Best Women Biography movies

Actors : Helena Pieske, Nicole Heesters, Liv Lisa Fries, Katharina Lorenz,
Directors : Cordula Kablitz-Post,

When writer and psychoanalyst Lou Andreas-Salomé meets young german scholar Ernst Pfeiffer he helps her writing the story of her life and falls in love with her as many before.

Actors : Jana Civzele, Edvins Mekss, Sabine Timoteo, Baiba Broka,
Directors : Viesturs Kairiss,

In the early morning of June 14, 1941, under Stalin's orders, over 40 000 people from Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania were arrested, shoved into cattle cars and dispatched to permanent exile ...

Actors : Ana Caetano, Clarissa Müller, Vitória Falcão, Thati Lopes,
Directors : Matheus Souza,

Two girls have a chance encounter and instantly befriend. While trying to find themselves, they decide to pursue music together.

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 : Alexander Scheer, Damien Chapelle, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Rolf Lassgård,
Directors : Jens Jonsson,

Sonja Wigert is a diva and star in Stockholm when WW2 breaks out, rapidly getting attention from the Nazi officer Josef Terboven. She's then recruited by Swedish intelligence as a spy, but Terboven makes her spy on the Swedes.

Actors : Jefri Nichol, Maudy Ayunda, Lukman Sardi, Reza Rahadian,
Directors : Hanung Bramantyo,

This movie follows the story of Hasri Ainun Besari Habibie's young life when she was in high school and medical college. She was known as a smart figure who became an idol and admired by many male students, including B.J. Habibie.

Actors : João Bravo, Laila Garin, Bruno Garcia, Regiane Alves,
Directors : Clovis Mello,

A moving biopic about the Brazilian humanitarian leader Divaldo Franco.

Actors : Atul Kulkarni, Reem Shaikh, Divya Dutta, Om Puri,
Directors : Amjad Khan,

Gul Makai' accounts the courageous journey and struggle of Nobel laureate Malala Yousufzai, from her humble upbringing in the Swat Valley to her becoming the champion for free education to all.

Actors : Riitta Havukainen, Inka Kallén, Ilona Chevakova, Anu Sinisalo, Tommi Eronen,
Directors : Tuukka Temonen,

The feature film (One half of me) is based on true events and tells an incredible survival story of a Finnish woman. Jaana is a bar owner and a mother of two kids. Her spare time hobby is ...

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 : Viera Strnisková, Július Vasek, Václav Helsus, Magda Vásáryová,
Directors : Jaromil Jires,

Towards the end of 1942 a young prisoner Maruska (Magda Vásáryová) awaits in her cell in prison in Breslau (after war Polish Wroclaw) her execution. After death sentence it was ninety nine ...

Actors : Yasuo Miyake, Rentarô Mikuni, Akiko Kurano, Tadahiko Sugano,
Directors : Yoshishige Yoshida,

A freestyle biopic of Ikki Kita, the ultranationalist intellectual whose ideas inspired the failed military coup in 1936.

Actors : Stacy Keach, Robert Stephens, Hugh Griffith, Patrick Magee,
Directors : Guy Green,

A man's views cause a rift between peasants and the church.

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

The story of the life of Jesus Christ.

Actors : Preston Hanson, Terence Locke, Patch Mackenzie, Misty Rowe,
Directors : Larry Buchanan,

Aspiring actress Norma Jean Baker lives in squalor in the early '40s as she works at the munitions plant and dreams of being a movie star. Abused as a child and an adult, she lacks ...

Actors : David Cole, Neil Cunningham, Anthony Steel, Fiona Richmond,
Directors : James Kenelm Clarke,

Heavily fictionalised 'autobiography' of 70s sex superstar Fiona Richmond.

Actors : Neda Arneric, Darko Damevski, Slobodan Dimitrijevic, Dime Ilijev,
Directors : Aleksandar Djurcinov,

A Macedonian girl is trying to swim the British Channel. During the ordeal, she remembers her troubled past.

Actors : Nan Martin, Timothy Bottoms, Marilyn Hassett, Belinda Montgomery,
Directors : Larry Peerce,

Several years after the deaths of Dick Buek and her father, Jill Kinmont and her mother leave Los Angeles to spend their summer in their hometown of Bishop, California. They rent a summer ...

Actors : Vasilis Kolovos, Nikos Kapios, Antigoni Amanitou, Zaharias Rohas,
Directors : Nikos Koundouros,

Based on the book by Ilias Venezis "The Number 31328", the film by Nikos Koundouros unfolds through the personal tragedies of three characters, the Asia Minor Disaster and the agonizing ...