Best Biography movies of 1990s

Actors : Gioia Spaziani, Marcello Mazzarella, Vincenzo Albanese, Carmelo Di Mazzarelli,
Directors : Pasquale Scimeca,

The real story of Placido Rizzotto, a trade union leader murdered by the mafia in Sicily in 1948

Actors : Luciana Rigueira, Tuca Andrada, Joana Fomm, Cassiano Carneiro,
Directors : José Joffily,

Based on the true story of Fernando Ramos da Silva, actor of Hector Babenco's Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco (1981).

Actors : Ülle Kaljuste, Rain Simmul, Liis Tappo, Marika Korolev,
Directors : Mati Põldre,

The life of Raimond Valgre, an Estonian songwriter of the 1930s and the 1940s, the political changes of his land and his life after war when his songs were considered not suitable for the ...

Actors : Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Stina Ekblad, Morten Gundel, Anders Forchhammer,
Directors : Erik Clausen,

Carl Nielsen's life from drummer with the village's playmates to regimentation musician and composer on the throne of world renown.

Actors : Colm Feore, Helen Mirren, Helen Shaver, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Phillip Borsos,

Bethune has long been a hero in China. Perhaps for reasons of politics and personality, however, his fame in North America lagged far behind. The film explores the complexity of a character...

Actors : Sibylle Canonica, Herbert Knaup, Franziska Herold, Veronica Ferres,
Directors : Egon Günther,

The relationship between Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the great German writer, and Christiane Vulpius, a village girl, is one of the instantaneous and fiery passion. They lived together for ...

Actors : Billy Brown, Stacy Bell, Bill Brown, Larry Archey,

A young man loses his leg in a motorcycle accident. While rehabilitating, he takes up cycling. He becomes determined to become the first one-legged person to cycle across the U.S. The movie...

Actors : Désirée Nick, Evelyn Künneke, Lotti Huber, Luzi Kryn,
Directors : Rosa von Praunheim,

Neurosia is the autobiography of the director Rosa von Praunheim. The movie begins with Rosa presenting his autobiography in a movie theater. Before the film begins, he is shot. But - his ...

Actors : Deborah Evelyn, Carla Camurati, José de Abreu, Paulo Betti,
Directors : Sergio Rezende,

The real story of a captain who, during the military dictatorship in Brazil, deserted Brazilian Army and got involved in left-wing guerilla groups, becoming one of their most prominent leaders.

Actors : Marc Barbé, Valérie Jeannet, Sami Frey, Julie Jézéquel,
Directors : Gérard Mordillat,

May, 1946, in Paris young poet Jacques Prevel meets Antonin Artaud, the actor, artist, and writer just released from a mental asylum. Over ten months, we follow the mad Artaud from his ...

Actors : Helen Shaver, Françoise Robertson, Martin Cummins, Darcy Belsher,
Directors : Martin Cummins,

Caught in the jagged downtown world of drugs, prostitutes and violence, three young artists lead tumultuous lives in desperate need of an overhaul. Relationships stumble as careers take ...

Actors : Kwan-Ho Tse, Chan-Leung Poon, Yuk-Fun An, Yuk-Wah So,
Directors : Clifton Ko,

The legendary life story of Cantonese opera playwright "Mad Phoenix" Kiang Yu-kou.

Actors : Beto Simas, Ariana Messias, Darci Figueiredo, Carlos Evelyn,
Directors : Luís Alberto Pereira,

On the eve of his return to Europe after an extended involuntary stay in 16th-century Brazil, the German sailor Hans Staden is captured by a hostile cannibal Indian tribe. In order to ...

Actors : Maria Lorenzutti, Harry Havilio, José Luis Alfonzo, Miguel Ángel Solá,
Directors : Juan Bautista Stagnaro,

Movie based on the life of Dr. Salvador Mazza, who, with a group of professionals, conducts an investigation to discover the antidote to a mysterious illness of which the bearer is a nocturnal insect known as Vinchuca.

Actors : François Périer, Daniel Auteuil, Jean Poiret, Jacques Weber,
Directors : Francis Girod,

On 9 January 1836, Pierre Lacenaire goes to the guillotine, a murderer and a thief. He gives Allard, a police inspector, his life story, written while awaiting execution. He also asks ...

Actors : Luís Miguel Cintra, Ricardo Trêpa, Miguel Guilherme, Lima Duarte,
Directors : Manoel de Oliveira,

The story of Father Antonio Vieira, a 17th-century Portuguese priest who lived in Brazil and worked for better treatment of the Indians and to abolish slavery.

Actors : Jeremy Sisto, Eric Michael Cole, Grace Zabriskie, Jaime Pressly,
Directors : Mark Anthony Galluzzo,

Trash is a coming of age drama set amongst the poverty stricken trailer parks of the deep South. In a spiraling tale of hatred, love and loyalty, two teenage friends realize that the only ...

Actors : Linda Kozlowski, Liv Ullmann, Gunnar Hellström, Stig Grybe,
Directors : Gunnar Hellström,

The art, life and times of Swedish painter Anders Zorn during the first two decades of the twentieth century.

Actors : Gustaw Lutkiewicz, Artur Barcis, Christoph Waltz, Edward Zentara,
Directors : Krzysztof Zanussi,

The story of catholic saint Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941), who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz.

Actors : Miep Gies, Hannah Pick-Goslar,
Directors : Julian Y. Wolff,

The story of a Jewish family that goes into hiding during world war 2