Best Biography movies of 1980s

Actors : Hans Peter Hallwachs, Helmut Griem, Walter Schmidinger, Sabine Sinjen,
Directors : Peter Schamoni,

A study of German 19th Century Romantic art through the writings and paintings of Carl David Friedrich and his fellow artist, Carl Gustav Carus.

Actors : Barrie Cookson, Michael Bertenshaw, James Downie, 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 : Joe Camp, Toni Sawyer, Sandy Kenyon, Steven Tice,
Directors : Larry Buchanan,

The story of Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, and Janis Joplin, and how their message for their generation made them targets of a US government plot.

Actors : Roman Klosowski, Artur Barcis, Bogusz Bilewski, Bozena Adamek,
Directors : Andrzej Baranski,

The hardships of an ordinary street vendor from his troubled childhood, when he had to work to support his family, to disappointing adulthood, when he lost all the money he had several Times for various reasons.

Actors : Beatriz Valdés, Javier Ruán, Kenia Gazcon, Jorge Montes de Oca,

A young man is chosen to play Cuban musician and star-singer Benny Moré in a Mexican production. During the process of developing the character, he becomes aware of his own talents.

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 : 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 ...

Actors : Pierre-Alain Chapuis, Jacques Bonnaffé, Jean-Yves Berteloot, Valérie Stroh,
Directors : René Féret,

A love story which lasts for a lifetime,Baptême is a film about the love story involving Pierre and Aline.

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 : Zongyin Zhou, Xuejian Li, Rentang Li,
Directors : Jixing Wang,

Jiao Yulu was the communist secretary of Lankao county, he worked very hard for people and died of liver cancer.

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 : 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 : 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 : Laurent Terzieff, Patsy Kensit, Karl Zinny, Ben Gazzara,
Directors : Leandro Castellani,

This film depicts the life of Saint John Bosco (1815 - 1888). He dedicated his life to rescuing abandoned and exploited street children in Turin. He was the founder of the Salesian order, ...

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

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

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 : Jirí Bartoska, Tatána Fischerová, Jirí Adamíra, Zlata Adamovská,
Directors : Jaromil Jires,

The film tells the exciting life of the great Czech composer Leos Janacek , (1854-1928) , also known by the thick silver hair that crowned his head and his strong character, which could overcome the adversities of fate.

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 : Malcolm Black, Donald Davis, George Dawson, David Bolt,
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 ...