Best Biography movies of 2000s

Actors : Cecil von Renner, Ole Fischer, Pit Bukowski, Daniel Michel,
Directors : Lars Jessen,

A 17-year-old discovers punk rock in rural northern Germany.

Actors : Danny Nucci, Michael Nouri, Jason Gedrick, Mark Belasco,
Directors : James Quattrochi,

It's 1972 and the Mafia crime families are at war, but that isn't enough to stop a young, unknown John Gotti, who has big ideas and even bigger ambitions. In order to put an end to a two ...

Actors : Aleksandr Ivashkevich, Viktor Verzhbitskiy, Svetlana Chuykina, Aleksey Kravchenko,
Directors : Dmitriy Korobkin,

Young Russian Prince Yaroslav fights the robbers, tribes and the invaders. He is the first to unite Russian lands and to create the original Russian state.

Actors : Erika Pluhar, Andrea Osvárt, Elio Germano, Bruno Ganz,
Directors : Jo Baier,

In the last days of his life the journalist and writer Tiziano Terzani talks to his son about his life.

Actors : Maxime Le Flaguais, Léo Arguello, Goûchy Boy, Michel Côté,
Directors : Sylvain Archambault,

Toronto, August 2001. Commander Robert Piche left Pearson Airport heading for Lisbon on an Airbus 330. Due to a significant fuel loss, he was headed for an almost certain crash. However, he...

Actors : Gioia Spaziani, Marcello Mazzarella, Vincenzo Albanese, Carmelo Di Mazzarelli,
Directors : Pasquale Scimeca,

The real story of Placido Rizzotto, a trade union leader murdered by the mafia in Sicily in 1948

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 : Vladimir Grachyov, Yuliya Novikova, Aleksandr Galibin, Lynda Bellingham,
Directors : Gleb Panfilov,

The story of the last year and a half of Tsar Nicholas II and his family from the February Revolution of 1917 to their execution in July 1918.

Actors : Bruce Lee, James Tien, Yuan Chieh, Dan Inosanto,

This film was made as a tribute to Bruce Lee's Game of Death. It uses archive footage from the original film and recreated scenes with stand-ins and the plotline of Bruce's screen notes to ...

Actors : Dolphy, Eric Quizon, Jeffrey Quizon, Tony Bueno,
Directors : Gil Portes,

Gil M Portes (Miguel/Michelle, 1999) tells the unconventional true story of Walter Dempster, Jr, otherwise known as Markova. After watching a documentary about the suffering of women forced...

Actors : Luís Miguel Cintra, Ricardo Trêpa, Miguel Guilherme, Lima Duarte,
Directors : Manoel de Oliveira,

The story of Father Antonio Vieira, a 17th-century Portuguese priest who lived in Brazil and worked for better treatment of the Indians and to abolish slavery.

Actors : Marcos Palmeira, André Ricardo, Antônio Fagundes, Letícia Spiller,
Directors : Zelito Viana,

The film tells the story of an intuitive, adventurous man who loved his country and being Brazilian. This man fought to be loyal to himself. His music is a transparent portrait of his ...

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 : Ilias Logothetis, Fragiski Moustaki, Lazaros Andreou, Ali Emre Ates,
Directors : Lakis Papastathis,

As Georgios Vizneyos, one of Greece's greatest authors, degenerates in an Athens mental asylum, the tale of another story-teller, his grandfather, begins to emerge through his mad ramblings...

Actors : Alessandro Haber, Galatea Ranzi, Stefano Accorsi, Laura Morante,
Directors : Michele Placido,

The life and scandalous loves of early 20th century poet Sibilla Aleramo.

Actors : Omero Antonutti, Giancarlo Giannini, Pamela Villoresi, Rutger Hauer,
Directors : Giuseppe Ferrara,

This movie attempts to reconstruct the bankruptcy of the Banco Ambrosiano bank and its liaisons with the Vatican and the Masonry through the story of its president Roberto Calvi, ...

Actors : Vadim Glowna, Anatole Taubman, Karoline Herfurth, Jürgen Vogel,
Directors : Dominique de Rivaz,

Composer Johann Sebastian Bach is introduced to King Frederick II of Prussia in 1747. The aging composer and the young monarch clash and a battle of egos ensues.

Actors : Paige Richards, Frederick Bald, David Boller, Oto Brezina,
Directors : Nico B.,

Tells the story of the last 3 years of her brief career.

Actors : Masato Hagiwara, Miki Nakatani, Kyoung-gu Sul, Tatsuya Fuji,
Directors : Hae-sung Song,

The life of Korean-born wrestler Rikidôzan, who, after being barred from Japanese wrestling because of his ethnic origins, became a sensation in the United States in the 1950s.

Actors : Jordi Mollà, Ana Torrent, Roger Rees, Stephen Billington,
Directors : Peter Greenaway,

The story of Tulse Luper, whose life is reconstructed through the evidence from 92 suitcases. He is the author and project manager, and constantly end up in prisons around the world.