Best Women Biography movies of 2000s

Actors : Natasa Lusetic, Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic, Sanja Vejnovic, Vili Matula,
Directors : Dalibor Matanic,

True story about the tragic life of a famous late 19th century deaf female Croatian watercolor painter Slava Raskaj.

Actors : Upendra Limaye, Tejaswini Pandit, Jyoti Chandekar, Nina Kulkarni,
Directors : Ananth Narayan Mahadevan,

This is the journey of Sindhutai Sapkal, a poor village girl who grew up tending buffaloes while craving an education, but her unsympathetic mother had her married off to an older man when ...

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

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

Actors : Patricia Place, Katherine Nelson, Stephanie Breinholt, Nathan Mitchell,

Before her death, Emma reflects on her life; beginning with her childhood, up through her final years in Nauvoo. Based on the life of Emma Hale Smith.

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 : Malik Zidi, Pascal Greggory, Aline Annessy, Martina Gedeck,
Directors : Helma Sanders-Brahms,

A look at the lives of 19th-century composers Clara and Robert Schumann.

Actors : Mimi Michaels, Laura Anderson, Carl Ballantine, Teres Byrne,
Directors : Richard Rossi,

A feature film about the life of Aimee Semple McPherson, the famed evangelist of the 1920s.

Actors : Jessica Malka, Dany Papineau, Brandon Barton, Mirianne Brûlé,
Directors : Dany Papineau,

Marie Deschamps, a 20 year old French-Canadian girl, quits college to go travel and learn English in Western Canada. Her journey will bring her up to Whistler, British Columbia, where she ...

Actors : Aira Samulin, Remu Aaltonen, Marja Korhonen, Martti Suosalo,
Directors : Pekka Lehto,

A fictitious biography of Aira Samulin, the goddess of dance and importer of all the international dance crazes to Finland for some fifty years. The life story of this extravagant ever-teen...

Actors : Patricia Arquette, Joyce Julianne Auer, Traber Burns, Karen Black,
Directors : Kamala Lopez,

A Single Woman is a distinct, lively portrait of Jeannette Rankin (the first American woman elected to Congress; also a suffragist, peace activist and reformer) that takes us from her ...

Actors : Alessandro Haber, Amanda Sandrelli, Paola Tiziana Cruciani, Alessio Boni,
Directors : Stefania Sandrelli,

The life of medieval author Christine de Pizan (Amanda Sandrelli).

Actors : Caroline Baehr, Lou Castel,
Directors : Jérôme de Missolz,

About the short life of a photographer who takes mostly naked photos of herself and others in strange places until she commits suicide.

Actors : Martin Brambach, Sandra Hüller, Andreas Schlager, Bjarne Henriksen,
Directors : Erica von Moeller,

The true story of Claerenore Stinees, who became the first woman to circumnavigate the globe by car.

Actors : Arisara, Cheryl Campbell, Francesca Brown,
Directors : Owen Land,

A filmmaker returns from a year in Japan to Los Angeles has experiences with real and imaginative women.