Best Biography movies of 1980s

Actors : Gabriele Barth, Detlef Bierstedt, Gerd Baltus, Carmen-Maja Antoni,
Directors : Ralf Kirsten,

Kathe Kollwitz was 47 years old, and already a well established artist in Germany and abroad when Peter, her youngest son, volunteered to join the German army in WWI and was killed two ...

Actors : Stefania Sandrelli, Robert Powell, Laurent Terzieff, Florence Guérin,
Directors : Sergio Nasca,

D'Annunzio is in Rome, father, husband and bored with the prospect of another child on the way. Candidly megalomaniac and penniless, with no apparent effort goes from city to city: ...

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 : Steven Berkoff, Florinda Bolkan, Peter Firth, Paul Freeman,
Directors : Lech Majewski,

The story of the great train robber Ronald Biggs.

Actors : Peter MacNeill, Thomas Peacocke, Wayne Robson, Billy Merasty,
Directors : Paul Cowan,

Donald Marshall is imprisoned for a murder he didn't commit.

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 : Maria Pakulnis, Wladyslaw Kowalski, Krzysztof Kolberger, Marzena Trybala,
Directors : Jerzy Sztwiertnia,

A popular 60-year-old actor falls for a much younger dancer and a cocaine addict. During the Nazi occupation, he needs money for her rehab but artists are prohibited by the undeground government to perform for Germans.

Actors : Meiying Huang, Fuli Wang, Shan Cong, Xiuming Li,
Directors : Jin Xie,

Biopic of Qiu Jin (1877-1907), early Chinese feminist and martyred revolutionary.

Actors : Evgeniy Evstigneev, Leonid Kuravlyov, Aleksandr Lazarev, Vadim Spiridonov,
Directors : Yaropolk Lapshin,

The historic saga of Russia's first industrialists. The main plot of the first season is the story of the Demidovas and Peter the first's mutual relationship. In a short time following ...

Actors : Bob Kingdom, Anthony Hopkins,
Directors : Anthony Hopkins,

A look at he life and writings of the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas.

Actors : Kim Gyngell, Jonathan Hardy, Garry McDonald, Peter Collingwood,
Directors : Bob Weis,

Parody of historical epics that focuses on real-life Australian explorers William John Wills and Robert O'Hara Burkes, who tragically tried to cross the Australian continent from the south, to the north, a distance of 3,250 km.

Actors : August Schellenberg, Gabriel Arcand, Thomas Donohue, Yvon Dufour,
Directors : Jean-Claude Labrecque,

In 1953, in the Gaspé forest, there are three bodies half eaten by bears. Fearing repercussions on tourism and investment, Prime minister Maurice Duplessis decided to make an example accusing Wilbert Coffin.

Actors : Regina Casé, Felipe Murray, Hamilton Vaz Pereira, Dedé Veloso,
Directors : Caetano Veloso,

A fragmented style, patchwork of interviews with Caetano Veloso's friends, mixed with conversations, thoughts, scenes of dance and literature excerpts.

Actors : Nikolay Burlyaev, Galina Belyaeva, Vladimir Faibyshev, Ivan Burlyaev,
Directors : Nikolay Burlyaev,

Lyrically beautiful dramatised documentary on the life of the Russian Romantic poet, Mikhail Lermontov (1814-41)

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 : Gianni Cavina, Carlo Delle Piane, Cristopher Davidson, Lino Capolicchio,
Directors : Pupi Avati,

Young W.A. Mozart is hosted in a villa near Bologna, where he has to graduate. There he gets in touch with "normal" boys, falls in love for the first time and tries to escape his destiny of...

Actors : José Mora Ramos, Cathrin Loerke, Fernando Heitor, João D'Ávila,
Directors : José de Pina,

The secret history of a curse upon an astrologer and esoteric initiate, who was a Portuguese poet and essayist: Fernando Pessoa.

Actors : Ronald Haines, Jim Dratfield, Patrick Dray, Bob Damon,
Directors : James W. Roberson,

Based on a true story of Colorado's only convicted killer/cannibal Alfred Packer.