Best Women Biography movies of 2000s

Actors : Stockard Channing, Bette Midler, Nathan Lane, David Hyde Pierce,
Directors : Andrew Bergman,

An unsuccessful over-the-top actress becomes a successful over-the-top authoress in this biography of Jacqueline Susann, the famed writer of "Valley of the Dolls" and other trashy novels. ...

Actors : Daniel Craig, Lucy Davenport, David Birkin, Gwyneth Paltrow,
Directors : Christine Jeffs,

Story of the relationship between the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.

Actors : Mark Rendall, Kevin Bacon, Renée Zellweger, Logan Lerman,
Directors : Richard Loncraine,

An unusual road trip movie about a mother driving her two sons from New York to Pittsburgh to St. Louis and eventually Hollywood in her quest to find a man to take care of them all.

Actors : Sergio Peris-Mencheta, Joe Pesci, Helen Mirren, Gina Gershon,
Directors : Taylor Hackford,

A drama centered around a married couple who opened the first legal brothel in Nevada.

Actors : Alessandro Nivola, Abigail Breslin, Brittany Snow, Elisabeth Shue,
Directors : David M. Rosenthal,

A young girl who has been abandoned by her former-groupie mother informs a fading rock star that she is his daughter.

Actors : Anne Heche, Christina Ricci, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Jessica Lange,
Directors : Erik Skjoldbjærg,

A young woman struggles with depression during her first year at Harvard.

Actors : Jonathan Pryce, Vincent Perez, Sarah Wynter, Simon Verhoeven,
Directors : Bruce Beresford,

This movie is a biopic of Alma Mahler, the wife of composer Gustav Mahler (as well as Walter Gropius and Franz Werfel), and the mistress of Oskar Kokoschka.

Actors : Daniele Liotti, Giuliano Gemma, Rosana Pastor, Pilar López de Ayala,
Directors : Vicente Aranda,

The love story who transformed Juana, Queen of Spain, into Juana "The mad". A story of passions, lies and jealousy with a politic fight behind.

Actors : Nick Searcy, Ellen Page, Hayley McFarland, Romy Rosemont,
Directors : Tommy O'Haver,

The true story of suburban housewife Gertrude Baniszewski, who kept a teenage girl locked in the basement of her Indiana home during the 1960s.

Actors : Alisa Freyndlikh, Sergey Yurskiy, Grigoriy Dityatkovskiy, Artyom Smola,
Directors : Andrey Khrzhanovskiy,

A semi-fictional account of the life of Nobel-Prize-winning Russian poet Josif Brodsky, who was forced into American exile in 1972.

Actors : Raquela Rios, Stefan C. Schaefer, Olivia Galudo, Brax Villa,
Directors : Olaf de Fleur Johannesson,

Raquela, a transsexual from the Philippines, dreams of escaping the streets of Cebu City for a fairy tale life in Paris.

Actors : Eva Österberg, Lasse Almebäck, Mercedez Csampai, Palle Granditsky,
Directors : Elisabeth Márton,

The history of psychoanalysis is littered with the discarded psyches of the women whose diagnoses were key to the fame of the great masters. One such woman was Sabina Spielrein. Unlike the ...

Actors : David Scheller, Natalia Avelon, Matthias Schweighöfer, Friederike Kempter,
Directors : Achim Bornhak,

Achim Bornhak's movie focuses on the restless life of Uschi Obermaier, the icon of the 1968 movement in Germany and groupie. At the age of 16, Uschi is bored by her job in a photo lab, but ...

Actors : Julie Delpy, Daniel Brühl, Anamaria Marinca, William Hurt,
Directors : Julie Delpy,

A 17th century Hungarian countess embarks on a murderous undertaking, with the belief that bathing in the blood of virgins will preserve her beauty.

Actors : Albrecht Becker, Christoph Eichhorn, Michael Fegley, Cora Frost,

Documentary with dramatised episodes about the lives of Erika and Klaus Mann, children of German writer Thomas Mann.

Actors : Shidô Nakamura, Christina Hendricks, Emily Mortimer, Kazuko Yoshiyuki,
Directors : Hisako Matsui,

A film about the life and relationships of the early 20th American educator, editor, and journalist Leonie Gilmour, the mother of the acclaimed artist and architect Isamu Noguchi.

Actors : Karel Roden, Vincent Regan, Anna Friel, Hans Matheson,
Directors : Juraj Jakubisko,

Bathory is based on the legends surrounding the life and deeds of Countess Elizabeth Bathory known as the greatest murderess in the history of mankind. Contrary to popular belief, Elizabeth...

Actors : Tov Sletta, Marit Synnøve Berg, Frode Winther, Morten Larsen,
Directors : Erik Skjoldbjærg,

The movie portrays Norway's most spectacular robbery, where 11 men occupied central Stavanger for twenty minutes and escaped with 57 million kroner (appx $10 million). A police officer was shot and killed.

Actors : Ralph Fiennes, Susan Sarandon, Peter Asher, Don Harvey,
Directors : Bob Balaban,

The story of the twilight years of tobacco billionairness Doris Duke and her relationship with her gay butler, to whom she left her entire fortune.

Actors : Caco Ciocler, Camila Morgado, Luís Melo, Eliane Giardini,
Directors : Jayme Monjardim,

Based upon the true story of Olga Benário, the German-born wife of Brazilian communist leader Luís Carlos Prestes. During the dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas (1930-1945) she was arrested and...