Best Women Biography movies

Actors : John Wildman, Margaret Langrick, Richard Donat, Jane Mortifee,
Directors : Sandy Wilson,

Adding an intriguing Canadian twist to a universally appealing story of teenage trials, My American Cousin begins as bored 12-year-old Sandy (Margaret Langrick) is preparing for another ...

Actors : Renato Romano, Luigi Squarzina, Peter Baldwin, Gian Maria Volontè,
Directors : Francesco Rosi,

Enrico Mattei helped change Italy's future, first as freedom-fighter against the Nazis, then as an investor in methane gas through a public company, A.G.I.P., and ultimately as the head of ...

Actors : Daniel Massey, Glenda Jackson, Yvonne Mitchell, Douglas Wilmer,
Directors : Richard Fleischer,

The life of the great actress, Sarah Bernhardt.

Actors : Jill Clayburgh, Joe Pesci, Dianne Wiest, Nicol Williamson,
Directors : Jack Hofsiss,

A true story about Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker Barbara Gordon's Valium addiction and her desperate attempts to kick the habit.

Actors : Chien-ru Huang, Giong Lim, Kuei-Chung Cheng, Tian-Lu Li,
Directors : Hsiao-Hsien Hou,

In the first half of this century, young Li Tienlu joines a travelling puppet theatre and subsequently makes a career as one of Taiwan's leading puppeteers. During World War II the Japanese...

Actors : Lenny von Dohlen, Moira Kelly, Melinda Dillon, Martin Sheen,
Directors : Michael Ray Rhodes,

The phrase "entertaining angels" refers to the practice of treating all guests--be they kings or peasants--as if they were visiting angels. This is the challenge for all humble Christians ...

Actors : Lars Eidinger, Danila Kozlovsky, Luise Wolfram, Michalina Olszanska,
Directors : Aleksey Uchitel,

In the twilight of Imperial Russia, prima ballerina Matilda Kshesinskaya becomes the mistress of three Grand Dukes.

Actors : Samuli Edelmann, Peter Franzén, Krista Kosonen, Katja Kukkola,
Directors : Arto Halonen,

Princess tells the true story of former cabaret dancer Anna Lappalainen's redemptive struggle with insanity, who checked in to Finland's Kellokoski Psychiatric Hospital in 1945.

Actors : Marilyn Hassett, Belinda Montgomery, Beau Bridges, Nan Martin,
Directors : Larry Peerce,

Young ski champion Jill Kinmont is left paralyzed after a tragic skiing accident. Her best friend suffers the same fate after contracting polio. Jill must slowly put her life back together again with the help of those close to her.

Actors : Rebecca Calder, Lily Cole, Catherine Chalk, Tora Hallström,
Directors : Lasse Hallström,

Exploring Hilma af Klint's enigmatic life, now recognized as one of the Western world's first abstract artists.

Actors : Karolina Gruszka, Piotr Adamczyk, Danuta Stenka, Magdalena Boczarska,
Directors : Maria Sadowska,

Michalina Wislocka, the most famous and recognized sexologist of communist Poland, fights for the right to publish her book, which will change the sex life of Polish people forever.

Actors : Thomas Kretschmann, Nadja Uhl, Sina Tkotsch, Stella Kunkat,
Directors : Roland Suso Richter,

The family of a German linguist lives with an indigenous tribe in Papua New Guinea.

Actors : Purab Kohli, Shiney Ahuja, Shaad Randhawa, Kangana Ranaut,
Directors : Mohit Suri,

Based upon the life of actress Parveen Babi, this film describes the life of a schizophrenic actress Sana Azim, and the love of her life - Aditya Garewal.

Actors : Joaquín Rapalini, Joaquín Furriel, Ana Celentano, Maribel Verdú,
Directors : Gerardo Olivares,

A mother with an autistic child travel from Spain to Argentina looking to help her son to connect with his emotions.

Actors : Callie Thorne, Laura Wiggins, Marcus Giamatti, Izabella Miko,
Directors : Tara Miele,

A 17-year-old dancer joins a "thinspiration" website and devotes herself to the almost religious glorification of "thin", until she becomes completely possessed by the dark world of anorexia.

Actors : Sidse Babett Knudsen, Benoît Magimel, Charlotte Laemmel, Isabelle de Hertogh,
Directors : Emmanuelle Bercot,

Irène Frachon, a doctor who lives in the Breton town of Brest, dares to stand up to the French health and pharmaceutical industry, helping to uncover the media scandal surrounding the ...

Actors : Greer Garson, Debbie Reynolds, Agnes Moorehead, Ricardo Montalban,
Directors : Henry Koster,

Young and inexperienced Sister Ann has just arrived at her next posting at Samaritan House, a Dominican order located in a disreputable neighborhood of Ghent, Belgium. Sister Ann is ...

Actors : Gloria Carrá, Rafael Spregelburd, Eugenia Suárez, Esteban Lamothe,
Directors : Daniela Goggi,

Based on the autobiographical novel by Cielo Latini, the film tells the story of a teenager who falls in love and starts dating an older man whom she met on the Internet. Submerged in a ...

Actors : Dorothy Tutin, Scott Antony, Lindsay Kemp, Helen Mirren,
Directors : Ken Russell,

Biographical film of the life of French sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska.

Actors : Eric Petersen, Amanda Fuller, Chloë Crampton, Sherilyn Fenn,
Directors : Joe Menendez,

A chronicle of Brittany Murphy's rise to fame in the 1990s, her struggles with self-esteem, and her tragic early death.