Best Women Biography movies

Actors : Yolande Moreau, Geneviève Mnich, Ulrich Tukur, Anne Bennent,
Directors : Martin Provost,

Based on the life of French painter Séraphine de Senlis.

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 : Chris Bauer, Lili Taylor, Jared Harris, Gretchen Mol,
Directors : Mary Harron,

The life of Bettie Page, a 1950s pin-up model and one of the first sex icons in America, who became the target of a Senate investigation due to her risqué bondage photos.

Actors : Heino Ferch, Barbara Sukowa, Hannah Herzsprung, Lena Stolze,
Directors : Margarethe von Trotta,

The life story of the multi-talented German nun Hildegard von Bingen. The film portrays an original woman - best known as a composer and religious visionary - whose grand claims often run ...

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 : Jesper Christensen, Maria Heiskanen, Callin Öhrvall, Mikael Persbrandt,
Directors : Jan Troell,

In a time of social change and unrest, war and poverty, a young working class woman, Maria, wins a camera in a lottery. The decision to keep it alters her whole life.

Actors : Nicole Kidman, Ty Burrell, Harris Yulin, Robert Downey Jr.,
Directors : Steven Shainberg,

Turning her back on her wealthy, established family, Diane Arbus falls in love with Lionel Sweeney, an enigmatic mentor who introduces Arbus to the marginalized people who help her become one of the most revered photographers of the twentieth century.

Actors : Tiffany Dupont, Luke Goss, John Noble, Omar Sharif,
Directors : Michael O. Sajbel,

The young Jewish girl, Hadassah, goes on to become the Biblical Esther, the Queen of Persia, who saves the Jewish nation from annihilation at the hands of its archenemy.

Actors : Rüdiger Vogler, Nina Hoss, Evgeniy Sidikhin, Irm Hermann,
Directors : Max Färberböck,

A woman tries to survive the invasion of Berlin by the Soviet troops during the last days of World War II.

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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.

Actors : Colin Morgan, Alma Hasun, Finnegan Oldfield, Vicky Krieps,
Directors : Marie Kreutzer,

Empress Elizabeth of Austria is idolized for her beauty and renowned for inspiring fashion trends. In 1877 Christmas Empress turns 40 and is officially deemed an old woman she starts trying to maintain her public image.