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 : Melika Foroutan, Eduard Fernández, 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 : 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 : João Bravo, Laila Garin, Bruno Garcia, Regiane Alves,
Directors : Clovis Mello,

A moving biopic about the Brazilian humanitarian leader Divaldo Franco.

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 : 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 : 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 : Piroska Móga, Babett Jávor, Zsolt Bogdán, Eszter Ónodi,
Directors : Krisztina Deák,

This film is about the relationship of a mother and her daughter, the split-up of their family, the blessing and curse of belonging together and about coming of age - all this from the ...

Actors : Luís Miguel Cintra, Diogo Dória, Mário Barroso, Teresa Madruga,
Directors : Manoel de Oliveira,

Portrait of the last days of the life of Portuguese writer Camilo Castelo Branco.

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 : Zsuzsa Czinkóczi, Teri Földi, Anna Polony, Jan Nowicki,
Directors : Márta Mészáros,

From one of the foremost woman directors comes a personal story of how history and the individual impact each other. A young woman (Juli) returns to her homeland only to find the horrors she escaped have infected it also.

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 : Mike Funk, Hailey Heisick, Rocco Palmieri, Adrian Gorbaliuk,
Directors : Rob Villano,

Movie version of Frank Ferruccio's book, Diamonds to Dust: The Life and Death of Jayne Mansfield. This film focuses on the exciting 1960's turbulent life of Legend Jayne Mansfield.

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Anne Jackson, Marilyn Hassett, Jameson Parker, Julie Harris,
Directors : Larry Peerce,

As the horrors beneath the idealized 1950's come about, a successful young woman finds herself having a serious mental breakdown when she returns to New England.

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 : Kippei Shîna, Tsurutarô Kataoka, Hitomi Kuroki, Norihei Miki,
Directors : Nobuhiko Ôbayashi,

The film follows the life of Sada Abe, who became a celebrity in 1936 after strangling her lover and slicing off his penis.