Best Biography movies of 2000s

Actors : Mark Rendall, Kevin Bacon, Renée Zellweger, Logan Lerman,
Directors : Richard Loncraine,

An unusual road trip movie about a mother driving her two sons from New York to Pittsburgh to St. Louis and eventually Hollywood in her quest to find a man to take care of them all.

Actors : Laetitia Casta, Lucy Gordon, Doug Jones, Eric Elmosnino,
Directors : Joann Sfar,

A glimpse at the life of French singer Serge Gainsbourg, from growing up in 1940s Nazi-occupied Paris through his successful song-writing years in the 1960s to his death in 1991 at the age of 62.

Actors : Alessandro Nivola, Abigail Breslin, Brittany Snow, Elisabeth Shue,
Directors : David M. Rosenthal,

A young girl who has been abandoned by her former-groupie mother informs a fading rock star that she is his daughter.

Actors : Simon Armstrong, Timothy Spall, Eddie Marsan, Juliet Stevenson,
Directors : Adrian Shergold,

The life and times of Albert Pierrepoint - Britain's most prolific hangman.

Actors : Eric Bana, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Marton Csokas, Franka Potente,
Directors : Richard Roxburgh,

It tells the story of Romulus, his beautiful wife, Christina, and their struggle in the face of great adversity to bring up their son, Raimond. It is a story of impossible love that ultimately celebrates the unbreakable bond between father and son.

Actors : Susan Lynch, Ewan McGregor, Andrew Scott, Vinnie McCabe,
Directors : Pat Murphy,

In 1904, in Dublin, James Joyce chats up Nora Barnacle, a hotel maid recently come from Galway. She enchants him with her frank, direct and uninhibited manner, and before long, he's ...

Actors : Jeanne Tripplehorn, Kevin Pollak, Janeane Garofalo, Vincent D'Onofrio,
Directors : Robert Greenwald,

Five years after Yippie founder Abbie Hoffman goes underground to avoid a drug-related prison sentence, he contacts a reporter to get out the story of the FBI's covert spying, harassment ...

Actors : Diane Venora, Monty Lapica, Michael Bowen, Greg Germann,
Directors : Monty Lapica,

A pill-popping mom has her drug-abusing teen son abducted into a private intervention facility that means well.

Actors : Samantha Morton, John Hannah, Linus Roache, Emily Woof,
Directors : Julien Temple,

Friendship and betrayal between two poets during the French Revolution.

Actors : Anne Heche, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Christina Ricci, Jessica Lange,
Directors : Erik Skjoldbjærg,

A young woman struggles with depression during her first year at Harvard.

Actors : Ye Liu, Xun Zhou, Kun Chen, Shuangbao Wang,
Directors : Sijie Dai,

Two youths sent for a Maoist "re-education" in the mountains fall in love with the village tailor's granddaughter.

Actors : Richard E. Grant, Elsa Zylberstein, Philippe Torreton, Jay Rodan,
Directors : Antoine de Caunes,

How can Napoleon, the man of war and pioneering military strategist, meekly accept being locked up on a storm-lashed rock in the middle of the Atlantic ocean? What system of defence, and ...

Actors : Andreas Lust, Markus Schleinzer, Roman Kettner, Hannelore Klauber-Laursen,
Directors : Benjamin Heisenberg,

A story based on Johann Rettenberger, an Austrian marathon runner and a bank robber.

Actors : Jonathan Pryce, Vincent Perez, Sarah Wynter, Simon Verhoeven,
Directors : Bruce Beresford,

This movie is a biopic of Alma Mahler, the wife of composer Gustav Mahler (as well as Walter Gropius and Franz Werfel), and the mistress of Oskar Kokoschka.

Actors : Bhoomika Chawla, Akshaye Khanna, Shefali Shah, Darshan Jariwala,
Directors : Feroz Abbas Khan,

The account of troubled relationship between Mahatma Gandhi and his eldest son.

Actors : Orgyen Tobgyal, Kelsang Chukie Tethtong, Jamyang Lodro, Jamyang Nyima,
Directors : Neten Chokling,

Milarepa is a tale of greed and vengeance - demons, magic, murder and redemption. It is the story of the man who became Tibet's greatest mystic.

Actors : Julie-Marie Parmentier, Isabelle Renauld, Sylvie Testud, Dominique Labourier,
Directors : Jean-Pierre Denis,

Based on the true story of two chambermaids (the Papin sisters) of 1930s France who murdered their employer and her daughter.

Actors : Sam Neill, Tony Kgoroge, Sophie Okonedo, Alice Krige,
Directors : Anthony Fabian,

Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.

Actors : Tim Draxl, Judy Davis, Geoffrey Rush, Jesse Spencer,
Directors : Russell Mulcahy,

The inspirational life story of Australian swimmer Tony Fingleton.

Actors : Lindsay Lohan, Chuck Cooper, Victor Verhaeghe, Robert Gerard Larkin,
Directors : J.P. Schaefer,

A film about Mark David Chapman in the days leading up to the infamous murder of Beatle John Lennon.