Best Women Biography movies of 1990s

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Branko Blace, Ana Karic, Nenad Cvetko, Senka Bulic,
Directors : Zeljko Senecic,

Life and times of Josip Racic, young and talented Croatian painter from the beginning of 20th Century, who went to Paris to seek fortune and died there in mysterious circumstances.

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 : 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 : 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 : 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.

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 : 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 : 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. ...