Best Women Biography movies

Actors : Igor Samobor, Biserka Ipsa, Alma Prica, Tesa Litvan,
Directors : Dana Budisavljevic,

Firmly believing her own life is no more precious than the lives of the innocent people being persecuted, with the help of a few friends, Diana embarks on a perilous campaign of rescuing ...

Actors : Lautaro Delgado, Natalia Oreiro, Ángela Torres, Javier Drolas,
Directors : Lorena Muñoz,

The life and death of the tropical singer Gilda.

Actors : Kajol Chugh, Richa Chadha, Pankaj Tripathi, Vicky Kadian, Rajeev Pillai, Rajeev Ravindranathan,
Directors : Indrajit Lankesh,

A biopic based on the life of adult star Shakeela, who ruled the South Indian film industry for over two decades. The film features Richa Chadha in the lead role.

Actors : Eyrún Björk Jakobsdóttir, Elín Sif Halldórsdóttir, Kristín Lea, Lára Jóhanna Jónsdóttir,
Directors : Baldvin Zophoníasson,

Drawing on true stories and interviews with the families of addicts, this harrowing portrait of addiction follows Stella and Magnea through the decades as precarious teenage years morph into perilous adulthoods.

Actors : Glenda Jackson, Trevor Howard, Alec McCowen, Mona Washbourne,
Directors : Robert Enders,

This biographical film has Glenda Jackson portraying a British poet with emotional problems.

Actors : Katja Flint, Hans Werner Meyer, Herbert Knaup, Heino Ferch,
Directors : Joseph Vilsmaier,

The movie follows the life and personality of the famous actress Marlene Dietrich.

Actors : Grazyna Szapolowska, Judit Hernádi, Ildikó Bánsági, Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieslak,

Political and sexual repression in Hungary, just after the revolution of 1956. In 1958, the body of Eva Szalanczky, a political journalist, is discovered near the border. Her friend Livia ...

Actors : Dalila Carmo, José Neves, Ivo Canelas, Albano Jerónimo,
Directors : Vicente Alves do Ó,

A compelling biography of Portuguese poet Florbela Espanca. Tainted by a number of divorces in the 1920's, Florbela resorts to her writing, filled with eroticism and femininity, to cope ...

Actors : Mimi Michaels, Laura Anderson, Carl Ballantine, Teres Byrne,
Directors : Richard Rossi,

A feature film about the life of Aimee Semple McPherson, the famed evangelist of the 1920s.

Actors : Gerard Thoolen, Kitty Courbois, Ester Spitz, Frank Rigter,
Directors : Kees Van Oostrum,

15 year old Sara, a Jewish girl living in the Netherlands during the German occupation slowly begins to realize the danger she and her family are in. When her parents are forced to move to ...

Actors : Sibylle Canonica, Herbert Knaup, Veronica Ferres, Franziska Herold,
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 : Isabel Ruth, Maria de Medeiros, Makena Diop, Rebeca Close,
Directors : Sérgio Tréfaut,

Maria, a Ukrainian doctor, comes to Portugal to spend a year in with her husband, also a doctor. She is approached by agents of the Immigration Services that take her to an interrogation ...

Actors : Jean-Pierre Léaud, Philippe Léotard, Jane Birkin, Farid Chopel,
Directors : Agnès Varda,

"I'll look at you, but not at the camera. It could be a trap," whispers Jane Birkin shyly into Agnès Varda's ear at the start of JANE B. PAR AGNES V. The director of CLEO FROM 5 TO 7 and ...

Actors : Eduard Fernández, Melika Foroutan, Àlex Monner, Dani Rovira, Anna Castillo, Sergi López,
Directors : Marcel Barrena,

The incredible story about a few good men who risked their own life to save many others. The movie is set on the humanitarian crisis unfolding in the Mediterranean sea.

Actors : Ellen Burstyn, Maruschka Detmers, Donald Pleasence, Anthony Andrews,
Directors : Menahem Golan,

During WW2 Hanna Szenes, a Hungarian Jew living in British Palestine, volunteers to go behind enemy lines to rescue Jews from deportation to death camps.

Actors : Eleni Erimou, Petros Fyssoun, Alkis Yannakas, Jenny Karezi,
Directors : Kostas Karagiannis,

Manto Mavrogenous, several years after the revolution and active action, remembers her life. Despite the objections of her mother, gave her dowry to financially support the revolution. ...

Actors : Eli Cohen, Gila Almagor, Kaipu Cohen, Marina Rossetti,
Directors : Eli Cohen,

A ten year old girl spends her summer with her overly protective mother, a mentally scarred holocaust survivor, while hopefully trying to find her real father in the newly established state of Israel.

Actors : Mita Ungaro, Carlos de Carvalho, Pier Maria Rossi, Fausto Di Bella,
Directors : Roberto Rossellini,

The story of the life of Jesus Christ.

Actors : Tiina Weckström, Maria Heiskanen, Hannu-Pekka Björkman, Matleena Kuusniemi,
Directors : Juha Wuolijoki,

The life of a heroine. The life and work of Hella Wuolijoki. A poet, spy and millionaire, she turned into an internationally acclaimed businesswoman, politician and playwright, who ...

Actors : Natasa Lusetic, Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic, Sanja Vejnovic, Vili Matula,
Directors : Dalibor Matanic,

True story about the tragic life of a famous late 19th century deaf female Croatian watercolor painter Slava Raskaj.