Best Biography movies of 1980s

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

The story of the great train robber Ronald Biggs.

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 : 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.

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

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

Actors : Fernando Cabral Martins, André Gomes, Jorge Silva Melo, Juliet Berto,
Directors : João Botelho,

The film was to be a documentary, but evolved during production to a fictional film. It nevertheless adheres strictly to the poems and letters exchanged by two of the most outstanding names...

Actors : David Ackroyd, Paul Mercier, Susan Seaforth Hayes, Allison Gregory,
Directors : Jerry L. Jackson,

Wrestling with God is the true story of Alexander Campbell, a man whose conscience came into conflict with the accepted religious precepts of his time, and the struggle and resentment he ...

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 : 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 : 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 : Evgeniy Evstigneev, Leonid Kuravlyov, Vadim Spiridonov, Aleksandr Lazarev,
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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Reine Brynolfsson, Gunilla Nyroos, Grethe Ryen, Lennart Hjulström,
Directors : Anders Wahlgren,

The life of Swedish writer Moa Martinson. In 1925 Moa's two youngest children drowns. She is politically active and a passionate. 1928 her husband commits suicide. The next year she marries...

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

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