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, Javier Drolas, Ángela Torres,
Directors : Lorena Muñoz,

The life and death of the tropical singer Gilda.

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

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

Actors : Kajol Chugh, Pankaj Tripathi, Richa Chadha, Rajeev Pillai, Rajeev Ravindranathan, Vicky Kadian,
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 : 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 : Judit Hernádi, Grazyna Szapolowska, 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 : 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 : Dalila Carmo, Ivo Canelas, José Neves, 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 : Paige Richards, Frederick Bald, David Boller, Oto Brezina,
Directors : Nico B.,

Tells the story of the last 3 years of her brief career.

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 : Asta Kamma August, Nanna Skaarup Voss, Simon Bennebjerg, Birthe Neumann,
Directors : Bille August,

The intense friendship between Karen Blixen, the Danish author best known for her autobiographical novel "Out of Africa," and Thorkild Bjørnvig, a young and promising poet.

Actors : Ellen Burstyn, Donald Pleasence, Maruschka Detmers, 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Bianca Gervais, Debbie Lynch-White, Laurence Deschênes, Émile Proulx-Cloutier,
Directors : François Bouvier,

This is the life story of Mary Travers also known by her stage name of La Bolduc. Mary Rose-Anna Bolduc, née Travers, was a musician and singer of French Canadian music. She was known as ...

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 : Ignacio López Tarso, Carlos Bracho, Hanna Schygulla, Isabelle Adjani,
Directors : Carlos Saura,

A French psychologist investigates about famous suicidal women. She finds the case of Antonieta Rivas Mercado, a Mexican writer who died inside Paris' Notre Dame in 1931. To follow the ...

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 ...