Best Biography movies of 1980s

Actors : Wojciech Klata, Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieslak, Rafal Zimowski, Kama Kowalewska,
Directors : Maciej Dejczer,

Based on a true story dating back to 1985 when two Polish boys, a teenager and his little brother, escaped from communist Poland all the way to Sweden, hidden under a truck. In the movie, their destination has been changed to Denmark.

Actors : Pierre Bokma, Thom Hoffman, Rijk de Gooyer, Viviane de Muynck,
Directors : Rudolf van den Berg,

Actors : France Nuyen, Russell Wong, Julia Nickson, James Shigeta,
Directors : James F. Collier,

Drama set in the 1950s, based on a true story, about a young girl, Sung Neng Yee, who is brought as part of a wealthy Chinese family. She is eager to become part of Mao Tze Tung's "new ...

Actors : Pierre Romans, Zbigniew Horoks, Bérangère Bonvoisin, Michel Serrault,
Directors : Christian de Chalonge,

Based on the real life of Dr. Marcel Petiot: During world war II Petiot, an MD living in occupied Paris, promised to help wealthy Jewish people among his patients to flee occupied France ...

Actors : Jürgen Arndt, Eva Mattes, Norbert Wartha, Wolf Euba,
Directors : Percy Adlon,

In 1914, with men gone to war, Marcel Proust hired Céleste Albaret as his attendant. More than eight years later, she was at his side when he died. During this entire time, she only entered...

Actors : Nikolay Eryomenko, Natalya Bondarchuk, Dmitriy Zolotukhin, Tamara Makarova,
Directors : Sergey Gerasimov,

Part one of a pair of historical films about the life of Peter the Great.

Actors : Minas Christidis, Dimitris Myrat, Manos Katrakis, Giannis Voglis,
Directors : Pantelis Voulgaris,

The life and work of Greek politician Eleftherios Venizelos from his election in 1910 until 1927.

Actors : Emanoil Petrut, Ion Dichiseanu, Alexandru Repan, George Constantin,
Directors : Gheorghe Vitanidis,

The life of Dacian war-leader Burebista who ruled between 80-44 B.C.and founded a strong Dacian Kingdom despite considerable pressure from the neighboring Celtic warlords and the Greek cities of the Black Sea coast.

Actors : Brian Benben, Michael Nouri, Joe Penny, Richard S. Castellano,
Directors : Richard C. Sarafian,

Three poor ghetto kids in turn-of-the-century New York grow up to become feared gangsters.

Actors : Christine Kaufmann, Kristina van Eyck, Mathieu Carrière, Jane Birkin,
Directors : Herbert Vesely,

The life of cursed painter Egon Shiele, specialized in nudes, and on his late conflicting love for two women.

Actors : Ava Gardner, Ian McKellen, Penelope Keith, Janet Suzman,
Directors : Christopher Miles,

Following the banning and burning of his novel, "The Rainbow", D.H. Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, move to the United States, and then to Mexico. When Lawrence contracts tuberculosis, they ...

Actors : Brigitte Fossey, Rutger Hauer, Marie-France Pisier, Timothy Dalton,
Directors : George Kaczender,

The film tells the story of the early life and rise to fame and fortune of French fashion designer Coco Chanel, beginning with her upbringing in an orphanage and training as a milliner, but...

Actors : Kanako Higuchi, Ken Ogata, Toshiyuki Nishida, Yûko Tanaka,
Directors : Kaneto Shindô,

The famous woodblock artist Hokusai (1760-1849), a widower in need of a steady income, lives with his daughter Oei in the house of his friend Bakin.

Actors : Tinna Gunnlaugsdóttir, Arnar Jónsson, Kristján Jóhann Jónsson, Þráinn Karlsson,
Directors : Ágúst Guðmundsson,

From an authentic Viking saga, Outlaw tells the story of a family blood feud, set in 10th century Iceland.

Actors : John Welsh, Christopher Cazenove, Sam Neill, Lisa Harrow,
Directors : Krzysztof Zanussi,

The film is a biography of Pope John Paul II. It starts in 1926 when the boy Karol Wojtyla was celebrating Christmas with his father in Poland. Thirteen years later, Nazi Germany attacks ...

Actors : Diogo Dória, Teresa Menezes, Mário Barroso, Francisco Brás,
Directors : Manoel de Oliveira,

The life of a young man, son of an English officer who lets himself become a prisoner of love resulting in fatalism and disgrace.

Actors : Ignacio López Tarso, Carlos Bracho, Hanna Schygulla, Isabelle Adjani,
Directors : Carlos Saura,

A French psychologist investigates about famous suicidal women. She finds the case of Antonieta Rivas Mercado, a Mexican writer who died inside Paris' Notre Dame in 1931. To follow the ...

Actors : Michael Madsen, Cecil Moe, Rex Flores, Maureen McCarthy,
Directors : Edward T. McDougal,

A man struggling with alcoholism turns to a reverend for help

Actors : Hema Malini, Pradeep Kumar, Parveen Babi, Dharmendra,
Directors : Kamal Amrohi,

An account of the reign of Indian empress Razia Sultan and her love for her slave Jamaluddin Yakut.

Actors : Herbert Grönemeyer, Rolf Hoppe, Anja-Christine Preussler, Nastassja Kinski,
Directors : Peter Schamoni,