Best Biography movies

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

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

Actors : Victor Holchak, Lindsay Bloom, Charles Aidikoff, David McLean,
Directors : Larry Buchanan,

When maverick first-time director Howard Hughes has to recast the female lead in his aerial war picture Hell's Angels (1930), he chooses a fiery, unknown movie extra named Jean Harlow, launching both of their Hollywood careers in the process.

Actors : Mallika Prasad, Shabana Azmi, Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Bharti Jaffrey,

Ahilyabai was born on May 31, 1725 in the village of Chaundi, in the present-day Ahmednagar district in Maharashtra. Her father, Mankoji Shinde, was the patil of the village, a member of ...

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 : Fred Bailey, Jack Anawak, Mary Buscemi, Seth Burke,
Directors : Miranda de Pencier,

In a small Arctic town struggling with the highest suicide rate in North America, a group of Inuit students' lives are transformed when they are introduced to the sport of lacrosse.

Actors : Valeri Poroshin, Rim Ayupov, Viktor Stepanov, Igor Kvasha,
Directors : Yuriy Sorokin,

History of the Russian revolution through the eyes of Gorky, the writer and the man. He initially was sympathetic with some of Lenin's promises, but later became shocked with Lenin's bloody...

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 : Hedo Davis, Christine Manoukian, Ricco Chapa, Damian Chapa,
Directors : Damian Chapa,

A bio about the life of Bobby Fischer.

Actors : Billy Magnussen, Peter Sarsgaard, Ben Foster, Danny DeVito,
Directors : Barry Levinson,

The film is set post-World War II and will star Ben Foster as Harry Haft, a boxer who fought fellow prisoners in the concentration camps to survive. Haunted by the memories and his guilt, ...

Actors : Piotr Garlicki, Piotr Fronczewski, Tadeusz Plucinski, Tadeusz Borowski,
Directors : Roman Wionczek,

Three Polish mathematicians are the first to crack the sophisticated Enigma code used by the Germans just before the Second World War. They build replicas of the Enigma machines and manage ...

Actors : Brian O'Halloran, James Rolfe, Kevin Smith, Marilyn Ghigliotti,
Directors : Christopher Downie,

The true story of how convenience store clerk Kevin Smith made his grainy $27,000 film Clerks (1994) with maxed-out credit cards and the people who aided him in his indie crusade.

Actors : Franciszek Trzeciak, Anna Seniuk, Bronek Pekosinski, Maria Klejdysz,
Directors : Grzegorz Królikiewicz,

Bronek Pekosinski lives in Zamosc, Poland. He is probably 83 years old. He has no family and does not really know who he is. Everything about his life is fictitious: symbolic is the date of...

Actors : Jintang Dong, Tongyi Dang, Yanfeng He, Guifa Yang,
Directors : Zhaoqi Dong,

Biography of the famous Chinese moral model Lei Feng.

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 : Henry Amphlett, Kathryn Carpenter, Claire Bowen, Elle Black,
Directors : Dom Lenoir,

Since the onset of the human race there have been those who instinctively understood the nature of reality and sought to impose their will upon it by co-operating with and honoring the ...

Actors : Richard Moir, Mathilda May, Peter O'Toole, Tchéky Karyo,
Directors : Ian Pringle,

Story of a young woman journalist who becomes enmeshed in the politics of the annexation of Morrocco from Algeria at the turn of the twentieth century. The focus is on her hardships because...

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 : 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 : Arthur Kennedy, June Dayton, Robert Vaughn, Martha Scott,
Directors : Jack Smight,

Story of Harry S. Truman as he begins his political career in 1929.

Actors : Ernest Borgnine, Cartha D. 'Deke' Deloach,
Directors : Rick Pamplin,

A solo performance by Ernest Borgnine in the character of J. Edgar Hoover, the controversial figure who founded and headed the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).