Best Biography movies of 1980s

Actors : J. Wesley Baker, Rebecca Baker, Charles Applegate, Mike Hickman,
Directors : Ken Anderson,

Biopic of Hudson Taylor (1832-1905), a British protestant missionary in China.

Actors : Ronnie Ansell, Peter Butler, Franco Carli, Sam Cohen,
Directors : Ned Lander,

A dramatised documentary showing 48 hours in the lives of members of the Aboriginal bands, No Fixed Address and Us Mob, including the racism, hostility and harassment they receive.

Actors : Fernando Cabral Martins, André Gomes, Jorge Silva Melo, Juliet Berto,
Directors : João Botelho,

The film was to be a documentary, but evolved during production to a fictional film. It nevertheless adheres strictly to the poems and letters exchanged by two of the most outstanding names...

Actors : Reinhard Vom Bauer, Michael Böhme, Margarita Calahorra, Ingrid Caven,
Directors : Jeanine Meerapfel,

Malou feels that the difficulties she is experiencing in her relationships lie in her past and so she searches out information about her mother. Her mother, a nightclub singer who lived in ...

Actors : Stanislawa Celinska, Piotr Fronczewski, Dorota Stalinska, Bozena Dykiel,
Directors : Janusz Rzeszewski,

Loosely based on a biography of a famous Polish singer from the 1930's, Hanka Ordonowna. It opens in the Egyptian desert during African campaign in World War II where Hanka's husband is ...

Actors : Fang Xie, Fusheng Feng, Gengchen Jiang, Jiayuan Ding,
Directors : Jinglong Zhang,

Biography of famous ancient Chinese poetess Li Qingzhao who lived in the Song Dynasty.

Actors : Zhongxi Chen, Xu Chengxian, Qimin Wei, Yanfang Lu,

Set in the early stage after liberation of Shanghai, Chen Yi is delegated to be mayor and deals with a lot of economic and social issues.

Actors : Michael Tucci, Gabe Kaplan, Concetta D'Agnese,
Directors : John Bowab,

The life story of Groucho Marx.

Actors : Alan Cassell, Jacki Weaver, Michael Long, David Atkins,
Directors : Kevin James Dobson,

Wormy and diminutive, yet cunning and determined small-time hoodlum Squizzy Taylor rises to prominence and popularity in Melbourne, Australia in the 1920's. Squizzy romances brash moll ...

Actors : Claude Brasseur, Simone Signoret, Jean Carmet, Miou-Miou,
Directors : Michel Drach,

The life and times of the famous French writer Guy de Maupassant.

Actors : Gill Dontchevsky, Gabi Eldor, Shai Golan, Ilan Dar,
Directors : Michal Bat-Adam,

Two doctors from Tel Aviv join 'Doctors Without Borders' and travel to Thailand to help out refugees. They leave their daughter, Aya (aged 10) at a kibbutz where the children are housed by ...

Actors : Lucélia Santos, Ivan Cândido, Walmor Chagas, Joel Barcellos,
Directors : David Neves,

The biography of controversial Brazilian artist Luz del Fuego (her artistic name), highlighting her eccentric lifestyle and public manifestations. As in the film, she is best remembered for...

Actors : Ed Wright, Edna Wisdom, Vernon Lafon, Louise Davis,
Directors : Lina Shanklin,

Family celebrations and tensions, Independence Day, Texas 1948

Actors : J.J. Davis, Jean Garrett, Dennis Baines, Mickey Clark,
Directors : Arthur J. Bressan Jr.,

Brutally abused by his parents, teenage Thomas finds comfort in associating with a film director who is making a documentary about physical child abuse. The two fall in love, and the elder ...

Actors : Aleksandr Filippenko, Eduard Martsevich, Alyona Belyak, Andrey Kharitonov,
Directors : Vladimir Grammatikov,

The screen version of a rock opera of Alexey Rybnikov based on the play in Pavel Grushko's verses. Together with other inhabitants of a poor Chilean small village Joaquin Murrieta decides ...

Actors : Kurt Nolze, Daniela Hoffmann, Thomas Zieler, Doris Abeßer,
Directors : Werner W. Wallroth,

Mostly fictional episodes in the life of famous german social-critical painter Heinrich Zille.

Actors : Aleksandr Timoshkin, Leonid Markov, Lyudmila Kasatkina, Igor Gorbachyov,
Directors : Sergey Kolosov,

Mother Maria Skobtsova, a Russian nun, helps Jews and other people hated by the Gestapo during World War II. Eventually, the Gestapo finds out and takes her away to the Ravensbruk Concentration Camp.

Actors : Huanshan Xu, Bo Gao, Yi Qin, Qi Feng,
Directors : Zumo Huang,

Biography of famous Chinese astronomer and geographer Zhang Heng who lived in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Actors : Barrie Cookson, James Downie, Michael Bertenshaw, Peter Howell,
Directors : Tony Tew,

The story of 14th century John Wycliffe, AKA "The Morning Star of the Reformation", who was the first to translate the Bible into English.

Actors : Lisa Kreuzer, Eva Mattes, Charles Regnier, Werner Stocker,
Directors : Radu Gabrea,

A bearded director named EVA, a fictive Rainer Werner Fassbinder, lives in a large house with his cast and crew as he films Dumas' Lady of the Camellias. His accountant informs him he has ...