Best Biography movies of 1985

Actors : Klaus Maria Brandauer, Meryl Streep, Michael Kitchen, Robert Redford,
Directors : Sydney Pollack,

In 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter.

Actors : Sam Elliott, Cher, Eric Stoltz, Estelle Getty,
Directors : Peter Bogdanovich,

A teenager with a massive facial skull deformity and biker gang mother attempt to live as normal a life as possible under the circumstances.

Actors : Hiroshi Mikami, Ken Ogata, Masayuki Shionoya, Junya Fukuda,
Directors : Paul Schrader,

A fictionalized account in four chapters of the life of celebrated Japanese writer Yukio Mishima.

Actors : Pat Hingle, Joyce Van Patten, Timothy Hutton, Sean Penn,
Directors : John Schlesinger,

The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend who became walk-in spies for the Soviet Union.

Actors : Ed Harris, David Clennon, Ann Wedgeworth, Jessica Lange,
Directors : Karel Reisz,

Jessica Lange stunningly portrays Patsy Cline, the velvet-voiced country music singer who died in a tragic plane crash at the height of her fame.

Actors : Edward Woodward, Denis Quilley, Richard Gere, Alice Krige,
Directors : Bruce Beresford,

This is a movie about the life of Israel's king David.

Actors : Matthew Carroll, Miranda Richardson, Ian Holm, Rupert Everett,
Directors : Mike Newell,

A stormy relationship, complicated by the strictures of 1950s social class and gender roles, ends in death. Based on the life of Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in Britain.

Actors : Peter Gallagher, Caris Corfman, Ian Holm, Coral Browne,
Directors : Gavin Millar,

Exploring the somewhat darker and more mysterious side of the Lewis Carroll's classic book, the movie follows Alice Liddell (the book's inspiration) as an old woman who is haunted by the ...

Actors : Klaus Maria Brandauer, Hans Christian Blech, Gudrun Landgrebe, Armin Mueller-Stahl,
Directors : István Szabó,

Set during the fading glory of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the film tells of the rise and fall of Alfred Redl (Brandauer), an ambitious young officer who proceeds up the ladder to become ...

Actors : Han-wen Chen, Neng Chang, Chih-Chen Chen, Chia-bao Chang,
Directors : Hsiao-Hsien Hou,

The semi-autobiographical film on director Hou Hsiao-Hsien's childhood and adolescence, when he was growing up in Taiwan, living through the deaths of his father, mother and grandmother.

Actors : John Wildman, Margaret Langrick, Richard Donat, Jane Mortifee,
Directors : Sandy Wilson,

Adding an intriguing Canadian twist to a universally appealing story of teenage trials, My American Cousin begins as bored 12-year-old Sandy (Margaret Langrick) is preparing for another ...

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 : Kim Gyngell, Garry McDonald, Jonathan Hardy, Peter Collingwood,
Directors : Bob Weis,

Parody of historical epics that focuses on real-life Australian explorers William John Wills and Robert O'Hara Burkes, who tragically tried to cross the Australian continent from the south, to the north, a distance of 3,250 km.

Actors : George Antoni, Ron Anderson, Micha Bergese, Gaby Dellal,
Directors : Ken McMullen,

After Stalin's purges, Zinaida Volkova, daughter of Leon Trotsky, is exiled to Berlin. As the Nazis rise to power, and World War II is approaching, she becomes obsessed with Antigone, the protagonist of a famous Greek tragedy, and loses her mind.

Actors : Gil Gerard, Tom Silardi, Joy Vogel, Jaime Alba,
Directors : Erik Jacobson,

The true story of Raul Ries. Raul abused his wife and hated his father. His name stood for fear, for fighting, and for fury. To his high school friends, he was a violent, dangerous ...

Actors : Tom Wilkinson, Eleanor David, Nigel Terry, Mary Regan,
Directors : Michael Firth,

Real-life story of Sylvia Ashton Warner's pioneering work teaching Maori children to read in the 1940's.

Actors : Débora Bloch, Vicente Barcellos, João Carlos Castanha, Luiz Carlos Arutin,
Directors : Lauro Escorel,

The story of one of Brazilian cinema's pioneers, Eduardo Abelim, from the start of his career, in Rio de Janeiro, until his filming of the 1930 Revolution. To promote his films, Abelim ...

Actors : Alan McGilvray, Norman May,
Directors : Bill Phillips,

Telecasting cricket on the ABC from 1935 till 1985, Alan McGilvray was the man trusted by all Australians to bring them the ball by ball descriptions, either at home or abroad.

Actors : Lucia Casagrande, Philippe Nahoun, Mario Perazzini, Pino Costalunga,
Directors : Georg Brintrup,

A film about the Italian composer Gian-Francesco Malipiero. It is his music that talks about his life. The film was written respecting all details of the scores.