Best Biography movies of 1994

Quiz Show(1994)

Actors : Ralph Fiennes, Paul Scofield, Rob Morrow, John Turturro,
Directors : Robert Redford,

A young lawyer, Richard Goodwin, investigates a potentially fixed game show. Charles Van Doren, a big time show winner, is under Goodwin's investigation.

Ed Wood(1994)

Actors : Patricia Arquette, Johnny Depp, Sarah Jessica Parker, Martin Landau,
Directors : Tim Burton,

Ambitious but troubled movie director, Edward D. Wood Jr, tries his best to fulfill his dream, despite his lack of support.

Il postino(1994)

Actors : Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Philippe Noiret, Massimo Troisi, Renato Scarpa,

Simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet; he uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice.

Wyatt Earp(1994)

Actors : Gene Hackman, David Andrews, Kevin Costner, Dennis Quaid,
Directors : Lawrence Kasdan,

Wyatt Earp is a movie about a man and his family. The movie shows us the good times and the bad times of one of the West's most famous individuals.

Heavenly Creatures(1994)

Actors : Kate Winslet, Diana Kent, Sarah Peirse, Melanie Lynskey,
Directors : Peter Jackson,

Two girls have an intense fantasy life; their parents, concerned the fantasy is too intense, separate them, and the girls take revenge.

Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle(1994)

Actors : Peter Gallagher, Matthew Broderick, Campbell Scott, Jennifer Jason Leigh,
Directors : Alan Rudolph,

Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted with despair.

Immortal Beloved(1994)

Actors : Gary Oldman, Johanna ter Steege, Isabella Rossellini, Jeroen Krabbé,
Directors : Bernard Rose,

The life and death of the legendary Ludwig van Beethoven. Besides all the work he is known for, the composer once wrote a famous love letter to a nameless beloved, and the movie tries to ...

The Madness of King George(1994)

Actors : Rupert Graves, Helen Mirren, Amanda Donohoe, Nigel Hawthorne,
Directors : Nicholas Hytner,

A meditation on power, and the metaphor of the body of state, based on the real episode of dementia experienced by George III (now suspected a victim of porphyria, a blood disorder). As he ...

Cobb(1994)

Actors : Tommy Lee Jones, Lolita Davidovich, Ned Bellamy, Robert Wuhl,
Directors : Ron Shelton,

A reporter hired to write the 'official' biography of Ty Cobb discovers just how dark the baseball legend's real story is.

Backbeat(1994)

Actors : Stephen Dorff, Gary Bakewell, Ian Hart, Sheryl Lee,
Directors : Iain Softley,

A dramatization of the Hamburg, Germany phase of The Beatles' early history.

Farinelli(1994)

Actors : Elsa Zylberstein, Enrico Lo Verso, Stefano Dionisi, Jeroen Krabbé,
Directors : Gérard Corbiau,

Farinelli, is the artistic name of Carlo Broschi, a young singer in Handel's time. He was castrated in his childhood in order to preserve his voice. During his life he becomes to be a very ...

La reine Margot(1994)

Actors : Jean-Hugues Anglade, Daniel Auteuil, Vincent Perez, Isabelle Adjani,
Directors : Patrice Chéreau,

Young Queen Margot finds herself trapped in an arranged marriage amidst a religious war between Catholics and Protestants. She hopes to escape with a new lover, but finds herself imprisoned by her powerful and ruthless family.

Bandit Queen(1994)

Actors : Seema Biswas, Raghuvir Yadav, Rajesh Vivek, Nirmal Pandey,
Directors : Shekhar Kapur,

The movie tells the story of the bandit queen Phoolan Devi who was sent to prison in 1983 and got free in 1994. During five years she was prosecuted by the Indian police and turned into a ...

8 Seconds(1994)

Actors : James Rebhorn, Stephen Baldwin, Cameron Finley, Luke Perry,
Directors : John G. Avildsen,

This film chronicles the life of Lane Frost, 1987 PRCA Bull Riding World Champion, his marriage and his friendships with Tuff Hedeman (three-time World Champion) and Cody Lambert.

Tom & Viv(1994)

Actors : Tim Dutton, Rosemary Harris, Willem Dafoe, Miranda Richardson,
Directors : Brian Gilbert,

In 1915, T.S. (Tom) Eliot and Vivienne Haigh-Wood elope, but her longstanding gynecological and emotional problems disrupt their planned honeymoon. Her father is angry because Tom's poetry ...

Imaginary Crimes(1994)

Actors : Kelly Lynch, Vincent D'Onofrio, Harvey Keitel, Fairuza Balk,
Directors : Anthony Drazan,

A recently widowed, small-time hustler struggles to raise his two teenage daughters on his own and still make a dishonest living in 1950s Indiana.

Nostradamus(1994)

Actors : F. Murray Abraham, Tchéky Karyo, Rutger Hauer, Amanda Plummer,
Directors : Roger Christian,

Recounts the life and loves of the physician, astrologer, and famed prognosticator; his encounters with medieval science and the Inquisition; and his early struggles with his visions of the...

Squanto: A Warrior's Tale(1994)

Actors : Sheldon Peters Wolfchild, Mandy Patinkin, Irene Bedard, Adam Beach,
Directors : Xavier Koller,

Historically inaccurate chronicle of Squanto's life prior to and including the arrival of the "Mayflower" in 1620.

Frank & Jesse(1994)

Actors : Dana Wheeler-Nicholson, Rob Lowe, Randy Travis, Bill Paxton,
Directors : Robert Boris,

At the end of the Civil War, Frank and Jesse James and other former guerillas who rode with Quantrill and Bill Anderson take the oath of allegiance to the Union. Feeling oppressed by ...

Mesmer(1994)

Actors : Donal Donnelly, Peter Dvorsky, Alan Rickman, David Burke,
Directors : Roger Spottiswoode,

A biography of the eighteenth century Viennese physician, Franz Anton Mesmer, who used unorthodox healing practices based on his theory of "animal magnetism."