Best Biography movies

Actors : Samuel L. Jackson, Nia Long, Anthony Mackie, Nicholas Hoult,
Directors : George Nolfi,

In the 1960s two African-American entrepreneurs hire a working-class white man to pretend to be the head of their business empire while they pose as a janitor and chauffeur.

Actors : Jerzy Kosinski, Warren Beatty, Edward Herrmann, Diane Keaton,
Directors : Warren Beatty,

A radical American journalist becomes involved with the Communist revolution in Russia and hopes to bring its spirit and idealism to the United States.

Actors : Andra Day, Trevante Rhodes, Natasha Lyonne, Garrett Hedlund,
Directors : Lee Daniels,

Follows Holiday during her career as she is targeted by the Federal Department of Narcotics with an undercover sting operation led by black Federal Agent Jimmy Fletcher, with whom she has a tumultuous affair.

Actors : Brad Renfro, Nick Stahl, Bijou Phillips, Rachel Miner,
Directors : Larry Clark,

A pack of naïve teenagers conspire to murder a mutual friend, whose aggressive demeanor has proved too much.

Actors : Daniel Henshall, Lucas Pittaway, Bob Adriaens, Louise Harris,
Directors : Justin Kurzel,

Based on true events, 16 year-old Jamie falls in with his mother's new boyfriend and his crowd of self-appointed neighborhood watchmen, a relationship that leads to a spree of torture and murder.

Actors : Gene Hackman, David Andrews, Kevin Costner, Dennis Quaid,
Directors : Lawrence Kasdan,

Wyatt Earp is a movie about a man and his family. The movie shows us the good times and the bad times of one of the West's most famous individuals.

Actors : Al Sapienza, Linda Cardellini, Matt Dillon, Tom Hardy,
Directors : Josh Trank,

The 47-year old Al Capone, after 10 years in prison, starts suffering from dementia and comes to be haunted by his violent past.

Actors : Steve Zahn, Brittany Murphy, Adam Garcia, Drew Barrymore,
Directors : Penny Marshall,

A single mother, with dreams of becoming a writer, has a son at the age of 15 in 1965, and goes through a failed marriage with the drug-addicted father.

Actors : Nelofer Pazira, Hassan Tantai, Ike Ogut, Sadou Teymouri,
Directors : Mohsen Makhmalbaf,

After an Afghanistan-born woman who lives in Canada receives a letter from her suicidal sister, she takes a perilous journey through Afghanistan to try to find her.

Actors : Kevin Spacey, Bob Hoskins, John Goodman, Kate Bosworth,
Directors : Kevin Spacey,

A swooning study of "Mack the Knife" singer Bobby Darin (Spacey) specifically, and his relationship with his wife Sandra Dee (Bosworth).

Actors : Hayden Christensen, Guy Pearce, Jimmy Fallon, Sienna Miller,
Directors : George Hickenlooper,

Based on the rise and fall of socialite Edie Sedgwick, concentrating on her relationships with Andy Warhol and a folk singer.

Actors : Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Filippo Timi, Fausto Russo Alesi, Michela Cescon,
Directors : Marco Bellocchio,

The story of Mussolini's secret lover, Ida Dalser, and their son Albino.

Actors : Nicole Kidman, Jude Law, Laura Linney, Colin Firth,
Directors : Michael Grandage,

A chronicle of Max Perkins's time as the book editor at Scribner, where he oversaw works by Thomas Wolfe, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and others.

Actors : Chadwick Boseman, Sterling K. Brown, Josh Gad, Kate Hudson,
Directors : Reginald Hudlin,

About a young Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, as he battles through one of his career-defining cases.

Actors : Steve Carell, Maura Tierney, Christian Convery, Timothée Chalamet,
Directors : Felix van Groeningen,

Based on the best-selling pair of memoirs from father and son David and Nic Sheff, Beautiful Boy chronicles the heartbreaking and inspiring experience of survival, relapse, and recovery in a family coping with addiction over many years.

Actors : Billy Zane, Tilda Swinton, Jimmy Somerville, Quentin Crisp,
Directors : Sally Potter,

Young nobleman Orlando is commanded by Queen Elizabeth I to stay forever young. Miraculously, he does just that. The film follows him as he moves through several centuries of British ...

Actors : Jackie Guerra, Jennifer Lopez, Jon Seda, Edward James Olmos,
Directors : Gregory Nava,

The true story of Selena Quintanilla-Perez, a Texas-born Tejano singer who rose from cult status to performing at the Astrodome, as well as having chart topping albums on the Latin music charts.

Actors : Andrea Riseborough, Claire Foy, Toby Jones, Benedict Cumberbatch,
Directors : Will Sharpe,

English artist Louis Wain rises to prominence at the end of the 19th century for his surreal cat paintings that seemed to reflect his declining sanity.

Actors : Cherry Jones, Andrew Garfield, Vincent D'Onofrio, Jessica Chastain,
Directors : Michael Showalter,

An intimate look at the extraordinary rise, fall and redemption of televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker.

Actors : Domhnall Gleeson, Margot Robbie, Kelly Macdonald, Vicki Pepperdine,
Directors : Simon Curtis,

A behind-the-scenes look at the life of author A.A. Milne and the creation of the Winnie the Pooh stories inspired by his son C.R. Milne.