roberts, un policía incorruptible marginado por su honradez que conoce bien las calles, se da cuenta de que una persona ajena a los clanes trepa por la escalera del poder. Tanto Roberts como Lucas comparten un estricto código ético que les aparta de los demás y los convierte en dos figuras solitarias en lados opuestos de la ley. Cuando se encuentren, el enfrentamiento entre ellos será inevitable.
Las caras de American Gangster
- Frank Lucas importando heroína desde Vietnam
- Un policía honrado en un cuerpo corrupto
- Harlem a finales de los años 60
Buena para ti si
- te gusta una historia basada libremente en los verdaderos Frank Lucas y Richie Roberts.
- te gusta Denzel Washington como un empresario sereno e implacable.
- te gusta el ascenso y la caída de un imperio de la droga.
Mala para ti si
- dos horas y media es demasiado para ti.
- no soportas los tiroteos y las palizas repentinos a plena luz del día.
Temas: la ambición · la corrupción · el narcotráfico
Sly 2023
Documentary
His love of film began as an escape from a rocky childhood. From underdog to Hollywood legend, Sylvester Stallone tells his story in this documentary.
The sides of Sly
- Sylvester Stallone telling his own story
- A rough childhood and a hard father
- Rocky written by an unknown actor
Good for you if
- you like hearing a movie star tell his life in his own words.
- you like the man behind Rocky and Rambo more than the muscles.
- you want to see how a hard father shaped his films.
Bad for you if
- you want the fights from his films, not an hour and a half of talking.
- you roll your eyes at an underdog story told by the underdog himself.
About: ambition · fathers · fame