Best Biography movies

Actors : Ben Silverstone, Heinz Hoenig, Patrick Swayze, Martine McCutcheon,
Directors : Joshua Sinclair,

Police in 1928 Austria arrest Phillippe Halsman, of Jewish origin, for Patricide and allege that he killed his father, Morduch, while on a hiking trip. Phillippe is defended by a Jewish ...

Actors : Matt Borlenghi, Terence Williams, Bryan Arion,
Directors : Tailiah Breon,

15-year-old Puerto Rican Lisa Velez overcomes sexism, racism, and breast cancer to become Latin pop pioneer behind hits like "Can You Feel The Beat," inspiring generations of Latina artists.

Actors : Li Gong, Shichang Da, Tung-Shing Yee, Fang-Tsen,

At the beginning of the twentieth century, Yu-liang leaves a brothel in a small Chinese town, to become the second wife of Mr. Pan. While Pan is away at the revolution in Yunnan, Yu-liang ...

Actors : Julio César Luna, Luis Fernando Orozco, Edgardo Román, Manuel Cabral,
Directors : Guillermo Rincón,

this film is based on the life of Simón Bolívar (a Latin American military and political leader who fought against Spanish colonial rule), with a very cartoonish style.

Actors : Yorick van Wageningen, Fedja van Huêt, Mark Kraan, Lies Visschedijk,
Directors : Sander Burger,

A Dutch TV journalist finds himself challenging the police, courts and media as he attempts to uncover the truth about the controversial Deventer murder case.

Actors : Ray Ashcroft, Stephen MacKenna, John Altman, Rod Culbertson,
Directors : Richard Marquand,

An account of The Beatles during the Hamburg years, their signing with Brian Epstein and their inevitable rise during the early sixties.

Actors : Erika Pluhar, Andrea Osvárt, Elio Germano, Bruno Ganz,
Directors : Jo Baier,

In the last days of his life the journalist and writer Tiziano Terzani talks to his son about his life.

Actors : Evgeniy Mironov, Andrey Smirnov, Galina Tyunina, Olga Budina,
Directors : Aleksey Uchitel,

A tragic story of love and loneliness - this is the unknown life of the great Russian writer Ivan Bunin. The confused love story that involved Bunin, his wife Vera, the young poet Galina ...

Actors : Marcello Mastroianni, Angelo Infanti, Hanna Schygulla, Isabelle Huppert,
Directors : Marco Ferreri,

This erotic drama about the incestuous relationship of a mother and daughter is based on the autobiography of Italian theater actress Piera Degli Esposti.

Actors : Friedel von Wangenheim, Wolfgang Völz, Ben Becker, Kai Schumann,
Directors : Rosa von Praunheim,

The life story of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, a German Jew, who as a physician established the field of sexology, and fought militantly against German anti-sodomy laws in the late 19th century. ...

Actors : Spartak Bagashvili, Dodo Abashidze, Avtandil Varazi, Givi Aleksandria,
Directors : Giorgi Shengelaia,

The story of self-taught Georgian painter Niko Pirosmani.

Actors : John Hurt, Mick Dillon, Gregory Jones, Ann Bell,
Directors : John Irvin,

The true story of Bob Champion, a British steeple chase jockey who, in the late 1970s, was diagnosed with cancer. Rather than succumb to the disease, however, Bob stages a miraculous ...

Actors : Rafal Zawierucha, Antoni Pawlicki, Sebastian Stankiewicz, Michal Koterski,
Directors : Michal Wegrzyn,

A film about a man with a breakthrough history of Poland in the background. Edward Gierek is one of the most important figures of the 20th century in the collective memory of Polish people....

Actors : Colin Hay, Jimeoin, Bob Franklin, Alan McKee,
Directors : Ted Emery,

Two Irish actors (Jimeoin McKeown, Alan McKee) flee from 1988 Belfast after a violent confrontation with a leader (Robert Morgan) of the IRA and illegally enter Australia. Seeking acting ...

Actors : Cassi Thomson, Nikki Reed, Linda Hamilton, Ryan Merriman,
Directors : Vic Armstrong,

After a near-fatal accident, on a horse the experts thought was nothing special, a determined rider from the wrong side of the tracks defies all the odds to pursue her dreams of winning a national jumping championship.

Actors : Björn Kjellman, Amanda Ooms, Rikard Wolff, Björn Granath,
Directors : Jan Troell,

Inspired by real-life Elsa Andersson, this mostly fictional movie tells the story of her upbringing as a farmer's daughter, in the early 1900s, who dreams of getting away from the farm and becoming an aviatrix.

Actors : Andrzej Chyra, Chulpan Khamatova, Andrey Burkovskiy, Konstantin Khabenskiy,
Directors : Oksana Karas,

This is the story of one day in the life of Elizabeth Glinka, the head of "Fair Care" foundation, a philanthropist, a doctor and a human rights activist. As the day starts, Elizaveta and ...

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

Actors : Willa Ford, Patrick Ryan Anderson, Richard Herd, Lesli Kay,
Directors : Keoni Waxman,

A biopic depicting the tragic life of Playmate and television personality Anna Nicole Smith, whose life ended abruptly from a fatal drug overdose.

Actors : Freddie Cohen, Georgia Small, Richard Nicholas Emerson,
Directors : Katie Boland,

Alana Thompson, famously known as "Honey Boo Boo," reveals her story of rising to fame and the secrets behind the cameras.