Best Women Biography movies of 1990s

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 : 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 : 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 : Cristina Banegas, Esther Goris, 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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, Veronica Ferres, Franziska Herold,
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 : Torquil Campbell, Clare Barclay, John Bourgeois, Robert Bidaman,
Directors : Mario Azzopardi,

Story of Joseph Brant, chief of the Mohawks, and the events that led to the birth of Canada as a nation. During the time of the American Revolution, while Britain faces full scale ...

Actors : Diego Vélez, María Eugenia Dávila, Maguso, Frank Ramírez,
Directors : Camila Loboguerrero,

Colombia 1920's. The country receives compensation for the separation of Panama and is open to foreign credit to undertake major development works. Growing mass of workers but not improve ...

Actors : Stacy Keach, Nick Mancuso, Gudrun Landgrebe, Valérie Kaprisky,
Directors : Véra Belmont,

Prague, 1920. Milena's father wants her to follow in his footsteps and be one of the first female doctors in Czechoslovakia, but she is determined to be a writer. She elopes to Vienna with ...

Actors : Richard Moir, Mathilda May, Peter O'Toole, Tchéky Karyo,
Directors : Ian Pringle,

Story of a young woman journalist who becomes enmeshed in the politics of the annexation of Morrocco from Algeria at the turn of the twentieth century. The focus is on her hardships because...

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 : 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 : Geneviève Picot, Ingrid Prosser, Mick Rose, Perry Piercy,
Directors : Gaylene Preston,

Summarises the early life of politician Sonja Davies. Sonja is a young independent socialist embarking on a career in nursing during World War 2.

Actors : Kou Machida, Masato Furuoya, Haruko Sagara, Leona Hirota,
Directors : Kôji Wakamatsu,

Koji Wakamatsu's biopic about a Japanese free jazz/improvisation saxophonist named Kaoru Abe.