Best Biography movies of 1989

Actors : Tom Cruise, Raymond J. Barry, Caroline Kava, Josh Evans,
Directors : Oliver Stone,

The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.

Actors : Alison Whelan, Kirsten Sheridan, Brenda Fricker, Daniel Day-Lewis,
Directors : Jim Sheridan,

Christy Brown, born with cerebral palsy, learns to paint and write with his only controllable limb - his left foot.

Actors : James Larkin, Simon Shepherd, Derek Jacobi, Kenneth Branagh,
Directors : Kenneth Branagh,

In the midst of the Hundred Years War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.

Actors : John Doe, Winona Ryder, Dennis Quaid, Stephen Tobolowsky,
Directors : Jim McBride,

The life and career of wildly controversial rock 'n' roll star Jerry Lee Lewis.

Actors : Morgan Freeman, Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes,
Directors : Edward Zwick,

Robert Gould Shaw leads the U.S. Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices from both his own Union Army, and the Confederates.

Actors : Bonnie Bedelia, Paul Newman, John Cusack, Dwight Schultz,
Directors : Roland Joffé,

This film reenacts the Manhattan Project, the secret wartime project in New Mexico where the first atomic bombs were designed and built.

Actors : Frances Sternhagen, Andreas Katsulas, Lindsay Crouse, Christopher Walken,
Directors : Philippe Mora,

Whitley Strieber goes with his family and some friends to his holiday home in the forest. They experience some weird occurances, are they UFO activity? Whitley is abducted and then faces a ...

Actors : Gailard Sartain, Paul Newman, Lolita Davidovich, Jerry Hardin,
Directors : Ron Shelton,

A middle-aged Louisiana governor falls in love with a young stripper, which jeopardizes his political career and the radical policies which have made him a controversial figure.

Actors : Ray Sharkey, Michael Chiklis, Patti D'Arbanville, J.T. Walsh,
Directors : Larry Peerce,

The ghost of John Belushi looks back on his troubled life and career, while journalist Bob Woodward researches Belushi's life as he prepares to write a book about the late comic actor.

Actors : Raul Julia, Ana Alicia, Eddie Velez, Richard Jordan,
Directors : John Duigan,

The life and work of Archbishop Oscar Romero who opposed, at great personal risk, the tyrannical repression in El Salvador.

Actors : Willem Dafoe, Robert Loggia, Edward James Olmos, Wendy Gazelle,
Directors : Robert M. Young,

Fact based story about a former Greek Olympic boxer who was taken as a prisoner during World war II and placed in the Auschwitz prison camp. There he was permitted to survive as long as he ...

Actors : Gary Oldman, Pamela Reed, Dennis Hopper, Frances McDormand,
Directors : Mick Jackson,

In 1955 Florida, a Korean vet has a breakdown and is incarcerated in a "maximum security" mental health prison, where patients are abused.

Actors : Nikolaus Dutsch, Mickey Rourke, Andréa Ferréol, Helena Bonham Carter,
Directors : Liliana Cavani,

Docudrama about the life of St-Francis of Assisi

Actors : Nikolai Kinski, Klaus Kinski, Dalila Di Lazzaro, Debora Caprioglio,
Directors : Klaus Kinski,

Klaus Kinski believed that he lived through the same experiences as the legendary "devil violinist" Niccolò Paganini, who set all of nineteenth-century Europe into a frenzy and through ...

Actors : John Wilson, Ben Ellison, Matthew Baidoo, Akim Mogaji,
Directors : Isaac Julien,

A black and white, fantasy-like recreation of high-society gay men during the Harlem Renaissance, with archival footage and photographs intercut with a story. A wake is going on, with ...

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

Actors : Wojciech Klata, Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieslak, Rafal Zimowski, Kama Kowalewska,
Directors : Maciej Dejczer,

Based on a true story dating back to 1985 when two Polish boys, a teenager and his little brother, escaped from communist Poland all the way to Sweden, hidden under a truck. In the movie, their destination has been changed to Denmark.

Actors : Thomas Schindel, Søren Østergaard, Tom McEwan, Michael Carøe,
Directors : Nils Malmros,

Actors : Antoine Vitez, Claudia Cardinale, Lambert Wilson, Robert Hirsch,
Directors : Denis Amar,

France experienced one of the most chilling winters in 1954.It was during that harsh weather that a catholic priest L'Abbé Pierre wrote an open letter to minister of housing to provide shelter to numerous homeless people.

Actors : Peter MacNeill, Thomas Peacocke, Wayne Robson, Billy Merasty,
Directors : Paul Cowan,

Donald Marshall is imprisoned for a murder he didn't commit.