Best Women Biography movies of 2010s

Actors : Alicia Vikander, Mads Mikkelsen, Trine Dyrholm, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard,
Directors : Nikolaj Arcel,

A young queen, who is married to an insane king, falls secretly in love with her physician - and together they start a revolution that changes a nation forever.

Actors : Yvan Attal, Jack O'Connell, Kristen Stewart, Gabriel Sky,
Directors : Benedict Andrews,

Inspired by real events in the life of French New Wave icon Jean Seberg. In the late 1960s, Hoover's FBI targeted her because of her political and romantic involvement with civil rights activist Hakim Jamal.

Actors : André Penvern, Nicole Kidman, Frank Langella, Tim Roth,
Directors : Olivier Dahan,

The story of former Hollywood star Grace Kelly's crisis of marriage and identity, during a political dispute between Monaco's Prince Rainier III and France's Charles De Gaulle, and a looming French invasion of Monaco in the early 1960s.

Actors : Chloë Sevigny, Kim Dickens, Fiona Shaw, Kristen Stewart,
Directors : Craig William Macneill,

A psychological thriller based on the infamous 1892 murders of the Borden family.

Actors : Robert Pattinson, Damian Lewis, James Franco, Nicole Kidman,
Directors : Werner Herzog,

A chronicle of Gertrude Bell's life, a traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attaché for the British Empire at the dawn of the twentieth century.

Actors : Marc Barbé, Delphine Chuillot, Marie Féret, David Moreau,
Directors : René Féret,

A reimagined account of the early life of Maria Anna 'Nannerl' Mozart, five years older than Wolfgang, and a musical prodigy in her own right.

Actors : Paul Rudd, Connie Nielsen, Shea Whigham, Sienna Miller,
Directors : Ben Lewin,

A major league baseball player, Moe Berg, lives a double life working for the Office of Strategic Services.

Actors : Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Matthew Goode, Miranda Richardson, Emily Watson,
Directors : Amma Asante,

The mixed race daughter of a Royal Navy Admiral is raised by her aristocratic great-uncle in 18th century England.

Actors : Olivier Gourmet, Catherine Hiegel, Sandrine Kiberlain, Emmanuelle Devos,
Directors : Martin Provost,

Violette Leduc, born a bastard at the beginning of last century, meets Simone de Beauvoir in the years after the war in St-Germain-des-Prés. Then begins an intense relationship between the ...

Actors : Armelle Leroy-Rolland, Juliette Binoche, Marion Keller, Jean-Luc Vincent,
Directors : Bruno Dumont,

Winter, 1915. Confined by her family to an asylum in the South of France - where she will never sculpt again - the chronicle of Camille Claudel's reclusive life, as she waits for a visit from her brother, Paul Claudel.

Actors : Anamaria Marinca, John Gordon Sinclair, Trine Dyrholm, Sandor Funtek,
Directors : Susanna Nicchiarelli,

The last year of singer Nico's life, as she tours and grapples with addiction and personal demons.

Actors : Aneurin Barnard, Cara Bossom, Rosamund Pike, Sam Riley,
Directors : Marjane Satrapi,

A story of the scientific and romantic passions of Marie Sklodowska-Curie (Polish scientist) and Pierre Curie, and the reverberation of their discoveries throughout the 20th century.

Actors : Elle Fanning, Stephen Dillane, Maisie Williams, Douglas Booth,
Directors : Haifaa Al-Mansour,

The love affair between poet Percy Shelley and 18 year old Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, which resulted in Mary Shelley writing Frankenstein.

Actors : Diane Kruger, Jim Sturgess, Laura Dern, Kristen Stewart,
Directors : Justin Kelly,

A young woman named Savannah Knoop spends six years pretending to be the celebrated author JT LeRoy, the made-up literary persona of her sister-in-law.

Actors : Halle Berry, Stellan Skarsgård, Phylicia Rashad, Chandra Wilson,
Directors : Geoffrey Sax,

A drama centered on a go-go dancer with multiple personality disorder who struggles to remain her true self and begins working with a psychotherapist to uncover the mystery of the inner ghosts that haunt her.

Actors : Shanti Roney, Joanna Haartti, Krista Kosonen, Alma Pöysti,
Directors : Zaida Bergroth,

The movie centres on the life of Tove Jansson, showing both her personal relationships, and the creation of the popular Moomin books.

Actors : Gloria Cramer Curtis, Brendan Coyle, Sarah Greene, Deirdre O'Kane,
Directors : Stephen Bradley,

Christina Noble overcomes the harsh difficulties of her childhood in Ireland to discover her destiny on the streets of Saigon. A true story.

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 : Tracy Middendorf, Miranda Otto, Glória Pires, Marcello Airoldi,
Directors : Bruno Barreto,

A chronicle of the tragic love affair between American poet Elizabeth Bishop and Brazilian architect Lota de Macedo Soares.