Best Women Biography movies

Actors : Nick Searcy, Ellen Page, Hayley McFarland, Romy Rosemont,
Directors : Tommy O'Haver,

The true story of suburban housewife Gertrude Baniszewski, who kept a teenage girl locked in the basement of her Indiana home during the 1960s.

Actors : Alisa Freyndlikh, Sergey Yurskiy, Grigoriy Dityatkovskiy, Artyom Smola,
Directors : Andrey Khrzhanovskiy,

A semi-fictional account of the life of Nobel-Prize-winning Russian poet Josif Brodsky, who was forced into American exile in 1972.

Actors : Olivia Buckland, Stephen Campbell Moore, Stephen Boxer, Bethany Audley,
Directors : Trevor Nunn,

The story of Joan Stanley, who was exposed as the KGB's longest-serving British spy.

Actors : Barbara Hershey, David Labiosa, Ron Silver, George Coe,
Directors : Sidney J. Furie,

Supposedly based partially on a true story, a woman is tormented and sexually molested by an invisible demon.

Actors : Sam Shepard, Jessica Lange, Bart Burns, Kim Stanley,
Directors : Graeme Clifford,

The story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.

Actors : Robin Renucci, Benoît Magimel, Stefano Dionisi, Juliette Binoche,
Directors : Diane Kurys,

The only thing more outrageous than French novelist George Sand's torrid love affair with the decadent author Alfred de Musset and her affinity for wearing men's clothing, was the content ...

Actors : Bodhisattwa Majumdar, Saswati Guhathakurta, Rani Mukerji, Jim Sarbh,
Directors : Ashima Chibber,

An immigrant Indian mother's battle against the Norwegian foster care system and local legal machinery to win back the custody of her children.

Actors : Bryan Brown, Sigourney Weaver, John Omirah Miluwi, Julie Harris,
Directors : Michael Apted,

The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, and later fought to protect them.

Actors : Raquela Rios, Stefan C. Schaefer, Olivia Galudo, Brax Villa,
Directors : Olaf de Fleur Johannesson,

Raquela, a transsexual from the Philippines, dreams of escaping the streets of Cebu City for a fairy tale life in Paris.

Actors : Klára Melísková, Marika Soposká, Martin Pechlát, Michalina Olszanska,

"My verdict is: I, Olga Hepnarová, the victim of your bestiality, sentence you to death penalty." Those were the famous words of the 22-year-old mass murderer Olga Hepnarová, who in 1973 drove a truck into a group of innocent people in Prague.

Actors : Lothar Chamski, Eberhard Auriga, Peggy Bussieck, Natja Brunckhorst,
Directors : Uli Edel,

This movie portrays the drug scene in Berlin in the 1970s, following tape recordings of Christiane F. 14-year-old Christiane lives with her mother and little sister in a typical multi-story...

Actors : Henry Goodman, Zed Josef, Helen Mirren, Claudette Williams,
Directors : Guy Nattiv,

Focuses on the intensely dramatic and high-stakes responsibilities and decisions that Golda Meir, also known as the 'Iron Lady of Israel,' faced during the Yom Kippur War.

Actors : Eva Österberg, Lasse Almebäck, Mercedez Csampai, Palle Granditsky,
Directors : Elisabeth Márton,

The history of psychoanalysis is littered with the discarded psyches of the women whose diagnoses were key to the fame of the great masters. One such woman was Sabina Spielrein. Unlike the ...

Actors : Neil Bhoopalam, Rani Mukerji, Vidya Balan, Myra Karn,
Directors : Raj Kumar Gupta,

A journalist, who is more of an activist teams up with the sister of a murdered model, as she gets interested in the case and wants to bring justice to her case.

Actors : Rupert Penry-Jones, Gemma Arterton, Isabella Rossellini, Elizabeth Debicki,
Directors : Chanya Button,

It's the fascinating true story about the love affair between socialite and popular author Vita Sackville-West and literary icon Virginia Woolf.

Actors : Rimi Sen, Danny Denzongpa, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Kangana Ranaut,

Story of Rani Lakshmibai, one of the leading figures of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and her resistance to the British Rule.

Actors : Anne Bancroft, Jean De Baer, Anthony Hopkins, Judi Dench,
Directors : David Hugh Jones,

True story of a transatlantic business correspondence about used books that developed into a close friendship.

Actors : Jean-Hugues Anglade, Daniel Auteuil, Vincent Perez, Isabelle Adjani,
Directors : Patrice Chéreau,

Young Queen Margot finds herself trapped in an arranged marriage amidst a religious war between Catholics and Protestants. She hopes to escape with a new lover, but finds herself imprisoned by her powerful and ruthless family.

Actors : Anne Bancroft, Victor Jory, Patty Duke, Inga Swenson,
Directors : Arthur Penn,

The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate.

Actors : Carroll Baker, Eric Roberts, Cliff Robertson, Mariel Hemingway,
Directors : Bob Fosse,

A successful young model finds trouble when her obsessive manager-turned-husband becomes dangerously jealous. Based on the true story of 1980 Playmate of the Year Dorothy Stratten.