Best Biography movies of 1990s

Actors : Sal Lopez, Edward James Olmos, William Forsythe, Vira Montes,
Directors : Edward James Olmos,

A Mexican-American Mafia kingpin is released from prison, falls in love for the first time, and grows introspective about his gangster lifestyle.

Actors : Brendan Gleeson, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Sean McGinley, Adrian Dunbar,
Directors : John Boorman,

The real-life story of Dublin folk hero and criminal Martin Cahill, who pulled off two daring robberies in Ireland with his team, but attracted unwanted attention from the police, the IRA, the UVF and members of his own team.

Actors : Jean-François Perrier, Tim Roth, Paul Rhys, Adrian Brine,
Directors : Robert Altman,

The familiar tragic story of Vincent van Gogh is broadened by focusing as well on his brother Theodore, who helped support Vincent. The movie also provides a nice view of the locations which Vincent painted.

Actors : Gary Oldman, Johanna ter Steege, Isabella Rossellini, Jeroen Krabbé,
Directors : Bernard Rose,

The life and death of the legendary Ludwig van Beethoven. Besides all the work he is known for, the composer once wrote a famous love letter to a nameless beloved, and the movie tries to ...

Actors : Julianne Moore, Anthony Hopkins, Joss Ackland, Natascha McElhone,
Directors : James Ivory,

The passionate Merchant Ivory drama tells the story of Francoise Gilot, the only lover of Pablo Picasso, who was strong enough to withstand his ferocious cruelty, and move on with her life.

Actors : Max Pomeranc, Ben Kingsley, Joe Mantegna, Joan Allen,
Directors : Steven Zaillian,

A prepubescent chess prodigy refuses to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Bobby Fischer.

Actors : Virginia Capers, Laurence Fishburne, RaéVen Kelly, Angela Bassett,
Directors : Brian Gibson,

The story of singer Tina Turner's rise to stardom and how she gained the courage to break free from her abusive husband, Ike Turner.

Actors : Grégoire Colin, Daniel Auteuil, Marianne Denicourt, Jeanne Balibar,
Directors : Benoît Jacquot,

A man prepares himself to be transferred to a detention center and rest home where he will relive one more time the highlights of his youth.

Actors : Vanessa Redgrave, Jude Law, Stephen Fry, Jennifer Ehle,
Directors : Brian Gilbert,

The story of Oscar Wilde, genius, poet, playwright and the First Modern Man. The self-realization of his homosexuality caused Wilde enormous torment as he juggled marriage, fatherhood and ...

Actors : Maria Schrader, Heike Makatsch, Juliane Köhler, Johanna Wokalek,
Directors : Max Färberböck,

In 1943 Berlin, a Nazi officer's wife meets and starts a passionate affair with a Jewish woman.

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 : Rupert Graves, Helen Mirren, Amanda Donohoe, Nigel Hawthorne,
Directors : Nicholas Hytner,

A meditation on power, and the metaphor of the body of state, based on the real episode of dementia experienced by George III (now suspected a victim of porphyria, a blood disorder). As he ...

Actors : Loren Dean, Sigourney Weaver, Armand Assante, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Ridley Scott,

Christopher Columbus' discovery of the Americas and the effect this has on the indigenous people.

Actors : Jason Scott Lee, Michael Learned, Lauren Holly, Robert Wagner,
Directors : Rob Cohen,

A fictionalized account of the life of the martial arts superstar.

Actors : Susan Lynch, Ewan McGregor, Andrew Scott, Vinnie McCabe,
Directors : Pat Murphy,

In 1904, in Dublin, James Joyce chats up Nora Barnacle, a hotel maid recently come from Galway. She enchants him with her frank, direct and uninhibited manner, and before long, he's ...

Actors : Jeanne Tripplehorn, Kevin Pollak, Janeane Garofalo, Vincent D'Onofrio,
Directors : Robert Greenwald,

Five years after Yippie founder Abbie Hoffman goes underground to avoid a drug-related prison sentence, he contacts a reporter to get out the story of the FBI's covert spying, harassment ...

Actors : Roddy Maude-Roxby, Debra Winger, Anthony Hopkins, Julian Fellowes,
Directors : Richard Attenborough,

C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned Christian theologian, writer, and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets a spirited poet from the U.S.

Actors : Daniel Auteuil, Carole Bouquet, Eric Boucher, Patrice Chéreau,
Directors : Claude Berri,

A love story or a tale of the resistance, this poignant movie tells both the haunting story of a French resistance cell in Lyon but also the love of Lucie Aubrac for her husband, and the ...

Actors : Samantha Morton, John Hannah, Linus Roache, Emily Woof,
Directors : Julien Temple,

Friendship and betrayal between two poets during the French Revolution.

Actors : Jane March, Arnaud Giovaninetti, Frédérique Meininger, Tony Ka Fai Leung,
Directors : Jean-Jacques Annaud,

In 1929 French Indochina, a French teenage girl embarks on a reckless and forbidden romance with a wealthy, older Chinese man, each knowing that knowledge of their affair will bring drastic consequences to each other.