Best Biography movies of 1980s

Actors : Leela Narayana Rao, M.V. Narayana Rao, Manjunath Bhatt, Sarvadaman D. Banerjee,
Directors : G.V. Iyer,

The first and only Indian movie to be made in Sanskrit. The movie follows the life and times of Sankara - the founder of the non-duality (Advaita) school of Indian philosophy.

Actors : Jean-Claude Brialy, Francis Huster, Evelyne Bouix, Jacques Villeret,
Directors : Claude Lelouch,

The world's most popular entertainer and Europe's greatest boxer: the film puts the love affair of these two national heroes against a backdrop of the end of World War II, hotel suites in ...

Actors : Carmen Thomas, Cynthia Leake, Cary Guffey, Gary Busey,
Directors : Richard C. Sarafian,

Biopic about the great college football coach Paul "Bear" Bryant of the University of Alabama.

Actors : Bud Cort, Marisa Berenson, Carol Kane, Klaus Kinski,
Directors : Danford B. Greene,

Young Sigmund Freud discovers the ultimate answer to all his patient's problems - hypnosis. Hilarity ensues.

Actors : Nicolas Silberg, Michel Poujade, Caroline Aguilar, Gérard Sergue,
Directors : André Génovès,

Mesrine was the foremost criminal, public enemy N°1, the man most wanted in France, guilty of 39 crimes. "In the police or newspaper history, Mesrine broke all records". The film begins ...

Actors : Zsuzsa Czinkóczi, Teri Földi, Anna Polony, Jan Nowicki,
Directors : Márta Mészáros,

From one of the foremost woman directors comes a personal story of how history and the individual impact each other. A young woman (Juli) returns to her homeland only to find the horrors she escaped have infected it also.

Actors : Carmen de Lirio, Raúl García Losada, Frank Braña, Teresa Giménez,

Juan Jose Moreno Cuenca, alias the Heifer, is 23 years old and tells his story as a criminal offender from 1 Ocaña Toledo. Fatherless, the offender has his childhood and how everything changed when her mother went to prison.

Actors : Gerard Thoolen, Kitty Courbois, Ester Spitz, Frank Rigter,
Directors : Kees Van Oostrum,

15 year old Sara, a Jewish girl living in the Netherlands during the German occupation slowly begins to realize the danger she and her family are in. When her parents are forced to move to ...

Actors : Sofie Gråbøl, Jean Yanne, Max von Sydow, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Henning Carlsen,

This biographical film, based on the life of French artist Paul Gauguin (Donald Sutherland), follows the painter as he returns to Paris after a long stay in Tahiti and must confront his ...

Actors : Jack Elam, Carol Bagdasarian, Peter Brown, Dottie West,
Directors : Jim McCullough Sr.,

A tiny alien lands in the small town Aurora in Texas in the times of the Wild West. He flies around in his spaceship and checks out everything. While the kids are fascinated, their parents ...

Actors : Kenneth Gilbert, Bernard Archard, Keith Barron, Roger Rees,
Directors : Tony Tew,

A dramatized biography of William Tyndale, the 16th Century reformer determined to translate the Bible into English, which illegal act set him at odds with the Catholic Church, Sir Thomas More and King Henry VIII.

Actors : Lena T. Hansson, Stina Ekblad, Philip Zandén, Erland Josephson,
Directors : Mai Zetterling,

About the Swedish author Agnes Von Krusenstjerna (1894-1940), during her turbulent marriage with David Sprengel. In a hallucination Agnes is brought to a mental hospital in Venice, carrying her fictitious autobiography.

Actors : Jonas Bloch, Isolda Cresta, Marieta Severo, José Wilker,
Directors : Sergio Rezende,

Biography of Brazilian congressman Tenório Cavalcanti, who used to appear in public carrying a machine-gun, and wearing a black cloak.

Actors : Carlos Augusto Strazzer, Marieta Severo, Fernanda Torres, Reginaldo Faria,
Directors : Lui Farias,

Based on a famous autobiography, this film tells of teenage angst, as lived in the miserable lower middle class Rio bedroom suburbs, by 15 year-old Eliane. To boot, she comes from a ...

Actors : Zach Grenier, Kenny Easterday, Liane Curtis, Caitlin Clarke,
Directors : Claude Gagnon,

The disruptions caused in the life of 13 year old Kenny born with underdeveloped legs, removed to replace other missing bones at 6 months old when a French film company comes to do a film ...

Actors : Lene Brøndum, Stellan Skarsgård, Pia Vieth, Helge Jordal,
Directors : Kjell Grede,

The life and times of the Scandinavian artists' colony who lived in Skagen on the Danish coast during the 1890s. Not so much a biographical account, rather a portrait of a way of life. The ...

Actors : Marcos Palmeira, Diogo Vilela, Louise Cardoso, Paulo César Grande,
Directors : Luiz Carlos Lacerda,

A star studded biography of Brazilian legend Leila Diniz, born in 1945 to a communist couple. She grows up to be an extraordinary woman in her own, undefinable, and unique style, unheard of...

Actors : Ellen Burstyn, Maruschka Detmers, Donald Pleasence, Anthony Andrews,
Directors : Menahem Golan,

During WW2 Hanna Szenes, a Hungarian Jew living in British Palestine, volunteers to go behind enemy lines to rescue Jews from deportation to death camps.

Actors : Piotr Polk, Horst Buchholz, Maya Ramati, Didi Ramati,
Directors : Alexander Ramati,

This is the true story about a group of Romani's (gypsy) in occupied Poland during World War II as they confront the atrocities and tragedies of a forgotten holocaust.

Actors : James Wilder, Henry Thomas, Errol Slue, Stephen Shellen,
Directors : Graeme Campbell,

Fresly escaped from prison, Isaac is picked up by his brothers, and the entire brood embarks on a crime spree that claims the lives of six people.