Best Biography movies

Actors : Anouk Aimée, Mathieu Demy, Paul Grimault, Jean-Charles Rousseau,

While working at his editing table cartoon maker Paul Grimault is visited by a little clown, the star of his movie "Le Roi et l'Oiseau". Paul, who is delighted, shows his guest several ...

Actors : Alexander Petrov, Aleksandr Yatsenko, Vitaliy Khaev, Stasya Miloslavskaya,
Directors : Ilya Uchitel,

By the age of twenty, Eduard Streltsov has everything one can dream of: talent, money, fame and love. He is the rising star of the Soviet football. The whole country expects victory from ...

Actors : Ilias Logothetis, Fragiski Moustaki, Lazaros Andreou, Ali Emre Ates,
Directors : Lakis Papastathis,

As Georgios Vizneyos, one of Greece's greatest authors, degenerates in an Athens mental asylum, the tale of another story-teller, his grandfather, begins to emerge through his mad ramblings...

Actors : Robert Powell, Virna Lisi, Dominique Sanda, Erland Josephson,
Directors : Liliana Cavani,

The life and ideas of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. A love triangle unfolds as Nietzsche and his best friend decides to live with a Jewish woman. According to Nietzsche's ...

Actors : Klaus Maria Brandauer, Jamie Sives, Jeanette Hain, Julia Jentsch,
Directors : Antonin Svoboda,

At the end of his life, Wilhelm Reich - psychiatrist and experimental scientist searching for the fundamentals of life - finds himself on trial, charged with deception. His dream of ...

Actors : Usman Tijani Abubakar, Lucy Ameh, Paul Adubazi, Jennifer Ezekiel Ade,
Directors : Izu Ojukwu,

In 16th-century Zazzau, now Zaria, Nigeria, Amina must utilize her military skills and tactics to defend her family's kingdom.

Actors : Steven Berkoff, John Savage, Guy Pearce, Claudia Karvan,
Directors : Frank Howson,

A biographical movie on the film star's early life before Hollywood fame.

Actors : Natasa Lusetic, Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic, Sanja Vejnovic, Vili Matula,
Directors : Dalibor Matanic,

True story about the tragic life of a famous late 19th century deaf female Croatian watercolor painter Slava Raskaj.

Actors : Ayelet Zurer, Daniel Rchichev, Robert Gant, Karina Rchichev,
Directors : David Mrnka,

The story of Milada Horáková, democratic pre-WW2 Czech politician first arrested and tried by the Nazis during the War and then the post-war Communist government for her refusal to cease her opposition activity and leave the country.

Actors : Vincent Price, Stuart Whitman, Ben Gazzara, Ray Walston,
Directors : Millard Kaufman,

A semi-fictionalized version of John Resko's incarceration is presented. John is on death row at Sing Sing for murder. In December 1930, he killed a toy store shopkeeper over a teddy bear ...

Actors : John Wesley Shipp, Keri Lynn Pratt, Wes Robertson, Mackenzie Astin,
Directors : Jeff Wood,

In 1970's Alabama, a young preacher struggles with his faith, and attacks from his church, after being hired to prove whether or not Hell exists.

Actors : Furankî Sakai, Hiroyuki Sanada, Tsurutarô Kataoka, Shima Iwashita,
Directors : Masahiro Shinoda,

A crippled kabuki player is taken into a strolling company of itinerant actors. An influential publisher notices his honest, bold drawings, and nurtures him despite persecution and betrayal...

Actors : Lene Maria Christensen, Arnold Oceng, Kristian Fjord, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard,
Directors : Mikkel Serup,

Biography about boxer Jørgen 'Gamle' Hansen.

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 : Spike Milligan, Julia Foster, John Bluthal, Peter Sellers,
Directors : Joseph McGrath,

William Topaz McGonagall, the world's greateset poet. Unfortunately the whole of the rest of the world disagreed. His talent made him a sort of Victorian Chris Evans but without the cash.

Actors : Marcos Palmeira, André Ricardo, Antônio Fagundes, Letícia Spiller,
Directors : Zelito Viana,

The film tells the story of an intuitive, adventurous man who loved his country and being Brazilian. This man fought to be loyal to himself. His music is a transparent portrait of his ...

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 : Zane Bierande, Guntis Berelis, Liene Beinarovica, Indra Brike,
Directors : Inara Kolmane,

A young, promising doctor destroyed by the Soviet totalitarian regime deprives her daughter of breast milk.

Actors : Marissa Anita, Gunawan Maryanto, Melanie Subono, Eduward Manalu,
Directors : Yosep Anggi Noen,

Wiji Thukul, a well-known poet, is designed as a suspect activist. With the police looking for him, Wiji is forced to leave Solo for Borneo, thousands of kilometers away.

Actors : Horst Buchholz, José Ferrer, Louis Jourdan, Gina Lollobrigida,
Directors : Vincent Sherman,

A highly fictionalized filming of the early life of Miguel de Cervantes, author of "Don Quixote".