Best Biography movies of 1996

Actors : Dongqi Zhou, Chunli Song, Xin Liu, Peiqi Liu,

Qiao and Lei Feng are the closets comrade-in-arms. He hit down a telegraph pole while parking, and it unintentionally led to Lei Feng's pass away. Qiao lived rest of his life with utmost ...

Actors : Anna Polony, Jan Nowicki, Maia Morgenstern, Elide Melli,
Directors : Márta Mészáros,

This movie is based on the life of Saint Edith Stein. She was a German nun of Jewish descent who had converted to Catholicism. Much of her early life was spent as an outspoken academic. ...

Actors : Tommy Abuel, Romnick Sarmenta, Julio Diaz, Joel Torre,
Directors : Carlo J. Caparas,

Tirad Pass: The Last Stand of Gen. Gregorio del Pilar recounts the early days of American occupation of the Philippines with one of the earliest resistance of the American government which ...

Actors : Alon Aboutboul, Avital Dicker, Shuli Rand, Peter Firth,
Directors : Rafi Bukai,

In the midst of a war between Venice and Genoa, Marco Polo, a citizen of Venice, is imprisoned by the inquisition and is charged with heresy.The Genoans, whose real interest is seizing ...

Actors : Patrick Hinz, Steffen Schroeder, Nina Hoss, Peter Ketnath,
Directors : Joseph Vilsmaier,

Leo and Marili grow up in a working class neighborhood in post world war one Munich in Germany. They make their first holy communion, fall in love for the first time, graduate from school ...

Actors : Felipe Teran, Aristides Vargas, Isabel Molina, Lissette Cabrera,
Directors : Camilo Luzuriaga,

An author gets lost between the book he is writing and the reality and a love that does not exist and the ideals of revolution.

Actors : Dainius Kazlauskas, Tõnu Kark, Sergey Makovetskiy, Tarmo Männard,
Directors : Edgardo Cozarinsky,

1938: Shostakovich encourages his pupil Fleischmann to write an opera based on the Chekhov story 'Rothschild's violin'. Fleischmann is killed during the siege of Leningrad. Shostakovich ...

Actors : Annelieke Bouwers, Meiko Kijf, Lukas Dijkema, Hainie Hemme,
Directors : Arno Kranenborg,

De Kersenpluk tells the story about Jan visiting his grandfather for the last time during the summer in a little village in Drenthe. Thanks to Jan, his grandfather decides to do what he ...

Actors : Alberto de Mendoza, Leonor Benedetto, Víctor Laplace, China Zorrilla,
Directors : Javier Torre,

The life story of de Argentine sculptress Lola Mora.

Actors : Bettina Kupfer, Peter Fitz, Jörg Holm, Lutz Herkenrath,
Directors : Hans-Christoph Blumenberg,

The story of the German Director Reinhold Schunzel, who had to emigrate from Germany in the 30s, and went to Hollywood.

Actors : Ann Marie Fleming, Kwok Wing Leung, Margaret Ozols,
Directors : Ann Marie Fleming,

A filmmaker employs Automatic Writing to discover the story of her great great grandfather, only to find a whole lot of ancestors lining up to have their story told... their own way. Based ...

Actors : Claudia Gherga, Marius Adrian Belesica, Pr. Ioan Bita, Vladut Baesu,
Directors : Grid Modorcea,

The life and music of composer George Enescu from a mystical perspective.

Actors : Ming Gao, Yun Qu, Xingdong Wang,
Directors : Guoxing Chen,

Biography of the beloved Kong Fan Sen, a government official of Ali, an outlying area of Tibet. Kong leads the people of Ali to build a better home, but unfortunately dies on the way of an investigation.