Best Women Biography movies of 1990s

Actors : Baptiste Roussillon, Jean-Marie Richier, Sandrine Bonnaire, Tatiana Moukhine,
Directors : Jacques Rivette,

A part of Joan of Arc's life. At the beginning, Jeanne (Joan) has already left Domremy, she is trying to convince a captain to escort her to the Dauphin. It ends during Jeanne's first ...

Actors : Katja Flint, Hans Werner Meyer, Herbert Knaup, Heino Ferch,
Directors : Joseph Vilsmaier,

The movie follows the life and personality of the famous actress Marlene Dietrich.

Actors : Li Gong, Shichang Da, Tung-Shing Yee, Fang-Tsen,

At the beginning of the twentieth century, Yu-liang leaves a brothel in a small Chinese town, to become the second wife of Mr. Pan. While Pan is away at the revolution in Yunnan, Yu-liang ...

Actors : Esther Goris, Cristina Banegas, Víctor Laplace, Pepe Novoa,
Directors : Juan Carlos Desanzo,

Drama based on the life of Eva Peron, an obscure actress, who rose to become wife of Argentine strong-man President Juan Peron and one of the most powerful figures in Argentina until her death in 1952 at age 33.

Actors : Sabine Singh, Richard M. Stuart, Chad Christ, Vincent Kartheiser,
Directors : Peter Filardi,

Based on the true story of drugs, satanism, and murder in the upper class town of Northport, Long Island in 1984.

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 : Geraldine Chaplin, Keene Curtis, David Byrd, Helena Carroll,
Directors : Kevin Connor,

A story of Mother Teresa, beginning in Calcutta, India, where she faces adversity from every direction and where she lays the foundation for her crusade to help the poorest of the poor.

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 : Helen Shaver, Françoise Robertson, Martin Cummins, Darcy Belsher,
Directors : Martin Cummins,

Caught in the jagged downtown world of drugs, prostitutes and violence, three young artists lead tumultuous lives in desperate need of an overhaul. Relationships stumble as careers take ...

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.

Actors : Sibylle Canonica, Herbert Knaup, Franziska Herold, Veronica Ferres,
Directors : Egon Günther,

The relationship between Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the great German writer, and Christiane Vulpius, a village girl, is one of the instantaneous and fiery passion. They lived together for ...

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 : Ricky Green, Steve Pérez, Lillian Folley, Wilhamenia Dickens,
Directors : David D. Williams,

This documentary-style film follows a day in the life of Lillian Folley, a loving caretaker of children and the elderly. This is the only life that Lillian knows, and we are shown a small ...

Actors : Alamgir, Babul, Runa Laila, Shaukat Akbar,
Directors : Chashi Nazrul Islam,

Dramatized biographical movie based on the life events of living legend singer Runa Laila, portrayed by herself.

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 : Ester Castaldo, Guido Ferretti, Andrea Campese, Carlo Forni,

CAMPET è il nome di un gruppo vocale che esegue musica 'a cappella', senza accompagnamento strumentale. Il film racconta la storia della registrazione e della pubblicazione del loro album "...

Actors : Krzysztof Globisz, Grazyna Barszczewska, Ewa Skibinska, Adam Siemion,
Directors : Robert Glinski,

When the war breaks out, renowned Polish-Jewish poet Aleksander Wat leaves Nazi-occupied Warsaw with his wife Ola and their son. In Lviv, however, they are arrested by the Russians and separated. Ola and her son are sent to Siberia.

Actors : Irina Alfyorova, Relja Basic, Alma Prica, Rade Serbedzija,
Directors : Zvonimir Berkovic,

A pseudo biography of Dora Pejacevic (10 September 1885 - 5 March 1923), a Croatian composer.

Actors : Mitzura Arghezi, Constantin Galeriu, Mircea Constantinescu, Corina Druc Catalina Mustata,
Directors : Grid Modorcea,

Religion in Arghezi's life and work.

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 ...