Best Biography movies of 1980s

Actors : Marc Singer, R.H. Thomson, Shari Belafonte, Sarah Torgov,
Directors : Eric Till,

A light comedy/love story based on the life of blind musician Tom Sullivan.

Actors : Wulf Kessler, Ulrich Tukur, Oliver Siebert, Lena Stolze,
Directors : Michael Verhoeven,

During the Second World War, a small group of students at Munich University begin to question the decisions and sanity of Germany's Nazi government. The students form a resistance cell ...

Actors : Cherie Currie, Cal Bowman, Keenan Wynn, Robert Carradine,
Directors : Mike Gray,

Two young lovers learn that a small group of child-like space aliens are marooned on Earth and are being held prisoner at a top secret military facility. The couple then decide to liberate ...

Actors : Josef Abrhám, Petr Cepek, Valérie Kaplanová, Zdenek Sverák,
Directors : Ladislav Smoljak,

Czech comedy film about the fictional national hero Jára Cimrman (universal genius, inventor, sportsman, criminologist, poet, writer and philosopher).

Actors : Davoud Rashidi, Ali Nassirian, Ezzatolah Entezami, Jamshid Mashayekhi,
Directors : Ali Hatami,

The movie chronicles the life of the famous painter Kamololmolk, and his relationship with various kings.

Actors : Issei Miyazaki, Takami Aoyama, Masaki Kôda, Kei Nakamura,
Directors : Toshio Hirata,

Three years after the Hiroshima bombing, a teenager helps a group of orphans to survive and find their new life.

Actors : José Luis Manzano, Jaime Garza, Verónica Castro, Isela Vega,
Directors : Eloy de la Iglesia,

José Manuel Gómez Perales alias "El Jaro" lives with his band, also teenagers and their girlfriends. One day he meets Mercedes, a prostitute who want him away from the bad way. Then appears Toñi, a drug addict from which he falls .

Actors : Kostas Kazakos, Angelos Antonopoulos, Vangelis Kazan, Alekos Alexandrakis,
Directors : Nikos Tzimas,

The story of Nikos Belogiannis member of the communist party and officer of Ellas that has come back to Greece only to get arrested, tried for espionage on behalf of Russia and executed. A ...

Actors : Vladimir Brajovic, Betty Roland, Françoise Blanchard, Raul Cabrera,

The seductive Messalina (Betty Roland) will stop at nothing to become the most powerful woman in Rome. Gaining the attention of the Emperor Caligula (Gino Turini), she soon finds herself at...

Actors : Leonard Trolley, Thomas Baptiste, Joseph Olita, Geoffrey Keen,
Directors : Sharad Patel,

The chronicle of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin and his tyranic rule from 1971 to his overthrow in 1979.

Actors : Judit Hernádi, Grazyna Szapolowska, Ildikó Bánsági, Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieslak,

Political and sexual repression in Hungary, just after the revolution of 1956. In 1958, the body of Eva Szalanczky, a political journalist, is discovered near the border. Her friend Livia ...

Actors : Sverre Anker Ousdal, Eva von Hanno, Max von Sydow, Göran Stangertz,
Directors : Jan Troell,

The Swedish 19th century engineer S. A. Andrée sets out to become the first man on the north pole. His idea is to launch a polar expedition using a hydrogen balloon, together with two ...

Actors : Richard Harrison, Ransel Cass, Ezzatolah Entezami, Mario Donatone,
Directors : Ali Hatami,

Hajji Hossein-Gholi Noori (Haji Baba) goes to Washington D.C. as the first Iranian (Persian) ambassador to the United States of America. After he opens the embassy, he is unable to invite ...

Actors : Marcello Mastroianni, Angelo Infanti, Hanna Schygulla, Isabelle Huppert,
Directors : Marco Ferreri,

This erotic drama about the incestuous relationship of a mother and daughter is based on the autobiography of Italian theater actress Piera Degli Esposti.

Actors : Brigitte Fossey, Jacques Penot, Michael York, Helen Hughes,
Directors : Robert Enrico,

The true story of Martin Gray, a Polish survivor of the Holocaust, from how he survived the German invasion, how got captured, and how he fought back with the rebels, to his life in the ...

Actors : Juan José Gurrola, Ofelia Medina, Max Kerlow, Claudio Brook,
Directors : Paul Leduc,

The most prominent female painter of Latin America, Frida Kahlo, is agonizing in her Coyoacán home. She evokes memories of her childhood, of the streetcar accident that caused her terrible ...

Actors : John Hurt, Mick Dillon, Gregory Jones, Ann Bell,
Directors : John Irvin,

The true story of Bob Champion, a British steeple chase jockey who, in the late 1970s, was diagnosed with cancer. Rather than succumb to the disease, however, Bob stages a miraculous ...

Actors : Imanol Arias, Victoria Abril, Carlos Tristancho, Antonio Valero,
Directors : Vicente Aranda,

First part of the history of "El Lute", a delinquent who became notorious in Spain for his jail escapes in the 60's, converting himself in a popular legend.

Actors : John Hurt, Marika Rivera, Gabriella Trsek,
Directors : Paul Cox,

This documentary, on the life of artist Vincent Van Gogh, is told through his letters to his brother Theo, from 1872 until his tragic death. We gain first hand insight into the man, his motivations, and his humanity.

Actors : John Wilson, Ben Ellison, Matthew Baidoo, Akim Mogaji,
Directors : Isaac Julien,

A black and white, fantasy-like recreation of high-society gay men during the Harlem Renaissance, with archival footage and photographs intercut with a story. A wake is going on, with ...