Best Biography movies of 1980s

Actors : Wenda Shereos, Karen Gearreald, Lynne Ford, Cathy Shipley,
Directors : Ken Anderson,

Already famous for her secular songs, blind lyricist Fanny Crosby (1820-1915) volunteers as a nurse during New York's cholera epidemic and undergoes a spiritual transformation and starts to write Christian hymns.

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 : 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 : Regina Razuma, Enn Klooren, Leonid Sevtsov, Tõnu Lume,
Directors : Valentin Kuik,

Georg Lurich was an Estonian world-famous professional wrestler in the early 1900-s who became a legend already in his lifetime. He was called not only the world's best technique-wrestler ...

Actors : Aleksey Buldakov, Leonid Nevedomsky, Margarita Borisova, Viktor Grigoryuk,
Directors : Nikolai Gusarov,

Historical and biographical film about a remarkable Russian traveler of the XVII century, the pathfinder Semen Dezhnev (L.Buldakov)... See full synopsis »

Actors : Kim Gyngell, Garry McDonald, Jonathan Hardy, 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 : George Antoni, Ron Anderson, Micha Bergese, Gaby Dellal,
Directors : Ken McMullen,

After Stalin's purges, Zinaida Volkova, daughter of Leon Trotsky, is exiled to Berlin. As the Nazis rise to power, and World War II is approaching, she becomes obsessed with Antigone, the protagonist of a famous Greek tragedy, and loses her mind.

Actors : Gil Gerard, Tom Silardi, Joy Vogel, Jaime Alba,
Directors : Erik Jacobson,

The true story of Raul Ries. Raul abused his wife and hated his father. His name stood for fear, for fighting, and for fury. To his high school friends, he was a violent, dangerous ...

Actors : Tom Wilkinson, Eleanor David, Mary Regan, Nigel Terry,
Directors : Michael Firth,

Real-life story of Sylvia Ashton Warner's pioneering work teaching Maori children to read in the 1940's.

Actors : Ahmed Benaissa, Mustapha Chougrani, Athmane Ariout, Robert Bazil,
Directors : Benamar Bakhti,

The story of the film revolves around the epic of Sheikh Bouamama, a leader of the national resistance in Algeria during the French colonial era. The events are taking place in southwestern...

Actors : Michail Marmarinos, Aristotelis Aposkitis, Yiorgos Kendros, Takis Moschos,
Directors : Takis Spetsiotis,

A documentary about the rise and fall of Greek's most esteemed poet, Napoleon Lapathiotis.

Actors : Swetlana Schönfeld, Ulrich Mühe, Jenny Gröllmann, Michael Gwisdek,
Directors : Herrmann Zschoche,

Ten decisive years (1796 - 1806) in the life of the great German poet Friedrich Hölderlin. In order to earn money as a tutor "Hölder" moves in with the Gontards, a banker's family in ...

Actors : Marta Becket, Pirjo Bergström, Virginia Capers, Atso Almila,

A story of a famous young violinist, loosely based on the life of Heimo Haitto.

Actors : Ferenc Bács, Hédi Temessy, Ferenc Kállai, Juli Básti,
Directors : András Kovács,

Mail for translation. Karolyi Mihaly felesegenek, Andrassy Katinkanak tortenete elevenedik meg a filmben, aki az orszag egyik legtekintelyesebb arisztokrata ...

Actors : Malcolm Black, Donald Davis, David Bolt, George Dawson,
Directors : Laurence Keane,

Samuel Lount is the Blacksmith of Holland Landing, in the rural Canada of the 1830s. A devoted family man and good neighbour, Lount is also a prominent member of the Children of Peace who ...

Actors : Débora Bloch, Vicente Barcellos, João Carlos Castanha, Luiz Carlos Arutin,
Directors : Lauro Escorel,

The story of one of Brazilian cinema's pioneers, Eduardo Abelim, from the start of his career, in Rio de Janeiro, until his filming of the 1930 Revolution. To promote his films, Abelim ...

Actors : Alan McGilvray, Norman May,
Directors : Bill Phillips,

Telecasting cricket on the ABC from 1935 till 1985, Alan McGilvray was the man trusted by all Australians to bring them the ball by ball descriptions, either at home or abroad.

Actors : Lucia Casagrande, Philippe Nahoun, Mario Perazzini, Pino Costalunga,
Directors : Georg Brintrup,

A film about the Italian composer Gian-Francesco Malipiero. It is his music that talks about his life. The film was written respecting all details of the scores.

Actors : Krishnamraju, Mohan Babu, Jayasudha, Pran,
Directors : Narayana Rao Dasari,

The story of an Indian Freedom fighter who fought the French even before the British could establish their authority in India