Best Biography movies of 2000s

Actors : Lei Hao, Aaron Kwok, Tielin Zhang, Jin Chai,
Directors : Christina Yao,

In 1899, a carefree young man must prepare to take over his family's Chinese banking empire.

Actors : Elfriede Irrall, Josef Bierbichler, Monica Bleibtreu, Jeanette Hain,
Directors : Jan Schütte,

It is one of the last days of an exceptionally hot summer in 1956. Bertolt Brecht (Bierbichler) is about to leave his lakeside house among the tall birches in Brandenburg to return to ...

Actors : David Llewellyn, Nicholas Kadi, Richard Epcar, Eli Allem,
Directors : Richard Rich,

An account of the birth of Islam.

Actors : Declan Donnelly, Bill Pullman, Anthony McPartlin, Götz Otto,
Directors : Jonny Campbell,

Humouristic reconstruction of the 1995 scandal when two British lads were accused of having faked a documentary from the Roswell incident in 1947.

Actors : David Scheller, Natalia Avelon, Matthias Schweighöfer, Friederike Kempter,
Directors : Achim Bornhak,

Achim Bornhak's movie focuses on the restless life of Uschi Obermaier, the icon of the 1968 movement in Germany and groupie. At the age of 16, Uschi is bored by her job in a photo lab, but ...

Actors : Til Schweiger, Joseph Fiennes, Matthias Schweighöfer, Lena Headey,
Directors : Nikolai Müllerschön,

German biopic loosely based on the World War I fighter ace Manfred Von Richthofen, nicknamed the Red Baron by friend and foe alike.

Actors : Delia Silvan, Chris Haywood, Hans Sonneveld, Derek Jacobi,
Directors : Paul Cox,

Dramatization of Russian ballet star Vaclav Nijinsky's diaries which detail his madness as well as his homosexual relationship with Ballet Russe impresario Sergei Diaghilev and his marriage to his Hungarian wife.

Actors : Cleo Pires, Glória Pires, Rui Ricardo Diaz, Juliana Baroni,

The true story of a working class boy who moves to the nation's financial capital at a young age and becomes one the most influential politician in Brazil's history.

Actors : Giancarlo Esposito, Benjamin Bratt, Nelson Vasquez, Talisa Soto,
Directors : Leon Ichaso,

"Piñero" tells the story of the explosive life of a Latino icon, the poet-playwright-actor Miguel Piñero, whose urban poetry is recognized as a pre-cursor to rap and hip-hop. After doing ...

Actors : Toby Stephens, Rani Mukerji, Aamir Khan, Coral Beed,
Directors : Ketan Mehta,

This is a film about the leader of the 1857 mutiny and his fight against the British rule.

Actors : Philip Craig, Roy Dupuis, Julie LeBreton, Stephen McHattie,
Directors : Charles Binamé,

A story about Quebec's most famous hockey player, Maurice "The Rocket" Richard, focusing on the struggles of a French Canadian in the National Hockey League dominated by Anglophones.

Actors : Jodhi May, Eva Birthistle, Martin Freeman, Emily Holmes,
Directors : Peter Greenaway,

An extravagant, exotic and moving look at Rembrandt's romantic and professional life, and the controversy he created by the identification of a murderer in the painting 'The Night Watch'.

Actors : Sunil Shetty, Arbaaz Khan, Sanjay Dutt, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Apoorva Lakhia,

An account of the gangster Mahindra Dolas and his gang, which terrorized Mumbai City, and a massive war between Mumbai Police and gangs during 16 November 1991.

Actors : Con O'Neill, Pam Ferris, Kevin Spacey, JJ Feild,
Directors : Nick Moran,

A music-infused drama about Joe Meek, the flamboyantly gay, tone deaf, songwriter-producer behind the '60s hits "Have I the Right," "Just Like Eddie," "Johnny, Remember Me" and "Telstar."

Actors : Julie Delpy, Daniel Brühl, Anamaria Marinca, William Hurt,
Directors : Julie Delpy,

A 17th century Hungarian countess embarks on a murderous undertaking, with the belief that bathing in the blood of virgins will preserve her beauty.

Actors : Donal Logue, Russell Wong, Angela Featherstone, Skeet Ulrich,
Directors : Joe Chappelle,

This film is based on the story of the capture of computer hacker "Kevin Mitnick".

Actors : Albrecht Becker, Christoph Eichhorn, Michael Fegley, Cora Frost,

Documentary with dramatised episodes about the lives of Erika and Klaus Mann, children of German writer Thomas Mann.

Actors : Sergey Bezrukov, Vladislav Vetrov, Elizaveta Boyarskaya, Konstantin Khabenskiy,
Directors : Andrey Kravchuk,

The story of admiral Aleksandr Kolchak who remained faithful to his oath to the Russian Emperor and fought against the Bolshevik rule after the 1917 October Revolution.

Actors : Hanyu Zhang, Chao Deng, Wenkang Yuan, Yan Tang,
Directors : Xiaogang Feng,

A soldier fights to gain recognition for comrades who died during the Chinese Civil War.

Actors : Shidô Nakamura, Christina Hendricks, Emily Mortimer, Kazuko Yoshiyuki,
Directors : Hisako Matsui,

A film about the life and relationships of the early 20th American educator, editor, and journalist Leonie Gilmour, the mother of the acclaimed artist and architect Isamu Noguchi.