Best Women Biography movies

Actors : Brigitte Fossey, Rutger Hauer, Marie-France Pisier, Timothy Dalton,
Directors : George Kaczender,

The film tells the story of the early life and rise to fame and fortune of French fashion designer Coco Chanel, beginning with her upbringing in an orphanage and training as a milliner, but...

Actors : Upendra Limaye, Tejaswini Pandit, Jyoti Chandekar, Nina Kulkarni,
Directors : Ananth Narayan Mahadevan,

This is the journey of Sindhutai Sapkal, a poor village girl who grew up tending buffaloes while craving an education, but her unsympathetic mother had her married off to an older man when ...

Actors : Patricia Reyes Spíndola, Blanca Guerra, Alberto Estrella, Ana Ofelia Murguía,
Directors : Arturo Ripstein,

A female cabaret artist has to leave Berlin, Germany, after an incident with the Nazis. Back in her fatherland Mexico she tries and succeeds in remaking her career.

Actors : Sayuri Yoshinaga, Tôru Kazama, Morio Kazama, Yûki Amami,
Directors : Tonkô Horikawa,

Based on the ancient Japanese Tale of Genji. This film is set in 900AD and tells the story of a famous female writer of the time, Murasaki Shikibu. Her story begins from the death of her ...

Actors : Carlos Augusto Strazzer, Marieta Severo, Reginaldo Faria, Fernanda Torres,
Directors : Lui Farias,

Based on a famous autobiography, this film tells of teenage angst, as lived in the miserable lower middle class Rio bedroom suburbs, by 15 year-old Eliane. To boot, she comes from a ...

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 : Tamy Zajec, Klara Naka, Linda Begonja, Zrinka Cvitesic,
Directors : Branko Ivanda,

It's inspiring true story about two thirteen year old girls who were, on the eve of World War II, great dancing and acting stars in Zagreb. Selling out theater venues, they weer praised in ...

Actors : Félix Lefebvre, Théo Christine, César Chouraqui, Sandor Funtek,
Directors : Audrey Estrougo,

Biopic about French cult hip-hop duet Supreme NTM. A story of Paris suburbs, protests, police brutality that shaped the music of JoeyStarr and Kool Shen.

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 : 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 : Nursel Köse, Dogukan Güngör, Ayberk Pekcan, Büsra Pekin, Zeliha Kendirci,
Directors : Ketche,

The life story of the iconic Turkish singer Dilberay, full of ups and downs.

Actors : Tinna Gunnlaugsdóttir, Arnar Jónsson, Kristján Jóhann Jónsson, Þráinn Karlsson,
Directors : Ágúst Guðmundsson,

From an authentic Viking saga, Outlaw tells the story of a family blood feud, set in 10th century Iceland.

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 : 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 : Patricia Place, Katherine Nelson, Nathan Mitchell, Stephanie Breinholt,

Before her death, Emma reflects on her life; beginning with her childhood, up through her final years in Nauvoo. Based on the life of Emma Hale Smith.

Actors : Hema Malini, Pradeep Kumar, Parveen Babi, Dharmendra,
Directors : Kamal Amrohi,

An account of the reign of Indian empress Razia Sultan and her love for her slave Jamaluddin Yakut.

Actors : Jessica Malka, Dany Papineau, Brandon Barton, Mirianne Brûlé,
Directors : Dany Papineau,

Marie Deschamps, a 20 year old French-Canadian girl, quits college to go travel and learn English in Western Canada. Her journey will bring her up to Whistler, British Columbia, where she ...

Actors : Chris Dingli, Filipp Ershov, Kirsty Bartolo, William Erazo Fernández,
Directors : Elena Hazanova,

Following her divorce, Marina Gordeeva (40) thinks she'll never meet love again. Little does she know that one day, she'll find the love of her life in free diving, one of the most extreme ...

Actors : Lena T. Hansson, Stina Ekblad, Philip Zandén, Erland Josephson,
Directors : Mai Zetterling,

About the Swedish author Agnes Von Krusenstjerna (1894-1940), during her turbulent marriage with David Sprengel. In a hallucination Agnes is brought to a mental hospital in Venice, carrying her fictitious autobiography.

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

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