Best Biography movies

Actors : Martti Suosalo, Heikki Nousiainen, Miina Turunen, Seela Sella,
Directors : Timo Koivusalo,

The life story of Jean Sibelius, a Finnish composer.

Actors : Alberto Ammann, Natalia Oreiro, Amparo Noguera,
Directors : Benjamín Ávila,

The life of Andrea, a middle-class woman, drastically changes when her 18-year-old son ends up in jail, falsely accused of a minor felony he didn't commit. Now she must fight for his freedom. Based on a true story.

Actors : Heinz Hoenig, Nadeshda Brennicke, Ken Duken, Charly Hübner,
Directors : Christian Alvart,

The sudden transformation of a lower middle class woman who falls in love with a bank robber and soon becomes one herself.

Actors : Hughie Restorick, Jean Taylor Smith, Bernard McKenna, Stephen Archibald,
Directors : Bill Douglas,

Jamie and Tommy are separated by the death of their grandmother; Jamie with another relative and Tommy to a welfare home. Now Jamie is all alone and his life is not at all happy taken over by silence, rejection and violence.

Actors : Nicholas Turturro, Stacey Dash, Bridgette Wilson-Sampras, Ving Rhames,
Directors : Robert Townsend,

The fascinating life story of Sonny Liston, the controversial heavyweight boxing champion of the world.

Actors : Fábio Assunção, Barroso, Caroline Andrade,
Directors : Lô Politi, Dandara Ferreira,

Film about the Bahian singer dives into the moment when shy Gracinha becomes Gal Costa, during the violent, innovative and mind-blowing years that helped shape Brazil's greatest singer.

Actors : Hae-il Park, Sang-hun Jeong, Ye-jin Son, Mi-ran Ra,
Directors : Jin-ho Hur,

"The Last Princess" is both a drama and an action film that is based upon the life of Princess Deok-hye (1912-1989) who was born into Korea's last royal family in 1912 as the youngest and ...

Actors : Amitai Ashkenazi, Ben Eidel, Samuel Fuller, Efratia Gitai,
Directors : Amos Gitai,

From Israel's most important filmaker, CARMEL is Amos Gitai's (KADOSH, KIPPUR) deeply personal and resonant meditation on Jewish and Israeli identity. Using both fiction and documentary ...

Actors : Carla Chambel, José Fidalgo, Sandra Barata Belo, Ricardo Carriço,
Directors : Carlos Coelho da Silva,

The story of real-life singing legend Amália Rodrigues who ruled the famous Portuguese acoustic guitar and vocals based music genre called fado.

Actors : Valeri Yordanov, Zornitsa Sophia, Dimitar Trokanov, Goran Gunchev,
Directors : Zornitsa Sophia,

A mother, forced to abandon her child and home, leads a rebellious band and inflicts her own justice in the brutal men's world of 19th century.

Actors : Marcello Mastroianni, Philippe Noiret, Michel Piccoli, Catherine Deneuve,
Directors : Marco Ferreri,

A highly stylized surreal farce about the events leading up to Custer's Last Stand anachronistically reenacted in an urban renewal area in modern Paris.

Actors : Simon Schwarz, Antoine Monot Jr., Sebastian Bezzel, Michael A. Grimm,
Directors : Marcus H. Rosenmüller,

The carpennter Gamser from Garmisch-Patenkirchen, southern Germany, aims at success as a bobber at the Winter Olympics 1952. One of his opponents is his old rival Dorfler from his home country.

Actors : Velizar Binev, Terry Bird, Harry Anichkin, Nina Antonova,
Directors : Gleb Orlov,

He was a champion among champions. In middle age he defeated young and very strong athletes, and always was a gentleman. But arose up a power that overcome him - that was love.

Actors : Smita Tambe, Chinmay Sant, Chinmay Kambli,
Directors : Rajiv Patil,

The film is set in the time of 50's and 60's about journey of a 13 year old young boy who ran away from his hostel and how this young boy matures with time when he meets a woman and her kids.

Actors : Danny Trejo, Oscar Torre, Steven Bauer, Alvaro Manrique,
Directors : Kenneth Castillo,

A young boxer, Emilio, from the wrong side of the tracks with big dreams of winning the Golden Gloves boxing championship, finds himself at a cross roads after being locked up.

Actors : Dragan Maksimovic, Terence Stamp, Mikica Dimitrijevic, Athol Fugard,
Directors : Peter Brook,

G.I. Gurdjieff is a spiritual teacher and mystic who, after a lifetime study, developed a form of meditation incorporating modern dance.

Actors : Luca Zingaretti, Alessio Boni, Monica Bellucci, Maurizio Donadoni,
Directors : Marco Tullio Giordana,

The story of rising, fancy life and falling of Osvaldo Valenti and Luisa Ferinta, two of the stars of the Italian cinema during the Facism period of Italy.

Actors : Alfred Ekker Strande, Ola G. Furuseth, Mattis Herman Nyquist, Anne Krigsvoll,
Directors : Henrik Martin Dahlsbakken,

Rejected by the art establishment, wracked with grief over the loss of his older sister and tortured by addiction, the film captures Edvard Munch's life, one of the world's greatest artists of all time.

Actors : Angela Lansbury, Raf Vallone, Red Buttons, Carroll Baker,
Directors : Gordon Douglas,

A screen adaption of the blistering best-seller which examines the story of the platinum blonde bombshell (Baker) who rose to fame in the reckless Hollywood of the 1930's.

Actors : Paul Brogan, Beth Brady, Sue Armstrong,
Directors : Uga Carlini,

A legendary meteorologist spends her days on earth attempting to convince the world that her alien lover from an advanced human race existed, and held the only solutions to all our problems on earth.