Raging Bull
Robert De Niro stars in this biopic about the life of Jake LaMotta. LaMotta was an emotional, but gifted, boxer who rose to fame in the 1980s. He fell in love and fell apart. This movie documents the life of a world-champion boxer while he fights his own inner demons, and leaves his heart in the ring after every match.
Out of Africa
This 1985 biopic is based on the memoir of Baroness Karen von Blixen (who is also known as Isak Dinesen). Meryl Streep plays the Danish aristocrat who purchases a coffee plantation in Africa, where she meets a big-game hunter (played by Robert Redford) with whom she falls in love. This movie won Best Picture in 1985.
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