Best Women Biography movies

Actors : Han Chin, Maggie Cheung, Carina Lau, Tony Ka Fai Leung,
Directors : Stanley Kwan,

Biopic of 1930's Chinese actress Ruan Ling Yu.

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 : Louis Koo, Ka-Tung Lam, Fish Liew, Louise Wong, Ka Tung Lam,
Directors : Lok Man Leung,

Traces the life of Anita Mui, Hong Kong's disappeared Cantopop star.

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 : Samuli Edelmann, Krista Kosonen, Peter Franzén, 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 : 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 : 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.

Actors : Laura Wiggins, Callie Thorne, 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 : Marco Pérez, Sofía Espinosa, Karla Rodriguez, Tatiana del Real,
Directors : Christian Keller,

A rebellious and controversial Mexican pop icon becomes a huge success with her style and catchy songs, but a larger than life scandal will rock her world entirely.

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Karolina Gruszka, Piotr Adamczyk, Magdalena Boczarska, Danuta Stenka,
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 : 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 : Dorothy Tutin, Scott Antony, Lindsay Kemp, Helen Mirren,
Directors : Ken Russell,

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

Actors : Nan Martin, Marilyn Hassett, Belinda Montgomery, Beau Bridges,
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 : Roman Gancarczyk, Jowita Budnik, Jerzy Gudejko, Krystyna Feldman,
Directors : Krzysztof Krauze,

Story of the last eight years of life of Nikifor Krynicki, famous "naive artist".