Best Biography movies of 1986

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer(1986)

Actors : Tom Towles, Tracy Arnold, Mary Demas, Michael Rooker,
Directors : John McNaughton,

Henry, a drifter, commits a series of brutal murders, supposedly operating with impunity.

Sid and Nancy(1986)

Actors : Chloe Webb, Gary Oldman, David Hayman, Debby Bishop,
Directors : Alex Cox,

The relationship between Sid Vicious, bassist for British punk group The Sex Pistols, and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen is portrayed.

Caravaggio(1986)

Actors : Sean Bean, Noam Almaz, Nigel Terry, Dexter Fletcher,
Directors : Derek Jarman,

A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century painter through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtations with the underworld.

Lady Jane(1986)

Actors : John Wood, Helena Bonham Carter, Michael Hordern, Cary Elwes,
Directors : Trevor Nunn,

The death of King Henry VIII throws his kingdom into chaos because of succession disputes. His weak son Edward, is on his deathbed. Anxious to keep England true to the Reformation, a ...

Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling(1986)

Actors : Art Evans, Debbie Allen, Fay Hauser, Richard Pryor,
Directors : Richard Pryor,

After severely burning himself in a drug incident, a comedian has a near death experience in which he reviews his life.

Rosa Luxemburg(1986)

Actors : Daniel Olbrychski, Adelheid Arndt, Otto Sander, Barbara Sukowa,
Directors : Margarethe von Trotta,

After years of political agitation, Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, and Leo Jogiches form a revolutionary German party, the Spartacists.

The Boy in Blue(1986)

Actors : Cynthia Dale, David Naughton, Christopher Plummer, Nicolas Cage,
Directors : Charles Jarrott,

Based on the life of Ned Hanlan, the late-19th century Canadian sculler and world champion. Hanlan was one of the first scullers to successfully utilize the "sliding seat."

Hadashi no Gen 2(1986)

Actors : Issei Miyazaki, Takami Aoyama, Masaki Kôda, Kei Nakamura,
Directors : Toshio Hirata,

Three years after the Hiroshima bombing, a teenager helps a group of orphans to survive and find their new life.

God's Outlaw(1986)

Actors : Kenneth Gilbert, Bernard Archard, Keith Barron, Roger Rees,
Directors : Tony Tew,

A dramatized biography of William Tyndale, the 16th Century reformer determined to translate the Bible into English, which illegal act set him at odds with the Catholic Church, Sir Thomas More and King Henry VIII.

The Aurora Encounter(1986)

Actors : Jack Elam, Carol Bagdasarian, Peter Brown, Dottie West,
Directors : Jim McCullough Sr.,

A tiny alien lands in the small town Aurora in Texas in the times of the Wild West. He flies around in his spaceship and checks out everything. While the kids are fascinated, their parents ...

Amorosa(1986)

Actors : Lena T. Hansson, Stina Ekblad, Philip Zandén, Erland Josephson,
Directors : Mai Zetterling,

About the Swedish author Agnes Von Krusenstjerna (1894-1940), during her turbulent marriage with David Sprengel. In a hallucination Agnes is brought to a mental hospital in Venice, carrying her fictitious autobiography.

Oviri(1986)

Actors : Sofie Gråbøl, Jean Yanne, Max von Sydow, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Henning Carlsen,

This biographical film, based on the life of French artist Paul Gauguin (Donald Sutherland), follows the painter as he returns to Paris after a long stay in Tahiti and must confront his ...

Com Licença, Eu Vou à Luta(1986)

Actors : Carlos Augusto Strazzer, Marieta Severo, Reginaldo Faria, Fernanda Torres,
Directors : Lui Farias,

Based on a famous autobiography, this film tells of teenage angst, as lived in the miserable lower middle class Rio bedroom suburbs, by 15 year-old Eliane. To boot, she comes from a ...

O Homem da Capa Preta(1986)

Actors : Jonas Bloch, Isolda Cresta, Marieta Severo, José Wilker,
Directors : Sergio Rezende,

Biography of Brazilian congressman Tenório Cavalcanti, who used to appear in public carrying a machine-gun, and wearing a black cloak.

Lermontov(1986)

Actors : Nikolay Burlyaev, Galina Belyaeva, Vladimir Faibyshev, Ivan Burlyaev,
Directors : Nikolay Burlyaev,

Lyrically beautiful dramatised documentary on the life of the Russian Romantic poet, Mikhail Lermontov (1814-41)

Moa(1986)

Actors : Reine Brynolfsson, Gunilla Nyroos, Grethe Ryen, Lennart Hjulström,
Directors : Anders Wahlgren,

The life of Swedish writer Moa Martinson. In 1925 Moa's two youngest children drowns. She is politically active and a passionate. 1928 her husband commits suicide. The next year she marries...

O Cinema Falado(1986)

Actors : Regina Casé, Felipe Murray, Hamilton Vaz Pereira, Dedé Veloso,
Directors : Caetano Veloso,

A fragmented style, patchwork of interviews with Caetano Veloso's friends, mixed with conversations, thoughts, scenes of dance and literature excerpts.

Käthe Kollwitz(1986)

Actors : Gabriele Barth, Detlef Bierstedt, Gerd Baltus, Carmen-Maja Antoni,
Directors : Ralf Kirsten,

Kathe Kollwitz was 47 years old, and already a well established artist in Germany and abroad when Peter, her youngest son, volunteered to join the German army in WWI and was killed two ...

Poslednyaya doroga(1986)

Actors : Vadim Medvedev, Yelena Karadzhova, Aleksandr Kalyagin, Irina Kupchenko,
Directors : Leonid Menaker,

About the death of Aleksandr Pushkin, the leading poet and writer of Russia, who was shot on a duel and died when he was 37.

Caspar David Friedrich - Grenzen der Zeit(1986)

Actors : Hans Peter Hallwachs, Walter Schmidinger, Helmut Griem, Sabine Sinjen,
Directors : Peter Schamoni,

A study of German 19th Century Romantic art through the writings and paintings of Carl David Friedrich and his fellow artist, Carl Gustav Carus.